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This is what the school walkouts looked like 

CNN | March 14, 2018

Across the United States, many students walked out of school Wednesday to say enough is enough with regards to gun violence.

The national school walkout started at 10 a.m. in each time zone and was scheduled to last for at least 17 minutes — one minute for each person killed in a school shooting that happened exactly one month ago in Parkland, Florida.

More than 2,500 walkouts were planned across the country, according to Empower, the youth branch of the Women’s March that has been organizing the event.

Participants called for stricter gun laws as they also remembered the people who lost their lives in Parkland.

Many schools accommodated the demonstration. Others didn’t allow it, encouraging students to express themselves in ways other than walking out.

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Ghost Busted: The Rac-is-t Return

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Lynching is back. Literally in the current FBI case here in Seattle of a young Muslim boy back in March, but also figuratively through symbolic scare tactics in the latest box office drama.

Hate crimes have been on the rise for quite some time with a rapid increase during the Obama administration and now reaching further boldness under this administration. And it seems when Southern states attempt to take one step forward to address hatred in a historical and current state, the unwavering minds of hateful individuals and groups bounce into action. The removal of Confederate memorialized statues and flags over the past few years is just the trigger needed to expose the ghost. In fact, this rendition of Ghost Busted is packed with drama and suspense, but lacks a sense of originality.

It plays out in New Orleans as the city moves to remove statues of Confederate leaders. Hoards of village people swarm to the relic to worship and call for its protection, tiki torches in hand. They fear the removal of their iconic leader may lead to the death of their ideology and possibly their existence. As they chant, "Heritage not hate," the ghost of white supremacy begins to take over their bodies. The movie turns into a sad, sappy series of empty apologies and “poor word choice” - blame the writers. I give it two potatoes for historical significance but take one away for the protagonist, Karl Oliver, Mississippi lawmaker.

 When you have so much build up of tiki toga parties on the lawn, masked construction workers, leaking of personal information, flaming social comment feeds, battle-between-the-clans mystery callers, and people literally losing their shit realizing facts, history and plain ol' southern hospitality is nothing like Mr. Jim Crow said it was; a lawmaker is calling for lynching of those removing a statue, then claiming “that’s not what he really meant.”

You could say someone needed a history lesson since his district has a long history of high profile lynchings of African Americans. The very African Americans these statues were suppose to intimidate into submission. But low and behold, his great Twitter war to protect American History. He says, "The destruction of these monuments, erected in the loving memory of our family and fellow Southern Americans, is both heinous and horrific. If the, and I use this term extremely loosely, "leadership" of Louisiana wishes to, in a Nazi-ish fashion, burn books or destroy historical monuments of OUR HISTORY, they should be LYNCHED! Let it be known, I will do all in my power to prevent this from happening in our State.” His family history also includes LYNCHING and that must also be protected - oh no sorry poor choice in words for the post-political correct era. I mean his family history must be protected as it represents what’s really really important - LIKES.

The message is clear: When you throw out “PC,” all you’re left with is your pure, unwavering racist self.

 Would I recommend this film to a friend? Nope.

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Girls With Dreams

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“Kamala Khan, now known by fans as Ms. Marvel, is the first super hero of her kind. She’s young, she’s from New Jersey, she speaks fluent Urdu, has a best friend that’s a fashion forward hijabi, and is a practicing Muslim.”

- This is How the Captain Marvel Movie Can Change Everything 

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Last week we took a guess at explaining how racism has changed over the years. But since neither of us were actually alive during the earlier "eras" of racism, we decided to go hear the perspective of someone who was. At a Seattle labor union event honoring a local pioneer of progress, we learned more about what racism was really like "back then." Music: www.bensound.com

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WE ARE SYNR

The recent US election has brought out more “casual” and “not so casual” discussions about about racial bias amongst Americans. One word remains the ultimate assault weapon for many in the battle for verbal victory; Racist. The goal of this podcast is create ideas for getting people to talk about racial bias without the lethal word that’s nearly become obsolete.

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This week, we're taking a look at one question that would be great to ask someone in order to start a productive conversation: How do you think racism has changed over the years, and would you define it differently now? We take a stab at answering it ourselves, and next week, we'll be venturing out to see what others have to say about it.