Day: February 17, 2014
S.C. Has Most Black Candidates Running for Statewide Office Since Reconstruction
7
The number of African-American candidates running for South Carolina statewide office in 2014. “Some could be eliminated in June’s primary elections, but it appears at least three black candidates will make it to November’s general election,” The State reports. “South Carolina also is assured to elect its first African-American candidate in a statewide race since Reconstruction in one U.S. Senate race, where all three of the announced candidates are black.”
Off, Not Down!
When the car next door’s music’s real loud, it’s no fun.
But for some people it can be too much, like Michael Dunn.
For him, the best volume control
That has ever been sold
Is an easy-to-operate mechanism called a gun.
The List of What Young Black Males Can’t Do Grows Longer
When I saw this sobering warning from Twitter about an image related to the trial of Michael Dunn, the man who fired 10 shots into a vehicle occupied by four black male teenagers, killing one, 17-year-old Jordan Davis, I steeled myself for the worst. I do the same when I suspect I am about to see something that’s going to stay with me, like a tale of horror visited upon an animal.
I braced myself as much as I could, deciding it might be worth the psychic damage, and clicked, “View photo.” Here’s what appeared.
