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Brown Girl Dreaming (2014)

“Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. 

Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child’s soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson’s eloquent poetry also reflects the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, despite the fact that she struggled with reading as a child. Her love of stories inspired her and stayed with her, creating the first sparks of the gifted writer she was to become. “

by Jacqueline Woodson 

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Jacqueline Woodson (http://ift.tt/LTNwHB) is the winner of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults, the recipient of three Newbery Honors for After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers and Show Way, and a two-time finalist for the National Book Award for Locomotion and Hush. Other awards include the Coretta Scott King Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Miracle’s Boys. Her most recent books are her novel Beneath a Meth Moon and her picture books Each Kindness and This Is the Rope. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York. 

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Post From Tumblr gael-garcia: - If you were a white male, would you wish to be... - August 15, 2016

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- If you were a white male, would you wish to be an engineer?
- I wouldn’t have to. I’d already be one.

Official Trailer for HIDDEN FIGURES (in U.S. theaters January 13, 2017)

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Youth Jailed Since April For Alleged $5 Grocery Theft, Found Dead In Jail Cell:
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#JamychealMitchell

Youth Jailed Since April For Alleged $5 Grocery Theft, Found Dead In Jail Cell

A young man was arrested by Portsmouth, Virginia police over a mere $5 in groceries that he stole because he was hungry.

The arrest came on the same day a Portsmouth cop shot and killed an unarmed African American 18-year-old.

But now, Jamycheal Mitchell, 24, has been found dead in his jail cell, after spending four months behind bars with no conviction and no bail.

Mitchell had no muscle mass left by the time he died. As a registered nurse, she said she believes he was starving himself, apparently to pressure the “justice” system to  stop locking him up indefinitely.

Mitchell was accused of stealing a $1 bottle of Mountain Dew, a Snickers bar and a Zebra Cake. Combined, these amounted to a total of $5 he is accused of stealing from a 7-Eleven.

For that, he has been locked up for months, awaiting trail, and it is not even clear that he committed those crimes. There may have, perhaps, been a dispute about payment. Or perhaps he began consuming the food in the store and his credit or debit card was declined. Both of these scenarios could result in the same charges.

Perhaps still, he was poor, hungry, and stole food from time to time. Are we really in the business of locking people in cages for months over stealing food?

Mitchell’s death has not been covered by national, or even local media in Virginia, aside from a brief mention on the 11 o’clock news. Help us SPREAD THE WORD before the police start shaping the narrative of this young man’s death!

#BlackLivesMatter #StayWoke 

#JamychealMitchell
Another one lost. Don’t forget him.

Starved.  To death.  WTF.

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Is that pistol an automatic?

                                                                         I want that.

{ Filling prompt #57 @fanmixes Mixfest 2016 } ✖ Listen | Keep 

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“You don’t pass or fail at being a person, dear.”
- Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane (via thequotejournals)
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talk-nerdy-to-me-thyla:

Wow I never knew this

What’s especially important to remember is that, before he became the cuddly grandpa of the fandom, Nimoy was typically described as ‘uptight’ and ‘humorless’ in those early days. I guess if you want do the right thing, you need to be willing to be a wet blanket.

Let me put it in more modern terms.  There’s a lot of things going around these days with Spock’s face on them I’d never have seen twenty years ago.  They’d tried.  Mr. Nimoy complained - nicely, but he could grouse with the best of them - and if they didn’t take it down, he sued.  Nicely, correctly but Mr. Nimoy just didn’t play.  He never got nasty, but he did get *just* enough in your face to make it unpleasant to try it again.  And never in a way he couldn’t accept if he was wrong.  Backbone out of titanium, that one.

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If Sanders doesn’t get the nomination, and you can’t see yourself voting for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, then don’t. Vote third party.

Consider the Libertarian or Green Party.

Don’t feed the establishment by voting for Clinton, and don’t feed authoritarian isolationism by voting for Trump.

No. The absolute largest chunk of people considering changing their votes at the moment are disappointed non-conservatives. There was barely any competition among republicans; from the get-go, the voter base united behind Trump. If non-conservatives split their votes across multiple fronts, they WILL lose.

Voting third party in America throws your vote directly into the garbage. Our system does not work like Australia’s. You don’t get a second or third choice, and candidates who win aren’t going to look at the numbers and say “I see 25% of Americans voted Green, I should implement Green policies.” That’s not how it works. Conservative voters overwhelmingly back a single party, the GOP, while non-conservative voters are the ones that scatter across multiple, weak fronts when faced with an unappealing Democratic party nominee. Think about it like this:

The majority of Republican voters support Trump and are not changing their vote even though party leaders and figureheads are universally decrying him. They’ve been groomed for decades by the GOP to be this way, and now party leaders have lost control of the impressionable voter base they created for themselves. There’s nothing they can do about it at this point. While a small number of Republicans can and are switching parties, it’s not very much. Meanwhile, Democrats are floundering, trying to decide which front to unite under. Some of them go to the Green party or Libertarians, sure; the rest stay with the Democratic party in the hopes that even with people leaving, they will have enough to block Trump. But Trump doesn’t need a majority of total Americans to vote for him; he only needs more than the other candidates have. Do you understand what I’m saying? Trump could get 10% of the vote, but as long as no other party has more than 10%, he still wins. The second you split the left and middle across three or four fronts, the right seizes control. This is how it goes down every single fucking time we go through this.

The other thing to consider is that the electoral college is NOT going to weigh in favor of a third party. Doing so would be political suicide. They are paid to vote certain ways, and not doing so would fuck up their careers. Even if an entire state votes in favor of a third party, the electoral college is going to vote for whichever primary party matches up the closest, and sometimes not even that. Their votes are counted when making the actual choice of president; ours are not. They proved that with Gore. The majority of Americans voted for him; the electoral college installed Bush anyway and told us to suck it up. The question at this point is whether they’d risk it a second time, and we have to hope that they won’t, which is why we have to unite under a single front to block Trump.

^^^^^^^THIS!!!!!!!!!! People do not understand that under our plurality system, it doesn’t matter if the majority of the population doesn’t vote for Trump. As long as he has more than any of the other candidates, he wins. Splitting up the more liberal voters is now what non-Trump supporters want to do.

THESE CHILDREN ARE TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER ROSS PEROT

And Ralph Nader.

DO NOT SPLIT THE VOTE, PLEASE! GOP is gonna vote Trump, they won’t vote for a 3rd party person. That means a solid voting bloc. Dem who split the vote are in essence giving him a free vote. HILARY WITH ALL HER FAULTS IS STILL BETTER THAN TRUMP!

GOD DAMNIT YALL BETTER NOT SPLIT THE DEM VOTES

This is how the Conservative Party in the UK won the last election with less than 40% of the overall vote!!!!
Don’t do it America!

NOT splitting the vote is how Canada snagged this magical unicorn man in the last election.  Basically everyone I know voted strategically, even if it was against their party, to ensure that Harper’s crusty conservative ass was kicked the hell out.  Personally I waffle between the Green Party and the NDP politically, but I sure as heck voted Liberal last election.

Think about how much Obama accomplished with a hostile Congress in 6 of his 8 years in office.

Now think about how much Trump can “accomplish” with a Congress that isn’t hostile.

I’m legit scared of this election because of this. Our system is screwed up and I’m sorry if you hate both parties (I’m still shocked we ended up where we are),  but realistically, writing in Bernie because you’re “Bernie or bust” or voting for a third party isn’t going to work this time. 

#seriously y'all#take it from a canadian who voted in our last federal election#everyone was sick of of piece of shit former prime minister#and you bet your ass we did everything we could to get him out#and THAT INCLUDES VOTING FOR THE PARTY THAT HAD A CHANCE AT WINNING THE MAJORITY EVEN IF WE DIDN’T NECESSARILY AGREE WITH THEM 100%#and it worked#it sucks but you gotta do what you gotta do

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Honestly, that’s what all the Pokemon Go Gyms look like around here these days.

RED! BLUE! BLUE BLUE YELLOW! RED

Seriously.  Those Instinct guys even take themselves out. 

Median age of the typical player is also rising, too.  So much for the boomers not getting with the technology.  Guys, give someone a reason to learn how to use a tool and they will THWAP you over the head with it.

I said this was going to be huge, and so far it hasn’t turned into hyperbole.

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Texas Man Who Didn’t Kill Anyone Set for Execution:

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A Texas man who did not actually kill anyone is set to be executed within the next two weeks, the Washington Post reported on Friday. It is incredibly, incredibly rare for such accomplices in a murder to be put to death, even in Texas, where executions are more common than anywhere in the country.

But Jeffrey Lee Wood is facing lethal injection on Aug. 24 for his role as getaway driver in a botched 1996 robbery that resulted in the death of Texaco convenience store clerk Kris Keeran.

The gunman in that case, a drifter named Daniel Reneau, was executed in 2002. Scott Cobb, president of Texas Moratorium Network, told the Post that Wood would be the “least culpable person executed in the modern era of death penalty” if he is put to death later this month.

Here is the Post’s account of Wood’s role in the crime:

Court records say he was involved in a scheme with Reneau and the store’s assistant manager to steal a safe that they believed contained thousands of dollars. While the others had backed out, Reneau took it upon himself to steal the safe, court records say.

Based on testimony from Wood’s then-girlfriend, he asked Reneau to not bring his gun before the two drove to the convenience store that day. Reneau did anyway, without Wood’s knowledge.

The Post now reports that Wood is “borderline mentally disabled with an IQ of 80” and that his mother described him as an “eight-year-old in a man’s body.” He was initially declared incompetent to stand trial after a neuropsychologist found him to be delusional and unable to understand his circumstances, but the hospital reconsidered and he was eventually convicted. During that trial, a controversial psychologist named James Grigson and known as “Dr. Death” testified that Wood would “most certainly” commit a violent crime again. Grigson never actually examined Wood. He was originally scheduled to be executed in 2008, but that was delayed because of his lack of competence.

Only 10 executions out of more than 1,400 since the Supreme Court brought back the death penalty in 1976 involved people who did not directly kill anyone or hire someone to kill anyone. Five of those took place in Texas, according to the Post, on the basis of a 1970s statute called the law of parties that says anyone who “solicits, encourages, directs, aids, or attempts to aid the other person to commit an offense” is liable for that crime.

The Texas Tribune reported last month that in 2007 then-Gov. Rick Perry changed the sentence of a getaway driver named Kenneth Foster from death to life, but then in 2009 refused to do so for a man in a similar situation named Robert Thompson even “after the Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended clemency.” The shooter in that case received life in prison rather than the death penalty after cooperating with authorities.

The Post notes that 16 Catholic bishops in the state have written Texas Gov. Greg Abbott asking that he stay Wood’s death sentence.

Supreme Court precedent on the issue of executing those who did not actually physically commit or solicit a murder is mixed. As the Post noted in its 2008 coverage of the case, a 1982 decision called Enmund v. Florida determined that it was unconstitutional to execute a person involved in a murder if that person “does not himself kill, attempt to kill, or intend that a killing take place, or lethal force will be employed.”

But in a 1987 ruling called Tison v. Arizona, the court ruled that the death penalty could be applied if a culprit was a “major participant” in the murder and acted with “reckless indifference to human life.” The two precedents would seem to contradict one another.

“That’s why I think this issue may come back to the Supreme Court,” Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, told the Post in 2008 when Wood was originally set to die. “This is an area that needs some clarification.”

Without a determination from the court that such clarification is necessary or clemency from state officials, Wood will be put to death one week from Wednesday. If that happens, it will be one of the most noteworthy and saddest chapters in the history of the modern death penalty.

Oh God, they don’t want to care for a developmentally disabled adult so they’re going to kill him.

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Since President Obama took office: We’ve multiplied wind power threefold, we’ve multiplied solar power more than thirtyfold, and carbon pollution from our energy sector is at its lowest level in 25 years. That’s progress: go.wh.gov/SgLMLo

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Tea Partier Gets Schooled On Voter Suppression By A Teenager
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It’s like millennials do not understand that middle east has been at war for 1000′s of years. That we intervened on behalf of Kuwait. That without “bombing” people that want to kill and oppress others, millions will be murdered and tortured.

“at war for 1000′s of years”

you clearly know nothing about Afghanistan nor the middle east

here’s Afghanistan in the 1950′s, 60′s, & 70′s

if you really want to know what caused all the instability & growth of extremist groups I suggest you take a look at the US foreign policy towards Afghanistan during the 80′s

It’s interesting to note that when the communist government came to power in Afghanistan in the late 70′s, one of the first things they did was declare equality of the sexes, made education for girls mandatory, & banned child marriages. The conservative tribal leaders who the US armed & funded (& who later became the Taliban) declared this to be a “war on Islam” & fought against the central government.

The US had no problem back then with encouraging the growth of Islamic conservatism to counter socialism/communism. You created your biggest enemy & you have no one to blame but yourselves.

BLESS THIS POST

its crazy to me how the US talks about war in the middle east as if its this ancient problem inherent to the area instead of a recent problem created by western countries to further their own interests.

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