Race, lets make this serious! It is nearly 2013.

[billy.pilgrim]

Had she been black wouldn't there have been a big mugshot at the top of the story?

Idk, right-wingers say the same thing about White perps. Is that TV station racist? I can't find any mention of the incident on the PNJ or PPD websites. :confusion-scratchheadblue:

This one got a pic:

SRSO: Pensacola woman arrested after hitting man with car, driving with him on hood



Stand Your Asphalt. That would have been wild to watch.

We recently had a scared winger run into a protester and then drove across the 3.5 mile bridge with the guy clinging onto the hood by the mirror.
The victim caused damage to the mirror and was arrested. The scared driver was nothing.

[Vrede too]

We recently had a scared winger run into a protester and then drove across the 3.5 mile bridge with the guy clinging onto the hood by the mirror.
The victim caused damage to the mirror and was arrested. The scared driver was nothing.

06/07/2020 Protester carried on hood of SUV over Pensacola Bay Bridge speaks out

07/13: Pensacola protester carried across bridge invokes 'stand your ground' law

08/20: Charges dropped against Black Lives Matter protester carried across Pensacola Bay Bridge on SUV hood

But, no charges for the driver.

[Vrede too]

Trump appoints speechwriter fired for attending conference with white nationalists to commission that preserves Holocaust memorials

[Whack9]

We recently had a scared winger run into a protester and then drove across the 3.5 mile bridge with the guy clinging onto the hood by the mirror.
The victim caused damage to the mirror and was arrested. The scared driver was nothing.

06/07/2020 Protester carried on hood of SUV over Pensacola Bay Bridge speaks out

07/13: Pensacola protester carried across bridge invokes 'stand your ground' law

08/20: Charges dropped against Black Lives Matter protester carried across Pensacola Bay Bridge on SUV hood

But, no charges for the driver.

Certain people light up gleefully with hate and anger when they talk of running over protestors.

Even if someone broke into my home and tried to kill me and I shot and killed them in self defense, I think it would still seriously fuck with me having taken someone's life, even if completely justified.

[billy.pilgrim]

We recently had a scared winger run into a protester and then drove across the 3.5 mile bridge with the guy clinging onto the hood by the mirror.
The victim caused damage to the mirror and was arrested. The scared driver was nothing.

06/07/2020 Protester carried on hood of SUV over Pensacola Bay Bridge speaks out

07/13: Pensacola protester carried across bridge invokes 'stand your ground' law

08/20: Charges dropped against Black Lives Matter protester carried across Pensacola Bay Bridge on SUV hood

But, no charges for the driver.

Certain people light up gleefully with hate and anger when they talk of running over protestors.

Even if someone broke into my home and tried to kill me and I shot and killed them in self defense, I think it would still seriously fuck with me having taken someone's life, even if completely justified.

Bingo.

[Vrede too]

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One of the first residents of Africatown and one of the last victims of our slave trade.

https://www.thenation.com/article/zora- ... barracoon/

The Clotilda was found yesterday

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/cult ... n-alabama/

“110 young men, women, and children crowded into the schooner’s hold … 86 feet long with a 23-foot beam and a six-foot, 11-inch hold,“ plus crew.

25 people on a 150 foot ship and I would feel crowded.

60 Minutes
new episode
tonight, 7:30 PM ET (depending on football game) on CBS, 1 hr 2020
Season 53 • Episode 13 • Securing The Election; The Last Slave Ship; James Corden

Chris Krebs speaks to Scott Pelley in his first interview since his dismissal. The last known slave ship to bring enslaved Africans to America was recently discovered in an Alabama river. Anderson Cooper speaks with the descendants of those on board ...

[Vrede too]

I forget who, but some Black actor recently said that 80% of US cowboys were non-White. Idk his source but Wiki says that the majority of cowboys could have easily been Black, Mexican or American Indian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy#Ethnicity

Have you ever seen anything close to those proportions on TV or in film?

[billy.pilgrim]

I forget who, but some Black actor recently said that 80% of US cowboys were non-White. Idk his source but Wiki says that the majority of cowboys could have easily been Black, Mexican or American Indian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy#Ethnicity

Have you ever seen anything close to those proportions on TV or in film?

Wikipedia
"Census records suggest that about 15% of all cowboys were of African-American ancestry—ranging from about 25% on the trail drives out of Texas, to very few in the northwest. Similarly, cowboys of Mexican descent also averaged about 15% of the total, but were more common in Texas and the southwest. Some estimates suggest" much higher numbers than the more accurate Census.

[Vrede too]

Wikipedia
"Census records suggest that about 15% of all cowboys were of African-American ancestry—ranging from about 25% on the trail drives out of Texas, to very few in the northwest. Similarly, cowboys of Mexican descent also averaged about 15% of the total, but were more common in Texas and the southwest. Some estimates suggest" much higher numbers than the more accurate Census.

Yep, allowing for Wiki's caveats and adding in the American Indians that they don't put a figure to, it's possible that only a minority were White.

Whatever, no depictions that I'm aware of present there even being a large minority as being non-White. Some had tokens is all.

[O Really]

I think it may be because the Black wranglers took issue at being referred to as "boys."

[Vrede too]

White Male Conservatives Think They’re America’s Real Victims

Conservatives have officially become a sad group of angry, bitter, whining, radicalized, and mostly white men, who fear being made irrelevant by the inevitable demographic changes of America’s 21st century and as such now call themselves, wait for it, “victims.”

At his campaign rally in Georgia this weekend, President Trump assured his maskless followers, “We’re all victims. Everybody here, all these thousands of people here tonight, they’re all victims. Every one of you.”

What a stunning declaration of powerlessness, one that prompts the question: victims of who and what, Mr. President? I’m so glad you asked.

They are victims of the younger, more diverse America that rejected Trump and voted for Joe Biden. They are victims of their own white male aggrievement and resentment....

[neoplacebo]

That story could easily be sub titled "The Autobiography of Cat Fan and Peaceful Partier."

[GoCubsGo]

Thanks trump.

[Vrede too]

Thanks trump.

He's taking many others down with him.

Trump and GOP sued for breaching KKK act with ‘coordinated conspiracy to disenfranchise Black voters’
NAACP accuses president and his campaign of relying on ‘baseless, racist claims’ to overturn 2020 results

[Vrede too]

Trump supporters are increasingly isolated in their denial of systemic racism, according to new polling data

This is not an accident:

The man behind Trump’s campaign against 'critical race theory'

Federal judge blocks Trump's executive order banning some diversity trainings

... The executive order, which was passed on Sept. 22, barred agencies or companies receiving federal funding from participating in "offensive and anti-American race and sex stereotyping and scapegoating" trainings.

The executive order targeted trainings that use certain terms, including "critical race theory," "white privilege," and "unconscious bias."

"Plaintiffs have demonstrated a likelihood of success in proving violations of their constitutional rights," Freeman wrote, according to USA Today. "Moreover, as the government itself acknowledges, the work Plaintiffs perform is extremely important to historically underserved communities."

In October, The NAACP Legal Defense Fund filed a separate complaint in federal court in Washington, D.C., along with the National Urban League and the National Fair Housing Alliance.

More than 160 business and nonprofit groups, including dozens of state and city chambers of commerce as well as the US Chamber of Commerce, called on Trump to withdraw the order in September.

We can safely bet that Joe won't revive the EO.

[Vrede too]

A white supremacist coup succeeded in 1898 North Carolina, led by lying politicians and racist newspapers that amplified their lies

While experts debate whether the U.S. Capitol siege was an attempted coup, there is no debate that what happened in 1898 in Wilmington, North Carolina, was a coup – and its consequences were tragic.

These two events, separated by 122 years, share critical features. Each was organized and planned. Each was an effort to steal an election and disfranchise voters. Each was animated by white racist fears.

And each required the help of the media to be successful.

... few understand that the Wilmington coup, when white supremacists overthrew the city’s legitimately elected bi-racial government, could not have happened without the involvement of white news media. The same is true of the Capitol siege on Jan. 6, 2021.

The news media, it turns out, have often been key actors in U.S. electoral violence....

Then and now

Across the past four years, the overwhelmingly white right-wing news media spread lies that President Donald Trump and his allies churned out daily. Social media companies helped turn these lies into a contagion of mass delusion that radicalized a significant swath of the GOP base.

Since President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in November, Trump and his political and media allies have relentlessly pushed the massive lie that liberals stole the presidential election.

Like press involvement in the murderous events in Wilmington long ago, today’s media played an essential role in deluding and inciting supporters to violence in the attempt to steal an election.

“The past is never dead,” William Faulkner wrote. “It’s not even past.”

[neoplacebo]

How about that? And even now some "Americans" like Peaceful partier actually believe that trump does not lie. It just goes to show that even more than 120 years later, ignorance and gullibility are easily manipulated. Meanwhile, pp is still waiting on a lie....anybody got one?

[billy.pilgrim]

I can't help but think we're blaming the cow for walking out of the wide open barn.
For 50 years republicans have systematically disabled regulations that once attempted to keep these Big Lies out of the mainstream.
Much of this can be tied Roger Ailes deceptive republican infomercials produced for the Nixon administration and his near 20 year effort to establish fox news and his catchphrase Fair and Balanced.
fox (and the let's fear of being attacked by fox) is the foundation for all that has followed, from the same fear of trump,, to trump himself, to news max, to guns on the House floor, to endless hopes and prayers in place of legislation, to fracking, to oil wars for profit that have killed a million people, to storming the Capitol, and more.
The toothpaste can't go back in the tube. In the infamous words of the famous neo, "we're fucked"

[neoplacebo]

I can't help but think we're blaming the cow for walking out of the wide open barn.
For 50 years republicans have systematically disabled regulations that once attempted to keep these Big Lies out of the mainstream.
Much of this can be tied Roger Ailes deceptive republican infomercials produced for the Nixon administration and his near 20 year effort to establish fox news and his catchphrase Fair and Balanced.
fox (and the let's fear of being attacked by fox) is the foundation for all that has followed, from the same fear of trump,, to trump himself, to news max, to guns on the House floor, to endless hopes and prayers in place of legislation, to fracking, to oil wars for profit that have killed a million people, to storming the Capitol, and more.
The toothpaste can't go back in the tube. In the infamous words of the famous neo, "we're fucked"

I told you it was gonna come down....the war on terror only served to create more terrorists, Israel just last week announced the building of new settlements on stolen land, the war on drugs has caused untold physical and financial damage, a delusional nutjob of a president has been spewing lies to the stupid and gullible for five years........"baby, what did you expect? gonna burst into flames."

[Vrede too]

I can't help but think we're blaming the cow for walking out of the wide open barn.
For 50 years republicans have systematically disabled regulations that once attempted to keep these Big Lies out of the mainstream.
Much of this can be tied Roger Ailes deceptive republican infomercials produced for the Nixon administration and his near 20 year effort to establish fox news and his catchphrase Fair and Balanced.
fox (and the let's fear of being attacked by fox) is the foundation for all that has followed, from the same fear of trump,, to trump himself, to news max, to guns on the House floor, to endless hopes and prayers in place of legislation, to fracking, to oil wars for profit that have killed a million people, to storming the Capitol, and more.
The toothpaste can't go back in the tube. In the infamous words of the famous neo, "we're fucked"

I told you it was gonna come down....the war on terror only served to create more terrorists, Israel just last week announced the building of new settlements on stolen land, the war on drugs has caused untold physical and financial damage, a delusional nutjob of a president has been spewing lies to the stupid and gullible for five years........"baby, what did you expect? gonna burst into flames."

Charlottesville Inspired Biden to Run. Now It Has a Message for Him.


Aaliyah Jones, left, and Kenny Winston, both of Charlottesville, share a moment Monday, Aug. 12, 2019, at the memorial of their friend, Heather Heyer's death during the Unite the Right rally in 2017 in Charlottesville, Va.

Summary: Accountability, justice, then "unity".