Kid headed back to school for his first day of in person classes, buys a sammich for lunch from Safeway. Two guards and a store employee stop him on the way out to claim he stole it. He produces the receipt, and that isn’t fucking good enough for them. In the end the manager finally “let him go.” Also the kid just happens to be black, I’m sure that has nothing to do with it.
And what if he had stolen it? It’s a fucking sammich, they were going to throw it away if no one bought it. It’s not like the kid was trying to smuggle Grey Goose and Lobster out of the store.
This is from deep inside the liberal bastion of San Francisco, in the gay (but also white) Castro and that’s why it’s clear no one is truly clean of our racism.
The “He’s tall for his age” pisses me off extra. So what? I’m short, most high schoolers are my height or taller and I am absolutely certain I could make them cry, due to sheer world experience, and I’m not even a security guard with gear and authority.
I mean, yes, of course it isn't as simple as two similar cases, one black and one white, in front of the same judge, but that could be said in one sentence and then the real issue examined. Instead snopes seems to want to spend a whole article detailing all the differences while ignoring whether race plays any part in any of them.
Texas threw their book at Mason, and Pennsylvania found as many excuses as it could for Bartman. That might have nothing to do with race, but it isn't the kind of forgone conclusion that snopes implies.
And as for Mason's criminal record, it's like snopes hasn't heard that black Americans are criminalised in far greater numbers than white Americans because racism! And laws disqualifying those with criminal records or undischarged convictions etc. are also widely seen as having a racist pro-Republican motive. Wasn't there a cop busted just the other day who bragged about falsely charging large numbers of African Americans because it stops them voting?
I'm sure you can find other gaps in snopes' understanding of systemic racism in America ...
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It’s interesting watching european conservative cons learning from American cons. Oh noes not the *checks notes* 5% of the population, if only they gain another 46% they could be the majority!
To determine which players are eligible for payouts in the NFL’s $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims, the NFL has insisted on using a scoring algorithm on the dementia testing that assumes Black men start with lower cognitive skills. https://t.co/DJS6HQCCQ1
Barnard Kemter, a retired U.S. Army Lt. Colonel, gave a very nice Memorial Day address in his hometown of Hudson, Ohio. Kemter, a combat medic for 30 years before retiring in 1995, provided some Memorial Day historical info by including in his address the story of how in 1865 a group of freed slaves helped exhume a mass grave holding some 240 U.S. soldiers so they could be buried individually with full military honors.
Not many heard the story, though, as the event organizers intentionally turned down Kemter's mic while he told it. Can't have former Army officers saying favorable things about the coloreds at a proper Northeast Ohio Memorial Day gathering.
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Me, “Hey [white] google, how do you pronounce “Sihk”?”
Google: [White people] pronounce it “Seek” see here’s a video of a white dude pronouncing Sihk and it’s labeled “(CORRECTLY)” all in caps so you know it’s right.
Every comment by a Sihk, “Um, it’s pronounced “Sick” and a group of Sihks is pronounced “Six”.”
I only vaguely remember the media coverage at the time, and don't remember exactly what I heard then and what I learned later.
There was a weird amount of coverage of what amounted to noise complaints from their neighbors as part of the justification, though. They were vegans and environmentalists, and this was around the time that groups like Earth First (I think?) and a couple others were doing a lot of property damage, so I think that probably fed into the alarmism.
But overall, it seemed like it came down to humanizing the police and trying to justify what they did by dehumanizing and blaming the victims.
Okay, we don't have a Critical Race Theory thread and, from what I've seen elsewhere, we don't really want one. So I am parking this here. It's a brief introduction to Robin DiAngelo of "All white people are racist" fame*, and I think it's good.
*She is roundly excoriated by those pushing back against CRT for saying this. Whether she did or not is unclear, but what she says in the article comes close:
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For a long time now I've had the sense that the word "racism" is simply inadequate for covering such a range of behaviour, attitudes and even existences. I don't think it's helpful to use the same word for taking part in a lynching as being born White within Western cultural institutions.
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The viewpoint of an advisor to "Turning Point USA":
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[The newsletter claimed that] White people aren't racist but 'just exhausted' with Black people. It portrayed post-Civil War America as a 150-year-long 'experiment' to see whether Black people could be 'taken from the jungles of Africa,' enslaved, and then integrated into a majority-White society. It said that experiment had failed."
I love their need to hide behind a fake name, admitting the author knows it’s shitty and wants to say it anyway.
It’s funny, I think about the “criminal nature of blacks” everytime I see a pickup truck with gimmick plastic over their license plate to make it harder for the cops to read.
Critical race theory made this otherwise jovial and loving old white mansay some racist shit casually utter comments that the unobservant might irrationally construe as racist during a city council meeting in Tarrant, Alabama.
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One thing that makes me mildly optimistic about the current CRT "debate" is that you literally can't have it without doing CRT.
It brings to my mind a thread somewhere around wherein two people are having an argument about "philosophy", and a third person observed something along the lines of: It's funny that the person who thinks they are doing philosophy is not, while the person who thinks they are not doing philosophy is.
You have to be able to at least define CRT and articulate its ostensible shortcomings before you can argue things like why it shouldn't be taught in schools or whatever. It's like, "Look at you, dude. You're doing CRT right now. Nice job."
I am cursed with fairly extensive knowledge of what critical race theory is and where it came from, and that knowledge makes the ginned-up wingnut hysteria over CRT utterly fucking unbearable.
Anyhoo, this here Fort Valley, GA city councilman, whose racist rant that got him charged with aggravated assault and making terroristic threats, won't face any consequences as to his city council duties. It was just a heat of the moment thing, ya see. Coulda happened to anyone.
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Fort Valley is near Macon, Georgia which is in the middle of the state about an hour or so south of Atlanta.
Fort Valley is home to Fort Valley State a HBCU.
Everything south of the Atlanta Metro area is basically Dukes of Hazzardesque only with actual Black people living there as well. Fort Valley is majority Black city with 75 percent or so of the pop.
Mayor Williams is a Fort Valley State Alumna, I find her unwillingness to condemn this dipshit to be highly indicative of the pervasive racist culture found in South Georgia.
Re: More blithe racism
, this happened in my lifetime and I'm pretty sure I've not heard of it till now. 
wherein two people are having an argument about "philosophy", and a third person observed something along the lines of: It's funny that the person who thinks they are doing philosophy is not, while the person who thinks they are not doing philosophy is.
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