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Police Prejudice is Real

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If this surprises you, it means you are a fan of Marjorie Taylor Greene or maybe TheDonald.

Of what am I talking?   A study completed by Drs. Nicholas Camp (Michigan),  Rob Voigt (Northwestern), with  Dan Jurafsky and Jennifer Eberhardt (both from Stanford), published as “The Thin Blue Waveform: Racial Disparities in Officer Prosody Undermine Institutional Trust in the Police”, in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

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Chaos or Community?

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It’s not quite the right day- but, in America, we seem to opt for Monday holidays.  So, today, not the 15th, we are honoring Dr. Martin Luther King.  It is interesting to note that his last book turns out to be a most timely concept for discussion today.

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A citizen?

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Most of us think it was Milton Friedman who was the first to assert corporations have special rights. (Friedman was the one who asserted that corporations have no social compact with their employees or the cities in which they reside.)

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Running amok?

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You have to be carefully taught.  Being given a green light makes the situation worse.

What am i talking about?  Racism.  Nazism.  Fascism.  And, I know a bunch of you are going to switch sites now, because you hate being preached to.  Because you want to keep onto your hate.

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Stop! In the name of truth!

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This post was written long before The Donald elected to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord. (That accord is officially entitled the United Nations Framework  Convention on Climate Change.  I italicized ‘framework’ to ensure y’all recognize this is but a suggestion to preserve the world in which we live- not a series of regulations governing our lives.)  Everything in the post below still applies. Except now, the warnings are probably more dire.

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A Full Deck has passed. Now, 1000 fewer places for Blacks to Vote

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I don’t normally post on Sunday.  Period.

But, today is the 52nd anniversary of Bloody Sunday.  (OK. It’s the Sunday anniversary; the date was 7 March.)  And, our great nation is NOT becoming great again because some 30 states have found ways to preclude the poor, the Blacks, the Latinos from voting.  And, Jeff Sessions (Sen. Elizabeth Warren warns us of his continued ‘racism, sexism, bigotry‘ ) is already retreating further from fair and balanced voting regulations.

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Walks like a duck. Talks like a duck…

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NOTE:  I have had enough.  I must speak out.  NOW.

I have written before about my experiences as a  child and young adult.  (I also spoke about groups spewing hatred.  Also here.) Where, despite living in Metropolitan New York, my neighborhood was 99.9% Catholic, Irish and Italian.  And most of the kids went to Catholic school, where they were taught that the Jews killed Christ.  And,  my brother and I were explicitly taught that we were going to be the targets of their vengeance.

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The Ides of April (give or take)

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This year provides an unusual confluence of events.

150 years ago, this past Thursday, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses P. Grant.  Which meant that the Civil War, the war between the North and the South, the war between factions in America was “officially” over.  But, like our Battle for Independence, the war went on for at least a few more months.  There wasn’t instant communication back then- but. more importantly, to my mind, the war is still ongoing.

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