Angry people protest between midnight and five. Protesters don't punch time clocks when cops kill unarmed boys.

My Grandmother told me: "This is what the 1960's looked like. This was when I was the same age as you. Don't forget that."

Actually, that's not how social change fucking works. It's not "peace first, then justice." It's very much the other way around.

"This is not peace. This is silence."

So several days of police attacking peaceful protestors gets a yawn from the state, but "a handful of looters" warrants a state of emergency declaration?

I can't even begin to think about the longness of the rest of the week, or my head will explode.

It means "Keep Your Eyes Open because they are trying to bamboozle you". But that's just too long.

Because the use of the vernacular was very appropriate in this context.

The sheer number of people who are more caught up on your (powerful) use of "stay woke" than on your message is so eye roll inducing. It makes me glad for the grays, not just for rape gifs!

More info on Facebook (National Moment of Silence 2014) and Twitter (#NMOS14).

President Obama just spoke on #Ferguson and the #MikeBrown protests, here are my loose notes from his comments which I will update later with more conclusiveness:

I see your point, and I acknowledge the history of racism, personal and institutionalized, that lead to Mike Brown's killing on Saturday and the police terrorizing each night since then. Sharing, or rather now confirming, the name of the shooter will in a way validate the life of Mike Brown and break apart a bit the…

I can say from my own experience being beaten by cops in Oakland, California that it's pretty standard bad cop behavior to refuse to share their names and badge number. In Brooklyn, one female officer refused to do it over something as simple as a mistaken drinking in public citation, so yeah, while they should share…

I see your point, the looters absolutely have a role but their actions don't require nightly tear gas if their actions occured days ago. The kicker, no matter how you slice it is the officer shooting Brown in a residential neighborhood in broad daylight and leaving him there. Period. America is a racist place that…

[W]hy hold back on the name of the man responsible for all of this unrest? Stories of death threats while police are arresting people like French for "not listening" and reporters like the Washington Post's Wesley Lowery for having a camera in a McDonald's or firing tear gas into people's neighborhoods is not reason…

Good on you for writing it up this way. The name needs to come out, but it needs to be the correct name.