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On Reddit, user Amiantedeluxe has gone through the Wikipedia pages for countries around the world to create a map showing the most used word on each country's Wikipedia entry.It's the kind of thing that can send you down a rabbit hole where you lose way too much time digging around.
Efforts were made to make the information relevant.The map excludes words like "the," "government," and "country" to find more substantive terms.It's worth noting Wikipedia pages can be edited by anyone. That means there's often marketing and other forces at play. Also, pages often go on tangents, ignoring arguably more important history. Thus, it's safe to say there's little scientific about the "study."
Nonetheless, this is an interesting look at events that shaped the world.
Many nations focus on leadership with terms like "king" and "dynasty" cropping up most frequently. Geography looms large with "island" coming up for loads of island nations. Throughout much of the world, terms highlight conflict. North Korea's most common word is "South" and South Korea's most common word is "North." Meanwhile, "World" is seen across Europe, no doubt due to the prevalence of World War I and World War II.
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Participating in this years Sally Dickson Lecture were, fromleft,TimWise,ShaktiButler,AimeeAllison,JeffChangandMarisaFranco. (Image credit: AngieChan-Geiger)
When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans a dozen years ago, natural forces werent the biggest cause of flooding: a misallocation of government resources left the levees unprepared for the rising floodwaters.
People rushed into New Orleans from all over the country, armed with their good intentions. TIM WISE, a prominent voice on racism, inequality and white privilege, remembered seeing them at the airports, arriving in T-shirts that advertised their volunteer activities.
Why do you need to have a T-shirt? he mused, noting that the slogans and motivation didnt match the racial and economic realities they would meet. The media had delivered them to the catastrophe, he recently told a Stanford audience. All of them were well-intended because they had seen people in desperate pain.
The mismatch spotlights what Wise calls the charitable mindset rather than the solidarity mindset.
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If you dont see yourself as bound up with the lives of other people, Im not sure what kind of help you can be, he explained.
Wise was the keynote speaker recently for the second annual SALLY DICKSON LECTURE ON DIVERSITY, INCLUSION AND REFLECTION. The title of the event was Bridges Over Troubled Waters: Engaging Allies in Times of Crisis. The event was co-sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for Student Affairs and the Diversity and First-Generation Office.
The Sally Dickson Lecture was created in 2015 by GREG BOARDMAN, vice provost for student affairs, to honor Dicksons contributions. As the former associate vice provost for student affairs and dean of educational resources, Dickson was dedicated to community-building and engagement among students, faculty and staff.
In his introduction of Wise, Boardman noted that his relationship with Wise dates back 30 years, since the activist was a student at Tulane University, where Boardman was an administrator.
After his keynote, Wise joined a panel discussion with SHAKTI BUTLER, a filmmaker and founder and president ofWorld Trust; JEFF CHANG, executive director of Stanfords Institute for Diversity in the Arts; and MARISA FRANCO, director ofMijenteand ofNot1More Deportation. The panel was moderated by AIMEE ALLISON, senior vice president ofPowerPAC+ and a Stanford alumna.
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Twenty-four years ago, Rev. Al Sharpton said something immensely sick about the police, and when rising star and political commentator Jesse Watters recently tried to confront the notorious race-baiter about his previously made statements, Sharptonof course started making excuses.
First he claimed that he never made the statement. Then he claimed that the Fox News correspondenthad simply misinterpreted him.
But unfortunately for Mr. Sharpton, there was no denying what happened.
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Like Watters himself said to the mans rat-like face, Facts are facts.
The facts are that Sharpton said some very disturbing things 24 years ago while delivering a speech at Kean College.
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I dont believe in marching!' he yelled while recounting the words said by one of his opponents. I believe in offing the pigs! Well they got pigs out here! You aint offed one of them!
What I believe in, I do, he added. Do what you believe in.
Now obviously, Sharpton was not saying that he wanted to off any pigs. He was making the point that his opponents who talk about offing the pigs should back their words up with action.
And Watters felt that Sharpton should apologize for having made this devious recommendation, but Sharpton,course, disagreed:
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Would you like to apologize for that? Watters asked.
You dont have footage saying that, Sharpton first claimed. You had me where I said that a guy was talking about offing pigs, and I said, you aint gonna do nothing, and I mocked him.
Excuses, excuses, excuses. For a guy who claims to keep it real, Sharpton has about as many ties to reality as an insane asylum patient.
Nice try, Sharpton, but in a slightly modified version of your own words, Watters got you!
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Rev. Al Sharpton met with California lawmakers on Tuesday and urged legislators to pick up their effort on police reforms, which civil rights leaders say have slipped this session.
Sharpton and local leaders of his National Action Network were at the Capitol to lobby in favor of AB 284, which would give local police and district attorneys the ability to ask the state attorney generals officeto investigate police shootings.
The group left a meeting with Assembly AppropriationsChairwoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-San Diego) hopeful that the bill would clear her committees suspense file on Friday. Friday is the deadline for spending bills to advance to the floor.
It has become clear to us that local prosecutors are compromised in their investigations, said Sharpton. They depend on police unions to endorse their elections. And they depend on local police to do the investigations of crimes.
AB 284 has faced opposition from law enforcement groups who say the bill duplicatesexisting oversight.
The attorney general retains the authority to step in on any criminal prosecution when they think theres a problem, said Cory Salzillo of the California State Sheriffs Association at a hearing last month. There are other things the AG should be working on, rather than investigating these cases based on this notion of bias on the part of the district attorney.
Last legislative session, lawmakers pushed proposals to expedite the release of body camera footage, and even open up officers personnel records. Civil rights leaders worry that this session, California lawmakers are losing momentum on policing reforms.
This is one of the issues that California must lead on, saidRev. Shane Harris, president of the National Action Network San Diego. We are supposedly leading the nation in being progressive, yet still we are failing on a very big issue nationally that Democrats have vowed to take on.
In Connecticut, an individual outside of the local prosecutors office can be appointed to investigate an officers use of deadly force. And in Wisconsin, incidents in which an officer is involved with a civilians death must be investigated by anindependent review panel.
Two years ago, Asm. Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento), who authored AB 284, carried a more ambitious police reform proposal that would have required a special prosecutor to investigate any deadly officer-involved shooting in the state. That legislation died in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
This new proposal, which received bipartisan support in committee, would bring in the Attorney Generals office to look intoa police shooting only upon request of a local agency.
Guy Marzorati is a producer for The California Report andKQED's California Politics and Government Desk. Guy joined KQED in 2013. He grew up in New York and graduated from Santa Clara University. Email: GMarzorati@KQED.org
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