30 years ago today. is bombing your own city one of the CoP-iest moves ever? My rankings:
1) Mummers
2) Move bombing
3) Wing Bowl
1) Mummers
2) Move bombing
3) Wing Bowl
MOVE Remembered
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How up to speed is FoyeEffect on this topic? Any tweets today? Technically it counts as 20th century conflict.
NickleDimer
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Obviously in 1985 black lives didn't matter.
Would love to see the reaction today if this happened. Cable news talking heads' would explode.
Would love to see the reaction today if this happened. Cable news talking heads' would explode.
Anthony Bourdain:
“We know, for instance, that there is a direct, inverse relationship between frequency of family meals and social problems. Bluntly stated, members of families who eat together regularly are statistically less likely to stick up liquor stores, blow up meth labs, give birth to crack babies, commit suicide, or make donkey porn. If Little Timmy had just had more meatloaf, he might not have grown up to fill chest freezers with Cub Scout parts.”
“We know, for instance, that there is a direct, inverse relationship between frequency of family meals and social problems. Bluntly stated, members of families who eat together regularly are statistically less likely to stick up liquor stores, blow up meth labs, give birth to crack babies, commit suicide, or make donkey porn. If Little Timmy had just had more meatloaf, he might not have grown up to fill chest freezers with Cub Scout parts.”
There's a really good documentary about this on Netflix called "Let the Fire Burn". It doesn't editorialize much, which is good. If Philadelphia had a white mayor at the time, the city would have been totally destroyed.
I really have zero sympathy for anyone who died other than the kids. The MOVE people are a horrible lot. I went to a screening of Tigre Hill's documentary about the murder of Daniel Faulkner which was followed by a Q&A session and their most deranged spokesperson, Pam Africa showed up, took the microphone and started rambling incoherently about how Mumia is innocent and how he was framed by the Philadelphia PD for exposing police corruption as a journalist, despite the fact that he had been fired from working on the radio and was driving a taxi when he committed the murder.
There's a (white) guy who used to be a MOVE member who had a blog where he detailed all of the crazy shit they would do to former members and is convinced that they murdered the MOVE matriarch's ex-husband in order to get custody of their son.
I really have zero sympathy for anyone who died other than the kids. The MOVE people are a horrible lot. I went to a screening of Tigre Hill's documentary about the murder of Daniel Faulkner which was followed by a Q&A session and their most deranged spokesperson, Pam Africa showed up, took the microphone and started rambling incoherently about how Mumia is innocent and how he was framed by the Philadelphia PD for exposing police corruption as a journalist, despite the fact that he had been fired from working on the radio and was driving a taxi when he committed the murder.
There's a (white) guy who used to be a MOVE member who had a blog where he detailed all of the crazy shit they would do to former members and is convinced that they murdered the MOVE matriarch's ex-husband in order to get custody of their son.
NickleDimer
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I like Bourdain's flowery phrasing, but it misrepresents the truth. Like it's a 100% choice to live in a f*cked up environment. Like if poor people just sat down and broke bread every day, sh*t would be all rosy. It's a direct inverse relationship with income. Which means either the family isn't whole, there isn't always enough food, or your work schedule doesn't accomodate. It's a lot harder to have a roast duck banquet every night when a parent is missing, there's not enough $ for food, or you're working 2nd shift.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: We don’t dispute that the free market is the greatest producer of wealth in history -- it has lifted billions of people out of poverty. We believe in property rights, rule of law, so forth. But there has always been trends in the market in which concentrations of wealth can lead to some being left behind. And what’s happened in our economy is that those who are doing better and better -- more skilled, more educated, luckier, having greater advantages -- are withdrawing from sort of the commons -- kids start going to private schools; kids start working out at private clubs instead of the public parks. An anti-government ideology then disinvests from those common goods and those things that draw us together. And that, in part, contributes to the fact that there’s less opportunity for our kids, all of our kids.
And as a rich person, where do his kids go to school again? Will they be "luckier" and have advantages others don't have?
I love it when someone who went to Punahou School, Columbia, and Harvard Law who is married to a woman who went to Princeton and Harvard Law and has daughters who attended University of Chicago Lab School and Sidwell Friends sings the praises of public schools.
I understand the security concerns and whatever, but Amy Carter went to public school in DC.
I understand the security concerns and whatever, but Amy Carter went to public school in DC.
Reminds me of Jalen Rose calling Grant Hill an Uncle Tom and saying he hated him cause he grew up rich and went to good schools. I guess Jalen hates his own kids too.
I attended a screening of this film. Afterward, there was a panel discussion which included one of the police officers who pulled the surviving kids out of the fire........and Ramona Africa.....who may or may not have been invited to the event.
Was a very uncomfortable session.....
there was a shootout with cops first prior to the bombing, so its not like Mayor Goode just dropped a bomb for no reason.
