Rolling Thread on Race 2020

Rolling Stone has an article on racism in the porn industry.

Related: An interesting (SFW) 90-minute conversation among a dozen black porn performers about the state of race in the industry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE6DdeoZrTk

Somebody needs to get to Barrington, Rhode Island with a truck and a chain. This is worse than any Confederate monument. pic.twitter.com/oFfP70Ecwe

— 20Debt Peon20 🐐🌮 (@DebtPeon) June 11, 2020

idiots on Confederate monuments/statues: history is important!! we must not forget it, no matter if it's unpleasant
idiots on slavery: that's ancient history! you all need to forget it!

Everybody knows that statues are the sole substantial markers of historical memory and that historians would be utterly incapable of carrying out their work without the continued monumental presence of murderous, slave-owning fascists in public spaces.

These same preserve-our-history types are always really big on cutting school budgets, too. Weird, that.

Who was king of England during the American Revolution? There aren't statues, so I cannot figure it out HELP PLZ

Here you go, bud, it was this guy:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Somerset_House-Strand-Statue_Of_George_III_%26_Neptune.jpg

following up on the NYC birdwatching incident, this NYT profile provides lots of rubbernecking of interest
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/14/nyregion/central-park-amy-cooper-christian-racism.html

“‘The X-Men’ was a perfect parable for the gay experience,” he told Wired Magazine in an interview in 1998. “The X-Men looked like everyone else, but they learned a deep secret in adolescence that made them different.”

In the late 1980s, Mr. Cooper served on the board of directors of GLAAD, formerly the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, and set up his own political action committee to support Democrats for the New York Senate, according to a biography on “Gay USA,” a televised news show about gay issues, which Mr. Cooper occasionally hosts.

In 1998 he launched “Queer Nation,” a pioneering gay web comic that envisioned L.G.B.T.Q. superheroes fighting the scourge of a right-wing world order. It was partly inspired by his parents, he told Wired, who were active in the civil rights movement.

“From what I saw, she was very devoted to her animals,” said Maria Meade, 60, who lives in a nearby building. “The only thing I’ll tell you is she never spoke directly to a person. She always spoke through her dog, and in a baby voice. It was really bizarre.”

Alison Faircloth, 37, a neighbor and dog owner, recalled that last winter, she came upon Ms. Cooper on the verge of tears outside the building’s lobby. A doorman had cursed at her for no reason, Ms. Cooper told her. Ms. Cooper vowed to get the doorman fired, Ms. Faircloth said.

But when Ms. Faircloth asked the doorman what had happened, he told her that Ms. Cooper had complained about a broken elevator, then cursed at him after she barged into a security booth and had to be removed by a guard.

the stuff about her lawsuit against her married lover is just sad.

this woman sounds like a walking nightmare

I know that this is a story that is being shaped to a particular narrative etc but she really gave the author a lot of source material

The depth of their respective characters are certainly one of the reasons why this story sticks around. You'd be hard pressed to randomly pick a more intelligent, compassionate, considerate and media savvy person than Chris Cooper for the target of this bullshit.

When I saw the picture at the top of the article, I was surprised Amy Cooper agreed to pose for a photo for this article. Then I realized the credit for the photo belongs to a neighbor who is quoted later in the article... hm.

Pastor Louie Giglio, rapper Lecrae and Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy "had an honest conversation about race and the Church" on June 14.

Here's an example of why words and their meanings matter.

"White Privilege" vs. "White Blessings" pic.twitter.com/VkSP6RP0t1

— Nicola A. Menzie (@namenzie) June 16, 2020

fuck outta here with this

ah so the issue is simply gently assuaging the ruling class with delicate language and then the empowered white masses will wholeheartedly embrace disenfranchising themselves of centuries of economic, political and policing power, why didn't you SAY so; if only we could've tried this earlier

The standard take in France at the moment is pure galaxy brain material: ‘to speak of racism is itself racist; true non racism is absolute obliviousness to racism because race doesn’t exist; QED’.

I really wish I could find a primary link to the study where they compared the racial attitudes of toddlers raised in colorblind houses compared to houses where race was discussed where the allegedly colorblind kids showed extreme bias against black people

is it this one / does the link work?
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797610384741

I think that’s it! Thank you!

it shouldn't be difficult to grok that ignoring racism or racial difference, either in individual circumstances or within larger demographic groups, is not the goal. IMO the road worth traveling for anyone not immediately under fire is actively acknowledging racism as the all-pervasive and pernicious thing it is and then striving for greater change on a daily basis through respect, equity, acceptance, inclusion and appreciation while simultaneously vocally and financially supporting political change to a corrupt system, not co-opting or presuming lived experience, not applying singular traits to any group and just generally not being an asshole when you can help it.

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/capital-b-black-styleguide.php

Aunt Jemima is over, only took 130 years
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/aunt-jemima-brand-will-change-name-remove-image-quaker-says-n1231260

hooray, now i can stop arguing with my hidebound colleagues

AP’s style is now to capitalize Black in a racial, ethnic or cultural sense, conveying an essential and shared sense of history, identity and community among people who identify as Black, including those in the African diaspora and within Africa.

— APStylebook (@APStylebook) June 19, 2020

on the other hand

The NYPD initially said they had no record of anything matching this description. When we showed them a photo of cops at the scene, they said a commanding officer had closed the case.

"It's clear what this is," one of the witnesses responded. "Someone knew what they were doing." https://t.co/dNJmd0QRmX

— Jake Offenhartz (@jangelooff) June 19, 2020

How very reassuring

it appears one of the suicides that was being reinvestigated for possible lynching is closed, as video was found showing the man committing suicide: https://www.sbsun.com/2020/06/19/video-shows-malcolm-harsch-hung-himself/

hardly a solace as it's still a tragedy, and the rest still need thorough investigation. and fucking Rand Paul needs to quit stalling the lynching bill.

This is of course something the Black Panthers did in the late '60s in the Bay Area, and prompted Reagan to enact some form of gun restrictions. I'm not sure that will be the outcome in Oklahoma now.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/19/oklahoma-city-black-gun-owners-2nd-amendment-walk-trump-rally/3221046001/

fucking Rand Paul needs to quit stalling the lynching bill.

fucking mitch mcconnell needs to quit stalling. he could bring up the bill at any moment and pass it 99-1.

but he's working with rand paul to stall it in order to...save rand paul dignity? i have no idea. i know i should have a "want to die" list, but they are both near the top of it

yeah basically both of them need to fuck off and choke on peanuts

sorry, i meant "i know i should NOT have"

but despite knowing i shouldn't have that list, yeah a peanut death would be great, i'll take that

I just saw someone on Twitter call Shaun King "Chalka Con" and I am beside myself

!!! There's a whole list of jabs at him! "Talcum X" is a personal fave.

I am also partial to "Martin Luther Cream"

Shilli Vanilli lol

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Nicknames for Shaun King:
Talcum X.
Martin Luther Cream.
Pale Revere.
Tupac Sugar.
Alexander Scamilton.
Chaka Con.
Snow J. Simpson.
W.E.B. Defraud.

— Martin Luther Kang Jr. (@memeballcards) August 22, 2019

is shaun king bad now? i thought he was a big blm activist?

"now"

he's been sorta shady ever since i've been aware of him

i always assumed the "shaun king is fake black" thing was an alt-right meme but maybe not?

I haven't been on twitter in a while but back when I was ppl tended to treat him as incredibly shady compared to his peers, I never actually learned why though

Well it was Breitbart that was behind the expose, so....

But as bad as they are, his birth certificate does list his father as a white man. He claims that isn't his birth father.

He's also been accused of hoarding charity money for himself which probably is why it's easier to believe he's Dolezaling.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/shaun-king-keeps-raising-money-and-questions-about-where-it-goes-3

Kali serves up all the tea.

as usual, bossip said it best

Shaun King aka Scammie Lou Paymer aka Barter G. Woodson aka Rob Moses aka Mos Theft Got Exposed (Again) With Receipts (Again) For ALLEGEDLY Stealing Money (Again) And Got Dragged To The GoFundMe In The Sky (Again)

[Getty]https://t.co/RwBktQwm4Q pic.twitter.com/ixcUDZBH3h

— Bossip (@Bossip) May 26, 2020

re the aunt jemima thing - the character was invented by a black performer and esp in recent years since they updated the character it's hard [for me but i could be wrong] to see anything racist about its current manifestation. and i wonder maybe it isn't doing harm to black ppl having a nice normal materteral black woman as the spokescharacter for a prominent supermarket item. and maybe it's even counter productive to remove images of black faces from supermarket aisles. (nb i have never had aunt jemima pancakes anything afaik and have no personal affection for the character or brand.)

yeah, you're wrong.

like i don't know where you're getting your information, but it's ahistorical. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt_Jemima

Also, what is "nice normal maternal black woman"? What the fuck does that even mean?

Might just be easier to say, "It's easier to continue the mammy stereotype because those blacks need good role models on their fucking pancake mix."

seriously GTFOH

The "character" was invented by a white guy who had bought the Aunt Jemima trademark from two other white guys (who got the name Aunt Jemima from attending a white minstrel show and hearing "old Aunt Jemima").

They hired Nancy Green, and made loads of money off of her

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/aunt-jemima-millionaire/

The "character" was invented by a white guy who had bought the Aunt Jemima trademark from two other white guys

Rutt's inspiration for Aunt Jemima was Billy Kersands' American-style minstrelsy/vaudeville song "Old Aunt Jemima", written in 1875.