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The dialogue here at the tGOS has become all sorts of heated, yet again, since the deaths of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, LA, Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, MN, and the murder of five police officers in Dallas, TX by Micah Xavier Johnson, a US...
by Chitown Kev
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on Sun Jul 10, 2016 at 05:15 AM PDT
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I'm a 50-year-old white man who lives in the northern suburbs of Dallas.
In the aftermath of yet another slew of murders of black men by the police I found myself trying to explain it to my teenage nephew.
He goes to school with enough blacks...
by Rick Aucoin
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on Sun Jul 10, 2016 at 12:20 AM PDT
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I’ll give you five reasons. 1 comments
on Sat Jul 09, 2016 at 05:50 PM PDT
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Even without clinical credentials in psychology, I think it's safe to say that clinical insanity is abnormal. I don't know if the Dallas police assassin was clinically insane or not, but I do know that his actions on their face do not define an...
by blackpete
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on Sat Jul 09, 2016 at 06:18 PM PDT
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Just a short note really, more than a comment. Less, in my opinion than a fully developed diary.
NPR, in their ever diminishing wisdom, has decided that the go-to guy for explaining just what Black Lives Matter is all about is none other than Ron...
by ItsSimpleSimon
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on Sat Jul 09, 2016 at 05:25 PM PDT
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The shooter, caught up in the emotions of victim-hood, thinks of himself as an avenging angel. He will right the wrongs while affixing purpose to his life, a life that has long since been loosed from its humanity.
Now, cocooned in the certitude of...
by Redmond Ryan
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on Sat Jul 09, 2016 at 04:58 PM PDT
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This is just breaking, so it will be brief, but I’ll update as it becomes available. About two hours ago, the Dallas PD locked the doors to police headquarters. Recently it has just been reported on NBC News and MSNBC indicating that the Dallas PD...
by Murfster35
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on Sat Jul 09, 2016 at 04:29 PM PDT
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Canary in the Bogside:
“Black Lives Matter,” more now, in the wake of the Dallas massacre, than ever before. For the years this movement has been growing, we see more and more viral videos showing cops who seem to jump to a violent conclusion rather...
by cooperostresh
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on Sat Jul 09, 2016 at 03:40 PM PDT
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Less Than 24 Hours After Dallas, Hillary Delivers One of the Most Important Speeches of the Election .
It's time to admit that Hillary Clinton is an underrated orator. While her delivery doesn't usually match the finesse and dynamics displayed in memorable speeches by her husband or President Obama, that's an unfair standard. Judged on her own...
by Scan
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on Sat Jul 09, 2016 at 12:55 PM PDT
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The week before Dallas………..
Two more innocent victims of police action. This sort of thing isn't new. Some years ago in a time well within my memory these stories might not have even made it into the back pages of the local newspaper. But today we...
by flatmotor
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on Sat Jul 09, 2016 at 12:00 PM PDT
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Dallas was tragic, just as tragic as the hundreds of murders by police of defenseless black folks and others. Therefore this event, (horrific as it is) should not however detract from the everyday reality of policing in this country. Micah Xavier...
by Mel Reeves
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on Sat Jul 09, 2016 at 10:41 AM PDT
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On the morning I felt compelled to write this commentary, I woke to the news that yet another Black man had been killed by a white police officer in Minnesota, just a day after a similar killing in Louisiana. The Minnesota shooting was live-streamed...
by eclift
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on Sat Jul 09, 2016 at 10:03 AM PDT
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If I drew a Venn diagram wherein one finite set was “police shooting citizens” and the other, significantly smaller one, was “citizens shooting police” the area of overlap would be “guns”. If the situation which occurred in Dallas upsets you, there’s...
by Raging Pencils
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on Sat Jul 09, 2016 at 09:41 AM PDT
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Yesterday, Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump had decent, respectful, non-inflammatory things to say about the murders in Dallas, unlike the Texas DA who apparently is intent on inflaming the situation into an open race war by suggesting that Black Lives...
by VirginiaLady
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on Sat Jul 09, 2016 at 08:07 AM PDT
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When my ex-wife and I lived in Lawrence, Kansas we lived behind the house where Langston Hughes lived as child. He lived with his grandmother most of his childhood in Lawrence. I thought of him today when I saw this posted tweet in DailyKos:
I...
by ArkansasJoseph
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on Sat Jul 09, 2016 at 08:11 AM PDT
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Facebook. Sometimes it’s a load of garbage. In times like this, maybe less so. Once in a while, you read something so powerful, you just have to share it with everybody. This piece was written yesterday by a gentleman named Peter Birkenhead. He posted...
by TheGreatLeapForward
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on Sat Jul 09, 2016 at 07:34 AM PDT
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Clinton calls Dallas Mayor to offer support. Trump calls NYPD to offer photo op.
It was not widely reported, but Hillary Clinton quietly called Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings Friday to express her sympathy and solidarity, and to offer support, according...
by WildLilac
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on Sat Jul 09, 2016 at 09:58 AM PDT
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More people dead who didn’t need to be. Lots of words, little common ground. There are some baby steps coming from some on the right, but there are divides here not easily bridged: black — white — blue, right — left and so on. And guns. So many guns.
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by xaxnar
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on Sat Jul 09, 2016 at 05:50 PM PDT
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I would like to tell a story about my heritage. For whatever reason, my father’s mother and my mother have done much research into our family history. Therefore, I know that one of my great-grandfathers was named after Abraham Lincoln, and another...
by TonyCV
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on Sat Jul 09, 2016 at 01:07 AM PDT
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On today's BradCast, guest hosted by Angie Coiro, we look at the aftermath of the killings of five police officers in Dallas. Even something this shattering can't break the flow of hatred from some sources. Give an ear to Texas Lt. Governor Dan...
by TheBradBlog
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on Fri Jul 08, 2016 at 11:22 PM PDT
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