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Bored Man Gets Paid.
Foot on necks/now I’m taking bets. holler: codeswitch@npr.org
@surlybassey When Gwyneth Paltrow’s cousin shows up and starts making them have communal meditation sessions? The tracking bracelets??? Come on, y’all.
It’s an abomination and only makes sense if you were there and getting the whole Jordan indoctrination
I know Chris from #MarriedAtFirstSight is this season’s supervillain but this *Brandon* dude from S10????
Cal always say that an great NCAA team couldn’t beat the worst NBA team, and he’s right generally But, like, couldn’t one of those crazy Kentucky classes — if they stayed four years — maaaaaybe scare, like the Kings? John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins, Eric Bledsoe at 21?
it seems the white Philly accent having a whole cultural moment? (I had so many teachers in middle school who talked just like this. LOL.)
@zra_research also, to be fair...working class white people in NYC live out in the sticks. Black and Latino folks were living in the most geographically desirable places — Harlem, North-central BK, etc — w/ much more access to public transit and are closer to where people are likely to work.
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In 2000, a Haitan American man named Patrick Dorismond was standing outside a bar in midtown Manhattan. A plainsclothes cop walked up to him and asked him where he could buy crack. “What are you doing asking me for that shit?” Dorimsond asked.
Spike Lee said that when Do The Right Thing came out, a lot of critics thought it irresponsible to show Mookie throw a trash can through the window of Sal's pizzeria bc it would encourage riots...but they had far less to say about the cops choking Radio Raheem to death 🤷🏿♂️
Raise your hand if your living parents and grandparents lived under Jim Crow. ??♂️
Sandra Bland didn't signal a lane change. John Crawford was shopping at a Wal-Mart. Philando Castile was coming home from dinner.
one of the wildest things abt white supremacy is how white people's feelings abt racism are always the terrain being contested and always presented as The Stakes.
James Craig Anderson was a 47-year-old gay Black man from Mississippi. One night in 2011, he was standing in a parking lot he was attacked by a roving pack of young white dudes who had gone out to, in their words, “fuck with some niggers.”
“Our manager never intended for these men to be arrested...this should never have escalated as it did.” Calling the police introduces the prospect of arrest, and since the police are armed, the prospect of violence. Calling the police IS an escalation.
Jonathan Ferrell was asking for help after a car crash. Tamir Rice was playing in a park. Akai Gurley was walking down the stairs.
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