Um, 16 of the 18 witnesses who testified before the grand jury testified that he was killed with his hands up, guy.
A. That plaque, in true GM fashion, appears to be askew.
B. The engine is already apart and the tires have already been replaced with ET Drags.
WANT. TO. STRAIGHTEN!!!!!
Several people are completely missing my point (or perhaps making it for me). Do you want me to post another dozen stories about police shooting or otherwise abusing unarmed black men so you can tell me why all of those cases were the victims' fault, too?
Think about this too: conservatives who cry for gun rights because they need to "be able to fight back against government/state intrusion" sees nothing wrong with an officer of the state shooting an unarmed black teen, or choking an asthmatic man wit ha list of priors to death, because "He was probably going to kill…
'"Actually," Scarborough wrote in his Politico column, "it is offensive because the gesture suggests that a police officer pointed a gun and shot a black man whose arms were in the air while he said 'hands up, don't shoot.'"'
So, 1st Amendment applies to Joey from Islip to exercise his free speech to be an ignorant crypto-racist, but does not apply to the young black men that exist only to entertain him. Got it. Thanks for calling Joe!
I go to Louis CK every time this comes comes up (NSFW):
No one complained about Tebow talking about God, they pointed out how ridiculous he appeared with his over-the-top-Jesus-is-my-left-tackle nonsense as well as the fact that he aligns himself with a vicious and mean-spirited strain of Christianity that is at the forefront of every ugly right-wing bigoted Christian…
All sincerity, no snark: do you want white allies or not? What are we supposed to do?
My impression was that the hashtag isn't for educating black people about how nice the cops are to white people, but educating fellow white people on their own hypocrisy. It's a lot harder to say that these murdered black men were thugs and criminals who "got what they deserved" when white people admit to the same…
The more #CrimingWhileWhite stories you read, the more they start to sound like humblebrags than they do like addressing inequality.
Sure, but Republicans hate libraries even more than they hate liberals. That's where ivory tower latte-sitting intellectual elites store their eviiiiiiiil booklarnin'.
Of course it's short for "library journal".
Haven't read the whole thing, but the introductory anecdote (about the angry white man) could easily be describing the reactions of certain readers here. The more they insist that racism isn't a thing, the more obvious it becomes that it is.
We've come the wrong way, baby.
Shut the fuck up.
Racism is dead people. Just read these comments for proof.
I've been a little obsessed with this current round of accusations, as I had my own brush with Cosby back in the early '80s. My job at the time put me in his sight line and he was, I can see in retrospect, "grooming" me for this type of encounter. I could very well have been one of these women, if I had ever believed…