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farminator3000

(2,117 posts)
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 04:58 PM Feb 2013

no 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. Ja’Vese 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 didn’t 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 don’t 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!



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no title for this thread, the news itself is...i really can't find the words... (Original Post) farminator3000 Feb 2013 OP
i even checked the thesaurus- the only word is thought-provoking... farminator3000 Feb 2013 #1
he's working on another one about LGBT people in Africa farminator3000 Feb 2013 #2

farminator3000

(2,117 posts)
1. i even checked the thesaurus- the only word is thought-provoking...
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 05:25 PM
Feb 2013

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?

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