"We’re asking to grow out of concrete because we don’t have the fertile soil"

We should preserve not destroy. //

A very interesting conundrum developed Tuesday when HBO Max decided to temporarily remove the 1939 classic cinematic masterpiece “Gone With the Wind” from its available offerings because the film depicts events that take place during the American South at a time when the region embraced slavery during and immediately following the Civil War.

That conundrum was this: if the film version of “Gone With the Wind” is forever memory-holed, then the accomplishment of Hattie McDaniel, who played Mammy to the very English Vivian Leigh’s Southern belle Scarlett O’Hara, would go down the memory hole as well. And that accomplishment is very much something we as a society would certainly hate to lose. Because McDaniel was the first African-American to win an Oscar. And we won’t even discuss the fact that she was a woman. //

Baseball1969
16 hours ago
Slavery was a European practice and was based on economics
Racism is a different issue. Slavery does not equal racism, if it did then blacks and native Americans would be guilty.
How many of you knew In 1830 there were 3,775 free black people who owned 12,740 black slaves? That’s before the civil war

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vangoghssister Baseball1969
14 hours ago
Not to mention the Africans who sold their brethren to the slave traders.

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Baseball1969 vangoghssister
14 hours ago
Yes. And most went to South America

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If we destroy the history of indignity we lose the reason for correcting historical and institutionalized racism.

There were 18 homicides in Chicago in one day, yet "there were no massive protests, and no white politicians wrapped in Kente cloth taking a knee for photographers."

By eliminating anything that can be questioned it prevents us from coming up with answers //

how are the problems being addressed by erasing these historical realities?

How are the problems cited today repaired by dredging up decades-old Halloween costumes, censoring movies that have long been released, and removing historical landmarks and renaming buildings to remove figures from the past, all because you cannot handle being triggered by supposed offenses? Avoiding the reality that these things happened and pretending the monuments did not exist does nothing to fix what are claimed to be serious problems today.

If you do not want to hear about what happened in the past you will not be able to have the needed conversations to come up with solutions going forward. Erasure Culture is abject denial. It will not provide the remedies that are being demanded.

One of the more heartbreaking things we’re witnessing in the current unrest is the inclination to silence certain aspects of the discussion on race and healing. The “silence is violence” crowd is ironically the worst offender, immediately stepping in to silence voices and points of view that don’t begin and end with getting white Americans out of the way and defunding the police. //

terry crews
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Jun 7
Defeating White supremacy without White people creates Black supremacy. Equality is the truth.

Like it or not, we are all in this together. //

Crews has always been vocal about his belief that the forgiveness and healing offered by God to all who ask is really the only thing that can keep us from destroying ourselves. He believes in equality as laid out in the Good Book – that all of us are created by a loving God who so desperately treasures each and every one of us that He did not rule man but became man. He made himself equal to us even though surely not one of us deserves to share the same status as Creator of the universe. As we say in the church…

But God…

But God… //

True equality requires that we all follow the example of our Lord…that we become each other. We can’t trade one type of superiority for another, and if anyone thinks that minority Americans are immune to feeling superior just because we don’t occupy the position of the majority they’re fooling themselves about human nature.

I loved what Crews expressed here. It doesn’t seem to be unreasonable in the least. We can’t erase white people from the equation of racial healing. That makes no sense. We all live in this country together. No one is leaving so get used to it. If we don’t tackle this problem together we will fall together.

terry crews
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Defeating White supremacy without White people creates Black supremacy. Equality is the truth.

Like it or not, we are all in this together.

When the diversity of color does not include the diversity of thought, the results can end up being disastrous and divisive due to playing the wrong card   The recent article by Kira Davis was eloquent. It was deep, brave, and needed. It made people think: there is a way to call out racism without calling for the “race card” – mythically used or validly | <a class="moretext" href="https://www.redstate.com/lenny_mcallister/2020/06/07/the-myth-and-missteps-with-the-magic-conservative-negro/">Read More »</a> //

UpLateAgain
an hour ago
The problem with your argument is that a major portion of the voting public is influenced not by actions or statistics but by sound bytes and bumper sticker slogans. Without 'The Magic Negro' speaking his piece, the ONLY sound out there is coming from the left. Kanye West's Oval Office visit did far more to raise black America's awareness of Trump's efforts on their behalf than the billions Trump is spending trying to improve opportunity. We need a LOT more of them. //

indylawyer
2 hours ago
We need to really emphasize the difference between government and private actions. Public policy should be concerned with how government treats people, and on that score we have had racial equality since the 1960's. Indeed, government has actually been discriminating against whites during that time by allowing and even operating 'affirmative action" programs while barring similar programs to benefit whites. But government is pretty limited in its ability to change how people relate to one another. It's been trying to eradicate "racist attitudes" for half a century, and that approach has at best been maxed out and is likely now exacerbating the problem by forcing a fixation on race that isn't healthy for anyone except race hustlers like Al Sharpton or David Duke.

'We don't want unity with leftist messages. We want someone willing to fight those leftist messages.' //

Brendan O’Neill, the editor of Spiked, published an op-ed last week entitled “I Did Not Kill George Floyd.” He wrote, “whiteness has become a kind of original sin, an inherited moral defect one must atone for throughout one’s life.”

O’Neill cited a quote from a Time Magazine contributor which said, “White people have inherited this house of white supremacy, built by their forebears and willed to them.”

The Chicago Tribune tells readers, “White America, if you want to know who’s responsible for racism, look in the mirror. White people, you are the problem.”

“Let’s be clear about what is happening here: this is an effort to establish racial collective guilt for the murderous suffocation of George Floyd,” says O’Neill.

Is this not racist in and of itself?

That's probably the right decision. //

These protestors hurt their own cause with these attempted shows of control. How? Because while there’s widespread agreement that there are bad cops and that the laws must be applied equally, regardless of union contracts and the like, this kind of behavior paints all police with a broad brush. Has this specific officer brutalized black people? Has he broken rules and regulations? Has he supported those that have? Why does he need to subjugate himself in this case? By generalizing all police like this, it causes divisions and harms any possible consensus towards change.

Demanding that people kneel before you before you’ll even have a “conversation,” as the protestor in this video does, is not operating in bad faith. It’s just inflaming tensions. //

If you really want change, stand up like a man, look them in the eye, and talk to them like a human being. Because despite those who’ve done wrong, you can’t lump everyone into the same boat any more than you can lump everyone of one race into the same boat as those that commit crimes. It’s not fair or right.

Riots and arson that followed protests of George Floyd's death have devastated organizations and businesses that serve communities of color. //

The riots and arson that followed protests of Floyd’s death have devastated organizations and businesses that serve communities of color. Destruction from the south side’s Lake Street to West Broadway Avenue in north Minneapolis has hit immigrant- and minority-owned businesses already struggling amid the pandemic-induced shutdown.

Now, ethnically diverse neighborhoods are grappling with the loss of jobs, services, and investments.

Riots may excite the keyboard revolutionary, but they won’t bring racial equality. The opposite, in fact. Not only are the anarchists who burn and loot stores subjecting many of their neighbors to a dehumanizing experience, they are destroying poor and minority neighborhoods.

Big businesses might be able to afford to fix the smashed windows and ransacked supply room, but family-owned ones are going to struggle.

Chain stores have insurance, but the individuals and smaller manufacturers who depend on them for their livelihoods also are threatened.

The big stores themselves will be paying higher insurance rates, and some of them may decide to never come back to these poorer neighborhoods.

We are heartbroken and dismayed by the events of the past several weeks, most recently the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent demonstrations and unrest we are seeing across the United States. George Floyd’s death is not an isolated event and has left too many of our friends and colleagues, particularly African Americans, continuing to fear for their own safety. As a community, many of us are angry and struggling to understand how to move forward together.

After Rush Limbaugh aired "The Breakfast Club" segment, a female caller offered her definition of white privilege; he called it "brilliant." //

What is important in this continuing debate is not each “side” getting in its talking points but listening to how the other reached the conclusions that created their worldview.

Saying things that only reinforce one’s stereotypes and ideology doesn’t solve the problem, and who doubts there is a problem?

I have written this before, even recently, but the main problem is not only racism. It is that we don’t know each other. //

After “The Breakfast Club” segment was played on Limbaugh’s program, a woman caller offered her definition of white privilege. She said it came from how the country was founded, reserving economic and political power for white, land-owning men.

Some will be surprised that Limbaugh seemed to agree with her. He called her summation “brilliant.” More of us need to have these conversations and not be so eager to get in our talking points. We should speak less and listen more.

Perspective is everything but too many places have none

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas faced down a 'high-tech lynching' by the same people who now claim to be America's arbiters of racial justice. //

The documentary shows a few of the slurs prominent people and publications have applied to Thomas that would be furiously lambasted as racist if applied to someone with different philosophical commitments. Apparently racism only matters to the people who control culture if it can be used as a political weapon against their opponents. It is therefore permitted to live and even fed, precisely because it is useful to its keepers, rather than rejected equally by all. //

Thomas’s story doesn’t end there, though, because he is not an asterisk. His monumental body of constitutional scholarship vindicates his mind, and God Almighty vindicates his soul. As a reflection of those graces, perhaps, while he has every reason to be vindictive and bitter, Clarence Thomas has chosen not to be. Instead, he is grateful, effective, and joyful. //

Thomas’s honorable discharge of his duties regardless of the suffering they have brought doesn’t erase the sins committed against him, but it does redeem them. It transforms a stepping stone to glory into a stumbling block of shame. This is the American story. It is Thomas’s story. It can also be yours.