unseasonably warm at 100/68.
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Charles Mudede talks about the benefits to breaking the police.
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The incident took place March 30, 2018, when Molina was lodged in the Washington County Jail on one count of driving under the influence, a charge for which he was convicted and received 30 days in jail and a yearlong license suspension. Molina’s booking report specifies that he received the DUII while he was riding a bicycle.
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“A call for justice should not warrant an apology.”
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Powerful speech
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In 2006, Lee’s 19-year-old son Fong - who was born in a refugee camp in Thailand - was shot eight times by Minneapolis police officer Jason Andersen. The officer remains on the force to this day, a fact that the Lees were not aware of until told by the BBC. The officer was terminated twice, but has apparently since been rehired.
Although security footage showed Lee was running away at the time, Andersen claimed the teenager had a gun. A grand jury declined to indict him and the police department ruled the shooting justified. The family sued in civil court claiming excessive force and brought evidence the gun found beside Fong’s body was planted. An all-white jury found against them.
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I saw that BBC headline. A death does not cause healing, the protests and the response and real change do that. Might want to let the pip-pip crowd know that. Shall we get John Oliver to translate?
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I think that was implied.
Regardless of intent, the interns must learn to headline.
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on the contrary, it’s the basis of the entire christian religion 
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You mean the endless drive to discard and kill people? Or holding those hypocrites accountable? Christianity is fairly confusing from an outside perspective.
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Everything you wanted to know about tear gas and its various uses.
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Two great episodes in a row.
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A high school classmate of mine directed this film. It was a followup to her movie on the Gees Bend quilters.
Her post about the reception of this documentary:
While researching “The Quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend” I learned about racism in the elite art world. Nothing exemplified this more than the story of Thornton Dial, whose saga unfolds in the follow-up film, “Mr. Dial Has Something to Say."
On this Juneteenth, please take 50 minutes to watch this revealing story. And please share it.
This film asks a lot of white audiences because it lays out the ugly truth about who decides what is great art. It challenges core beliefs about institutions embraced by many as “liberal,” but which are revealed as classist, racist, and segregated, at best. The people in charge of our media and arts very much influence what we consider “valuable” or pertinent. Unfortunately, those in charge have not historically endeavored to tell an objective story, or place value equally. Black lives don’t only matter, they are a very integral, extremely under-valued part of American art history. What is worse, as you will see in the film, famous white artists not only “appropriated” from black artists, they became quite wealthy while black artists rarely received the credit or financial compensation for their contribution.
When I embarked on the journey to tell Dial’s experience, I never imagined the level of hostility that I would encounter simply allying myself with the topic. The PBS network that sponsored the film, Alabama Public TV, without explanation, canceled the entire promotional budget, despite the film’s major underwriting by the NEA. At film festivals, it received standing ovations. But in Ashland, Oregon I also endured a shocking racist excoriation by a club of older, middle-class white people.
Meanwhile, on a national level, PBS chose the film among 5 total to represent its “quality programming” at the 2008 International Public TV Screening Conference. PBS paid for me to attend & represent it at the conference in South Africa. Yet without much explanation (and in spite of major NEA underwriting ) PBS also refused to air the film nationwide, as it had aired “The Quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend.” The exact rejection read: “The film does not support our programming needs at this time.” A former national PBS programming director told me to my face that she liked nothing about the film. While Alabama Public TV did air the film, directly after it they aired a 30-minute “roundtable” discussion, which they entitled “The Art World Has Something to Say”–and led by Al Head, the director of the Alabama State Council on the Arts. During the discussion, Head attempts to cajole his guests to refute the points made in the film. All refused. The months of hostility from PBS locally and nationally ultimately caused me to leave the PBS system.
About two months after I departed, the awards began rolling in. These included 4 regional Emmys, numerous festival awards, and a CINE Golden Eagle for Best Arts Film nationwide. Steven Spielberg served on the board of CINE organization at the time, as did the former PBS programming director, who said that she liked nothing about the film. For years, I lived with some degree of depression over this experience. And I’m just a white person who told the story.
The film is now in the collections of renowned universities, and I’m often approached by researchers and writers, including a writer for the “The New Yorker,” which published a piece about the story in 2013.
PBS still has the rights to air this film for free. To date, this film has not met its programming needs.
I would like to thank some of the people who made this film possible. Thank you to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the National Endowment for the Arts for your unwavering support and prescience. Thank you to the talented black Alabama musicians who created the powerful soundtrack, and the dozens of noted museum directors, artists, and art historians who bravely agreed to interviews. Thank you to Outpost Pictures for their late nights and brilliant editing collaboration. And most of all, thank you to the art historian Bill Arnett, who brought this story to my attention and, along with his sons, wrote tomes on this subject.
Again, please take 50 minutes to watch this. The injustices served by white Americans upon black Americans exist in every facet of American life. This deserved much more light, with many more voices, and much e
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