The only leading man I ever had a crush on was James Garner.I know a lot of police officers who are on the force to do the right thing to protect people. “The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various individuals’, or groups of individuals’, experience of freedom in America. so everyone is mad on the last day of 2017. we have every right to be.
That includes all matter - you, and me, and the body of Michael Brown, and Mork’s rainbow suspenders, and the letters I wrote all summer, and the air conditioner I put out on the curb on Christmas Day because I was tired of looking at it and being reminded of the person who had installed it, and my sad dying computer that sounds like a swarm of bees when it gets too hot, and the fields of Point Reyes, and this year’s blossoms which are dust now, and the drafts of my book, and Israeli tanks, and the untaxed cigarettes that Eric Garner sold, and my father’s ill-fitting leg brace that did not accomplish what he’d hoped for in terms of restoring mobility, and the Denver airport, and haunting sperm whales that sleep vertically, and the water they sleep in, and Mars and Jupiter and all of the stars we see and all of the ones we don’t. Erica Garner-Snipes at her home in Brooklyn, New York. Students will be will select 2-3 quote cards each, they will then go around the room and discuss their cards with other students.
"Even with my own heartbreak, when I demand justice, it's never just for Eric Garner," Garner wrote in an op-ed endorsing Sen. Bernie Sanders for president in 2016. - Shaun King Though her life was short, Erica Garner’s achievements as an activist were extraordinary following the choking death of her father Eric Garner. "We aren't the first generation of black Americans to rise up and demand our human right to life, and we won't be the last," Garner's life may have been cut tragically short, but her legacy â and powerful words â will continue to inspire people to become activists, and as she hoped, get them involved in the political process. They are a gift to you. Please let me know when the other two subjects are available.I’m introducing my students to two Habits of Mind this week, focusing on one Habit a day. It won't bring him back but at least we know we didn't let it go.' I became personal friends with Erica Garner and with so many other families affected by police violence. The death of Staten Island resident Eric Garner at the hands of a New York City police officer was tragic and unnecessary. After seeing something like that it’s hard to stay mad at anyone, even yourself.” Whose respect every day I'm trying to garner is the respect of my children and my grandchildren and my friends, the people I work with.Hoping to garner the support of the American people, proponents of regime-change wars routinely cite humanitarian concerns to justify military intervention in foreign countries. It’s basically all mystery out there - all of it, with just this one sliver of knowable, livable, finite light and life. But the most despicable case was Officer Daniel Pantaleo who murdered Garner …