“Temporarily”
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Cross-posted from Black Lives Matter, Still:
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Criticism noted and agreed with but I will add a little background. I think CNN got the tone quite wrong here.
First, what is all the fuss about? This:
Yeah, not going to defend that. Anybody wants to rant about that just go ahead. There are currently plans for a slavery museum in Amsterdam(*), this coach might end up in there and that is probably for the best.
Another option is that the panel is replaced with a more suitable one. The coach itself is an important historical artifact but my-grandfather’s-axe and all that… The panel can end up in the museum.
But many miss an essential point: In democratic monarchies like The Netherlands monarchs have no direct power and can’t make any political or controversial comment in public. Usually when they do they do subtly and careful. The fact the king just did is very telling, he could easily have stood aside and let the government sort out the mess, that is what most European monarchs do when controversy strikes.
The fact that a direct decision was made and carried out and communicated directly by the royal house means they must feel strongly about it. This is a controversial move so it is not like they do it for a PR stunt.
(* I actually have good hopes for this. There is no way to touch our slavery history without controversy but good people are honestly trying to do something constructive with it. To be fair the Tropical museum in Amsterdam and the Ethnographical museum in Leiden are often brutally honest and direct about the origins of their collections. Confrontational and debatable but at least the white-washing seems to have stopped.)
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Interesting piece. I’ve never seen it before. But, it’s a common theme, as this maps cartouche shows.
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Such incredible bullshit.
And it says a silent part out loud in that “Fuck you feelings” thing from awhile back: “and as for our white feelings? Fuck you for ever so much as making us feel them at all.”
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By that logic, anytime one of the racist idiots tells some Black child that “your people are all lazy welfare so-and-so’s” they can be hauled into court, right? Right? Because that would be soooo cool!
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I don’t know; maybe you can compel the state to put it back up.
That doesn’t mean people will leave it up, or whole.
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Shit. This whole part:
“If this Virginia decision is followed, every contract entered into by a state government can be abrogated when a governor or a court — not the legislature — decides that the contract violates public policy. This would leave those who contract with state governments at the mercy of judges and executive or administrative officials who have no legitimate role in setting the Commonwealth’s public policy,” the petition states.
Well, here in Maine we’ve already seen that eventuality play out. Not on racial stuff, but the previous governor nixed contracts that had been duly awarded, sending us years backwards on offshore wind development.
Those who contract with the state governments are already in jeopardy. People who don’t care about the rules and laws just don’t care. It’s more about officials following the rules than anything else. 
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I kind of want to know why they missed one?
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It wasn’t cracker enough.
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Me too, so I looked it up.
Their last name is Yoder and they’re from Goshen, IN, which means they have Amish heritage (but apparently don’t live as Amish). The one left to visit is in Oregon, not near any of the others, so it makes sense they haven’t gotten there yet.
Must be nice to be so well taken care of at a restaurant chain. I wonder what it is about them that makes them so likeable at a place like Cracker Barrel? 
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I laughed, but considering the fact it’s in Oregon, I sort of wondered if maybe you were right, as well as funny!
However, it looks like it’s in a suburb, not Portland proper. So it’s probably still all white right for them.
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Nobody has asked me to, but things like that sticker kind of make me feel like I should. 
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I think it depends on what “being white” means on a case to case basis. Like if some one is behaving like a Karen then maybe an apology is in order.
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Ha! I can totally relate. Every time I hear some asshat go on about how “white lives matter,” or, “all lives matter,” I do find myself looking around at my darker-skinned friends and neighbors and feeling like, “I’m so fucking sorry you have to deal with this shit.”
Not exactly the same as “apologizing for being white,” but pretty darned close.
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