At Least 5 Black Women Found Dead In Jail Since Mid-July
BY CARIMAH TOWNES JUL 28, 2015 9:45PM

Top row: Raynette Turner; Joyce Curnell; Sandra Bland. Bottom row: Ralkina Jones; Kindra Chapman.

It’s been a little over two weeks since Sandra Bland was discovered dead in her Texas jail cell from what authorities say was a suicide.

In those 17 days since Bland’s controversial death, which has sparked social media fury and a plethora of unanswered questions, at least four more black women have died while in custody. Most of them were in jail for two days maximum. Most of them were being held on minor charges like shoplifting and were waiting to see a judge. Some of them suffered health issues. All of them should have been going home. All of them were fairly young, and all of them leave behind families and a community with questions, including, “What happened?”

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Ignorance Is No Excuse For The Law…a Know Your Rights

I’ve Wondered What Black Men Really Thought About Being Targets Of White Supremacy…Ta-Nehisi Coates  Shares

‘White supremacy is an infliction against the African-American “body.”

…’children are raised in the ghettoes white supremacy built, an omnipresent fear of violence is no less a physical experience than a punch to the gut.

Update on ‘Operation Ghetto Storm’: The Enduring War on Black People in US

Two years ago today the acquittal of George Zimmerman re-kindled a movement against impunity for police and vigilante killers.

 “Once the classic method of lynching was the rope. Now it is the policeman’s bullet … We submit that the evidence suggests that the killing of Negroes has become police policy in the United States and that police policy is the most practical expression of government policy … Force and violence systematically and consistently employed to quell the righteous anger of Blacks is justified by calling murder an exercise ‘law and order’.” — from We Charge Genocide, 1951 Petition to the United Nations edited by William Patterson, endorsed by W.E.B. DuBois, Paul Robeson, Harry Haywood and others.

More than six decades have passed since Patterson’s authoritative study of police killings of Black people. Within that span, the Deacons for Self Defense and others used arms to protect the Black Freedom Movement against vigilantes in the South; the Black Panther Party for Self Defense organized thousands of people based on the demand to end police brutality and murder of Black people; and insurrections sparked by police atrocities rocked every major city in the country.
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African & European Cultures Differ Sexually: One is Over Sexualized,

The Other Isn’t

St. Louis Archbishop Carlson said he’s not sure he knew sexual abuse was a crime

In this live presentation, Malidoma Somé and his wife Sobonfu take us into the Dagara village and give us their tribal view of intimacy, relationships and marriage.  In spite of Western influence, there still is ‘no word for sex’ in this African Village.

Which is ‘over sexualize’…which isn’t?  The only culture most African Americans know is Western ‘over sexualized’ culture and, so they too are sex addicts.  We can only be what we know.  For the sake of our children, is this not enough reason to learn African culture?

Referencing intimacy, not sex, a good place to start is The Spirit of Intimacy by Somonfu Some’  Born in Dano, Bukina Faso, a remote West African village that has perserved traditional Africa village life, with family structures, spiritual practices, and methods of living that’ve been place for more than 10,000 years…including the nature of intimate relations (review from Amazon).