There is an article on the BBC about Tamir Rice, one the several black people who were killed by police in a brief period of time about a year ago and whose deaths were held up as undeniable examples of racist police violence.
After reading the article above about Tamir, consider this- Ohio is an "Open Carry" state. Below are some notes from a comment I made elsewhere on the Web about this.
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There’s a widely read progressive comic strip called “This Modern World,” at- http://thismodernworld.com/comic-archive . A recent one is at- http://images.dailykos.com/images/118035/lightbox/TMW2014-12-03color.png?1417371188 that you should read.
The last part refers to a recent initiative by gun-rights advocates called “Open Carry.” There is more info at- http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2014/0...n-for-the-nra/ (please note that in the end, the NRA was officially okay with open-carry Texas. One of the sites for the movement is at- http://www.opencarry.org/ .
As far as I can tell, it IS overwhelmingly about white people with a racist double standard.
Some quotes from the front page of http://www.opencarry.org/ :
“I have to admit, initially I was a bit nervous about … the [open carry] law,
[b]ut to my surprise, we have not had one single incident as it relates to open-carry.”
Vicksburg, MS P
Police Chief Walter Armstrong, September 16, 2014
“We don’t suggest that people panic,
because there hasn’t been a problem with open-carry demonstrations in other cities.”
Palo Alto, CA police Lt. Sandra Brown, Mercury News, March 5, 2010
An article on this theme is at- http://www.salon.com/2014/12/15/gun_...dment_crusade/
ANOTHER ITEM THAT I DIDN'T KNOW EARLIER: Tamir Rice and John Crawford were killed in Ohio. Ohio IS AN OPEN-CARRY STATE!!!!!!!!!!!!
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My blog is about history, popular culture, politics and current events from a democratic socialist and Irish republican perspective. The two main topics are Northern Ireland on one hand and fighting anti-Semitism, racism and homophobia on the other. The third topic is supporting the Palestinians, and there are several minor topics. The three main topics overlap quite a bit. I have to admit that it’s not going to help me get a graduate degree, especially because it’s almost always written very casually. But there are some high-quality essays, some posts that come close to being high-quality essays, political reviews of Sci-Fi TV episodes (Star Trek and Babylon 5), and a unique kind of political, progressive poetry you won't find anywhere else. (there are also reviews of episodes of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and reviews of Roseanne)
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