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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsno title for this thread, the news itself is...i really can't find the words...
edit#2: if anyone wants to go for it with a title, go ahead, 1st amendment and all
he certainly has a flair for the, um, visual. might be a good movie.
edit#3:thanks for the edit whomever did that, wasn't quite sure what to do with this one...
too many um, 'words' to post in the title!
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2013/02/07/Man-wears-KKK-outfit-to-dramatize-crime/UPI-45631360220495/
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edit: Black Filmmaker Wears KKK Hood to Draw Attention to Black Violence
King is also the producer of Mothers of No Tomorrow, a documentary chronicling the lives of three mothers whose sons were murdered. JaVese Phelps-Washington is one of them.
CBS Philly reports:
Phelps-Washington rallied with King. Her son, Christopher, was among the 324 murdered in Philadelphia in 2011. Police say 85 percent of those killed that year were Black.
Phelps-Washington is part of a documentary King recently produced about Black-on-Black crime.
King told me he didnt intend to offend anyone. When asked if he thinks standing on the corner in a KKK outfit will really make a difference, King said, I dont think it will stop someone from killing. But hopefully, it would make that person think.
http://www.bet.com/news/national/2013/02/07/african-american-man-wears-kkk-hood-to-bring-awareness-to-black-on-black-crime.html
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the video: (warning @ 0:57. he speaks. in costume!)
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/02/06/african-american-dressed-in-kkk-hood-on-street-corner-sparks-controversy-in-philadelphia/
he wants to spread his message...
first thing like this I'VE ever seen...
i do want to see his movie now!
farminator3000
(2,117 posts)what i learned from this:
think before you speak. and then speak very directly!
edit: i think he's getting at the concept of:
"a thought that remains unspoken is..."
if anybody wants to finish that?
i googled: thought unspoken, and this was 3rd!
Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent, and instinctive; it is, above all,
necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers life would become a
mere syllogism, and hence too metallic to be borne. ( H. L. Mencken, 1924 , p. 277)
http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dtg/Gilbert%20et%20al%20%28THOUGHTS%20UNSPOKEN%29.pdf
edit#2: "a thought that remains unspoken is a lie"- did i just invent that?