Racism...Forever?

https://www.espn.com/soccer/aston-v...st-social-media-messages-sent-to-palaces-zaha

In Britain they arrested a TWELVE YEAR OLD for sending a racist text to Zaha.

Not sure how I feel about that. But it definitely shows they ain't playin'.

 

Ridiculous. Even for a country with hideous freedom of speech laws like Britain.

More clumsy overcompensating from the establishment.

 

This one's a doozy. This woman and her Staten Island/Jersey accent is barely English, lol. She harasses hard working folk. Yeah, she's been fired from her Radio job.



A radio host in New Hampshire went on a vile, racist tirade against a group of workers doing their job, because they dared to speak Spanish.
https://www.tmz.com/2020/07/12/radio-host-karen-racist-english/

 

The funny thing is those people are as dumb as a bag of rocks. You are a racist but this is 2020...This woman is even worse, she filmed herself and put it out there. I bet she is shocked now that she has been canned!

 

She probably sees herself as the victim. Remember, to people like that, white people are the real victims of racism.

 

See, that's why I wish I could speak Spanish. (Unfortunately, soccer terminology from watching Univision doesn't count) I would deliberately go up to people like that and start jibber-jabbering away, just to piss them off. Yeah, I could do it in French, but then she'd just call me an "Elitist" or a "Globalist" or maybe even a "Cheese eating surrender-monkey," but she wouldn't tell me to swim my ass back over the Rio Grande.

 

Long read but some backstory:

Birmingham Michigan is one of the nicest places to live. If you're living there, you're doing well. It's also sadly home to Alexi Lalas, who did not attend the Birmingham school system, but nearby Cranbrook. Alma mater to one Mitt Romney. Which should tell you everything about that area.\

That said, this is disgusting and not a surprise for Oakland County.

My god, this story: Student at Groves HS in Birmingham, Mi, is incarcerated in a juvenile facility on the alleged probation violation of not keeping up with her online schoolwork during the pandemic. She's still there. Surprise twist in the next tweet. https://t.co/yThdZfRK5I

— Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen) July 14, 2020

 

As is the norm....there is a lot more to the story.

 

Yeah, I am not fond of that either. Hopefully that is just a necessary step they take (the "arrest") before taking the real action, which is some sort of class or class or something (I really don't know). But he is too young to be part of the system over something like this.

 

The city council in Asheville NC has voted for reparations. It will not be in the form of checks written to black residents, but investment in the black community. It seems more aspirational than programmatic, but let's see what the follow up is before we call it a meaningless gesture.

Asheville is a real hippie town. I think it might be like Taos. It's a place where a lot of people buy crystals, stuff like that.

If it was going to be an NC town, I would have predicted Carrboro (right next to Chapel Hill.)

 

Article in The Atlantic about the problems with "White Fragility":

The Dehumanizing Condescension of White Fragility

I agree with the author. The book is nothing more than a sophomoric attempt to excuse white people by providing a manual for smugness. It's obscenely condescending and non-constructive.

 

I haven't subjected myself to one of those books. My wife likes "How to Be an Anti-Racist," she thought it was more constructive than the other versions that she has encountered.

 

I plan to learn by playing FM in Spanish.

 

I'm out of Atlantic articles for this month: Is that the one that points out that DiAngelo portrays white racism as a problem that can never be solved, but can only be dealt with by constant retraining of habits. Retraining, that is, which she offers at about $25,000 a pop.

Matt Taibbi had a pretty good review that you might get a kick out of:

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/on-white-fragility

Writers like DiAngelo like to make ugly verbs out of ugly nouns and ugly nouns out of ugly verbs (there are countless permutations on centering and privileging alone). In a world where only a few ideas are considered important, redundancy is encouraged, e.g. “To be less white is to break with white silence and white solidarity, to stop privileging the comfort of white people,” or “Ruth Frankenberg, a premier white scholar in the field of whiteness, describes whiteness as multidimensional…”

DiAngelo writes like a person who was put in timeout as a child for speaking clearly. “When there is disequilibrium in the habitus — when social cues are unfamiliar and/or when they challenge our capital — we use strategies to regain our balance,” she says (“People taken out of their comfort zones find ways to deal,” according to Google Translate). Ideas that go through the English-DiAngelo translator usually end up significantly altered, as in this key part of the book when she addresses Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream,” speech:
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Her take on the significance of Jackie Robinson even more mind-boggling than her take on MLK. How that one got past an editor is beyond me.

 

Did she say he's overrated because of the Larry Doby erasure?

 

McWhorter isn't after her industry in this essay. The point is:

Mic drop.

 

This one belongs here.......Esper has been getting a lot of heat from the top brass to implement this decision. Way overdue.....

Defense Secretary Mark Esper effectively banned the display of the Confederate battle flag on U.S. military installations on Friday, saying in a memo that the “flags we fly must accord with the military imperatives of good order and discipline, treating all our people with dignity and respect, and rejecting divisive symbols,” the Washington Post reports.

 

A las chicas no parece importarles
esta noche
Mientras el estado de ánimo sea el correcto
Sin estática en absoluto
Sin estática en absoluto

 

different FM I think

 

So you mean there is some static, even just a little bit?

 

no, just got this message:

"la junta cree que debería desempeñarse un poco mejor como gerente"

 

♫
Strangers in the night
Exchanging glances
Wondering in the night
What were the chances

 

For the racism thread ... John Lewis has died.

 

The Edmonton Eskimos are changing their name.

 

I'm gonna start a protest in Detroit!