All posts by Omar Ricks
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# (or, Counted without Counting)
I feel chilly, so I grab my favorite green canvas jacket from the trunk and return to the warmth of my car in the parking...
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Conclusion: Shakur or, a Primer on the Difference between Morality and Ethics
for LC and TD All that you meet are thieves: to Athens go, Break open shops; nothing can you steal, But thieves do lose it...
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Despite Apologies from Racist Frat, UC Irvine Black Students Stick to Demands
You might already know that a series of racist behaviors toward Black people recently brought national attention to University of California, Irvine’s (UCI) campus. A...
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the tenth time out of ten
For Latasha Harlins For Amadou Diallo It is midnight in a year that is of no particular importance. Somewhere, a leading criminologist who spent all...
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White Rage, Black Obama
Reflections on the DNC: Part 2 The hysteria that characterizes these commotions convinces me that the current American political...
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Afterword: On Violence
Of particular critical interest to us are social and political phenomena that block, negate, or limit the satisfaction of goods or ends that humans, especially...
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Africanized: A Story
She swung at me with her open left hand. I had been deeply ensconced in my work—as workers must be—and I didn’t execute quickly enough....
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Editor's Commentary: On Violence
How can we be ethically opposed to some forms of violence while being in favor of others? This question was on my mind the day...
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You Call That a Black President? Or, How Stupid Do Mainstream Politicians Think Black People Are?
Reflections on the DNC: Part 1 I went to the Democratic National Convention on a press pass. I had secretly hoped to rediscover my desire...
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Antiblack Geographies, or What the Charlotte YMCA and the Confederate Military Have in Common
Did you know that Charlotte’s Central City Dowd YMCA is on the same site as the Confederacy’s North Carolina Military Institute? This does not imply...
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Voices Marginalized at the DNC: WorldCantWait.net
Outside Community Outreach Christian Ministries, the church where Jesse Jackson is speaking for the Progressive Democrats of America, just before the Democratic National Convention. “The...
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Still Mama's Baby–The Continued Relevance of the American Grammar Book: A Prologue
I have always been awful at football. And for that, I give thanks. The first thing I want to do is to thank my mother,...
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Of Ambivalence: The Help, Obama, and the Ultimate Slave Re-Mix
And so here we are. In the same week, President Barack Obama became the first president in the history of Billy Graham’s “crusade,” and the...