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Perspective Is Everything: Otto Warmbier

When I heard of the return of #OttoWarmbier and his condition upon return, I was sad for his family because I have sons. However, I felt no righteous indignation about his fate because he brought all that happened to him upon himself. He was not taken into custody simply for being himself, he willfully committed a crime in a country where the US has no diplomatic relations AND where his white privilege is rendered useless. He learned what it is like to be a minority and under constant scrutiny and what it's like to have your every move monitored. He also learned what it's like to have unnecessarily harsh sentences handed down for something deemed (by some) relatively innocuous. However, i

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This site is an evolving idea of founder Vernon R. Heard. The mission statement is simple.. to fill the void and absence of consistent, positive images of Black people in the media and national psyche. It was never my dream to create this kind of platform but I found it SO very necessary after growing tired of the character assassination of an entire race. Some of which, mind you, from its own members.