All things Racist...USA edition (5 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

 

[MT15]

Yes MT, anyone who disagrees with you views wants violence against (insert identity here). You have solved that mystery.

You twisted that around. I sense a pattern. I didn’t say you want violence. I said you want to excuse violence. You won’t be the person who calls in the bomb threat, or the person who pulls the trigger. But you will make excuses for that person. You will justify the bomb threat. I can link that post if you want.

 

[bird]

You consider hurting someone feeling with a word to violence?
So the 1st Ad is just a suggestion?

Who in your opinion, since my 'failure rate is 100%' should regulate speech, Congress, the white house, the blue checks?

Regulate speech? An interesting but irrelevant question. Words and actions have consequences. Is it permissible to yell “kill that person” and point to a person in a crowd because that person in the crowd is opposed to the speaker’s beliefs? And what should happen if that person is killed? Should the speaker be held accountable? Or perhaps not because he has “freedom of speech”? Jefferson said rights were not arbitrarily to be assumed as completely unassailable/unalterable.

 

[bird]

So you are describing a world wide event with no particular association with a any particular religion/views over any other. I think we can agree on that. Is that what you are saying?

No. I was describing the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. The basis of which was racism and the WHITE perpetrators of buying and selling humans utilized scripture as deity approval.

Stunning, absolutely stunning.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Superintendent Torie Gibson felt she had no choice but to make the unpopular decision. When learning Amador High's football team had a group chat titled, “Kill the Blacks,” filled with derogatory language and racial slurs, she ended the Northern California school’s varsity season.

That meant the 100-year anniversary game between rivals Amador and Argonaut was called off.

“We canceled the football season, and we did it for all the right reasons because the behavior is not acceptable,” said Gibson, who oversees the Amador County Unified School District. “However, football is an extracurricular activity. It is not a given. It is not a right. It is strictly extra.”

The discipline was swift and abrupt. Moments before Amador was to play Rosemont — a predominantly Black and Latino school in nearby Sacramento — the game was called off.

There was more fallout. Amador's football coach, athletic director and principal were put on leave.

In Gibson’s mind, the discipline was the easy part. The hard part will be setting the table for real change, and the key will be presentation. The school is based in a mostly white, rural area an hour's drive east of Sacramento. Amador has just four Black students out of about 750.

“I think if we roll it out correctly and we provide the necessary support and we don’t shame people for who they are and we work it out so that we celebrate everyone, but really, truly look at our blind spots and our differences, I think it’ll make a big difference,” said Gibson, who is white.

The incident at Amador was one of several alarming examples of racism against Black people that occurred this fall in high school football around the nation. Athletes in the past were able to leave racism and other issues off the field, but today not even sports settings are immune from real world problems.

Administrators in some cases have used these incidents to start conversations about race that have been hard for them to bring up before and roll out programs they hope will have lasting impact................

MSN

 

[Optimus Prime]

Italian rugby star Cherif Traore received a rotten banana from one of his Benetton team mates as a so-called Christmas gift, in the latest racist incident to rock the sporting world.

Taking to Instagram Wednesday, the 28-year-old said he had been given the moldy fruit during the Benetton team’s traditional “Secret Santa,” an anonymous gift exchange that took place this week in the run-up to Christmas.

“Christmas is coming and it’s Secret Santa time,” Traore, who was born in Guinea and moved to Italy when he was seven, wrote. “A friendly and playful moment. A moment where you can afford to give anonymous gifts to your mates, even stingy, ironic ones. Yesterday, when it was my turn, I found a banana inside my present.”

The player said the moldy fruit was placed inside a wet bag and that what hurt him the most was “seeing most of my mates present laughing. As if everything is normal.”

Traore said that while he has been forced to silently adjust to racism throughout his life, he felt compelled to share his experience on this occasion — in the hope that the sender, who has not been identified publicly, would learn a lesson...........

Black rugby star given banana for Christmas by teammate calls out racism

 

[coldseat]

Superintendent Torie Gibson felt she had no choice but to make the unpopular decision. When learning Amador High's football team had a group chat titled, “Kill the Blacks,” filled with derogatory language and racial slurs, she ended the Northern California school’s varsity season.

That meant the 100-year anniversary game between rivals Amador and Argonaut was called off.

“We canceled the football season, and we did it for all the right reasons because the behavior is not acceptable,” said Gibson, who oversees the Amador County Unified School District. “However, football is an extracurricular activity. It is not a given. It is not a right. It is strictly extra.”

The discipline was swift and abrupt. Moments before Amador was to play Rosemont — a predominantly Black and Latino school in nearby Sacramento — the game was called off.

There was more fallout. Amador's football coach, athletic director and principal were put on leave.

In Gibson’s mind, the discipline was the easy part. The hard part will be setting the table for real change, and the key will be presentation. The school is based in a mostly white, rural area an hour's drive east of Sacramento. Amador has just four Black students out of about 750.

“I think if we roll it out correctly and we provide the necessary support and we don’t shame people for who they are and we work it out so that we celebrate everyone, but really, truly look at our blind spots and our differences, I think it’ll make a big difference,” said Gibson, who is white.

The incident at Amador was one of several alarming examples of racism against Black people that occurred this fall in high school football around the nation. Athletes in the past were able to leave racism and other issues off the field, but today not even sports settings are immune from real world problems.

Administrators in some cases have used these incidents to start conversations about race that have been hard for them to bring up before and roll out programs they hope will have lasting impact................

MSN

It's really sad how many young people are picking up the racism from their parents and the almost all white communities they're living in. We were headed on such a different path in this country, then came the retrenchment into the old ways and beliefs by many who believe they are "losing their country".

So many Gen-X'ers my age who didn't grow up that way because of our public education system taught them acceptance of different races/people found their way back to those racist beliefs because of their dissolution/dissatisfaction with their own lives. And they have now spread it to their kids.

 

[Optimus Prime]

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

NSFW



Gotta love the woman who says "Fork black lives and I have black friends”

I lived there for a year of so when i was in like 6th grade. I believe this 100%

 

[Optimus Prime]

South Africa

 

[Optimus Prime]

SPRINGFIELD, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia school district is being sued by students who say they were barred from wearing Black Lives Matter T-shirts to school events while their white peers regularly wear shirts printed with Confederate flags.

The lawsuit was filed last week in U.S. District Court against school administrators in Effingham County. It says the district's unfair application of its dress code is part of a broader pattern of discrimination and “deliberate indifference to acts of racial animosity” that violate the civil rights of Black students.

School administrators in Effingham County have cited a districtwide policy prohibiting clothing that “may contribute to disruption,” the lawsuit says, to keep students from wearing Black Lives Matter shirts.

One of the student plaintiffs was denied entry to a high school football game because she wore a Black Lives Matter shirt, the lawsuit said. It alleges that white students in the school district regularly wear shirts printed with Confederate flags...........

MSN

 

[bird]

SPRINGFIELD, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia school district is being sued by students who say they were barred from wearing Black Lives Matter T-shirts to school events while their white peers regularly wear shirts printed with Confederate flags.

The lawsuit was filed last week in U.S. District Court against school administrators in Effingham County. It says the district's unfair application of its dress code is part of a broader pattern of discrimination and “deliberate indifference to acts of racial animosity” that violate the civil rights of Black students.

School administrators in Effingham County have cited a districtwide policy prohibiting clothing that “may contribute to disruption,” the lawsuit says, to keep students from wearing Black Lives Matter shirts.

One of the student plaintiffs was denied entry to a high school football game because she wore a Black Lives Matter shirt, the lawsuit said. It alleges that white students in the school district regularly wear shirts printed with Confederate flags...........

MSN

Oopsie. You either allow the BLM shirts or you disallow traitor flag shirts.

 

[SaintForLife]

Sounds like virtue signaling to me

 

[samiam5211]

Sounds like virtue signaling to me

Yep, it definitely is virtue signaling.

So what? Do you think this is something that any of us should care about or even know about?

Back in the days before digital media, this story wouldn't even have been given space in a paper.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Sounds like virtue signaling to me

Was anyone asking for this?

This to me is the same category as calling manholes peopleholes
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BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — There will be no manholes in Berkeley, California. City workers will drop into “maintenance holes” instead.

Nothing will be manmade in the liberal city but “human-made.” And students at the University of California, Berkeley, will join “collegiate Greek system residences” rather than fraternities and sororities.

Berkeley leaders voted unanimously this week to replace about 40 gender-specific words in the city code with gender-neutral terms — an effort to be more inclusive that’s drawing both praise and scorn.

That means “manpower” will become “human effort” or “workforce,” while masculine and feminine pronouns like “she,” ″her,” ″he” and “him” will be replaced by “they” and “them,” according to the measure approved Tuesday by the City Council............

Berkeley drops words like 'manpower' in push to be inclusive

In Berkeley, California, the terms "manpower" and "manmade" will no longer exist as the liberal city aims to make the language it uses more inclusive.

apnews.com

I don’t think I’ll ever meet a huper in my lifetime.

It sounded like such a good idea almost 20 years ago: a completely gender-neutral word combining the non-male parts of “human” and “person.” Hu-per.

We would quote spokeshupers, get traffic tickets from policehupers, laugh at musicals about Spiderhupers, receive explicit tweets from congresshupers..........

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/im-a-huper-were-a-huper-wouldnt-you-like-to-be-a-huper-too/2011/07/04/gHQAdydByH_story.html?utm_term=.18a5108c74fd

 

[MT15]

NPR was doing a story in an elementary school in Ohio when a CRT issue arose, and an administrator stopped a classroom discussion. It’s a fascinating look at the effects of these really stupid policies. This seems to me to be an even-handed account of the incident.







As pointed out in the thread comments racism has a direct economic effect on the targeted population. This was an opportunity for a skilled teacher to have a wonderful discussion with students who were engaged with the subject matter. It’s a damn shame.

 

[cuddlemonkey]

NPR was doing a story in an elementary school in Ohio when a CRT issue arose, and an administrator stopped a classroom discussion. It’s a fascinating look at the effects of these really stupid policies. This seems to me to be an even-handed account of the incident.







As pointed out in the thread comments racism has a direct economic effect on the targeted population. This was an opportunity for a skilled teacher to have a wonderful discussion with students who were engaged with the subject matter. It’s a damn shame.

"We agreed to do the story to feature this amazing teacher and the great work she does. That's why I cut her off before she could demonstrate why we want her to be featured."

This is ridiculous.

 

[Farb]

Yep, it definitely is virtue signaling.

So what? Do you think this is something that any of us should care about or even know about?

Back in the days before digital media, this story wouldn't even have been given space in a paper.

If it is not a big deal, then why would this 'university' college have to send a letter stating the change?
Because they want to be recognized from 'doing the work'. The meaning of virtue signaling.

Because I guess black people are the only ones to ever working in a field? We already have to pretend that black slavery out of africa is the only slavery that ever existed, now we have to believe that blacks and brown people are the only ones that have ever farmed?

How much do you want to bet that the person that brought this up for discussion was a highly educated white lady that had several glasses of wine as she celebrated her elevation of wokeness status? 10 out of 10?

 

[samiam5211]

If it is not a big deal, then why would this 'university' college have to send a letter stating the change?
Because they want to be recognized from 'doing the work'. The meaning of virtue signaling.

Because I guess black people are the only ones to ever working in a field? We already have to pretend that black slavery out of africa is the only slavery that ever existed, now we have to believe that blacks and brown people are the only ones that have ever farmed?

How much do you want to bet that the person that brought this up for discussion was a highly educated white lady that had several glasses of wine as she celebrated her elevation of wokeness status? 10 out of 10?

It's not a big deal that the college made the change. There isn't any reason why any of us should care, unless we are a student or faculty at the college.

It's none of our business why they made the change, and none of us would have even heard about this 20 years ago, when then news could only afford to cover stories that mattered enough to take up space.