How to break into a car with your white privilage, or driving while black in America.
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This is a troubling story if you just read the right-wing perspective: a student at Hamline University (an excellent liberal arts college in the Twin Cities) was suspended for writing a letter to the university administration
One of the great things about Coturnix is that he brings two context-broadening tools to the table in any discussion: Synchronic and diachronic. In a recent post (Am I a Science Journalist? he adds the diachronic.
It begins with a garden or two. Once you have gardens, you have a resource that has the two most important characteristics anything can have with respect to human society. First, you can eat it. Second, your enemies can destroy it.
This is a great cartoon by Randall Munroe that makes a very important point very effectively. Spread it around, love it, learn from it.
Good clip. I don't think the word cracker came up, so I guess that is reference to the T.M case. I am sure glad I am not on the jury because I think the legal structure is trying to force this case somewhere it might not quite go, but I doubt they had other legal alternatives. I think reckless endangerment only applies to driving.
This particular clip is part of a longer bit in which it was discussed (there's a brief mention in one of the roll by banners).
Holy Shit! Burton has a 33 y/o kid? He has such a babyface, I still think of him as 30-something from his SNG days.
Is the question to hand whether one's worse than the other? Isn't it that 'cracker' is also a pejorative, racially prejudiced term?
Ironically, the word is used way more in the Black Community, who seem to have a masochistic need to keep it alive.