 "A Sandra Bland mural in Ottawa was vandalized and spray painted over with the words 'All Lives Matter'." -checktheshades
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"July 30, 1863: President Lincoln issued "eye-for-eye" order, warning Confederacy that the Union would shoot a rebel prisoner for every Black prisoner shot, and would condemn a rebel prisoner to a life of hard labor for every Black prisoner sold into slavery. Order had restraining influence on Confederate government, through individual commanders and soldiers continued to murder captured Black soldiers." -BF -checktheshades "At least five Black women have died in police custody since mid July. These Black women include: Sandra Bland, Kindra Chapman, Ralkina Jones, Joyce Curnell, and Raynetta Turner." -checktheshades  "On July 28, 1868, the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing citizenship to African Americans." -checktheshades  "Bobbi Kristina Brown, 22, the only daughter of singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, died Sunday, nearly six months after she was found unresponsive in a bathtub of her home, her family said." -NBC -checktheshades "Don't think of the things you didn't get after praying. Think of the countless blessings God gave you without you having to ask for it." -checktheshades "Jay-Z and Will Smith are teaming with Aaron Kaplan to produce an HBO miniseries about Emmett Till, the African American teenager who was tragically and brutally murdered in 1955 for reportedly asking a white woman on a date." -Elizabeth Wagmeister -checktheshades  "Another Black family in America is demanding answers from authorities in the mysterious death of their loved one in police custody. Kindra Chapman, 18, was found unresponsive in a jail cell in Homewood, Alabama, on Tuesday, July 14. Police say Chapman hanged herself, a similar, disturbing claim made about the recent death of Sandra Bland in a jail cell last week in Texas. The woman's family say they believe the police were involved in her death. Currently, the Jefferson County District Attorney Brandon Falls is ready to release preliminary details in the case, but is awaiting a response from her family and the attorneys before making the information public." -BET -checktheshades "Do you have to get out of the car? This issue was addressed in a case called Mimms. The court held that once a motor vehicle has been lawfully detained during a traffic stop, the police officer may order the driver out of the car without violating the unreasonable search and seizure prescriptions of the fourth amendment. When can police search your vehicle? If police have probable cause to believe contraband is in the car they can search that car without a warrant. If police have to ask for your permission to search your car, they usually don't have the probable cause to do it themselves. Which means you probably have the right to say no. Can you record the incident? The idea that a police encounter is a private encounter is laughable. Officers are public servants and an arrest is perhaps the most public of events." -Danny Cevallos -checktheshades "The accused Charleston church shooter now faces federal hate crime charges for allegedly targeting his victims on the basis of their race and religion. 'We think that this is exactly the type of case that the federal hate crimes statutes were, in fact, conceived of to cover,' U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said today as she announced that the federal grand jury had indicted Dylann Roof." -CNN -checktheshades  "43-year-old Samuel Dubose was shot in the head by a University of Cincinnati police officer. The incident was preceded by a traffic stop and led to Dubose's death, leaving behind his 13 children. Cincinnati police are investigating the shooting of this apparently unarmed black man." -checktheshades "Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Jesus Christ." -1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 -checktheshades  "On Thursday, February 12, 2009 history was made when an all African American flight (ASA) crew departed Atlanta. Get this, all of the crew, from the pilot and first officer to the two flight attendants serving in the cabin all were African American and all were female. It only took a century of flying in this country." -RR #WeCantForget #BlackExcellence -checktheshades  "On this day a year ago, July 17, 2014, Eric Garner died in Staten Island, New York City, after a police officer put him in what has been described as a "chokehold" for about 15 to 19 seconds during an arrest. New York City reached a settlement with the family of Eric Garner on Monday, agreeing to pay $5.9 million to resolve the wrongful-death claim over his killing by police." -NYTimes -checktheshades  "Many TV companies have pulled The Cosby Show reruns from air due to Bill Cosby admitting to getting Quaaludes to give to women and multiple women accusing Cosby of sexual assault. In my opinion, regardless of whether Bill Cosby is guilty or not, The Cosby Show should not be pulled from TV. The negative things people have done should not take our sight off of the positive things. We should not forget the impact The Cosby Show made on the black community during its running, nor should we discredit the other actors. Again, in my opinion, this is just another way for the media to turn its head on the black community." -checktheshades "I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness." -Ossie Davis -checktheshades  "The wealthiest place on the planet is the graveyard. In graveyards you will find inventions that we were never exposed to, dreams that never became reality, hopes and aspirations that were never acted upon. Every day my thought is: "what must I do to maximize the greatness of today's 86,400 seconds, because, God forbid, I may not get tomorrow to do so."
"Experience life in all possible ways - good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become." -Osho -checktheshades "Don't be in such a hurry to condemn a person because he doesn't do what you do, or think as you think. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today." -Malcolm X -checktheshades "'Flag is gone but racism lingers,' people in Charleston say. Willie Lee, 74, stood outside his church -- unimpressed. 'It's great symbolically, but it shouldn't have been there in the first place,' he says. 'It doesn't mean a damn thing, really. It's a ceremony to make politicians feel good.' The more important issues of our nation's racism, he fears, will continue to go unaddressed. And once the lovefest ends, people will simply go back to their separate corners." -CNN -checktheshades "South Carolina's governor used nine pens today to sign a law that will remove the Confederate battle flag from the State House grounds and send it to a museum. Each pen, Gov. Nikki Haley said, will go to the families of the nine victims of last month's massacre at Charleston's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. The flag will be removed tomorrow at 10am." -CNN -checktheshades "Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore." -Nikki Giovanni -checktheshades "More than 20 women have spoken out to various media outlets about allegations of sexual misconduct by Bill Cosby. In documents released Monday, Cosby admits to getting prescription quaaludes to give women with whom he wanted to have sex." -CNN -checktheshades |
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