“othello’s tragedy is unrelated to his race because it could’ve happened to a white man too!”
discussing race in shakespeare in a predominantly white university class
In May of 2012, a mother in Florida received a twenty-year prison term for firing warning shots toward her husband against whom she’d already taken out a protective order. She had previously rejected a plea deal for a three-year term because she said she felt she had done nothing wrong. She scared off an alleged attacker. As of the date of this writing, Marissa Alexander has not been released. A Facebook group called Stand Your Ground: Justice for Marissa Alexander, has been formed as a portion of the protest that is going on in regards to her incarceration, and provides updates on the situation, as well as ways to become active in the fight to have her set free.
According the the feminist website Solidarity, anywhere from forty to eighty percent of women convicted of murder were acting in self-defense. Their statistics apparently come from The Michigan Women’s Justice & Clemency Project, whose website states the following:
“The average prison sentence for men who kill their intimate partners is 2 to 6 years. Women who kill their partners are sentenced, on average, to 15 years”…
Elderly Pakistani Man Stabbed To Death After Leaving Mosque In Birmingham
A 75-year-old man stabbed to death yards from his home may have been targeted in a racially motivated attack, according to police.
Mohammed Saleem, who used a walking stick, was stabbed three times in the back as he returned home from prayers at his local mosque in Small Heath, Birmingham, on Monday night.
The blows were struck with such violence they penetrated to the front of his body.
The father of seven also had no defensive wounds in what has been described as a swift, vicious and cowardly attack by the man leading the murder investigation, Detective Superintendent Mark Payne of West Midlands police.
Officers want to trace a white man, aged 25-32, of medium height and build, spotted on CCTV footage running near the scene of the attack around the time it happened, just before 10.30pm.
Police also want to trace a seven-seat people carrier captured on CCTV, driving near the mosque with the two male occupants, both white and in their 30s, who are considered “significant witnesses”.
In an emotional family appeal on Thursday, two of Saleem’s daughters, Shazia Khan, 45, and Nazia Maqsood, 44, called for the attackers to hand themselves in. They tearfully described their father as a “widely respected member of the community” and “much-loved”.
For just a minute, can we talk about how fucking broadcasted this would be if it was a Christian walking out of church?The dictionary definition of terrorism states it is “The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.”
So why aren’t anti-Muslim or anti-immigrant attacks ever referred to as terrorist attacks? They seem to fit the dictionary definition perfectly.
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- Out Of A Whole Planet’s Population, One Hero Will Be Chosen: It’s Probably Going To Be A White Dude
Well we are the majority the odds are in our favor
no yoU AREN’T THAT WAS THE POINT OF THIS POST YOU DENSEHEADED DINGLEFRICKER
“The world’s largest ethnic group is Han Chinese. Although English (5.52%) is spoken by many as a second language, Mandarin Chinese (14.1%), Hindi (8.5%), Spanish (5.85%) and Arabic (4.23%) are the languages with the highest number of speakers.”
Gosh, those languages are spoken by primarily non-white populations, aren’t they? That’s interesting…
Also interesting! You know what there aren’t that many of, statistically speaking, in Asia and Africa? White dudes.
So 75% of the world’s population resides in regions that are primarily nonwhite populations. And less than 20% of the world’s population resides in regions that are primarily white.
Does that sound like it adds up to “white guys are the majority of people in the world and therefore the odds are good that any random sample of 1 will be a white guy” to you? Cause that’s very much not what it sounds like to me.
Even if white people were an undisputed majority of the world population, you do realize that the odds of choosing a white man as opposed to a white person of any other gender are just slightly under 50/50, right? So by your logic, it should be a toss-up and we should find equal numbers of white male and white female heroes at the center of our thrilling stories about saving the world.
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- Out Of A Whole Planet’s Population, One Hero Will Be Chosen: It’s Probably Going To Be A White Dude
Well we are the majority the odds are in our favor
no yoU AREN’T THAT WAS THE POINT OF THIS POST YOU DENSEHEADED DINGLEFRICKER
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WRONG!
THAT BAD BOY RIGHT THERE IS A VIRUS.
YEP, YOU HIT THAT TEMPTING LITTLE CIRCLE AND YOU HAVE A ONE WAY TRIP TO VIRUS-VILLE ON THE MY COMPUTER IS NOW CRASHED BUS!
DON’T CLICK IT.
CLICK IT AND YOUR HACKED.
CLICK IT AND YOUR COMPUTER DIES.
CLICK IT AND BASICALLY YOU’RE SCREWED.
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