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""Through most of American history, the Court has usually refused to impose constitutional checks on police or to provide adequate remedies for police misconduct. Instead, it has created a series of legal rules that fail to protect citizens' constitutional rights and that facilitate and even encourage racist policing." (pg. 31)
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Los Angeles vs. Lyons 1963
Terry vs. Ohio 1968" — Mar 28, 2024 07:52PM
""Through most of American history, the Court has usually refused to impose constitutional checks on police or to provide adequate remedies for police misconduct. Instead, it has created a series of legal rules that fail to protect citizens' constitutional rights and that facilitate and even encourage racist policing." (pg. 31)
I'm learning so much about law and history.
Los Angeles vs. Lyons 1963
Terry vs. Ohio 1968" — Mar 28, 2024 07:52PM
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"Increase of German Jews w/ deal of Nazi Germany. Increased discrimination/oppression of Palestinians. British occupancy teamed up with Zionists— knew land and Palestinians intimately. Intelligent services established -> mass killings and suppression of Palestinians. They tried to rebel but British and Zionists suppressed them. British turned blind eye when there was imports of arms to Israel." — Jun 09, 2021 05:28PM
"Increase of German Jews w/ deal of Nazi Germany. Increased discrimination/oppression of Palestinians. British occupancy teamed up with Zionists— knew land and Palestinians intimately. Intelligent services established -> mass killings and suppression of Palestinians. They tried to rebel but British and Zionists suppressed them. British turned blind eye when there was imports of arms to Israel." — Jun 09, 2021 05:28PM
“He wasn't anybody's n*****. And that's a crime, in this fucking free country. You're suppose to be somebody's n*****. And if you're nobody's n*****, you're a bad n*****...”
― If Beale Street Could Talk
― If Beale Street Could Talk
“The world sees what it wishes to see, or, when the chips are down, what you tell it to see: it does not wish to see who, or what, or why you are.”
― If Beale Street Could Talk
― If Beale Street Could Talk
“Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.”
― If Beale Street Could Talk
― If Beale Street Could Talk
“We "exported workers" had shut ourselves away in our boxlike rooms, savoring our homesickness, fermenting in our own sadness.”
― Paradise of the Blind
― Paradise of the Blind
“I remember my first winter in Russia. The bitter cold that singed my ears, crept into my gloves, tightened around my body like a vise. I can still see the road to the textile factory, the deep banks of snow heaped up in front of the bus stations. I remember the exhaustion, the hours hunched over the machines, trudging back to the residence, in the snow, numb with cold, still shaking from the jolt of the machines, choking on the smoke and the dust.
After days like that, our evening meal was like a benediction. We calculated the price of everything--butter, cheese, meat--leaving ourselves just enough to keep going, to keep from falling on our faces in the snow. The rest was always for our families.”
― Paradise of the Blind
After days like that, our evening meal was like a benediction. We calculated the price of everything--butter, cheese, meat--leaving ourselves just enough to keep going, to keep from falling on our faces in the snow. The rest was always for our families.”
― Paradise of the Blind
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