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On #Trayvon and Us
In a nest made of a pretty little river, a dozen or so golf courses and several lakes that are best kept secrets, the place of my becoming exists. For twelve years, I lived two minutes outside of...
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White Girl Looking In: Reflections on Race After the Trayvon Martin Verdict
When I was in college, a black friend of a friend said to me, You will never understand because you are not black. You are just looking in. I remember her words, I remember the house where she spoke...
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A Note to a Young Friend about the Trayvon Martin Killing
The following note in italics appeared in a thread on my Facebook wall after I posted the “Not Guilty” verdict in George Zimmerman’s trial. It’s from a young lady who is a former neighbor whom I’ve...
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From Emmett to Trayvon
When I heard the George Zimmerman verdict, I sat in my living room in silence, watching the coverage for hours until it was all repeats of comments and clips that had run earlier. I was stunned, but...
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Women Approach Danger Differently: If Trayvon Martin & George Zimmerman Had...
If Trayvon Martin had been a woman, he would not have been on the phone as he walked on the night he was killed. Women know not to appear distracted as we walk alone at night. He would have had his...
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Fear and Loathing, Gender-Free
In the past seven days or so, a series of decisions made by a state legislature, a state court and the United States House of Representatives, brought ineffable sadness to progressives in the United...
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Trayvon Martin & George Zimmerman: Labels Are Terrible Things to Waste
This week in a small courtroom in Sanford, Florida, George Zimmerman was cleared of the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and the charges that he was the cause of the tragic events that led up to...
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My Feminist Plea: Stop Protecting Me
Most days, I pride myself in being an early feminist. I subscribed to Ms. Magazine, I joined the National Organization for Women, I voted, and I sneered dutifully when a man tried to open a car door...
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Who Can Profile?
I cannot hold my virtual tongue any longer. I have seen countless comments on the dozens of blog posts I’ve read in connection with the George Zimmerman homicide case that make reference to the “fact”...
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6 Things You Need To Know Right Now: The Justice “Department”
The verdict in the George Zimmerman murder trial has received a lot of attention – duly so – throughout the media. The Broad Side has several excellent articles on the verdict and the reaction to it....
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6 Things You Need To Know Right Now: It’s A Secret!
If you’re able to leave your house without the threat of being spirited into an unmarked car by angry intelligence officials, you’re having a better day than Edward Snowden. He’s the 29-year-old fellow...
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Judge Debra Nelson: They Loved Her for the Zimmerman Trial Until They Hated Her
When Debra Nelson, the Florida state court judge in the trial of George Zimmerman for the death of Trayvon Martin, was named as the replacement for the first judge that Zimmerman’s defense team had...
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6 Things You Need To Know Right Now: It’s A Secret!
If you’re able to leave your house without the threat of being spirited into an unmarked car by angry intelligence officials, you’re having a better day than Edward Snowden. He’s the 29-year-old fellow...
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Judge Debra Nelson: They Loved Her for the Zimmerman Trial Until They Hated Her
When Debra Nelson, the Florida state court judge in the trial of George Zimmerman for the death of Trayvon Martin, was named as the replacement for the first judge that Zimmerman’s defense team had...
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On #Trayvon and Us
In a nest made of a pretty little river, a dozen or so golf courses and several lakes that are best kept secrets, the place of my becoming exists. For twelve years, I lived two minutes outside of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
White Girl Looking In: Reflections on Race After the Trayvon Martin Verdict
When I was in college, a black friend of a friend said to me, You will never understand because you are not black. You are just looking in. I remember her words, I remember the house where she spoke...
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A Note to a Young Friend about the Trayvon Martin Killing
The following note in italics appeared in a thread on my Facebook wall after I posted the “Not Guilty” verdict in George Zimmerman’s trial. It’s from a young lady who is a former neighbor whom I’ve...
View ArticleClik here to view.
From Emmett to Trayvon
When I heard the George Zimmerman verdict, I sat in my living room in silence, watching the coverage for hours until it was all repeats of comments and clips that had run earlier. I was stunned, but...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Women Approach Danger Differently: If Trayvon Martin & George Zimmerman Had...
If Trayvon Martin had been a woman, he would not have been on the phone as he walked on the night he was killed. Women know not to appear distracted as we walk alone at night. He would have had his...
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Fear and Loathing, Gender-Free
In the past seven days or so, a series of decisions made by a state legislature, a state court and the United States House of Representatives, brought ineffable sadness to progressives in the United...
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