Rolling Thread on Race 2020

stfu honky incarcerator

The moment that we're living through is more Kwame Ture than John Lewis. Clinton's remark isn't just historical commentary, but a plea to quell the insurgent Black radicalism we're seeing today. If Bill Clinton approves of your goals and methods, you're not going hard enough https://t.co/lFOeBUVrbF

— abolicious (@telushk) July 30, 2020

Fuck youuuu Bill

https://soundcloud.com/secondcaptains/ep-1825-the-players-chair-with-danny-rose-020820

Danny Rose interview on Second Captains

I thought this was an interesting article that also highlights the devolution of the Republican Party as much as it highlights the evolution of Elizabeth Warren: https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2020/08/03/elizabeth-warrens-journey-on-race-is-a-preview-of-her-partys

that is an interesting article, thank you for sharing it djp

it's definitely good to hear about warren's journey. it makes me think of what i've read of bobby kennedy's journey in the '60s.

and honestly, a lot of it resonates with my own experience. i'm always cautious about how much to center my own experience in any conversation about race, as much as i know that white people need to openly talk about their own prejudices, so i'll just leave it at that for now.

Gun store sends purchase info and cam footage of black customers to state police.

https://www.bluehogreport.com/2020/08/05/wildin-out-local-gun-store-shows-how-systemic-racism-works/

Filed under "jesus fucking christ" and "totally unsurprising". Hope those dudes file a lawsuit and end up owning that gun store.

attended a pretty interesting zoom lecture about the silent march of 1917

https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2020/07/listening-silent-parade-1917-forgotten-civil-rights-march.html

https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai2/forward/text4/silentprotest.pdf

Ugh.

A White Couple Allegedly Terrorized Their Black Neighbor for 3 Years

In July, Jennifer McLeggan — a 39-year-old Black single mom who lives in Valley Stream, New York — posted a sign in the doorway of her home. On it, she accused her two white neighbors, John McEneaney, 57, and his live-in girlfriend Mindy Canarick, 53, of several abuses, and concluded, “I live in FEAR for my life at home.”

McLeggan, a registered nurse, wrote that she had a recording of her neighbors goading their friends into spitting on her property. She said the couple also walked around the back of her house holding BB guns, took a blowtorch to her house late one night, wore blackface, threw feces on her lawn, left four dead squirrels in her yard, and said that McLeggan could be “erased.” She wrote that when police were contacted, they told her that she needed to be harmed in order for them to proceed with an arrest.

On Monday, police arrested McEneaney and Canarick and charged them with several misdemeanors. The pair have allegedly harassed McLeggan for three years. Canarick was charged with criminal tampering in the third degree, and McEneaney with criminal mischief in the fourth degree and harassment in the first degree. The couple were arraigned at the Hempstead District Court and subsequently released. Sources told CBS2 that McEneaney’s father has been accused of similar harassment, but prosecutors have not found enough evidence to arrest him.

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Judge Erica Prager has reportedly granted McLeggan an order of protection from her two neighbors, but McLeggan told ABC News she feels even less safe now, especially since they are still living next door. “I just feel like now they’re more dangerous because now they’ve been arrested,” she said.

Thank god they finally prosecuted her neighbors but she's likely correct that they're gonna feel newly energized.
McLeggan and FLOW were recently on Desus and Mero:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3pEuXX1vPQ

jesus what a bunch of shitbags. glad that woman's ok, at least for now

Damn, that's making me misty. Fuck Valley Stream racists.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/10/jon-henrys-stranger-fruit-shows-black-mothers-constant-fear-of-loss-and-trauma/

There is a demand put upon you with “Stranger Fruit.” That much is clear. The photographs of mothers and sons, of Black bodies—whole and unpierced, yet still Christ-like in death—do not gently plead with viewers any more than street protesters merely invite police to change. These are Black mothers, sitting, standing, kneeling with their lifeless sons, staring straight at the camera, straight at the viewer, straight at the nation, commanding your attention, and it costs you dearly to see them. But it costs more to look away.

The mothers are seen with their sons of varying ages, posed in the classic pietà, a grieving Mary holding the dead body of Christ. The photos are shot in big cities and other places where you can see a motionless Black body without visible trauma and believe that the person is dead. These places, you understand, are complicit in what you are seeing. Henry, who for 15 years worked as a sexton in Queens, says this project was inspired by Christian iconography and memories of his mother’s incessant worry as he was growing up. Stepping outside always brought exhortations to her only child to be careful, to stay safe, to make it back home.

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Courtesy of France's very own Breitbart:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/29/french-magazine-sorry-portraying-black-mp-slave-danele-obono-valeurs-actuelles

https://blackmusiclibrary.com/Library

Rachel Dolezal Syndrome strikes again:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/09/03/white-gwu-professor-admits-she-falsely-claimed-black-identity/

This is the textbook definition of "damned if you do, damned if you don't": https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/11/us/michigan-dearborn-cafes-segregated-trnd/index.html

I'll stand in the doorway of any virtual cafe that promotes segregated conversation!

Meanwhile in Los Angeles, the Center Theatre Group - an entertainment complex that includes the Kirk Douglas Theatre and a bunch of other stuff - apparently instituted something they called "staff affinity spaces."

These staff affinity spaces included one for BIPOC rejuvenation, and a separate one for white learning.

This is from an inside source. I am not aware of much more detail.

when keeping it real goes wrong

Sorry, I had the wording wrong. From their website:

"This summer, we launched two ongoing, facilitated staff affinity spaces—a space for BIPOC healing and activation and a white learning space."

https://www.centertheatregroup.org/about/social-accountability/latest-updates/

I can see the good intentions there, because theater has a ways to go on POC inclusion. But I can also kind of anticipate the inevitable blowback on whether these affinity spaces are able to use the same water fountains etc etc etc.

Are white staff required to spend a minimum amount of time in the "learning space"? And who will be guiding their "learning"? What will the curriculum be?

I don't know. Fortunately, like a lot of live theater companies, they also just made a bunch of layoffs. So at least they are avoiding potential overcrowding in the "white learning space."

misread that multi times as "white leaning"

The white leaning space is just a bunch of lampposts, in a room with no chairs.

White people just say "hey, I'm on break. Gonna go and lean on stuff for a while."

"Oh yeah? Well how come there's no white learning space???"

"It's right over there, second door on the left."

"Oh."

pplains, the more likely complaint is "what about WHITE 'healing and activation'?"

And why no "BIPOC learning space"?

Voting for “uncoerced multiracial fuckspace,” is that in there?

I think it’s more like

Oh yeah? Well how come there's no white learning space???"

"It's right over there, second door on the left."

“What?! You’re the real racist!!!”

https://i.imgur.com/1yCDG4l.jpg

two great tastes together at last, like peanut butter and defibrillator gel

lol

Black lives make America great again? Cool.

I need to save this virtuosic Washington Post headline + stub for posterity:

Allegations of racism have marked Trump’s term, becoming key issue as election nears
There is a substantial record of President Trump’s actions that have compounded the perceptions of racism created by his words.

The Copyeditors & Grammar Fiends thread might be equally appropriate; you'd need 3D modelling software to diagram that sentence.

"Trump is Racist" apparently still not playing in peoria

xp this was the post's leading story (on their website) this morning:

https://i.imgur.com/1RxMeNi.png

that's one way to describe it, i guess

Some allege that Trump's fervent promotion of the re-enslavement of African Americans may in fact be racist, but is it fair for us to assert what really lies in his heart?

ffs

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/sep/24/investigation-launched-after-black-barrister-mistaken-for-defendant-three-times-in-a-day

I thought this was interesting:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/12/opinions/former-white-supremacist-how-to-tackle-hate-buckley/index.html

Wow

https://www.theroot.com/wyoming-congressman-apologizes-for-tweeting-where-the-1845905063?utm_campaign=The+Root&utm_content=1608237779&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3zov8r4wCZ-s6HAsqZZGyavBEl8wNpjXmeiF7c4IKRAe2uMOHkNd6Bml8

he is very sorry for the joke he made which he did not really fully intend or understand, a joke which was kind of foisted on him actually, and to the extent that this thing that happened to him may have troubled other people, he is sorry.

Have read that Hitler was a chaotic insecure leader who had his staff intentionally in conflict to stop them plotting against him. So a big influence on t I take it.

Also he was totally deluded about what was happening towards the end. Moving around tank units that had long since been destroyed. I guess at least t didn't quite manage to get the US into War try as he might. But the quixoticism is still pretty high and I'm sure he'll find some more fun over the next couple of weeks.

I mean why concentrate on the negative stuff.

One really good resource on Race I read this year was Angela Saini's book Superior which looks at the history of race science and shows the major flaws. I.e. why it should be viewed with extreme scepticism since it was set up to explain why the white man was so superior and threw out all the little details as to why he wasn't.
She was triggered to write it by seeing a rise in similar thought appearing recently. The book came out in the summer this year.
I also read Bruce Pascoe's book Dark Emu which looked into distortion in the Western view of Australian Aboriginal history and culture. Like if one goes into an occupied area in such a way as to destroy the ecosystem and whatever buildings etc are in it one can so easily con oneself that the occupants are rootless nomads. Particularly when it helps your expansionist ideas.

Current read David Olusoga on various ethnicities brought into the First World War and fighting outside Europe.
Input has been all too readily ignored.

We don’t “complain” of racist treatment. WE RECEIVE IT. Amplify her story. Then do something about it. https://t.co/HJKec1W7pi

— Jessica Isom MD MPH (@DrJessIsomMDMPH) December 24, 2020

I don’t advocate for violence in most cases, but ...

https://www.theroot.com/man-dubbed-mr-teako-after-smacking-n-word-spewing-whit-1845976157

yoooooooooooooo this is fantastic

Damn! Nice!

lol @ smacklemore