But something-something-something 9/11, twin towers, wur HEROES!!

New York City is the perfect place to start firing racist cops and firemen. There are plenty of qualified people that want those jobs. All it takes is a tiny bit of political courage which de Blasio lacks.

Dyker has racked up 24 allegations of misconduct. (only) Three resulted in discipline

As always, I recommend everyone look at the source material [1]. When I posted last night [2], I thought the graphic showing the different misreporting rates by racial category was most striking, but putting misreporting, mortality and population maps [3] together is interesting too. (N.B. time scales are different…

Do the math folks: if ya don’t hire the blacks there can’t be racism. Easy. 

It strange how far we as a culture bend to avoid applying accurate but negative labels on stuff white people are doing. Not all the behavior, but a bunch of it, clearly meets the definition of terrorism, and we should all feel comfortable calling it that.

There’s not really anything they can DO, but mostly Biden will prefer to appeal to the better side of human nature as if that’s worked at all in the last 10 years or so

This is why you see White people dying in bizarre things like “Hot air balloons” and shit like that

When parents say ‘it is making all the kids (white and non-white) feel bad about their skin color’ what they really mean is “I don’t like hearing about how my wealth and privilege came from the benefits of historical and systemic racism.”

While i’m all for allowing them to continue to cull their fellow idiots, I really don’t want to allow Covid to stick around and evolve to the point where it can regularly cause breakthough infections, or worse, be able to drop people dead in the streets lickery split, because society as a whole is not ready or…

My well-off and extremely white brother and sister in-law are pulling their kid out of one of the best private schools (where their other kids went) because “they are teaching critical race theory” to first graders (and moving the kid to another great private school).

Corporations care about money. Everything else doesn’t matter.

I’m thinking the administrations response is going to be a speech and no action.

Here’s a kinja “link” to a news report which actually has a picture of the statues

I had the unfortunate circumstance of having gone to same school for undergrad as that person. (That Sapphire-eque ‘tude she reps is not an act; she’s actually that awful and delusional, even when there’s no audience.)

Yeah more like mosquitos, useful only for sucking blood out of people.

Welcome to America.

Friedmann then allegedly accelerated toward the victim, who moved out of the way and wasn’t struck, Ruedig said. Friedmann’s vehicle struck the woman’s car twice.

He’s a minority himself. He’s a child of immigrants,” McNamara told the judge.

I lived in Oak Park for a while, a very rich suburb literally across the street from some of the poorest parts of West Chicago and with the exception of River Forest, surrounded by very poor neighborhoods like Maywood and Berwyn. BERWYN!* They try very, very hard to promote diversity and inclusion, but my experience…