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Mark’s Covid Diary… June 16, 2020
Posted in Civil Liberties, Mark's Life, Michigan, Uncategorized Also tagged agent provocateurs, ANTIFA, Arizona, bleach, Boogaloo, Costco, COVID-19, crisis gardens, Donald Trump, Enrique Neblett, Florida, food delivery, George Floyd, gun reform, gun violence, health disparities, inequality, Jaws, kale, Katrease Stafford, Kroger, lungs, lynching, masks, milkshakes, Monica, political violence, privilege, public health, racism, school shooting, Shake Shack, structural racism, Texas, violence on the extreme right 42 Comments
What the 2016 election results tell us about the changing landscape of America, the possibility of non-partisan redistricting in Michigan, helping local kids find their inner superheroes, and Mittenfest XI …on this weekend’s Saturday Six Pack
This Saturday’s episode of the Saturday Six Pack, our second of the Trump era, will be told in four parts. During our first segment, we will be talking with University of Michigan Professor of Political Science Vincent Hutchings, the author of Public Opinion and Democratic Accountability: How Citizens Learn About Politics, about the results of […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Michigan, Politics, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized Also tagged 826Michigan, Annie Palmer, Bright Futures, gerrymandering, Hero Nation-Ypsilanti, Jermaine Dickerson, League of Women Voters, political science, Public Opinion and Democratic Accountability: How Citizens Learn About Politics, racial coding, racism, redistricting, superheroes, Susan Smith, University of Michigan, Vincent Hutchings 25 Comments
What a difference a few miles makes… Stanford data shows sharp division between educational outcomes across Washtenaw County following race and class lines
This past April, folks at the New York Times, using data collected by the Center for Education Policy Analysis at Stanford, created an online tool allowing users to explore the correlation between money, race and academic success across America’s school districts. Following are two screen captures. The first shows where the Ann Arbor school district […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Education, Ypsilanti Also tagged AAPS, Ann Arbor Public Schools, Center for Education Policy Analysis, class, dismantling of public education, economic segregation, education reform, inequality, National Assessment of Educational Progress, race, schools of choice, segregation, Stanford, testing, threats to public education, YCS, Ypsilanti Public Schools 30 Comments
The Lonesome Death of Trayvon Martin
Ever since news broke about George Zimmerman shooting down Trayvon Martin in that gated community outside of Orlando, I’ve had Bob Dylan’s song, The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, going through my head. Maybe it’s just that Zimmerman’s name sounds to me like that of William Zantzinger, the privileged young tobacco farmer in Maryland who […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Civil Liberties, Ideas, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged blame the victim, Bob Dylan, bourbon, Candle in the Wind, dextromethorphan, Elton John, George Zimmerman, Hattie Carroll, Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana, race, racism, Robert Zimmerman Sr., shanties, Steve Allen, The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll, Trayvon Martin, white privilege, Zantzinger 30 Comments
Guns don’t kill people… Hoodies kill people
Earlier this morning, in a segment on FOX News, self-important pseudo-journalist Geraldo Rivera suggested that it wasn’t just George Zimmerman who was responsible for the recent shooting death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager who was gunned down while walking though a gated community outside of Orlando, Florida. No, according to Rivera, it seems […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Media, Other, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Basic Training, blame the victim, famous people who have shoved me, Florida, George Zimmerman, Geraldo Rivera, guns, Harvard Law, John Stossel, Kindle, Kurt Vonnegut, meme alert, memes, race and the American justice system, Trayvon Martin 19 Comments
