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Re: Duke balks on regional light rail project, dooming it for now

BrianR — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 11:15:07 -0000

Triangle Transit has offered to remediate and pay for potential EMI issues. See TTA response letter here. https://gotriangle.org/site...

Re: The Real @Ruby - @ruby for sale

BrianR — Wed, 29 May 2013 11:27:51 -0000

Not sure if it's tumblr but... those screen shots are so small I can't read them. :)

Re: The Daily Tar Heel :: Durham article lacked context

BrianR — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:30:21 -0000

I'd like to recommend that the students and staff of the DTH read the following dissertation submitted to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2006. It could be a good source for future articles.

BLACK FREEDOM AND THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, 1793-1960

JOHN K. (YONNI) CHAPMAN

PDF of full dissertation here. http://goo.gl/SyUPj

ABSTRACT

"Recent histories of the University of North Carolina trivialize the institution’s support for white supremacy during slavery, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow, while denying that this unjust past affects the university today. The celebratory lens also filters out African American contributions to the university. In fact, most credit for UNC’s increased diversity is due to the struggles of African Americans and other traditionally disenfranchised groups for equal rights. During both the 1860s and the 1960s, black freedom movements promoted norms of democratic citizenship and institutional responsibility that challenged the university to become more honest, more inclusive, and more just. By censoring this historical viewpoint, previous scholarship has contributed to a culture of denial and racial historical amnesia that heralds UNC as the “University of the People,” without seriously engaging questions of justice in the past or the present.

This dissertation demonstrates that before 1865, the gentry used the university to promote the growth of slavery. Following Emancipation, university trustees led the white supremacy campaign to suppress black freedom and Radical Reconstruction. At the turn of the century, university leaders organized the movement for black disfranchisement and segregation that led to Jim Crow. Until the 1960s, the university enforced Jim Crow in its employment practices and its relations with the Town of Chapel Hill. Throughout its history, black workers were the main force challenging UNC’s institutional racism on campus, in Chapel Hill, and throughout the state.

An extended Epilogue examines how the university’s institutional culture changed during the 1960s from an open defense of Jim Crow to acceptance of non-discrimination. Although the university accepted formal equality in admissions, employment, and its relations with the larger community, it did not acknowledge or attempt to dismantle the institutional structures of white supremacy that it had helped to create throughout its history. In this way, UNC established a paradigm of diversity without justice to replace Jim Crow, replacing the open celebration of white supremacy with new forms of subtle, “colorblind” institutional racism that persist today."

Re: mistersugar.com: Ride share

BrianR — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:05:55 -0000

DUDE you are the most amazing party organizer. For after all these unconferences you've hosted are just big parties for our bodies and minds.

Re: The Daily Tar Heel :: Commenters, beware

BrianR — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 09:38:40 -0000

Over at OrangePolitics.org we've been dealing with this for years. It's founder, Ruby Sinreich, has written a excellent explanation of how OP does it.. http://orangepolitics.org/a...

Good luck with the trolls! I hope your new strategies involve more than requiring "real" emails. It's a good first step. :)

Re: Startups Are Hard : jazzychad's blog

BrianR — Wed, 11 May 2011 13:44:04 -0000

Hi Chad! BrianR here back in NC.

It was pretty hard for me to read your post. I can relate to so many parts of it. I offer this following advice I hope as a equal. Not someone who has the authority to tell you what to do.

Try boot strapping while using Lean Startup methodologies without taking outside capital. At lease for the first few years. Fund your ideas by completing sales. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... Then when you have the track record of real earnings use your "somebody" status to negotiate aggressively.

What every you do good luck!

Re: Finally We Have a Signed Lease

BrianR — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:55:27 -0000

Congratulations! I remember what that feeling is like. Very very cool! I need to visit!

Re: Coworking on NPR Marketplace

BrianR — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:36:24 -0000

Thanks for sharing this. I'm really looking forward to visiting your space. Hopefully sometime before the end of March.

Re: New disqus commenting system added & updates

BrianR — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:54:44 -0000

RE: SocialCarolina mega uncon

We need to spend some more time building the community. Let people know about this resource. PLUS see what others want todo. I think collectivism is the key. How can we merge various efforts without taking them over? How can we exist as one one minute and walk our own walk another minute? Then once we learn how do that how do we do it in a different direction even faster. Then slower. Nimble.

enough Philosophy... :)

Re: New disqus commenting system added & updates

BrianR — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:17:06 -0000

what if we had a meetup of meetups? A Social Carolina mega unconf. I'd dono just blabbing ideas... ;)