The Unlucky 13th: Liberalizing the Extreme

The Unlucky 13th: Liberalizing the ExtremeJared A. Ball originally for imixwhatilike.org “Fuck everyone.  Burn everything.” – De La Soul, “Lord Intended,” The Anonymous Nobody My initial reaction to seeing 13th was that it puts very establishment thinkers and analyses to issues, histories and conditions which need radical, revolutionary, extreme responses.  13th may make a few obligatory…

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Fruitvale Station is Sadly Fruitless

 “I was worried about the police… Call it a father’s intuition… In the past, you could hang a black man from a tree and nothing would happen.  Now, the same thing happened to Oscar Grant. It’s the same mentality. It hasn’t changed.  Why is it always a white officer killing a black or brown youth…

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