Racism...Forever?

Well, I did live in Harlem in the mid-seventies. When the street cops were trying to figure out what was happening on the block they asked me first, and I had to point out the guy across the street who actually knew. He was black you see, so even though he was covered with Marine tats and I had long hair they saw me as the guy to ask...

And of course I presently live in a Hispanic community and neighborhood-- though to be fair the wife of the couple next door isn't. She's Kiowa by blood, I think, though she grew up in one of the northern pueblos.

But no. I'm not doing a lot of uprooting any more-- MS has me slowly sliding roward house-boundness.

 

That first article is two years old, so probably.

My first impulse, given everything I've heard about St. Louis cops, some of it from my college roommate who teaches their ethics classes at the community college that doubles as the police academy, is to have strong suspicions in that general direction.

 

https://worldnewsdailyreport.com/ke...T51SUh4t9u8ddM-SspeUon2AEvfBYBZ430exjsscXQo2w

I know it's satire only because I got it from a site whose purpose is satire.

 

I'm surprised this hasn't been brought up.

Here's Peggy McIntosh's essay where "white privilege" was first popularized in 1989. It's only a 7-page article and extremely accessible reading:

https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf

I found out about this in grad school and I remember all the other grad students more or less longing for a time when this was part of public discourse.

Well, that time has arrived. "White privilege" is a pretty mainstream term now but it's misunderstood and mischaracterized (willfully and otherwise) by so many people it's pretty exasperating.

 

I blame twitter and facebook for it.

 

Keep the ideas, change the name. And no, I still haven't come up with my own. But I will.

 

American Aristocracy. It has a whiff of British royalty so a slob scratching his balls in a trailer somewhere can still feel good about his station in life.

 

So all these people think they're King Ralph?

 

Yep. The people you need to convince with the "white privilege" argument are not the wealthy, who tend to have global mindsets and understand how things work. They realize, by and large, that they lead privileged lives. Rather, they're Bruce Springsteen's subjects -- the working-class guy who thinks that the system is stacked against him. He doesn't believe for a second that he is privileged.

 

Also those are the people who dont get Born in the USA and think its a patriotic feel good song.

 

I think that describes most people.

 

They may find a few verses offensive.

Yes, it was a protest song, but that may get lost with the SJW crowd.

 

Bruce would show up live at an event to play it

 

Papers please:

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But what about the bone spurs?

1) Trump and his father ran a housing business that was sanctioned by the Justice Department in the 1970s for discriminating against prospective tenants of color. He hired Roy Cohn to defend the family. https://t.co/fgHnN1fCph

— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) July 16, 2019

And the Tea:

“Racially infused” sounds like how Paula Deen takes her sweet tea.

— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) July 16, 2019

 

True enough. Trump is dead to water if a recession arrives. He's a bad, unpopular candidate who lucked into office because of a perfect storm. He needs a strong economy to overcome the fact that half the voters immediately and irrevocably loathe him. Even so, it's an iffy proposition for him.

What I'd really like to see is what appears to be a looming recession in summer 2020, then the clouds break after the election. Now that would be sweet.

 

If her husband isn't pulling some kind of "long con" with his tweeting, I don't know how they're still speaking.

 

Uruguay still managed to keep some black people alive too....