Rolling 2018 Thread on Race

It’s the most dangerous kind of thinking in the world, that dehumanizing shit

Sorry—i know that was all redundant. There is just something super bleak about racism being couched in this flippant, trendy twitter speak.

via a former ilxor

https://youtu.be/hcSAp-nBwR8

"What kind of language has then to be found that would not be a re-imprisonment of Black lives? Does it still belong to philosophy? Does it still belong to literature? For sure, this issue requires the opening of a yet unheard space. Afro-Pessimism might be its name. A name born in prison."

this entire Jussie Smollett story is a bummer.

https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/it-looks-like-jussie-smolletts-case-is-headed-to-grand-1832700715

what an absurd story

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/05/us/trump-teacher-fort-worth-anti-immigration-trnd/index.html

I'm putting this here because there isn't a 2019 thread and because I can't get over the fact that this person was a teacher

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/450757-analysis-black-homebuyers-more-than-twice-as-likely-as-whites

https://www.rrstar.com/news/20190617/man-arrested-while-attached-to-iv-machine-says-he-was-racially-profiled

It's just

Schroeder said the IV was removed by a professionally-trained FHN employee and that police followed the proper protocol when they realized Dukes was having a medical event.

...WHICH YOU CAUSED BY WITHHOLDING HIS MEDICATION THAT WAS LITERALLY FLOWING INTO HIS VEINS AT THE HOSPITAL'S DIRECTION.

good news everybody
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/james-fields-jr-avowed-neo-nazi-in-charlottesville-car-attack-set-to-be-sentenced-for-federal-hate-crimes/2019/06/27/fcead458-9849-11e9-830a-21b9b36b64ad_story.html?utm_term=.7f7ad220c013

That is fantastic news

re: dude who was arrested for following doctor's orders, I really want the hospital to weigh in on this

half expected the cops to claim they mistook the IV for a weapon

did they think the hospital gown was a disguise?????

They thought they had someone they could brutalize who wouldn't fight back.

"Police urge people not to rush ‘to judgement against the police without all the information..."

Dukes was ultimately charged with disorderly conduct, after an investigation revealed he had no intention of stealing the IV stand, said Freeport police Lt. Andrew Schroeder.

A full investigation revealed that after coming all this way police were able to determine that the suspect who was by the way no angel was clearly guilty of something because otherwise we wouldn't be here now would we? Case closed!

"disorderly conduct" is cop-speak for not being appropriately deferential to the thin blue line that separates us from the savages/not thanking them for hassling you

Police urge people not to rush ‘to judgement against the police without all the information’

Should I give the site the benefit of the doubt and assume the reason they used this quote to lead the article is out of irony?

Couldn't find a thread for this year; read this awful story tonight: https://www.thedailybeast.com/utah-state-student-jerusha-sanjeevi-suffered-months-of-racist-attacksand-the-school-did-nothing-suit-claims

Horrible.

jesus.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/12/entertainment/sarah-silverman-blackface-scli-intl/index.html

I think this is a ridiculous overreaction to a great sketch that was a top-to-bottom condemnation of racism and blackface

She did a huuuuuuge mea culpa for thatvepisode on her current show (I Love You America) last year, which was interesting

What's the word for when someone apologizes for something they shouldn't need to?

I was sure Chris Cuomo would figure into this thread revive.

Absolutely essential story: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/this-land-was-our-land/594742/

This cosmic balance sheet underpins the national conversation—ever more robust—about reparations for black Americans. In that conversation, given momentum in part by the publication of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “The Case for Reparations” in this magazine in 2014, I hear echoes of Mississippi. I hear echoes of Hamer, the Scotts, Henry Woodard Sr., and others who petitioned the federal government to hold itself accountable for a history of extraction that has extended well beyond enslavement. But that conversation too easily becomes technical. How do we quantify discrimination? How do we define who was discriminated against? How do we repay those people according to what has been defined and quantified? The idea of reparations sometimes seems like a problem of economic rightsizing—something for the quants and wonks to work out.

Economics is, of course, a major consideration. According to the researchers Francis and Hamilton, “The dispossession of black agricultural land resulted in the loss of hundreds of billions of dollars of black wealth. We must emphasize this estimate is conservative … Depending on multiplier effects, rates of returns, and other factors, it could reach into the trillions.” The large wealth gap between white and black families today exists in part because of this historic loss.

But money does not define every dimension of land theft. Were it not for dispossession, Mississippi today might well be a majority-black state, with a radically different political destiny. Imagine the difference in our national politics if the center of gravity of black electoral strength had remained in the South after the Voting Rights Act was passed.

I was sure Chris Cuomo would figure into this thread revive.

I just watched that clip and loooooooooooooooool

straight outta that sopranos episode

I've never heard of "I'll ruin your shit" before

I'm simultaneously like "what ridiculous nonsense" and "RUIN HIS SHIT, CHRIS; STRAIGHT UP MURDER HIM"

How to solve racism in 'Murica forever:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/15/white-professor-investigated-quoting-james-baldwin-use-of-n-word-laurie-sheck

Sheck told Inside Higher Education that a white student had objected to her language. According to Sheck, she questioned the student about her objection, who said she had been told by a previous professor that white people should never use the term. At the end of term, the student gave a presentation about racism at the New School.

comedy descending notes played on a muted trumpet

or trombone rather

Ugh: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/saskatoon-gas-assault-mischief-1.5294412?fbclid=IwAR2WP-FrKOb62cgb0kOrGAsi5eHdTGTL2XfLBRYrfedUMRzqYju9uATB91o

That Justin Trudeau is out of control.

Ugh indeed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2019/09/26/newspaper-reported-that-mans-ancestors-were-slaveholders-hes-suing-defamation/

they really should add on to that lonely slave heritage statue that was an auction block: "the Tayloe family traded slaves here, probably still would if they could" and just let the lawsuits roll

that case SLAPPs

otm

in all the right places

you guys, this story is like a series of racist nesting dolls

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/27/us/carson-king-aaron-calvin-des-moines-register-trnd/index.html

I have been actively trying to ignore it, as it gets dumber with every update.
This is the best coverage imo: https://deadspin.com/is-beer-money-sign-man-sorry-for-old-racist-tweets-1838457224

ha

I can't wait for the editor's old racist tweets to resurface

It's a Gannett paper, so the salary is crap and the majority of the staff is probably below age 25. I give it.. a day or two at most

I can't spare the brain cells to investigate the entire timeline of this but at least one of the racist tweeters involved was 16 at the time? Do I understand that correctly?

Gotta say I'm glad there was no social med when I was 16 to catalog the things I firmly believed at the time bc the evangelical church told me to. o_____O

Not saying 16 yos shouldn't be held accountable, just saying I'm grateful to be old.

Yeah I mean, I think this largely played out correctly? Dude raised money, shit was brought up from his past, he gave what I thought was a legit apology, the corporate sponsor did the predictable corporate sponsor thing, the hospital is still getting money, everything is good and golden.

Where it gets funny is when the reporter's shit pops up

I feel dumber every moment I hear about this story, and never need to hear coworkers talk about it again, but here we go

1. Guy holds up stupid sign with his venmo address asking for beer money for busch light at state's largest college football event
2. Fans send him ridiculous amount of money
3. He vows to send money to a children's hospital, beer company says they'll match it and send him a bunch of beer. Dumb ploy makes good for everyone, ok so far
4. Local paper reporter decides to check out guy before publishing another article, finds idiot racist teenage tweets
5. Paper reaches out to guy saying they found this, deciding what to do with it
6. Guy preemptively tells everyone he was an idiot teen, is no longer idiot teen
7. Paper writes round-up on all that has happened, tries to make clear they were preempted
7a. College football fans go nuts trying to figure out how to cancel their nonexistent newspaper subscriptions
8. Beer company still going to donate money, not going to give guy free beer
8a. Some fans with poor reading comprehension think beer company is not giving money to hospital, vow to never drink their beer again
9. Reporter who initially found racist tweets investigated by roving mob of online college football fans, racist tweets found
9a. Fans attempt to destroy reporter in addition to paper, salt earth

I have not worked from the office today and have heard nothing more