Racism...Forever?

Why not both?

 

Okay, everybody needs to go back to work at this point. I think I'd rather take my chances with the virus than have to see what folks post when they got too much time on their hands

 

Now to tie this all together

 

I am rocking that same facial hair right now. But my boots are brown.

 

Hopefully you are not matching those with your undies.

 

Or at least other people won’t be able to tell...

 

57 Buffalo officers resign from special squad after two others are suspended for allegedly shoving 75-year-old protester to the ground

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/05/buffalo-officers-suspended-shoving-man/

Fifty-seven members of the Buffalo Police Department resigned from a special squad Friday to protest the suspension of two officers shown on video shoving a 75-year-old protester to the ground, causing him to hit his head on the sidewalk and suffer a serious injury, officials said.

The footage, shot by local NPR affiliate WBFO on Thursday evening, shows the man walking up to uniformed officers in Buffalo’s Niagara Square during an anti-police-brutality demonstration after George Floyd’s death. The officers, who had begun enforcing curfew, yell what sounds like “move!” and “push him back!” One officer can be seen pushing the man with an outstretched arm, while another shoves a baton into him. A third officer appears to shove colleagues toward the man.

57 of 'em. 57 left their jobs because their buds faced repercussions for brutalizing an old man. We need ol' Jake around here to remind us that good cops exist...

 

Damm. Was hoping they were resigning, period.

 

Why "allegedly shoving..."? It is crystal clear in the video they did shove the old man.

 

It's a few bad apples...

 

If I were in charge of the PD, I’d give them all 25 hours/week of the most mundane desk job I could find. For the other 15 hours/week, they’d go to a Witnessing Whiteness workshop. Those guys would quit in two weeks and I’d save the city a small fortune in future pension accruals.

 

My friend Kevin's take:

I pick a bushel of apples each fall in RI.

I leave the stem in. If you don't it goes bad.

I store each one upside down. If you don't it goes bad.

I wrap each one in newspaper, in case it goes bad.

A bad apple ruins the bushel {ethylene).

I throw out every bad apple.#BLM

— Kevin Essington (@citygreener) June 5, 2020

 

On the local front: I’m really proud of our local organizers. When we went down this road after Ferguson and my neighborhood’s shooting, the protestors took too much refuge in those two neighborhoods. They were both places where they knew they had comfort and support, but it became pointless and frankly grating. The mean, 3 weeks in, you keep it up in the same exact areas that agree with you and now you have a security perimeter around these places with helicopters buzzing overhead. Again, what is the point? A few of us chatted with the organizers. More along the lines of, “we know helicopters hovering over the same patch of dirt every night isn’t the biggest inconvenience, but you guys should consider taking this to a bigger audience. We can’t tell you what to do and you’re welcome as long as it takes, but please consider. I’m not sure that if what they did in the following weeks was coincidental, but they did alter tactics and come up with ways to make a wide group of people uncomfortable.

This time around, despite not having the full thrust of outside protestors they had when they were the epicenter, they’ve expanded on that. Today they’ve mucked up quiet, large lot super rich (wealthier than Lake Forest, IL) Ladue during rush hour. Yesterday it was the largest retail center in the metro in Brentwood on its busiest non weekend shopping day. The day before it was middle class conservative suburb St. Charles. There are a lot uncomfortable residents and no one know what is next. The organizers are getting more sophisticated and they’re playing better notes.

 

I'd seriously consider a statement thanking them for identifying the jobs that need replacements.

 

It would be better to make them do community work in the form of having to aid geriatrics who suffer from incontinence and have them clean those po infested butts for a month.

 

So Roger Goodell has come out with a video statement, essentially saying that the NFL was wrong not to listen to its Black players about racism.

Let me be the first here to say, ******** GOODELL!!! He is a piece of crap that can go fly a kite at the top of the Washington monument in a thunderstorm.

 

Patronization is a big part of white privilege; and it definitely passes from father to son; and does so even in families that are reflexively anti racist... like mine.

If he finally gets it, better late than never, and better imperfectly than not at all...

 

No apology to Kaep in that mess.

 

What the States need is a man who can raise the people to fight the evil of racism, who can inspire them to lift themselves as a nation into a unity to put this dragon of evil down.

Winston Churchill addressing the British nation in 1940 to encourage the nation for the fight to come with Nazi Germany. Sanctus Espiritus translates from Latin as Holy Spirit.
"I speak to you for the first time as Prime Minister in a solemn hour for the life of our country, of our empire, of our allies, and, above all, of the cause of Freedom."

Sanctus Espiritus! Redeem us from our solemn hour.
Sanctus Espiritus! Insanity is all around us.
Sanctus Espiritus!
Sanctus Espiritus!
Sanctus Espiritus!
In my darkest hours I could not foresee,
That the tide could turn so fast to this degree.
Can't believe my eyes, how can you be so blind?
Is the heart of stone, no empathy inside?
Time keeps on slipping away and we haven't learned.
So in the end now what have we gained?