W / C Oct 21
1. U.S. Parole boards are racist and random as hell.
2. An Israeli soldier admitted to CNN that he drove over hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza with bulldozers.
3. The names: Nuru, Nora, Nur, Noor, Nera, Nehara, Inara & Niamh all roughly mean the same thing – light!
4. Pharelle’s charity is actually dope.
5. Too many cultural institutions across the UK still have Aboriginal remains - the bodies of babies - stolen from Australia.
6. Fascism is a nationalist political movement that builds a cult around an all-powerful leader who vows to protect his loyal subjects from racially inferior others and the enemy within. #Trump
7. Harry Potter and The Cursed Child is also a Queer love story. Initially, it wasn’t.
8. “The violence of the oppressed does not justify their oppression*”
9. Damon Wayans once said “I’m a people person, but people ruin that”. And I get that.
10. Hitler studied Jim Crow laws, to understand systematic persecution.
*Can this become a poem?