The cover of Time Magazine...

[one_voice]

[sheshe2]

1. What has changed?

Not one damn thing!

[rhett o rick]

2. I hate to but I must disagree. The local police have militarized. It's much worse now.

In 1968 they had fire hoses and dogs. Now they are shooting black males in the back with impunity or breaking their spines.

[sheshe2]

8. True. That is a fact, rhett.

They are much worse now than in 1968. It is the hate that has not changed, just the tactics. Correct,

The local police have militarized.

It needs to end. Black people matter. The shots in the back, the chocking a man to death of Eric...



Daughter of #EricGarner lies down for 11 mins in the same spot where cops murdered her father. #ICanTears~

If we step back in time, the Klan had rope as well and they sure knew how to use it. It is hard for me to talk about the hangings, I have not posted some articles because of it. My brother, he hung himself. I had nightmares for over a year.

Thank you rhett.

[rhett o rick]

17. I am truly sorry about your brother. I am not surprised about the nightmares.

Keep fighting.

[brer cat]

19. So many triggers, sheshe.

I am so sorry about your brother.

[heaven05]

51. my respect and condolences

I don't know how you feel, but I do know it's difficult whenever the thought of the sibling comes up.

[Ms. Toad]

12. So help slow down the militarization.

http://fconl.capwiz.com/fconl/issues/bills/?bill=64204806

HR 1232: To amend title 10, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Defense to make certain limitations on the transfer of personal property to Federal and State agencies, and for other purposes.

http://fconl.capwiz.com/fconl/issues/bills/?bill=63317371

S 2904 This bill would impose new regulations on the 1033 program and prevent some kinds of equipment from being transferred to local police departments. It would also restrict block grants that can be used to purchase military-grade weapons.

http://fconl.capwiz.com/fconl/issues/bills/?bill=63317351

HR 5478 This bill would impose new regulations on the 1033 program and prevent some kinds of equipment from being transferred to local police departments.

The "take action" on the house link provides draft talking points that you can modify to use at the senate "take action" link, and the second house "take action" link.

Its not a comprehensive solution, but it is a start - and the bills have bipartisan support so they have a chance of going somewhere. (All three have been referred to the respective Armed Services Committees)

[rhett o rick]

15. Thank you very much. I will definitely take action. nm

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. Yes, I agree....n/t

[Jackpine Radical]

36. My memory differs a bit…

1968

Madison



Kent State

[rhett o rick]

37. I believe that was the National Guard. Now the local police have all that and

much, much more.

[Jackpine Radical]

38. Yes, it was the Guard.

But we also faced phalanxes of helmeted, visored cops with clubs & pepper gas.

It was kinda interesting dealing with the Guard, BTW. The NG in those days was filled with guys with connections avoiding the draft. At that time (1969), I was back from Vietnam and in the antiwar movement. So I, a veteran, was struggling for peace against a bunch of draft dodgers armed with M-14s, grenade launchers, and bayonets, who were trying to deny me the right to protest the war they were avoiding.

[rhett o rick]

39. The real warriors were fighting for peace against the draft dodgers. Well put. nm

[Jackpine Radical]

40. Here's what the cops looked like back then:

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[malthaussen]

21. The police have better armor now.

Check out film of Chicago in '68.

-- Mal

[appalachiablue]

3. Sad but true TIME cover on Baltimore, great city. Shame on this country X 1,000,000

[tblue37]

4. Reminds me of the one man in a blue shirt and dreads, hands in the air,

facing a line of armed-to-the-teeth cops in Ferguson. They have us outnumbered and decidedly outarmed. These are clearly images of a fascist police state.

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. What's changed: Then LBJ spoke out against racism after the riots.

Racism and discrimination were found to be the understandable cause of riots and destruction.

A lot more fucks were given then, basically, and now, all are too busy trying to excuse police brutality and blame the victims or watch in horror as the inevitable happens. When the inevitable happens, they "tsk tsk" over "thugs an criminals." Lather, rinse, repeat. We've gone backwards to well before 1968.

[Dragonfli]

6. Imagine if LBJ called them thugs instead? /nt

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. From a post I read and responded to earlier...

we'd apparently have to agree that it was appropriate.

[Dragonfli]

9. I still believe LBJ got it right, not wrong

Just goes to show how old I am with my antiquated notions.

I just don't make a very good pragmatic modern civil rights champion like our esteemed President.

Maybe the feds need to send in more war equipment to deal with the abused and impoverished minority com.. , er i mean thug communities.
That sounds modern AND pragmatic.

[seveneyes]

10. Crime still does not pay in a positive direction?

If nothing else between then and now, this must certainly must remain a constant?

[truebluegreen]

16. Seems to me crime can pay just fine if you are not

black and poor to begin with. Look at Wall Street, look at Big Oil, look at serial polluters, look at the likes of Monsanto and Big Pharma. Their crimes against people, humanity and the earth pay them handsomely; the rest of us not so much.

[ronnie624]

28. *

[heaven05]

52. +1000

nice comeback

[ChisolmTrailDem]

11. That's an amazing image. I hear an amateur photographer got this shot. Nice work. nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. Photographer is a Baltimore resident, btw...

says Time.

[Agschmid]

18. He was on MSNBC today... interesting conversation about what he got paid for the photo.

[justiceischeap]

23. Do tell. I'm actually surprised they offered him payment

How much?

[Agschmid]

24. I don't think they did, but the MSNBC host (Roberts?) assumed they did.

[progressoid]

25. Seriously? They didn't pay him?

Time covers are generally in the $1500.00 - 3000.00 range.

[Agschmid]

26. Not sure I'll try to google the link later.

[progressoid]

27. Yeah, I gotta get back to work.

I'll peruse some photo sites later and see if it's mentioned anywhere.

[justiceischeap]

22. Here's an OP I created about him

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026590326

[Gothmog]

20. Very effective

[RecoveringJournalist]

29. Powerful!

K & R

[libdem4life]

30. I just got the symbolism of the broken neck. That's how slaves were murdered, except from a tree.

[Bucky]

41. a bit right, a bit wrong

The hangings intensified after slavery was ended, under the terrorism of Jim Crow.

But that said, the use of hanging from a tree goes way back to slavery days, when the murder of a rebellious slave was designed to be an example against all the other enslaved people from thinking about resistance to their oppression.

[libdem4life]

46. What's the wrong part? I'm just saying it's a pseudo hanging in 2015...a snapped neck.

[heaven05]

53. and yeah

they were left hanging there until they rotted, usually on the way to the fields that slaves worked from dawn till dusk....

[awoke_in_2003]

45. I am not seeing the symbolism in the pic...

can you clue me in?

[libdem4life]

47. Sure. Negro...hanging Black Man...broken neck Same ritualistic (IMHO) act of racist murder.

[awoke_in_2003]

48. I thought you meant...

there was something in the cover photo symbolizing the broken neck. In the photo I can see symbolism of a lynch mob (a bunch of white people coming after a black man).

[libdem4life]

49. No...The act of hanging Negroes just for the hell of it...redux..,..21st Century version.

[awoke_in_2003]

50. Got you now

Sorry for the confusion. I hope, like the news reports that showed white Americans what was going on during civil rights marches, that camera phones finally wake people the hell up to what has been going on in black communities for years. It has to stop, and we may be at a breaking point thanks to technology. I hope I am right.

[nadinbrzezinski]

31. One reason why at times I shoot black and white

we have made that point from time to time.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

32. Whoah. Look how threatened those cops are. They'd be crazy not to shoot that thug immediately.

[tclambert]

33. 2015 is so different from 1968. Those cops aren't shooting.

They're holding sticks, not M-16s. And where are the tanks?

[kimmylavin]

34. Going to have to check out this article.

I literally just finished a book by the author, David von Drehle, about the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.
Excellent read.

[kimmylavin]

35. Oh, he's the Editor-at-Large of Time...

Just read about him.
Going to have to check out his other books.

He sounds like an interesting man.

[raven mad]

42. I hate this. It's what hasn't changed that is so scary.

[pansypoo53219]

43. cops or occupation STORM troopers. + who is darth?

[davidpdx]

44. K & R

A good comparison.

[appalachiablue]

54. K&R. Very moving & painful cover. The ugly return of hate & brutality from progress & change.

[underpants]

55. Horrible form

Forearms should be parallel to the ground
Foot strikes should be flat - basically catching the ground as it passes. Much more efficient.
Heel strikes are very damaging on the bone structure
Shoulders should forward over top the foot strike.



Just kidding. Great pic.