Tag: Racial Bias

Ferguson: Media Has A New Obsession

Most credible news organizations have just about exhausted all avenues of the Clinton e-mail scandal……..they have been pushing the bounds of good reporting to stay on the trail of the story……but now they can let out a sigh of relief and fixate once again…..

Two officers were shot in front of the Ferguson Police Department shortly after midnight as protesters gathered following the resignation of the city’s embattled police chief, a spokesman for the county police department says. Their conditions are unknown and no further details are immediately available, the spokesman says. The shots were fired as what had earlier been a crowd of about 150 people had begun to dwindle, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Some protesters fell to the ground and others ran. A huge police presence, including officers in riot gear, later surrounded the department.

I could turn this into a 2000 word diatribe but……why?

This is all the info that is available at this time……

Breaking News You Will Hear Little About

The media gives us car chases in LA…..or a winter snowstorm……but when it comes to violence committed against Muslims there seems to be little interest in the act…….or that it is newsworthy……why?

I got this cartoon about the murders of 3 Muslims in Chapel Hill, NC…….

The question that needs asking is why is this murder less important than a person Jenner hit with a car?

 

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Do white people really know how to have more than one black friend? | Rebecca Carroll | Comment is free | theguardian.com

Thanx to the tragic death of Michael brown the country is having that awkward race conversation.  Don’t get me wrong I believe we have needed an honest conversation on race for decades and so far all we have done is talk and the crap still carries on and on……

News media has 3 white guys debating race….kinda like 3 men debating birth control…….we Americans truly want to have this conversation but none of us know how to have it……where to start……

I read a piece in the UK’s Guardian and thought it asked some interesting questions…I think we all need to read it…….and please let me know what you think……

 

Do white people really know how to have more than one black friend? | Rebecca Carroll | Comment is free | theguardian.com.

Saharan remains may be evidence of first race war, 13,000 years ago

My final day of calm……after witnessing the occurrences in Ferguson I realize that the race issue in the US still has not been resolved.  Race has been an issue in the US for decades and we still have not resolved the problem………even though the conversation is not happening and then ask how long can this go on?

Then read this and realized that race and the problems of racial integration have been around a lot longer than a few decades……

 

Saharan remains may be evidence of first race war, 13,000 years ago.

The New South…..Really?

I live in what th3e media and most pundits want to call “The New South”…..meaning somehow it has changed from the days of segregation and poll taxes………maybe on the surface we could make a case that the South is changing, but at its core it is not much different than 1959……..yes, more blacks are attending traditionally white schools and there are more lawmakers that are black….but what about at the heart of the society?

This will give you an idea of what the “heart” of Dixie is thinking…..

Newser) – We’re now well into 2013—but don’t tell that to the citizens of Rochelle, Ga., who prefer to party like it’s 1949 at racially segregated proms and homecoming dances. Four students at Wilcox County High School are now attempting to fight back against their town’s “embarrassing” tradition by organizing their own integrated prom, reports CBS Atlanta. But not all of their classmates are so open-minded. “I actually put up posters for the integrated prom and we’ve had people ripping them down at the school,” says one of the students.

The high school itself does not organize the dances, so it’s technically legal for students and parents to organize separate black- and white-only proms. The school finally abolished racially segregated courts for the first time at this year’s homecoming, but there were still two dances. A black student, one of the integrated prom organizers, was elected queen, but attended a different dance than her king, and separate photos were taken for the yearbook. “I felt like there had to be a change,” she said. “Because for me to be a black person and the king to be a white person, I felt like, you know why can’t we come together?”

I always tell people that sk me about visiting the South the one thing they need to keep paramount in the their mind…….when crossing intpo the “New South” remember to set your watches back 150 years and all will be alright…….

Will We Ever Enter The 21st Century?

From the VOMITORIUM

I live in the cultural wasteland known as Mississippi and I have been critical of just about everything in the state, especially the government and its leader Haley Barbour…..but there are other things in the state that just does not hint that it will ever enter the 21st century……..I like to say when you cross into Mississippi there is a sign that states, “Now entering Mississippi…..Set your watch back 150 years”……

The Dems lost Mississippi with the approval of the Civil Rights Act and it has NEVER come back and it most likely NEVER will….for you see racism is still a driving force in the state….

In the past, it was illegal to have more than one illegitimate child and until recently it was illegal to be in a mixed marriage…just to name a few of the laws we have had to deal with in the past….in a recent poll, Mississippi was named the Most Conservative state in the Union……and most of the polling indicates that racism is NOT dead in the state……of course, they all try to hide it with things like, “I have many friends who are black”….this one is used lots and is a key word and phrase when you hear anyone talking about race……

And since Mississippi has the title of Most Conservative I found a poll along those lines on the blog of Jonathan Turley, a constitutional professor….

A poll released this week shows that 46% percent of Mississippi Republicans believe that interracial marriage should be illegal. That staggering number is accompanied by only 40% who believe that adults should be free to marry who they want. This poll just happens to come out on the anniversary of the argument in Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), where the Supreme Court in a 9-0 vote struck down Virginia’s anti-miscegenation statute.

The poll means that one out of two Mississippi Republicans want to return to the pre-Loving status where (under Pace v. Alabama (1883)) couples could be thrown into jail for marrying outside of their race. In the case of Mildred Loving and Richard Perry Loving, Virginia police raid their home in an effort to find them in a sexual act to bring a criminal charge but quickly changed the charge when shown a marriage license of Washington, D.C. They were charged under Section 20-58 of the Virginia Code, which prohibited interracial couples from being married out of state and then returning to Virginia as well as the miscegenation provision under Section 20-59. After they pleaded guilty, Judge Leon M. Bazile handed down a one-year sentence (suspended for 25 years on condition that the couple leave the state of Virginia) with these infamous words:

“Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.”

So, if you think you have it bad where you live….then think back to this post and realize you may not have it so bad after all……..

2011 Anal-Ocity #16

It is good to know that not all anal crap flows from the mouths of Americans…..this one is from the mouth of a Brazilian politician……Congressman Jair Bolsonaro….when being interviewed on a national radio show, he was asked how he would feel if his daughter were to fall in love with a black man…….his response…..

“I don’t run that risk,” the Bolsonaro said. “My children were very well educated and they don’t live in the sort of environment that, sadly, you do.”

You guessed it…Bolsonaro is a white guy!  See!  Idiots come in all flavors and nationalities…….you think this guy could possibly a sort of….RACIST?

The South Does It Again!

In the last election that brought Obama to the forefront of the world, his opponent Sen McCain did poorly throughout the country with the exception of the South, where the vote was divided down racial lines.

Back then it was analyzed to death but few really talked about it a a race issue, more like that Obama was too liberal for the mostly conservative South…..made good press but it was total BS!

I wrote about it then and was laughed at, but I said then and I say now that it was because Obama was an African-American had little to do with his liberal views.  The tale going around now is that the Repubs are a party of rural whites, mostly in the South…that is accurate.

But all that is old news…..but there is some more evidence of the racists in the South.  I live in the South and I can say that my intervbiews and analysis has shown that racism is NOT dead in the South.

As I have said there is more evidence of it…..the Birthers have jumped all over the citizenship thing, but beyond that the place that it has gotten the most traction is….you guessed it…the South.

A poll recently taken on whether the Birthers haver it right found that 23% said they believed he is not a citizen and 30% say thay do not know for sure.  That is 58% of the people either say no or they are not sure.  Of the other regions polled the South had the largest percentage that answered in the two ways.

I did not see a breakdown by age but if I had to guess I would saw that the people in the older brackets are the ones that say no or not sure.  This group, at least where I live, still hold the blacks as they were in the 50’s and early 60’s.

Racism is NOT dead in the South, the bigots just find  ways to talk about it without sounding like a racist….but a racist by any other name is still a……RACIST!