There Must be Something in the Water - More Legal Overreaching with Black Youth
There's got to be some sort of "lose your ever-loving mind" drug in the water being drunk by law enforcement officers working with Black kids this past year. I say that because I woke up Saturday...
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The First Thing We Do, Let's Kill all the Lawyers
<center> Photo © New York Times, 2007</center> Of all the many things that one could say about the sobering -- frightening -- events surrounding the descent of Pakistan in the past four...
View ArticleImportant Safety Tip #2,649: Don't Ask Police for Psychiatric Help (or Don't...
The newest survival tip to young non-white male persons who encounter law enforcement (since even in these circumstances, they're disproportionately male and disproportionately Black or Latino) is to...
View ArticleA Black Woman's Musings on Coffee with Dad, Racism, and Barack Obama
There is a recommended diary right now, Coffee with Dad that I wrote a comment to. Well, it started out as a comment. But it didn't stop there, because it couldn't. So I kept writing, since my need...
View ArticleThings that Make you go Hmmm......Barack as Tom and/or Doug?
I noticed a depressingly-interesting trend when I was going over results from SuperDuperWhooper Tuesday and previously at the Election Center run by cnn.com:
View ArticleMy Dad, God and Proposition 8
I haven't posted a diary in a very, very long time, but wanted to contribute my voice to the many bloggers who are screaming, loud and clear, "NO" on Proposition 8. Some folks might feel that I have...
View ArticleThe End of America As We Know It
If I go by the whinging coming from the Republican side of the political aisle, if the electorate does what it is now predicted by every major poll to do today (elect Senator Barack Obama, a Black man,...
View ArticleFacts Belie the Scapegoating of Black People for Proposition 8
I am working too hard. I have no time to write diaries. Yet between yesterday afternoon, when I'd finally read one hateful racist fingerpoint from a white gay person too many here and elsewhere on...
View ArticleWhat "Leading Indicators" Don't Tell You: The Center Is Not Holding,...
[Promoted by Meteor Blades] I find it almost amusing, the restrained yet increasingly celebratory nature of the news -- media and blog -- that "the bottom is being reached" and that the economy is...
View ArticleIf Not Now, When?
An open letter to our Beloved President Obama: Dear Mr. President: I was going to write today about the latest brilliant idea that Wall Street has come up with to bottom-feed profits now that predatory...
View ArticleVideo Don't Lie -Or Does It? (Yes, *Another* ACORN Diary)
In today's news. From the Associated Press: ACORN Workers Fight to Save Abused Prostitute and 13 Sex Slaves from the El Salvadorean Mafia Volunteers at 5 offices of the nation’s largest advocacy...
View ArticleWe Won't Win the Stupak-Pitts War With The Same Old Same Old
Call me angry, call me sad, call me depressed. Call me all those things, upon waking up Sunday and hearing what I already knew when I went to bed on Saturday: that the Health Care Reform bill cleared...
View ArticleWhile You're in Your Neutral Debating Corners............
The blogosphere of the Left is becoming, yet again, toxic with the rancor between folks who are supposed to be on the same side politically. (I don't know why any of this surprises and silences me, 5...
View ArticleHCR Reform Enslaved by the Narrative
This is an experiment for me. Normally the diaries that I write follow hours (sometimes days) researching links, constructing points, and generally putting into my diary the factual accuracy and...
View ArticleA Small, Quiet Diary About Tonight's Election - and a Suggestion
Obviously, there are many people with many opinions tonight about the debacle we have just seen happen in Massachusetts. You can tell, because for the past week since Scott Brown was first reported as...
View ArticleThoughts of a White Rose Daughter on Mother's Day
He led [her] about, he instructed [her], he kept [her] as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on...
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The Grieving Room - Grief on Multiple Fronts
A time of grieving. And a time of healing. Often, people don't think of how intertwined these times are. Or how, most importantly, these ideas are. I guess that is why it is so easy to miss how,...
View ArticleAn Unfortunate Sense of Deja Vu
I am heading to Netroots Nation tomorrow night, and am ending today finishing up work so that I can actually focus on what will be my first visit to that event. So I have not had time to diary the...
View Article10.2.10 - Pushing Back Against Our Training
On Thursday morning, California time, my youngest daughter and I are boarding a plane. We are leaving what are supposed to be the highly sunny, highly warm shores of California (warm for one of the...
View ArticleThe Republicans' Pre-emptive Propaganda Campaign
Yesterday was a beautiful Halloween Day in the Bay Area, California. Forget all the forecasts of rain – the sun was warm, the sky was blue, and the pre-kinders were practicing their spookiest looks at...
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