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  • Until White America looks at Tamir Rice and sees their own children...

    12/29/2015 1:23:15 PM PST · by Responsibility2nd · 200 replies
    Salon (Who Else?) ^ | 12/29/2015 | Chauncey Devega
    FULL TITLE: Until White America looks at Tamir Rice and sees their own children, there will be no racial justice in the U.S. ~snip~The failure to indict the police who killed Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Rekia Boyd, and so many others forces an uncomfortable question. Could it be that black people in America (and the West, more generally) are somehow “stained”? Are they marked for special punishment? Is the Curse of Ham real, does that Judeo-Christian mythology from the era of colonialism, white empire, and chattel slavery endure into the post civil rights and ostensibly “post racial” American...
  • Charge of Negligent Homicide for Boy, 8, in School Bus Death

    05/23/2006 11:33:08 PM PDT · by freespirited · 9 replies · 533+ views
    NY Times ^ | 05/23/06 | Michael Brick
    An 8-year-old boy who climbed into a parked school bus, released the emergency brake and sent 26,000 pounds of steel rolling through Crown Heights, Brooklyn, on Monday was charged yesterday with criminally negligent homicide in the death of Amber Sadiq, 8... The boy, Tafari James, had been suspended from second grade on Friday for climbing onto another unattended bus, ... Investigators said it was unclear whether he released the brake on Monday intentionally. Witnesses saw him board the bus alone... He rode the bus as it gathered speed down a slight incline and jump off as it thudded to a...