Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Quote
From Axios -
"People talk about 'these are such dark times', but what if we shift the paradigm? Because I see it differently,” she asserts. “I see, 'Isn't this remarkable that we're waking up?' For years, women have endured craziness. This is what's happening to people. They're allowing themselves to not just become corroded, but to become hysterical. You've got to lean to the happiness."
— Oprah on Vogue UK on #MeToo
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pm-3cb3ee4e-9374-47d0-bdad-f45789738a8b.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiospm&stream=top
"People talk about 'these are such dark times', but what if we shift the paradigm? Because I see it differently,” she asserts. “I see, 'Isn't this remarkable that we're waking up?' For years, women have endured craziness. This is what's happening to people. They're allowing themselves to not just become corroded, but to become hysterical. You've got to lean to the happiness."
— Oprah on Vogue UK on #MeToo
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pm-3cb3ee4e-9374-47d0-bdad-f45789738a8b.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiospm&stream=top
Standing Her Ground
From the Huffington Post -
Ocasio-Cortez Blasts Conservative TV Host Who Questioned Her Bronx Upbringing
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/oscasio-cortez-owns-conservative-critics_us_5b3a5f05e4b0e0e7bc427392?8p
Ocasio-Cortez Blasts Conservative TV Host Who Questioned Her Bronx Upbringing
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/oscasio-cortez-owns-conservative-critics_us_5b3a5f05e4b0e0e7bc427392?8p
Rock N Roll N Racism
An excerpt from Vice -
The Grim Story of Hells Angels Killing a Black Teen at a Rolling Stones Concert
The unhinged free show put a lid on the freewheeling 60s, but the racial dimension to the bloodshed is inescapable.
By Seth Ferranti
On December 6, 1969, Meredith Hunter, an 18-year-old African American man, was stabbed to death at what was billed as "Woodstock West," a free Rolling Stones concert at the Altamont Speedway in Northern California. Ever since, Altamont has served as the symbolic end of the freewheeling 60s—a wake-up call that optimism and idealism weren't going to be enough. That being young, passionate, and idealistic could only take you so far. That young people ready to take over could not somehow wipe out the story of race in America.
For those who felt the counterculture was a revolution in the making, Altamont was a reminder of the racial injustice and turbulence that still plague our nation today.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bj39dm/the-grim-story-of-hells-angels-killing-a-black-teen-at-a-rolling-stones-concert
The Grim Story of Hells Angels Killing a Black Teen at a Rolling Stones Concert
The unhinged free show put a lid on the freewheeling 60s, but the racial dimension to the bloodshed is inescapable.
By Seth Ferranti
On December 6, 1969, Meredith Hunter, an 18-year-old African American man, was stabbed to death at what was billed as "Woodstock West," a free Rolling Stones concert at the Altamont Speedway in Northern California. Ever since, Altamont has served as the symbolic end of the freewheeling 60s—a wake-up call that optimism and idealism weren't going to be enough. That being young, passionate, and idealistic could only take you so far. That young people ready to take over could not somehow wipe out the story of race in America.
For those who felt the counterculture was a revolution in the making, Altamont was a reminder of the racial injustice and turbulence that still plague our nation today.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bj39dm/the-grim-story-of-hells-angels-killing-a-black-teen-at-a-rolling-stones-concert
Monday, July 2, 2018
This Time It Happened in Church
An excerpt from the Root -
#MourningWhileBlack: Priest Calls Cops on Black Funeral-Goers, Tells Them to 'Get the Hell Out' of Church
By Michael Harriot
“There will be no funeral, no repast, everyone get the hell out of my church,” Briese reportedly told the family. According to Fox 5, Briese then kicked the family out of the place of worship, telling them to remove the body of the woman who wished to be laid to rest in the church where she was baptized.
https://www.theroot.com/mourningwhileblack-priest-calls-cops-on-black-funeral-1827284231?utm_source=theroot_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2018-07-02
#MourningWhileBlack: Priest Calls Cops on Black Funeral-Goers, Tells Them to 'Get the Hell Out' of Church
By Michael Harriot
“There will be no funeral, no repast, everyone get the hell out of my church,” Briese reportedly told the family. According to Fox 5, Briese then kicked the family out of the place of worship, telling them to remove the body of the woman who wished to be laid to rest in the church where she was baptized.
https://www.theroot.com/mourningwhileblack-priest-calls-cops-on-black-funeral-1827284231?utm_source=theroot_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2018-07-02
Go Pam! Go FAMU!
From the Tallahassee Democrat -
FAMU's Pam Oliver wins Gracie Award for Best On-Air Talent
Rory Sharrock
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/sports/college/famu/2018/06/29/famus-pam-oliver-wins-gracie-award/726254002/
FAMU's Pam Oliver wins Gracie Award for Best On-Air Talent
Rory Sharrock
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/sports/college/famu/2018/06/29/famus-pam-oliver-wins-gracie-award/726254002/
We're Doing a Lot of That Lately
From the Huffington Post -
‘We’ll Fix This’: Some Americans Celebrated Canada Day By Apologizing For Trump
“If you build a polite privacy hedge along the border, we’ll totally understand.”
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By Ed Mazza
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/canada-day-apology_us_5b39d603e4b0f3c221a23150
‘We’ll Fix This’: Some Americans Celebrated Canada Day By Apologizing For Trump
“If you build a polite privacy hedge along the border, we’ll totally understand.”
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By Ed Mazza
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/canada-day-apology_us_5b39d603e4b0f3c221a23150
Parents Who Had Kids Over 35 Can Relate
From Buzzfeed -
27 Jokes That Are Too Real For Anyone Who Had Kids After 35
"My 9-year-old described Celine Dion as 'old pretty.' Celine is a year younger than me."
By Ali Velez
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alivelez/tweets-jokes-older-parents?utm_term=.xnMw8bEY9#.fv0AJYmRE
27 Jokes That Are Too Real For Anyone Who Had Kids After 35
"My 9-year-old described Celine Dion as 'old pretty.' Celine is a year younger than me."
By Ali Velez
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alivelez/tweets-jokes-older-parents?utm_term=.xnMw8bEY9#.fv0AJYmRE
His Plan To Fix the Internet
An excerpt from Vanity Fair -
“I WAS DEVASTATED”: TIM BERNERS-LEE, THE MAN WHO CREATED THE WORLD WIDE WEB, HAS SOME REGRETS
Berners-Lee has seen his creation debased by everything from fake news to mass surveillance. But he’s got a plan to fix it.
BY KATRINA BROOKE
“For people who want to make sure the Web serves humanity, we have to concern ourselves with what people are building on top of it,” Tim Berners-Lee told me one morning in downtown Washington, D.C., about a half-mile from the White House. Berners-Lee was speaking about the future of the Internet, as he does often and fervently and with great animation at a remarkable cadence. With an Oxonian wisp of hair framing his chiseled face, Berners-Lee appears the consummate academic—communicating rapidly, in a clipped London accent, occasionally skipping over words and eliding sentences as he stammers to convey a thought. His soliloquy was a mixture of excitement with traces of melancholy. Nearly three decades earlier, Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. On this morning, he had come to Washington as part of his mission to save it.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/the-man-who-created-the-world-wide-web-has-some-regrets
“I WAS DEVASTATED”: TIM BERNERS-LEE, THE MAN WHO CREATED THE WORLD WIDE WEB, HAS SOME REGRETS
Berners-Lee has seen his creation debased by everything from fake news to mass surveillance. But he’s got a plan to fix it.
BY KATRINA BROOKE
“For people who want to make sure the Web serves humanity, we have to concern ourselves with what people are building on top of it,” Tim Berners-Lee told me one morning in downtown Washington, D.C., about a half-mile from the White House. Berners-Lee was speaking about the future of the Internet, as he does often and fervently and with great animation at a remarkable cadence. With an Oxonian wisp of hair framing his chiseled face, Berners-Lee appears the consummate academic—communicating rapidly, in a clipped London accent, occasionally skipping over words and eliding sentences as he stammers to convey a thought. His soliloquy was a mixture of excitement with traces of melancholy. Nearly three decades earlier, Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. On this morning, he had come to Washington as part of his mission to save it.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/the-man-who-created-the-world-wide-web-has-some-regrets
We Will Not Forget
An excerpt from the Capital Gazette Editorial -
Our Say: Thank you. We will not forget.
Thank you.
Thank you for the outpouring of sympathy for the terrible tragedy that took place Thursday in our Annapolis office.
We will never forget Rob Hiaasen, Gerald Fischman, Wendi Winters, John McNamara or Rebecca Smith, our five co-workers who were gunned down in a senseless attack.
~~~~~~~~~~
Here’s what else we won’t forget: Death threats and emails from people we don’t know celebrating our loss, or the people who called for one of our reporters to get fired because she got angry and cursed on national television after witnessing her friends getting shot.
Victims of Capital Gazette shooting in Annapolis
We won’t forget being called an enemy of the people.
No, we won’t forget that. Because exposing evil, shining light on wrongs and fighting injustice is what we do.
http://www.capitalgazette.com/opinion/our_say/ac-ce-our-say-20180630-story.html
Our Say: Thank you. We will not forget.
Thank you.
Thank you for the outpouring of sympathy for the terrible tragedy that took place Thursday in our Annapolis office.
We will never forget Rob Hiaasen, Gerald Fischman, Wendi Winters, John McNamara or Rebecca Smith, our five co-workers who were gunned down in a senseless attack.
~~~~~~~~~~
Here’s what else we won’t forget: Death threats and emails from people we don’t know celebrating our loss, or the people who called for one of our reporters to get fired because she got angry and cursed on national television after witnessing her friends getting shot.
Victims of Capital Gazette shooting in Annapolis
We won’t forget being called an enemy of the people.
No, we won’t forget that. Because exposing evil, shining light on wrongs and fighting injustice is what we do.
http://www.capitalgazette.com/opinion/our_say/ac-ce-our-say-20180630-story.html
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