14 year-old Ahmed Mohamed was arrested in Texas for bringing a home-made clock to school. Civilized Americans are rallying to his defense on Twitter under the #IStandWithAhmed hashtag.
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From The New Yorker: A twenty-year-old man who had been watching the Boston Marathon had his body torn into by the force of a bomb. He wasn’t alone; a hundred and seventy-six people were injured and three were killed. But he was the only one who, while in the hospital…
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Sunil Tripathi and his mother, Judy Tripathi. Brown University student Sunil Tripathi (right) was at one point accused by Reddit users of being a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, despite no evidence. From NBCNews: “It’s had a huge cost on our family. We are all very depleted right now,…
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From The Dallas Observer: To spot the difference, you’ll have to go to building 18, where all but one unit is leased to renters of Middle Eastern or South Asian descent. Most of the other buildings have none. The federal government thinks this is by design. According to a lawsuit…
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From The Micro Aggressions Project: The thing is: people actually had jumped to conclusions, fueling both suspicion and violence across the country. Multiple social networks and communities on the internet began to conduct their own searches for suspects in photographs. Most of these “suspects” turned out to be brown people…
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From Mother Jones: Yes, the president does have the authority to use military force against American citizens on US soil—but only in “an extraordinary circumstance,” Attorney General Eric Holder said in a letter to Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) Tuesday. “The U.S. Attorney General’s refusal to rule out the possibility of…
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There’s not much to say, other than to acknowledge that today conjures ups a myriad of emotions, personally and politically. But rather than launch into a narrative about “where I was” when it all happened, I’ll just request that folks quietly reflect and contemplate the narrative of this nation over…
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