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Trayvon Martin and Black on Black Violence

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The killing of Trayvon Martin with impunity and the implicit blessing of the Sanford police department has brought to light some genuine ugliness in the American public in its discussion on race and justice. Apologists for George Zimmerman invariably bring up the recent St Patrick's Day killings in Chicago as an argument that black folks kill people too. No-one is disputing that. But unless the Chicago PD stood around, looked at all the dead bodies and the guilty with their smoking guns, pulled their thumbs out of their butts, sniffed them then said "Duhhh...okay. Nothing to see here. You can all go..." Then the situations are not nearly the same. The culpability for the crime is not for George Zimmerman alone, but even more for the police department for 1. Not arresting George Zimmerman. 2. Not even subjecting George Zimmerman to a background check, drug/alcohol test. Even though all of the above were preformed on the dead black kid. 3. Not even bothering to collec...

Before the Garden of Eden

Originally posted on Newsvine http://redsfan.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/13/10670359-sarah-palin-freaks-after-obama-uses-her-racism-to-attack-the-gop?last=1331939307&threadId=3368565&sp=0&pc=25#c63433093 I Married an imperious Paleolithic Goddess! I'm with you women because my adoration for you goes WAY back! When Man was a hunter and a gatherer and even into the advent of Agriculture, Man enjoyed a special grace when he was moved to artistic and religious veneration of the corpulent female form. It was WOMAN that was the object that moved man to create the first realistic and abstracted image of art in the most durable materials he could find. That is ART and that is LOVE and that was the birth of CULTURE and Man's first step away from the world of beasts and toward Civilization. But there was a snake in the garden called Animal Husbandry. When men gave up hunting for herding they discovered that males impregnate females and that they can have chil...