Senate "Race" Relations (was "U.S. Society and Black Men")

Police officer fired for NOT shooting a man and trying to de-escalate

https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-...police-officer-wins-settlement-city-fired-him

 

Surprise surprise, it's in the red state of West Virginia.

 

anglo-american heritage of law enforcement

 

Kathleen Cleaver (left) at a Free Huey rally in DeFremery Park, Oakland, in 1968.




A legacy of black empowerment
The Black Panthers' striking symbolism reverberates more than 50 years later, from Colin Kaepernick to the 'Black Panther' movie

 

I live in the greater Oakland area, and this scene from Boyz n the Hood always resonated with me. Even now, this is happening.

 

This was an interesting read. https://asalh.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2018Theme.pdf

I had read these a while back, and they illustrate how things need to change for the better.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/06/us/black-transgender-lil-duval.html

https://www.hrc.org/blog/new-report-details-the-experiences-of-being-black-and-transgender-in-the-u

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
- The Lorax

 

This first video talks about how Erik is the story of Black America, as well as other elements in the film reflect on Black America.



In this video Marc Bernardin shares his thoughts on the film and how the themes of the film fills a certain void in the Black Community.

 

I was expecting something much more subtle, much more passive, much less egregious.

I honestly had to stop reading at the end of the first paragraph. This happened in 2016?

Was this really a thing? Was there a significant number of "regular" totally Not Racist white folks who thought white genocide was a legitimate thing?

I've never known the term as anything other than a hilariously ridiculous delusion. I didn't know any non-Nazi types who took it seriously.

This was not what I was expecting. The reaction by her white friends was so stupid I had a hard time finishing the article, I just couldn't get over it. She may want to reconsider if these people are actually her friends and whether or not they are actually gigantic racist idiots.

 

That is an excellent article and something I've tried to take to heart. I know in the past I've been guilty of trying to take a larger role in conversations where I really should have just shut up and listened.

I feel as though as a white man I am more inclined to listen to people of color and their life experiences when we define concepts like white privilege and white supremacy because although I try to have the best intentions I can't ever really have the full picture because it has benefitted me.

 

I read about that earlier. She's a ridiculous person who should be jailed for wasting police time and gross stupidity.

 

That's a terrible thing. She's not only racist but making it much harder for rape victims to come forward. I wish I could say that story surprised me but we had something similar happen years ago in my area. The police even did a sketch(the 'rapist' looked exactly like Saddam Hussein).

 

Progressively angrier face.

 

What did the roach-infested vault do to deserve that punishment?

 

This is appalling. These cops should be charged.

 

One of them has.

 

Black Panther is only going to move up the charts. Is it too much to dream that it might come close to beating the cultural appropriation epic 'Avatar'?

 

There are all sorts of issues surrounding me talking out of my privilege. I am Native American, so it's not exactly white privilege when I talk about racism against black people, but it could be argued that, because the type of racism faced by black Americans is very different from the racism faced by Native people (and I can parse some of that for you if you really want), that I'm kind of talking out of "non-black" privilege. And of course I'm talking from a position of privilege when I talk about feminism and all that. I mean, problem is that I just like to talk about everything basically. I also like to listen to people in different situations or with different viewpoints than mine, so hopefully that helps. But I try to keep an attitude of humility in just about any subject, no matter how right I think I am.

But a lot of the issue of people talking from a position of privilege isn't really an issue of privilege, but of ignorance, at least to some degree. I mean, for example, a white guy making offensive comments about black people and racism; the issue isn't even really the privilege - it's just the ignorance. I mean, if white people are upset when black people try to correct them in their opinions or want them to stop talking about an issue (or apply this to men and women also), then there's a simple solution: get informed and stop saying ignorant things. I think it's perfectly fine, for example, for a white person to talk about the racism faced by Native American people in America right now, provided they know what they're talking about. I only have an issue with their "privilege" when they're acting in bad faith or speaking out of ignorance. But what we've learned is that privilege and ignorance go hand in hand, privilege creating and enabling ignorance. But if people bristle when you tell them they have "privilege," I expect they would absolutely lose their **** if you tried to tell them they were "ignorant," even though the word really has no inherent value judgment.

But, I do have to agree that the idea that someone is not a white supremacist and also thinks white genocide is happening in America is . . . well, not correct. Those people arguing with the author of that article about how white genocide is actually a real thing . . . those people were ******* white supremacists. They just were. Saying that they weren't tars non-supremacists with a pretty bad brush, ie. "Even white people who aren't white supremacists think white genocide is real!"