Running racism in America thread

Thoughts and prayers for Trumpists who no longer can eat chicken sandwiches.

Chick-fil-A’s Dan Cathy asks white Christians to repent of racism

 

Speaking of fast-food places . . .

Taco Bell Fires Employee for Wearing Black Lives Matter Face Covering

Never been to a Taco Bell but was actually planning to visit one today. Apparently it's the only place I can find a Mountain Dew Zero Sugar Baja Blast drink my brother has been raving about. Struck out trying to find it at all my grocers, Target and Walmart.

 

I am here for maple syrup. And only maple syrup.

 

It had been there a whopping 13 years.

 

Perhaps I misunderstood the post. I don't think so, but I don't know. The real, long-term problem, as I see it, is still "So, where/when does it end, if people are going to respond to each other like this?" I don't see that it does.

 

The SEC will have no choice but to end its relationship with CFA if this continues.

 

Agreed. But IMHO what’s important is raising the consciousness of the entire population to the issue of race relations and the fact that racism both overt and latent remains and we have to acknowledge and address that. The pent up anger was needed to raise that understanding.

 

Are there any posters who live in or have spent significant time in Atlanta/Georgia? I think maumann was from there, but I haven't seen him around for a while.

I'd be interested to hear about life there, in terms of racial relations and such things.

I've never been there, but have a brother who lived there for about 25 years before recently retiring and leaving. He complained for years about his job, and how he hated it, mostly lamenting how difficult it was to be a supervisor, as he, a white guy, was, of mostly black employees in a warehouse setting. We'd find it distasteful and tell him to knock it off, and don't talk about (black) people the way he did -- calling them rude, disrespectful, no-good, lazy-ass workers, etc. as a matter of course, and (quite convincingly) contending that he was sorry, but the black people he knew were nothing like the nice, church-going, white-acclimatized (is that the word I'm looking for, if it's a word?) black people that we knew.

As bad as he always sounded, I wonder if he might have had a point: that not all black people are the same (and, let me say, not all white people are the same, either), and that that further muddies the waters when it comes to race relations. I know I can certainly believe that. But I wish I spoke from a more exposed, educated point of view, as I fear my brother did, and yet, still could hold to my own, more tolerant views and principles.

It seems and sounds like Atlanta/Georgia, in particular, might be a powder-keg mix of racial relations, and perhaps this shows up not just in warehouses but in police work.

 

Moving
Africa's
Race
Through
Atlanta

is all you need to know.

 

So did he exit the car guns ablazing, or was he shot dead in the passenger seat? Which is it?

Half brother of Palmdale hanging victim Robert Fuller is fatally shot by deputies

 

Well, Taco Bell will lose this lawsuit when it goes to court.

And we should have the Baja Blast at Walmart. I know I've seen it, and there's a fellow employee there who raves about it, too.