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Apologies, should have listened
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Linking another interesting podcast from Paul Gilroy speaking to Steve McQueen about Small Axe.
https://soundcloud.com/ucl-arts-social-science/sprc-in-conversation-with-steve-mcqueen
I share this sentiment from Kehinde Andrews (who is currently getting abused on twitter) re onlyinamerica
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As relieved as I am that joe Biden (legal challenges apart) has won the us presidency, what scares me is that 57% (or close to that number) of white people voted for trump! Over half the white population of the United States voted for a man whose been a racist throughout his political “career”. If it wasn’t for the black and Latino vote, trump would have got four more years and I don’t think it would have been particularly close..
Now it’s down to black voters in Georgia to see if they can turn the tide in the senate in the face of gerrymandering and institutional attempts to disenfranchise their ability to vote, come January, giving Biden what Obama never had, control of the senate and the ability to push through policies that could reverse some of the legislative damage that this administration and complicit republicans have put in place.
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When in the past anyone might have said, ‘my vote is not that important’. Especially from the Black and Latino communities. I do hope that the recount in Georgia will prove the opposite.
This is a defining moment for the USA, pivotal around such a small region within Georgia. there are also alot of good white folk about too, that know a change and time for healing is needed.
The trump supporters who have said they will leave and come to the UK should not be welcome here.
Only history can determine after +50 years of broken promises whether this is all worth it. But we live in hope for their American Dream.
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Googled it seems he only had it until the midterms of his first run. No idea why he and the democrats didn’t use it.
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This is worth posting. The MOVE bombing in Philadelphia in 1985 was without a doubt one of the most horrific racist crimes in the US. I only heard about it a few years ago when one of the original members of Move was released from prison. There will still be so much that's been swept under the carpet.
I've just never been able to get my head around why a city police force would bomb its own city. It's completely insane.
Philadelphia’s governing council has formally apologised for one of the worst atrocities in the long history of racial strife in the city – the aerial bombing on 13 May 1985 of a house occupied by members of the black liberation group Move that left 11 people dead, including five children.
The council overwhelmingly approved a resolution that apologises for the “immeasurable and enduring harm” caused by the decision to drop C4 plastic explosives from a police helicopter onto the roof of 6221 Osage Avenue in West Philadelphia.
The bomb sparked an inferno that was left by authorities to rage until it had razed 61 houses in the largely black neighborhood.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/13/philadelphia-1985-move-bombing-apology
The Philadelphia City Council's resolution is worth reading in full. The article annoyingly links to a T****** thread to which it's only attached as image files, but I don't think it's been published on the Philadelphia City Council's web-site yet, or at least I couldn't find it there.
Trying whether Nitter links work for people--this instance has been stable for a while (get Invidition if you want to install it in your browser to automatically redirect YouTube and T****** links):
https://nitter.snopyta.org/CouncilmemberJG/status/1326936274037575680
Individual pages:
https://nitter.snopyta.org/pic/media%2FEmo5VueWEAAfQaG.jpg
https://nitter.snopyta.org/pic/media%2FEmo5WzDWEAAx-zy.jpg
https://nitter.snopyta.org/pic/media%2FEmo5Xx8XYAAm-q5.jpgStill, it's worth bearing in mind the following. As the Philadelphia Inquirer notes:
Unlike bills, which require a mayor’s signature before becoming law, resolutions indicate Council’s position on a matter but do not change city law.
All this dealing with the past is not to forget that in the recent present the fatal shooting by police of Walter Wallace happened nearly two weeks ago:
It seems similar to the death of Benjamin Zephaniah's cousin Mikey Powell in 2003. There, too, the family called the police and the police killed him, probably in the process of brutally restraining him, although there was no gun involved.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/aug/05/comment.race
To me, the worst aspect of this is that the previous time the police had been called, they'd been very good and that's why they were called again.
Over the past 30 years, more than 1,000 people have died in Britain in police custody.
(This was written in 2006.)
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https://youtu.be/X03ErYGB4Kk
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I've just never been able to get my head around why a city police force would bomb its own city.
Not racist but in Luxembourg serving members of the police carried out a campaign of bombings and blackmail, also in 1985. 5 officers were only recently (2019) indicted for it alongside 3 or 4 investigators who helped them cover it up after the fact.
If you combine lack of strong oversight with people who have power, you frequently end up with some very messed up results.
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The absolute state of this comments section:
https://twitter.com/sainsburys/status/1327506558322880514So depressing
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Blimey, that's a wild story. I'm not going to link to sites here, because there are a few that tell masive conspiracy stories that I'm not sure are credible.
Obviously, the pattern of simulating some kind of external danger in order to pursue other interests, often to justify the use of repressive force, isn't exactly new. The worst incident is undoubtedly the Reichstagsbrand, but agents provocateurs have been used so often in smaller ways. Still, the incidents in Philadelphia, and especially the child-murdering bombings are one of the worst examples I've seen.
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Not sure if it is one for this thread or just the Television thread but did anyone see Small Axe:Mangrove last night? Really powerful dramatisation, I had never heard of the case it followed before but leaves me with so many questions and keen to find out more. Hope and expect all the following episodes will be equally powerful.
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