Rolling 2016 Thread on Race

I kind of can't stop laughing at that though

...one of the officers, a white woman, saw Reid and another man with clipboards and wondered what they were doing. He said she stopped them and asked for their names and birth dates. The other man was a white 23-year-old, according to a Monday release by the city.

The men gave their names but Reid, who said he hopes to run for Evanston city clerk, refused to give his birth date, Dugan said.

"She asked several times. He refused several times," Dugan said. Finally, the officer told Reid she would arrest him if he did not give his birth date. He still refused and she put him under arrest after calling for assistance from another officer...

Keystone Kafka

Do we yet have an ongoing "what to do/social activism in the age of Trump" thread or something, because i'd follow that

Fight hard as fuck iirc

Give a wrong time, stop a traffic line.

Do we yet have an ongoing "what to do/social activism in the age of Trump" thread or something, because i'd follow that

― Nhex

yeah i'm really disappointed at the lack of organization so far. i guess i should organize things myself? but i have severe social anxiety and no clue about how to actually do this stuff.

like, how do we as patients put pressure on the ama to repudiate their endorsement of tom price? that seems like a pretty big thing and pretty important. just calling members of congress isn't going to cut it.

New thread: Social Activism in the Age of Trump: What To Do and What We Are Doing

http://projects.heraldtribune.com/bias/sentencing

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-masked-white-men-harass-indigenous-people-north-dakota-article-1.2904957

https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/807295020105547776

https://twitter.com/afamhistfail/status/807302833418731520

https://theawl.com/our-racist-dogs-dc83ca711b42#.9qyo16r3u

12 grafs retelling the plot of 'White Dog' is maybe not the ideal lede

one of the great sam fuller's last films, and -- iirc, i saw it in like 1987 -- a *very* sam fuller movie, meaning intermittently o_0 in amazing ways that literally no one else wd dare

sam's fuller brand of anti-racism was so goddamn weird, god bless him

Good Morricone soundtrack too!

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2016/12/what-on-earth-was-the-los-angeles-times-thinking

Well, as we are discovering day by day, every single historical issue about which we thought we expressed shame–genocide against Native Americans, slavery, Jim Crow, Japanese internment–are all now being actively defended by Trump supporters. And because the mantra of the media is that Both Sides Must Be Represented, these absolutely revolting viewpoints are being mainstreamed. This is deeply disturbing and as I have been saying, we are simply going to have to fight this at every juncture.

candidate for 2017 thread?

In the vein of the rap thread, it should be "Rolling 2017 thread on Pepes"

No it shouldn't.

remember "crack babies"? well

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/12/health/rise-in-infant-drug-dependence-in-us-is-felt-most-in-rural-areas.html