Running racism in America thread

King should be judged for being a man of his times, and he was most extraordinary for his nonviolent approach. Which was perfect for the moment. A time when enough Americans in the middle could feel
Sympathy, empathy or guilt without trying to burn down the country to hide their shame.

we need to keep ‘person of his times’ at the forefront of judgment when looking at lives in the past. For example, Does Woodrow Wilson really need to be shamed for his racial thinking which was mainstream but ignoring his desires for world peace and international cooperation, for which he was an early leader.

 

Most people fall in between good and bad. Wilson may have been a visionary when it comes to world peace, but he should definitely be shamed for his racial views. There was never a time when the Ku Klux Klan was a good thing in America.

 

Not sure where exactly to put this, but I suppose here works:

Outrage Grows Over Jailing of Children as Tennessee University Cuts Ties With Judge Involved — ProPublica

 

MLK's primary focus was in the South, but he also participated in open-housing demonstrations in northern cities. I recall his visit to Chicago, on which he commented, “I have seen many demonstrations in the South but I have never seen anything so hostile and so hateful as I’ve seen here today.” Earlier in the day he had been hit in the head by a rock, part of the rain of projectiles and spittle that greeted the march.

 

Just an aside ... for reasons I now can't recall, the other day I started wondering what Wilson's voice (particularly his accent) sounded like. One of the recordings I found had him referring to his opposition as retreating into "isolation", but he pronounced the "is" part like "iz" rather than "ice".

 

I got hate mail from some flounder for posting Judge Davenport's recipe for children salad. What's funny is it looks like the Dukes Mayonnaise people liked the tweet before they actually read it. Oopsie!

 

Don't bother looking for it. I took it down. For now. I don't want some cousin dater at the Dukes plant peeing in my mama's mayonnaise.

 

From Rome, GA:

 

Worse. They’re in a nasty little hellhole on the backside of Floyd County called Coosa. It looks like what Gatsby and the gang drove through between West Egg and the city. Home to a paper mill and until recently a coal-burning power plant. Rich entitled shits from the big money boarding school in Rome used to come to the away basketball games there and chant “What’s that smell?”

It is every bit as hard of a place to stand up for any kind of equity as you can imagine. That girl is damn brave.

 

America makes me sad.

 

Good

Lawsuit over Charlottesville 'Unite the Right' rally has crippled white supremacist groups, leaders