Two janitors found a girl's body at a Texas high school.
One was Black, one was white. An officer looked at both of them and said: one of you two is going to hang for this.
Then he turned to the Black man and said, you're the one — you're elected.
Clarence Brandley. Conroe, Texas, 1980.
He was convicted and sentenced to death. He came within days of execution twice.
It fell apart slowly: witnesses recanted, saying they had been pressured. Evidence had gone missing. A judge who reviewed the case wrote that in his entire career he had never seen a more shocking disregard for fundamental rights.
He was released in 1990 after nearly a decade on death row.
Texas never paid him. He fought for compensation for years and got a fraction of what the law allowed, late.
He died in 2018.
The officer told him he was elected. He was right — that was exactly how it worked, and the man said it out loud at the start
Clarence Brandley spent nearly a decade on death row because someone had already decided what his fate would be.
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No I refuse to do this. The movie took some genuinely very intriguing source material that was commentary on what humanity would be willing to sacrifice to overcome a viral outbreak and what people would do in an apocalyptic world and turned it into “Look how cool Israel is”.
my goal w the ucla student encampments was to show you how different the reality on the ground was from the way the media was framing it. the la protests are the same. it feels chaotic from afar. but the protesters are your neighbors. the threat is ice. the threat is the police.
American military police tried to impose a colour bar on an English village in 1943.
The village's three pubs responded by putting up signs reading: BLACK TROOPS ONLY. Bamber Bridge, Lancashire.
Black American soldiers were stationed there and the locals liked them. When the US Army asked the village to segregate its pubs, the publicans complied in the most English way available — by barring the white Americans instead.
On the night of 24 June 1943, white American MPs came to arrest a Black soldier at Ye Olde Hob Inn for a uniform infraction. British civilians and British soldiers in the pub intervened and told them to leave him alone.
It escalated into a night of shooting between Black GIs and American MPs. One Black soldier, William Crossland, was killed.
Dozens were court-martialed. British witnesses testified about the MPs' conduct, and sentences were reduced. The US Army quietly reorganised how MPs were deployed in the area.
An English village looked at American segregation, understood it immediately, and refused to host it.
The pub is still there. The sign is part of local legend.
Highly recommend listening to this caller rip the Titans on @1025TheGame this morning.
"There's 30 NFL teams out there. Then there's 50 feet of horse manure. Then there's the Browns and the Titans."
Titans fans handling this well!
Malcolm X: "Stop that compromising sweet-talk. Tell them how you really feel. Let them know that if they're not ready to clean their house up, they shouldn't have a house. It should catch on fire—and burn down."
🗣️BLACK PEOPLE HAVE LESS POLITICAL POWER THAN WE DID IN THE 70s
And it’s because we’ve had a generation of deliberate misleadership by the “Black capitalists” appointed to replace our revolutionary Black leaders of the 60s
Lavender is an AI that Israel uses to kill Palestinians
It gives kill scores based on multiple data points
At a 70, they will kill you, and at an 85, they will blow up your entire block
They are now giving out kill scores to American citizens on Twitter
I'm at a firm 88
Your first NFL touchdown coming with the game on the line and sealing the win for your team… that’s something you’ll never forget. Darius Cooper picked the perfect time for his first one🦅 #FlyEaglesFly
It looks like tech oligarchs and their politicians have built the entire U.S. economy on top of a massive AI Ponzi scheme - which, if history is a guide, will likely end up with the government and billionaires creating yet another bailout scheme that robs the poor.
Pass it on.
The "Daily Wire" (or Online Der Strümer) is producing fantasy films and delusional scenarios to manufacture anti-Muslim / anti-Palestinian sentiment. IN REALITY (not Zio fiction) the only entity who throw people off rooftops in Palestine is Israel's "idf".
📍Jenin, Sept 20, 2024