Witnesses told police the racist man attacked the Black man first with a bottle causing facial lacerations. Then, he continued to attacked by swinging a large strap with metal hooks, charging at him with an ax, running him over with a truck and threatening to hang him from a tree – all while yelling racial slurs.
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Fear is not a justification for death
Many Whites believe the officers’ fear of being lured into an ambush is legitimate because they would process it the same way.
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Cruz-Guzman will defend what Brown v. Board of Education started over 60 years ago
As one of the first African American children to integrate into an all-White school, the photos of Ruby Bridges being escorted to and from her elementary school in New Orleans are iconic.
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Amazon must stop selling hate
Progressive lawmakers in Georgia, where earlier this year conservative lawmakers punished Delta for cutting ties with the N.R.A., should take a stand of their own by punishing Amazon for promoting hatred and bigotry.
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MPD officers are the picture of White supremacy
The full body photos taken of Minneapolis Police officers Justin Schmidt and Ryan Kelly right after the killing of Thurman Blevins, appearing in the July 31 Star Tribune, are hard to look at. They look more like mug shots.
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14 bosses…is that right?
One council member had the guts to force through a motion to allow the Public Safety & Emergency Committee to hold a public hearing and allow the community to speak their truth to this action. Chief Arradondo was never conferred with, which is one of the reasons, in this column, that I sounded the warning six months ago that Chief Arradondo was an intended target.
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Opinion: To change tomorrow’s outcomes, we need change today!
Newcomers like Angela Conley running for office may not have big purse strings or long-standing connections. They bring a different type of capital – a strong, passionate and fresh perspective that addresses issues directly facing their communities.
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It’s time to clean up the trash
These corporate politicians are really good at funding the military industrial complex and then searching out “enemies” that have only hand-held weapons.
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All argument aside, millions of Americans struggle daily to make ends meet
The main gist of the research coming out of Stanford, MIT and other places was that both the reality and the threat of poverty were far worse than previously thought. As similar research studies followed, economist Tim Worstall took these claims to task, arguing that American’s true poverty rate was really closer to 4.5 percent.
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Opinion: Why I’m casting my vote for U.S. Senate candidate Richard Painter
US Senate candidates rarely come to the minority community to ask for our votes. Most wait until it becomes politically expedient, strategically opportune. They expect our votes, but do not forge relationships with the minority voters. Richard Painter is different.
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Aren’t lives worth the cost of Minnesota’s only local suicide crisis hotline?
The Crisis Connection phone line was one of the tools I had and used within my mental health toolbox.
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United Nations report puts U.S. to shame among developed countries
Now, in contrast to America’s “founding commitment to human rights,” all of us will recognize that the United States and “its immense wealth” were built largely on the forced removal of Native peoples from their land, the free labor of African slaves, and myriad other human rights violations.
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In the matter of Thurman Blevins…
There has been much written and talked about regarding this tragedy. And then, as if nothing happened, silence has descended with the sentiment to “let’s just all move on.” How is that possible for his loved ones?
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That N-word, again
I contend that you cannot conjugate the word, because it is firmly embedded in the lexicon of racist language that was, and still is, used to disparage African Americans. Many slaveholders pronounced the word with the “a” ending, and in the 1920s many African Americans used the “a” version as a pejorative denoting class difference.
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Fair Housing’s unfinished 50-year journey
As observances begin across the country, now is an appropriate time to recall how fair housing was a key issue for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In fact, Chicago became his chosen battleground for fair housing, bringing a national spotlight to the multiple ills of segregated and sub-standard housing.
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Could indifference to police brutality be a reflection of poor home training?
Bob Kroll, on Facebook, tried to detract from Blevins’ killing by saying people should be more concerned about Black people killed by citizens. Why can’t we be concerned about both? This is not a new tactic, but a particularly heinous one considering that Blevins has not even been buried yet.
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America has been separating families long before Trump
Be horrified and angered, but not because this is a new Trump transgression against real American values. America was in the business of separating families long before Trump.
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Fair and affordable housing under constant threat
That particular installment of The Anti-Poverty Soldier also examined recent attempts on the part of many legislators, on both the state and national levels, to gut and perhaps even abolish this law, which was signed exactly one week after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
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Another Black man dead
You want to talk bias? What in the hell does this have to do with his being riddled with bullets? Journalistic justification after the fact?