Running racism in America thread

Here’s snippet from the column:

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Dabo, on Monday: "First and foremost I know that we are all hurting for the Floyd family and our country. I can speak for our entire staff and our team in that regard for sure. We have all witnessed just disgusting acts of evil. That’s really the only word I can appropriately use.

“What I know as I approach everything from a perspective of faith is that where there are people, there’s going to be hate, there’s going to be racism and greed and jealousy and crime and so on because we live in a sinful fallen world. We’ve had so much bad news."

Generalizing the death of a Black man at the knee of a white police officer as a byproduct of our sinful world didn’t exactly hit the mark. You can believe that the devil made Derek Chauvin do it, but a specific acknowledgement that this was an act of police brutality perpetrated upon a Black man in handcuffs would have helped convince the world that Dabo gets it.

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As a Christian, I think Dabo kind of gets that the root cause of these problems are sin. That’s what Christians believe. He isn’t saying anything, in that snippet, that any Christian wouldn’t at least have chewed on and, moreover, it’s exactly what you’d expect Dabo to say. There’s nothing overtly offensive in that statement, unless you’re counting the “if certain words aren’t delivered in a certain order, preferably with many syllables and euphemisms, then it’s not right” kind of offensive.

So the critique is, basically, he didn’t say it right. Or think the right things in the right way. In other words, Dabo has the wrong belief system.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...ad7274-a440-11ea-bb20-ebf0921f3bbd_story.html

We are the governed. We no longer consent to let the police kill us.


Eugene Robinson:

"This coast-to-coast uprising is not about terrorism, foreign or domestic. It’s not about arson, looting or carpeting streets with broken glass. It’s about a powerful phrase in the Declaration of Independence: “the consent of the governed.” Police in this country no longer have our consent to kill African Americans unjustly and with impunity."

 

Kings announcer placed on leave after response to black lives matter question from DeMarcus Cousins [report]

 

She's an excellent researcher. Hiding in Plain Sight is equal parts illuminating and depressing.

 

I can’t imagine myself giving less of a flying fuck what Dabo fucking Swinney thinks right now.

 

Dabo

Dabo Swinney, Universal Whiteness, and a “Sin Problem” - ProQuest