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A 58-year-old white woman antagonized the black children who lived next door. She frequently called them vile names. She threw a pair of skates at them, hitting one of them.

The kids, ages 9 and 12, walked up to her door with their mother and knocked on the door. The white woman then shot the black mother through the closed door, killing her.

It took days of protest for #police to even arrest her. I'm glad they finally did
https://apnews.com/article/florida-shooting-neighbor-7d033653743d3efe2395367be27ea77b
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#guns #racism #florida

Yet another example of how mediocre, unremarkable, white dudes, with little or no experience, get the UNDESERVED and UNEARNED benefit of the doubt and every opportunity to be great…only to FUCK IT UP!

Oh, but he will be back because they also “fail up” with amazing ease

In 1945, Lucy Hicks Anderson was arrested for the crime of marrying her husband, Reuben Anderson, a soldier in the US Army. During the trial, she declared "I defy any doctor in the world to prove that I am not a woman. I have lived, dressed, acted just what I am, a woman."

It was true. From a very young age she insisted that she was a girl. Following the advice of doctors, her parents enrolled her in school as a girl under the name Lucy. At age 15, Lucy left home, taking domestic work to support herself, then moved west, first to Texas then to New Mexico where she married her first husband, Clarence Hicks. That marriage lasted 9 years. Lucy managed to save enough to purchase a hotel business— a rarity at the time both for women and for black Americans.

Lucy was found guilty of perjury and fraudulently collecting benefits allotted to military wives. She and her beloved Reuben served 10 years in a male prison, after which they quietly lived out the rest of their lives together in L.A.

Prior to 1982, stock buybacks were considered stock manipulation. It was Reagan's SEC that opened the floodgates to their abuse.

Stock buybacks don’t create more jobs. They don't increase wages. They don’t grow the economy.

They make corporate execs richer. Hello?