Healing Black Trauma Needs Universal Health Care Health
I remember the sound of the glass shattering breaking our grief the day a family member pushed me out of a window. When we were high school students, we were both used to physical violence, fighting hard, which often left me bruised.
The language of the #MeToo movement helped me understand that the sexual trauma I experienced in my childhood was another type of violence. An adult in my life didn’t force me, but he often masturbated in front of me. Given my limited understanding of the motivations of abuse and mental conditions, I concluded that I deserved what was happening to me when I was an 11-year-old child. I imagined that if I was stronger, I could stop everything. I could win the physical fight against my physique, and say “no, it’s wrong” to the sex abuser in my life.
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Don’t Blame Foster Care
The system has flaws, but Ma’Khia Bryant’s problems began long before she entered it. Min
When it became clear that even the most sympathetic observers would have a hard time blaming the police for the death of Ma’Khia Bryant whom an officer shot and killed as she was about to stab another girl with a knife activists instead turned their ire on the foster care system.
Bryant was living with her sister in what was apparently a neglectful, and possibly violent, foster home at the time of her death. Indeed, the fight she was engaged in when she was shot may have involved a former resident at the home; one report claims that the foster mother may have even asked the other girl to fight Bryant. Since 2018, according to records obtained by the
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Don’t Blame Foster Care The system has flaws, but Ma’Khia Bryant’s problems began long before she entered it.
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The Social Order
When it became clear that even the most sympathetic observers would have a hard time blaming the police for the death of Ma’Khia Bryant whom an officer shot and killed as she was about to stab another girl with a knife activists instead turned their ire on the foster care system.
Bryant was living with her sister in what was apparently a neglectful, and possibly violent, foster home at the time of her death. Indeed, the fight she was engaged in when she was shot may have involved a former resident at the home; one report claims that the foster mother may have even asked the other girl to fight Bryant. Since 2018, according to records obtained by the
“Eddie” begins with Whoopi Goldberg playing a limousine dispatcher who does a play-by-play of Knicks games over the radio to her drivers. It ends with Whoopi as the coach of the New York Knicks, who are headed for the NBA playoffs.
This sounds like a sensational scenario, but, alas, almost everything in between is recycled out of lightweight sports-movie cliches, and the movie never captures the electricity and excitement of the real NBA. Goldberg plays Eddie, a vocal, demonstrative superfan whose seats are in the nosebleed section but who captures the eye of Wild Bill Burgess (Frank Langella), a flamboyant Texan who has just bought the Knicks. Wild Bill, who introduces himself to the fans in Madison Square Garden by riding onto the court on a horse wearing basketball shoes, is a student of the bottom line. He wants his coach (Dennis Farina) to showboat a little more, but Farina says he s no cheerleader, and quits. Wild Bill has already seen something of Eddie (she was his limo
[shouting [bleep] she has been called mom of the year some say toya gram is no hero at all. we will analyze that. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. this special edition of the factor baltimore the next chapter begins right now. pleasure hi, i m juan williams, thanks for watching this special edition of the factor baltimore the next chapter. we begin with breaking news. you are looking at the streets of baltimore tonight, hours after charges were filed against all six officers involved in the death of freddie gray. charges ranging from second degree murder to involuntary manslaughter false imprisonment and assault. baltimore city states attorney marilyn mosby laid it out saying there was no probable cause to arrest freddie gray that the knife he had was legal under maryland law and the police failed to get gray medical attention. the manner of death deemed a homicide by the maryland state medical examiner is believed to be the result of a fatal injury th