Tman
5707
I hope @Nesrie is doing OK. I’ve been thinking of her and all the crazy stuff happening with her family with Covid and then the BLM heats up and she is a welcome voice.
I was trying to remember a discussion we had in this very thread where she gave me a perspective I needed when some were trying to discuss gradients of racism - and as I recall she was having none of it and I really want to go back and read that or better yet have her chime in again to refresh my memory.
I miss her too. It’s been much harder for me to engage (well, lurk, mostly) in a few of these threads, without her around.
I miss her too, but I understand her absence even if that fact invalidates this thread in a sense.
Looks like I missed a critical thread somewhere.
Thrag
5711
WTF is wrong with people.
The owner of a North Carolina racetrack advertised “Bubba Rope” for sale in a social media marketplace days after NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace, who is Black, announced a noose had been found in his garage at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama.
Mike Fulp, the owner of the half-mile (0.8 km) 311 Speedway in Stokes County, made the pitch Wednesday on Facebook Marketplace: “Buy your Bubba Rope today for only $9.99 each, they come with a lifetime warranty and work great.”
ShivaX
5712
Sherman was too kind to them.
KevinC
5713
Are we sure Sherman didn’t make them racist by burning their slaver plantations?
He definitely forced them into the arms of racists.
rowe33
5715
Maybe this should be in the apology thread - 10 out of 10.
RichVR
5716
She said while watching from the other side of the street someone handed her a Confederate flag. She claims she didn’t fully know what it represented but assumed it was a symbol of unity.
::COUGH:: Bullshit. ::COUGH::
KevinC
5717
What do you find unbelievable about thinking the flag of an armed revolt against the country that left hundreds of thousands dead in order to protect the right to own people as property is a symbol of unity?
It’s probably better than most people in her position, but she makes way too many excuses for it to be 10/10, or even good. Aside from the “unity flag,” saying she ‘blacked out’ in a fit of rage to excuse shouting “KKK belief” doesn’t sit right either. It’s like those people who get drunk and go on bigoted rants and blame it on the alcohol, as if the opinions were not simply kept beneath the surface by decorum. Though, to her credit, she does seem contrite and I bet most people wouldn’t agree that they deserved to be fired.
rowe33
5719
I should clarify that my post was sarcastic. This woman is a fucking nutjob.
Apologies for not picking up on that.
rowe33
5721
Hey I give you major credit for trying to see some sort of buried good in this person. I’m way beyond that!
I only think she should be fire…from a cannon.
To be honest, it was mostly because I didn’t want you to feel like you were being dogpiled when I thought your comment was sincere.
This is well worth reading.
The movement to name Georgia’s massive infantry base for a neighborhood slaveholder was spurred by the local United Daughters of the Confederacy, an organization with an obsessive focus on erecting monuments to Confederate and, occasionally, Ku Klux Klan heroes; the UDC still exists today as a federally recognized 501©3 tax-exempt charity, though it’s listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The historical record is unambiguous: Fort Benning was named for a white supremacist, by white supremacists, as part of a national campaign to enshrine a white supremacist narrative of the Civil War. And the Army has allowed the name to stand for more than a century.
The UDC channeled that energy into two main focus areas: education and commemoration. “That included monument building, textbook writing, policing of curriculum and what books were in the library, as well as policing what plays were put on and producing books, as well, that celebrated both the Confederacy and the Klan together,” said Adam Domby, a historian at the College of Charleston and author of The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory. “The UDC marked anything and everything that didn’t move,” UNC-Charlotte’s Cox explained to me in an email: It was a way of ensuring that politicians around the country regularly paid homage to the Lost Cause. And during World War I, there were lots of new things that needed naming.
Nope. The only one raging here is you. That actual racists can now use this as a shield against BLM and efforts to tear down Confederate statues - well, that is why I/we think this was dumb.
You’re assuming things. I’m black, so please stop pretending you speak for every person of color. I definitely don’t need your lecture on racism or what black people should think.
She isn’t demanding anything. She’s responding to questions on events touching her municipality’s local history, and any mayor in the same situation would have responded similarly (or been a pretty useless major). What’s the point of making every innocuous comment about racism? There’s more than enough of it around, without the need to invent additional enemies.
jpinard
5726
Came here to say that. Pull hard enough and your hand is stuck in it.
