Running racism in America thread

Can, can I shoot him, Andy?

 

What is wrong with cops in Minneapolis?

 

This was all so predictable. The moment when the Democratic Party embraced the Civil Rights Act, the White racists fled to the Republicans and the Republicans, to their dismay, are dependent on their deplorable "base." The Republican party is the last refuge for crazy people. It's been decades in the making and now there's no way out for them.

 

This is a solid read on what CRT is and is not. Heartening to see that education can still occasionally break through.

https://mississippitoday.org/2022/02/02/mississippi-only-critical-race-theory/

 

True enough, but don't underestimate the power of crazy/stupid people in large numbers. I've seen so many over the last five or six years that I fear the results.

 

I never thought I’d see the day John Roberts was considered a moderate, but here we are.

 

So, Joe Rogan.

How does his bi-racial stepdaughter feel when she hears him saying the n-word again and again - for years - and running his mouth about 'Planet of the Apes'?

https://pagesix.com/2022/02/05/joe-rogan-apologizes-for-repeated-use-of-the-n-word-in-viral-clip/

The podcaster went on to address a clip of him referring to a black neighborhood as “Planet of the Apes,” after being dropped off to see the movie with friends in Philadelphia.

“I was trying to make the story entertaining,” Rogan claimed. “I did not, nor did I ever say that black people are apes, but it sure f–king sounded like that.”

“It wasn’t a racist story, but it sounded terrible.”

Sure thing, champ.

 

What's behind the right-wing book-ban frenzy? Big money, and a long-term plan

 

Did Spotify take down 70 episodes?

Or 113 episodes?

In either case, that's a lot of episodes. Many episodes.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/02/joe-rogan-racist-spotify-podcast/

https://www.ginx.tv/en/youtube/spotify-deletes-113-joe-rogan-experience-episodes

 

I’d lay folding money she doesn’t listen to him - given she isn’t a white millennial guy.