The Facts of Racial Disparities In Policing, the Criminal Justice System and More
“Ending white supremacy requires the ability to do math—350 years of murderous plunder are not undone by 50 years of uneasy ceasefire.” – Ta-Nehisi Coates
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My Favorite Political Cartoons of the Year
I did a post yesterday picking my favorite Photo of the Year, but political cartoons are a different breed of Continue reading
Police Reform Won’t Happen Until More Americans Think There’s Something to Reform
Police operate with impunity and such impunity is bolstered by an American public, pundits and the like that don’t even want you to criticize the police, much less institute any type of real reform.
The Witness Who Saw Bullshit in Ferguson
This Witness 40 in her diary said, “I need to understand Black race better so I stop calling them nigger.”
Law and Order: A Collective Illusion
But I say again, where does the government derive this authority? From our collective illusion, from our collective compliance with it.
The Governor Who Cried Emergency In Ferguson
We don’t know that there is going to be a hurricane, but it seems the police, the media and the politicians are driving up the tensions to that level.
Leaks in the Michael Brown Case and Bad Journalism
Not only does it look suspect to have selective leaks occurring in an investigation already shrouded in skepticism and upheaval, but to run with something so blatantly dumb, I don’t know what to say.
New Eyewitnesses to Michael Brown Killing
In 2013, the municipal court in Ferguson — a city of 21,135 people — issued 32,975 arrest warrants for nonviolent offenses, mostly driving violations.
