https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/04/kent-state-massacre-marked-start-of-americas-polarization
i’m not sure how the news came in that day, probably on the radio since my new husband and I didn’t have a TV. I turned 20 in Houston, he at 27 in April. we had both marched against the war, but this was a new realization, a shock to so many.
<blockquote>To Lou Capecci, the crack of the national guard’s guns sounded like more of the same.
“It was pretty common to have demonstrations every day. The national guard had been on campus for a few days. They would shoot tear gas into the middle of the crowd and people would throw it back at them. Then we heard the shots and at first everybody kind of shrugged their shoulders and thought more tear gas,” he said.
But the young student at Kent State University in Ohio was mistaken.
Fifty years ago today, 28 soldiers opened fire on anti-Vietnam war demonstrators, letting loose 67 bullets in just 13 seconds. Four students were killed, nine wounded, and a fissure exposed in American society that shaped politics into the Trump era.
To large parts of the country, the Kent State massacre was a shocking and seminal event – American soldiers gunning down white students was unthinkable until it happened.
Part of the shock for Capecci, who walked away from the demonstration minutes before the national guard fired, was that he thought the soldiers’ weapons were just for show.
“No one knew the national guard had real bullets. We were completely shocked. It just never occurred to anyone that they would actually have bullets to shoot people. It may sound naive but we talked about that for years afterwards,” he said.
It was naive. In other parts of the country, the police were killing African Americans protesting for equal rights, including on college campuses before and immediately after Kent State with little attention from the television cameras that gave saturation coverage to the deaths of the white students.</blockquote>
Read more at the link.
Bringing some over from the old one bc they speak to me about the “tribalisation.”
all that work to take care of the earth.
This is still troubling, considering air & car travel are significantly down, and many factories aren’t operating.
And I noticed gas has jumped 14 cents since Friday.
Last week we were at 1.02 now at 1.55 what happened to all those tankers off the cali coast that were in a parking mode? Someone up to their old gouging tricks in a crisis again. Everyone taking their turn, TP hand sanitizer, wipes, Lysol, PPE ,ventilators now meat and poultry.
Our vulture capitalists make the Ferengi look tame in their lust for greed…
Ours has been $1.39 for weeks, now.
this guy left behind a million to show solidarity
https://twitter.com/DennisThePerrin/status/1257338053183639558?s=20
oops i turned 19.
I can see why it resonated with you and hubby. You were their age.
I expect this to happen again at some point…
yes and in the same marches, diff states
Right a lot of those right wing militias that appear at state capitals around the US are in for one hell of a rude awakening when someone in their little play army group whom may be a wee unstable decides that its ok to fire on law enforcement. All it takes in one of them to escalate this and even more people will die.
I was 22. And had been protesting and marching, too. Was at U of Illinois (though not a student, I went to the community college).
Senate rejects Biden’s call to release any potential records on alleged misconduct
This doesn’t sound very promising.😮
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/495971-trump-administration-projecting-3k-daily-coronavirus-deaths-by-june
sounds awful!
Stephen Miller has probably noticed that the virus kills more people of color and poor folks, and has decided that’s a good thing.
He’s the closest to being a faux offspring of the leader of fascist regime.
And ultimately been the best for the economy, too. A huge stimulus.
Krystal and Saagar EXPOSE media, DNC plot to clear Joe Biden
Rising exclusive: Bill Clinton accuser Juanita Broaddrick backs up Tara Reade, blasts media coverage
It appears that she is using the gains of her insider trading to defend herself.🤔🙄
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/495981-loeffler-books-4m-in-ads-in-georgia-senate-race
Will the cloud continue to hover over Joe Biden as the result of this?
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/495957-secretary-of-senate-declines-to-disclose-information-on-tara-reade-complaint
I have this sinking feeling that people are going to continue to make a huge deal of all this and then the records will be scrubbed by the time we finally see them and it will be conclusive proof, right?
One caveat is that I doubt that Biden is sharp enough to this but his advisors certainly are.