All things Racist...USA edition (1 Viewer)

[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

 

[coldseat]

For what it’s worth
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jason Aldean ‘s “Try That in a Small Town” is experiencing exponential growth following controversy over its music video.

“Try That in a Small Town,” which was released in May, debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week just behind BTS’s Jung Kook solo single “Seven,” featuring Latto. The track experienced the biggest sales week for a country song in over 10 years.

According to Luminate, the song hit 11.7 million on-demand audio and video streams between July 14 and 20, marking a 1,000% increase from the previous week. Prior to the music video release on July 14, the track accounted for 987,000 streams in the U.S.

Digital song sales increased from 1,000 to 228,000, in those same weeks, respectively.

The music video for the song lasted just one weekend on Country Music Television before the network pulled it in response to an outcry over its setting and lyrics. When the network removed the video from its rotation, it had 350,000 views on YouTube. Now that number is now over 16 million, and it is the No. 1 trending video under the “music” category.……

On Friday, July 21, while performing at Cincinnati’s Riverbend Music Center, Aldean addressed the audience with “Cancel culture is a thing... which means try and ruin your life, ruin everything. One thing I saw this week was a bunch of country music fans that could see through a lot of the bulls---, all right?”, according to “The Columbus Dispatch.”

For those wondering if he would play the song live, he said, “The answer is simple. The people have spoken and you guys spoke very, very loudly,” he said, before launching into the song.……

Jason Aldean's 'Try That in a Small Town' rockets to No. 2 on charts after music video controversy

Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” is experiencing exponential growth following controversy over its music video.

apnews.com

How big was the actual "outcry" over this song initially before it got pulled by CMT?

I have to wonder, because I hadn't even heard of it and I didn't see anybody talking about this song before it was pulled. If I was as conspertiorial as the right wing is, I would say that the produces/band got it pulled from CMT through some surreptitious means to create the controverys and social media buzz.

 

[MT15]

Real talk:

 

[MT15]

 

[bird]

For what it’s worth
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jason Aldean ‘s “Try That in a Small Town” is experiencing exponential growth following controversy over its music video.

“Try That in a Small Town,” which was released in May, debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week just behind BTS’s Jung Kook solo single “Seven,” featuring Latto. The track experienced the biggest sales week for a country song in over 10 years.

According to Luminate, the song hit 11.7 million on-demand audio and video streams between July 14 and 20, marking a 1,000% increase from the previous week. Prior to the music video release on July 14, the track accounted for 987,000 streams in the U.S.

Digital song sales increased from 1,000 to 228,000, in those same weeks, respectively.

The music video for the song lasted just one weekend on Country Music Television before the network pulled it in response to an outcry over its setting and lyrics. When the network removed the video from its rotation, it had 350,000 views on YouTube. Now that number is now over 16 million, and it is the No. 1 trending video under the “music” category.……

On Friday, July 21, while performing at Cincinnati’s Riverbend Music Center, Aldean addressed the audience with “Cancel culture is a thing... which means try and ruin your life, ruin everything. One thing I saw this week was a bunch of country music fans that could see through a lot of the bulls---, all right?”, according to “The Columbus Dispatch.”

For those wondering if he would play the song live, he said, “The answer is simple. The people have spoken and you guys spoke very, very loudly,” he said, before launching into the song.……

Jason Aldean's 'Try That in a Small Town' rockets to No. 2 on charts after music video controversy

Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” is experiencing exponential growth following controversy over its music video.

apnews.com

Flock him.

 

[LA - L.A.]

How big was the actual "outcry" over this song initially before it got pulled by CMT?

I have to wonder, because I hadn't even heard of it and I didn't see anybody talking about this song before it was pulled. If I was as conspertiorial as the right wing is, I would say that the produces/band got it pulled from CMT through some surreptitious means to create the controverys and social media buzz.

That's what I thought when the story first broke. A lot of people; Taylor-Greene, Bobert, DeSantis, and scores of others; are following in the same footsteps that Trump has followed. Create a huge controversy, because controversy sells. It sells, because of the same psychological dynamics that rubbernecking to see a terrible road accident happens.

The biggest FOMO that people collectively has is the FOMO of missing out on controversy and tragedy. People just have to see, hear, and know for themselves what all the fuss is about.

I think things played out for him exactly how he was hoping it would.

 

[BullSheetBuddha]

For what it’s worth
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jason Aldean ‘s “Try That in a Small Town” is experiencing exponential growth following controversy over its music video.

“Try That in a Small Town,” which was released in May, debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week just behind BTS’s Jung Kook solo single “Seven,” featuring Latto. The track experienced the biggest sales week for a country song in over 10 years.

According to Luminate, the song hit 11.7 million on-demand audio and video streams between July 14 and 20, marking a 1,000% increase from the previous week. Prior to the music video release on July 14, the track accounted for 987,000 streams in the U.S.

Digital song sales increased from 1,000 to 228,000, in those same weeks, respectively.

The music video for the song lasted just one weekend on Country Music Television before the network pulled it in response to an outcry over its setting and lyrics. When the network removed the video from its rotation, it had 350,000 views on YouTube. Now that number is now over 16 million, and it is the No. 1 trending video under the “music” category.……

On Friday, July 21, while performing at Cincinnati’s Riverbend Music Center, Aldean addressed the audience with “Cancel culture is a thing... which means try and ruin your life, ruin everything. One thing I saw this week was a bunch of country music fans that could see through a lot of the bulls---, all right?”, according to “The Columbus Dispatch.”

For those wondering if he would play the song live, he said, “The answer is simple. The people have spoken and you guys spoke very, very loudly,” he said, before launching into the song.……

Jason Aldean's 'Try That in a Small Town' rockets to No. 2 on charts after music video controversy

Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” is experiencing exponential growth following controversy over its music video.

apnews.com

“say anything you like about me, but spell my name right......"

 

[Optimus Prime]

Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis doubled down Friday on controversial new rules passed by his state’s Board of Education that will require educators to teach that enslaved Black people “developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

“They’re probably going to show that some of the folks that eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into doing things later in life,” DeSantis told reporters Friday. “But the reality is, all of that is rooted in whatever is factual.”

Here are some simple, historical facts: Africans already were skilled before they were enslaved. And, in many cases, enslavers sought and purchased people coming from specific African societies based on skills common in those societies. Decades of research — slave ship manifests, plantation ledgers, newspaper articles, letters, journals and archaeological digs — by dozens of scholars supports this, much of it compiled in the 2022 book “African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Freedom,” by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Hackett Fischer.

Transatlantic slavery was an economic model proposing that skilled laborers, who were benefiting themselves and their communities, be abducted, transported and forced to use those skills to benefit others. Other skills such as literacy, ministry and music-making were often banned, because they did not benefit — and even threatened — the enslaver.

Hackett Fischer explains how, in the mid-1700s, enslaving colonists in the Lowcountry of the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida targeted people from the Windward Coast of West Africa, where rice had been cultivated for thousands of years. In the Lowcountry, enslaved people then built complex systems of canals, levees, floodgates and fields, just as they had in West Africa, providing the region with its first massive cash crop.

In New England, the Puritans targeted Akan-speaking people from the Gold Coast, who had a long military tradition emphasizing discipline and quick thinking. Also, an enslaved man named Onesimus taught Puritan leader Cotton Mather a technique for smallpox for inoculation, which he said was common in his African homeland.

Chesapeake enslavers wanted people like the Kru, specifically for their skill for boatbuilding. Though Europeans were sailing farther distances, slave traders marveled at the superior stability and speed of West African canoes, some of which they said could hold 100 people. These boat designs were ideal for fishing, freight and ferrying up and down the Chesapeake.

And later, in Texas, enslavers wanted a subset of enslaved people in South Carolina descended from the Fulani, because they were already skilled herders. The term “cowboy” likely originates from this South Carolina group; there’s evidence the African tradition of singing to a herd at night influenced what became cowboy songs, according to Hackett Fischer............

MSN

www.msn.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

I'll admit I was nervous when I saw the link saying "Kyrie Irving on slavery"

 

[SaintForLife]

You know it's the end times when Republicans become adversarial with the DOJ, the FBI, the military and corporate America.

And on the opposite end, the Democrats support everything the DOJ, FBI, the military says and does even if it includes censorship of Americans 1st ammendment rights, forcing people to take a vaccine(what happened to pro-choice?), withholding evidence from defendants...

 

[CoolBrees]

When did the federal government force vaccines?

 

[SaintForLife]

When did the federal government force vaccines?

First, the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is announcing the details of a requirement for employers with 100 or more employees to ensure each of their workers is fully vaccinated or tests for COVID-19 on at least a weekly basis. The OSHA rule will also require that these employers provide paid-time for employees to get vaccinated, and ensure all unvaccinated workers wear a face mask in the workplace. OSHA has a strong 50-year record of requiring employers to take common sense actions to prevent workers from getting sick or injured on the job. This rule will cover 84 million employees.

Second, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) at the Department of Health and Human Services is announcing the details of its requirement that health care workers at facilities participating in Medicare and Medicaid are fully vaccinated. The rule applies to more than 17 million workers at approximately 76,000 health care facilities, including hospitals and long-term care facilities.

Fact Sheet: Biden Administration Announces Details of Two Major Vaccination Policies | The White House

New OSHA and CMS Rules Mean Two-Thirds of All Workers Now Covered by Vaccination Rules Thanks to President Biden’s focus on getting Americans vaccinated,

www.whitehouse.gov

Also the military was required to get vaccinated as well as US government workers.

 

[CoolBrees]

So you are confusing requiring citizens to requiring as part of voluntary employment.

In other words you are conflating "The Government," the entity acting as the will of the people and "The Government," the employer.

I hope you are intellectually able to see the difference and are just being obtuse. If not, and you don't see the difference then, well.

I can see why you would want to make that argument but it doesn't make it any less weak

 

[Farb]

Do you not agree that the song is clearly alluding to vigilante justice in small towns full of “good old boys” with guns? Taking care of “their own”?

I don’t see how you could say that isn’t what it’s about - that’s clearly what it’s about.

Starting with that undeniable fact, the lyrics themselves aren’t racist. But if you don’t recognize that vigilante justice in small towns in America where “good old boys” go around with their guns has a deeply troubled racist history in this country, you need a history lesson. And it isn’t ancient history either.

It’s too intense to deny that singing proudly about small town vigilante justice at the hands of good old boys who take care of their own conjures racism.

I don't agree with any of that.
Do you not think people other than white people live in small towns and also don't want violence, riots, or street crime in the communities they live in?

The real question is do you think songs/lyrics influence behavior?

 

[Farb]

Just so we're all on the same page - Aldean didn't write the song. Like many Nashville hits, the artist on the record didn't write the song.

Aldean is from Macon, Georgia, the state's fourth largest city with over 150,000 people. Macon is 54% African American, 39% white. The city leans Democrat and voted for Biden, 61%.

And since his time in Macon, he has lived in Nashville. He doesn't really know what it's like to live in the small town he's singing about. He didn't write the song. It's all very on-brand for modern radio-country music.

Are we, and by we, I mean you all, are saying that artistic licenses are not allowed anymore. Artists can only create art based on their lived experiences? I don't think that is what you are saying, but that how your circular argument reads to me. CCR would be really upset by these new standards.

 

[SaintForLife]

So you are confusing requiring citizens to requiring as part of voluntary employment.

In other words you are conflating "The Government," the entity acting as the will of the people and "The Government," the employer.

I hope you are intellectually able to see the difference and are just being obtuse. If not, and you don't see the difference then, well.

I can see why you would want to make that argument but it doesn't make it any less weak

People in the military who were required to take the vaccine were part of voluntary employment?

The federal government required that citizens had to take the vaccine if they wanted to keep their job if they worked at large businesses, hospitals, government workers or the military and your semantics don't change that.

 

[SaintForLife]

Do you not agree that the song is clearly alluding to vigilante justice in small towns full of “good old boys” with guns? Taking care of “their own”?

I don’t see how you could say that isn’t what it’s about - that’s clearly what it’s about.

Starting with that undeniable fact, the lyrics themselves aren’t racist. But if you don’t recognize that vigilante justice in small towns in America where “good old boys” go around with their guns has a deeply troubled racist history in this country, you need a history lesson. And it isn’t ancient history either.

It’s too intense to deny that singing proudly about small town vigilante justice at the hands of good old boys who take care of their own conjures racism.

I think that song is an appropriate reaction to the media and the lefts gaslighting about the BLM riots that destroyed many minority owned businesses while exaggerating what happened on January 6th.

 

[Optimus Prime]

I don't agree with any of that.
Do you not think people other than white people live in small towns and also don't want violence, riots, or street crime in the communities they live in?

The real question is do you think songs/lyrics influence behavior?

What's wrong with Law & Order? Why in the world would anyone be against Law & Order? Do you not think people other than white people also want Law & Order?

 

[Optimus Prime]