The tacitly approved anti-gay violence begins...
NEW YORK (AP) - A singer whose songs have topped the Billboard dance chart was attacked by a group yelling anti-gay slurs, and four people were arrested on hate-crime charges, police and his publicist...
View ArticleDear republicans: Neener. Neener. Love, clammyc
Allow me to indulge in a bit of schadenfreude as a corollary to Meteor Blades' excellent diary. And also allow me to offer up a hearty Nelson Muntz "HA-ha!" as well. Yeah, this is only the very...
View ArticleMain Stream Media Practices Reverse Racism; Cleveland Beating Of White Clerk...
I will be one of the first to admit the entire violent incident involving the Jena Six is a disgrace, not only to our justice system, but to our society as a whole.The matter in which the one teen was...
View ArticleJames Dobson and showering with boys
Every time I hear the name James Dobson, this utterly repellent quote unfortunately leaps to mind:Meanwhile, the boy's father has to do his part. He needs to mirror and affirm his son's maleness. He...
View ArticleNorm Coleman is a Pinata!!!
I watched the most recent debate between Al Franken (D), Norm Coleman (R) and Dean Barkley (I). This even occurred on Oct 10th, and I have yet to find a link to the footage...
View ArticleSexism: The mother of all 'isms'.
Sexism is the 'gateway 'ism'', that makes all other 'isms' possible. It precedes all other forms of discrimination, setting the example that there are some people that view others as inferior and they...
View ArticleA female Reservist beaten by a man as her little girl looks on. Hello, Rush?
I read the book "Freshwater Road" by Denise Nicholas a few years ago. It's about a black college student in the early 1960s who leaves Michigan one summer to join the Civil Rights movement down south....
View ArticleMentally Ill Homeless Man Beaten to Death by Fullerton Police
This is one of those times when you know something has gone wrong, very wrong and yet you wonder how it is even possible it has happened.It was July 5th when Kelly Thomas was so brutally beaten by...
View ArticleThe Occupying Millenials and the Media. UPDATE: Occupy SLC has begun!
My heart beat rapidly and my stomach clenched as I watched the officer swing his baton. I was pushed backwards over a small wall next to the sidewalk as the other police rushed forwards and pinned the...
View ArticleSex Workers in Mexico Allege Abuse by Clients, Authorities, Gangs
Sex workers in Mexico say they suffer frequent attacks from clients, leading to injuries and violent deaths nationwide. But human rights defenders say the abuse against them remains invisible because...
View ArticleCalifornia's Highway Patrol Stoop to New Low. Pummelling a Possibly Mentally...
You may have seen the video of the Indiana cop shoving a paraplegic, tipping him over from the curb onto the street. That was bad enough.You may even have already seen the video of the incident alluded...
View ArticleAll of Us, or None of Us!
Gentrification in Skid Row, Los Angeles: Progressive architects of urban repression vs. Creative resistance against all odds. A filmed metanarrative.If you are homeless and mentally ill, living through...
View ArticleAdditional assisting officers arrived and attempted multiple force techniques...
Another day. Another vicious beating of someone by police. It’s almost as unnewsworthy as Trump saying something stupid. And yet, and yet… Is it ever going to stop (at least there’s some hope that we...
View ArticleInterview with Charlottesville beating victim Deandre Harris
Yesha Callahan in The Root:Interview: 20-Year Old Deandre Harris Speaks Out About Being Assaulted by White Supremacists in Charlottesville, Va.I’m glad he’s alive, and well enough to be interviewed....
View ArticleBlack cyclist brutally beaten by white man who says he’s ‘making people...
It’s been over a week since 50-year-old Black cyclist Elliot Reed was mercilessly beaten by a racist white man while riding through his neighborhood in Seabrook, Texas, a suburb of Houston. The white...
View ArticleIn IL a teen busts into neighbors to assault him & is actually being...
I am shocked and amazed. Not because a gay man was assaulted by his 19 year old neighbor for the simple fact that the 60 year old neighbor was gay. Sorry for not including a url in the original,...
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