Esmin Green…just another (dead) black woman

I don’t have words right now to write about this…. it is that disturbing.

So see here, and here.

Oh, and then there’s this.

Who was it that said a nation can be judged by how it treats its most vulnerable citizens?

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Staceyann Chin reads Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s “Pity the Nation”

Pity the nation whose people are sheep,
and whose shepherds mislead them.
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced,
and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.

Pity the nation that raises not its voice,
except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as hero
and aims to rule the world with force and by torture.
Pity the nation that knows no other language but its own
and no other culture but its own.
Pity the nation whose breath is money
and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed.
Pity the nation — oh, pity the people who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away.
My country, tears of thee, sweet land of liberty.

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Garden blogging

The most tiniest, sweetest baby tomatoes ever…..

This thing hasn’t bloomed in years:

That is all.

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