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

 

[SaintForLife]

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?

How could one support the BLM riots while still being for Law and Order?

 

[Optimus Prime]

The white mayor of a tiny Alabama town less than an hour from Selma has argued he should be immune from a civil rights lawsuit, claiming that holding a secret meeting to keep the city’s first-ever Black mayor and five Black city council members out of office is not a sufficiently clear violation of constitutional rights.

Patrick Braxton, along with James Ballard, Barbara Patrick, Janice Quarles, and Wanda Scott, sued the city of Newbern, Alabama and alleged that despite being legally entitled to take office, they were prevented from doing so when white residents “refused to accept” the results of a 2020 election. They argue that Haywood “Woody” Stokes III, Newbern’s white former mayor, conspired with his council, other government officials, and a local bank, to illegally install himself as mayor even after Braxton fairly and legally won the election.........

MSN

 

[SaintForLife]

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

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Fake controversy.

 

[Optimus Prime]

How could one support the BLM riots while still being for Law and Order?

 

[Optimus Prime]

Fake controversy.

"You see, the blacks learned skills that helped their owners during slavery, and themselves after slavery. That's what's known as a win-win scenario"

 

[SaintForLife]

"You see, the blacks learned skills that helped their owners during slavery, and themselves after slavery. That's what's known as a win-win scenario"

The left's fake controversies are getting more obvious. Yall need a new playbook. Do we need to bring up all the racist things Biden has said?

Biden: ‘If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black’ | CNN Politics

Joe Biden said he “shouldn’t have been such a wise guy” on Friday hours after he told a popular African American radio host that anyone struggling to decide whether to support him or President Donald Trump in the general election “ain’t black.”

www.cnn.com

 

[cuddlemonkey]

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.

You don't even read what you are quoting, do you?

 

[Optimus Prime]

Let’s stipulate right away: Florida’s new guidelines for teaching African-American history do not merely consist of the noxious, specious claim that “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” There are 190 other “facts” included in the guidelines, and arguably none are as false and loathsome as that one (though a few come close).

What’s telling, though, is how hard the right is fighting back against critics attacking the outrageous “personal benefit” claim. Governor Ron DeSantis, who likes to brag about his “Stop WOKE” education bill, seemed at first to distance himself, perhaps because his presidential bid is circling the drain at least partly because voters are repelled by his culture war histrionics.

DeSantis literally snorted when asked about Vice President Kamala Harris’s claim that the Florida guidelines “want to replace history with lies,” then quickly added, “I wasn’t involved,” crediting his hand-picked, all-white Florida Board of Education. But he leaned into the claim nonetheless. “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. But the reality is, all of that is rooted in whatever is factual.”

You know? No, I don’t know governor, and neither does anyone else. Parlayed is a particularly cruel world. The enslaved didn’t have the power to “parlay” any skills they may have acquired into opportunity; they were property, not entrepreneurs. The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson refuted DeSantis’s claim with his own enslaved great-great-grandfather’s history: he did in fact work as a blacksmith. “But he had no ability to “parlay” anything, because his time and labor were not his own,” Robinson wrote. “They belonged to his enslaver. He belonged to his enslaver.” He was sold, like a piece of livestock, at least twice.

In fact, the Tampa Bay Times found that of the 16 examples the state produced of formerly enslaved people “parlaying” their master-taught skills into jobs later in life, few fit that description. They were either already free Black people, or they learned skills after escaping slavery, or they never were slaves at all. My favorite: they include Betty Washington Lewis, who was never a slave but in fact President George Washington’s younger sister, who herself owned slaves. Another prominent example: educator Booker T. Washington. But Washington became free as a child, and worked numerous jobs to put himself through school. The paper also revealed that the leader of the group that wrote the guidelines is the head of the National Black Republican Association.

Fox has of course gone crazy over the story. The right is particularly incensed that Harris went to Florida on Friday to excoriate the standards personally. All day Monday, the network covered National Review writer Charles C.W. Cooke’s jeremiad against the vice president, headlined “Kamala Harris Is Brazenly Lying About Florida’s Slavery Curriculum.” Someone might have warned Cooke that “brazen” is a particularly gendered term of insult, going back to Jezebel, but I doubt he would care. Cooke has made a niche for himself mocking Harris, for her “vapidity” and her voice, but she really enraged him with her attack on Florida’s slavery curriculum as a form of “gaslighting.”

“This is a brazen lie,” Cooke huffed. “It’s an astonishing lie. It’s an evil lie. It is so untrue — so deliberately and cynically misleading — that, in a sensible political culture, Harris would be obligated to issue an apology.” Cooke’s proof for his hysterical claims? That some of the other 190 facts outlined in the curriculum in fact discuss the violence and cruelty of slavery. But he doesn’t say anything’s wrong with the “personal benefits” claim – in fact, he terms it “correct.”.............

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opin...p&cvid=e0d1a269822f4fe4a9ec420545529bcc&ei=12

 

[SaintForLife]

You don't even read what you are quoting, do you?

Did you even read your own reply?

 

[SaintForLife]

 

[SaintForLife]

Let’s stipulate right away: Florida’s new guidelines for teaching African-American history do not merely consist of the noxious, specious claim that “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” There are 190 other “facts” included in the guidelines, and arguably none are as false and loathsome as that one (though a few come close).

What’s telling, though, is how hard the right is fighting back against critics attacking the outrageous “personal benefit” claim. Governor Ron DeSantis, who likes to brag about his “Stop WOKE” education bill, seemed at first to distance himself, perhaps because his presidential bid is circling the drain at least partly because voters are repelled by his culture war histrionics.

DeSantis literally snorted when asked about Vice President Kamala Harris’s claim that the Florida guidelines “want to replace history with lies,” then quickly added, “I wasn’t involved,” crediting his hand-picked, all-white Florida Board of Education. But he leaned into the claim nonetheless. “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. But the reality is, all of that is rooted in whatever is factual.”

You know? No, I don’t know governor, and neither does anyone else. Parlayed is a particularly cruel world. The enslaved didn’t have the power to “parlay” any skills they may have acquired into opportunity; they were property, not entrepreneurs. The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson refuted DeSantis’s claim with his own enslaved great-great-grandfather’s history: he did in fact work as a blacksmith. “But he had no ability to “parlay” anything, because his time and labor were not his own,” Robinson wrote. “They belonged to his enslaver. He belonged to his enslaver.” He was sold, like a piece of livestock, at least twice.

In fact, the Tampa Bay Times found that of the 16 examples the state produced of formerly enslaved people “parlaying” their master-taught skills into jobs later in life, few fit that description. They were either already free Black people, or they learned skills after escaping slavery, or they never were slaves at all. My favorite: they include Betty Washington Lewis, who was never a slave but in fact President George Washington’s younger sister, who herself owned slaves. Another prominent example: educator Booker T. Washington. But Washington became free as a child, and worked numerous jobs to put himself through school. The paper also revealed that the leader of the group that wrote the guidelines is the head of the National Black Republican Association.

Fox has of course gone crazy over the story. The right is particularly incensed that Harris went to Florida on Friday to excoriate the standards personally. All day Monday, the network covered National Review writer Charles C.W. Cooke’s jeremiad against the vice president, headlined “Kamala Harris Is Brazenly Lying About Florida’s Slavery Curriculum.” Someone might have warned Cooke that “brazen” is a particularly gendered term of insult, going back to Jezebel, but I doubt he would care. Cooke has made a niche for himself mocking Harris, for her “vapidity” and her voice, but she really enraged him with her attack on Florida’s slavery curriculum as a form of “gaslighting.”

“This is a brazen lie,” Cooke huffed. “It’s an astonishing lie. It’s an evil lie. It is so untrue — so deliberately and cynically misleading — that, in a sensible political culture, Harris would be obligated to issue an apology.” Cooke’s proof for his hysterical claims? That some of the other 190 facts outlined in the curriculum in fact discuss the violence and cruelty of slavery. But he doesn’t say anything’s wrong with the “personal benefits” claim – in fact, he terms it “correct.”.............

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opin...p&cvid=e0d1a269822f4fe4a9ec420545529bcc&ei=12

 

[cuddlemonkey]

Did you even read your own reply?

I did, along with what you quoted. I highlighted the parts that would require zero nuance to understand. You said forced vaccinations, then quoted something that clearly was offering alternatives.

Did I miss anything?

 

[SaintForLife]

I did, along with what you quoted. I highlighted the parts that would require zero nuance to understand. You said forced vaccinations, then quoted something that clearly was offering alternatives.

Did I miss anything?

Oh you mean the part that was struck down by a judge? Weren't all of Biden's vaccine mandates struck down by judges?

Can you show me the nuance for the military?

 

[brandon]

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?

I'm certain at the next Kenosha, or the next J6, you'll hear this song playing prominently.

 

[brandon]

Click the link under the ridiculous twitter comment and you'll notice that the link says absolutely nothing about the content in the twitter comment.

You're such a pawn.

 

[cuddlemonkey]

Oh you mean the part that was struck down by a judge? Weren't all of Biden's vaccine mandates struck down by judges?

That has nothing to do with the fact that alternatives were offered. Nobody was forced to get a vaccine, period.

Can you show me the nuance for the military?

The military is 100% voluntary with all that join undergoing a battery of medical tests and vaccinations. Even then, exemptions were offered for the Covid vaccine.

 

[SaintForLife]

Click the link under the ridiculous twitter comment and you'll notice that the link says absolutely nothing about the content in the twitter comment.

You're such a pawn.

The article was about the attack and not the rally. I know it's hard for you to use Google since you are a little slow, but it was easy to find.

Demand Care, Not Incarceration for James Ramsey! — APTP

Come out to support James Ramsey at his next court date, a young Black man with severe mental illness held on trumped up charges in Santa Rita. James needs care, not incarceration.

www.antipoliceterrorproject.org

 

[SystemShock]

Fake controversy.

So, how exactly did these "skills and aptitudes" help the enslaved? Fetching a higher price at the chattel auction? Better hiding their potato holes? Child care skills from all of those children they had from plantation owners raping them?