The only thing that stops a bad teacher with a stick, is a good student with a heart!

 

In my school, teachers were not armed with guns, only whipping sticks

The Trump-NRA scripted idea of arming teachers with guns is another uncooked idea worthy of a 3am tweet; in fact arming teachers will only hurt students and ultimately not protect them, especially students of color, as Jamelle Bouie wrote in Slate.com; “groups at the bottom of American race hierarchy receive the brunt of state violence, full stop.”

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How do White Americans See Police Brutality !!

 

As Philando Castile’s head slumps backward while he lies dying next to her, Diamond Reynolds looks into the camera and explains a Minnesota police officer just shot her fiancé four times.

The nation is, by now, accustomed to grainy cell phone videos of officer-involved shootings, but this footage from Falcon Heights, outside Minneapolis, is something different, more visceral: a woman live-streaming a shooting’s aftermath with the police officer a few feet away, his gun still trained on her bloody fiancé.
“He let the officer know that he had a firearm and he was reaching for his wallet and the officer just shot him in his arm,” Reynolds said as she broadcast the details of Wednesday’s evening shooting on Facebook.
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Unlike Al-Sisi, Obama doesn’t blame all his country’s problems on terrorism

Unlike Al-Sisi, Obama doesn’t blame all his country’s problems on terrorism

President Al-Sisi, a second rated general that headed the military intelligences for years, the accidental hero who toppled the first civilian elected president in Egypt through a courted military revolution. Wasted no time to consolidated his power, eliminated all oppositions, committed massacres and was celebrated for it, imprisonment, mass execution, dominating all branches of powers including Media. Under the banner of war on terrorism he can do no wrong, in spite of blunders after blunders, fake mega projects, self aggrandizing espoused by his propaganda machine, keeps blaming countries problems on brotherhood and terrorism. Al-Sisi who came to prevent Egypt from becoming Syria, where in fact, what AL Sisi has done is preventing Egypt from becoming Tunisia. In contrast president Obama went on limp and admitted that tourism is not the biggest problem that America is facing, it is domestic violence and guns.

In America, there are no laws to force media to follow government party-line narrative or version of the story, unlike Egypt. This is not perfect but, at least theoretically, readers and viewers will decide for themselves which version to believe. The first amendment prohibits any laws that infringe on freedom of expression. Following the …

In America, there are no laws to force media to follow government party-line narrative or version of the story, unlike Egypt. This is not perfect but, at least theoretically, readers and viewers will decide for themselves which version to believe. The first amendment prohibits any laws that infringe on freedom of expression.

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