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A visual history of black and white relations in America

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You can't just get out of the car and throw punches after you rear end someone even if they kick your car. You realize this is incriminating? Or no?

Heirloom Tomato and Olive Tapenade The tomato was a purple Cherokee with a meaty and juicy slice. More flesh than seeds. I added salt. This tomato is racist.

#racist tomato #foodie #olives #heirloom tomato #purple tomato #tomato salad #vegan #vegan salad #salad #food photography #photo lunch

Stop the network news from waffling on “terrorism”.

#terrorism #media #news #law

The FBI Can Make Terrorists?

This is a criminal case where intent must be proven, i.e. there must be more than a prosecutor's "theory" about his "terrorism". The evidence must show that he had the intent to produce a social result like segregation by committing this act because in his mind the mens rea would have been to attack in order to produce the result. All they have so far is hate speech that if relied on as evidence of terrorism would easily be objectionable hearsay. If they find a written plan or "manifest" like they did with Holmes, only something coherent whereas his wasn't enough to define it as "terrorism", then the prosecutors will be closer to charging him with it.

Some random online profile copy and White Supremacist tourist photos aren’t going to define terrorism as evidence.

Holmes had an ideology about violent media. He carried out an act to express that view. That's essentially what happened in Charleston that we know so far; Roof was expressing his politics not particularly making an attempt to advance those views onto the public at large or generate a cultural shift.

The Unibomber is a perfect example of an ever present threat to force ideological and political change. Proving intention to coerce or intimidate a "civilian population" is really tricky. I follow cases like this, but usually high profile mass shooting and civil rights cases, not one in the same, closely in the media. This one is going to no doubt hit the mark of a mass shooting and a hate crime which we don't see often, but I don't think I have ever seen the two in the same act until this.

Not that it matters what I've seen. One possible smoking gun for terrorism is if they could link him to a hate group that the FBI already knows has intent that would overlap with Roof's mental state which would make it easier to turn up parts of the plan that regard this act as intended to send a message other than "black people have to go".

Some serial killers have similar expressed ideological reasoning for their crimes especially in the cases where prostitutes are targeted. Rumors about how he would have carried this out at a college on a nonracially specific group doesn't count as evidence toward the crime he actually committed. The people he told that to aren't guilty of anything if he didn't actually commit the crime he described to them. Loopholes like this infuriate people who want stricter gun control. Maybe his friends' reaction to his plan made him realize he didn't want to be a terrorist. The sickest thing about this case could wind up being that he actually acted this out according to the guidelines of a civil rights violation and KNEW he wasn't acting as a terrorist. I could tell you the joke the Feds are playing here. Better yet just read the actual entry. The incident is disclosed as a hate crime, and clearly states it isn't terrorism, yet remains an example on the domestic terrorism page. The FBI has conflated "hate crimes" and "domestic terrorism" in the jargon apparently, maybe because it was a hate crime and mass shooting. There is no public explanation and there wasn't one on the news. A bunch of people just decided it should be this way. This raises a red flag for me. Here's what the FBI wants; they want people to like them. And they don't pick political sides. I will not be surprised if media pressure results in further rioting like in Baltimore labeled as "terrorism" especially when police vehicles are destroyed due to an unrest over an incident involving police. Let's be clear; I don't consider rioters "domestic terrorists", but the FBI can if they want to. It's PR for them. It has no legal bearing on any case if they decide to label you, and now it seems they are going to pick "favorites". Clearly, the fallacy of ambiguity is present to appease the public. How is the FBI going to explain using ambiguous legal criteria that doesn't apply to a case in order to enhance a classification to the public? They don't have to.

#charleston massacre #FBI #terrorism #domestic terrorism #hate crime #civil rights #blacklivesmatter #white supremacy #feds

I Wrote This Prior To Mckinney

What we need is for people to understand how to act around the cops. They have the power. They can kill you and keep their jobs.

But for some reason, people still act like they don't understand that the police will shoot, brutalize, or arrest you for absolutely no reason, and will then frame an outcome as a "reason" you gave them.

Being triggered by "suspects" doesn't mean the police were acting rationally. It doesn't necessarily mean that an alleged suspect or a would be victim of police did anything outside their rights, committed a crime, or behaved irrationally. If the police are triggered by you, it might be responsive to your temperament, affect, or emotions that are completely natural reactions to a situation.

Stop behaving naturally.

Yes, they will blame you for what's about to happen despite the lack of etiquette provided by them to the general public. No, they have never really informed us en masse how to act.

The societal result is psychological chaos.

Of course, the police are judging you. And they are probably very poor at this, even as seasoned officers.

They form biases and heuristics of guilt or innocence due to the lack of adequate psychological training on the job because it is simply impossible to train them.

Yes, police policies need to change. Don’t hold your breath. You can’t breathe.

They virtually teach themselves who is who and what is what with the constant empathetic influence of and by their social in group categories, i.e. gender, race, ethnicity, religion, class background, network. And do too many white people side with police? Yes. Even when a white pregnant woman is gunned down.

The police are not paid to be altruistic. Sometimes, it just looks like they are.

Dissonance is a very dangerous weapon when wielded by authority, but remember that if you are arrested for no reason, the officer is acting out their dissonance under a trigger. It is not your fault. They are trained to be unnerved by the unnerved and to push people into corners in order to force cooperation as proof of innocence.

But whatever you do, do not play innocent. You will become trivial to them.

In theory, it should be a relief to interact with them. In practice, it rarely is a relief to interact with them. My best advice is to pretend your ass off, and it works. Unfortunately, it does.

I was once in a domestic situation living with a guy who was abusing me. I was moving out the day the police were called - by him to report me hitting him, when he had smashed me in the face with a pillow. I threatened to call the cops if he came near me again. So, in our prisoner's dilemma, he called them first.

As soon as I said "cops", he called 911.

I don't have a guidebook to help people call the police. They do have to be called sometimes, and sometimes they don't, but they will be. I do not purport that I can help every victim in a situation with a manipulator. Situations like mine are precisely similar to thousands of others that the police consider themselves powerless to help real victims in. If my partner had been a real victim, they were helpless. There was no evidence.

My reaction to them was all they had.

The police showed up with an expectation bias. They formally suspected that the person who phoned 911 was innocent. That's what they are supposed to do. It was not successful of me to attempt to convince them of the story the way it really happened and that was made clear to me immediately. They were on his side. He was the one who made the call. They told me to "shut up" when I disputed his story.

Ok. Shutting up.

I was lucky to have all my belongings sitting at the front door because leaving and taking my stuff with me was the only acceptable compromise in the situation, and that is how I framed it. I let them believe I was the perp without admitting anything that wasn't true. I let them role play instead of arguing once I realized they would not consider my side as the truth and his as the lie.

Not even once was this idea entertained.

I said, "Ok, you know what? I was moving out today and he got mad. You don't have to believe that he hit me or that he is lying. See all my stuff? I was just about to take it all out to my car. I just want to leave because that's what I was trying to do when this all started. Will that solve the situation?"

It was the only acceptable solution for them and they angrily waited as I rushed to move all my crap out to the vehicle. They threatened to arrest me if I didn't move faster.

One of these officers was a woman of color. The other was a white male.

Sometimes justice is not more than a compromise that doesn't provide the victim with the redress they deserve. Having to let go of this is infuriating, exacerbating, and it is very wrong, but it is sometimes the only way to prevent an even greater injustice. I felt completely debased and defeated by that whole situation. It was incredibly devastating.

Yes, he outsmarted me, acted quicker, lied, was more convincing and confident. That's what the cops want to believe only if that is the person who got to the phone first.

My shock and despair made not one bit of difference to the officers who are not paid to read emotions or understand their own biases. Do NOT under any circumstances act as if you are owed understanding by the police because you feel you are being convincing and emotionally correct.

This may have been the one time they thought for sure they weren't being biased towards a domestic situation, but probably not. You have to remember that the police get called into insane situations involving violence committed by every kind of person imaginable. Your perceived marginality is completely irrelevant to them. It does not exist, even if you are a trans-woman.

If the police try to arrest you for nothing, with a lack of evidence, or a bogus charge, e.g. not proving who you are, do not resist at all. Your rights will be in violation. It will NOT matter to them.

You might not be convincing enough. FORGET about trying to convince them. You are only trying to convince yourself.

When the police intend to act, they will, and you will lose. Just lose, and do it with ease. It's not about them, it is about you. You have already lost.

Do not try to win the moral or ethical game of proof with gun toting authority who is probably mentally unstable at the moment. It isn't a fact that if you fail to cooperate that you are guilty of what they suspect you to be guilty of vis a vis, but police can act irrationally despite their authority and without any conceptualization that they are abusing it by doing so.

In my anecdote, the only thing that made me realize I would not be convicted of a crime I didn't commit was the lack of evidence and the knowledge that the guy wouldn't follow through with the court case even if he pressed fake charges given an unethical opportunity to do so. After a police report, there isn't much else that could have legally happened or happened "legally", albeit a situation of lies could have steamrolled into something completely catastrophic, i.e. a false arrest and conviction of the victim of a crime for the crime itself.

It often does help by remaining calm and telling them anything they want to hear in order to make yourself appear innocent, but do not give them any information that they did not ask for, ever. Often, when people are pulled over, it does actually help to admit the traffic violation. Acting clueless is suspect. It suggests you think you are above the law.

If they want your side of the story in a dispute, it does not help to discuss the situation in a personal manner. This sounds ridiculous. It is. But so are the police, and you have to hide your personal feelings about a situation from them unless you called them first.

Call them first. Ask questions later.

People are manipulative with law enforcement. They often lie to vilify another party to an alleged crime. It's a fact. False and exaggerated reports happen all the time, even in cases of rape, but it is not the officer's job to make a judgment call if an alleged victim is reporting a crime. If an officer is judging you unfairly, call your lawyer after you (hopefully) have some evidence that the officer mistreated a report.

ALWAYS RECORD INTERACTION WITH POLICE. Audio can be just as good as video in some circumstances.

There is nothing to judge but your interaction with them and how you are handling a situation, and they are not paid to be savvy. Unfortunately, they are paid to use their own limited cognitive resources aided by general past experience. The thing that will absolutely trip you up is thinking that they are paid to care.

Police are not paid to care who started it. They NEVER care who started it.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02EV9EeDJtY)

These people are my friends. Hi, Juan and Brackin!

#bikes across borders #austin #bikes

Southern Rites Is Not What You Want To Think

This film is a bait and switch. If you really watch it, you realize that Norman was actually attacked in his home and that is exactly what his daughter didn’t try to stop and *spoiler alert*, what she blames herself for. The prosecutors threw the book at him until the plea was struck due to the unfortunate details. It’s not a film about an ‘accidental’ death or an ‘innocent’ man. It makes the family of the victim appear naive and heavily empathizes with Norman who was telling the undisputed truth in the film. Do you honestly believe that the film would portray his story and not bring a counter-narrative by his daughter to light if there was one? I don’t think so. She agrees with what he said and blames herself for “not stopping it”. Seriously, it is understated in the writing, but that is what is there. This is not a #blacklivesmatter throwback.

The story does, however, allow some opinions that the death of Justin Patterson was a tragedy that the legal system inevitably allowed with a very slight punishment. In Virginia, Norman would have never spent a day in jail for shooting someone in his own home who he hadn’t allowed inside and who had become physical with him, but that’s just my own prediction. It’s clear in the film that he was aware the two Patterson boys were there to see his adopted daughter, Danielle, who he raised from birth, because he caught her having sex with Justin while his brother watched. It was three o’clock in the morning, they had been smoking a blunt, and Norman interrupted the party. He wound up firing two shots, one of which struck Justin’s side. He died in a field near the home after he and his brother ran.

These are the details in the film, which spends a great deal of time navel gazing with Norman and speeds through the parts no one really wants to hear, pay attention to, or believe are facts. He reiterates over and over that he is telling the truth about what happened. Nothing in the film other than the Patterson family’s grief will lead you to think otherwise, and frankly, that is the saddest part about this whole film--that these people have to be convincing about Justin’s situation at the time he was shot, and they simply cannot bear it. Thier loss is clearly substantial and extremely difficult due to how senseless gun violence can result in leniency by the law.

Lawyers will be lawyers in court and say the misleading things they say. That is their job. It is not clear how old Danielle was at the time of the shooting because, in the introduction, she claims to have lost contact with Justin and then rekindled through Facebook, but knew him throughout high school. The trial attorney for Norman claims that she was fourteen at the time of the shooting. There is no clear timeline addressed by the film writers.

The story is messy.

There are two minor arcs along with the major arc, and none of the three intertwine.

Keyke is the daughter of a black Montgomery Co. Sheriff hopeful with gobs of experience who loses to a white man with absolutely none by a mysterious hundred vote slide. Their disappointment is the only evidence of corruption the filmmakers dove into. This arc probably could have been its own separate film like the prom integration, which serves as the film’s conclusion in order to end on a happy note. I swear to God, this movie takes the audience through all the motions of a single story and has tricked people into believing it is just one story. It’s three arcs that probably each should have been a film with more effort into each one, but this is not the reality of funding a documentary.

Also, how did John Legend not understand how blatant southern racism can be? Do we live in the same country?

#southern rites #documentary #blacklivesmatter #racism #hbo

Duggar Isn’t A Real Hypocrite

I get deep. I get so deep that it makes even people who think they are progressive and critical uncomfortable. I’m not into letting anyone slide for how they identify. What this means is that I’ll call you a hypocrite, but I am very stringent about this.

Josh Duggar can be my guinea pig for this example.

I would just prefer that the media refer to Mr. Duggar not as a hypocrite, but as an example of self-serving bias, just once, just for me. Here’s why- he follows and adheres to the views he purports to practice, but not only that--he was raised to fulfill a prophecy as a male inclusive to the beliefs of his family which he still adheres to.

Christian Patriarchy does not espouse the belief that child molestation does not occur in circles of its followers. Never have they and never will they ever try to convince the public that this is the absolute norm within their community. They have literature about such actions and methods of handling these sex crimes. That said, if Josh Duggar were secretly a defunct member of his community but publicly failed to inform us, he would be a hypocrite. However, he was aligned with the beliefs of his denomination the ENTIRE time he was touching his sisters.

A Self-serving bias is slightly different.

He, for one, did admit he had done something, but only after he knew he couldn’t be legally punished, and it clearly states in the teachings used by his community that some external trigger causes these lapses in morals even if the perpetrator internally disconnects with Jesus. His family clearly took the accusations and/or his confession in lieu of an accusation seriously enough to believe it. Hell, he admitted to his girlfriend before asking her to marry him that he did, in fact, molest young girls.

This is not the norm, and confessing to these crimes cannot be the norm if the appropriate action is legal recourse. I do not applaud the Duggars. I do, however, realize that it is completely understated how important simply knowing that it was admitted and knowing the people around him know it too is to some semblance of justice for his victims.

A public apology is far greater than most victims will ever have.It is fortunate to have this information now albeit too late for actual Justice.

Had Josh Duggar hidden everything and lied in the face of an accusation, then, he would be a hypocrite. Had he pretended it was o.k. to touch kids after he had partaken, then, he would be a hypocrite. If he had hidden it from his now wife and done it to his own children, then, he would be a hypocrite.

But his beliefs are aligned with his actions and that of Christian Patriarchy--men cannot be trusted around children they have seen naked, and if they commit an act of sexual violence, they are to confess and be forgiven.

I would like to think that examining the other issues with the Duggars’ politics should be treated as self-serving bias instead of us becoming trapped in this language technicality. It pains me to see the media trip over their bottom lips when the fix to this problem is so simple and taken for granted so often. Are we really afraid that we’ll have to question just how impactful other people are on our own lives as contributors to our own failures?

I’m terrified of this.

I’m terrified that being a victim of sexual abuse myself doesn’t really impact my life in as much of an adversity as I could claim it has. It’s “inappropriate” for anyone to tell me that I can’t fear this sort of thing. All victims have to face the reality that there is a boundary between themselves and the impact of the abuse they have suffered. That boundary lies in mental health and stability and generally, there is no way to figure out where oneself begins again after abuse.

Had my mother raised me to understand firstly, what inappropriate touch was, but also that it was ‘immodest’ and I should not allow it, then I surely would have had an ally, but that is not who my mom has been in my life. Unfortunately, I was raised to be a victim who accepts what’s coming because there’s no amount of telling in the world that will make my parents give a shit about me.

#hypocrisy #josh duggar #child molestation #self-serving bias #christian patriarchy #fundamentalism

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Albert King “I Wanna Get Funky” LP - Stax Records, US (1974).

#selfie #queer #trans #pansexual #lesbian #bisexual #lbgtqia #blacklivesmatter #gender #memoir #whitesupremacy #rapeignorance #hivcurescancer

I Have Asperger's And Gender Dysphoria

I have not started transitioning and I might not. I am a member of the ASD community who navigates a very complex social landscape. I have always been more drawn to men because I am hyper masculine, but there are times when I am the polar opposite. I once drew a red heart on the crotch of my bubblegum pink polyester pants. I once identified as "queer". Now, I feel neither "trans" nor "queer" is really fair or accurate. I'm both, but right now, I'm making money as a cis passing sex worker. I don't relate to calling it "privilege". This is desperation. I am debased. I am constantly confronted with the economics of the worst kind - gender. I have a huge crush on a lesbian celebrity. Maybe I really love her. This would have been unthinkable a year and a half ago, but years before then, not really. I don't have a high success rate with women at all. You can think whatever you want about my sexual history. I have Aspergerish issues that men, even straight men, compensate for and I sometimes appreciate it. I wish a lesbian would try me like that. I want one to. I've been writing her some sort of weird love letters. I'm not sure if she is poly. I am. And I'm totally unrealistic right now.

#lesbian #Trans #queer #aspergers