To an extent, but the economic disadvantages of slavery have been overemphasized in no small part because it fits into a lot of the lost cause myth.
To an extent, but the economic disadvantages of slavery have been overemphasized in no small part because it fits into a lot of the lost cause myth.
I don’t think it is, honestly. Looking back at most of the excerpts here, I don’t buy the notion that this is an attempt to whitewash or put a happy face on slavery. It’s aan 8th grade textbook; it doesn’t have the space allowance necessary to put a disclaimer about how horrible slavery was at the start of every…
Africans were brought to America to be slaves, sure, but their specific skill set helped change the landscape and and improve the economy!
Right? If you’ve got enough time to go to lunch off base, you do it in the same you came to work in, or a buddy’s if you’re carpooling.
Other things this guy might not know: when your in, you do not usually carry a weapon all day unless you’re deployed. You don’t march everywhere you go chanting jodies. You don’t spend…
Nobody gets Subway in a humvee.
I don’t think I ever saw anyone go off base for lunch in a humvee. Except for road trips while TDY, I don’t think I ever saw people getting much of anything in a govt. vehicle of any sort.
People in the military leave work to get lunch in their own cars, just like everybody else.
He grew up in Brooklyn and went to school on the South Side of Chicago. He fought against dorm segregation and Jim Crow, and he went to jail for it.
Do you know what “leaving aside” means? I am not saying, and Sanders has never said, that you don’t need to address racism directly. I am not arguing that reducing economic inequality is sufficient in addressing racial inequality, and again, this is not a position Bernie Sanders has ever held either. To suggest…
Bernie Sanders has been in the Senate for almost a decade and was in the House for another 16 years. Prior to that he was an activist. He’s been “doing things” for decades.
“Bernie’s message is fundamentally flawed in its approach through economics rather than race.”
This is basically made up. Leaving aside the fact that every one of his economic stances would disproportionately benefit people of color, there is nothing in his voting record or personal history that indicates that he…
Horseshit.
He’s been speaking about it constantly, for decades.
He also has a pretty extensive voting record, fwiw, which is clearly not that much.
And he has a decades long history of pro-civil rights policy making! FFS, reading these comments you’d think the lunch counters were the last time he ever thought about racism.
What things has he said that were tone-deaf? Like, actual quotes. So far all I’ve seen is the totally unsubstantiated claim that he thinks economic justice will solve racial injustice.
This is a thing I keep hearing, but it’s not like he doesn’t have a voting record. He didn’t just leap into being 8 months ago. He’s actively fought federal rollback of affirmative action, he’s fought the expansion of the war on drugs, his voting record has a 97% rating from the NAACP.
Why wouldn’t it survive a hanging attempt? She wasn’t hanging from the ceiling—her feet were on the floor. You only need enough strength to strangle yourself.
Because it’s a county jail cell, not San Quentin. Not having liners in the trash is gross and inhumane. In her particular case, since she told them she’d attempted suicide, it should have been taken out, but most people in a county jail aren’t suicidal.
Of course it matters if it was suicide. If it wasn’t the local police there murdered someone for no reason, doctored the videovideo of the corridor outside her cell to remove evidence that they murdered herher, and then the coroner’s office and the local prosecutor joined the conspiracy by releasing a fake autopsy…
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good woman who takes it away from him and then shoots him in his dumb face.
White Supremacy is not the same thing as “People with white skin,” and it isn’t really that useful as a tool for understanding Imperial Russia or the USSR.