Rolling 2016 Thread on Race

it's ok, I'm still trying to self-ban myself from posting on a couple threads where my comments are worthless and just read what's there, but the post button still works

rushomancy are you an american, out of curiosity?

well i'm not a dane :)

yeah, midwestern american, smack dab in the center of "we're not racist!" country :)

sup

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/texas-rejects-mexican-american-studies-textbook-seen-racist-n684881

The Texas State Board of Education, in a preliminary, but key vote, unanimously rejected a highly-criticized Mexican-American studies textbook that contained numerous errors and material that many saw as racist.

The book, titled "Mexican American Heritage," was considered by the Texas State Board of Education for Mexican-American studies classes that the state recently allowed as elective courses. The board rejected the textbook 14-0 on Wednesday in Austin, Texas.

Since its submission, the book had been blasted for passages that painted Mexican Americans as undocumented immigrants and claimed that illegal immigration has "caused a number of economic and security problems in the United States," including "poverty, non-assimilation, drugs, crime, and exploitation." The book also said Mexican laborers "were not reared to put in a full day's work so vigorously" and that they had a culture of "mañana."

im surprised that this was so well defeated, the tx board of ed must have improved sometime recently

they probably objected to the idea that exploitation of immigrants was going on

trigger warning: violence, graphic pictures

https://www.facebook.com/DontNvME/posts/10210023513771887

Jesus Christ

people are fucking horrible

Don't know what thread to put this in, but the Board of Ed for the Portland Public School system just sent out this resolution to all parents about dealing with any INS/ICE-types who want to come snooping around for undocumented schoolchildren:

http://www.pps.net/cms/lib8/OR01913224/Centricity/Domain/219/Immigration%20Resolution%203%20FINAL.pdf

Deportation has been a fucked-up thing even during the Obama Admin, and at least the election gave enough of a shock to people to realize that plans and processes and rules need to be explicitly laid out instead of some nebulous problem they didn't have to necessarily deal with immediately.

schoolchildren bullied in NYC http://www.brooklyndaily.com/stories/2016/48/all-teachers-bullying-immigrant-students-trump-election-2016-11-25-bk.html

Story Highlights: Wednesday night's York County Advisory Council meeting was overshadowed by racial overtones.

“I’m white power, to let you know,” Marsik said. “I’m white power. I belong to the white people that fought and died to set the black people free in this country, who fought and died to keep the freedoms in this country, who work hard, who pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, pay their taxes only to see them squandered, OK, by irrational types of behavior by certain communities."

http://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/local/2016/11/16/racial-tensions-threaten-boil-over-human-relations-meeting/93994464/

flush em out

Is there any reason at all at this point to assume that all police departments are not infested by, or controlled by, people like this?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3953602/Alabama-police-officer-fired-racist-Facebook-post-saying-Michelle-Obama-fluent-ghetto.html

xxp the subtext is rapidly becoming text.

btw the aftermath on that Chili's story upthread:

http://www.dallasnews.com/business/restaurants/2016/11/13/man-got-free-veterans-day-meal-cedar-hill-chilis-manager-took-away

you guys

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/i-voted-for-trump-so-there-white-shopper-melts-down-after-black-workers-ask-her-to-pay-for-bag/

lol

"You standing there with your baby thinking that’s okay”

WITH YOUR BABY

LITERALLY thinking that's ok

The best I can ask of the racist dystopia my country is hell-bent on being is that it makes me laugh really fucking hard as it works its way around to oppressing me.

“You’re a liar, I don’t care, because I’m a consumer,” she shouts at an employee.

Minneapolis Star-Tribune publishes story about Mall of America's first black Santa, the predictable happens: https://twitter.com/stribgillespie/status/804532412613087232

Good suggestions in the replies to that tweet - only let paid subscribers comments online, but make them visible to everyone.

lol ulysses

Three years since Megyn Kelly's "And by the way, for all you kids watching at home, Santa just is white."

remember when she was as bad as it got? 2014 seems very very far away now.

i don't know if this belongs here but i know that if the guy that CONFESSED to the shooting was black he sure as hell would not have been released .

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/joe-mcknight-shooter-released-charged-article-1.2895977

WHAT THE FUCK. I can't even find any explanation or attempted justification for releasing him.

If you'd like more information on the investigation (feel free to disseminate far and fucking wide):
Jefferson Parrish Sheriff's Office Homicide Division - 504-364-5300
Colonel John N. Fortunato, Commander, Public Information Office - 504-363-5521

first words out of the sheriff's mouth at the press conference are the he will arrest and imprison protesters .

what a fucking dick this sheriff is . strange vibe to this thing

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/12/watch_live_sheriff_normand_pre.html

wtf does social media have to do with anything and why is he even talking about that?

Jury says no consensus in South Carolina ex-cop Michael Slager's trial for Walter Scott's murder

xpost Well, social media is where I've been spreading his office's contact information, so I guess he has reason to be concerned about that.

lol nice

Did Michael Slager, who shot an unarmed black man in the back as he was running away from him, commit a cowardly murder with malice on his mind? How could one ever discern such a thing?

wtf this sheriff. Is he going to say anything at all about the decision to release Gasser?

He did say it wasn't about race, so I guess we'll have to find another thread to discuss that particular murder of an unarmed black man.

One would guess that the lone holdout in the Slager case is a wingnut claiming he's innocent, right

right

one would guess that several people in the Slager jury believe that Slager was genuinely in fear for his life as he shot down this man who was running away from him, because black people are terrifying and must be put in their place

Serious question: what is the general policy/law on this? Are police legally allowed or expected to shoot fleeing (and assumed armed) suspects?

Pretty sure the policy is they do whatever the fuck they like

apparently the jury was 11-1 Dan but it doesn't say in which direction

hmm

Serious question: what is the general policy/law on this? Are police legally allowed or expected to shoot fleeing (and assumed armed) suspects?

Yes, if they are black.

Not only is this what history tells us, but this is also what recent current events tells us. It's an aberration for it to be otherwise.

yeah summary execution is cool if the person running away is black. doesnt really matter the crime!

Other sad shit, no murder though:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/king-democratic-staffer-exposes-soft-bigotry-senate-dems-article-1.2893049

Guess I'll post this here since a search turned up no results. Shaun King is spearheading an Injustice Boycott that starts Monday.

I'm in

Kinda feeling like that needs its own thread, seeing as how it's intended to be an ongoing endeavor with regular updates on plans of action.