A Businesskid On A Cloud

rmt_ki101('6',130,'0aq8oygb1mv','007eff'); Context to a Businesskid On A Cloud: FREE YOURSELF FROM MENTAL SLAVERY. Or follow this blog to do so. I'm a bald head Samsonite Rastafari with a liking for politics, media, sociology, psychology, economics, ganja and other topics. What you'll read here are usually posts analyzing the world around me through a Gestalt lens. The picture is clearer when you look at the whole thing, rather than just the flower in the foreground. Join(t) me and read about a world of interconnected problems and possible solutions! And of course, random rantings and weed.

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NYPD’s Retraining Misses The Only Component That Could Make It Work

Yes, chokeholds and disrespectful treatment are high ranking complaints but the root problem is the use of force primarily against non-Whites. Chokehold deaths are rare in comparison to the hundreds of disproportionate times NYPD officers have discharged firearms against minorities in the last few years. The relative eagerness of officers to default to their service weapon when facing Black suspects falls especially squarely in line with the findings of shoot/don’t shoot research dating back to the late 1990s. Officers, not unlike civilians, tend to use stereotypes in their discharge decision making – specifically associating firearms with Black people – a phenomenon that may actually be made worse by police training. While the NYPD’s culture of violence encompasses many symptoms, those found in the individual officer are arguably largely rooted in biased stereotypes.

Supporting censored journalism starts with seeing the whole story.

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Dear Tyler: I am sending your tweet to the US Marine Corps. You can thank me later. BTW, how is the School of Infantry at Camp Geiger treating you these days? Let’s find out, shall we? Oh poo-poo. You shut down your Twitter when I told you I posted your tweet onto the USMC Camp Geiger Facebook page. Poor thing! You are even changing your Facebook page. Good thing I archived it first.

Marine Corp contact list.

Why can’t these racists own their words? If you speak it, own that shit muhfuggah.

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Dear unite4humanity:

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Censored NYC History: Langston Hughes Dropped Out Of The Ivy Leagues To Pursue A Dream

A young Langston Hughes, born Feb. 2nd 1902, made a deal with his father, despite their strained relationship. Langston would study engineering, like his dad wanted, but only if he could study at New York’s Columbia University. Hughes managed to maintain a B+ during his first year attending the Ivy League, but racial prejudice at the school factored into his decision to leave in 1922.

Hughes spent months writing, getting to know the surrounding Harlem neighborhood, and working odd jobs before finding employment that would take him overseas for years. Langston Hughes ended up traveling to West Africa and Europe while continuing his career in poetry and journalism.

Find out more

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This Chaplain’s Leg May Have Been Broken By The Sketchiest Officer Ever - NYPD Censored

“'He was turning my leg, left and right,' Christopher Graham said. 'I was screaming and banging on the floor. Then I heard a snap.'

Graham, 51, said the abuse did not stop after an officer who appears to be Paul Aparo broke his leg.

‘Even after my leg breaks they were still beating my a—,’ the chaplain said.”

And just who is Aparo? Well, he might have been the same officer believed to have edited security camera footage capturing him in a 2010 after-hours bar brawl in Bay Ridge. His edits might have been why Internal Affairs failed to substantiate anything against him.

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A member of the ‘Guardian Angels’, a volunteer crime-fighting organisation, patrols a New York City subway train. 1980s NYC

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One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient.

- Charles M. Blow, NYT journalist (via blinkernyc)

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In An Ideal World, Patrick Lynch Would Protest Broken Windows

Of course, you can’t evaluate opinions on Broken Windows without considering who the theory affects and the prejudices of everyone involved. It’s been demonstrated that anti-Black biases are common among people of many races, perhaps even all. That’s important to remember when discussing anti-crime efforts, since criminality has disproportionately been presented (by non-governmental and governmental communications alike) as a personality flaw of people of color, especially African Americans. All of that means we need to see Broken Windows not only as a flawed policing philosophy, but also as a proposed solution to what many see as the tragedy of lawless communities of color.

The opposition to this isn’t helped by how disproportionately tools of broken windows – especially overreaching legislation – are used disproportionately within communities of color.

Now we’re entering treacherous territory. Does Lynch care more about defending his officers’ well being or enabling a racist policy for arguably racist reasons? Answer that carefully. It may lead to curiosity about how easy it would be for him to manipulate the deaths of two minority officers (and erase the attempted murder of a female Black veteran) for political gain….

See the whole story

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^^^ Black-owned news source! FOLLOW if you are not already.

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I remember when Josh Zepps, in the last few seconds of this clip, and after telling a woman her opinion was stupid, proclaimed “as a White man, you are not allowed to have any beliefs.” Well, let’s examine the “beliefs” of this dudebro, shall we?

August 13, 2014 Dudebro Zepps tweeted his...

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#BlackLivesMatter

h/t: Dan Ulyanov

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Michael Brown Jr. (May 20, 1996 – August 9, 2014)

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We should make this the most reblogged image on Tumblr.

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Potent minimalist art sends a strong message about police and vigilante brutality in America

Journalist and artist Shirin Barghi has created a gripping, thought-provoking series of graphics that not only examines racial prejudice in today’s America, but also captures the sense of humanity that often gets lost in news coverage. Titled “Last Words,” the graphics illustrate the last recorded words by Brown and other young black people — Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant and others — who have been killed by police in recent years.

Let us not forget their voices

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Graphs: 5 Facts About New York Post-Crisis Poverty That You Want To Know

Suburban poverty is the growing national problem few are talking about. New York is no stranger to the phenomenon: over 600,000 people fell below the poverty line between 2007 and 2012, over 400,000 of them were from counties outside the five boroughs. The causes of suburban poverty are mixed, but as high-skill workers are attracted to the evolving (read: gentrifying) city centers, expect the people left behind in the suburbs to be ever more so detached and impoverished….

See all the graphs

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Watch that suburban poverty. As jobs growth and public transportation access in the City draws Millennials towards the center, the people left behind in (and probably soon displaced toward) the suburbs will grow more and more impoverished.

Limited access to jobs, services, others… it seems the suburbs will only be a getaway from economic help. No escape from poverty.

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These 5 Factors May Be Helping Washington Heights Gentrify

Preventing gentrification from happening in Washington Heights is clearly not an easy task. Today’s major contributors were cemented in the 90’s and have a lot of momentum at this point. Defining factors will be how well incumbent rent-stabilized tenants are supported, whether the rent-stabilized integrity of recently vacant apartments is maintained, and how strong of an effort is made to connect incumbent tenants to either the skills needed in the new labor market or to feasible opportunities to make a living wage….

See what 5 things are causing gentrification in Washington Heights

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By its nature, if we know *why* The Heights is gentrifying, we know *how* to stop it. Or at least prevent any displacement.

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Food Deserts Can’t Be Fixed By A Supermarket, But This Idea Might Work

Better tactics are needed to fight food deserts according to London School of of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine professor Steven Cummins. According to Cummins, the “build it and they will come” perceptions on food access are missing considerations for consumer habits, PBS reports. Cummins studied a supermarket in Philadelphia to examine the impact an improved food access point had on the diets of local residents. The results were unexpected to some: the new supermarket, funded by the Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative, had no significant impact on neighbors’ consumption of fruits and vegetables or on obesity rates…. Income and consumer habits may play a much larger role, and brings forward questions about the efficiency of our current anti-food desert strategies….

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Want to tackle food swamps and obesity? It can't be with soda bans and green carts. You gotta know - and start - where people already get their food....

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Why Don’t Black People Trust The Police?

Tragedies often rocket racial issues to the front stage for national debate, allowing them to be casually picked apart by folks who are not consistently aware of the poor quality of daily police interactions with Black residents. And no wonder those interactions are so poor and White residents are so unaware of them: police officers, and arguably our society at large, are vulnerable to giving White suspects more benefit of the doubt than we give to Black suspects….

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This is why Black people rise up in anger after police brutality.

Because there’s little hope for justice when cops only see you as a set of stereotypes.

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The Daily News ran a special on racial disparities in Broken Windows related summonses. Our favorite #NYC Pols are falling inline behind the language. Thing is that the Daily News’ data is only marginally off from data observed on everything from drug enforcement to Stop and Frisk. It’s deeper than Broken Windows, and your Councilmembers, Assemblymen, and State Senators are just as (if not more so) responsible for the shitstorm as NYPD Commissioner Bratton. They have at best sat by while laws with implicit racial and socioeconomic preferences sit on the books, or at worst indulged in creating these laws while accepting kickbacks from corporate and big money stakeholders who have no chance in hell of being caught up in the legal traps.

Don’t let the Pols fool you into thinking they’re on your side with this one. The aged blood on their hands is darker than that on Bratton’s.