Internet Readalong

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* forthwritten has excellent link round-ups for the London riots here and here.

* readnfight talks about 'the argument that people are destroying “their own neighborhood,” which has always come off to me as being steeped in a middle-class misunderstanding of other people’s poverty. Who owns the house they live in? In New Haven, almost all the houses in the POC neighborhoods are subdivided to be rented as separate floors. I literally know 3 couples in the city who own the house they live in; 2 of those couples are either my past or present landlords. If my block rioted, for the most part we would not be destroying our own property.'

* Via crossedwires - video and transcript from the BBC interview of Darcus Howe:

Reporter: Are you shocked by what you see now outside?

Darcus Howe: No. Not at all. I have been living in London for 50 years. There’s so many different moods and moments. But what I was certain about, listening to my grandson, and my son, is that something very very serious was going to take place in this country. Our political leaders have no idea. The police have no idea. But if you look at young Blacks, and young whites, with a discerning eye, and a careful hearing, they have been telling us and we would not listen, that what is happening in this country, to them, is— what is —

Warning for the BBC interviewer being a total asshat.

* Can't remember if I posted this earlier - Muslimah Media Watch's Obligatory Richard Dawkins Post

* korraspasm has video and a complete transcript of the SDCC 2011 Legend of Korra panel! <3 <3 <3

* yvi is putting together a non-native English celebration fest. See this post for details.

* In case you missed it - Ultimate!Peter Parker's mantle is being taken up by Miles Morales, a half-black, half-Latino teenager. People tend to stay dead in the Ultimate universe, so hopefully Miles will be around for a while.

* Happy Ramadan to those who are in the middle of it!