December 2011
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Young, Black and Frisked by the N.Y.P.D. -... →
rubenfeld:
The must-read of the weekend:
WHEN I was 14, my mother told me not to panic if a police officer stopped me. And she cautioned me to carry ID and never run away from the police or I could be shot. In the nine years since my mother gave me this advice, I have had numerous occasions to consider her wisdom.
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“I mean look at us - Syrian, Palestinian, Iraqi - with hip-hop we finally have an opportunity to let go of that socio-political baggage that our parents’ generations had to deal with and look to something new, a pan-Arabic identity that is not the nationalism, which may have been put out in the 1950s, but something new.”
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aceptado...
i just found out i got into my first choice international relations masters program in the city and they are offering me a fairly generous “merit based scholarship,” surely attributed to my amazing grades at columbia* and unlikely success in transitioning from writing about hip-hop professionally to writing policy speeches for ambassadors at the un.**
things i want to study more/write...
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Top Baker’s Dozen Albums of 2011…
these are the albums i liked the most in 2011… the year new york city saw an earthquake and a hurricane in the same week, i came down with some sort of mystery malaria lite panamanian pneumonia dengue jungle fever in s. america, qaddafi finally met his demise, none of my bones broke playing soccer, pepper spray became ubiquitous, and i fell in love with a hot brazilian girl from são paulo...
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the CIA team in Lebanon consisted of 10 officers and all used diplomatic cover.
ah yes, diplomatic cover for intelligence activities. still widely used by many different countries all over the world, including at the un.
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“remembrance is a form of meeting, forgetfulness is a form of freedom.”
– khalil gibran, sand and foam
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“Congratulations to brittle newsmatron Barbara Walters on landing a blockbuster exclusive with Syrian madman Bashar Al Assad, who is responsible for the wanton murder of 4,000 of his own men, women, and children. Or as Walters put it, a “mild-mannered ophthalmologist.” It’s time for her to go. That’s how Walters referred to Assad in her introduction to their...
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“each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill...”
– frantz fanon
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Remembering Frantz Fanon
On this day, 50 years ago, Frantz Fanon passed away. A psychiatrist, Pan-Africanist, writer, and revolutionary, he was born in Martinique in 1925. In 1952 he published Black Skin, White Masks, which exposed the negative effects of colonization on the mental state of subjugated peoples.
As a psychiatrist in Algeria, he joined the FLN (National Liberation Front), which waged a war...
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lushlife - dreams money can buy
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WASHINGTON — US firearms sales reached a record 129,166 during last week’s Black Friday that kicked off the holiday shopping season, a 32 percent increase from the previous all-time high, officials said.
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sócrates...
Sócrates – Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira – who has died after suffering an intestinal infection aged 57, was one of the most unlikely of Brazil’s resplendent footballers. Bearded and seemingly indestructible, he stood 6ft 3in tall, once admitting: “I am an anti-athlete. I cannot deny myself certain lapses from the strict regime of a sportsman.You have to...