Yesterday morning, at approximately 11:00 AM, Patrick Crusius, a 21-year-old white male wth a history of racist views, walked into the Walmart next to El Paso’s Cielo Vista Mall with an AK-47-style assault rifle, and proceeded to take the lives of 20 human beings. While some on the right, like Texas Governor Greg Abbott, are […]
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Yet another young white male with a gun goes on a killing rampage citing the racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 8chan, anti-immigrant, anti-immigration, assault rifles, assault weapons, assault weapons ban, background checks, Beto O'Rourke, border wall, call to action, call to violence, Charlottesville, Christchurch, conspiracy theories, domestic terrorism, Donald Trump, Drudge Report, El Paso, go back to where you came from, go back to your countries, Great Replacement, Greg Abbott, gun control, gun laws, gun violence, impeachment, incitement to violence, infested, invasion, levitate the Pentagon, levitation, manifestos, mass murder, mass shootings, mental health, mental illness, Mexico, New Zealand, NRA, Nuremberg, Patrick Crusius, racism, Renaud Camus, Texas, The Inconvenient Truth, universal background checks, violence on the extreme right, Walmart, white nationalism, white supremacist, Will Hurd 93 Comments
Awesome U-M undergrads launch startup to teach American history through the stories of inspirational women
The Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation a few days ago awarded a $1,000 grant to Virginia Lozano, an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, who, along with her twin sister Beatriz, created an education technology company called Leesta in order to “inspire 8-11 year olds by teaching American History through the stories of women.” After bestowing […]
Posted in A2Awesome, Awesome Foundation, Education, History Also tagged A People's History of the United States, advertising, American Studies, animation, art school, autism, awesome women, Beatriz Lozano, Bessie Coleman, BrainPop, Charles H. Wright African American Museum, Coco Chanel, Dolores Huerta, education reform, entrepreneurship, Grace Lee Boggs, Howard Zinn, hugging machine, Leesta, Mike Huckabee, misunderstanding American history, Paula Friedrich, rewriting history, software, Stamps School of Art and Design, Stephanie O’ Neil, strong women, Temple Grandin, University of Michigan, Virginia Lozano, women who kick ass, Zinn Education Project 6 Comments