Racism - Always and Forever

Peter Tosh wrote this over 50 years ago so you can say 450 years.

 

I love this headline:
Kanye West says he's no longer an anti-semite after watching Jonah Hill in 21 Jump Street

 

If only Hitler had watched a Jonah Hill movie...

Oh, wait, Jonah Hill sucks so bad, the Germans WOULD have attacked Pearl Harbor.

 

Hold on - wasn't he great in that unwatchable Moneyball?

 

Is the Wildcats or Eagles or Lumberjacks too PC for these schools, like wtf?

Btw, is Coachella HS still the Arabs?

 

When my sister went to Whitman they were the Missionaries and their principal cheer was "beat them with your Bible!"

There was a high school somewhere in the Northwest called Fletcher. They were the Christians. I played against a school called Moriah; I thought they should have been the Winds.

Mineville New York was a donut of settlement around an ever-expanding open pit garnet mine. The visitor's locker room featured a panic barred door that used to go to the football field, but now hung about 70 feet in the air, even the stoop having fallen into the chasm.

We decided they should have been the Pits.

Should Pattee Mo, be the Cakes?

 

I don’t get Moriah Winds

 

"They Call the Wind Mariah" was the big song from "Paint Your Wagon." I think the hit was the Kingston Trio...

 

Is Adams Colorado The Fam-a-lee? Is Casper Wyoming the Friendly Ghosts? Is Big Bear California the Big Yogis?

South Florida made the women's tournament; they are the Bulls on the men's side. Were the women the Lady Bulls? The Heifers perhaps?

 

Show us a team photo. We can give them a name based off that. I'm sure they don't want to be called the Cows.

 

Moo Moo Buckaroo!!!

 

Inside the article is something more disturbing tho


Chalked sidewalk at University of Alabama, January 26, 2023

Since October 2022, ADL has documented at least 30 antisemitic incidents that directly reference Ye – the influential artist, producer, and fashion designer formerly known as Kanye West, whose 2022 antisemitic outbursts made headlines. These incidents, which include vandalism, banner drops, targeted harassment, and campus propaganda distributions, demonstrate the ongoing influence of Ye’s conspiratorial, bigoted rants.

Immediately following Ye’s antisemitic comments, which included inflammatory tropes about Jewish power and Holocaust denial, the slogan “Ye is Right” surfaced online in hashtags and antisemitic accounts. The ADL Center on Extremism has also tracked references to “Ye is Right” in instances of on-the-ground antisemitic vandalism and harassment nationwide.

https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/ye-right-antisemitic-campaign-continues

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...FAOysSEMVZ0mXcqB0LX3r7D4MNZWp7LmMCj8NsA0jE6oI

Fla. parent files complaint about second-graders watching ‘Ruby Bridges’

 

But...but, the kids might get the idea that some white people hate black people. That's preposterous as there is no evidence of that!

 

As someone wrote "grandparents don't want their grandkids learning that they were racist"

 

Restoration of the natural order as established by God is not racism,you Commie!
-Signed Rev.Jackson Lee "Buster"Stephens, Lead Pastor, First Reformed Patriots Church.

 

I wish more conservatives would say this. As it stands, they're cowardly.

 

Give them time.

 

Yeah, they've said in so many different ways "we want the early 20th (or 19th) century back when things were simpler and everyone knew their place"

 

A superb article by the always excellent Gary Younge about Britain's refusal to accept the reality of it's colonial past...

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng...ber-how-britain-buried-its-history-of-slavery

It's generally correct although it's worth pointing out the complete lack of ANY sort of political history taught in our schools. If people don't remember or understand their own history, they're unlikely to remember others.

As he says...

Today people will say “we won the war”, even if they didn’t fight and even if they weren’t born. They will say “we won the World Cup”, even if they didn’t play or weren’t born. Nobody takes the “we” literally. It signifies a collective identity that can span centuries and experiences. But when you mention slavery or colonialism, the same people will say: “I am not responsible. I wasn’t alive. I wasn’t there.” The collective, historical British identity that people would otherwise embody in moments of victory and national pride becomes suddenly and urgently estranged and elusive when it comes to less flattering periods in our history. This contradiction is clearly unsustainable.​

Nevertheless, it's a excellent article which should be read by British or other Europeans who have a colonial history.

 

Not to diminish, but I’ve seen similar analysis about sports fans. The inclusive pronouns “we” “us” “our” etc.. is used when the team does well, but then then “they” “them” “their” etc. is used when the team does poorly.

 

Here as well. "We beat the Japanese, Germans,... we made it to the moon... but somehow, "We" never discriminated against anyone, we never entered a store where Black women were prohibited from trying on a dress, never sat down at a Whites only lunch counter, never told a Black man he was wrong, never cheered for a cfb team that didn't allow Black players, never attanded a school where Black children were not welcome... the list goes on and on <Stephen Bishop>

 

Good on those Manchester mill workers. Interesting that The Guardian leadership didn't support them back then.

Some clowns are still saying colonialism was a good thing for the colonized.

Perhaps the easiest way to understand why colonialism was so horrific is to imagine it happening in your own country now. It is invaded, conquered, and occupied by a foreign power. Existing governing institutions are dismantled and replaced by absolute rule of the colonizers. A strict hierarchy separates the colonized and the colonizer; you are treated as an inconvenient subhuman who can be abused at will. The colonists commit crimes with impunity against your people. Efforts at resistance are met with brutal reprisal, sometimes massacre. The more vividly and accurately you manage to conjure what this scenario would actually look like, the more horrified you will be by the very idea of colonialism.

One would think this revulsion was now universally shared. But that is far from being the case. The majority of British people are still proud of colonialism and the British Empire. Americans continue to show an almost total indifference to the lasting poverty and devastation inflicted on the country’s indigenous population. Being pro-colonial is no bar to success in academia; Harvard historian Niall Ferguson has long defended the British Empire as a force for good in the world. And now, Princeton PhD and Portland State University professor Bruce Gilley has published an unapologetic “Case for Colonialism” in Third World Quarterly, a respected academic journal.

Gilley’s article takes a very clear stance: not only was colonialism a force for good in the world, but anti-colonial sentiment is “preposterous.” What’s more, Gilley says, we need a new program of colonization, with Western powers taking over the governing functions of less developed countries. Gilley says he intends to overturn or revise three lines of criticism directed against colonialism: “that it was objectively harmful (rather than beneficial),” “that it was subjectively illegitimate (rather than legitimate),” and “that it offends the sensibilities of contemporary society.” Thus he is not just concerned to prove that colonialism was good and should be revived. He also wants to prove that it was “legitimate,” i.e. that there is nothing inherently unjust about invading and dominating a people.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/09/a-quick-reminder-of-why-colonialism-was-bad

 

The article in question was withdrawn ,but remember that racist Woodrow Wilson was President of Princeton.

 

"The New American Gothic" by Criselda Vasquez