Protests following the killing of George Floyd
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Turns out the Nascar noose was just a pull down rope for the garage door....
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Can’t wait to hear ‘fake noose!’
Police killings by race and class. Very sharp effects for both, unlike with mass incarceration, race is at least as clear a determinant as class here.
Class was measured by census tracts - basically smaller zipcodes. The written conclusion is:
taken from here - https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2020/06/23/class-and-racial-inequalities-in-police-killings/
Interesting - I read this analysis yesterday which suggested that race matters for police violence but not in shootings (https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-the-data-say-about-police-11592845959)
I had a guy making a point to me last week that more white people are killed by US cops than blacks. With attitudes like that....
Police killings by race and class. Very sharp effects for both, unlike with mass incarceration, race is at least as clear a determinant as class here.
Class was measured by census tracts - basically smaller zipcodes. The written conclusion is:
taken from here - https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2020/06/23/class-and-racial-inequalities-in-police-killings/
I’ll hazard a guess that he’s a trumper.
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defending whitelivesmatter is 100% racist, there's no leeway, it's a racist tag that is used by racist and defended by racists
That site, oh boy. It's aggressively stupid. It has an article called "All History Matters", where they do what every racist does and goes "but but but what about the Irish?"
They have another article called "A Message from England", which is definitely not written by someone from England.
Oh my fecking god, this is the best one
And now for something completely different.
I think that Dumat12 guy is the lead writer for that site.
It's as if what I learned in history throughout my education, including into the collegiate level, was whitewashed.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-ghosts-of-elaine-arkansas-1919?utm_source=pocket-newtab
The Ghosts of Elaine, Arkansas, 1919
Given the magnitude of the Elaine Massacre, its absence from standard narratives in American history is striking.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-ghosts-of-elaine-arkansas-1919?utm_source=pocket-newtab
The Ghosts of Elaine, Arkansas, 1919
Given the magnitude of the Elaine Massacre, its absence from standard narratives in American history is striking.
Aside from the killing, this story is eerily familiar.
Never heard of this either. I agree about the whitewashing.
I have no doubt that one side of my family participated in this as they hailed from the region. The progeny morphed into rabid Pat Buchanan supporters & outright racists even in recent days. Utterly embarrassing.
Alleged 'Boogaloo' extremist charged in killing of federal officer during George Floyd protest
Steven Carrillo and his alleged accomplice "came to Oakland to kill cops," said John Bennett, special agent in charge of the San Francisco division of the FBI.
[Air Force] Staff Sgt. Steven Carrillo, 32, was charged with murder and attempted murder in the killing of federal officer Dave Patrick Underwood, 53.
Investigators found inside Carrillo's vehicle a ballistic vest with a patch on it that featured an igloo and a Hawaiian-style print — symbols associated with the far-right extremist "Boogaloo" movement, according to his federal complaint.
Carrillo, prior to his arrest, used his own blood to scrawl the word “boog” and “I became unreasonable” on the hood of the vehicle he carjacked, the complaint says. Both phrases are also associated with "Boogaloo," a term used by extremists to reference a violent uprising or impending civil war in the U.S., the complaint says.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...ing-george-floyd-protests-california-n1231187
Steven Carrillo and his alleged accomplice "came to Oakland to kill cops," said John Bennett, special agent in charge of the San Francisco division of the FBI.
[Air Force] Staff Sgt. Steven Carrillo, 32, was charged with murder and attempted murder in the killing of federal officer Dave Patrick Underwood, 53.
Investigators found inside Carrillo's vehicle a ballistic vest with a patch on it that featured an igloo and a Hawaiian-style print — symbols associated with the far-right extremist "Boogaloo" movement, according to his federal complaint.
Carrillo, prior to his arrest, used his own blood to scrawl the word “boog” and “I became unreasonable” on the hood of the vehicle he carjacked, the complaint says. Both phrases are also associated with "Boogaloo," a term used by extremists to reference a violent uprising or impending civil war in the U.S., the complaint says.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...ing-george-floyd-protests-california-n1231187
Hasan Minaj is the best talkshow out there
Perspective from the originator of 'teagate'
I hadn't realised how well targeted Yorkshire Tea's response was until I listened to that. Well done, Yorkshire Tea.
I think she's bang on about brands tbh. So many were desperate to come out in support of BLM but only after the narrative was set. 100% PR stunt that, for most, won't bring about any real change. Same for the majority of celebs too.
It creates more awareness/charges up more of a 'trend' when big brands and people come out to support something. It's definitely up to that brand on their own to make sure they bring about change in their own workplace and if they do they are definitely making a 'real change'. We can't expect Yorkshire Tea to change the whole system but if individual people and brands do on a personal level it can help make slow steps to doing that.
I looked at her twitter after watching that video and it's full of absolute shite - that was more where my 'what a bellend' comment was referring to.
The word's been so deliberately debased that it now means 'anything the government declares is patriotic is...patriotic'.
Whenever I see it used it's by people like her who aren't racist just really interested in demographics.
She's completely right about brands. It was entirely PR related. I think she's a classic example of being partially right for the wrong reasons.
Columbus statue goes down.
Unsettling to think a mayor of a major city would think this was appropriate regardless of political affiliation...
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...s-addresses-defund-police-supporters-n1232337
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...s-addresses-defund-police-supporters-n1232337
That's pretty major.
Rednecks are gonna riot.
Now let’s see them go after the University Of Mississippi; their moniker ’Ole Miss’ refers to what the slaves were required to call the wife of the plantation owner, with ‘Lil Miss’ being the title for their daughters.
One of several things I had no idea that I didn’t know before all of this.
Bloody hell I had no clue about that.
Imagine attending that school as a black American.
I’d never heard that either.
It was a bit tricky for a black American to go to that school for a while.
fecking psychotic
I don’t they believe it’s their community. The large house people are in a gated exclusive area and would typically have little in common with most of the protesters.
Think the protestation has to do with this...
https://www.bing.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1232337
Attempted murder surely. That's horrifying.
How is that helping?
No offences. But what’s standing in front of a big ass cop car going to do? You’re just going to piss them off and make them move since they can’t go anywhere. Are they just supposed to sit there and take the abuse till they leave in a few hours. Then the car takes off and the dumbasses still don’t get out of the way. You could have killed yourself with that kind of stupidity. And the cop shouldn’t have kept going with the man on the fecking bonnet.