Glen Ford: Vilification of young black youth deeply embedded in American culture
Storyteller and educator Awele Makeba combines performing arts and history to tell a powerful story from the American civil rights movement. (Launching a series on Playing with Language)
What about the fact that blacks commit 39X more violent crime than whites? Oh, that’s right. Statistics are racist.
He would have been a “survivor” if the bullit had not killed him.
As it did and the evidence points towards him not inviting attack – “victim” might be a good word. Any boxing fan or gun nut or common sense will tell you it is body weight – not height that counts.
This one crime is one measure of US injustice + killing
I have been speaking out about most of the shit the US government as well as the catholic church do for a very long time. i now have a criminal record for speaking my mind.
That’s not logic -nobody says “coon”; it’s well-dated. It’s much more likely, based on voice analysis, that he said “fucking Goon”. The “victim” was over 6foot tall, so again you are mistating facts. But I’m not here to argue any of that, let’s say you are 100% correct about this incident. You say this one crime is keeping you up at night? Is that out of proportion? Did you know that US-backed Libyan rebels (al queda) have savagely murdered 50,000 black Libyans? Who is speaking for them? Not you
True what you say beliefs do not make truth. think on that.
what we do know is Z was consistantly paranoid. said “coon” as a term to describe his quarry. killed his quarry. had no visible life threatenning injury.
There is a total absence evidence that small black man was up to no good. Plenty that he was afraid of Z.
Logic takes us somewhere close enough to truth to tell us Z was responsible for homicide.
Also leaves us with many very scary questions that left me waking up with nightmares.
from a budhist democratic perspective..
If we by any chance have a government that is meant to represent the will of the people.. or if we consider it our responsibility to attempt such a thing.. then yes all of us must take the blame for the crimes that the government commits or allows to happen.
OK. We have come full circle. You are back to “murder”, based upon nothing but one-sided hearsay. I’m disappointed to hear it from you.
Anyway, see ya around, my friend. I still think you’re a quality kitteh.
I’m a not racist, I would rather not be called one/
It certainly was not an insult at you, you are a wonderful person, it was a an insult at Amerikkka.
Zimmeman said fucking coons & murdered Trayvon in cold blood.
OK. So we are discussing ONE phone call. Not “phone CALLS”.
No, I think there’s a probability that’s what those muttered words were.
Now. Shall I call *you* “racist” for your comment that “there should be riots in America…the majority of white americans will not stand up for anybody”?
Or, was that insult said to me during a moment of frustration?
Are you suggesting “fucking coons” was not Zimmerman?
To what “phone calls” do you refer?
I can’t see how the phone calls could be in interpreted any other way, then those words.
Unless you were there, you can’t claim they are “honest, accurate words”.
Honest, accurate words.
Sounds like you’ve already made up your mind.
“racist”? “stalked”? “executed”? Inflammatory buzz-words.
Careful. You are beginning to sound racist yourself, my friend.
Trayvon was stalked by a racist, then executed. He was not armed.
It’s about time there’s some riots in America, the majority of white americans will not stand up for anybody.
Oh, please. “skittles”? Goes right along with the “cute little kid” persona the media is hyping.
Can you explain to me why the media is using *only* Trayvon’s childhood pics? Why aren’t they instead showing his recent, 6’1″ gold-toothed, gangsta-wannabe pics from his FaceBook page? More PSYOPS.
“Muslim hijackers” lies “justified” invading Afghanistan. “Incubator babies thrown on the floor” lies “justified” invading Iraq.
Heads up! These lies are going to “justify” race riots soon.
A gun vs skittles is not self-defense.
Very simple. It could not be murder if it was self-defense.
Not every killing is “murder”.
The media have used the to their agenda, but the incident itself….is what it is…. murder. How could it not be?
My friend, I’m stunned that you, of all people, have allowed the corrupt, far-left American press to stampede you into falling for their agenda-driven, formulaic, fact-obfuscated PSYOP.
I thought you were aware of the tricks of the American “news” by now.
“Trayvon Martin was killed last month for the same reason Eugene Williams died 93 years ago in Chicago. A white man decided Williams was where a black man shouldn’t be … so he killed him. The white man was tried for Williams’ death and acquitted. Trayvon Martin died because The United States of America is still … one evil son of a bitchin’ country to live in if you’re not white.”
—tvnewslies[.]org/tvnl/index.php/news/of-special-interest/23280-bob-alexander-designed-to-fail.html
A lynch-mob mentality is a good description for what happened.
It can only be described as murder, Zimmerman murdered a child.
With infinite respect for you, my friend, I disagree.
“Killing” is the correct term at this point.
Murder would be the correct term.
Trial by media? Why is the term “murder” being used? Lynch-mob mentality.
I think they fell off when she ran…
I’ve fingered her.
your right thats what i never got how can black and white be a race human is a race not the color of you skin
Just like all the billions of cells in our body create single entity, we are are all in turn are a single entity, some people like to call it Gaia.
So what does that mean when places like the tar sands of Fort Mcmurray, Alberta needlessly exist? It means we are all basically canibalizing ourselves for energy, when renewable, eco friendly energies are possible.
One race, human race. Therefore no racism :-/
But i know what you mean when you say people rationalize in other ways
Countries flags are just gang colours.
Black cats and white cats are just cats.
Religion doesn’t exist (lol) only low IQ and ignorance remain.
Hmm i think racism can come from life experience aswell, if we have constant bad encounters with people from diferent “races” we tend to categorize them as “bad” so even thou i agree racism comes most of the time from ignorance i also think that the hate cicle plays a high role in the spreading of it even on educated people they just rationalize it in some other way.
Racism doesn’t exist, only low IQ and ignorance remain.
Regarding the planets resources. I think there is a chance we enter an age of abundance of most things (research peter diammandis – abundance) gradually. I think you are right that somekind of global state is inevitable in time. But right now it dosn’t look very good (United Nations). The UN is very dysfunctional, and groups that try to limit basic human rights are trying to taking control of it.
I mean that things i consider basic rights could be lost/limited in a super state. And btw, democracy seams to not work very well with too many people and large geographical areas, people become apathetic and votes carelessly or not at all. (USA/EU).
Forget about todays academia and look for good schoolar examples from ancient cultures, see how it worked through very different learning systems, development of rethorics can’t be in our one way classrooms. Today we got far too many people looking narrowly into one field forgeting the big picture, in those days scientists were not restricted to a specific subject.
Quest. #02: Have no idea. But it certainly isn’t a good idea when it comes to indocrinating closed concepts into a children’s mind.
Question #01: No, although this is inevitable in its time, for various reasons, 1) the planet’s resources, political and economical decisions cannot be made or managed in a one way narrow street. They must be made, taking into consideration the whole picture. In fact our troubles are derivative from not taking all points of view into consideration, not regarding the future. Decision making based upon close nearby results or profit is equivalent to certain death.
A citizenship in a global super state…? and what is that superstates ideology? What will be forced on me by that super state … People are still very different depending on geographical location, and i would not like to be part of common democracy with all other humans on the earth. Because of how the world looks today, i rather just have my current national citizenship.
Boolcrap in comparison to other TEDED.
So amazing!!!!
Let’s be responsible to mother earth.
Great use of Story!
Great video and beautifully told story.. I recommend to You Tube that one of the tags be named for Claudette Colvin, because that woman is finally getting the attention her story deserves, and in the future people may come across this video when searching on her name.
LOL. gr8t talk! C, U2 can B brief
Definitely possible.
Looks and sounds more like an edit point. When she ran the audio tech must have finally called it as unusable and they stopped to have her remove them and picked it up where she left off.
@eysheinsof Totally agree with your point. But I think we should take it one step further. Citizenship is just one aspect of a much larger question of being a human. I think it’s the first and and the most important answer to “who are you”. First and foremost, I’m a human being. I’m not sure if we grasp the true meaning and depth of this.
The power of editing.
When she is doing a dramatization of running, they fall off.