It would unknowingly give ALL white people the same type of immunity from accountability that police currently possess.
It would unknowingly give ALL white people the same type of immunity from accountability that police currently possess.
Like a damned “get out of jail free” card just waiting to happen.
To paraphrase something I heard a few days ago: The price of trying to be an agent of change is deep, abiding loneliness.
For both you and Michael...
Their eyes are stuck that way.
“...when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you’re gonna see some serious shit!” The character Doc in the Back To The Future movie.
You’ve all heard said that there ain’t no such thing as a “free lunch”.
We’re now supposedly at 30 million “officially” unemployed. Wait till you see what happens when that number gets over about 40. And as a result, big chunks of white America begin to lose their collectively ability to keep endlessly pretending (primarily as a result of racial segregation) that they’re not “meant” to alw…
A simple test.
Pick any random racial disparity that has existed at any point in our nation’s history. And pick any random year as well. Health, pay, education, incarceration, addiction, whatever? 1690, 1776, 1850, 1950 or 2020? There is one constant present throughout ALL possible chosen scenarios and years. White racial…
There’s a very old cliche: “The devil’s greatest accomplishment has been in convincing the world that he doesn’t exist.”
Because after all these centuries we’re still habitually stuck in the cycle of looking for ways to address the “what” instead of the “why”. The purpose of going as far back as possible, to those precise Colonial origins, is to try and get to the core question of WHY. And expose the living hell out of it, to the…
I’m not talking about “us” trying to “change their minds”. Because after four centuries of accumulated evidence, it should be far more than just readily apparently now that that ain’t gonna happen! Instead I’m talking about an eventual recognition on their own part, that the numbers of accumulated deaths from…
That’s a major part of my continuing schtick. That’s all fine and dandy “on paper”. But major demographic change inevitably causes those same manipulations to inadvertently affect more and more poor and middle class whites in more and more negative ways too. Like basic health care, Social Security, minimum wages, etc.
I get pissed off because folks accuse me of copycatting his ideas. But I’ve been talking about it for at least 15 years.
To mix metaphors. It was strictly a Band-Aid on a bullet wound to keep then natives from getting restless.
Opiods, meth, mass shootings, suicides, alcoholism, etc.. You are essentially correct. But the list of social ills is growing exponentially for them. So, trying to maintain the age-old lies of white supremacy will come at an ever-increasing cost. And as their overall percentage of the population also decreases, the…
As I mentioned about Metzl’s book, it’s not just about guilt and shame. Looking at trends in “quality of life” statistics. The hollow promises and lies of white supremacy are now decimating poor and middle class white communities. It is literally an issue of white survival now.
You want frighteningly precise, frighteningly simple and frighteningly predictable proof that what you say is 100% correct. It’s this: The state of white racial segregation at the time of, say, the Kerner Report. The state of white racial segregation in the year 2020. And the state of white racial segregation whenever…
See: The precise origins of the creation of the legal distinction of “whiteness” in late 1600s courts of Colonial America.