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Returning from unintended hiatus (coming up..)

Returning from unintended hiatus (coming up..)
Coming up this week: Jason Collins – in open rebellion to prejudice, bigotry and hate.

Due to an unexpected inability to write, access and update temporarily this site for the past week, very little new material has been added. But that is sure to change within the next few days, beginning with an in depth article about NBA star Jason Collins’s historic announcement to live his life openly and freely. Stay tuned…

Freedom Fighters (IMAGE)

Black Panther Party

“The system used the main nonviolent themes of Martin Luther King’s life to present a strategy designed to protect its own interests – imagine the most violent nation on earth, the heir of Indian and African genocide, the only nation ever to drop an atomic bomb on a civilian population, the world’s biggest arms dealer, the country that napalmed over 10 million people in Vietnam (to “save” it from communism), the world’s biggest jailer, waving the corpse of King, calling for nonviolence!”
– Mumia Abu Jamal quoted from Live from Death Row

W.E.B. Du Bois

 

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“One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not remember that Daniel Webster got drunk but only that he was a constitutional lawyer. We must forget that George Washington was a slave owner… and simply remember the things we regard as creditable and inspiring. The difficulty, of course, with this philosophy is that history loses its value as an incentive and example; it paints perfect men and noble nations, but it does not tell the truth.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois

Coming Soon – Christopher Dorner: ‘Django Unchained’?!

UPDATE: I am aware I am incredibly late on getting this story out. It’s obviously almost a week from the promised Feb. 27 date. The story took me longer than expected to write and I’m in the process of typing it up now. Thanks for your patience.

Coming Wednesday, February 27, 2013 – Christopher Dorner: ‘Django Unchained?!Film poster from motion picture director Quentin Tarantino's Blockbuster movie "Django Unchained", starring Jamie Foxx, Leonardo Dicaprio, Kerry Washington and Christopher Walken.
Former Officer of the Los Angeles Police Department and Navy reservist, Christopher Dorner.

The notoriously puzzling case of a former Officer of the Los Angeles Police Department, Christopher Jordan Dorner, has sparked a heated and polarizing debate over the man at the center of the controversy. His opponents contend the man was a ruthless brutal murderer and a ‘cop-killer’, whereas his supporters have knighted him the latest ‘hero’ in a long line of fallen freedom fighters victimized by a corrupt State. The truth, however, may lie somewhere in between. Join us on Wednesday as we examine the recent case of Chris Dorner and the LAPD from a historical perspective. Was he a violent bloodthirsty villain? Or was he instead a casualty of LAPD racism? We’ll be examining the credibility of Dorner’s allegations made in his “manifesto” against the very same police department responsible for some of the biggest scandals of the 1990’s: the beating of Rodney King and the Rampart corruption case.

 
Film poster from motion picture director Quentin Tarantino’s Blockbuster movie “Django Unchained”, starring Jamie Foxx, Leonardo Dicaprio, Kerry Washington and Christopher Walken.
 
Former Officer of the Los Angeles Police Department and Navy reservist, Christopher Dorner.