Black Lives Matter. Still

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Which makes me wonder if they’re part of the Library of Congress’s “Chronicling America”. If they aren’t, I’ll bet the LoC would greatly appreciate having copies of what your mom saved.

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I cannot believe police in Eastpoint catered to Karen. I am in utter disbelief, yet there it is on TV and The Root. :woman_facepalming:

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they don’t have any issues of my birth town’s weekly paper. i may try to get the present publisher interested in giving them a set of microfiche.

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OK, I have been over this before in relation to kidney function “race normalizing,” but just so we are clear: It is all bullshit.
Even assuming there were such a thing as “African Brain Function Inhibiting Gene,” (there is not) most Black Americans have a not-insignificant amount of “white” genetic background as well. Is there any attempt to quantify or correct for this? Of course not, it is the one drop rule for a new era. Pseudoscientific bullshit. “You look like you have a non-white level of melanin, therefore, your brain must not function as well.” Yeah, that makes sense, if you are racist as hell.

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Reminds me of that bunk awhile back about black athletes (supposedly) having more of some sort of muscle.

Any chance to confirm white(ned) bias will be taken by some white people, sometimes by ones who are in positions of authority.

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We had to point this out to the doctor who wondered aloud how my father developed Dupuytren’s Contracture. Then he found a new doctor.

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You couldn’t just tell them that his Viking ancestors will rise from Valhalla and strike them down? That would be fun.

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Sad irony being that my own “viking” ancestors were less white than my glow-in-the-dark white ass. It’s a fairly recent mutation.

I’d send the Valkyries, though


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https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/audio-cut-speech-black-peoples-role-memorial-day-78065855?cid=clicksource_4380645_1_heads_hero_live_headlines_hed

HUDSON, Ohio – Organizers of a Memorial Day ceremony turned off a speaker’s microphone when the former U.S. Army officer began talking about how freed Black slaves had honored fallen soldiers soon after the Civil War.

We discussed this history upthread a bit, and I expressed my sadness that I had not been taught this. Apparently, there is a movement to make sure it is kept a “deep, dark secret” and not allowed to sully the whiteness of the day.

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Karens and “Ken-tlemen” kicked out


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excerpt from above: In a statement made to Harper’s Bazaar , a spokesperson for Buckingham Palace said, “Claims based on a secondhand account of conversations from over 50 years ago should not be used to draw or infer conclusions about modern-day events or operations.”

Interesting response, but what about how the effing Royal Family treated Meghan?

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“That’s when she says a group of people asked them to stop because their kids were around.”

(Thinking of the children, all the while using such G-rated phrases as “Fuck you” and “pieces of shit.”)

The piĂšce de rĂ©sistance: “Domonique Veasley, one of the two women who were being harassed by the clueless, hueless and now-swimming pool-less” :laughing:

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More details, from, of course:

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Note: not in the south, not in the midwest. New York City.

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Schitts Creek Yes GIF by CBC

White America just can’t stand to be told the truth of our history.

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