Racism...Forever?

I remember East St. Louis winning the Illinois HS state title year after year through the Eighties and Nineties. Allegedly per the Internet, my best 1600 meter time was better than their school record, but that's bogus because the school records that are listed only go back to 2009. But I would have been competitive, on, you know, grit and determination.

As I recall, 136 feet is a good total, that certainly should place in a dual meet!

 

That's a character deserving of a series of detective novels, or movies or a miniseries or something-- I'm picturing a skinny guy who looks a lot like Ho Chi Minh, only very black/brown.

 

Well, our sprinter was African-American. We had black guys too, only not anywhere near as many as Oakland Tech.

 

Deceptively Fast

 

This mirrors what Dave Chappelle said in his comedy show about a month or so ago ... WE didnt choose George Floyd, THEY chose George Floyd.

 

LOL I know you are joking, but most of the black athletes that run track at my school are very technical. A surprisingly large number of them, especially when you consider our Title One status have "AAU" or private coaches. Same with the B'ballers.

So yeah they are athletic but our runners have some beautiful form. I am not a track fan, but do help with practice. I am here to tell you our kids have technique for days. I am talking from the starting block to the finish line some of them are pure poetry in motion.

I do wonder about some of those AAYU coaches and wonder if they are as scandalous as some of the things that we have heard about these types of folks.

 

I think Dave is one funny mofo. His comedy is very political, and some of his stuff almost makes one feel guilty for laughing, but that dude Rox.

 

Well, the special I am talking about was far more uncomfortable than normal. He was not in a "funny, ha ha" mood.

 

We fit the stereotype perfectly. Our top sprinter, jumper, and hurdler were black, whereas our top distance runner, weight man, and pole vaulter were white. Now that's how to construct a track team.

That said, our Parade All American linebacker who was also a stud point guard was lily white.

 

In Django Unchained, Kerry Washington . . .



. . . Plays a character named "Broomhilda Von Shaft."

 

There were only two Black students in my high school graduating class (1985). Twins, a brother and sister who were quite popular (which isn't the same thing as them feeling they belonged and/or accepted and understood; we weren't close enough for me to have ever asked). We were about 25% SE Asian and 10% Hispanic, with another 10% other Asian and Eastern European. Lots of resettled refugees. So I was pretty unfamiliar with the experience of Black Americans.

Then in junior English Lit, our teacher introduced us to an unassigned book that he offered to loan to anyone who would read it. He told us it wouldn't generate any points but that it was powerful, and our lives would change if we read it. I borrowed it from him and read it. When I finished and returned the book, he asked me to stand in front of the class and then asked me a series of questions about it and what I learned from it.

The book was Richard Wright's Native Son. It was a hell of an introduction to issues of racial oppression, the enduring legacy of generational poverty, and the end of easy answers to complex issues. And it propelled me to a life of reading, thinking, and listening. Thanks, then, to Tom Beaton for that moment.

 

Did not realize that... thanks

 

Pretty much. The college boys go on to pass the Bar and become politicians. That's when the blood letting starts!

 

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-yor...QUAPRGjvhVWALaGwfHcG7OVN_PylscT1ufMzQF9zNpAbw

I can't help but wonder if this man has decided that he doesn't care about the victims that came before him and those that will follow him, and, of the ones that live, how many will be expected to forgive and forget. Why did he bother to film the encounter if his life isn't worth defending to the fullest extent of the law?

 

Everyone knows that bird-watchers are shady.

 

The victim seems to not be cooperating with police, so charges may be dropped unless he changes his mind.

 

?? But he's not the only victim, or even the real one. The dispatcher, the dispatched... there's plenty of evidence...

 

Dumb Christians Hang A ‘No Trespassing’ Sign Above Black Woman While She's Sitting In The Grass
Spoiler: They don't shoot her but they're really, really, really dumb.

PS. If a church doesn't allow people on their property, then they're a private club.
PSS. Private clubs should be taxed.

 

Come again? Is this what you believe, or is this your understanding of the law?

I found the church's website. They're Wisconsin Synod. I'm ELCA. The Missouri Synod is very conservative socially; for example, when the ELCA allowed same sex marriages and gay clergy, we lost maybe 15% of our congregation to a Missouri Synod church. MS doesn't allow female leadership in the church.

The Missouri Synod is more liberal than the Wisconsin Synod. Michelle Bachman, for example, is WS.

I looked up the website because I guessed the church was MS, but it's worse than that. A useful analogy might be ELCA is to MS as the Anglican church is to...that group that split from the Anglicans when the Anglicans got soft on gay rights.

 

I saw the Philadelfia Union playing against NYC with names of black Americans killed by police on their shirt in stead of their own name.