I have not checked it out yet, but FD Signifier has a new video about Sanders…
I’ve never been a big sports fan, so I’m hoping there’s no bad stuff behind this. But hey, Black folks being unafraid to speak up and be vocal is still a good thing. 
ETA: And also (constant reminder to myself), it’s not like white folks are justified in critique of Black expression. It’s not their platform.
“They dismissed Paulinho’s talents and effort,” she said. “There’s religious intolerance, of course, but in Brazil it looks like religious racism against Candomblé.”
I would very much like to talk to the unfortunate man who stepped on a butterfly 65,000,000 years ago and left us in a time when things like this happen.
Paulinho was paying homage to an Orisha called Oxossi.
That just breaks my fucking heart… that poor girl… But to hear from Simone Biles… 
I hope that helped her to feel a little better.
More on markers and monuments raising awareness of Black history, activism, and allyship:
Racists prioritize their fragile egos. Any mention of their racist past/heritage sets them off. MAGA attracts all these racists because it vows to reprioritize whiteness.
You see it with CRT and BLM. Racists can’t handle black humanity.
I never understood why white people do this. I feel sad about the things my ancestors have done and also angry how those atrocities echo into today and harm people of color. It’s a kind of shame, I suppose. I feel uncomfortable and icky sometimes. I feel empathy and grief for the victims. But it isn’t a personal shame. It wasn’t me that did those things. It would be like me feeling personally responsible for one of my grandfathers being a pedophile. I can’t help my ancestry or birth.
Which then led me to the question: why is it so personal for them? Why do these fragile white people feel attacked by the mention of the terrible things our ancestors did or the mere acknowledgement of the existence of systemic racism today?
What have these people done, what choices have they made in their personal lives, to make them feel such strong and intimate feelings of shame?
Did they feel pride in those things before? Do they make the choice to be racist in their every day interactions? Do they help perpetuate systemic racism?
Yeah. I think we all know the answer to those questions
Suck it up, my fellow white people. Acknowledge your emotions, own them, and learn from them. Start making the personal choices in your life that you can feel proud of. Ashamed of what racists did in the past?! Hurt by discussions of systemic racism? You have some serious work to do on yourself. Get to it or those feelings will never get better. They will rot and fester in you.
Indeed. It’s really because of the whole concept of the boost that whiteness gives to some of them. Since the concept of whiteness is associated with superiority that’s thought to be inherent, they embrace their whiteness and object to the idea that white people have done anything wrong. They see it as an existential battle between the races, and they believe that if white people are not the dominant race, that they’ll become subjected to the same things that they known have been done to others.
That’s the thing - I don’t think the most hardcore ARE ashamed of the past 500 years of violence, colonialism, slavery, and racism. They glory in it, because they believe it is the result of not brute force to hurt others, but of their own superiority.
They embrace whiteness, because they believe in whiteness.
This would explain why I can’t grok the concept. I’m just not seeing anything in whiteness to be proud of or even like much
ETA: but this isn’t the place for a discussion on whiteness! I fear I’ve dragged us away from the proper focus of this thread.
Not at all.
Your acknowledgment that white supremacy is some nonsensical tribalist bullshit is greatly appreciated, especially by those of us who expend so much energy combatting it.
