Moving 1982 Andrew Malcolm story about a kid on the Titanic http://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/16/us/titanic-survivor-joins-a-lost-father.html

Amy +100

Bonita Tindle, the cultural appropriation fascist who committed battery and unlawful detention on Cory Goldstein for having the unspeakable gall to wear dreadlocks, has broken her silence. At least, to comment on the incident on Facebook.

For those of you not on Facebook, here is Bonita "Bita" Tindle's statement.

Over the past few weeks, America has held discussions about my personal Black experience, dancing between their own definitions of right and wrong. Over the past few weeks I had to move from my home, change my cell phone number, and disable social media accounts. On March 28, 2016, a viral video was released that intentionally does not capture the full context of an encounter. While passing out flyers in Malcolm X plaza, I saw a white male approaching with dreads. Triggered, I unconsciously move my arm holding the flyer further. He does not approach me to receive a flyer and continues on to his destination. Attempting to react to what triggered me, I jokingly say in a quiet voice "Not with that hair" in the opposite direction of him. My intention was to collegially provoke thought within the man to critically think about his dreads and the racial implications it has as a non-Black person. During the entire incident including what was caught in the viral video, he never refers to the flyer, which he later would intentionally report to the police in order to create a "hate crime" narrative over the flyer. Rather, he then verbally assaults me. He called me a “Bitch.” As a black woman, verbal assault by men comes easily as women are dehumanized, objectified, and over-sexualized by them. I look for the man, going into the building, naturally, to confront him about the verbal slur, tired of being silent. Tired of being docile. I asked him "Did you call me a bitch?" He denied having called me a “Bitch." He then asked me why I said that about his hair.

What was recorded was chopped and edited by the White male [Austin King] who captured part of the event on his cell phone. The White male student's motivation is suspect in that it does not come as an objective point of view, by his own divisive word choice of “assault” (in the title of the video when posted), in order to incite controversy by framing me as the stereotype of the "Angry Black Woman" and the man in the video as a fragile white victim. He selectively edits only a portion of the encounter that contrives to cast an impression of unprovoked aggression on my part. He says in his interview that he deliberately roams around campus looking for encounters to record on his cell phone. In the video, the conversation between the white male with dreads and I was intended to be a learned opportunity. My facial expressions were never negative nor was my body language. His body language was already energetic. The male had the opportunity to try to explain to me how I should think about my space and existence as a Black person. He dismissed any consideration that I was making a valid point about White appropriation of Black culture. After, he begins to walk away. I tried to continue to talk to him. It frustrated me that I didn’t get the opportunity to have a voice. He touches me first. He touches me first (at 0.19 seconds). He places his hand on my arm to move me away to leave from the conversation. You can see this nineteen seconds into the video. I naturally respond back with touch. I nonviolently place my open hand on his shoulder. I nonviolently pull on his arm, urging him to come back to the conversation. It has not been legally deemed assault.

You can tell me that the decisions I made are right or wrong but what we need to focus on is the wrong in the response to the video. In the aftermath, I have been the subject of violence in the form of death threats, rape threats, sexual harassment, and anti-Black hate speech. Davia (David) Spain has received homophobic slurs, death threats, hate mail, and the release of their personal information although they did not take part in the incident. Further, the racist and misogynistic vendetta against me has resulted in my own personal information including home address, phone number, social media accounts, places of employment and other details about my private life leaked and mass distributed on YouTube comments, Facebook posts, and other Internet forums. To protect myself, I had to move from my house, change my cell phone number, disable my social media accounts, and have had to withdraw into a secured location in order to maintain my safety. In the process, my academic success, current work for my community, and future employment opportunities have been jeopardized. The countless hate mail, death threats, and disregard to my safety should not be the result of this video. No one deserves this compromise. There is a history of vilifying black women, there exists the stereotypical narrative of an angry black woman through out history. There is a reason that this particular video garnered millions of views. A black woman is portrayed as the aggressor and the white counterpart is portrayed as the victim. The language used to describe the video is suspect. "Black assaults and attacks white" is harsh and does not deem the video of a justly cause. What the encounter can be described as is a nonviolent physical encounter between two students. It saddens to see this kind of hate in response. It saddens me that some people can't or choose not to understand my level of growth in regard to my culture and my blackness. The amount of ethnic studies class one takes doesn't invalidate their personal black experience. The amount of books one reads doesn't invalidate their personal black experience. There is no hierarchy to being aware of ones self and ones blackness. What I did was my personal choice that shouldn't be receiving this kind of uproar. I do believe in personal rights and freedom of expression. That should never be smothered. What I don't believe in is the participation of other cultures without any understanding of such culture and the narratives that the people of that culture experience, have it be positive or negative. These narratives of Black culture with physical appearance intertwined exists. I am a part of that narrative. A 46 second video should not define my character, myself as a person, myself as a human being.

Oh, George, where do I start?

In an interview with BigBoyTV, the 54-year-old comedian said he’d endorsed the Vermont senator for president, but also said he doesn’t want to pay any more in taxes. Sanders is the only candidate in the race whose tax plan raises rates on practically all Americans, and not just the rich.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2016/04/13/george-lopez-endorses-bernie-sanders-but-cant-pay-any-more-taxes/

Someone has to pay for all the free stuff, George. And you have more money than I do, so feel free to share with me. Or our lovely hostess.

A 46 second video should not define my character, myself as a person, myself as a human being.

Keep that in mind, Ms. Tindle, when a video of a cop turns up that makes it look like s/he's the worst person in the world.

Oh, right, white privilege. My mistake.

Lightening things up a bit: A tale of a daring escape by a clever captive.

DC is making a direct to video animated movie based on the Batman graphic novel The Killing Joke.

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/04/14/batman-killing-joke-animated-rated-r

As predicted, nobody bats (ha!) and eye on what happens to Commissioner Gordon, but are up in arms to what happens to Barbara Gordon (batgirl).

Hmmm...dogs are better at spotting cheese and sausage in your luggage than contraband? who knew?

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/airport-sniffer-dogs-failing-to-spot-class-a-drugs-but-finding-plenty-of-cheese-and-sausages-a3225026.html

A fellow named Marco had a nice little business of his own, hosting other people's web sites.

Now he doesn't, because OH SHIT! YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING! OH SHIT!

There is a moral here, but I wouldn't talk about it, at least not around Marco.

That darned Pope, meddling in American affairs again.

"For those of you not on Facebook, here is Bonita "Bita" Tindle's statement."

A defining characteristic of the borderline personality: Never say/write ten words when 5000 will do.

Regarding Marco: "rm -rf /" is a classic in Unix lore. (For those who don't know, what it does is delete every single file on all disks mounted in the file system.) Moral: Command line interfaces are powerful. And sometimes dangerous. Back in my cub software-engineer days, I leaned my operating system chops on something called Data General RDOS. Its command line interpreter had a command called "INIT". Normally you used this command to mount a disk -- bring it online so you could use it. But if you added the F option, as in "INIT/F", it reformatted the disk. Nobody stopped to consider that overloading two things, one function that was routine and one that was seldom used and destructive, onto the same command name, might not be a great idea. Among the Data General users' groups, stories were legion.

There is a moral here, but I wouldn't talk about it, at least not around Marco.

Four morals:

1. slow and steady wins the race.

2. test your code on a machine (virtual or otherwise) that if it gets wiped out you'll be happy it was just that machine.

3. Have backups.

4. Check that you can restore your backups.

Just remember: God, root, what is difference?

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19981111

The survey was interpreted by the former head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission Trevor Phillips.
He said: “The integration of Britain’s Muslims will probably be the hardest task we’ve ever faced.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/04/10/half-of-british-muslims-want-gay-sex-banned-says-poll/

Bondage porn and sea monkeys.

Now with more lawyers!