7-23-13 teacherken at Daily Kos

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The effects of Windsor decision spread to Ohio

a state which not only bans same sex marriage but also recognition of same sex marriages legally performed in other states. As you can read in this BuzzFeed story, A federal judge in Ohio ordered state officials Monday to recognize the marriage of two men that was performed in Maryland on the death certificate of an Ohio resident in hospice care who the judge says “is certain to die soon.” Judge T

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You might want to read Eugene Robinson this morning

How often does a noted pundit admit being wrong?  Here's his first paragraph:   Sometimes it’s good to be proved wrong. Last week, I wrote a column doubting that President Obama could speak powerfully and effectively about the racial issues raised by the Trayvon Martin case. Well, the president did just that. There is more in Obama's race challenge - and ours, which is why I think you should read

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TUE JUL 23, 2013 AT 04:05 AM PDT

Asking you to listen for 3:40 or so

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Some words of explanation from Jasiri X, whose work this is:

I chose to remix Kanye’s song “Blood on the Leaves” because I felt like the sample he used from Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” is even more relevant today. Whether it’s the over 500 murders last year in Chicago or the 313 Black people killed last year by the police, security guards, and people like Zimmerman. Our blood is on the leaves, and it seems like it’s in best interest of America and these corporations.

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MON JUL 22, 2013 AT 06:53 AM PDT

Dionne: After Trayvon, leading with love

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“In the jewelry store, they lock the case when I walk in,” the young African American man wrote. “In the shoe store, they help the white man who walks in after me. In the shopping mall they follow me. . . . Black male: Guilty until proven innocent.”

“I have lost control of my emotions,” he declared. “Rage, Frustration, Anguish, Despondency, Fatigue, Bitterness, Animosity, Exasperation, Sadness. Emotions once suppressed, emotions once channeled, now are let loose. Why?”

That is how E. J. Dionne begins this Washington Post column this morning    The words were offered by Cory Booker, on May 6, 1992, in the Stanford University paper, in response to the acquittal of the police officers in the Rodney King beating  in which despite the videotape showing the brutal beating, jurors from Ventura County refused to find the officers gulity.  Booker pointed Dionne at those words when the two at down last week.

This is an interesting column to read.  Booker, as the mayor of a decaying city, is more than familiar with crime, including black on black violence.  He also understands that there are times when police must resort to using their weapons.  He has held a dying young man in his arms, 

7-22-13 teacherken at Daily Kos

teacherken at Daily Kos: Dionne: After Trayvon, leading with love“In the jewelry store, they lock the case when I walk in,” the young African American man wrote. “In the shoe store, they help the white man who walks in after me. In the shopping mall they follow me. . . . Black male: Guilty until proven innocent.” “I have lost control of my emotions,” he declared. “Rage, Frustration, Anguish, Despo

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