Thanks.
@avunculoid’s providing of the names of these “musical organizations” would’ve been helpful.
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I threw up a little reading that.
This man is an abomination to democracy and the human race.
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I think on November 4 the citizens of the U.S. are going to let Nostradumbass know how un-american they think he is.
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It seems reasonably clear to me that the principle of “The best candidate (on some arbitrary metric) should be hired” is, if not racist, at least stupid.
Are we ready to have the uncomfortable conversation now?
Not right now?
I’ll come back later.
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Wait, come back! Okay, now which conversation is that again??
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Only if all the votes get counted [spoiler, they probably will not]
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Defeatism helps nothing.
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Pretending the danger isn’t real and ignoring the problem is even worse.
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Check my previous commentary if you like; that’s not what I do.
Neither do I just ‘give up the ghost’ before the fight is even over.
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All white people are racist, that’s a fact. Arguing that is just confirming it. No training will change it.
Hot take.
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It’s only disingenuous if you think it was supposed to represent the signing of this specific order rather than an illustration of diversity in the White House. I understood it as the latter and the other interpretation didn’t even occur to me until your post.
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Yet Obama will tower over tRump’s squalid term for the rest of world history.
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There’s an interesting article on this topic by Kate “McMansion Hell” Wagner about her attempt to become a concert violinist as a not-privileged-enough person.
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Thank you! Just trying to blend in…
The thing about this is that there are White people in America that have never met or seen a Black person in the flesh, ever. I remember this one time while playing Spades with a bunch of other Airmen this female looks at her hand and says “Who dealt this? Trying to get a spade in this game is like trying to find a [slur] in a coal barrel.” Then she looked at me and blushed and tried to apologize. Thankfully I had already had the training so I didn’t lose my shit.
Trump projects so hard I’m sure he thinks everywhere in America is like New York City, one of the multicultural wonders of the world. He does not seem to make his decisions based on reality. He is good at watching his language though when he knows he’s making a public appearance. If nothing else this training can teach that as well. I even learned some new derogatory names for Black people during the training. That was back in the 1970s and in the Military though. I don’t think every federal employee had such training at the time.
Even if that’s true which I highly, HIGHLY doubt, people have TV, see movies, read newspapers, etc. We had a Black president, FFS.
People who say and do racist shit, aren’t doing it because they’ve never met a Black person (or any person of color), they are doing it because they buy into white supremacy. Even if that’s the case out of some kind of ignorance, it doesn’t excuse it or make it LESS racist or hurtful somehow. It STILL should be addressed in the work place, even if the work place is lily-fucking-white.
They should have it now. We need to use the knowledge that’s been produced on systemic racism, how it works, and how it privileges some over others to improve all of our lives.
Also, there was LITERALLY no reason to use that word. Just stop doing it. It’s not hard.
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In the 1970s? Girl please.
TV: Sanford & Son, Good Times, The Jeffersons
Movies: Superfly, The Mack, Hell Up In Harlem
Newspapers: Not much positive coverage unless it was Black published.
The 1970s was part of a transitional period for race relations in my part of the world.
BOT: Anyone else have diversity training in the 1970s?
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