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steve2470's JournalSamuel L. Jackson Challenges Celebrities to Sing To Protest ‘Racist Police’
http://www.boston.com/entertainment/celebrity/2014/12/14/samuel-jackson-challenges-celebrities-sing-protest-racist-police/6QbosIo5pSCchvhdsHlWzJ/story.htmlvideo at link!
Samuel L. Jackson is calling out fellow celebrities who took the ‘ice bucket challenge’ earlier this year to help make another cause go viral.
The Pulp Fiction and Django Unchained star posted a video to his Facebook page Saturday, asking his peers to post videos of themselves singing the “We Ain’t Gonna Stop Till People are Free” song, a reference to the ongoing “Black Lives Matter” protests across the nation.
“All you celebrities out there who poured ice water on your head, here’s a chance to do something else,” he tells viewers.
The lyrics begin:
more at link (sorry, had to comply with DU rules
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3 Black Churches in Florida Vandalized With KKK Graffiti
http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/12/_3_black_churches_in_florida_vandalized_with_kkk_graffiti.html
The FBI is investigating hate crimes in a rural Florida county where three predominately black churches were recently defaced with racist graffiti scrawl, according to International Business Times, which cites a report at the Tallahassee Democrat.
The latest case was discovered Wednesday when members of Mount Olive Primitive Baptist Church in Crawfordville in Wakulla County when members arrived for choir practice to find "KKK" spray-painted on the side of their church, the Democrat reports.
"The whole community is in shock right now that we still have these things occurring," Wakulla County NAACP Organizing Committee President Anginita Rosier told the paper.
The first case was discovered last Sunday when members discovered signs for the New Bridge Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Crawfordville was spray-painted with “KKK,” the report says. A second church, Pilgrim Rest P.B. Church, was also vandalized.
Studio 54 back in the day (1977-1980?), ever go there ?
I've always read how "legendary" it was, people having sex on the dance floor, etc etc
Truth ? Urban legends ?
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I really get tired of the non-stop threads bashing President Obama and the Democratic Party. If people channeled all their keyboard anger into real activism, maybe the country would be a better place.
The threads make me want to run from DU, to a place solidly anchored in reality. Some people here won't be happy until Vladimir Lenin comes back from the dead and assumes the presidency.
I'm not leaving DU and allowing the trolls and the hopelessly naive/ignorant to win.
He can't be an FDR, yet....
Why you ask ?
Do we have 25% OFFICIAL-on-the-books unemployment ? Yea yea, I know about the unofficial rates, but those never get headlines or attention. Do we have long breadlines in the cities ? Do we have very similar economic conditions to March 1933 ?
Does he have an overwhelmingly Democratic Senate and House of Representatives to work with ?
Does he have an overwhelming public revulsion for trickle-down-economics and failed economic policy ?
If you think FDR was a REAL socialist or communist or that he was going to shut down or nationalize all banks, and put the investment bankers (like Goldman) out of business, you're living in fantasyland and you don't know history.
FDR was FDR because of the truly desperate times he was operating in. EVEN BACK THEN, THE LEFT DID NOT LIKE FDR.
I hate fucking threads like this. TRASH THREAD.
Belgian royals mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes in snowy weather
Belgian royals mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes in snowy weather reminiscent of wintery conditions of the battle
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2872631/Americans-Belgians-Mark-Bulge-Anniversary.html#ixzz3LpwWLiNx
more pics and text about the nuts at the link....
11-Year-Old Arkansas Girl Hails Cab ... to Florida
http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/11-year-arkansas-girl-hails-cab-florida-27554497BRYANT, Ark. — Dec 12, 2014, 2:39 PM ET
Associated Press
An 11-year-old Arkansas girl paid a cabbie $1,300 to take her to meet a boy in Florida, but authorities caught up with the runaway in Georgia, and found her safe, after her parents reported her missing.
Bryant police used cellphone records to determine the girl hailed the cab in Little Rock Dec. 5 after talking to a 16-year-old Jacksonville, Florida, boy she met two years ago, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported Friday ( http://bit.ly/12VJ4Qv ).
"According to the information that I have, she was in a sweatsuit with a lot of makeup on and she looked like she was 17 or 18 years old," said Ellis Houston, a managing partner with Greater Little Rock Transportation Services, which operates the local Yellow Cab service.
The driver was not charged and is not facing disciplinary action, Houston said.
Some gentle rain for California, good.....
http://www.wunderground.com/auto/wxmap/CA/San_Francisco.htmlIs a new iteration of the civil rights movement starting ?
It seems that way to me from all the #blacklivesmatter protests, but what do I know ? lol
The p-word, I get it, and I'm a guy
I didn't spell out "pussy" in the subject line to be sensitive.
I totally get why that word is offensive to women. Hell, when I was a kid, the WORST thing you could
say to a man was call him a pussy. It implied he was a woman and weak.
Now I'm older and know, of course, that women are strong and that epithet was just sexist and stupid.
I don't understand why people are so determined to embrace that word here. If you're clearly referring to a cat, ok, that's fine. If you're very clearly using it as slang to refer to a vulva, ok. But to use it as an epithet to refer to a male is NOT ok.
If I'm wrong about the vulva reference, I will not use it here in that context either. I'm still learning and growing. The South was a very sexist, racist, homophobic, ableist, etc place when I was growing up.
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