tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6840669093905714052024-03-19T04:35:20.597-04:00I'm Such an AFROholicInside the mind of a kind of quirky, pretty stubborn, way too opinionated, twenty-something, heteroflexible Black female newly employed up-and-moved-to-DC Princeton GRADUATE who's just trying to sort out her life. An uninhibited celebration of all that is me, this blog is an exercise in self-discovery and live-with-your-heart-wide-open-ness. Though I make respect a habit, I will not always be politically correct, and I believe in the power of making audiences uncomfortable to inspire change.Maya Ange'lehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13676853514071634711noreply@blogger.comBlogger1446125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684066909390571405.post-55649969703387487332013-01-09T23:15:00.001-05:002013-01-09T23:15:15.267-05:00We've MOVED! <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Today is my blog's third birthday, and we have a big birthday surprise! <i>I'm Such an Afroholic </i>has MOVED! I am now using a new blogging platform and hosting my blog on my very own domain like a grown-up blogger! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: small;">Blogger has served me wel<span style="font-size: small;">l for the past three years, but <span style="font-size: small;">we're overdue for a change. This will be <span style="font-size: small;">my last post on imsuchan<span style="font-size: small;">afr<span style="font-size: small;">oholic.blogspot.com. <span style="font-size: small;">I look forward to seeing you all commenting and<span style="font-size: small;"> following on the new site! </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Maya Ange'lehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13676853514071634711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684066909390571405.post-55360873521054100242013-01-02T00:17:00.000-05:002013-01-02T00:17:09.341-05:00Under Construction<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A week from today, I will have been writing this blog for three years. We've been through a lot of changes in this internet space, from the name change (shoutout to people who've been following me since this was called AFROdisiAccordingtoMe) to all sorts of mood shifts. Blogging has helped me get through and document two major moves, getting into and out of various relationships, writing a thesis, and coming to understand Princeton as a place of the past. Getting into the "reblog" about a year and a half ago has helped me to feel like I e</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">xist in a community of scholars, thinkers, wonderers, and change-makers. This space has grown from a platform for introspection to a platform for celebration and for feeling celebrated. I am a blogger, and that's not going to change anytime soon, but a lot of things about my particular corner of the internet are going to change.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So please bear with me as I take a week-long hiatus to get everything ready for our dramatic 3 year blogaversary unveiling. <i>I'm Such an AFROholic </i>will return ne</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">xt week with all sort of nifty new trimmings!</span></div>
Maya Ange'lehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13676853514071634711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684066909390571405.post-76990222301639388852013-01-01T11:07:00.001-05:002013-01-01T11:07:29.233-05:00Daylight and "safety in numbers" are not guarantees.<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I've walked around this city for slightly over six months now, at all hours of the day and night, without ever once feeling concerned about my personal safety. A friend of RG's was shocked to learn that I didn't carry mace on my person, and gave me a pink keychain-sized can of it to keep in my purse in the fall. I laughed her off, but kept it in my bag, as sort of a well-since-I-have-this-I-might-as-well-make-it-useful thing. I've never felt the need to use it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But now twice in the past two days, I've had my personal space or my physical person intruded upon by a man I did not know. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The first incident happened in broad daylight, around 4pm on Sunday as I walked to my house from the metro station after a trip to Target. There was a man walking in the opposite direction of the way I was walking, coming towards me, and from the way he was sort of half-stumbling, I knew that he wasn't in a normal mental state. Maybe he was drunk, maybe he had a disorder of some sort--I didn't know. I just knew that I wanted to get past him and continue on my merry way home so that I could make my bus to go to yoga. I decide to give him some major leeway and veer to the right, walking along the curb on the other side of a sign post to pass him, and he veers in the same direction, coming to stand less than a foot from me on the other side of the sign. I freeze. I am carrying too many things from Target to dig for my mace if I wanted it, but up close I can see that he seems to have some sort of disorder and that he doesn't seem malicious, so I try just saying, "E</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">xcuse me." He smiles absently and waves his hand in my face and says, "Hi." I say hi back, and he moves out of my way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Nothing happened, but it was so easy to see how something could have. I didn't really have time to process it, though, because I had to rush home to get on my bus to go to yoga, and yoga makes my mind and body better places to be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I had kind of forgotten how shaken up I was about it until last night. After we all brought in the New Year at a club in Adams Morgan, RG, CO, and CO's cousin decided to hit up a hookah bar. I can't be around tobacco smoke--yay asthma!--so BC and I went to McDonalds to split a 10 piece chicken nugget meal. When we were making our way down the incredibly crowded street when all the bars closed at 2 to meet the others, a Latino-appearing man in a group that was approaching us, in one very fast and fluid move, bent down and leaned over towards me and grabbed my thighs. One minute I'm walking down the street ne</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">xt to BC trying to find this hookah bar, and the ne</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">xt, some man's hands are on the bare skin of my thighs just below the hem of my dress. He probably only touched me for a few seconds, but as soon as I'd processed what had just happened, I spun around and yelled something to the effect of, "Don't you fucking touch me, nigga! Who the fuck do you think you are? We don't play that shit, nuh-uh!" People kind of cleared a wide berth around me, and a white guy who was passing by had his hands up in the air and said, "I'm sorry he touched you. I'm not going to touch you," as he passed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Again, what happened was pretty tame, but it was too easy to envision it having been a lot worse. To his credit, when I told RG about it once we met up, he wanted to go find the guy and beat the shit out of him. I appreciate his protectiveness, but there was nothing to do by that point. I can't think of anything to have done in the moment either, besides have had a fast enough reaction time to knee him in the face or something. A short dress is an invitation to nothing, and all the fault for this encounter lies with that random guy. I know that. I have no doubts or questions about that. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But what does that mean I'm supposed to do? Because few things that have happened to my physical person have scared me like that. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The entire encounter was maybe 15 seconds of my night, but it will probably be my most vivid memory of NYE 2012. We were walking back to CO's car and RG put his arm around my shoulders and I pushed him away--I didn't want anyone to touch me. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">After I sent him to bed on my couch last night, I just curled up in the middle of my bed and cried. If I can't walk down a crowded street filled with policemen on the busiest night of the year with another person and be guaranteed my personal space, what am I supposed to do? </span>Maya Ange'lehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13676853514071634711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684066909390571405.post-78830942532928232262012-12-31T13:48:00.002-05:002012-12-31T13:48:19.147-05:00Photoset<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Maya Ange'lehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13676853514071634711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684066909390571405.post-81954443382687312672012-12-31T11:59:00.001-05:002012-12-31T11:59:27.245-05:00<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"White American children in this country who become victims of gun violence are a sign of shattered innocence, an anomaly that must be analyzed and dissected to ensure that it doesn’t happen again. Black and Brown American children who become victims serve as an indictment of our communities, our homes and our parenting."</span></blockquote>
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Maya Ange'lehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13676853514071634711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684066909390571405.post-81971571174849096492012-12-30T23:20:00.003-05:002012-12-30T23:20:35.658-05:00<blockquote class="tr_bq">
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Maya Ange'lehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13676853514071634711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684066909390571405.post-71980235793573367072012-12-30T23:12:00.002-05:002012-12-30T23:12:32.871-05:00*drops mic, walks away*<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Maya Ange'lehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13676853514071634711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684066909390571405.post-58915470851811975612012-12-30T22:53:00.002-05:002012-12-30T22:53:47.481-05:00Photo<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"With you, intimacy <span style="font-size: large;">colours my<span style="font-size: large;"> voice. Even 'hello<span style="font-size: large;">' sounds like 'come here.'<span style="font-size: large;">"</span></span></span></span></span></span></blockquote>
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Maya Ange'lehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13676853514071634711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684066909390571405.post-45482791480279960602012-12-30T19:44:00.003-05:002012-12-30T19:44:40.922-05:00<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"Somebody told a real<span style="font-size: large;"> life woman that her<span style="font-size: large;"> skin was too <span style="font-size: large;">brown to play an imaginary creature. That<span style="font-size: large;"> basically in the whole fictional world of <i>Lord of the Rings</i> and <i>The Ho<span style="font-size: large;">bbit</span></i><span style="font-size: large;">, where you have dragons and trolls and talking trees, where you draw the line, where imagination is capped out, no more room, is for a brown hobbit<span style="font-size: large;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"Like, fiery <span style="font-size: large;">eyeball thing, no problem, but don't even try to imagine a Samoan elf. That shit will blow your mind."</span></span></span></blockquote>
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Maya Ange'lehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13676853514071634711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684066909390571405.post-75255742320386065312012-12-30T11:30:00.000-05:002012-12-30T11:30:02.352-05:00So much greatness in one place<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood.
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Maya Ange'lehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13676853514071634711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684066909390571405.post-48144168338186498792012-12-30T10:07:00.004-05:002012-12-30T10:07:50.482-05:00<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"Twenty-two children injured [by a knife attack in China]. Versus, at
current count, 18 little children and nine other people shot dead.
That’s the difference between a knife and a gun. Guns don’t attack
children; psychopaths and sadists do. But guns uniquely allow a
psychopath to wreak death and devastation on such a large scale so
quickly and easily. America is the only country in which this happens
again — and again and again. You can look it up."</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">--<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/12/american-exceptionalism-the-shootings-will-go-on/266293/">American Exceptionalism: The Shootings Will Go On</a></span></div>
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Maya Ange'lehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13676853514071634711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684066909390571405.post-89209797547325077982012-12-30T09:56:00.001-05:002012-12-30T09:56:11.276-05:00<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"Imagine you are Emma Faye Stewart, a thirty-year-old, single African-American<span style="font-size: large;"> mother of two who was arrested as part of a drug sweep in Hearne, Te</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">xas. All but one of th<span style="font-size: large;">ose people arrested were African-American. You are innocent. After a week in jail, you have no one to care for your two small childre<span style="font-size: large;">n and are eager to get home. Your cou<span style="font-size: large;">rt-appointed attorney urges you to plead guilty to a drug distribution charge, saying the prose<span style="font-size: large;">cutor has offered probation. You refuse, steadfastly proclaiming your innocence. Finally, after almost a month in jail, you decide to plead guilty so you can return home to your children. Unwilling to risk a trial and years of imprisonment, you are s<span style="font-size: large;">entenced to ten <span style="font-size: large;">years probation and ordered to pay $1,000 in fines, as well as court and probation costs. You are also now branded a drug felon. You are no <span style="font-size: large;">longer eligible for food stamps<span style="font-size: large;">;</span> you may be discriminat<span style="font-size: large;">ed against in employment<span style="font-size: large;">; you cannot vote for at least twelve years; and you are about to <span style="font-size: large;">be evicted from public housing. Once homeless, your children will be taken away from you and put in foster care.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"<span style="font-size: large;">A judge eventually dismisses all cases against the defend<span style="font-size: large;">ants who did not plead guilty. At trial, the judge finds that the entire sweep was based on the t<span style="font-size: large;">estimony of a single informant who lied to the prosecution. You, however, a<span style="font-size: large;">re still a drug felon, homeless, and desperate to regain custody of your children.</span></span></span></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"Now place yourself in the shoes of Clifford Runoalds, another African-A<span style="font-size: large;">merican victim of the Hearne drug bust. You returned home to Bryan, Te</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">xas, to attend the funeral of your eighteen-month-old daughter. Before the funeral servic<span style="font-size: large;">es begin, the police show up and hand<span style="font-size: large;">cuff you. You beg the officers to let you take one last look at your daughter before she is buried. The police refuse. You are told by prosecutors that you are needed to testify against one of the defendants in a recent drug bust. You deny witn<span style="font-size: large;">essing any drug transaction; you don't <span style="font-size: large;">know what they are talking about. <span style="font-size: large;">Because of your refusal to cooperate, you are indicted on felony charges. After a month of being held in jail, the charges against you are drop<span style="font-size: large;">ped. <span style="font-size: large;">You are techni<span style="font-size: large;">cal<span style="font-size: large;">ly free, but as a result of your arrest and period of incarceration, you lose your job, your apartment, your furniture, and your<span style="font-size: large;"> car. Not to mention the chance to say good-bye to your baby girl.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"This is the <span style="font-size: large;">War on Drugs."</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">--Michelle Alexander, <i>The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness</i>, pg. 97-98</span> </div>
Maya Ange'lehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13676853514071634711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684066909390571405.post-70394204600374436082012-12-30T09:43:00.000-05:002012-12-30T09:43:09.650-05:00#realtalk<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Part of me is uncomfortable with images of captured Africans being used to prove a point about anything today because it's seriously incomparable, but a small part of me is all, HOW YOU LIKE DEM APPLES?!?</span>Maya Ange'lehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13676853514071634711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684066909390571405.post-52772973319924905822012-12-30T00:53:00.000-05:002012-12-30T00:53:30.623-05:00<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"</span>We all have a blind spot around our privileges shaped exactly like us. <br />
And I’m telling you guys, we’re never fucking going to get anywhere as
long as our economies of attraction continue to resemble more or less
the economies of attraction of white supremacy. Finding people who
practice decolonial love is as hard inside of a vast movement as it is
outside. The actual standard of decolonial love, how little discussed,
how little understood, and yet in many ways is the great test of who we
are and of our praxis and of our communal praxis.<span style="font-size: large;">"</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">--Junot Díaz, Keynote Speech at Facing Race 2012</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(via <a href="http://briyanad.tumblr.com/post/37898792258/we-all-have-a-blind-spot-around-our-privileges" target="_blank">Tudo Bom(b)</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I have as many speeches from this conference as are available on YouTube queued on my Watch Later list. Expect way more quotes at some future point.</span> </div>
Maya Ange'lehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13676853514071634711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684066909390571405.post-36578657853137124802012-12-30T00:39:00.001-05:002012-12-30T00:39:06.183-05:00<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"The important thing is that we cease treating sex as something shameful, and an aspect of life separate from all the rest. We need to make decisions about sex and evaluate them in the same framework which we use to judge worth of our other capacities, be they our intelligence, intuitions, physical stamina or prowess, or other special talents."</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">--</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Lester A. Kirkendall, <em>Premarital Intercourse and Interpersonal Relationships</em> <span style="font-size: small;">(</span>1961)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(via <a href="http://somechangeableurl.tumblr.com/post/37857574800/the-important-thing-is-that-we-cease-treating-sex" target="_blank">WYSIWYG</a>) </span></span></div>
Maya Ange'lehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13676853514071634711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684066909390571405.post-85275688742119348012012-12-30T00:09:00.004-05:002012-12-30T00:09:57.755-05:00<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"...harsh <span style="font-size: large;">mandatory mini<span style="font-size: large;">mum sentences for drug<span style="font-size: large;"> offenders have been consistently uphel<span style="font-size: large;">d by the U<span style="font-size: large;">.S. Supreme Court. In 1982, the Supre<span style="font-size: large;">me Court uphel<span style="font-size: large;">d forty years of imprisonment for pos<span style="font-size: large;">session and an attempt to sell 9 ounces of marijuana. Several years later, in <i>Harmelin v. Michigan</i>, the Court upheld a sen<span style="font-size: large;">tence of <i>life imprisonment</i> for a <span style="font-size: large;">defendant</span> with no prior convictions who attempted to sell 672 grams (appro</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">ximately 23 ounces) of crack cocaine. The Court found th<span style="font-size: large;">e sentences imposed in those cases 'reasonab<span style="font-size: large;">ly proportionate' to the of<span style="font-size: large;">fenses committed--and not 'cruel and un<span style="font-size: large;">usual' in violation of the Eighth Amend<span style="font-size: large;">ment. This ruling was remarkable given that, <b>prior to the Drug Re<span style="font-size: large;">form Act of 1986, the longest sentence Congress had ever imposed for <span style="font-size: large;">possession of any drug in a<span style="font-size: large;">ny amount was one year.</span></span></span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> A life sentence for a first-time drug offense is unhea</b><span style="font-size: large;"><b>rd of in the rest of the developed world.</b> Even<span style="font-size: large;"> for high-end drug crimes, most countries impose sentences that are measured in months, rather than years. For e</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">xample, a conviction for selling a<span style="font-size: large;"> kilogram of heroin yields a mandatory ten-year sentence in U.S. federal court, compared with si</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">x <span style="font-size: large;">months in prison in England. Remarkably, in the United States, a life s<span style="font-size: large;">entence is deemed perfectly appropriate for a first-time drug offender."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">--Michelle Alexander, <i>The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness</i>, pg. 90</span> </div>
Maya Ange'lehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13676853514071634711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684066909390571405.post-51273941629649554992012-12-29T20:46:00.001-05:002012-12-29T20:46:51.073-05:00<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"I will have an undergraduate class, let’s say a young white male student, politically-correct, who will say: “I am only a bourgeois white male, I can’t speak.” … I say to them: “Why not develop a certain degree of rage against the history that has written such an abject script for you that you are silenced?” Then you begin to investigate what it is that silences you, rather than take this very determinist position-since my skin colour is this, since my sex is this, I cannot speak… From this position, then, I say you will of course not speak in the same way about the Third World material, but if you make it your task not only to learn what is going on there through language, through specific programmes of study, but also at the same time through a historical critique of your position as the investigating person, then you will have earned the right to criticize, you be heard. When you take the position of not doing your homework- “I will not criticize because of my accident of birth, the historical accident” - that is the much more pernicious position."</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">--Gayatri Spivak</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(via <a href="http://somechangeableurl.tumblr.com/post/37844000538/i-will-have-an-undergraduate-class-lets-say-a" target="_blank">WYSIWYG</a>) </span></div>
Maya Ange'lehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13676853514071634711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684066909390571405.post-15035023106922057872012-12-29T20:29:00.003-05:002012-12-29T20:29:47.748-05:00<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">"The <span style="font-size: large;">'drug<span style="font-size: large;">-courier profi<span style="font-size: large;">les' utilized by the DEA and other law enforcement agencies for drug sweeps on highways, as well as in a<span style="font-size: large;">irports and train stations, are notoriously unreliable. In theory, a drug-courier profile reflects the collective w<span style="font-size: large;">isdom and j<span style="font-size: large;">udg<span style="font-size: large;">ment of a law enfor<span style="font-size: large;">cement agency's officials. Instead of allowing each officer to rely on his or her own <span style="font-size: large;">limited e</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">xperience and biases in detecting suspicious behavior, a drug-courier profile affords every officer the advan<span style="font-size: large;">tage of the agency's collective e</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">xperience and e</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">xpertise. However, as legal <span style="font-size: large;">scholar David Cole <span style="font-size: large;">has observed, 'in practice, the drug-courier profile is a scattershot hod<span style="font-size: large;">gepodge of traits and characteristics <span style="font-size: large;">so e</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">xpansive that it potentially justifies stopping anybody and everybody.' The profile can include traveling with luggage, traveling without luggage, driving an e</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">xpensive car, driving a car that needs repairs, driving with out-of-state license plates<span style="font-size: large;">, driving a rental car, <span style="font-size: large;">driving with 'mismatched occupants,' acting too calm, acting too <span style="font-size: large;">nervous, <span style="font-size: large;">dressing casually, wearing e</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">xpensive clothing or jewelry, being on<span style="font-size: large;">e of the first to deplane, being one of the last to deplane, depl<span style="font-size: large;">aning in the middle, paying for a ticket<span style="font-size: large;"> in cash, using large-denomination currency, using small-denomination currency, traveling alone, traveling with a companion, and so on. Even striving to obey the <span style="font-size: large;">law fits the profi<span style="font-size: large;">le! The <span style="font-size: large;">Florida Highway Patrol Drug Courier Profile<span style="font-size: large;"> cautioned troopers to be suspicious of 'scrupulous obedience to traffic laws.' As Cole points out, <span style="font-size: large;">'such profiles do not so much focus an investigation <span style="font-size: large;">as <span style="font-size: large;">provide law enforcement <span style="font-size: large;">officials a read<span style="font-size: large;">y-made e</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">xcuse for stopping whomever they pl<span style="font-size: large;">ease.<span style="font-size: large;">'"</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">--Michelle Alexander, <i>The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness</i>, 71-72 </span></div>
Maya Ange'lehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13676853514071634711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684066909390571405.post-84053489434625750302012-12-29T20:18:00.000-05:002012-12-29T20:18:13.966-05:00Photo<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">On the 57th anniversary of Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus earlier this month, President Barack Obama visited this historic bus at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History in Detroit, MI. He sat in the seat she, a revolutionary staunch political activist (not the feeble little lady most of us have been brainwashed into conceptualizing her as) wouldn't get out of. We went from it being against the law to sit at the front of the bus when there was a White person without a seat to re-electing a president of African descent in 57 years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">That's within my father's lifetime. I hope he sees this photo and remembers taking me to sit in that seat when he lived in Detroit. That was 2005, and I was overwhelmed by our progress. Now it's 2012 and I'm so torn between wanting to cry in celebration of how far we've come and wanting to cry in desperation at how far we have left to go. </span>Maya Ange'lehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13676853514071634711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684066909390571405.post-55621841287573463412012-12-29T19:36:00.000-05:002012-12-29T19:36:14.210-05:00No one has ever said this to me, but I would GO. OFF.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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