Running racism in America thread

Every once in a while I’ll go into town to something like a rally for DACA recipients or March For Our Lives or some such. And often towards the end of the program they’ll have one or two of the original foot soldiers from the Birmingham Movement up to speak, almost as an afterthought. And I will shake my head and wonder why these people aren’t revered daily.

Carry Me Home isn’t a perfect book (it goes a little too much into the author’s angst about growing up as a white girl in privileged circles) but it lays out a great deal of the history mentioned in that thread. I recommend it to anyone trying to understand Birmingham, then and now.

 

I had a discussion with a couple of recent college grads who had never been taught about the three murdered civil rights workers, the dead girls in the church bombing, or freedom riders. They literally had never heard of any of it, and they grew up in the liberal Northeast.

 

I was seven and living in Atlanta when the bombing happened. I didn't really understand what it was all about, but little girls getting blown up at church was unfathomable. A month later President Kennedy was shot.

 

9 Oakland PD officers disciplined in social media investigation

 

These days it’s satisfying to see a lot of Karens’ rants coming back to bite them in the wallet. But trump was president once, and he is the worst person to hold elective office in the US in 100 years. If he would have been re-elected there’s a good chance that the christians would have sought to fire everyone who participated in a ProBLM protest. Wait until Texas makes it illegal to have any abortion and Texas employers fire people would have pro-choice messages in their social media.
There are some slippery slopes that while possible are implausible. It’s not implausible for the tide to turn and promoting ‘liberal’ policies is cause to fire private sector employees

 

Yes.

 

Much like the woman who came through my line maskless, was asked to put one on and replied with "I can't breathe.'

 

No no no, it's just their Faux Fascist Noise/white trash oppositional defiant disorder, "if the n****ers get to cry about riding on a bus, then I get to cry about wearing a mask."

Basically their entire worldview is, "the n*****ers+ cried about (fill in the blank), so I get to cry about (fill in the blank)."


+ Or any non-Christian white male minority

 

Oh, the Moms for Liberty
From the hills of Tennessee
Never had no problem with the Trump crime spree