In the early hours of June 26, 2011, 18-year old Deryl Dedmon, who had been drinking with friends, drove his pick-up truck over a man by the name of James Craig Anderson in Jackson, Mississippi, killing him. Dedmon was white. Anderson was black. Dedmon fled the scene of the crime, but, thanks to surveillance camera […]
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Judge Carlton Reeves, sentencing three white men to prison for the murder of a black man in Mississippi, delivers a powerful speech on the legacy of lynching
Posted in Civil Liberties, History, Uncategorized Also tagged 100 Years of Lynchings, A New History of Mississippi, affirmative action, Andrew Goodman, Carlton Reeves, Deryl Dedmon, Dylan Butler, Emmett Till, Equal Justice Initiative, George W. Lee, hate crimes, Jackson, Jafrica, James Cheney, John Aaron Rice, lynching, Lynching in America: Confronting the Terror of of Racial Terror, Mack Charles Parker, Medgar Evers, Michael Schwerner, Mississippi, Mississippi: An American Journey, n-word, race, race and poverty, racism, slavery, University of Michigan Law School, Vernon Dahmer, white power, Willie McGee, Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America 9 Comments
On Republican bloodlust and Obama’s Job Act
If Obama really wanted people to get behind him and this new jobs initiative of his, he would have announced this evening that he was planning to top Rick Perry by taking the lives of 250 American citizens. (Just think of all the executioners and grave diggers we could put to work if he said […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged American Jobs Act, asshole Republicans of Texas, blood thirsty, Cameron Todd Willingham, deregulation, EPA, executions, FEMA, Global Warming, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, pollution, putting innocent men to death, Rick Perry, smog, Texas justice, things to lose sleep over 16 Comments
Obama takes on Trump and the Birthers at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Speaking of Trump, did you know that, in 1989, he spent $85,000 on ads calling for the death penalty for 14 year old boy who was later exonerated of the crime? And then there’s the fact that he’s been lying about how he avoided military service during the Vietnam War.
Posted in Media, Politics Also tagged 1989, Central Park jogger, Donald Trump, Obama, Obama's birth certificate, Raymond Santana, Vietnam, Vietnam War, White House Correspondents Dinner, wrongly accused 25 Comments