All things Racist...USA edition (3 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

 

[superchuck500]

He really is just the worst, right?

Bottom of the barrel

 

[Optimus Prime]

Far-right provocateur Michael Knowlesdefended Donald Trump’s mass deportations on Tuesday by telling his audience that the president was merely getting rid of violent criminals, all while arguing that “we need prejudice” because “stereotypes are all true.”

Communities across the United States have been gripped in fear for weeks as they braced for raids from Immigration and Customs Enforcement amid Trump’s promises to clear out “illegal criminal migrants” and send them out of the country. In cities like Chicago and New York, thousands of immigrants have already been swept up in these “made-for-TV”raids, handcuffed, loaded into military planes, and flown to other countries.

Local leaders and immigration advocacy organizations have criticized the large-scale immigration arrests for causing “fear and anxiety” while also impacting legal American citizens, who have also been detained by ICE agents.

Meanwhile, Republicans and Trump’s allies in MAGA media have cheered on the deportations, mocked those upset over the arrests, and called for politicians who have pushed back on the administration’s actions to be targeted and even arrested.

MAGA podcaster says ‘we need prejudice’ because ‘stereotypes are all true’

‘Stereotypes are stereotypes because they are generally true,” Daily Wire host Michael Knowles said on Tuesday while defending Trump’s deportation raids.

www.independent.co.uk

Trump says DEI played a role in the DC air crash - complaining that dwarves can be ATC workers.

i am already forking sick and tired of DEI blamed when anything happens

 

[superchuck500]

 

[UncleTrvlingJim]

Gutless

 

[Optimus Prime]

The Defense Department's intelligence agency has paused observances of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Pride Month, Holocaust Days of Remembrance and other cultural or historical annual events in response to President Donald Trump's ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the federal workplace.

The instructions were published Tuesday in a Defense Intelligence Agency memo obtained by The Associated Press and affect 11 annual events, including Black History Month, which begins Saturday, and National Hispanic Heritage Month.

The memo's authenticity was confirmed by a U.S. official who said the pause was initiated by the DIA and appears not to be policy across the Defense Department. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.............

Pentagon agency halts MLK Day, Black History Month, other celebrations

The Defense Intelligence Agency's pause comes in response to President Trump’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the federal workplace.

www.militarytimes.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

Bottom of the barrel

it's what people wanted

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

He really is just the worst, right?

Nah, his supporters are!

 

[Optimus Prime]

Remember when straight white men controlled everything and nothing bad ever happened?

Racist arse hats remember

 

[superchuck500]

Just so, so bad - these jackasses aren’t going to run the government well.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

Common sense???

We need to have a thread called "Everything is DEI's Fault" where we can post all the bullshirt in. This is going to be a constant drum beat for this racist president/administrations failures.

That thread might rival the Random Picture Thread...

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

Just so, so bad - these jackasses aren’t going to run the government well.

All this did was to reinforce my distrust in anything that comes from this government and that includes the results that may come from this accident "investigation".

 

[Optimus Prime]

On Friday, a North Carolina superior court judge ruled that race played a distinct role in jury selection for Hasson Bacote, a 38-year-old man who spent 15 years on death row before he was pardoned last December.

Bacote was sentenced to death in 2009 after a predominantly white jury found him guilty of shooting someone during a robbery.

His attorneys noted that there was racial bias in the courtroom, in which the judge and all lawyers were white and prosecutors struck Black jurors at three times the rate of white jurors.

Friday’s ruling from Judge Wayland J Sermons Jr does not apply statewide, but the decision could upend North Carolina’s death penalty sentencing laws. The state has one of the largest death rows in the country, with more than 100 people currently awaiting execution.


Along with his attorneys, Bacote filed a lawsuit in 2010 that challenged his sentence, arguing that race played an extreme role in the jury selection not only in his case, but also in all death penalty cases across the state.

His attorneys brought the case under North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act (RJA), a 2009 law that prohibits seeking or imposing the death penalty because of race. The court found evidence of racist discrimination in Bacote’s case, and other cases prosecuted by the North Carolina assistant district attorney Greg Butler.

“I am deeply grateful to my family, my lawyers, the experts, and to everyone who fought for justice – not just in my case, but for so many others,” Bacote said in a statement. “I want to thank Bryan Stevenson in particular for showing how unfair the jury selection was in my case. When my death sentence was commuted by Governor [Roy] Cooper, I felt enormous relief that the burden of the death penalty – and all of the stress and anxiety that go with it – were lifted off my shoulders. I am grateful to the court for having the courage to recognize that racial bias affected my case and so many others. I remain hopeful that the fight for truth and justice will not stop here.”

Last year Bacote’s attorneys called on historians, statisticians and other scholars who argued a history of racism in trials in Johnston county.

Johnston county, where Bacote was sentenced, has a long record of racism and problematic sentencing for capital defendants.

It was the site of at least six lynchings between the Reconstruction era and the first world war; featured KKK billboards that read: “Welcome to Klan country. Love it or leave it,” through the 1970s; and remains deeply segregated.

In Bacote’s case, the prosecution removed nearly three times more Black people from the jury than white people, while in the county overall they removed people of color at nearly twice the rate of white people, according to the ACLU. Since 1990, every Black person who faced a capital trial in Johnston county received the death penalty.

“We have white prosecutors standing in front of overwhelmingly white juries comparing Black defendants facing the death penalty to animals – ‘mad dogs’, ‘hyenas’, ‘predators of the African plain’,” Henderson Hill, senior counsel for the ACLU, said in a statement last year. “The racism in North Carolina’s application of the death penalty is so clear it’s blinding.”……..

North Carolina judge finds race played role in Black man’s death sentencing

Judge rules in landmark case that racial bias was present in jury selection for Hasson Bacote’s 2009 sentencing

www.theguardian.com

 

[superchuck500]

Shocker: the MAGAs hated the Super Bowl halftime show and are, true to brand, whining about it.

Note: Kendrick Lamar has 22 Grammies and Pulitzer Prize.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Predictable as soon as Kendrick was announced

 

[Optimus Prime]

A city councilperson in Palm Bay, Florida, is refusing to apologize to outraged members of his community for claiming those who follow Islam “do not belong” in the United States.

Chandler Langevin, a Republican, offended some people in the community last month after writing on X that Islam “exists for the sole purpose of conquering Christendom and ending the Jewish people” and, therefore “they” do not belong in America.

Langevin was responding to a post from a Florida state senator who is supporting a bill that would protect public officials’ privacy by removing their addresses from public records. The state senator claimed two “Muslim terrorists” made “death threats” on his home.

“Exactly. We have similar concerns as I have no issues saying that Islam exists for the sole purpose of conquering Christendom and ending the Jewish people as well and they do not belong in this great nation,” Langevin wrote.

Online, people criticized Langevin, but he doubled down with, “I said what I said.”……

Florida politician doubles down on claim that Islam ‘does not belong’ in America

Florida city councilman claimed those who practice Islam do not belong in the United States

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Optimus Prime]

Could have gone in a few threads

The immediate blaming of anything and everything bad in DEI makes me so mad

After the plane crash at Reagan Airport Trump more or less said:

“This tragedy just happened, we have zero information and don’t know anything yet but I’m sure the is because of DEI”
=========================

……In the Republican “Southern Strategy”, enacted most clearly and powerfully under Reagan, federal programs that wealthy individuals supported eliminating in order to make way for tax cuts were described as “welfare.”

By describing such programs as “welfare”, Republicans intended to communicate that these programs were there to take money away from “hard working” white Americans and directed to benefit Black Americans, who, according to longstanding US anti-Black racist ideology, were associating with criminality, laziness, and corruption (there are of course far more white Americans on programsaimed to help the poor than there are Black Americans on such programs).

Scientists have repeatedly found, at least as recently as 2018, that this strategy was successful. Research has shownthat almost half of white Americans regard Black Americans as lazier than whites, and almost as large a percentage regard Black Americans as less intelligent.

By describing certain government programs as “welfare”, politicians can easily decrease their popularity among this group of Americans.

The original version of the Republican Southern Strategy was necessarily limited – it was, after all, hard to describe all federal grant-making as welfare, or all federal bureaucracy as welfare.

We are now witnessing a radical broadening of the Republican Southern Strategy, drawing on the same underlying racist attitudes towards Black Americans.

The idea behind the mechanism of extending the Republican Southern Strategy to all public institutions was due to Christopher Rufo, who realized that, in the expression “Critical Race Theory”, lay a potent weapon:

“Strung together, the phrase ‘critical race theory’ connotes hostile, academic, divisive, race-obsessed, poisonous, elitist, anti-American.” Most perfect of all, Rufo continued, critical race theory is not “an externally applied pejorative.” Instead, “it’s the label the critical race theorists chose themselves.”

By connecting all of federal bureaucracy to “Critical Race Theory”, Rufo could create negative attitudes towards the entire federal system.

There is, however, an obvious problem with radically extending the Southern Strategy by replacing “welfare” with “Critical Race Theory.”

The argument that the ideology of the federal government was Critical Race Theory was impossible to make. Critical Race Theory is a small academic subdiscipline, and the expression “Critical Race Theory” occurs almost nowhere in federal documents.

To argue that Critical Race Theory was somehow guiding the funding of (for example) Alzheimer’s research at Harvard and Yale would always sound like a conspiracy theory on the level of QAnon.

Even when Rufo argued that Critical Race Theory was guiding public schools, for example, his opponents could simply challenge him by asking for evidence that this academic theory had so much power. And it was evidence that, even in the much narrower range of education, was difficult to provide.

In short, “Critical Race Theory” could be deployed as an effective political weapon, for the reasons Rufo so clearly explains. But it was impossible to argue with any force that it was an ideology that governed the entire federal government.


Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs are there to help ensure that workplaces are free from discrimination, and accessible (for example to the disabled).

These programs are ubiquitous across federal agencies. Unlike Critical Race Theory, then, it is trivial to show that DEI is present across all federal agencies as well as institutions that the Trump administration deems hostile, such as universities.

The term “Welfare” was such a potent political weapon in the Republican Southern Strategy, as it was a useful shorthand for the deeply embedded racist attitude that Black Americans were lazier and less competent than whites.

Rufo and others quickly realized that “DEI” could also be used to evoke the same racist attitudes, that Black Americans needed special help to compete with white Americans, positions that they could only obtain through cheating because of their supposed lesser competence and intelligence.

We know that calling programs “welfare” made many Americans think less of them. The anti-DEI campaign is the Republican Southern Strategy on steroids, as “DEI” marshals racist attitudes as effectively as “welfare”, but against a vastly broader target.

The Republican Southern Strategy was a devastatingly effective weapon against America’s social safety net. By arguing that social programs were “welfare”, and benefitted supposedly undeserving Black Americans, Republican politicians could argue that funding to these programs should be slashed, and the savings handed over to the wealthy in new tax cuts.

The new version of the Southern Strategy is directed not just against the social safety net, but against the entire federal government, and all the programs it supports, from health research to foreign aid to basic science.

Right now, America’s legacy of racism is being now directed as a weapon against America itself.…………

We are witnessing the rise of a new Republican ‘Southern Strategy’ | Jason Stanley

How to make sense of the Trump administration’s attacks on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

www.theguardian.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

 

[Optimus Prime]

Shocker: the MAGAs hated the Super Bowl halftime show and are, true to brand, whining about it.

Note: Kendrick Lamar has 22 Grammies and Pulitzer Prize.

Except Lamar was announced like last spring or summer