Running racism in America thread

America runs on Youngkin

 

Well, pounding the anti-CRT drum will definitely fix that

A New Report Finds That 45 States Are 'Failing' to Teach Students About the Period That Shaped Race Relations After the Civil War

 

Next week should be interesting in red state schools. “We are off Monday, but we can’t tell you why.”

 

Judge Karen to the White Courtesy Phone.

 

Alabama’s capitol is a crime scene. The cover-up has lasted 120 years.

https://www.al.com/news/2022/01/ala...-scene-the-cover-up-has-lasted-120-years.html

 

Examples of irony: racists from Toyota dealership fired for spewing hate on Long Island transit train:

Two Dealership Employees Are Fired After Their Racist Attack Of An Immigrant Family Went Viral

A tiny bit of US smiles today.

 

An acquaintance posts to a locked private Twitter account. I'll preserve their anonymity but quote the words.

"When I moved to Alabama from Florida to my first news job, among the mind-blowing cultural differences was the single fact that the day set aside to honor Martin Luther King Jr. was shared with the day to honor Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

My first thought after I picked my jaw up off the floor was, “Does the world know about this?”

My editor - a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans - explained to me that the Civil War was known in those parts as the War of Northern Aggression, another concept I had never heard before moving there.

So yes, @WarOnDumb, not only is the shared honor King-Lee Day acceptable, it’s a badge of honor for many in Alabama. A way to have - and continue to have - the last word.

White supremacy is baked in. So is toxic masculinity and sexism. That editor was the same man who refused to let me use my maiden name in my byline. My byline for the rest of my career was chosen by this man who celebrated King-Lee Day."

She's responding to this article:

 

One helluva thread here.

 

Beats listening to white guys use "I have a dream" as a fig leaf for their racism year after year.

MLK could bring the rhetorical heat and make people very damned uncomfortable. People forget that, or they're too young to know more than a few cherry picked quotes that leave out his anger and frustration at the ill treatment of his people.