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Old 08-26-2023, 11:15 PM
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So this is a follow up to the story Kamilah linked to. I don’t see much new facts, but there are details like the text of the hate letters.

He became the first Black mayor of a rural Alabama town. Then a white minority locked him out | US news | The Guardian

The guardian link does have a link to Lewis’s gofundme
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Old 09-01-2023, 11:36 AM
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A black cop shot an unarmed white woman in the face, ...
A cop shot a woman (who was leading a break-in by an large, armed, and violent mob) in the face. The skin colours of the cop and the woman are contingent facts that only have relevance in a racist narrative, I think.

Why have you foregrounded the skin colours in your narrative, Effie?
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Newest "anti-woke" tantrum: Right-wingers don't think kids of different races can be friends | Salon.com
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Fox saying stupid shit.

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Fox saying stupid shit.

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Ya think that they belabored that point enough?

I went to look up those "Standards"
https://www.oscars.org/news/academy-...sr-eligibility
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Old 09-12-2023, 11:30 PM
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Black people with hair banned in Texas: Texas student Darryl George suspended over his loc hairstyle days after state's Crown Act takes effect | CNN
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“People want to call us racist, but we’re following the rules, the law of the land,” he said.
Pretty blithe.
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A proposed bill in the Florida House of Representatives would punish cities for removing historical monuments and memorials, even if the removal happened five years ago.
Florida bill aims to punish cities for removing Confederate monuments | WFLA
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... I think that's just unambiguously unconstitutional.
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Nikki Haley continues to do damage control for her omission of slavery in response to a question about the causes of the Civil War last month, and on Thursday defended her response in part by noting, “I had Black friends growing up.”


Maybe that was out of context,

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“If you grow up in South Carolina, literally in second and third grade, you learn about slavery. You grow up and you have, you know, I had Black friends growing up. It is a very talked about thing. We have a big history in South Carolina, when it comes to, you know, slavery, when it comes to all the things that happened with the Civil War, all of that,” Haley said at a CNN town hall here.

“I was thinking past slavery, and talking about the lesson that we would learn going forward. I shouldn’t have done that. I should have said slavery but in, in my mind, that’s a given that everybody associates the civil war with slavery,” she continued.
She pointed to her childhood growing up in the only Indian family in a small, rural, racially divided town, and said that racism was discussed more than slavery.
“It was not just slavery that was talked about, it was more about racism that was talked about,” she said. “We had Black friends, we had White friends, but it was always a topic of conversation.”
I don’t think context makes it better.

Haley says she had Black friends growing up in follow-up to slavery question - The Washington Post

Especially when considering this


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"Joe and Kamala even say America's racist," Haley claimed at a campaign rally in Charleston, pulling lines from her campaign ad. "Nothing is further from the truth. ... Take it from me, the first minority female governor in history: America is not racist."
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/show...blog/rcna71644

So she didn’t mention slavery because when talking to her Black friends (that weren’t at all imaginary) they mostly focused on racism, but also racism isn’t real.
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Well, I would be surprised if there was a lot of discussions about Slavery in a South Carolina high school in the '80s among the upper middle class kids.
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I was so much happier five minutes ago.
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Ah the sweet peace of ten seconds ago.

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