All things Racist...USA edition (2 Viewers)

[Farb]

I was looking for a place to put this so we could discuss but didn't really find a place that worked so I created this thread so we can all place articles, experiences, videos and examples of racism in the USA.

This is one that happened this week. The lady even called and filed a complaint on the officer. This officer also chose to wear the body cam (apparently, LA doesn't require this yet). This exchange wasn't necessarily racist IMO until she started with the "mexican racist...you will never be white, like you want" garbage. That is when it turned racist IMO

All the murderer and other insults, I think are just a by product of CRT and ACAB rhetoric that is very common on the radical left and sadly is being brought to mainstream in this country.

Another point that I think is worth mentioning is she is a teacher and the sense of entitlement she feels is mind blowing.

https://news.yahoo.com/black-teacher-berates-latino-la-221235341.html

 

[Optimus Prime]

I will say this is the least visible Black History Month I’ve ever experienced

I feel like I’ve only seen it mentioned a half dozen times so far

Used to see it more than that daily

Saw a rare black history month commercial yesterday

From Target

Cancelling all diversity initiatives, stopping promoting black owned brands

But come spend some money with us

 

[fooferdoggie]

Saw a rare black history month commercial yesterday

From Target

Cancelling all diversity initiatives, stopping promoting black owned brands

But come spend some money with us

yep they benefited from DEI. but corporations are going to go where the pressure takes them so it's hard to really go after them. but they sure got good sales from DEI. but the thing is if black people stop buying from them those black-owned companies will suffer far more then target does.

 

[Optimus Prime]

…….In the first weeks of Trump’s second term, hesigned an executive order eliminating federal diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs – including initiatives for diversity in federal contracting or grants that help farmers and minority communities – and instructed that DEI staff be laid off. Shortly after, corporations such as Target, Walmart, Lowe’s and Meta followed suit in eliminating their DEI programs.

Even the NFL capitulated to Trump’s DEI demands, ending its end zone slogan “end racism” at this year’s Super Bowl and replacing it with “choose love”. The “end racism” slogan had been stenciled in the end zone at Super Bowl games since 2021.

But those who participated in the 1960s civil rights movement are not surprised by Trump’s executive orders or divisive policies. They have seen this before.

As they fought against Jim Crow laws, these activists faced staunch segregationists who battled integration, including Eugene “Bull” Connor, Jim Clark and George Wallace in Alabama; Orval Faubus in Arkansas; Lester Maddox in Georgia; and Ross Barnett and other segregationists in Mississippi.

David Dennis Sr grew up on a plantation in Louisiana and later attended Dillard University, a historically Black college in New Orleans, on a scholarship. Dennis faced violent segregationists as a Freedom Rider and in Mississippi as a co-director of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project.

After civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney were killed at the beginning of Freedom Summer, Dennis’s fiery eulogy of Chaney expressed the exhaustion of fighting injustice.

America is experiencing a “surge backwards” in terms of race, after decades of progress, Dennis said. An example of a “surge forward” was the Reconstruction era after the civil war, Dennis, 84, said.

Then there was a “surge backwards” during the presidency of Rutherford B Hayes, in which troops that had protected the formerly enslaved were moved out and a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan followed. Dennis noted that Jim Crow laws were enacted and there was a conservative supreme court.

“If you look at that period of time, what happened then, and what’s happening now, this surge back, there’s quite a similarity of what happened politically and what the issues were then as it is right now,” Dennis said.

There was another surge forward during the Eisenhower administration and with the civil rights movement, which saw the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Dennis said.…….

‘There’s quite a similarity’: US civil rights pioneers warn of ‘surge backwards’ under Trump

They faced violence and racism as they fought on the frontlines for justice and equality. Now Trump is reversing the progress they toiled for

www.theguardian.com