Rolling 2017 Thread on Race

I don't see that this has been posted

https://sojo.net/articles/our-white-friends-desiring-be-allies

Up near the State House on Boston Common the anti-fascist gathering is growing massive. A handful of Trumpists completely drowned out atm

:)

It's a sea of anti fascist humanity out on the common . The nazis etc are literally holed up on the bandstand, separated by barricades and cops. You can't hear them at all over the crowd. Not sure they 're even speechifying at this point

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/boston-free-speech-rally-white-supremacists-counter-protesters-outnumbered-10-to-1-a7902526.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

George Wallace‏
@MrGeorgeWallace

BREAKING: New England patriots win, 40,000 to 133. #Boston

http://www.angryasianman.com/images/angry/timothydluhos01.jpg

Toe Stubs Self

long, devastatingly sad piece on 'the making of dylann roof': https://www.gq.com/story/dylann-roof-making-of-an-american-terrorist

Exceptional

I have neither the strength nor desire to read that.

classic behavior on display here. KKK leader makes deeply appalling violent racist statements aloud to a reporter, then claims that neither he nor his wife are racist or condone violence

after threatening to "burn" her, he adds Barker denied that he led a hate group. Both he and his wife said they “don’t hate anyone,” were “not racist” and do not condone violence.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/21/kkk-leader-threatens-to-burn-latina-journalist-the-first-black-person-on-his-property/?hpid=hp_hp-morning-mix_mm-univision%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.7e98b525c665

https://news.vice.com/story/arizona-gop-uses-margaret-cho-sitcom-pic-to-represent-asian-americans

http://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/2017/08/26/white-supremacist-forum-site-stormfront-seized-domain-hosts/604902001/

That should at least throw them into a temporary limbo. But they won't roll over and die. They'll just infect some other server eventually.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/new-hampshire-police-refuse-to-discuss-apparent-lynching-of-8-year-old-biracial-boy/amp/

this fucking country

Not Guilty verdict for Stockley murder of Anthony Lamar Smith
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/15/us/jason-stockley-officer-shooting-verdict/index.html

this fucking country

― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Monday, September 11, 2017 2:53 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Got friends in St Louis sending updates, schools and after school activities are cancelled and people are being told to stay home. Could get nasty tonight in St Louis.

downtown is already barricaded, no cars allowed.

Forceful, pained statement from @RepMikeButler in response to #jasonstockley not guilty verdict https://t.co/QAljzNwVPd pic.twitter.com/nZkLDfDgFJ

— Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) September 15, 2017

Ex-ilxors are on the scene, too

"I don't know where else to put this so I'm putting it here"

I am sort of surprised nobody has attempted to copyright / trademark "wypipo" yet. It just seems like a candidate for a terrible startup name (cf "Bodega" which we as a nation all shit on last week)

*squashes sudden desire to create a business plan for a rideshare app called Wypipo*

ICYMI: Don't identify extremely!

https://splinternews.com/the-fbi-is-now-labeling-something-called-black-identity-1819227623

*hides skateboard*

Living in this country often feels like constantly getting kicked in the balls.

I think this World Series incident is worth a crossover from sportsland.

https://www.sbnation.com/2017/10/28/16563112/yuli-gurriel-yu-darvish-racist-gesture-world-series-game-3-response

It's complicated by the fact that Gurriel is Cuban, and acc to many white guys online "doesn't understand our culture." It overlooks the fact that he played in Japan for awhile.

This may blow up further today depending on whether there's a suspension or not.

lol this isn’t even a little bit complicated IMO

i meant purely in terms of the shitshow that will ensue

too bad gurriel doesn't play for cleveland

already whiteguy sports fans weighing in with "hey he was raised under communist oppression" and "he doesn't know what racism is"

i sort of doubt anyone whose opinion is worth hearing has said anything like that

luckily no one else is allowed to say things

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/29/sports/football/nfl-anthem-lockhart.html

turns out "lifelong democratic operatives" include guys like this

anyone have any recommendations for reading on the history of race & racism in the UK? an overview focused on the domestic situation rather than empire would be ideal

I saw this book on the weekend, and it looks good:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51gYGyHeo8L._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

that looks good but there's no way I'll get through 650 pages of it

A post-Halloween reminder that the real monsters are regular people:

http://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-west-hartford-student-arrest-20171101-story.html

To follow up on my previous post, I started cataloging all of the reported instances of Halloween blackface in a Facebook post:

https://www.facebook.com/djperry1973/posts/10159617382005038

Jesus that's depressing

Re: Trump and Economic insecurity....https://t.co/11AMCWJGpq pic.twitter.com/YBc1RS7ERV

— Ta-Nehisi Coates (@tanehisicoates) November 8, 2017

Gotta hand it to racists. They are prolific when it comes to making up unfunny acronyms.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/us/air-force-academy-racist.html

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Briahna Joy Gray on Coates (and identity politics in the age of Trump more broadly):

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/11/identity-politics-cant-get-us-out-of-the-mess-racism-made.html

Before we start arguing about this, Simon, do you agree with the piece? Or is this another one of those 'I don't necessarily agree with everything, but it raises some interesting points' kind of thing?

at this point I'm not particularly invested or interested in what messaging the Dems do or don't engage in, just thought folks here might find it interesting/worthy of discussion

Well, if you like that discussion you should check out the 98 times we've had it already. It was worthy.

Well, if you like that discussion you should check out the 98 times we've had it already.

Wait, we’ve had several dozen discussions of this Briahna Joy Gray piece already? But it was posted today

We have talked this exact argument to death multiple times; the end result is that people who want to downplay race in favor of class do not have a firm grasp of how this country has historically solved class problems (ie, by making them slightly better for white people at the expense of non-white people until those non-white people protest and mobilize legislative allies who put them at the starting point their white counterparts were in decades before them).