Every now and then there's a scintilla of hope. A central PA high school has approved the AP African American Studies program. Students requested the course. (Unfortunately, it will be the watered-down version, but better than nothing, for now.)
If you live in Texas, please go to this website to check polling locations, register to vote or check on your registration. #texas#vote#Mastodon#BlackMastodon
“If Black people can develop and refine metaphors to understand the white experience (in all of its constituent complexity, pain and privilege), how is it that white people are excused from understanding the Black experience?”
—Christienne Leigh Hinz
“Fieldnotes on Allyship: Achieving Equality Together”
Arizona State U #Library not only has a new #Black Collections archival repository—there's also a free, online Black Memory and Storytelling Symposium going on right now!*
While Tennessee’s House made headlines for expelling two Black members, over in the Tennessee Senate, two senators were speaking up for Confederate History Month.
Their proclamation celebrates “a four-year heroic struggle for states’ rights, individual freedom, local government control, and a determined struggle for deeply held beliefs.”
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No #Abolition thread this week but since so many people are getting gunned down for doing ...well nothing... I thought I would explain Stand Your Ground Laws (SYG). Stand Your Ground Laws warped the traditional understanding of self defense. Under common law a person has a right to defend themselves against threats of bodily harm as long as the response to a threat is proportional to the threat. 1/9?
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In some states, like FL which has an extreme version of SYG, a judge can decide right after the killing whether the shooter acted reasonably and dismiss
the charges or prevent the state from bringing charges. This happens before discovery occurs and without a determination of reasonableness by a jury. The judge can also bar any civil law suits against the shooter.
It is the most extreme version. 7/9