[Ads-l] body = 'human being as a complete person'

Robin Hamilton robin.hamilton3 at VIRGINMEDIA.COM
Tue Sep 1 19:15:46 UTC 2015


"Gin a body meet a body / Coming through the rye ..." -- R. Burns.

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From: Jonathan Lighter
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Subject: body = 'human being as a complete person'

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Dec. 24, 2014:


"Every 28 hours a Black body is slain by a cop, security or vigilante.
EVERY 28 FUCKING HOURS. This is what genocide looks like."

A Minnesota spokesman for #Blacklivesmatter has repeated this phrase
several times on CNN, though leaving out "security or vigilante."

Traditionally a person has been considered as more than a mere body, but
maybe that's changing.

JL

-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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