Sandra Bland "would be alive today if she were a white woman," according to Bernie Sanders
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bernie-sanders-statement-sandra-bland
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
SANDRA AND SANDERS
Sandra Bland "would be alive today if she were a white woman," according to Bernie Sanders
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bernie-sanders-statement-sandra-bland
SANDRA BLAND CASE: TEXAS GRAND JURORS DECIDE NOT TO INDICT JAIL STAFF
...JUST BEFORE A MAJOR HOLIDAY
...AGAIN
Feeling Rebloggy
Again, the grand jurors refused to bring charges against the jail staff. However, I'm not that hopeful about a criminal case being brought against Officer Brian Encinia either --not in Texas.
But I am hoping that the 2017 civil case will bring the family some measure of Justice.
And while it's too much to hope that Black Lives Matter will be successful in breaking the police union's ability to blackmail cities into paying the entire bill for bad cops before Bland's civil case goes to court, I can hope that we can shine enough light on this case that Officer Brian Encinia becomes too much of liability to keep on the payroll.
By the way, it ain't magic that these cop killer cases keep going to court just before the holidays. The Eric Garner court decision of no indictment was handed down between Thanksgiving and Christmas, in the first week of December. The Mike Brown court decision, of no indictment, was very near Thanksgiving, on November 25 2014. And I tend to think that the "prosecutors" are going along with this timing. Now that I think about it, the first of the Freddie Gray Trials started between Thanksgiving and Christmas too; I wonder if the officers who beat Freddy Gray will just happen to be tried near the holidays in 2016.
The powers that be are getting a little smarter though. This time the grand jury for the Sandra Bland case came back out with their decision and we're only 4 days from Christmas instead of three weeks to a month out -- which decreases the chances multiple protests dramatically, doesn't it?
The one I really want to see in jail for his abuse of power is Officer Brian Encinia anyway. Yet that seems out of reach as well. I guess I'll pray on Christmas day that the special prosecutor manages to throw a Hail Mary in January 2016. A miracle is probably what it will take for Encinia to pay and cops across this nation to stop arresting people they don't like based on skin color, or not performing obedient slave behavior, or not performing demure female behavior.
...AGAIN
Feeling Rebloggy
Grand jurors in Texas declined on Monday to indict anyone in connection to the July death of a Chicago-area woman, Sandra Bland, who was found hanged in her cell at the Waller County jail, one of the special prosecutors assigned to the case said.
Many activists have called for charges against Brian Encinia, the Texas state trooper who arrested Ms. Bland after a routine traffic stop in Prairie View, northwest of Houston, turned contentious.
...Mr. Jordan, one of five special prosecutors in the case, [said] “The case is not over. That’s what I’m stressing right now. The case is not over.” [He] said Monday’s decision not to indict anyone related only to Ms. Bland’s death and to the conduct of the jail staff.
Again, the grand jurors refused to bring charges against the jail staff. However, I'm not that hopeful about a criminal case being brought against Officer Brian Encinia either --not in Texas.
But I am hoping that the 2017 civil case will bring the family some measure of Justice.
And while it's too much to hope that Black Lives Matter will be successful in breaking the police union's ability to blackmail cities into paying the entire bill for bad cops before Bland's civil case goes to court, I can hope that we can shine enough light on this case that Officer Brian Encinia becomes too much of liability to keep on the payroll.
By the way, it ain't magic that these cop killer cases keep going to court just before the holidays. The Eric Garner court decision of no indictment was handed down between Thanksgiving and Christmas, in the first week of December. The Mike Brown court decision, of no indictment, was very near Thanksgiving, on November 25 2014. And I tend to think that the "prosecutors" are going along with this timing. Now that I think about it, the first of the Freddie Gray Trials started between Thanksgiving and Christmas too; I wonder if the officers who beat Freddy Gray will just happen to be tried near the holidays in 2016.
The powers that be are getting a little smarter though. This time the grand jury for the Sandra Bland case came back out with their decision and we're only 4 days from Christmas instead of three weeks to a month out -- which decreases the chances multiple protests dramatically, doesn't it?
The one I really want to see in jail for his abuse of power is Officer Brian Encinia anyway. Yet that seems out of reach as well. I guess I'll pray on Christmas day that the special prosecutor manages to throw a Hail Mary in January 2016. A miracle is probably what it will take for Encinia to pay and cops across this nation to stop arresting people they don't like based on skin color, or not performing obedient slave behavior, or not performing demure female behavior.
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| SAY HER NAME SANDRA BLAND |
74 BLACK MEN ILLEGALLY FONDLED AND CAVITY SEARCHED BY POLICE GET SETTLEMENT
Edward Earl Wright says he was near his parked truck outside his mother’s house in Milwaukee after midnight when Officers Michael Vagnini, Jacob Knight, Jeffrey Cline, Gregory Kuspa and Jason Mucha stopped him and asked if he had drugs or guns.
When Wright said he did not, Vagnini allegedly accused the man of lying and began searching his truck without his consent.
“After searching Mr. Wright’s vehicle and finding nothing, Officer Vagnini put plastic gloves on his hands and reached inside Mr. Wright’s pants, grabbing and searching Mr. Wright’s genitalia; once again without Mr. Wright’s consent; without probable cause; and without a reasonable basis to do so,” the complaint states.
http://breakingbrown.com/2015/12/milwaukee-settles-74-black-men-say-illegally-fondled-cavity-searched-police/
The sexual assault charges were dropped, but it sounds to me that sexual assaults are exactly what happened to these men. That 26 month jail term is not long enough. More than that, the offending officers will not have the sexual offender tag on them for rest of their lives like they should have.
As a woman who has lived on this planet all her life, as a woman who has to maneuver the world so as not to be too far away from other human beings, especially at night, so as to avoid being raped, I can't help but think about how these male victims suddenly had the experience of being a female alone.
The assault described in the article wasn't about driving while black but that's the situation that immediately came to my mind. Driving While Black is exactly when a lot of black and brown citizens will find themselves alone with a white or white-passing police officer.
While black boys are taught to keep their hands on steering wheels and not move their hands to their pockets or glove compartment without asking the officer first should they be pulled over by police, too many black girls are NOT taught to avoid being pulled over in a dark, isolated area by a policeman. If a woman can continue, driving very slowly for a few blocks until she gets to a convenience store parking lot, a random home's driveway, or at least a bright street light she should. Holtzclaw isn't the only predator in a uniform.
And this case shows that black men, having lower social status, have one more reason to be mindful when being put in the position of being alone with police officers as well.
Outside of the prison setting, what happened in this case is likely the closest many heterosexual men will get to being raped. The power differential between rapist and rape victim is usually based on the social power difference between men and women. But in this case, the power differential was between white males as police officers and black male citizens.
The man who rapes women, the prison tough who rapes men new to prison, the white cop that violates black male citizens seem like to be of one mindset, yes? In the back of their minds there must be something like "I dominate and humiliate you to prove my power over you, to make myself feel bigger, more important."I can't help but wonder if some men -- the ones not so empathetic, not so aware of just how similarly the systems of sexism and racism operate-- will rethink their position on sexism and "false accusations of rape" if they read this article and identify with the black male victims who were violated in the article above.
Think about it. If there were 74 black male victims, then 60 to 70 or even 73 of them were disbelieved when they complained of being violated, right? Something like that, right? If that's not a rape culture experience, then I don't know what is.
So will men reading this article empathize with other men being violated more than they do women? Will the rarely true "false accusations of rape" be believed less if they read this article?
I hope so because even in the days right after slavery and post-reconstruction when the lynching of black men was probably at an all time high, 2/3rds of the time these black men were NOT lynched for rape. According to Ida B Wells, black men were lynched so that their property or a business could be stolen --if not for straight entertainment or white pride of course.
White men used the rape of white females as an excuse. White men put white female rape stories in their newspapers so as to make themselves look less animalistic and keep outside investors, in Europe and in the North, investing in the recovering South after the Civil War. And the remaining 1/3 of where there were rape accusations? Ida B Wells found interracial relationships, again being put forth by white men as "rape" in order to save face and/or destroy those relationships.
To me it's clear that false accusations of rape have always been something that one man says to another man to further his own agenda, using a woman as a shield. Furthermore, in wars since the beginning of time, men rape the other sides women to communicate something to the other men. The tendency of men to use rape and false accusations of rape seems raceless--- hence the defense of people like Bill Cosby and R. Kelly.
"United States’ rape statistics confirm that false reporting is the stuff of the fantastical, and that, in a deeply unsettling reality, men are indeed raping women in droves."
~ Latina Feminista
READ MOREhttp://www.theestablishment.co/2015/12/12/the-dangerous-ramifications-of-newsweeks-story-on-rape-accusations/
All of this should make it clear that racism isn't the only problem black people, including black men, face. Like a Alteria Gaston wrote in another article, "White Supremacist Capitalistic Patriarchy is the ideology that needs to be dismantled - NOT JUST RACISM. "
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A video for you. Just so you know just how easily you can wind up alone with a person willing to abuse their power. You'll never believe how easily the cop admits to why he pulled the black driver over.
(Another example of Slave Master Mentality)
DRIVING WHILE BLACK MUCH?
WELL, THERE'S AN APP FOR THAT!
see the link--> http://dwbtheapp.com/
Monday, December 21, 2015
AMANDLA STENBERG VOTED FEMINIST CELEBRITY OF THE YEAR
There's not a day that goes by where I do not wish 17-year-old Amandla Sternberg were my real life little sister. The Hunger Games actress has held it down for young Black feminists many times despite the public scrutiny she endures.
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| Mommy and daughter Amandla Stenberg |
For her efforts, Amandla was voted Feminist Celebrity of the Year in an online poll by the Ms. Foundation for Women.
Read more: http://theculture.forharriet.com/2015/12/amandla-stenberg-voted-feminist.html#ixzz3ujEsT0UG
See More: DON'T CASH CROP ON MY CORNROWShttp://thankherforsurviving.blogspot.com/2015/06/dont-cash-crop-on-my-cornrows-cultural.html
Sunday, December 20, 2015
BLACK TWITTER'S: EXPLAIN A FILM PLOT BADLY
Happy Friday
Read More:
http://blavity.com/black-twitter-got-a-hold-of-explainafilmplotbadly-and-hilarity-ensued/
Saturday, December 19, 2015
TRIAL DATE SET FOR SANDRA BLAND
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U.S. District Judge David Hittner set trial for Jan. 23, 2017, for the lawsuit filed by the family of Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old Chicago-area woman whose death July 13 was ruled by a medical examiner to be a suicide. Her family disputes the finding and is seeking unspecified damages from the Texas Department of Public Safety, the white state trooper who arrested her, Waller County and two jailers.
Cannon Lambert, the Bland family's lead attorney, told Hittner he couldn't accept the suicide finding - that she hung herself in her jail cell by using a plastic garbage bag as a ligature - because his legal team hasn't been able to examine the report of an investigation of the case by the Texas Rangers following Bland's death.
READ MORE:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/a-trial-date-has-been-set-in-sandra-blands-wrongful-death-suit_56741b4ee4b0b958f65641d9
10 WAYS I LOVE "BEING MARY JANE"
1. Mary Jane is human. That is...
-she's kind,
-she's gentle,
-she's a ride or die chick loyal but sometimes fails
-she's bossy,
-she loves hard but not stupid (for very long)
-she's judgmental,
-she's right,
-she's wrong,
-she vacillates and equivocates,
-and she walks softly and carries a big stick
to answer the front door at night (her baseball bat)
-AND when she's horny she's horny and she scratches that itch.
I know "being human" shouldn't be "a thing" But being black and female on three dimensional is so rare on television that it absolutely is "a thing."
2. Because of her character's job position as a television news personality, real life black current events can be introduced into the show via Mary Jane interviewing someone real like 'The Guerrilla Gardner.' He was actually a guest star and spoke on real issues.
3. Mary Jane, herself, is not always the most interesting character on the screen. Her friends and family are going through some stuff . And sometimes when they are handling things badly or when they are handling things well - divorce, depression, loss of custody of children- she, as the main character, has no answers. Sometimes Mary Jane is just there to listen. And when she does Mary Jane symbolically listens to black women (all women) everywhere.
4. When Mary Jane's niece talked about not being the right size or color to be attractive to black men, there was no neat Brady Bunch wrap up or conclusion-- just like real life. There was the niece coming to an ugly conclusion, bitter tears, hollow reassurances, and the scene ended on a down note-- just like real life. That made me unhappy at first. But it was so completely real, I couldn't really criticize it. I just couldn't.
5. Strong black woman doesn't live here, not in this series. Mary Jane hesitates when she should be moving. And sometimes she jumps ahead with her mouth when she should stop and think with her mouth in the closed position. And when people don't wind up being who she thinks they are, she cries and loses control.
I don't agree with all the conclusions and decisions the characters come to, but most everything in "Being Mary Jane" feels true to black female-hood to me. This series feels as ground breaking to me as the Mary Tyler Moore show was back in the 1970s.
CONCLUSION:
Shonda Rhimes and Kerry Washington have the political murders and melodrama thing going on
AND
Shonda Rhimes and Viola Davis have the ruthless murder mystery thing going on
BUT IT IS
Mara Brock Akil and Gabrielle Union that have created the most three dimensional black woman that television has ever seen. I feel like "Being Mary Jane" is televisoin history in the making. I'm hoping more people will see how special this series really is.
By the way, Gabrielle Union is wearing some kick@$$ dresses.
And there is such an eclectic selection of music being used in the series. It's not all black and female. But it is heavily female, quite a bit black, and some of the songs are from other countries.
I can't believed I passed on "Being Mary Jane" for so long. I know why I did though.
A) I skipped it because I'd heard about Mary Jane's first boyfriend and the whole thing sounded a little too Olivia Pope to me (And I was still mad at myself for getting hooked on Scandal in the first place.)
B) The first half of the pilot, "Being Mary Jane," the movie, seemed like it was going down stereotype lane with an ex-drug addict brother and a baby daddy chasing niece. But these two characters, only two among many supporting characters, jumped up, turned around and did a split into 3 dimensional characters that I actually value more than I thought I would.
So here I am
in the here and now.
I adore Mary Jane, her family, and her friends. And I can't wait to see what Mara Brock Akil, also the creator of "Girlfriends" does next.
I know "being human" shouldn't be "a thing" But being black and female on three dimensional is so rare on television that it absolutely is "a thing."
2. Because of her character's job position as a television news personality, real life black current events can be introduced into the show via Mary Jane interviewing someone real like 'The Guerrilla Gardner.' He was actually a guest star and spoke on real issues.
3. Mary Jane, herself, is not always the most interesting character on the screen. Her friends and family are going through some stuff . And sometimes when they are handling things badly or when they are handling things well - divorce, depression, loss of custody of children- she, as the main character, has no answers. Sometimes Mary Jane is just there to listen. And when she does Mary Jane symbolically listens to black women (all women) everywhere.
4. When Mary Jane's niece talked about not being the right size or color to be attractive to black men, there was no neat Brady Bunch wrap up or conclusion-- just like real life. There was the niece coming to an ugly conclusion, bitter tears, hollow reassurances, and the scene ended on a down note-- just like real life. That made me unhappy at first. But it was so completely real, I couldn't really criticize it. I just couldn't.
5. Strong black woman doesn't live here, not in this series. Mary Jane hesitates when she should be moving. And sometimes she jumps ahead with her mouth when she should stop and think with her mouth in the closed position. And when people don't wind up being who she thinks they are, she cries and loses control.
6. She does nerd things that are dear to my heart like having inspirational quotes all pinned up all over the place.
7. Her female friend and work partner Kara argue a lot but they always have one another's back in the end. I swear, only feminists like Mara Brock Akil create female characters that have real fights over real stuff having nothing to do with silly misunderstandings and/or men.
8. Motherhood is examined from a variety of angles. Her relationship with her mother has turned out to be a lot more interesting than I thought it would. And one of the most powerful scenes I've ever seen about a woman and how she feels about being failing to be what society expects her to be as the female parent comes from Kara. And that's not tied up with a pretty bow either.
7. Her female friend and work partner Kara argue a lot but they always have one another's back in the end. I swear, only feminists like Mara Brock Akil create female characters that have real fights over real stuff having nothing to do with silly misunderstandings and/or men.
8. Motherhood is examined from a variety of angles. Her relationship with her mother has turned out to be a lot more interesting than I thought it would. And one of the most powerful scenes I've ever seen about a woman and how she feels about being failing to be what society expects her to be as the female parent comes from Kara. And that's not tied up with a pretty bow either.
9. Race, class, and poverty and how these things impact one another is an undercurrent in this series. Mary Jane's family isn't quite a mixture of the Huxtables (The Cosby Show) and the Evans' (Good Times) But there's a mixture of earning potentials and therefore questions about what success looks like in its various forms and also what one should or shouldn't be willing to do for money.
10. The light-skinned black female characters look unmistakably black just like all the other characters. That is, most of the light-skinned women do not look like chocolate dipped white girls and/or puerto-rican or deliberately chosen for their racial ambiguity - like most of the paper bag test passing female characters in the movie "Dope" and half of the people in Lee Daniels' productions.
I don't agree with all the conclusions and decisions the characters come to, but most everything in "Being Mary Jane" feels true to black female-hood to me. This series feels as ground breaking to me as the Mary Tyler Moore show was back in the 1970s.
CONCLUSION:
Shonda Rhimes and Kerry Washington have the political murders and melodrama thing going on
AND
Shonda Rhimes and Viola Davis have the ruthless murder mystery thing going on
BUT IT IS
Mara Brock Akil and Gabrielle Union that have created the most three dimensional black woman that television has ever seen. I feel like "Being Mary Jane" is televisoin history in the making. I'm hoping more people will see how special this series really is.
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By the way, Gabrielle Union is wearing some kick@$$ dresses.
And there is such an eclectic selection of music being used in the series. It's not all black and female. But it is heavily female, quite a bit black, and some of the songs are from other countries.
I can't believed I passed on "Being Mary Jane" for so long. I know why I did though.
A) I skipped it because I'd heard about Mary Jane's first boyfriend and the whole thing sounded a little too Olivia Pope to me (And I was still mad at myself for getting hooked on Scandal in the first place.)
B) The first half of the pilot, "Being Mary Jane," the movie, seemed like it was going down stereotype lane with an ex-drug addict brother and a baby daddy chasing niece. But these two characters, only two among many supporting characters, jumped up, turned around and did a split into 3 dimensional characters that I actually value more than I thought I would.
So here I am
in the here and now.
I adore Mary Jane, her family, and her friends. And I can't wait to see what Mara Brock Akil, also the creator of "Girlfriends" does next.
Black Feminists Rocking In This Post
Mara Brock Akil
Shonda Rhimes
Kerry Washington
Viola Davis
Gabrielle Union
12 YEAR OLD ARMAAN SINGH SARAI DISAPPEARS INTO JUVY JAIL OVER ANOTHER FAKE BOMB ACCUSATION IN TEXAS
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| ARMAAN SINGH SARAI AND GINEE HAER |
GINEE HAER'S STORY
"This goofball on the left in this picture is my 12 year old cousin, Armaan Singh Sarai. He was born and raised in Texas by a loving #Sikh family. In his spare time, he loves spending time with his family, watching tv, and playing video games. In his family, are his mom, dad, two sisters and a brother who love him more than life, after all he's the baby in the family. His family moved to Dallas, Texas about three to four months ago, and being the new kid wasn't that easy for him. It made it especially hard since he isn't able to get out much, due to a heart condition he was born with....
On Friday, December 11th, 2015, my cousin attended school, like any other normal 12 year old child. A bully in class thought it would be funny to accuse him of having a bomb, and so the principal, without any questioning, interrogation, or notification to his parents, called the police...They kept him held behind bars for three consecutive days, before finally releasing him on Monday, December 15th.
Read More Of Original Post https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10204219549369428&set=a.1981741483702.79020.1848167443&type=3&theater
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The Other Side Of the Story
"Armaan says he thought the classmate was kidding Friday when he said at the start of their pre-AP history class that he would tell the teacher Armaan had a bomb. A day earlier, the classmate had joked that Armaan’s backpack, which had a battery charger in it, looked like a bomb.
“I thought it was a joke, so I started laughing and he started laughing,” Armaan recalled. “The next thing you know, I’m reading with my friend and police come in, grab me and take me outside.”
Police realized the bomb threat was a hoax, but they took him into custody because he confessed to making up the threat, they say..."
The school district has released little information, citing privacy concerns, and a Tarrant County Juvenile Services spokeswoman declined to provide details about Armaan’s detention.
Read More from Dallas News
OKAY
Did you read anything in the Dallas News article that justifies putting a 12 year old in jail for 3 days over a conversation between two children that nobody heard?
Who told the teacher or school official that there was a bomb? This defines the moment that there was a threat. Two kids can talk about bombs between themselves all day long. Who lied to the school about there being a bomb.
If Armaan had been THE ONE, it would be in the article.
Also please note that this article is very carefully worded. It says Armaan "confessed to making up the threat"
Is that supposed to mean he talked about a bomb but didn't actually make a threat to someone? Is that supposed to mean the word "bomb" came out of his mouth first? This article specifically avoids saying Armaan was the one that actually gave the teacher or school official the false report of a bomb.
And if both kids were saying the word "bomb" in conversation, as if that's against the law, then why weren't both arrested for 3 days? That's a conspiracy isn't it?
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I hate it when people lie to me. But I especially hate it when people tell me stupid lies. Stupid likes always leave me wondering -
1) if the Dallas News and/or the police idiots or
2) if the Dallas News and/or police think we're idiots
OR
3) do stupid lies mean, "Screw you. I don't care what you think and I don't have to care what you think."
We don't have enough information yet. But if I had to guess, I would guess that somebody needs to be fired at the police department and the juvenile detention center too.
There's no way all these people in law enforcement and at the detention center should have thought this was a reasonable response to something they knew was a hoax from the start -- especially since the school won't say exactly how this "hoax" moved from two kids talking trash between themselves to one of the kids making a threat against the school -- a kid they have very carefully avoided identifying as Armaan
Friday, December 18, 2015
NUBIAN SKIN'S ADE HASSAN NAMED FASHION ENTREPRENEUR OF 2015 IN GREAT BRITAIN
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THE FOUNDER of a nude lingerie line for black women has been named fashion entrepreneur of the year at the Great British Entrepreneur Awards 2015.
After only one year in business, Ade’s brainchild has been endorsed by the likes of Scandal star Kerry Washington and is stocked in five stores in the UK, two in Portugal and 21 stores in the US. It is also sold through nine websites online.
The 31-year-old got the idea for Nubian Skin while sitting at her desk at her former job.
“I was working in a very corporate environment before Nubian Skin and there was always frustrations of either not finding panty hose that’s my colour or wearing shirts that were quite sheer, but not wanting to always wear a black camisole underneath,” Ade told XoNecole. “Or when you are in a business meeting and your strap is showing or you can tell that you have red bra under a white top; I didn’t want that, I wanted nude, but shops didn’t have my colour.” "
SHOPPING
NUBIAN SKIN https://www.nubianskin.com/us/
NORDSTROMS
http://shop.nordstrom.com/c/womens-underwear-lingerie/nubian-skin~12355
ASOShttp://us.asos.com/search/nubian-skin?hrd=1&q=nubian+skin
READ MORE
http://theyoungempire.com/2015/11/26/founder-of-lingerie-line-for-black-women-crowned-fashion-entrepreneur-of-the-year/
MORE ON HASSANhttp://jessehimself.tumblr.com/post/135427464778/the-perks-of-being-black-ade-hassan-the
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| Nubian Skin Lingerie |
THE FOUNDER of a nude lingerie line for black women has been named fashion entrepreneur of the year at the Great British Entrepreneur Awards 2015.
After only one year in business, Ade’s brainchild has been endorsed by the likes of Scandal star Kerry Washington and is stocked in five stores in the UK, two in Portugal and 21 stores in the US. It is also sold through nine websites online.
The 31-year-old got the idea for Nubian Skin while sitting at her desk at her former job.
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| ADE HASSAN |
“I was working in a very corporate environment before Nubian Skin and there was always frustrations of either not finding panty hose that’s my colour or wearing shirts that were quite sheer, but not wanting to always wear a black camisole underneath,” Ade told XoNecole. “Or when you are in a business meeting and your strap is showing or you can tell that you have red bra under a white top; I didn’t want that, I wanted nude, but shops didn’t have my colour.” "
~YoungEmpire.com
SHOPPING
NUBIAN SKIN https://www.nubianskin.com/us/
NORDSTROMS
http://shop.nordstrom.com/c/womens-underwear-lingerie/nubian-skin~12355
ASOShttp://us.asos.com/search/nubian-skin?hrd=1&q=nubian+skin
READ MORE
http://theyoungempire.com/2015/11/26/founder-of-lingerie-line-for-black-women-crowned-fashion-entrepreneur-of-the-year/
MORE ON HASSANhttp://jessehimself.tumblr.com/post/135427464778/the-perks-of-being-black-ade-hassan-the
Thursday, December 17, 2015
HUNG JURY FOR WILLIAM PORTER, FREDDIE GRAY DEFENDANT 1 of 6
"A mistrial was declared in the trial of a Baltimore police officer charged in connection with the death of Freddie Gray after the jury failed to reach a unanimous decision.
It's unclear whether the state will pursue a retrial of the cop, William Porter.
The jury deliberated over three days, signaling at one point that they might not reach a unanimous decision. Jurors told the court Tuesday they were deadlocked but the judge sent them back to deliberate."
The only thing I believe in for sure is Freddie Gray's screams before he was put in the van and the witness saying that the cops were breaking his leg. You can't see much. But I can hear Freddie screaming
Sooo...like I said a long time ago
"The Van Did It"
because there was no seat belt
plus
trotting out 3 black defendants
along side
3 white defendants
2 of which likely did all the beating
was never going to hold together
But trotting out three new black faces along the three old white faces in the beating video was the quickest way to end the protests in Baltimore.
Like I said, I wouldn't turn my back on Marilyn just because she's black. She's a politician. Politicians of all colors love power for its own sake.
Her theory of what happened in the van came together too quickly for me. I haven't read enough to know what the standard procedures are or who usually decides the police van's route or who decides deviating from the usual route to the hospital. Most of all, I don't know how badly hurt the three people in the van thought Freddie was....
You know who might know how badly Freddie was hurt? The people that beat him up.
And that brings me to my next point.
Why would you try the people who brought the van to the scene of the crime before you try the people who did the original crime (the illegal arrest and beating)? Why wouldn't you establish how badly Freddie was hurt before he was put in the van-- by trying the people who did the beating first?
Wouldn't the severity of the beating itself determine whether or not Freddie was capable of holding his neck and head in a normal position during the van ride--if you tried the people who did the beating first? Wouldn't his head and neck strength determine how much the absence of a seat belt would hurt him?
--as if we know for sure that theory is true
--as if we did NOT hear Freddie Gray screaming before being put in the van
--as if we did not see him being dragged to the van with a bystander yelling about how it looks as if the officers were trying to break Gray's leg.
(It's not like we've seen video of this van going around corners on two wheels. How does a van ride damn near separate the spine of a normal healthy person? Maybe I'm just not appreciating how helpless one is while shackled?)
To me, believing Marilyn Mosby's story, the first official story of Freddie Gray's death --that just happened to present perfect imagery to stop the protests dead in its tracks-- is like believing the first story told about JFK's murder when you know that first story is probably coming from the people who failed to provide adequate security on the parade route.
If Baltimore is heavily black and we know the jury is majority black, then maybe something is probably isn't right with Marilyn Mosby's case.
I need to hear more about what went on in that jury room, a lot more.
So, I don't know how I feel about this at all. Not yet.
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