2023 Thread of Racism in America

[bolverk 29415]

I kind of resent my hometown being on that map, not that it doesn't have a racist past, which I'm sure it did. They say a sundown sign existed before World War II that was taken down when an air force base was opened up for the war (according to oral reports), but there are no public records of it, and I've never heard of it. That's not to say there wasn't, but there's no proof. Moreover, Census data show that the community's Black population grew during the Great Depression while the overall population contracted. I guess if there had been a sign, it was wholly ineffective.

Further, I've always been a bit proud that it was the first school district to desegregate its schools in 1954 after the Texas Supreme Court determined that the state government could not withhold funding if they desegregated. After the decision was rendered, they immediately desegregated. Given that, I'd say the community wasn't nearly as backward and racist as would be assumed by being on that map.

I'm probably being too sensitive about it, but this kind of shit goes viral without people actually exploring the evidence, which is scant in this case. If there were oral reports, publish them. This should especially be the case since it's on a website with a .edu.

[TheStoicPaisano 9904]

 

[Macanudo 12929]

The comments are, well, to be expected.

[NWBuck 8548]

8 hours ago, Jiggy-Z said:

Man. Illinois and Indiana lighting it up.  I guess the deep south had " other means".

Interesting that the northeast Indiana, northwest Ohio, southwest Michigan quadrant is a region filled with evangelical colleges. 

Either Jesus just wasn't able to work there, or (more likely) the same culture in that region led to the need for denominational separation and for racial segregation. 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13417]

12 hours ago, NWBuck said:

Interesting that the northeast Indiana, northwest Ohio, southwest Michigan quadrant is a region filled with evangelical colleges. 

Either Jesus just wasn't able to work there, or (more likely) the same culture in that region led to the need for denominational separation and for racial segregation. 

A belief in Jesus doesn’t mean that you’re a good person. And it doesn’t mean you’re not. If you’re outspoken about your beliefs, it just indicates what you think about yourself.

[Brisketexan 104688]

27 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

If you’re outspoken about your beliefs, it just indicates what you think about yourself.

QFT.  Especially as it relates to religion.

The most effective demonstrations of faith are acts of living that faith.  That's the hard part, by the way.

[Sawbonz 27445]

Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds

[Satchel 6908]

Follow the sanctimony. The more sanctimonious one is, the less Christian they most likely are.

[hookem2010 2600]

On 6/13/2024 at 3:36 PM, mdmost said:

In case anyone would like to hear more about Christian Cooper, he was featured in an episode of Fresh Air on NPR that came out last year.

https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/2023/06/29/1185048791/fresh-air-for-june-29-2023-birder-christian-cooper

He's about as close to a celebrity as us birders have. Great to see him continuing to make something so incredible out of a horrible incident. 

[TheStoicPaisano 9904]

 

[4th&Five 41461]

Not weird at all. 

[Disco Strangler 1865]

More like Kevin Weirdo, amirght?

[YGIFS 19449]

51 minutes ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

 

Wow, Sorbo's 23&Me competitor startup seems overly offensive.  

"Uh, Mr. Sorbo.  Using the swab DNA test, her dad's half has a trace amount of Taino Indian and British blood, but 49% of it is Jamaican black given the slave trades through there centuries ago.  So genetically, she's half-Black.  And culturally, she was raised partially in her mother's Indian heritage, but for the most part has lived life since her teenage years as a Black Female.  And again, the DNA backs that up.  So what's your new alternative to these types of empirical tests and family history?"

Kevin, "She has to say the N-word on live television!  That beats all 23&Me testing!" 

"But sir, what would that accomplish?  It doesn't negate her background or her blood."

Kevin, "Don't care!  N-Word!  Network TV.  Hard-R at the end!  That's my test!"  

da fuh with this guy? 

 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13417]

I heard an interesting take on "DEI hire" that I hadn't previously heard expressed so I wanted to share.

When someone calls Kamala, a DEI hire, they're calling her the n-word without saying the n-word. "DEI hire" has replaced it as an acceptable word in groups where they would feel rightfully uncomfortable saying the n-word. When you hear someone saying DEI hire, realize what they're really saying. And feel free to educate them on what they're really saying, and ask them to stop it.

Obviously, "DEI hire" can be used for other racist slurs as well.

[Jiggy-Z 3432]

28 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I heard an interesting take on "DEI hire" that I hadn't previously heard expressed so I wanted to share.

When someone calls Kamala, a DEI hire, they're calling her the n-word without saying the n-word. "DEI hire" has replaced it as an acceptable word in groups where they would feel rightfully uncomfortable saying the n-word. When you hear someone saying DEI hire, realize what they're really saying. And feel free to educate them on what they're really saying, and ask them to stop it.

Obviously, "DEI hire" can be used for other racist slurs as well.

 . . .and it's easier to say and write than "affirmative action"...and is fresher than "woke", which is just sooooooo 2020.

[Satchel 6908]

 

[WhatTheBuck 28718]

2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I heard an interesting take on "DEI hire" that I hadn't previously heard expressed so I wanted to share.

When someone calls Kamala, a DEI hire, they're calling her the n-word without saying the n-word. "DEI hire" has replaced it as an acceptable word in groups where they would feel rightfully uncomfortable saying the n-word. When you hear someone saying DEI hire, realize what they're really saying. And feel free to educate them on what they're really saying, and ask them to stop it.

Obviously, "DEI hire" can be used for other racist slurs as well.

Lulz. Way to crack the code, Sherlock. 

[BrazilHorn 6577]

3 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I heard an interesting take on "DEI hire" that I hadn't previously heard expressed so I wanted to share.

When someone calls Kamala, a DEI hire, they're calling her the n-word without saying the n-word. "DEI hire" has replaced it as an acceptable word in groups where they would feel rightfully uncomfortable saying the n-word. When you hear someone saying DEI hire, realize what they're really saying. And feel free to educate them on what they're really saying, and ask them to stop it.

Obviously, "DEI hire" can be used for other racist slurs as well.

Also is they say a black person is “articulate” or “well spoken “ they are usually being racist. 
 

Trying to add to your indirect racism decoder ring. 

[softlynow 1786]

3 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I heard an interesting take on "DEI hire" that I hadn't previously heard expressed so I wanted to share.

When someone calls Kamala, a DEI hire, they're calling her the n-word without saying the n-word. "DEI hire" has replaced it as an acceptable word in groups where they would feel rightfully uncomfortable saying the n-word. When you hear someone saying DEI hire, realize what they're really saying. And feel free to educate them on what they're really saying, and ask them to stop it.

Obviously, "DEI hire" can be used for other racist slurs as well.

They posted a list of their racial code words on twitter in 2021, but it was deleted quickly:

 

Anytime you hear these phrases from our Confederate flag waving neighbors, and their fellow-travellers, they're saying the hard-r in their head and to their comrades. Notice that DEI is there in #2 but not yet in the order we know. In 2021 the n-word was still primarily spelled C-R-T. Not on the list is the one CRT had just replaced as the dog whistle du jour, "All Lives Matter."

[UTCzech III 2902]

Friend of a friend got this in her mailbox this afternoon, out in Fairchilds south of Rosenberg (and near Needville, so it fits…)

 

[WhatTheBuck 28718]

Probably too late to check it for finger prints. 

[Brisketexan 104688]

3 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Probably too late to check it for finger prints. 

I like that it was put in a bag of rice, like a second gen iphone that got wet.  That's just good thinking right there.

[UTCzech III 2902]

25 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

I like that it was put in a bag of rice, like a second gen iphone that got wet.  That's just good thinking right there.

WHITE rice

[Longhorn_Fan68 33850]

14 hours ago, UTCzech III said:

Friend of a friend got this in her mailbox this afternoon, out in Fairchilds south of Rosenberg (and near Needville, so it fits…)

 

I'm glad they gave us an X and Y axis measurement. I wouldn't have been able to make sense of it otherwise. 🤣

[tx 3 putt 76423]

 

[DigglerontheHoof 21075]

6 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

Give me 5 minutes in a ring with that piece of shit....please. 

[Nivek 16866]

2 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

 I am shocked they are pieces of shit associated with right wingers.  Shocked.

[Longhorn_Fan68 33850]

nm

Edited September 5 by Longhorn_Fan68

[naija 2854]

with affirmative action now gone, I'm genuinely curious what the experience is going to be now for Black kids in the upper echelon colleges. Before, it was broadly just assumed that you were there for that reason alone or close to it... now, I know mentally, there will still be the belief that one doesn't belong, but I wonder what the logical steps for that one will be.

[mdmost 42869]

1 hour ago, naija said:

with affirmative action now gone, I'm genuinely curious what the experience is going to be now for Black kids in the upper echelon colleges. Before, it was broadly just assumed that you were there for that reason alone or close to it... now, I know mentally, there will still be the belief that one doesn't belong, but I wonder what the logical steps for that one will be.

I saw that at least for Yale, the amount of AA acceptance stayed the same. Asian acceptances went down which is fairly ironic since I believe the lawsuit that ended things was brought by Asian applicants. I'm sure legacy admissions were unchanged.

 

[naija 2854]

33 minutes ago, mdmost said:

I saw that at least for Yale, the amount of AA acceptance stayed the same. Asian acceptances went down which is fairly ironic since I believe the lawsuit that ended things was brought by Asian applicants. I'm sure legacy admissions were unchanged.

 

yeah, that was Yale. AA enrollment went down elsewhere.

[Satchel 6908]

Yale has a higher percent of black students enrolled than any public university in Texas - which is home to the more black people than any other state. Now you understand why DEI is such a threat in Texas. 

[Nivek 16866]

10 hours ago, Satchel said:

Yale has a higher percent of black students enrolled than any public university in Texas - which is home to the more black people than any other state. Now you understand why DEI is such a threat in Texas. 

Isn't Texas Southern public?

[Pancho 44509]

10 hours ago, Satchel said:

Yale has a higher percent of black students enrolled than any public university in Texas - which is home to the more black people than any other state. Now you understand why DEI is such a threat in Texas. 

 

I’m going assume you mean any public PWI in Texas…