Yahoo News: Athletes at the University of Texas are using their positions to advocate for campus-wide change. In a letter posted Friday by numerous football players and other athletes across multiple sports at the school, the students said they want Texas to rename certain buildings across campus, add a black athletic history exhibit to the school’s athletic hall of fame and for UT to find a new song for athletes to sing in place of the “Eyes of Texas.” Until those changes are made, the athletes said they will participate in all required team activities to prep for the 2020 season but will sit out all “recruitment of incoming players or other alumni events.”
From that angle, it looks as if she put her shoulder “behind” the punch (adds strength + mass); that’s the way pro-boxers do it!
Just read this further down in the article, as said by Katie Marshall – a small woman with a big punch : “I believe that being Caucasian and living in this place of privilege, it’s my moral obligation to be there for the black community. My position now is not to lead anything. It’s to follow their lead and to lift up their voices. They’ve been silenced for so long and I just don’t think that we can go back to that anymore, and I don’t think that we ever should.”
Here’s the video of it… unfortunately only on facebook…
Fuck yeah!
A sundown town hosts a BLM protest for the first time:
Encouraging, but needs work.
Creative photography at home (might give this a try instead of a vacation):
But Greg Kihn still has no entry! Will the injustices never cease?
He really was in the first edition. Apparently everyone who recorded for Berserkley qualified.
Looks like person or persons will need to be flushed out of NOAA after the elections.
Eight years after the bill was enacted the final legal challenge to Australia’s plain packaging for tobacco laws has been thrown out. Previous challenges included the hilarious argument that plain packaging was unconstitutional because it was theft (of branding!). By way of explanation, all cigarettes here are required to be sold in a single colour packet (probably called “baby shit bronze”) and with a large picture of a tobacco-related health condition. It’s a bit like demented trading cards; “damn, I got gangrene today - I was looking for mouth cancer!”
The industry has been fighting this tooth and nail not because the Australian tobacco market is significant - it’s not - but for the precedent value. Having now exhausted the WTO process, other countries are free to do the same without fear of litigation.
Black cop fired after intervening on chokehold: I lost everything
Officials in Buffalo, New York, want an investigation into the firing of a black police officer who intervened when a white colleague had a suspect in a chokehold.
The incident happened in November 2006. At the time, Officer Cariol Horne had served 19 of the 20 years needed to receive her pension, a spokesperson for Horne told CNN.
But Horne was fired for intervening and [therefore] did not qualify for her pension, the city said. “The message was sent that you don’t cross that blue line and so some officers – many officers don’t,” said Horne in an interview with CNN’s Brianna Keilar.
Imagine what could happen in January if the Senate majority shifts:
Voting matters.
Especially from a brand with a friggin’ QUAKER as its emblem, this was way too long in coming.
Great news.
Got me wondering now about Uncle Tom’s, I mean Uncle Ben’s Rice.
Today I learned that Pepsi owns some of the biggest breakfast food brands and that candy company Mars owns Uncle Ben’s.
