Prison Is Becoming A Way Of Life For Black Men
As Rudy Holder walked down East Harlem’s main drag, everyone seemed to remember him. One man after another greeted him with a handshake or a quick, one-armed hug. Each exchange brought a nervous look to Holder’s face: Friend or foe? Some of the men he recognized. Some he didn’t. But they all knew him. “Trouble,” [...]
A newspaper report has found that the Stand Your Ground self-defense statute in Florida is more likely to succeed when the victim is black. The Tampa Bay Times looked at 200 cases and found that in instances in which the victim was black, the person who invoked the defense went free 73 percent of the time. If the victim [...]
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Witnesses say two men in the Brightmoor neighborhood near Detroit were so passionate about the way they make Kool-Aid, they started arguing with each other over who does it better. Source.
Continue reading …Penn Jillette Asks If Pres. Obama is a Drug Addict Like Every Other Black Man in America
May 23, 2012 2 Comments
A comedian has openly speculated as to whether or not President Obama has a personal reason to support changes in drug policy. In a recent episode of his podcast “Penn’s Sunday School,” comedian Penn Jillette laid his opinions on the Obama drug policies out on the table. Jillette, who has never done drugs or drank [...]
Continue reading …Keithan Manuel is learning the hard way that a sense of humor is very subjective, but that’s what happens when you attempt to rob a police station. Manuel walked into a police station in suburban Dallas on Saturday evening with a white towel covering his hands and told the dispatcher to hand over money, CBS [...]
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The latest numbers show the New York Police Department’s skyrocketing street stops increased to more than 200,000 stops during the first three months of 2012. The NYPD says officers stopped people on New York City’s streets 203,500 times from January through March. That’s up from 183,326 during the same quarter last year. The policy allows an officer [...]
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Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield says the General Assembly’s approval of his anti-gang crime bill will let police and prosecutors “cut the heart out of some of the worst gangs” in the city. “I’m very pleased,” the mayor said Tuesday after the House passed the bill on an 86-2 vote. It passed the Senate unanimously [...]
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A man in the U.S. tattooed his face with the ESPN logo because he wanted to appear on a popular TV program on the sports network. The unidentified man, who already has a tattoo of a dollar sign under his ear, was keen to be on SportsCenter, a daily sports news television show, and the [...]
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“Mr. LeSane, Jason needs you!” the assistant principal called out across the cafeteria. Hours after finishing his graveyard prison shift, Floyd LeSane was on the daytime schoolyard shift. He walked over to where a 3rd-grader was circling the tables, refusing to sit down. LeSane, a correctional officer at Manson Youth Correctional Institution in Cheshire, was dispatched [...]
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Our nation has a long history relating to racial and more recently religious profiling by law enforcement, which needs be legally halted once and for all through the passage of the End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA). From driving while Black to traveling while Latino near border states to flying while Muslim or Sikh, racial [...]
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