Running racism in America thread

Dermot Shea isn't a lady. Also, it's jib.

 

I'm not normally a reader of The Players Tribune, but this is worth reading. Exceptionally Trumpist State University basically whacked the coach because he dared to support his Black players.

Our Coach Should Still Be Our Coach | By Jordan Coffin

 

My God. A broadcast outlet hasn’t been this openly cozy with racist editorializing since Jesse Helms got his big break doing commentaries on WRAL.

Tucker Carlson gives passionate defense of “white replacement theory”

 

"So every time they import a new voter, I become disenfranchised as a current voter."

If you can still vote, it ain't disenfranchisement, scumbag.

"I have less political power because they are importing a brand new electorate. Why should I sit back and take that? The power that I have as an American guaranteed at birth is one man, one vote, and they are diluting it. No, they are not allowed to do it. Why are we putting up with this?"

FFS!

 

Sounds like he’s claiming that non-citizens are voting. Not bloody likely.

Can Noncitizens Vote in the United States?

 

I took it to mean that he views even legal immigration from the third world as a plot to dilute the power of his vote.

 

That works as well. Would be right on brand.

 

I have a relative who recently retired from the armed forces who said most people who have done a stint or three in Iraq or Afghanistan amazed at how liberal the "rules of engagement" are of the police in America.

 

A little more insight:

Caron Nazario: Black army lieutenant suing Virginia Police

I’ve been pulled over several times in my life. Never been ordered out of the car. Never had a gun drawn on me. Never had more than one cop called when it was just me in the car.

This is just flat racism.