Running racism in America thread

Here's a Canada Day love it or leave it tweet from a broadcaster.



With all the news lately about unmarked graves at residential schools, many people have suggested celebrations be muted this year. I believe the flag is at half staff on Parliament Hill, lots of people are wearing orange in solidarity with First Nations.

 

Here's a link with video on the Coronado story.
California high school stripped of basketball title after racist incident

 

A Disparaging Video Prompts Explosive Fallout Within ESPN

Is Rachel Nichols correct?

 

Unbeknown to Nichols, her video camera was on, and the call was being recorded to a server at ESPN’s headquarters in Bristol, Conn.

It is not clear why her camera was on, but most people at ESPN believe that Nichols, using new technology during a pandemic, did not turn it off properly. It was effectively the remote pandemic version of a hot mic incident.

Dozens of ESPN employees have access to the company’s video servers as part of their normal work flow.

At least one of these people watched the video on the server, recorded it on a cellphone and shared it with others. Soon, more copies of the conversation were spreading around ESPN, and within hours it reached ESPN executives, in part because of some of the comments from Mendelsohn. He is a prominent political and communications strategist who has worked for the giant private equity firm TPG; was a communications director and deputy chief of staff for Arnold Schwarzenegger, then the governor of California; and is a co-founder of James’s voting rights group, More Than a Vote, which focused on encouraging access for Black voters during the 2020 election.​

We're living in a hot mic world.

 

It’s gone, and so is the account.

 

And so, apparently, is his show.

 

“First, there is a novel theory of moral education, according to which the best way to deal with systemic inequality is to confront its white beneficiaries with their privileges and encourage them to wrestle with their sins.
Second, there is a Manichaean vision of public policy, in which all policymaking is either racist or antiracist, all racial disparities are the result of racism — and the measurement of any outcome short of perfect “equity” may be a form of structural racism itself.

The first idea is associated with Robin DiAngelo, the second with Ibram X. Kendi, and they converge in places like the work of Tema Okun, whose presentations train educators to see “white-supremacy culture” at work in traditional measures of academic attainment.”

Opinion | The Excesses of Antiracist Education

How are you atoning for your sins?
Are you gong to sacrifice or hinder your child’s future so their black classmates who are victims of perpetual systemic racism at every level of business, social and governmental life can catch up?
Should your job and accumulated assets, which were obtained by privilege, be given to more deserving people who not only lacked privilege but were hindered by your privilege.

And remember, if you’re not black you’re privileged or benefited from being part of the privileged class

 

And you wonder why no advancements are made in the relations. It’s always “what about me.”

I will never look at Nichols the same. I’ll always think what she’s saying is insincere. If I’m LeBron, she’s getting the Pop treatment.

Look, people need to start giving those who advance the benefit of the doubt UNTIL you can show otherwise.

 

Nichols broke barriers as a woman journalist in sports. She’s paid dues, been given some shit assignments like camping out on the Favre lawn for the will he or won’t he story. She’s been a sideline reporter for the NBA and a studio host. So was she pushed aside because of age? Race? Or just sacrificed to to give an advancement to someone with a shorter resume? Or maybe she’s just not good enough. But, according to the story, the job she was not given was a contractual obligation on the part of ESPN. Is advancement of another a reason to breach a contract?

 

That doesn’t mean the other was deficient or given assignment as a gift. Your assuming that since it was contract she’s automatically better.

 

not assuming she was better, if ESPN was contractually obligated to Nichols, the burden is on the breaching party to provide a legal justification or defense for the breach. It hasn’t done so, yet.