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Davey D
Personal blog · hiphopandpolitics.wordpress.compoliticsculture
Davey D's personal blog at hiphopandpolitics.wordpress.com covers politics and culture. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Davey D's blog for its coverage of the Kiera Wilmot case and a post listing black people shot and killed in the US. The links are cited as sources for points in the threads.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The World from a Hip Hop Perspective
Most-linked posts?
- /2013/05/01/the-case-around-fla-teen-kiera-wilmot-is-part-of-a-bigger-more-disturbing-pattern/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-05-03
What Hacker News says?
We (US residents) haven't posted annotated lists because this is in our face via newspapers and TV news and viral videos passed around on the Internet. http://hiphopandpolitics.wordpress.com/2012/04/06/29-black-p... Here's one take, which is focused on black folks shot and killed over the past year. Note how many were armed.
Comment linking /2012/04/06/29-black-people-have-been-killed-by-policesecurity-since-jan-2012-16-since-trayvon/
on ““Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book””http://hiphopandpolitics.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/the-case-a... P.S., How many young black children's lives being unfairly altered is "a significant dataset" for you to answer the question, "Is a white prosecutor in sub-urban Florida _really_ racist?" I'd like to know the actual number.
Comment linking /2013/05/01/the-case-around-fla-teen-kiera-wilmot-is-part-of-a-bigger-more-disturbing-pattern/
on “Scientists Back Kiera Wilmot by Tweeting About All the Stuff They've Blown Up”This post says she'll be charged as an adult: http://hiphopandpolitics.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/the-case-a...
Comment linking /2013/05/01/the-case-around-fla-teen-kiera-wilmot-is-part-of-a-bigger-more-disturbing-pattern/
on “Help Kiera with her legal bills”