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I am in the mood for a new bike. I am a renewed rider, getting back in the saddle after a number of years on motorcycles then a rough time the last couple years with some health issues (undiagnosed Addison's). Well the health issues are back in control and I have fallen in love again with two wheelin' under my own power. The motorcycles are gone and I've been rolling around on an old cruiser and an older Raleigh Super Record with upright 3-speed handle bars on it. The Super Record is a huge bike. I really sit high in the air on it.
So I've been shopping. I have ridden and like the Trek 7.5 Fx and a Giant FCR2. I like the Trek a little better than the Giant, but I can't really tell much of a diffence. The Trek and Giant shifted flawlessly, and rode nice. The Trek seemed to have better finish. The Giant finish was great as well but seemed a little less complex treatment-wise.
I checked out a Diamondback, but locally the selection of their fitness type bikes is limited. I heard they have an issue with brake squeal too. Otherwise the Diamondback seems like a bargain, but seemed low end.
Another bike that interests me are the Specialized Sirrus Sport, and will be taking a look at that one this weekend. It's described as a road bike with an upright stance, and that sounds like Raleigh.
Lastly there is a Motobecane Cafe Noir. A road type bike with an upright set of bars. If I mail order I can get it for a great price. A LBS nearby no longer sells bikes but assembles and repairs. I'd be happy to give him the job. Plus he used to sell Motobecane, but sales dropped as the local mall shut down.
I want to keep prices in the $800 range give or take a few hundred.
Anyway my heart goes for the Trek due to high tech look and the great ride I had. The Motobecane also calls to me. The Chro-moly tubes are cool traditional and if I end up not linking the flat bar, I can add some bullhorns and it still will look in place.
The Giant presented no complaints, other than it was blue (blue isn't my color). And I plan to saddle up the specialized this weekend.
So. Does anyone have any other suggestions or pointers? Am I overlooking something? I figure by next weekend I'll be riding something new or waiting for it to be shipped.


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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have written to the president opposing the deployment of more troops. Adding combat troops, they argued, would only endanger more Americans and stretch the nation's military to the breaking point for no strategic gain. On Sunday, Pelosi said Congress would not give the president a blank check and that President Bush would have to justify the sending of extra troops to Iraq. Democratic Senator Joseph Biden also criticized President Bush's push for more troops.
Sen. Joseph Biden: "The question is: Do we continue with a policy that is failing? We've tried this policy twice in the last 12 months, surging troops into Baghdad. Unfortunately, my friends have got this backward. We need a political solution before you can get a military solution. What has changed from three years ago, when I sat on this program and said we need to surge 60,000 troops then, is we now have a civil war."
Biden spoke on NBC's Meet the Press. During the interview, he also announced plans to run for president. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham also appeared on the show and defended the president's policy.
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New data from the Iraqi Health Ministry shows that more than 17,000 Iraqi civilians and police officers died violently in the latter half of 2006. That is more than three times the number of Iraqis reported to be killed during the first six months of the year. A Health Ministry official provided the data to The Washington Post. The actual number of violent deaths in 2006 is believed to be higher because the official said these numbers were incomplete.
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Gordon Brown: "Now that we know the full picture of what happened, I think we can sum this up as a deplorable set of events. It is something, of course, of which the Iraqi government has now expressed its anxiety and its shame at."
Gordon Brown has been tipped to succeed Tony Blair as British prime minister.
Report: Israel Preparing to Use Tactical Nukes Against Iran
Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons, this according to the Times of London. The paper is reporting that two Israeli Air Force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using low-yield nuclear "bunker-busters." The attack would be the first with nuclear weapons since 1945, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Israeli weapons would each have a force equivalent to one-15th of the Hiroshima bomb. The Israeli Foreign Ministry denied the report.
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On Friday, President Bush nominated Vice Admiral Mike McConnell to replace John Negroponte as the director of national intelligence. Mike McConnell said he would work to increase the coordination between the nation's 16 different spy agencies.
Vice Admiral Mike McConnell: I plan to continue the strong emphasis on integration of the community to better serve all of our customers. That will mean better sharing of information, increased focus on customer needs and service, improved security processes, and deeper penetration of our targets to provide the needed information for tactical, operational and strategic decision making."
McConnell is a former director of the National Security Agency and the current director of defense programs at Booz Allen — one of the nation's biggest defense and intelligence contractors. Salon.com is reporting that under McConnell's watch, Booz Allen has been deeply involved in some of the most controversial counterterrorism programs run by the Bush administration, including the infamous Total Information Awareness data-mining scheme. Salon reports that Booz Allen is likely participating in the NSA's warrantless surveillance of the telephone calls and emails of American citizens.
John Negroponte Heads to State Department
Mike McConnell's predecessor, John Negroponte, is moving to the State Department to become Condoleezza Rice's deputy.
John Negroponte: "It's been a great honor, Mr. President, to serve as your first director of national intelligence. I will always be grateful to you for having given me the opportunity to help achieve the goals that you and the Congress set for intelligence reform. During the past 20 months, I believe that our intelligence community has embraced the challenge of functioning as a single, unified enterprise and reaffirmed the fact that it is the best intelligence community in the world, second to none."
Imam from Ohio Disappears Following His Deportation
A prominent Muslim leader from Ohio was deported last week by the U.S. government and hasn't been heard from since. Fawaz Damra was the former imam at Ohio's largest mosque, the Islamic Center of Cleveland. In 2004 he was jailed for allegedly concealing ties to the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad. The U.S. government says he was deported Thursday morning to the West Bank. But his friends and family say no one has heard from him since he was taken. Palestinian officials have said they don't know where he is. Damra's attorney also criticized the U.S. for giving no notice prior to the deportation. Damra was not given a chance to say goodbye to his wife or his three daughters who were born in the United States.
Kidnapped Peruvian Journalist Released in Gaza
In Gaza, the kidnapped Peruvian journalist Jaime Razuri has been released — nearly a week after being seized by gunmen. The 50-year-old Razuri was on assignment for Agence France-Presse. He was set free on Sunday.
Jaime Razuri: "That's what I can say. ... I can't — it's too much for me to have more words than this right now, as you could understand, so just to say that I am very happy to be released by the action they have took. ... So that's all. Thank you very much to all of you to take care of what was going on with me all these days."
No group has taken responsibility for the kidnapping.
Body of Associated Press Staffer Found in Iraq
Meanwhile in Iraq, the body of an Associated Press employee was found on Friday with a gunshot to the back of his head. The 28-year-old Ahmed Hadi Naji had gone missing on December 30. He is the fourth AP staffer to die violently in the Iraq War. He worked as a messenger and occasional cameraman.
Human Rights Delegation Heads to Guantanamo
A delegation of human rights activists have arrived in Cuba to protest outside the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo. Protesters include Cindy Sheehan and CodePink founder Medea Benjamin, who spoke in Havana.
Medea Benjamin: "We see that there are still close to 400 people in that prison (Guantanamo Bay), and they don't have access to due process by the law, and we know of all the abuses that have taken place there. We are part of an international group which is asking that the prison be closed."
The U.S. activists plan to march to the prison along with a former detainee and the mother of a man being held. Thursday marks the fifth anniversary of the opening of Guantanamo. Protests are scheduled around the world to call for the prison's closing.
1,200 Peace Activists Make Giant "Impeach" Sign on Beach
And in San Francisco, about 1,200 peace activists gathered on the beach Saturday to spell out the word "impeach" in giant letters visible from the sky. The protest occurred in the district of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Advocates of impeaching President Bush have criticized Pelosi for saying that impeachment is off the table.
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Re: expected MP community size?ProperDedisNeeded Sep 6, 2013 3:59 PM (in response to TopGear93)
Well I can tell you one thing, it's certainly guaranteed to be a smaller community size than Black Ops 2 had. Each year more and more people quit the franchise, and nearly all of them are leaving because it has matchmaking.
Just look at the last two CoD titles... both included matchmaking, and both have been the least played CoD titles on PC.
Modern Warfare 3 started out around 110,000 then quickly dropped to 60,000 within the first 4-6 months, by the end of it's first year it was down to 25,000-30,000 max players.
Black Ops 2 started out around 80,000 players, then quickly dropped to 40,000 within the first 4-6 months, now we're close to the end of it's first year and it's down to 15,000-18,000 max players.
Ghosts most likely will only top around 60,000-70,000 players near launch (a lot of gullible folks still left who believe every claim Activision makes) yet within the first 4-6 months I'll be very surprised if it even maintains 20,000.
Meanwhile Call of Duty 4 continues to have such a strong community, it has at least 3 times as many players as Black Ops 2...
Re: expected MP community size?Lemwise Sep 6, 2013 4:22 PM (in response to ProperDedisNeeded)
I still play COD4 a lot. 90% of the time I play on the same clan run server. I'm not a clan member but I've been playing on it for the past 2 years. I know all the clan members and the other regular players on the server. They also have a lot of very cool custom maps and a set of rules wich they enforce very strictly. It's everything COD should be. We always have a lot of fun playing together. Everyone plays fair and there's none of the idiotic explosive spamming or nootubing like in BO2. IW and 3arc really f*cked up the franchise after COD4. It has so much potential but for some reason they just don't see it or don't want to see it. They just keep dumbing it down year after year and with every release the pace goes up and it becomes an even bigger chaotic clusterf*ck. But hey, as long as I have COD4 and my regular server is up it's all good.
Re: expected MP community size?KillerClown67 Sep 8, 2013 2:11 AM (in response to Lemwise)
This is exactly why we want dedicated server list for ghost, you have put it all into one post thanks :-).
Clan run server will mean more players back on cod tbh.
Re: expected MP community size?TopGear93 Sep 6, 2013 7:53 PM (in response to ProperDedisNeeded)
Well thats disappointing. I personally don't mind the matchmaking too much when it works lol. Otherwise, yes i can understand the hatred against such a stiff server system. Not sure what game to buy then. I like COD for the quickness and generally arcadey feeling and BF for the realism but EA is really killing it with the horde of DLC and pathetic pricing.
Re: expected MP community size?ProperDedisNeeded Sep 6, 2013 11:49 PM (in response to TopGear93)
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Not sure what game to buy then. I like COD for the quickness and generally arcadey feeling and BF for the realism but EA is really killing it with the horde of DLC and pathetic pricing.
Sounds like you like CoD for the same reasons I do... Ultra smooth, fun, gameplay. Unfortunately it's completely ruined by matchmaking.
If you're looking for something to tide you over for now... I suggest Natural Selection 2.. It's a highly addictive and relatively smooth (if you have a powerful enough PC) game. - Just don't expect to hop into it and suddenly be good (like anyone can do with CoD) Natural Selection 2 is a game that actually requires skill, and has a learning curve.
Remember also, next year we will be getting Titanfall. Made by the REAL creators of the original CoD and CoD4... It looks to have the same ultra smooth "arcadey" feel that made CoD so popular in the first place... and since it's EA there's a pretty good chance it will receive proper PC support like the rest of their multiplayer games do.
Besides, calling in a Titan for a kill streak will be a LOT more fun (and balanced even) than some of the ridiculously overpowered crap they call kill streaks in CoD nowadays.
Re: expected MP community size?Th3_St4lk3r Sep 7, 2013 12:12 AM (in response to TopGear93)
I'd expect Ghosts to get a higher player count as BO2, but I'm no marketing/statistics expert.
It seems the whole scenario (basically still modern warfare) seems more appealing to customers. Also BO2 wasn't that bad (in comparison to MW3) and it's (still lousy) PC support was actually a step upwards.
A few players will propably switch to next gen consoles, but the playercount at launch will be something in between BO2 and MW3.
The important factor is, how many of those people still play the game a few month after release? BO2 managed to kill the game for many people with their shitty SMG-only balance in the first few months.
I don't really see BF4 as much of a competitor. The hardcore/oldschool Battlefield fans will propably get back to BF2, and BF4 doesn't have enough new features to really get that much new players, but maybe that's just me.
Re: expected MP community size?spidy Sep 7, 2013 8:40 AM (in response to TopGear93)
i'm being very sceptical about Ghost and its promises
so i and lots of my friends decsided not to Pre-Order Ghost
sure when server files arive and the reviews are good we will take back Ghost in consideration
but for now its all promises and we know what activision does with there promises
Re: expected MP community size?xFrazierz Sep 7, 2013 1:10 PM (in response to TopGear93)
if we get rentable dedicated servers i expected a 100 k players for the first 6 mouths . for what they say and the people who play the game already in all of maps all diferent class of weapons are effective . one mistake bo1 made dont allow servers to run both original maps and dlc maps on the same server . because will get people to get mad with the game , and will give more money .
Re: expected MP community size?ProperDedisNeeded Sep 7, 2013 2:34 PM (in response to xFrazierz)
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if we get rentable dedicated servers i expected a 100 k players for the first 6 mouths .
Won't happen... player count won't be anywhere near that high.
Even IF they release rentable dedicated servers after launch... and even IF they were ranked and properly done... it will already be too late to save the game or bring new players in. The simple facts are whatever servers they may or may not give us will be an afterthought.
Anyone who actually thinks they'll be better than MW3's unranked servers is delusional.
Re: expected MP community size?xFrazierz Sep 8, 2013 1:15 AM (in response to ProperDedisNeeded)
it was just a guess modern warfare game's style are always more appealing to the gamers . bo1 with dedicated servers sustained a 40 k + player base for 6 mouths . if the player base isn't of 40 k it wont matter as long has he have rentable dedicated servers there always be a good server with good ping to play on it .
Re: expected MP community size?Stormproot Sep 10, 2013 2:04 AM (in response to TopGear93)
Probably will start off at around 80-90k then drop a bit, then go up slightly with Christmas, then dwindle away to < 10k by Nov 2014 when the next CoD multiplayer fail is released by Treyarch.


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I wonder what he threatened these execs with to get them to be quiet... Let's see, he's already got Apple over a barrel with iTunes, ATT doesn't want to get shut out of bandwidth auctions or damaged again on acquisition plans....
Even the NYT has turned on Obama over this NSA stuff. For a WH that is listening to everything, they seem awfully tone deaf.
I very much doubt he is "threatening" anybody over this. Perhaps he has finally awoken to the consequences of unfettered spying over the web and the commercial fallout it is about to cause. If I were a foreign country or business I would think twice about submitting my budget meetings and financial data to scrutiny by the U.S. Government. I would think twice before doing ANY business on the world wide web when Uncle Sam is looking over the shoulder writing the check and finding out where the money is and how much and how begotten.... Think about it a little more TJ.
Wait until the stuff Clinton put into place in the late 90s where they started recording all phone calls passed through telco tandem offices. I only found out about it when the Pontiac, Michigan, 50T started going up and down like a yo-yo. Hunted down a switching tech at Ameritech and found out the mirroring of the traffic for the government overloaded the system. Since then they split up the 50T equipment into a bunch of smaller 20T centers.
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FreeCreditScore.com and FreeCreditReport.com are websites owned by Experian Consumer Direct, a subsidiary of the credit bureau Experian. The sites offer users their personal credit reports from Experian on the condition that they sign up for Experian's Triple Advantage credit monitoring program for a fee. The credit report also comes with the user's PLUS credit score. The membership may be canceled with no charge within 7 days of signup by contacting the call center.
FreeCreditReport.com as well as its affiliate site FreeCreditScore.com has been the subject of two major lawsuits. In 2005, the site's owner, Experian Consumer Direct, was sued by the Federal Trade Commission for deceptive marketing tactics. They settled for $950,000 in the form of free credit monitoring for those affected and agreed not to use deceptive and misleading claims about free offers and to offer full disclosure of terms and conditions of any free offers.[1][2] The penalty was largely seen as ineffective since it amounted to a small fraction of the $72 million annual advertising budget for FreeCreditReport.com. They were further subjected to a 2006 inquiry by the Florida Attorney General for violating Florida's Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act.[3] An MSNBC.com investigation of the website called it "misleading", "deceptive" and a "scam".[4] The program has also been identified as a scam by ConsumerFraudReporting.org.[5][6]
The advertising practices of FreeCreditReport.com were specifically addressed in the Credit CARD Act of 2009. Now any company who advertises a 'free credit report' on TV or radio must include the statement: "This is not the free credit report provided for by Federal law."[7][8][9] The law also calls for the Federal Trade Commission to issue new rules that will force free credit report advertisers to inform consumers that the only place for a free credit report is AnnualCreditReport.com.[9]
Singing ad campaign[edit]
In October 2007,[10] Experian Consumer Direct began airing an advertising campaign featuring singer Eric Violette as a man struggling with difficult life circumstances due to his poor credit score, and his ignorance of it. The commercials feature jingles written using various distinctive forms of popular music. To date the company has aired nine different commercials, which have aired in different orders in different markets. The commercials featuring Violette and his band stopped airing in February 2010, as a new band was brought in. In mid June, 2012 the original band returned in new commercials for FreeCreditScore.com as a part of a "comeback" campaign.
The themes/motifs of the commercials include, in order:[11]
- Pirate-themed restaurant
- Living with in-laws
- Used car
- Bicycle riding
- Rockstars pool party
- Renaissance fair
- Roller coaster
- Small town / cell phone shop
- Country bar in Reno
Most feature references to the original "Pirate" commercial; either lyrically, or by including it as part of the background. Most also feature an elderly woman, who in the later commercials is disapproving of the group.
Violette was born June 12, 1981 in Montreal[12] and attended the National Theatre School of Canada in 2002.[13] The commercials prepared by David Muhlenfeld & Shakur Green at The Martin Agency began appearing in October 2007.[14] Due to Violette's Canadian French accent, his voice has been dubbed in the United States.[10][15] He earlier did a Sirius Satellite Radio commercial in French.[16][17]
When asked about his character by the Washington Post, Violette said that "He's a guy who has a lot of dreams and hopes. But he's not able to make them concrete because I think he's a little bit lazy. He's the kind of guy who always has bad luck . . . but I'm sure he has a good heart."[18]
The commercials have spawned various homages including many parodies on YouTube.[19] MADtv parodied the ads in a sketch that featured a young man cursed by bad luck after getting a credit card his senior year of high school.[20] After racking up $80,000 in debt, he ends up in jail, escapes and eventually winds up living with a skinhead named Fang "in a soggy cardboard box".
In response to the commercials, the Federal Trade Commission produced two public service announcements to remind citizens of the right to annual free credit reports from annualcreditreport.com.[21]
Freecreditscore band campaign[edit]
In May 2010 a nationwide band search began to find the new face of freecreditscore.com. Live auditions were held in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Bands could also submit videos of themselves online at freecreditscoreband.com[22] for consideration. Many were typical entries, but some bands, apparently as a joke, submitted videos as well, most notably Comparative Anatomy.[23] In August 2010 The American Secrets (Formerly known as "Victorious Secrets", but changed the name to avoid any possible legal issues with Victoria's Secret)[24] were named the new FCS Band.[25] The band features Daniel Zott of Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.[26]
Unlike the first band, who sang about finding themselves in bad credit situations, the new band sang instead about other people in bad credit situations, while simply being part of the background.
FCS Commercial Themes:
- "Check It" featuring the new FCS iPhone App[27]
- "Secret" features the band in a golfing course
- "Ocean View" features the band in a man's poorly located home[28]
- "School's In Session" features the band as a "cover band" at a dorm room party[29]
- "Global Nomad" features the band singing in an airport[30]
- "Credit Wipeout" features the band at the beach[31]
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On June 15, 2012, freecreditscore.com released a new commercial that featured the return of the original band.
FCS Commercial Themes:
- "New Spot"- featuring the band gone and regrouping, with all members now financially well off. The "used sub-compact" from the used car commercial, is now pimped out, and the scene from the earlier commercial is reprised. The band is stopped at a light next to attractive women in a red Mustang convertible, but this time, instead of laughing at them as in the previous commercial, the women are now interested because of their financial success.[32]
- "Set It Off"- featuring the band talking about receiving score alerts from the FCS app. The commercial also featured the return of the elderly lady, who frequented the band's older commercials.[33]
- ^ "Marketer of "Free Credit Reports" Settles FTC Charges". Federal Trade Commission. 2005-08-16. Retrieved 2009-06-06.
- ^ "Marketer of "Free Credit Reports" Settles FTC Charges". Consumer Affairs. 2005-08-16. Retrieved 2008-03-27.
- ^ Sullivan, Bob (2006-11-15). "Florida AG investigates FreeCreditReport.com". MSNBC. Retrieved 2008-03-27.
- ^ Sullivan, Bob (2006-09-12). "Don't fall for FreeCreditReport.com". MSNBC. Retrieved 2008-03-27.
- ^ "FreeCreditReports.com Scam at ConsumerFraudReporting.org".
- ^ "A Free Credit Score Followed by a Monthly Bill" article by Ron Lieber in The New York Times November 2, 2009
- ^ "Small Business". The San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ [1]
- ^ a b [2]
- ^ a b Petrecca, Laura; Theresa Howard; Bruce Horovitz (2008-04-13). "Ad Track: Starbucks splash stick says no to sploshing". USA Today. pp. 2B. Retrieved 2009-06-12.
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzkBhfbwRkg
- ^ Eric Violette - Mahalo.com
- ^ ericviolette.com
- ^ [3]
- ^ http://www.mahalo.com/Eric_Violette Eric Violette - Mahalo.com
- ^ Youtube Sirius Commercial
- ^ Eric Violette at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ "Conversations: Eric Violette, the FreeCreditReport.com Guy". Washington Post. 2009-05-23. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
- ^ The High Cost of a 'Free Credit Report' New York Times - August 4, 2008
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuKYP2cBvBA
- ^ http://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2009/03/ftc-releases-spoof-videos-serious-message-annualcreditreportcom
- ^ http://www.freecreditscoreband.com/
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlkCgitUt0U
- ^ http://freecreditscoreband.com/
- ^ http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/956880/the-victorious-secrets-named-new-freecreditscorecom-band
- ^ http://blogs.metrotimes.com/index.php/2010/08/detroits-victorious-secrets-new-freecreditreport-band/
- ^ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/experians-my-credit-score/id388991060?mt=8
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/user/freecreditscore?feature=watch
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUUl0CzrqQ0
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/user/freecreditscore?feature=BF
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82UL-l0OFVE
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38icBN1f1_g
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFumVTomsFY
External links[edit]
- AnnualCreditReport.com, the legally mandated, FTC-promoted site.
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013
The figures are even bleaker for African Americans, who comprise nearly half of the nation's jail and prison population of 2.3 million, according to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. And this occurs within a supposed "colorblind" society, said author Michelle Alexander, who spoke to more than 500 people Friday night in Washburn Hall on Lesley's Brattle Campus.
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"The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" questions whether our nation has truly "triumphed over race" with the election and re-election of President Barack Obama. She decried the sudden and dramatic mass incarceration of African-American men, primarily through the "war on drugs," which, though declared by President Ronald Reagan in 1982, "when drug crime was actually on the decline," has been prosecuted by presidents of both parties since that time, with efforts targeting the inner cities and especially people of color.
Starting in the Reagan era, and coinciding with the emergence of crack cocaine, White House staff began a propaganda campaign built around images of "crack babies" and inner-city adults in the thrall of the drug.
"As our conception of drug use became darker and darker, blacker and blacker," Alexander said, the nation became more punitive and undertook the sort of law enforcement activities, like "stop-and-frisk," aimed almost exclusively at citizens of color. The majority of Americans violate drug laws at some point in their life — whether it's experimenting with marijuana, cocaine or "club drugs," or getting behind the wheel after having had too much to drink — but the battleground for the war on drugs is poor, minority residential areas, she indicated.
"These kind of tactics are restricted to the 'hood," she said, even though drugs themselves move freely through all societal and financial strata.
The result, she added, is a system of "mass incarceration that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. could never have dreamed of, and would never have wanted to dream of."
Perpetuating the situation is the "direct monetary interest … in the longevity of this 'war,'" Alexander added. She pointed to the siting of prisons in poor, rural areas and advertising them as jobs programs, and the increased privatization of the corrections system, with some prison industries being publicly traded on Wall Street.
And the money keeps flowing once someone is released from prison (though 75 percent of convicts land back in prison within three years of their release). More and more, convicts are being charged for costs related to their incarceration, and people on probation typically are on the hook for monthly "monitoring fees," even though finding work after jail is a Herculean labor.
But economics are only part of the equation. Alexander said our own attitudes toward people who have been locked up — even for nonviolent offenses — "would need a social upheaval to reverse" the relegation of those who are, or have been, in jail to what she terms a racial under-caste.
"The 'Whites Only' signs are gone," she said, but they've been replaced by a correctional industrial complex, and recent laws legally disenfranchising black and brown citizens from the vote, that "are doing what Jim Crow laws never could."
What's needed, she said, is a practice of "viewing criminals no longer as one of 'them,' one of 'the others,' but as one of 'us.'"
"All of us are criminals in one (fashion) or another," she said, adding that, at a minimum, society needs an "Underground Railroad" for those who get out of prison, helping them obtain employment, education, housing and, if necessary, government assistance.
"We've got to be willing to work for abolition of this system of mass incarceration."
In his introduction, Lesley University Provost Selase Williams called Alexander an "inspiration to many of us (who read) her books," and applauded her for "challenging the conventional wisdom" on race and the prison system.
Dr. David Goodman, director of the Psychology and the Other Institute, which presented the lecture, added that Alexander "reminds us of the complex ways that we are implicated in the suffering of others, and she illustrates this through haunting statistics, narratives and social realities of which many of us are unaware.""Lesley University was honored to host this luminary and prophetic voice," Goodman said.
Michelle Alexander previously worked as a civil rights lawyer and advocate in both the private and non-profit sector. For several years, she served as the Director of the Racial Justice Project for the ACLU of Northern California, where she helped to lead a national campaign against racial profiling by law enforcement. While an associate at Saperstein, Goldstein, Demchak & Baller, she specialized in plaintiff-side class action lawsuits alleging race and gender discrimination. Alexander is a civil rights lawyer, advocate, and professor at Ohio State University. She was previously an associate professor of law at Stanford Law School, where she directed the Civil Rights Clinics.
Lesley's Psychology and the Other Institute, which facilitates interdisciplinary conversation between psychology, theology/religious studies and philosophy, presented the lecture along with the Lesley University Office of the Provost, Lesley's Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences, and the Lesley Diversity Council. The Emmanuel Levinas Lecture Series takes place two to three times per year and features a scholar/activist who represents a pressing need in the world and speaks to an issue of significant ethical importance. Levinas was a Lithuanian philosopher who was concerned about the failing moral systems in Western society. This lecture series is intended to highlight important contemporary issues that pertain to human responsibility and ethics.
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In his writing, Shakespeare, as poet and playmaker, uses both marble and wax. He was "preoccupied with esthetic reproduction," Callaghan said. In the play "Romeo and Juliet" one character said, "Why he is a man of wax."
Another line from the play is "Thy marble shape is but a form of wax."
Callaghan used tombs to illustrate her power point presentation, saying "stone becomes flesh; it becomes art." She spoke quickly in clipped British English as she used much alliteration to wax and stone. She said, "Perhaps all art is wax -- permeable, temporary, fragile and brittle, a transitory effigy. Even stone will ultimately succumb to the effects of time. All this is cause of mourning; the infinite malleability of wax before the advent of paper . . . a reminder that writing was once an art."
As for marble, she spoke of its permanence and power, giving example after example of the alliteration of wax and marble in poems and plays, and used an image of Queen Elizabeth as sculpted in Madam Taussad's Wax Museum in London.
What is Callaghan currently occupied with? She continues her interest in Shakespeare, writing on art and Shakespeare and the notion of what he was like. "Shakespeare was a play maker; he was not as exalted as we imagine during his time," she said, quoting Ben Jonson, dramatist, playwright, poet and competitor to Shakespeare: " 'look not on his picture but his book.' "
Callaghan was educated at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne and Bowling Green State and Sussex universities as well as attending three Shakespeare Summer School sessions at Cambridge University, where she is a life member of Clare Hall. Her book in progress is titled: "To the Life: Shakespeare and the Renaissance Problem of Representation."
The late Mary Marshall
Mary Hatch Marshall joined the faculty of Syracuse University in 1948, retiring from full time teaching in 1970. She then taught through 1993 for University College's Humanistic Studies Program. Brilliant and inspirational, through her 69-year career, she attracted legions of students who considered her their favorite all-time teacher. Some of them, affectionately known as "Mary Marshall groupies," were present at Callaghan's talk. She was a founder of the university's Library Associates.
On May 2 Jessica Kuskey, a doctoral student in English at the university, will receive the Mary Hatch Marshall Essay Award at SU Library Associates annual spring luncheon. The award was established in 2004 to honor and perpetuate Marshall's scholarly standards and generous spirit.
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