Levine – editor for the Hunter Envoy, writer for pompline.com, blogger at hannahmiet.blogspot.com, former writer for the WORD this past semester – is interning this summer at L Magazine. Here is her first review there, Sexy (and Sexist?) 90s New York.
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Hannah Levine at L Magazine
Monday, June 15th, 2009The Danger of Friendly Fire: Black Police Officers Disproportionately at Risk of Being Shot …
Friday, June 12th, 2009… by white colleagues who mistake them for criminals. That danger was tragically underscored in New York City last month, when Omar Edwards, a young African-American officer who was chasing a suspect, was shot to death by another police officer. The New York Police Department, and police departments across the country, must do everything possible to prevent such tragedies.
The New York New York Police Department says such “friendly fire†killings are rare, and it could not provide accurate statistics on how often they happen. But a provisional list provided by the department of fatalities caused by mistaken identity offers some sense the problem. Of the five officers mistakenly killed by colleagues since the 1970s, three were black and one was Hispanic.
– New York Times Editorial, June 11
Read more here. Regarding the Times’ editorial headline, The Danger of Friendly Fire, what if the friendlies have minds poisoned? Can they really be regarded as friendlies?
For what it’s worth, my words about the shooting of Omar Edwards.
From NYT’s Timothy Egan’s An Innocent Abroad – About “Angel Face”
Thursday, June 11th, 2009I couldn’t resist Egan’s Outpost passage, I thought it was candid about certain brands of Americana …
“We kill innocent Americans often enough through our legal system, kill them because of shoddy police work or racial prejudice.”
Ethnic Media Expand Audience by 8 Million Adults in Four Years; Outlets Now Reach 57 Million Blacks, Latinos And Asians
Thursday, June 11th, 2009Definitely must reading, the report below. Also, the New American Media news site should be checked out as religiously as the savant check out the New York Times.
From New America Media
ATLANTA – Over the last four years, the ethnic media have picked up 8 million new readers, viewers and listeners, and now regularly reach 57 million people in the United States, according to a poll released today by New America Media (NAM). The increase comes as mainstream media, especially metropolitan daily newspapers, struggle to keep their audiences.
Spring 2009 Grades – Whoa!
Monday, June 8th, 2009I want to preface this semester wrap-up with an anecdote that I believe provides an insightful, behind-the-scenes look of inner workings and thinking as well as speaks to important matters, such as student learning, undergraduate journalism, Academic Freedom and the kind of baleful malaise that corrupts academic values and principles.
The D:F/M chair informed me a while back that he and the D:F/M Policy & Budget Committee wanted me to take a leave from teaching Basic Reporting, MEDP 292. I was suspected of being the culprit responsible for the drop in enrollment of department majors. There was this concern that a lot of students were flunking my classes (which have high standards and expectations for students, high – I’m being kind – in light of this department’s standards).
The result, if one was to believe the chair and the P&B, was a cosmic resonance so strong that what occurred in my classroom emanated beyond its boundaries and was discouraging students (who didn’t take classes with me, who weren’t even planning to enroll in my courses) from taking the major or were being encouraged to drop it.Â
Whew!
Lame courses, lame instructors were not being considered. Not to mention lame policy decisions.
I refused, of course.
Atlanta Bound …
Saturday, June 6th, 2009… Nope. The New American Media expo wrapped yesterday. It was historic and I will have to figure out another way to write about it for this blog. Perhaps by interviewing the WORD’s Eunji Jang when she gets back.
Interviewees Go Wild!
Saturday, June 6th, 2009New York Daily News Headline: Mayor Bloomberg calls reporter ‘a disgrace’ for questioning rationale for third term run
The Mayor of New York City becomes visibly and publicly upset because he can’t manipulate the news media? This is an excellent real-world teaching anecdote for my J-news writing classes.
New York Times Headline for June 15 Opinion Article by Brent Staples: Even Now, There’s Risk in ‘Driving While Black’
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009Regarding America’s racial landscape, I believe there are risks at all levels of social interactions, thus, I would like to add the following for consideration of could-have-been headlines (or could-have-been sub-headlines) regarding Staple’s article: Walking While Black, Bicycling While Black, Working While Black, and, of course, two that hold significance for me and all my students, Learning While Black and Teaching While Black.
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Tags:Brent Staples, Driving While Black, Omar Edwards, racism, unconscious racism
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