#Black churches attacked by racists

[testure-1988]

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Current favorite bands/artists ATM:

Jim Kirkwood. Klaus Schulze. Severed Heads

[traegorn]

How bad is it that I'm in a sphere where I feel like I can't reblog your video, because what if my friend's followers think it's "abuse apologism", and I think it says something about the internet and left spaces when a necessary conversation is drowned out by "be pure or else" as if a lot of people when they were kids weren't growing up in shitty homes or- especially nowadays- being convinced of shit by people who want to cause harm in internet spaces.

Like I saw a video of a trans woman talking about how people are waiting for the "good people" online to not be perfect once so they can attack and harass them into oblivion and that resonated with me, especially since if you can't get better, you're not even going to try.

Like, I grew up in a deep, white, red state/southern-esque town. I was raised by very heavy racists, transphobes and my extended family were exceptionally not great.

The shit I believed from what I was raised on wasn't great, because there's a level of isolation. Be fucked if anyone found out the general thought processes I had as a teenager/just sprouting adult.

Have I changed? Yeah. It's been nearly a decade, change happens, I grew, I am trying my best to pull others out of those mindsets.

But man, it sucks that no matter how much good you do, what you've done to rectify things, one small blemish, as bad as like saying the r-slur as a teen sometimes (as an example of something small) can ruin your life.

And if people haven't changed, it's not like anyone's actively saying "you have to tolerate the behaviour as it happens, you can't decide not to associate with that person". In fact if they hurt you, you should probably tell them and if they refuse to stop hurting you, absolutely cut them from your life.

But this one and done parasocial purity politics stuff is so much like how the Church was that I definitely wish people would like think for a moment before doing the exact line of thinking that "committing one sin will damn you forever to hell" came from.

And the fact that I feel the need to disclaimer things, lest someone think I'm condoning people who are deeply bigoted and causing direct harm, kinda just proves the point.

If no one can heal and become a better person, then no one is going to even try and unlearn those lines of thinking.

But these ppl don't care bc well, it's giving them a chance to "fight back against oppression/harm" (read, cause harm while calling it justice).

And then ppl wonder why others will completely separate themselves from their group.

Sorry for the ramble.

I mean, if you don't say it, they won't hear it.

Whether or not they listen is up to them. You can't really control that.

We're all human. We were all different people at some point. We have to be willing to let people learn and evolve. And like, it's hard. The easy thing is to view the world in black and white and treat ostracize the "impure." The world seems so simple when you can categorize folks as "good people" and "bad people."

We have to be able to forgive folks who truly want to be better.

[hindahoney]

The shooting in Jacksonville, FL exemplifies the unified struggle that the Black and Jewish communities face. The shooter wore a swastika, one of his firearms was engraved with a one, and beforehand he wrote an antisemitic and racist journal for the police to find (similar circumstances for the mall shooting in May in which the shooter also had Nazi tattoos, and the Christ Church shooting, in which he was active on Nazi sites and wrote an antisemitic/racist manifesto). Neo-Nazism has become a full epidemic, and the Jewish and Black communities are the ones targeted the most.

Jewish communities, as we always have and always will, firmly stand with Black communities who are still currently reeling from this attack.

[mariailoveyou-guerin]

tktk pmo glad jj is gone bc how are they putting cleo and pope last in these rankings then screaming it’s not bc they racist looking like the spawn of skinhead trump supporter they is the comments talking about the only ranking the perfect order the only ranking order they matters! like the pogues would even be alive this szn or any szn without cleopope them below kie and johnb especially this szn is some next level racism bullsh*t it’s literally taking me! kie at 2 bc mf (self insert) JJ johnb 4 are you joking but pope/Cleo the rightful 1&3 at 5-6 don’t pmo! Yeah everyday they making me sooo happy their fav is six feet under rotting even if he’s my fav bc the disrespect my ranking/order (and its just them being racist) bc Cleo pope below mf annoying kie who did nothing all szn + meh boring johnb all bc them being in ship with the blondes! glad JJ escaped and they can’t use him for another szn to be fcvking weirdo racist constantly using him to be nasty to the 1 person that means the most to him in world and his girlfriend

pogues without pope and Cleo got ran over by kook got alcohol throw at them and Sarah and JohnB didn’t even go help or join lie in confronting all those Kook Vs one Cleo alone saving Johnb and Sarah after Sarah got jumped pushed then pope saving them from burning alive while JohnB did nothing again he never done sh*t but this season even more so and they putting them

cleo being there from the second pope got arrested to he got out didn’t leave his side once in 2 whole days!

jj tells kie he’s dad isn’t his dad and his bio dad tried to k1ll him and he killed his real mother and all kie can say is sorry jayj’ They expecting us to believe she loved him

johnb getting attacked a pregnant Sarah jumps on man double her size comes back to save him meanwhile he just watched her fall in the ocean and did nothing that jj jumped after her not Johnb after his unborn child and wife I’m sorry but johnb ain’t been sh*t ever or since s1 but especially this szn and last szn where’s s1 jb gone?

jj literally gets stabbed and Groff is turning the knife in deeper and lie is literally standing doing nada yet again cared more about those turtles then she ever did JJ an that’s a fact that’s proven time and time again now so happy he’s free because he deserved better then that and her if we are being honest here he’s to good for her

pope ran away from the law and literally killed for Cleo is a fugitive for Cleo and JJ ended up in jail for JJ is a fugitive now because of JJ and it could’ve been worse him being a black boy jumping a cop who had his gun out the way it would’ve been different if this was real!

pope saw Cleo bleeding and got something to hold the pressure so she didn’t bleed out or lose to much blood but you telling me lie couldn’t put pressure on jj wound at least to try and save him on top of just standing still

pope Cleo risking their lives to protect JJ an the others the fact only JJ was against them staying 😒behind to protect him (saying NO they should stick together and there aren’t enough ballets) and the others is actually so very on brand for the “pogues” he’s the only one to ever care about pope cleo and them others couldn’t gaf was running for their lives didn’t even check to see or argue with them on why it should be them yeah I’ll never forgive those posies and now the only real pogue to care for pope and Cleo is gone they really all alone now so scared for them in s5 who gonna protect them?

cleo was the one that heard pope Sarah at the church while jb was having extensional crisis about not being like his dad she’s the one that got him to get them out!

Pope is the one who figured out they needed to go to Charleston who told them about the crown while also putting his life in danger again from killers who was actively trying to kill the pogues he don’t even have good balance coordination remember JJ saying that in s2 yet he did that for them again putting his life at risk for his so called best friends who didnt even bother to check up on him and see if he’s okay or if he got out of jail and you telling all Johnb could say after seeing Cleo after 3 days was how’s pope? Like don’t fcvking pmo!

and you telling they putting these people at the bottom of their ranking like how is this not bc of racism please explain it to me like I’m five because there’s no other explanation other then the obvious they try so hard to lie and make it seem like it’s not bloody obvious why they keep putting the only black people last and saying they should’ve died instead when a literal racist is just breathing and existing with the pogues right now

Yeah can’t ever take this fandom seriously so glad obx is ending next year and this is their last season I’ve had enough just need my popecleo away from those very ungrateful hoes who truly never cared about them to even be like are y’all good or even checked up in Cleo!

[foreignswaggersession]

minor controversial opinion? - i don't like how the consensus opinion appears to be that grace is the bad sibling because she made a homophobic remark in episode 4. frankly, she had every right to be mean to louis in that moment. if you're my last living brother and you fail to respond to me for several years, miss every major family event, only show up sporadically at night without explanation, during which time you leave my newborn child on the ground (!!!), break the door down, and scare my other children (!!!), then it's crickets for more years and when you finally show up, it's at our mother's wake, with a young girl you picked up off the street, and you tell me you're raising her with the white guy you ran a brothel with for several years, the same white guy who crashed our last family funeral, and now you bring said white guy to our black family wake (also a racist white mob attacked the black community just happened a few years ago, if you recall, beloved brother), yes i'm gonna come at you sideways! i'm going to question whether a former brothel owner who neglects his own nieces and nephews can raise a black teenage girl with a white man who also frequents brothels please be serious. and i'm calling that white man you brought slurs. be fucking forreal!

louis doesn't get to claim victimhood in his relationship with grace b/c she was mean to him (after being the strongest ally he had left) and then made a tombstone for him when he obviously was not aging but had cut ties with the family (louis did the abandoning!). louis's primary way of demonstrating love is being present (walking paul to church every day, staying with lestat despite everything, following claudia to europe, staying with armand despite everything), and he failed to be present for grace. louis could have made an honest effort to maintain a relationship with grace without harming her. he could have come up with an explanation for his nightly visits that also explained his eyes changing color (the whole de pointe du lac family seems very chill about the supernatural). he could have at least stayed in constant communication over the phone or mail. but he didn't. and he must accept the consequences.

[fantasyinvader]

I was thinking about how the Black Eagles kids are supposed to represent the moral decline of the Empire and how that decline likely traces back to Agartha gaining influence over said Empire. If we have Edelgard being akin to the Agarthans, as asura are compared to eagles, and Hubert is her TWSITD, then what about the rest of the kids?

With Ferdinand, we have his House losing it's status and he can become Edelgard's vassal to regain what he lost. Ergo, a parallel to the Agarthans wanting to take back the world they feel is theirs and theirs alone. This is contrasted by routes where he walks away and joins the Church forces, instead focusing on protecting those who served his family and getting them out of the Empire.

Caspar knew in his gut that what Edelgard was doing was wrong, it went against his sense of justice. Either he ignores this, even gives into bloodlust, or doesn't turn off his brain. If he joins Edelgard and takes over her army after the war, the Japanese script implies he's invading other countries with a bunch of out of control juggalos. Basically, Agartha going around killing all their neighbours.

Linhardt is opposed to how immoral the Agarthans during White Clouds, yet can ignore this to research for Edelgard. He's a reflection of the experiments Agartha does in pursuit of their goals, done so without regard to morals.

Bernie is either afraid of someone coming to hurt her in her hiding hole so she goes out to hurt them instead, or she leaves her room to wander Fodlan for five years before joining the Church. She's the Agarthans hiding from Fodlan underground. Even her becoming the head of her family sees her doing so from seclusion, her best endings are ones where she leaves her home all together.

Dorothea is against the nobility, but lacks the self-awareness to realize she is more privileged than other commoners. Either she helps Edelgard's tyranny, blaming the Goddess for the war that Edelgard started, or she leaves looking after orphans for five years before joining the Church. This reflects the Agarthan record of why they're living underground, they understand that they spilled a lot of blood and attacked Sothis when she tried to stop them, but make themselves out to be the victims when they are hit with the consequences of their own actions.

Petra experienced the racism of the Empire, where she was treated like an animal rather than a princess. She either fights for the Empire she hates so that Edelgard may free her people (on Edelgard's terms) with knowledge she isn't her equal, or Petra fights the racist empire that looked down on her. She doesn't really reflect the Empire directly herself, more she reflects the Agarthan influence making the Empire racist as they are.

If the Black Eagles join Edelgard, if they become villains, they represent what the Empire has become. By joining the Church, they instead go towards what the Empire was supposed to be when the Church helped found it. They go against Agartha's influence, getting their full development regardless of which route they are on. Just look at Ferdie and Caspar, like Byleth they only get their paralogues if they fight against her.

[whitesinhistory]

On June 17, 2015, a 21-year-old white man named Dylann Roof entered the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and sat in on a Bible study session for about an hour before opening fire on the other participants, killing nine people. All of the worshippers were Black.

Roof kept a personal website where he posted images of himself alongside Confederate flags and icons and expressed racist views. Before the Charleston church massacre, he uploaded a manifesto to the site in which he praised George Zimmerman for shooting Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black 17-year-old. Prior to the attack, he allegedly told friends that he hoped to incite a “race war.”

The nine victims killed in the shooting were Cynthia Hurd, Susie Jackson, Ethel Lance, Depayne Middleton-Doctor, Tywanza Sanders, Daniel Simmons, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, Myra Thompson, and Clementa C. Pinckney, the senior church pastor and a South Carolina state senator. Five people survived the shooting.

The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, known as “Mother Emanuel” to many, is one of the largest and most storied Black congregations in the South. Just six years after its founding in 1816, the church was burned down after it was discovered that Denmark Vesey, one of the church’s founders and ministers, was planning a large-scale rebellion. Black churches were outlawed in Charleston in 1834, but after the Civil War ended in 1865, the Emanuel Church reopened.

President Barack Obama delivered the eulogy at the funeral service for the Rev. Pinckney, and the church has continued to be a strong presence within the Black community in Charleston. The Rev. Anthony Thompson, whose wife Myra was killed in the shooting, said the racial attack “forced a reckoning with Charleston's history, and demeanor.” He has devoted himself to communal truth-telling initiatives ever since, inviting community members to engage in a more honest conversation about Charleston’s history and legacy of racial violence.

[beardedmrbean]

The six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who tortured and abused two Black men in a racist attack were sentenced on Wednesday to 15 to 45 years in prisonon state charges. 

The men — former Rankin County Sheriff’s deputies Brett Morris McAlpin, 53; Christian Dedmon, 29; Jeffrey Middleton, 46; Hunter Elward, 31; and Daniel Opdyke, 28' and a former police officer from the city of Richland, Joshua Hartfield, 32 — had pleaded guilty to state charges in August.

McAlpin, Middleton, and Opdyke were sentenced to serve 20 years; Dedmon to 25 years; Elward to 45 years; and Hartfield to 15 years in federal penitentiaries. The sentences will be served concurrently with their federal sentences, and all were ordered to pay $6,431 within two years of release, and permanently surrender their law enforcement certificates.

Prosecutors said the white officers had nicknamed themselves the “Goon Squad” due to their willingness to use excessive force and cover up their brutal attack on Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker in January 2023.

In the attack, the men verbally abused Jenkins and Parker, beat them, assaulted them with stun guns and a sex toy, and one of them shot Jenkins in the mouth in a "mock execution."

The men had also pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with the assault and were sentenced to federal prison terms of 10 to 40 years. 

The attack

In January 2023, McAlpin received a call from a white person who complained that Jenkins and Parker were residing with a white woman at a house in Braxton, Mississippi.

McAlpin then texted a group — the self-described “The Goon Squad” — that the Justice Department described as being known “for using excessive force and not reporting it.”

The group of men then went to that home without a warrant and assaulted Jenkins and Parker, punched and kicked them, called them racial slurs, forced them to ingest liquids, and assaulted them with a dildo, the Justice Department said.

Dedmon also fired his gun twice in an effort to intimidate the men, the department said.

In a mock execution, Elward removed a bullet from the chamber of his gun and forced the gun into Jenkins’ mouth before pulling the trigger. No bullet was fired the first time, but he pulled the trigger a second time, and it lacerated Jenkins' tongue and broke his jaw.

The officers then planned a cover-up and agreed to plant drugs on Jenkins and Parker, and those false charges stood against the men for months, The Associated Press reported.

Sentencing

In Wednesday’s sentencing, attorneys read statements for the victims. 

“After Hunter Elward shot me, they left me to die bleeding on the floor and they tried to set me up to be imprisoned,” a statement on behalf of Michael Jenkins said. “January 24th, Your Honor, was the worst day of my life. I was brutally beaten and nearly killed by the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department, also known as the Goon Squad. I never would have thought a night of hanging out with friends would nearly cost me my life.”

“They beat, kicked, tased, insulted, waterboarded and humiliated me over and over again,” the statement said. 

“I can no longer do what I love to do and that’s sing. I play the drums for my church. And because I was shot in the face, it affected my vision so I can no longer play. ... I wake it up at night covered in sweat because of the nightmares of my attack. Loud noises police lights, sirens, all give me extreme fear and anxiety. I am broken inside and I don’t ever think I’ll be the person I was,” the statement continued.

A statement on behalf of Eddie Parker said the actions of that night of terror “has left a scar on me that will last forever.”

“I never knew the ones that were sworn to protect and serve would be the ones I need protection from,” the statement said. “I am in constant fear someone will break into my home and terrorize me again … the humiliation and embarrassment from the sexual assault is too great to me to talk about.”

“My life was not perfect. But it was mine. I doubt if I’ll ever experience it again ... They should be given what they gave me and Michael Jenkins — which was no mercy and I pray for the maximum sentence,” his statement concluded.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

The New Yorker

* * * * *

“Trying to steal history.”

January 9, 2024

ROBERT B. HUBBELL

On Monday, President Biden delivered a stirring and spirited speech at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. In June 2015, members of the congregation at the church invited a stranger to join them for services. The stranger killed nine members of the church in the worst church-related shooting (to that point)—a mass killing that was racially motivated. President Obama delivered a eulogy for Pastor Clementa Pinckney of Mother Emmanuel AME Church that included his rendition of Amazing Grace a cappella.

[The video is here, Joe Biden speaks at Charleston church (start at the 26:00 minute mark), and the full text of the speech is here: Remarks by President Biden at a Political Event | Charleston, SC.]

Against the backdrop of the 2015 racially motivated mass shooting, President Biden addressed Trump's use of the “lost cause” of white supremacy to bolster his hate-fueled campaign. Biden said, in part,

On June 17th, 2015, the [nine] beautiful souls and five survivors invited a stranger into this church to pray with them. The word of God was pierced by bullets in hate and rage, propelled by not just gunpowder but by a poison — a poison that’s for too long haunted this nation. What is that poison? White supremacy. Oh, it is; it’s a poison. Throughout our history, it’s ripped this nation apart. This has no place in America. Not today, tomorrow, or ever. Now — now we’re living in an era of a second lost cause. Once again, there are some in this country trying — trying to turn a loss into a lie — a lie, which if allowed to live, will once again bring terrible damage to this country. This time, the lie is about the 2020 election, the election which you made your voices heard and your power known.

Biden tied the lost cause of white supremacy to Trump's 2020 loss, identifying both of as existential threats to the nation. He then pivoted to Trump's insurrection on January 6 and Trump's threat to continue that assault on democracy if he is elected to a second term in 2024.

Biden said, Just two days ago, we marked the third anniversary of one of the darkest days in American history: January the 6th. The day in which insurrectionists stormed the United States Capitol, trying for the first time in American history to stop the peaceful transfer of power in the country. We all saw with our own eyes the truth of what happened. That violent mob was whipped up by lies from a defeated former President . . . . We saw something on January 6th we’d never seen before, even during the Civil War. Insurrectionists waving Confederate flags inside the halls of Congress built by enslaved Americans. A mob attacked and called Black officers, Black veterans defending the nation those vile of racist names. And yet, an extreme movement of America, the MAGA Republicans, led by a defeated President, is trying to steal history now. They tried to steal an election. Now they’re trying to steal history, telling us that violent mob was, and I quote, “a peaceful protest.” The lies that led to January 6th are part of a broader attack on the truth America today that we all have seen before. The same movement that, throughout the mob at the United States Capitol, isn’t just trying to rewrite history of January 6th, they’re trying to determine to erase history and your future: banning books; denying your right to vote and have it counted; destroying diversity, equality, inclusion all across America; harboring hate and replacing hope with anger and resentment and a dangerous view of America.

Powerful words delivered with passion and dignity befitting the hallowed ground and the proximity to January 6. As Trump's speeches are becoming more unhinged and hateful, Biden’s are becoming more forceful and direct in challenging Trump. If you can spare twenty minutes, watch the video linked above, beginning at the 26:00-minute mark. Your confidence will be renewed.

But I can’t leave this story without commenting on the media coverage. Biden delivered a truly inspirational and important speech on race and democracy. For sixty seconds during Biden’s speech, a protestor stood up and demanded that Biden call for a cease-fire in Israel. Biden handled the protestor with skill and grace. As the protestor was escorted from the church, Biden said,

It's alright. I understand their passion. I’ve been quietly working with the Israeli government to get them to reduce and significantly get out of Gaza.

That sixty-second incident of an otherwise historic speech dominated virtually every headline describing the speech. See, e.g., NYTimes, Protesters Calling for Gaza Cease-Fire Interrupt Biden Speech; The Hill, Biden address in Charleston church interrupted by protesters; and NPR, Protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza interrupted Biden's campaign speech.

The bias against Biden is just unbelievable. I wonder if the headline writers or journalists who wrote the articles even bothered to read or listen to the substance of Biden’s speech. I doubt it. Shame on them!

Meanwhile, Trump hopes the economy crashes before he is re-elected.

As Biden continued to call for the preservation of democracy and mourned the tragedies of January 6 and the AME shootings, Trump was telling an interviewer he hoped the economy would crash during Biden’s remaining time in office. See The Hill, Trump says he hopes economy crashes in next 12 months: ‘I don’t want to be Herbert Hoover’.

Trump said,

We have an economy that’s so fragile, and the only reason it’s running now is it’s running off the fumes of what we did. It’s just running off the fumes. And when there’s a crash — I hope it’s going to be during this next 12 months because I don’t want to be Herbert Hoover. The one president I just don’t want to be, Herbert Hoover.

Ha! Trump remembered as Herbert Hoover? He should be so lucky! He will be remembered as Benedict Arnold, Aaron Burr, Jefferson Davis, and Aldrich Ames—combined!

And, in case you think I am resorting to hyperbole, Trump refused to sign a traditional pledge in Illinois in which presidential candidates pledge not to overthrow the US government. See The Guardian, Donald Trump did not sign Illinois pledge not to overthrow government. Trump signed the pledge in 2016 and 2020, but not in 2024. Hmm . . . it’s almost like he’s planning ahead to overthrow the US government!

[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]

[dead-men-disco]

Dispersal orders are in place for my area because there are planned riots tonight, right on my doorstep. I live directly next to a church often frequented by black people from a variety of different countries and is likely a target. Police are everywhere. The charity shop I volunteer at (Oxfam) has sent out safety emails for volunteers of colour to stay at home because they're anticipating aggression/attacks over their anti-racist work, particularly the shop I'm at (smack bang in the city centre).

There are literal Nazis planning on setting fire to my streets and people aren't fucking talking about it. And I'm supposed to just... Sit here.

[petervintonjr]

"June sprinkled with uncommon courage." --Washington, D.C. delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton

Perhaps one of the SNCC's lesser-known (but certainly one of its bravest) heroes, civil rights activist June Elizabeth Johnson was born in 1947 Greenwood, Mississippi, at a time when that region was seeing an alarming rise in white supremacy. Inspired by her church --and over her parents' objections-- Johnson attended her first voter registration workshop at the age of fifteen. By 1962 she had made the acquaintance of Bob Moses (see Lesson #112 in this series), and eventually her commitment to cause of Black voter rights was so infectious that even her reluctant parents ultimately began opening their home to SNCC activists and workers.

On June 9, 1963, Johnson was returning from SCLC Citizenship School training in South Carolina and ran afoul of the driver of a Trailways bus driver over approved seating locations at a rest stop lunch counter. Predictably the driver made a phone call ahead, and when the bus reached Winona, June and her colleagues Annell Ponder (see Lesson #120) and Fannie Lou Hamer (see Lesson #51), among others, were arrested and severely beaten --in particular June was punched in the face and stomach by police, and hit in the back of the head with a studded leather strap until her dress was soaked with blood. Horrifyingly while these assaults were happening, at almost the very same time in nearby Jackson, Medgar Evers was murdered. The attackers were belatedly brought up on Federal charges but were acquitted. Such bleakness might have crushed lesser spirits but June's resolve was only strengthened. Johnson went on to organize the Greenwood Voters' League, and took a job as a paralegal, eventually leveraging that experience into actually suing Greenwood and Leflore Counties for racist hiring practices. She also devoted a great deal of time and commitment to Hamer's and Moses's Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP).

Later in life Johnson became vice president of the Office Of Early Childhood Development in Jackson, Miss. and remained a fierce voice for equality, frequently travelling to Washington, D.C. to speak and advocate. Her story was given new attention in 1994 in the publication of John Dittmer's book Local People: the Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. She eventually settled in the D.C. area worked for that city's child support enforcement office, also serving as a consultant for several television documentaries about the civil rights movement. Johnson died in 2007 at the relatively young age of 59.

[wawamouse]

Oz Rewatch 3: S5E07: Good Intentions

Storylines

Augustus wakes and says DeSanto didn’t sell him the drugs; Redding and Morales get in a fight after Poet directs Redding into believing Guerra sold the drugs; both end up in the hole

Meehan takes up Cyril’s cause, to Ryan’s anger; Cyril loses his case and Ryan rejects the idea of appeals or clemency

Holding up his part of the deal with the latinos, O’Reily provokes Jia Kenmin and gets him sent to the hole where the hacks murder him

Penders orders his dog to attack Lopresti and ends up in AdSeg; Miguel gives Julie to Rivera

McManus decides to search the prison records for an ethnic match to Rebadow’s grandson; rejected, Rebadow decides to search for a faith healer; one comes to him in the cafeteria; Rebadow’s sister (?) refuses to search out the faith healer

Seroy tells Glynn about Kirk’s involvement in the burning of the church and he ends up on Death Row for the murder of Burns; Sister Pete tries to get Peter to name his attackers but he refuses

Robson believes he might have non-white gums; Schillinger calls a AV superior to ask what to do; Dr Faraj quits Oz when he learns Robson wants to see him; he tells Poet about Robson’s gums on his way out and the rumor spreads through Oz

Keller is back in Oz and talks to Sister Pete in the hospital ward; Beecher expresses his guilt over Adam to Said; he sets up an appointment between Adam and Sister Pete but Adam refuses to say anything; Adam is electrocuted trying to escape Oz

Sister: I don’t know why they would go for that when literally all the people in the prison say that. Me: That the hacks are pussies? Sister: Yeah, also, that’s like if I went ‘oh, [Wawa], people are saying you have black hair behind your back….’ What, you’re gonna get mad? Me: Ok, that’s probably not exactly the same… Sister: They should know what the deal is, that’s what I’m saying. And why do they always listen to that guy when he’s acting all innocent?! All he does is lie!

Sister: … Because it’s illegal probably?

Me: Lol… ACAB. Sister: I don’t know why they always think that threatening them like ‘you won’t have a friend in me’ is going to do something. As if any of them are friends??

Sister: Mm… yeah, this isn’t going to go well.

Sister: He doesn’t seem like a guy who just got surgery. Why’s it bleeding, like…? Me: Yeah, his racist gums are rejecting the graft, haha.

Me: Catholic answer. Sister: You know, the Greeks believed that men loving men was what set them apart from animals. Because animals simply mate. Me: She’s talking about the Bible, though. Sister: Yeah, there’s your problem.

Sister: Maybe he should blow up the mail room. Then there won’t be one to work in. Idk, that would solve a lot of his problems, too. All the Nazis in there.

Sister: (bursts out laughing) Only 10 years? (giggling continuously) Only 10 years older….

Final Thoughts

Sister: Why haven’t they found the other guy (Cloutier) and why isn’t it being treated as a continuous mystery or anything? Like, he just disappeared and no one’s talked about it since then in terms of search efforts. Is he behind another wall? Me: You say this every week. Sister: Because they didn’t even show them searching or putting out a statement about it! They just, like, accepted it.

Stray Thoughts

Glynn managing to get Kirk on trial for Burns’s murder really kind of shows that if he gave a shit (which he did in this case because Mukada was harmed), he could actually get shit done in his investigations, especially because half of them fizzle out because he can’t produce witnesses or the witnesses aren’t credible, yet this case makes it obvious that that's not exactly a real problem for him

[realjaysumlin]

As a scholar, he's charted the decline in religion. Now the church he pastors has closed its doors

Everyone around the world can see how Christians behave like they don't fear their own god because they break every law regarding their own religion and can hate on people who don't believe in their sick and evil cult. Apparently they don't believe in their own shit religion as well.

Look at the Christian people who support Donald Trump for starters. A rapist, adulterer, pathological liar, racist, fascist, thief, and they say their god hates liars but they say their god picked Trump to lead our world. Christians and people who are believers have our prison system full and people who are not believers don't really have a traffic ticket compared to those who believe in some fake religions.

Christianity attacks the Islamic faith and calls their god Allah fake and terrorist even though Christianity has committed the greatest genocides of all religions in earth's history and they can call someone else terrorists. You just can't make this bullshit up.

Black Indigenous People globally follow this shit religion and for the likes of me I can't understand this at all. A religion that has a mission to reduce your history to perpetual slaves isn't a religion I would want to be associated with personally. These shit people talk about hating gays, lesbians, trans people but they rape the innocent girls and boys when their god call these innocent babies The Lamb of God.

I don't care who you are, if you can hurt innocent children you are lesser than shit and you shouldn't be allowed to take another breath of air. The disheartening truth that doesn't make sense is that some fake ass monster that they call Satan is going to punish you for breaking the same laws she or he did instead of throwing one hell of a party for all the Christian people who disobeyed their god laws.

Some shit god who supposedly created the heavens and earth couldn't give humanity the ability to write until 10,000 years ago even though humans have been around for over 250,000 years? You have to be the dumbest mother fucking people on earth to believe in this shit religion of creationism.

Let's really be honest with your religion, if a Democrat had done everything that the Donald Trump presidency did, would they behave and support the Democratic president the same way they do Donald Trump? Please let this sink in.

[dicapiito]

Leftists and antiblackness:

There’s so much antiblackness in the ‘ Free Palestine’ movement that I decided to make a post for the some of the extreme bullshit they have been pulling when it comes to Black People and the racism/antiblackness that just won’t stop happening because they want Republicans in charge of everything :

Leftists decided to attack Black activists in the name of “ Palestine” because why not? Of course they don’t care when it comes to Black Events because well hey; Black People don’t get attacked enough for simply existing ..oh I mean “ For Palestine”

Throwing blood at a Black Woman’s home? That’s not alarming at all. I don’t give a damn about how people feel about her; this should be considered a hate crime because throwing blood at Black People’s homes is some sinister and racist type of shit.

The watermelon symbol is antiblack. Don’t give me this shit where it’s used for another country when the watermelon stereotype for Black People TO THIS DAY stays being something yts love to use to insult Black People. The Palestine flag is right there so there’s no excuse since DSA socialists won’t listen to Black People. ( FYI, just because a Black Person says ‘ it’s okay to do so’ actually doesn’t make it okay to do so)

Let’s not forget what happened in 2015, also for leftists who decided to be disrespectful since it seems 2015 is ‘ long ago’

Oh but wait screw the memories of those who lost their lives to a white supremacist. It’s about ‘ Palestine!’. And oh wait, another event where they’re bothering Black People who deserve to feel safe in a place where a massacre happened to their loved ones.

So please miss me with this crap that it’s ‘ about Biden’ when in reality all this movement is is really just a way for mostly yt and nonblack leftists to harass and harm Black People since Black People mostly vote Democratic and that MVP Harris is the Vice President.

Leftists just want the GOP to be in charge in more than just SCOTUS and the House. They want a GOP back in office so they can cosplay being an activist until the fun is over and they can find a new movement to latch onto. As well as, there’s also been alot of antiblackness from nonblack leftists so yeah, sorry but at this point it really is just something for people to get antiblack which is sad to see but wasn’t surprising that it stays happening

I mean this is what that movement is filled with:

And since they stay can’t helping themselves with antiblackness

Here they are wanting to be antiblack on MLK Day

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

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#15yrsago What could you buy with AIG’s record-smashing $62 billion loss? https://www.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/03/02/markets.whatlossbuys/index.html

#15yrsago Born to Kvetch: Yiddish as she is spoke https://memex.craphound.com/2009/03/02/born-to-kvetch-yiddish-as-she-is-spoke/

#15yrsago Britain’s vast cement “listening ears” designated a national landmark https://www.fastcompany.com/90135167/the-concrete-sound-mirrors-that-influenced-wwii-science-and-design

#10yrsago Phoenix cops arrest sex workers, detain them without trial in churches, pressure them to take deals without access to lawyers https://www.vice.com/en/article/av4eyb/in-arizona-project-rose-is-arresting-sex-workers-to-save-them

#10yrsago US Trade Rep can’t figure out if Trans-Pacific Partnership will protect the environment https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrats-trans-pacific-partnership_n_4868262?1393531198=

#10yrsago Trustycon: how to redesign NSA surveillance to catch more criminals and spy on a lot fewer people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkO8SNiDSw0

#5yrsago Study that claimed majority of Copyright Directive opposition came from the US assumed all English-language tweets came from Washington, DC https://memex.craphound.com/2019/03/02/study-that-claimed-majority-of-copyright-directive-opposition-came-from-the-us-assumed-all-english-language-tweets-came-from-washington-dc/

#5yrsago Improbably, a Black activist is now the owner and leader of the “National Socialist Movement,” which he is turning into an anti-racist group https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2019/03/01/how-black-man-outsmarted-neo-nazi-group-became-their-new-leader/

#5yrsago Coinbase bought a company founded by disgraced cybermercenaries from Hacking Team, and now Coinbase users are trying unsuccessfully to delete their accounts https://www.vice.com/en/article/xwb7xj/coinbase-users-struggle-to-delete-their-accounts-in-protest

#5yrsago Comcast assigned every mobile customer the same unchangeable PIN to protect against SIM hijack attacks: 0000 https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/03/a-comcast-security-flub-helped-attackers-steal-mobile-phone-numbers/

#5yrsago The promise and peril of “sonification”: giving feedback through sound https://www.wired.com/story/sonification-era-of-aural-data/

#5yrsago Massive study finds strong correlation between “early affluence” and “faster cognitive drop” in old age https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1807679116

#5yrsago Oakland teachers’ union declares total victory after seven-day strike https://edsource.org/2019/tentative-agreement-reached-in-oakland-unified-teachers-strike/609342

#5yrsago Man-Eaters: Handmaid’s Tale meets Cat People in a comic where girls turn into man-eating were-panthers when they get their periods https://memex.craphound.com/2019/03/02/man-eaters-handmaids-tale-meets-cat-people-in-a-comic-where-girls-turn-into-man-eating-were-panthers-when-they-get-their-periods/