[Xmca-l] Re: Watch ""You Can Replace Property, You Can't Replace a Life": Voices of the Unheard in the Baltimore Streets" on YouTube

[Greg Thompson]

Actually I think that may be someone different in the Geraldo video.
I'd love to know who it is.
-greg

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Greg Thompson <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Anyone heard of activist Joseph Kent?
>
> He was one of the people who was working diligently to keep protests
> nonviolent.
>
> Here is a video of him in "conversation" with Geraldo Rivera:
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/national/baltimore-prostester-confronts-geraldo-rivera/2015/04/29/bcd4720e-eea5-11e4-8050-839e9234b303_video.html
>
> Joseph Kent gives me great hope. Seems like he might be a link between old
> and young (he is 21).
>
> -greg
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Dr. Paul C. Mocombe <
> pmocombe@mocombeian.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes to both questions... however, there is an emerging divide amongst
>> blacks during this whole process:
>>
>> 1. Young black people have shun the older leaders, jesse jackson, al
>> sharpton, etc., of the civil rights movement...embracing cornel west who is
>> being attacked by dyson, Sharpton and some others
>>
>> 2.  Black police officers in many instances  are complicit in covering up
>> some of the actions of their white colleagues
>>
>> 3.  The divide between the interests of the black middle and upper-middle
>> classes and those who William Julius Wilson refer to as the truly
>> disadvantage are coming to light in these protest movements.
>>
>>
>> Dr. Paul C. Mocombe
>> President
>> The Mocombeian Foundation, inc.
>> www.mocombeian.com
>> www.readingroomcurriculum.com
>> www.paulcmocombe.info
>>
>>
>>
>> <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Carol Macdonald <
>> carolmacdon@gmail.com> </div><div>Date:04/30/2015  1:47 PM  (GMT-05:00)
>> </div><div>To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <
>> xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu> </div><div>Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: Watch ""You
>> Can Replace Property,
>>   You Can't Replace a Life": Voices of the Unheard in the Baltimore
>>   Streets" on YouTube </div><div>
>> </div>Hi colleagues
>>
>> I need to ask two ill-informed questions: I need background to the clips
>> and programmes.
>>
>> 1.  Are there any AfrAmer police used in quelling these "riots"?
>> 2.  Are there any NON- Afr Americ people in the riots?
>>
>> I was moved by the earlier clip posted about the local people holding the
>> peace, and cleaning up too. Which prompts another ill-informed question:
>>
>> Who watches Democracy Now?  Do mainstream Americans watch it?
>>
>> I have been watching Noam Chomsky talks over the last few days, so
>> developing a new language of healthy scepticism. I didn't have the
>> right *language
>> *of scepticism before, just the scepticism *itself*. Bravo Chomsky - I
>> only
>> studied his linguistics as a student, and wrote about his position in my
>> MA.
>>
>> Please bear with me.  I know a lot about South Africa politics but
>> obviously not enough about racial issues in the US. I am using my XMCA
>> colleagues as a short cut to knowledge.
>>
>> Carol
>>
>> On 30 April 2015 at 19:11, Peter Farruggio <pfarruggio@utpa.edu> wrote:
>>
>> > The Democracy Now segment on Baltimore begins at 9:30. By the way, I
>> > believe that police/FBI provocateurs had a hand in the arson. Having the
>> > president denouncing protestors as thugs and criminals fits in with the
>> > broader neoliberal goal of manufacturing consent for a police state to
>> > control all of us. It's so conveeenient to see working class Black
>> folks as
>> > wild animals, no?
>> >
>> > http://www.democracynow.org/shows/2015/4/29
>> >
>> > Pete Farruggio, PhD
>> > Associate Professor, Bilingual Education
>> > University of Texas Pan American
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: xmca-l-bounces+pfarruggio=utpa.edu@mailman.ucsd.edu [mailto:
>> > xmca-l-bounces+pfarruggio=utpa.edu@mailman.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Peter
>> > Smagorinsky
>> > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 8:00 AM
>> > To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
>> > Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: Watch ""You Can Replace Property, You Can't
>> Replace
>> > a Life": Voices of the Unheard in the Baltimore Streets" on YouTube
>> >
>> > See also Larry Wilmore,
>> >
>> http://www.dailydot.com/politics/jon-stewart-larry-wilmore-baltimore-protests/
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: xmca-l-bounces+smago=uga.edu@mailman.ucsd.edu [mailto:
>> > xmca-l-bounces+smago=uga.edu@mailman.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Dr. Paul C.
>> > Mocombe
>> > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 8:27 AM
>> > To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
>> > Subject: [Xmca-l] Watch ""You Can Replace Property, You Can't Replace a
>> > Life": Voices of the Unheard in the Baltimore Streets" on YouTube
>> >
>> > Best reporting I have seen to date....
>> >
>> > https://youtu.be/2M9R9Oq2rXo
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Dr. Paul C. Mocombe
>> > President
>> > The Mocombeian Foundation, inc.
>> > www.mocombeian.com
>> > www.readingroomcurriculum.com
>> > www.paulcmocombe.info
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Carol A  Macdonald Ph D (Edin)
>> Developmental psycholinguist
>> Academic, Researcher,  and Editor
>> Honorary Research Fellow: Department of Linguistics, Unisa
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Gregory A. Thompson, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Anthropology
> 880 Spencer W. Kimball Tower
> Brigham Young University
> Provo, UT 84602
> http://byu.academia.edu/GregoryThompson
>



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