Rolling 2017 Thread on Race

ha I was just about to post this

imo his first hint that he is part black should have been the fact that his name is "Cleon Brown"

Really good article on Ta-Nehisi Coates' fearful pessimism

Man, R L Stephens has been shouting at Ta-nehisi Coates since 2014. Does he have anything new to say, or is he still just mad that Coates isn't socialist enough?

'Checks piece' Ultimately, in both Coates’s and Wilderson’s respective frameworks, solidarity is unimaginable and class struggle is rendered futile.

Yawn...

speaking of having anything new to say

Yeah, I really don't think an article that just regurgitates the same attack leveled against Coates a thousand times will bring up any original thoughts by anyone, really...

it's cute when bruneau identifies the one guy on ilx the zing hierarchy allows him to clown*

*this post is quite possibly a replication of the phenomenon yes lol

:(

Where is Morbs when I need him...

exactly where you would think doing exactly what you would think

fucking stop this right now

^

this guy:
http://pulsegulfcoast.com/2017/05/transcript-of-new-orleans-mayor-landrieus-address-on-confederate-monuments

That is a great speech.

This judge should get the same treatment the judge in the Brock Turner case got: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/black-man-prison-serve-five-years-ramad-chatman-georgia-prison-not-guilty-probation-broke-terms-jail-a7744326.html But he won't.

woah @ that Landrieu speech. so good.

This just appeared on my timeline, wtf.

https://twitter.com/LindseyFOX26/status/8682216704100802

This?

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2017/05/25/texas-7th-grader-named-likely-become-terrorist-mock-school-awards

And it was in the advanced college prep class! Why am I finding this hilarious what is wrong with me

texas

That Landrieu speech has me legit crying. Amazing.

Happy Friday! Here is a terrible tweet:

I get the practical concerns. But Barack Obama buying schmancy DC house in nabe thick w lobbyists just feels weird https://t.co/xAODd9LQrA

— jodikantor (@jodikantor) May 31, 2017

ugh yeah

inb4morbs

shhh!

How dare he!

that's a nice house but #dronebama gotta be sad that $8.1 million won't get him his secret missle command center back huh

by "nabe thick w lobbyists" does she mean the District of Columbia because guess what

"nabe thick w spies"

"nabe thick w gentrifying white ppl"

"nabe thick w veterans"

"nabe thick w graduate degrees"

"nabe thick w both beer snobs and beer reverse-snobs"

Barack Obama can only live in a race-free island in the South Pacific drinking Campari and soda and reading Goethe.

such a thick nabe

It ain't me, nabe

Furious that this even got published: http://vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/opinion-canada-replacing-its-population-a-case-of-wilful-ignorance-greed-excess-political-correctness

postmedia is a cancer

What the fuck? Please, I don't want the grand remplacement blight to take root here as well.

what a piece of scum

This could go here or the police brutality thread; I chose to put it here.

http://www.theroot.com/police-shot-brendan-hester-because-thats-what-police-do-1795965029

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/06/20/john-cunningham-not-safe-one-safe/OrlwvXMRMd3T13qUKWgxGN/story.html?event=event25#comments

But what he does not have is a green card, and so the federal agents brought him to the jail in South Bay and put him in a cell with the rest of the common criminals. Because in Donald Trump’s America, that’s what John Cunningham is, a common criminal.
[...]
Chris Lavery, Cunningham’s lawyer, told me there is no underlying criminal charge. Cunningham was grabbed for overstaying the 90-day visa he received 18 years ago.
Lavery was trying to determine whether Cunningham missed a court hearing after a customer filed a complaint that Cunningham took and cashed a deposit check for more than $1,000 for electrical work he didn’t perform. That would have produced a warrant for his arrest, but not by immigration agents.
"You would think a guy like him, with no criminal convictions, would not be a priority," Lavery said.

good ol' Boston, where taking money for services you never provided isn't a criminal activity if you're Irish

Happy 5th of July pic.twitter.com/jyvsaTqY9b

— Kate Horton (@ladymisskate) July 5, 2017

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qkkd43/eddie-huang-on-why-immigrants-need-to-charge-customers-full-fucking-price

This is probably not new to you all (and maybe belongs in the police brutality thread) but thought I'd share anyway:

A good friend just got back from a 10 day holiday in NY/NJ area. One of those ten days was spent mostly in jail. He had been speeding, 5 or 6 miles over the limit, and was caught by police on the highway urging him to stop. He drove on for 1.5/2 miles or so to find a safe place to stop (custom over here) but they really advised him next time to stop immediately. When he did stop he got out: also a big no no according to the cop, so they put him on the hood and took him in.
Anyway, after being in custody with 12 other guys for five hours or so, they let him go. A white cop at the station told my white friend. "It's a good thing you aren't black; you might not have survived it."

Your friend should write about his experience, particularly that quote.

We met in passing (grocery store) today but I am encouraging him to do just that. He was genuinly shook. I've got a paper so will see if I can fit in there somewhere.

paper=newspapwer I mean

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/02/us/naacp-missouri-travel-advisory-trnd/index.html

I have been reading about this because I have relatives in the St Louis area. Ultimately I don't think this impacts them any more than just living in MO has already but it's still worrisome.

Gary Romine, the guy who sponsored the awful SB 43 law, which the NAACP calls a "Jim Crow bill", is the state Senator representing the town where i grew up. Here is how Gary Romine spends his spare time:

In March 2015, a man who used to work at Show-Me Rent to Own in Sikeston, Missouri, filed a lawsuit alleging that his supervisor regularly used racial slurs against him, telling him, among other things, to "quit acting like a n*gger" — and that a map on the wall of the store circled a majority black neighborhood with the words "do not rent" written next to it.

The owner of the business is state Senator Gary Romine (R-Farmington), and in response to the suit, his lawyers acknowledged that, yes, a map in the back of the store had those very words written upon it. Everything else, he pretty much denied.

https://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2017/04/12/sued-for-discrimination-missouri-senator-pushes-law-limiting-discrimination-suits

After Charlottesville, I hope we can muster the energy for some introspection, then action.

Trump is a figurehead in all of this. He is not the instigator and he is not the driver. His actions align with the alt-right/neo-Nazi/white supremacist movement and is part and parcel of how his campaign was successful but he did not invent or architect any of what happened in Charlottesville. That was a grass roots movement that deserves a grass roots response.

I wrote this on Facebook, which I will reproduce here with one important edit:

I have nothing pithy or profound to say about the events in Charlottesville this weekend. The white supremacists are wrong, any violence they suffered is just, any protester who counter-demonstrated is a hero, Heather Heyer should not have died, James Fields Jr should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and our President will not condemn racism without adding enough qualifications to make his condemnation useless and hollow.

If anything positive comes from this weekend, I hope it's that the Americans who had fooled themselves into believing that we live in a post-racial society are starting to realize how strongly the unsavory parts of American history still resonate today and take an active stand in their lives against it. Denounce racism whenever you see it. Do not accept it from yourself. Do not accept it from your friends. Do not accept it from your family. Do not accept it from your coworkers. Do not accept it in random encounters. Do not accept it; do not make excuses for it. Do not wait for it to die off or grow up. Resist.

At this point, it is not enough to denounce Trump. He is a lightning rod that is sucking up all of the attention and the space. These people are in our cities, extending and amplifying the poison inherent in American culture. We need to acknowledge that poison. We need to acknowledge that these people aren't a few fringe voices no one really pays attention to. Whenever they assemble, we must make sure they understand that we have heard their message and it is unwelcome. How you contribute to this is up to you; I can't speak to anyone's capability for protest and/or violence, nor do I think it is my place to tell you the most effective way to reject and counter this message. What I can say, what I feel in my bones, is that if we focus on elections to the detriment of responding directly to these groups, their message will win. If you look at these rolling threads over the past few years and see how so many of these situations have played out, their message is already winning. We shouldn't allow that to happen.

mega otm

like for instance, this upcoming rally http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/14/us/texas-white-nationalist-protest-trnd/index.html

ugh.

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xp

You can’t learn everything from the crossword section of StormFront.

oh snaps