TweetThe assumptions of innocence … On Saturday, a jury of six women five white found Zimmerman not guilty in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old black man. They all agree on the assumption of innocence of Zimmerman, who claimed he shot Martin in self-defense, what assumptions those women made about Trayvon Martin as Brittney Cooper explained” ….. , this case came down to whether those white women could actually see Trayvon Martin as somebody’s child, or whether they saw him according to the dictates of black male criminality. After the verdict, lots of soul searching debate about race and violence in this country, in where it has…
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BelAhdan at the 6th Months Anniversary of Newtown Massacre
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The Fight…
Tweet The Fight… It was a cool evening fall night, I just finished a live interview on the 9pm local Fox news, as a usual guest suspect I was asked to talk about the Muslim reaction to the ridiculous 14 minutes trailer/ film about the prophet. A friend called and wanted to meet for coffee at the Spyhouse Café. As I was trying to park my car in the dark crowded uptown neighborhood street . I heard someone screaming his lunge out and bounding on my car window, .. get you’re f@#$% ass out of here” he fumed. He was a white occasion (the race is important here) in his…