Racism...Forever?

Trump doesn't see race. Unless it's the white one.

 

"I may be sitting on a train and there's a spare seat next to me, and you see people looking to see if it's OK to sit next to me. And I have to gesture to let them know it is safe."

I know I've described the same somewhere on these boards even during "Orange Crush" which is a period on the Orange Line Metro when it's packed. I can sometimes find a seat and the seat next to me may remain empty no matter how much I squish myself against the window and look away to make it look even more avaliable.

 

You think!

 

Perhaps it's the "Kill Whitey" t-shirt?

Seriously, though, I can't imagine how it feels. Another addition to the "exhausting" shit we were discussing earlier.

Sometimes people don't seem to want to sit next to me, but I think it's because I can creep people out: if it looks like someone's heading in the direction of the seat next to me, I usually look up and smile. Being friendly on Metro pretty much guarantees I'll be by myself.

 

That's some serial killer shit right there.

 

Just another fun day on NJ Transit

 

Did you mean this for the New Jersey News (or whatever) thread? I'm confused.

 

Might have something to do with discussion of seats on public transit, and how to not have to share space.

 

Oh, duh.

 

I've been at the point for a while that if you have reservations about sitting next to me, I'd rather you didn't. I'm not here to exacerbate any of your fears, but neither am I here to help you overcome them just enough to feel good about yourself.

 

I certainly wouldn't want to be sitting next to you when you learned that AUFC got crushed 2 days ago.

 

I'm not too bent out of shape about that one- a bad first half for a few players, a howler here and there... plus, I didn't see this match, so I have no real basis to comment.

I do get a bit tired of telling the Liga MX fans to come to a game and they'll see that we're not like the rest of MLS (there's more melanin in the Benz than any MLS venue) and that it's okay to exclude us from their trolling.

 

I gotta say....when you pick a team to root for you go in whole hog. One would think you hail from Arkansas.

 

Some Ole Miss basketball players kneeled during the National Anthem because of the ongoing "pro-Confederacy"/KKK rallies.

 

Has there been any "why do they hate the troops?" backlash yet?

 

Alabama's not much higher on the evolutionary chart than Arkansas.

That's going to be stopped at the PWI level. Wait and see...

 

A bit. This is especially good

https://bigleaguepolitic.com/ole-miss-basketball-players-kneel-during-national-anthem/

There is speculation that the kneeling was related to a Confederate demonstration on or near the Ole Miss campus taking place during the game. Confederate 901 and Hiwaymen demonstrators reportedly took to the streets of Oxford, Mississippi Saturday afternoon.The players are apparently unaware – despite their enrollment at an institution of “higher learning” – that the Confederate Army was racially integrated.

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That would've been news to Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis.

Oh, the link might be broken. If you want to give it a hit, you might need to insert the letter "s" before the .com in the url...

 

Is the right wing Virginia blog that seeks to take down Democrats moving up the ranks of "news" sites now?

 

Not really, though I do wonder how comfortable they were with it. But there were some Creole officers, and also some Indians... and a few free black soldiers I think.

But it is hard to see the relevance of the fact. Lord Haha's English origins did not prevent the Holocaust or the blitz...

 

So it seems to think.

Bummer about the link being broken.

 

The Green Book is a road/buddy movie about the Jim Crow South. The black actor playing the black character won for best supporting actor. The white actor playing the white character was nominated for best lead actor.

Apparently The Green Book was primarily a movie about a white man driving through the Jim Crow South, and secondarily a movie about a black man being driven through the Jim Crow South.

 

Not apparently ... it is that movie. Which is why, among other reasons, it tends to drive progressives nuts.