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How they ignore Black America: Freddie Gray, Baltimore & the pernicious influence of respectability politics – Salon.com
On Monday, April 27, 2015, ABC News captured video purporting to show an African-American mother disciplining her son for participating in unrest that erupted in Baltimore following the killing of Freddie Gray. As the story goes, the mother saw her son on television throwing rocks at police and subsequently went to retrieve him. In the video,…
Baltimore Tries to Move On: ‘I Live in This Neighborhood’ – Bloomberg Politics
BALTIMORE—An unpredictable, ad hoc collaboration between gang members and police officers tamped down civil unrest in the place where protesters had gathered to mourn the late Freddie Gray. By midnight, two hours after the start of a controversial curfew, a city that had seen days of brawls, looting and possible arson was so quiet that…
What Martin Luther King Jr Really Thought About Riots | TIME
TIME History Civil Rights What Martin Luther King Jr Really Thought About Riots New York Daily News Archive / Getty Images Martin Luther King Jr. marching in a Vietnam protest parade in New York City in 1967 Unrest in Baltimore has an old MLK quote back in the news As the city of Baltimore is…
Stewart Goes Off: Maybe We Should’ve Cared About Baltimore Before It Was ‘On Fire’ | Mediaite
Jon Stewart opened tonight’s Daily Show by tackling the violence last night in Baltimore, and said maybe people should care a little more about it and other cities before they’re “on fire” and the media suddenly notices. After some jokes at Wolf Blitzer‘s expense, Stewart tackled the slow response to the violence on Monday night…
Ferguson activist perfectly schools Wolf Blitzer: “You are suggesting broken windows are worse than broken spines” – Salon.com
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer brought activist and community organizer DeRay McKesson on the show Tuesday afternoon and appeared to have only one goal with the interview: To get McKesson to admit that the violent Baltimore riots were “wrong” and unprecedented. McKesson refused to condemn the protestors, even after Blitzer confidently cited “15 injured police officers, 200…
As Riots Follow Freddie Gray’s Death in Baltimore, Calls for Calm Ring Hollow – The Atlantic
Rioting broke out on Monday in Baltimore—an angry response to the death of Freddie Gray, a death my native city seems powerless to explain. Gray did not die mysteriously in some back alley but in the custody of the city’s publicly appointed guardians of order. And yet the mayor of that city and the commissioner…
How riding your bike can land you in trouble with the cops — if you’re black | Tampa Bay Times
If the tickets are any indication, Tampa residents must be the lousiest bicyclists in Florida. They don’t use lights at night. Don’t ride close enough to the curb. Can’t manage to keep their hands on the handlebars. In the past three years, Tampa police have written 2,504 bike tickets — more than Jacksonville, Miami, St….
Cornel West’s Rise and Fall by Michael Eric Dyson | The New Republic
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned” is the best-known line from William Congreve’s The Mourning Bride. But I’m concerned with the phrase preceding it, which captures wrath in more universal terms: “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned.” Even an angry Almighty can’t compete with mortals whose love turns to hate….
The New Republic’s blistering Cornel West takedown: A “dramatic plummet from his perch as a world-class intellectual” – Salon.com
The New Republic published a withering profile of Cornel West this weekend, comparing the philosopher to Mike Tyson, who at the heights of his boxing prowess was the most feared fighter on the planet, but who is now a celebrity shell of his former self. Writer Michael Eric Dyson charts what he believes is West’s…