A.C. breaks it down
of the handful of blogs i’ve been discovering of late, A.C.’s crazedloveblog definitely stands out. girl has got some smart shit going on over there, and very funny too. check it. in a recent post she pasted an aim discussion with her sister during which the cops jacked up a carful of young men of color outsider her place in oakland. her reflection went like this:
Sometimes, in my more twisted moments, I envision making an animated film of the Middle Passage showing a boat filled with suffering Black people pulled over by the Coast Guard for Sailing While Black. Why do we all look on in horror and fascination as another’s dignity is violated in the name of public safety…why we allow this to happen because we are all vulnerable to the corporate police state we call home and thank our lucky stars to reside in. How is my East Oakland neighborhood different from a neighborhood in Palestine, Mexico, England, India, Germany, Zimbabwe or Bosnia.
while we’re on the subject, i was looking for a site in the links section on cops, and found that the “Database of Abusive Police” (which was at www.doap.com) appears to be non-functional. anyone know what’s up? in any case there’s also these links.
