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

Over in Sanford, FL - just down the road - an African-American driving in a cul-de-sac in a ritzy neighborhood was not only verbally berated by two residents, but they started attacking the car and one managed to throw a heavy rock through a car window.
To my great shock, they were arrested. But expect this to make the Fox News rounds, and even having DeSantis weigh in...

 

So, Marvel put out a new issue of “What If…” where Miles Morales was Thor, and it’s, well,


…yeah.

 

My parents went downtown today to volunteer with their church setting up the Juneteenth celebrations for a sister church there which is mostly African American.

Proud of them. Learning little by little.

 

This was interesting and not something I’ve heard talked about as a large US problem before:


Big Tech's big problem is also its 'best-kept secret': Caste discrimination
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-...st-kept-secret-caste-discrimination-rcna33692

 

I'm not surprised, necessarily, both that that is a thing going on apparently, and that companies are ill-equipped to deal with it. It requires a level of nuance that they don't feel like using.

 

The "involuntary relocation" euphemism to replace "slavery" in school programs belongs in the category just below "reeducation through labor" and "special treatment". It also has modern-day and scary implications about asylum seekers who might be "involuntarily relocated" should that terminology enter legal definitions.

 

I'm disgusted with my country's present.

 

Oh, they do know they just want whitewash it.

 

autocorrect messed up the last word there

 

... you know that CT would agree with the sentiment you're trying to express? And the one before him? And the one before that? And the one before that, etc.?

 

Let's see, campaign ad, Democrats are now KKK, AR-15, the need for 30 rounds, African-American GOP candidate:



I guess his posing here is like an American Eagle showing you its claws.

 

This is ridiculous.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/scho...pal-texas-activism_n_62d3be34e4b0e6fc1a97dfeb

Whitfield wrote a letter to his school in the early morning hours of June 3, 2020, in the wake of protests related to George Floyd’s death.


In the letter, he said education was the “key” to ending ignorance, hate and systemic racism, according to The Texas Tribune.

“It’s a necessary conduit to get ‘liberty and justice for all,’” he wrote.


Over a year after his remarks, Stetson Clark, a former school board candidate, referred to the letter at a school board meeting and accused Whitfield of teaching “critical race theory.”

“He is encouraging the disruption and destruction of our district,” Clark said. The crowd cheered as he finished his remarks.

Whitfield, the first Black principal at a mostly white high school, was placed on paid administrative leave in August 2021. He agreed to resign as principal, but will remain on paid administrative leave until August 2023, The Texas Tribune reported.

Part of the district’s settlement with Whitfield includes an agreement to resolve “disputes and not make any additional public statements,” the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported.

Nakamura said Whitfield was a “total activist” and referred to the letter he wrote in response to Floyd’s death.

“There is absolute proof [of] what he was trying to do,” Nakamura said. “They have to be stopped now, we cannot have teachers such as these in our schools because they’re just poison, and they’re taking our schools down.”

Nakamura also claimed Whitfield brought national media exposure to the Grapevine-Colleyville school district because he was married to a white woman.​

 

Thought this would be of interest:
Black People Are The Fastest-Growing Group Of Gun Owners In The U.S. : The NPR Politics Podcast : NPR

Supreme Court ruling leads to mixed feelings among African American gun owners : NPR

 

I just got done driving home from Philadelphia. Somewhere around Baltimore there was a really rough looking accident several mangled cars, one of them smoking, the accident just happened and as I passed the very first officer pulled up on the scene. Sure enough this middle aged white guy with a grey pony tail charges the cop car and starts screaming/yelling at the cop. Obviously very angry about whatever happened to cause the accident and more than likely totaled his car. But all I could think is I bet a black man wouldn't run up to a cop car and just yell at a cop.

 

There are definitely people who are mad about them being black or non-binary.

I'm not mad, but I do think she's a bad actor. Like really bad. So...there may be legitimate, non-racist reasons that people might be unhappy.