Daily Archives: March 22, 2012
How to Talk to Young Black Boys About Trayvon Martin
1. It’s unlikely but possible that you could get killed today. Or any day. I’m sorry, but that’s the truth. Black maleness is a potentially fatal condition. I tell you that not to scare you but because knowing that could save your life. There are people who will look at you and see a villain or a criminal or something fearsome.
Why I'm NOT Taking My 8-Year Old to The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games opened this weekend. It could well be the biggest box office hit of the year, at least until The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 comes along in November. It is rated PG-13. Nearly two dozen kids aged 12 to 18 die by machete, sword, blows with a brick, a spear to the chest, arrows, having their necks snapped.
Mitt Romney's Etch A Sketch Disaster
I've been thinking about this all night: Eric Fehrnstrom's Etch A Sketch gaffe yesterday may go well beyond a momentary embarrassment and become a campaign-defining disaster, much as John Kerry's "I voted for it before I voted against it" gaffe — which came at almost exactly the same point in that campaign, as Kerry locked down the nomination — was in 2004.
"Million Hoodie March" in New York Rallies Support for Trayvon Martin
Hundreds marched through the streets of New York City on Wednesday night in memory of and to protest the death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin, in what organizers called the "Million Hoodie March."
The march began in Manhattan's Union Square, where a rally in support of Martin had taken place. Martin's father Tracy Martin and mother Sybrina Fulton, in New York for interviews with major media outlets, made an appearance at the rally to thank the crowd for its enthusiasm.
