Rolling 2015 Thread on Race

eh

http://www.wnyc.org/story/rezoning-plan-would-integrate-two-schools-draws-parents-ire-brooklyn/

More on the story above, which I've been following. Basically BK Heights / DUMBO has two school zones -- PS8, which serves most of the area and mostly wealthy parents, and PS 307, which is this tiny zone that was very obviously drawn to pretty much only serve the Farragut Houses. PS8 is now way overcrowded and getting worse, and they're rezoning a bunch of area residents, mostly wealthy, for PS 307, which would basically overnight turn 90% black and latino school into a 50% black and latino school (assuming most of the rezoned parents don't go elsewhere). It's like watching Show Me A Hero unfold right in 2015 NYC except in hushed liberal NPR tones.

http://jimromenesko.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/eagle.jpg

"Negro" is the woman in question's last name. Still, some editor looked at this headline and said, "Yep, seems fine to me!"

lol

There really isn't that much that could be done there, though. It's similar to this: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2008/07/christian_sites_ban_on_g_word.html

In other news, Michael Dunn Sentenced to Life Without Parole for Loud Music Killing

Michael Dunn, 47, was convicted of killing Jordan Davis, 17, in November 2012 after he shot into a SUV of four teenagers 10 times when an argument broke out over loud music coming from the teens' vehicle. Dunn was sentenced to an additional 90 years in prison for three attempted murder convictions and another 15 years for firing into an occupied vehicle.

http://whnt.com/2015/10/26/decatur-city-schools-holding-news-conference-over-teachers-controversial-photo-on-social-media/

I am resisting my kneejerk "that is not actually blackface" reaction to say that claiming you don't see color but painting yourself brown to look like Kanye is a pretty good indicator to the rest of us that you are lying like crazy to yourself.

"I don't see color" "then why are you wearing facepaint" "oh because I'm dressed as Kanye and he's black"

I actually initially thought "Hmm, is this really blackface?", but at the same time, any time you have to ask that question it's probably better to just not do it.

In Heroin Crisis, White Families Seek Gentler War on Drugs

shocking

yeah, was coming to post that myself
"something seems slightly different about the coverage and pictures in this article...."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/health/death-rates-rising-for-middle-aged-white-americans-study-finds.html

dunno why no one's talking about the missouri thing

major props to the activists on campus, including the football team, for doing what they're doing

It's all in the coddling thread.

http://georgetownvoice.com/2015/11/12/student-activists-announce-sit-in-in-president-degioias-office-call-for-name-change-to-mulledy-hall/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/11/18/my-white-neighbor-thought-i-was-breaking-into-my-own-apartment-nineteen-cops-showed-up/

Old news (and of course I'm aware I'm a foreigner) but this is skin-crawling stuff on gentler but no less insistent ways of control - and obviously hooks in to the more fatal side.

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/racial-profiling-via-nextdoorcom/Content?oid=4526919

"White residents have also used Nextdoor to complain and organize calls to police about Black residents being too noisy in public parks and bars — raising concerns that the site amplifies the harmful impacts of gentrification. On Nextdoor and other online neighborhood groups — including Facebook pages and Yahoo and Google listservs — residents have called Black and Latino men suspicious for being near bus stops, standing in "shadows," making U-turns, and hanging around outside coffee shops. Residents frequently warn each other to be on the look out for suspects with little more description than "Black" and "wearing a hoodie."

"These posts cast such a wide net on our young Black men," said Shikira Porter, an Upper Dimond resident, who is Black. "You start seeing this over and over again, and you understand quickly that, oh, it's the Black body that they're afraid of."

In some Nextdoor groups, when people ask their neighbors to think twice before labeling someone suspicious, other users attack them for playing the "race card" and being the "political correctness police." Some groups have even actively silenced and banned the few vocal voices of color speaking up on the websites, according to records that I reviewed."

I hope the police wherever NextDoor is used are clever enough to note over time which of its correspondents are doing the Racist Gladys Kravitz thing. I've seen a super-crazy gun-and-pitbulls libertarian cause real havoc on a friend's neighbourhood FB group because there are black people with the audacity to just walk around, breathing.

My sister just posted a bad macro supporting the Minneapolis police. Let's just say I've questioned her timing.

I'm gonna make a generalisation based on l'il sis and her friends, who are resentful Caucasian underachievers to a man/woman, which is that the people with the cryingeagle.gifs and the #alllivesmatter hashtags are most likely to be DAMN LUCKY THEY'RE WHITE considering all the bullshit they've been up to throughout their lives which would have them staring down the barrels of guns, or serving time, were they black people who happened to be living in North Minneapolis.

I was struck by the OPD assistant chief speaking openly about the dangers this poses because it adds an extra layer of bias to what he's aware is an already (multiply-) biased process.

Adding this here as well:

http://blavity.com/this-morning-at-harvard-law-school-we-woke-up-to-a-hate-crime/

It is boggling my mind that (white) people are looking at this and saying "Wait, maybe this was done by someone who is against racism in an attempt to accelerate the dialog about institutionalized racism on campus!" for several reasons:

1. This occurred the day after black HLS students marched in a solidarity protest decrying institutionalized racism on campuses of higher learning.
2. There is no context surrounding this beyond the faces of the black professors being crossed out with black tape.
3. This was done in the middle of the night, surreptitiously and with no fanfare and no explanation, completely counter in style and methodology to the visible, transparent protesting and demanding done by the black student association.

I'm wondering how blatantly racist an act has to be before people can't rationalize it away with "well we don't know the whole story here, let's not jump to conclusions"

There is more context, which to me makes it more obviously white racist bullshit: black tape had been placed by some of the protesters on the part of the HLS seal that quotes the Royall family (Antiguan slave owners) seal. Pretty clearly some white genius thought "well I'll erase THEIR historical connection" and fuck that guy forever and ever and ever.

It's frightening that people who plan to be lawyers can either engage is such despicable, cowardy behavior or allow it to take place and not speak out against this behavior.

frightening? or maybe now it just makes complete sense that the world is shit.

die in a fire

that's a good iron maiden album

https://newrepublic.com/article/123895/intersection-episode-9-tamir-rice-has-been-dead-for-a-year

Good podcast

Update: sister removed my politely-worded comment about how maaaaybe expressing support for cops at a time when the people in their precinct were justifiably angry at the way they were being treated felt like a bit of racism, and messaged me about how I wasn't being 'nice' and was trying to make her look stupid.

BUT there has been a breakthrough, of sorts: when I pointed out that half of her juvenile-delinquent friends, would, if black, be dead or trapped in the prison system, she replied that most of them had grown up and become basically decent people. So I told her that their black counterparts surely deserved the same chance to grow out of the same kind of phase, but that wasn't happening, and it seems the penny has finally dropped.

GREENFIELD — A Greenfield police sergeant who is his department’s liaison on the town Human Rights Commission is being criticized for hanging a Confederate flag on the rear interior wall of his garage on Shelburne Road. The flag can be seen by passersby when the overhead door is open.

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/12311207_10154368522067137_5337236966970134206_n.jpg?oh=2846e899e801852bd05d7834f6570a24&oe=56DDE7C7

i've met some of the cops here. not hard to believe at all.

the South shall rise again... in the North

i'm normally a pretty calm dude but i have this rage whenever i see some dumbass with a confederate flag in my city

some idiot in my neighborhood had one in his second story window... a couple doors down from the muslim community center where a bunch of african immigrants worship

White Debt

Soooo gooooood

yeah, thanks for sharing that

Belgian Minister for Culture Sven Gatz getting in on the annual Black Pete farrago.:

https://twitter.com/svengatz/status/673487488388866048

https://twitter.com/svengatz/status/673781023684063232

Imagine!

republicans and horse people are mad at sports illustrated

weird poll about the underlying attitudes:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CWNHISSWUAAF_42.png

https://twitter.com/Zipseatthetrack/status/676395278996492288

lmao #horsetwitter

oh my fucking god

yeah dude it's a fucking oil fire out there. some top shelf clowning happening though.

as an aside, i'm a little surprised attitudes toward brady and rodgers are so similar and even. i had an inkling that brady had turned into a lil bit of a tcot hero but i guess not.

woooooooow

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CWMamyTVEAACZOE.jpg

I hated myself so much for laughing at that

lol dude writes for a website called horseracingnation.com but I misread it as horseracigenation.com and I was like what in the fuck

http://www.horseracingnation.com/blogs/zatt/American_Pharoah_Denied_Sportsman_of_the_Year_123#

Sports Illustrated, your agenda is showing.

#actuallyitsaboutethicsinhorsejournalism

#notallhorses

how shocking that a poll that ended the day before a publication's street date had no impact on the publication's choice for a title

#horsesarepeopletoo

If the readers' poll were the basis for choosing the cover, they'd caption the poll accordingly. I feel the same way about people annoyingly saying Sanders should have been Time's POY, fwiw, except that I'm voting for Sanders, and also he is not a horse running for president.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhlyQaCvUtA

I would want to vote for that, though. #BoJackforPrez

If the readers' poll were the basis for choosing the cover, they'd caption the poll accordingly. I feel the same way about people annoyingly saying Sanders should have been Time's POY, fwiw, except that I'm voting for Sanders, and also he is not a horse running for president.

have we proven this