Stinger wrote:Article in Think Progress about a school in Georgia that still has segregated proms ... in the fucking 21st century. Think Progress
A follow-up on that story:
They held their first non-segregated prom. The prom dress from one of the girls is now in the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights which opened here in Winnipeg a couple months ago:
(You try building something straight when it's 40 below.)
Our new $10 bill was unveiled today. The Human Rights Museum is on the back.
On the front there's Viola Desmond. Think Rosa Parks, but in a theatre rather than on a bus. The 1946 incident led in part to segregation ending in 1954.
Way cool! What's up with the half pizza on each side? Nttawwt.
It only takes one person to say "We should honor pizza on our currency." Few Canadians would disagree, and at that point we're pretty much stuck with it.
Government: "OK, but only one."
Canadians: "On each side!"
Government: "Just one. But we can put half on each side."
Republicans like to declare that the KKK was closely associated with Democrats in the first half of the last century. As whataboutism for their party having ties today.
ABC barred “Black-ish” from airing an episode about Black NFL players’ #TakeTheKnee movement while greenlighting Roseanne Barr’s Trump-centered television show-- despite warnings about Roseanne’s history of racism and Islamophobia. Now, “Roseanne” has been canceled after mass outrage, and ABC is patting themselves on the back for taking the show off the air--even though they still won’t let the protest-centered “Black-ish” episode air. It’s clear that the network has chosen a side—they were happily signing checks for a Trump supporter who trades in bigotry while suppressing nuanced discussion of one of the most urgent issues of our day.
In The Color of Law (published by Liveright in May 2017), Richard Rothstein argues with exacting precision and fascinating insight how segregation in America—the incessant kind that continues to dog our major cities and has contributed to so much recent social strife—is the byproduct of explicit government policies at the local, state, and federal levels....
The wife makes all manner of yeast and sour dough breads (I make the quick breads and biscuits), including pizza dough, but we did pick up the two medium, two topping special last night at pizza hut.
I tend to wear any pizza I eat, so for that reason my personal rule is to eat pizza only in NY/NJ and then only from a local shop where nobody speaks English very well. So that sorta kills my ability to be a political pizza purchaser. But if I were, I'd have refused to by Papa John's back when he whined about having to sponsor a health insurance plan for his serfs - uh employees - and trying to turn the customer against it by saying he'd raise the price of pizza 15 cents or so. Asshole.