Oakland Banner Drop: Police Violence is Not an Accident

Hey, Thanks for doing this whoever it was, every action counts towards justice! Just a little bit of constructive criticism though, I think that the banner, or the writing and images, should of been a little bit bigger so that people on the freeway could see. I can't really make out what it says from the photo, and am not sure if someone driving could either. Maybe it is just unreadable from the pic and it was visible from the freeway and I don't know what I'm saying. But anyways, thanks for dropping regardless and hopefully more drops are on the way in the future ;-)

Of is a preposition; have is a helping verb. What follows have is the past participle tense of the verb, to be. This is basic English we learn by age 10, fifth grade, if not sooner. It is reinforced by reading, which we all certainly do, just reading this website, and preferably much more. There is no excuse for contempt for basic education. Please go to the library weekly for a pile of books to read, and return the previous week's books to the library until you read all the books in the library you can stand to read. That is how you receive a basic education. The schools can only teach some things; we learn by reading, and we read constantly. And this writer wore rags from the Goodwill as a child, did not have a TV and was lucky to have enough to eat. By age 6, I was riding my balloon tire bicycle with no gears or walking (there were no buses in the area) to the library every week, checking out a pile of books, carried home in the basket of my bicycle or in a bag in my arms.

Well la dee fucking da. Mr. Grammer cop for the win!

Do not start sentences with "and". You should have learned that by age 10 if not sooner.

"Of" can also signify a partitive genative phrase which is exactly what this is: "a little bit of constructive criticism." "Should of been" is better as "should have been," but could also be understood as a colloquialism as in "should-a bin" which is how people really say it. But we shouldn't write the way we talk, unless you are a poet or a novelist who break that rule all the time.

I just love these trivial arguments.

We routinely start sentences with "and," snot-nosed phony English teacher, and so do lawyers and others who rely on the writing for a living, all to achieve a certain effect. Shame on you for defending illiteracy instead of encouraging reading. No wonder this backward garbage country is filled with 50% functional illiterates; it is because backward peasants like you claim to teach anything at all. Get off our payroll immediately. The backwardness of this country includes having no socialized medicine which has existed in Germany for 128 years and exists today in all of the industrialized world and some of the non-industrialized world because they have a serious LABOR MOVEMENT. That means teachers not only teach at high standards, they and the rest of the workingclass also go on strike, including general strikes. That is why European labor has socialized medicine, federally mandated vacations and much more. I have met Russians who came to this country recently who were amazed to hear that there is no federal law mandating vacations. I remind them that they had a revolution in 1917 that made that possible. The backward USA, the most backward and reactionary country in the industrialized world, has the highest infant mortality and lowest life expectancy in the industrialized world because it does not have socialized medicine because we have practically no labor movement, and we have idiots like the alleged English teacher who glorify illiteracy instead of trying to encourage higher standards. When I was in school, we had 6 years of Shakespeare from 7th grade through 12 grade, 1 or 2 months every year, in English class. We also had all forms of writing and public speaking. I understand now most English classes are just teaching the standardized tests, or in somewhat better schools, have some of what we had, but not all of it. We also had mandatory diagramming of sentences in 7th grade (it should have been earlier) so that everyone knew what the parts of speech were, something that would cure the above problem. I never heard of the above illiteracy until I started taking job literacy tests and assumed that this kind of thing was only done by people from the rural South who had no schools. Now we know why American students cannot read or write; they do not have teachers and apparently the teachers just ignore this appalling problem. This is like Nazi Germany, where the schools were the worst in German history. We are, of course, living in Nazi USA. This must be one of the Nazi 100% American English teachers. You do not help the workingclass by allowing illiteracy; you harm the workingclass. Get off our payroll today.

Hey, "we read", try using a paragraph break sometime. Otherwise, "we won't read".