Running racism in America thread

I said it on another thread, but Jason Aldean is Trump-level sociopathy. He doesn't seem to care that 61 of his fans got mowed down from above in Vegas. He played his next concert on schedule in Little Rock days later without a delay. He gets a pass only because he doesn't call Black people "near" like Morgan Wallen does. And that didn't hurt Wallen much.

 

Uvalde is a small town.

 

Remind me what Ahmaud Arbery tried in a small town? Bet his killers would happily jam out to this.

 

Cool.

Aldean’s performance backdrop is the Maury County Courthouse, which at times appears to be on fire as images of burning American flags are projected onto it. It’s the same building where a mob hanged 18-year-old Henry Choate from the balcony in 1927. The teen had been accused of attacking a White girl who never identified him as her assailant, and whose mother begged the mob to let him stand trial.

Columbia is also the site of an infamous 1946 race riot that nearly resulted in the lynching of future Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/ente...son-aldean-song-video-pulled-cmt-controversy/

 

I feel like this might be worth some discussion.

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I'm going to say I don't think this is a good idea. It seems like something that should be taught in schools, and not forgotten, but not necessarily memorialized in this way, and across three states, no less.

Not because of worth or the lack of it, but because it seems like it'd be unnecessarily inflammatory, and frankly, give people these days some ideas that shouldn't be encouraged. or repeated.

The anti-lynching law that Biden signed in Till's name seems a much better response, and I do wonder what the target of Till's actions, who died just earlier this year, would think at this point, too.

 

to whom?

 

Considering the delicate sensibilities of would-be lynchers is certainly an interesting angle to take on Joe Biden memorializing Emmitt Till.

 

We attended this small, nighttime community meeting in Stone Mountain, Georgia, to see why Critical Race Theory is preventing people from embracing “Bidenomics.”

 

I really appreciate the nuance you make your point with. I respectfully have to disagree. To memorialize an event is to call attention to it so people have to remember. Schools, especially in the South, are trying to do away with things like the Till lynching. It needs to be in your face.

Mamie did the same thing when she opened the coffin for the world to see what happened to her boy. That was infinitely more inflammatory than a memorial.

Especially today—when a country singer is glorifying mob justice that led to Till’s lynching—we need the consequences in our faces.

 

Pro-lynchers gonna be upset.

 

Look at the curriculum passed in Florida which says slaves benefitted from being slaves. That is being taught. If it takes monuments, holidays, history months and whatever else to teach the truth and upset the mf'n white racists, then so be it.

 

Her opinion wouldn’t matter.