Jesse keepin it real, as usual.
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A Ferguson town hall, held in the Wellspring Church, Thursday night, August 28th. Part 1.
Ferguson Mayor James Knowles is making no friends at tonight’s Town Hall. Part 2
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Saturday morning, over 1,000 people march for justice for Michael Brown.
August 30th.
Protesters canvass the neighborhood of County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch.
Saturday, August 30th.
Let me be clear: Unarmed college hopefuls don’t deserve to be shot. Unarmed kids heading to work or trade school don’t deserve to be shot. Unarmed kids floundering aimlessly through life don’t deserve to be shot. Unarmed kids who have been in trouble—even those who have been nothing but trouble—don’t deserve to be shot.
The act of pinning the tragedy of a dead black teen to his potential future success, to his respectability, to his “good”-ness, is done with all the best intentions. But if you read between the lines, aren’t we really saying that had he not been on his way to college, there’d be less to mourn?
That’s dead wrong.
Black Kids Don’t Have to Be College-Bound for Their Deaths to Be Tragic by Jasmine Banks (via gwest650)
I’m only sharing tweets for those who are not on twitter and can’t see how passionate and outraged journalists are as they tweet from #Ferguson.
If you are on Twitter, here’s a good roster of people to follow if you want to keep updated.
“From 2006 to 2012, a white police officer killed a black person at least twice a week in this country.” – MHP
Melissa Harris-Perry gives a heart-wrenching tribute to the deaths of black men that have occurred at the hands of police in the past decade.
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