In the wake of the events in Ferguson, Cleveland and Staten Island, and the subsequent conversations we’ve all had about black lives mattering and the treatment of black Americans by police officers, I don’t suppose it’s any surprise that some white folks have decided to push back and challenge the prevailing “white cops are killing […]
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An afternoon spent on Racebook
Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged black lives matter, Cleveland, Facebook, Ferguson, police, police tactics, race, race and poverty, race baiting, Racebook, racial profiling, racism, Staten Island, Tawana Brawley, Ypsi Area Discussion 27 Comments
The apparent end of public education as we know it in Philadelphia
We’ve talked at length on this site, over the past several years, about the coordinated campaign to dismantle public education in the United States. Sadly, Michigan is often at the forefront of this national conservative movement. Images of pregnant teenage girls being arrested as they try to keep their schools from closing and boys picketing […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Education, Politics Also tagged Ben Jealous, Bill Gates, Bush tax cuts, Catherine Ferguson Academy for Young Women, charter schools, education reform, Frederick Douglass Academy, Gates Foundation, Good Morning America is crap, Grover Norquist, Philadelphia, public education, starve the beast, Thomas Knudsen, wealth inequality 38 Comments