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

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Most people don't know about Rosewood

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosewood_massacre ...

Not far from you, billy.pilgrim.

Africatown (AL), A Small Historically Black Town Fighting a Billion Dollar Company That’s Devastating Its Community with Toxic Waste

Pulp mills are nasty, nasty, nasty. I lived near one for awhile.


Ben Carson Removes Anti-Discrimination Language From HUD Mission Statement

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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.)

The girl who organized the prom is here in Winnipeg this week to see it.

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.

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Our new $10 bill was unveiled today....

Way cool! What's up with the half pizza on each side? Nttawwt.

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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."

Canadians: "Deal!"

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In America people would die fighting over what kind of pizza it was . . . after we shutdown the child sex ring.

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Watch: Woman shouts 'get off your [expletive] knees' to Seahawks players after following them to facility

Update:
Seahawks players follow woman to her lily white church, shout "Get off your [expletive] knees!"

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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.

It turns out that that was a lie anyway.

Washington Post: How social media spread a historical lie

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(TX) Black woman gets 5 years for voting once; no charges for (NC) white woman who voted twice

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The only white actors in Black Panther are Martin Freeman, who played Bilbo Baggins, and Andy Serkis who played Gollum.

They're the Tolkien white guys.

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The only white actors in Black Panther are Martin Freeman, who played Bilbo Baggins, and Andy Serkis who played Gollum.

They're the Tolkien white guys.

They're also Ring-ers.


Nurse Who Said Stephon Clark "Deserved" To be Shot by Police is Fired From Job

Probably wouldn't have posted here, but love this comment:

Social media is the technological equivalent of Darwinism.

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To: Contact@fitnessintl.com
Subject: Tshyrad Oates

Re:

https://www.facebook.com/tshyrad.oates/ ... 5163119174

WATCH: Black man blocked from entering NJ gym where he’s a paid member — and even the cops are confused
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/watch- ... -confused/

Black Man Blocked From Entering a New Jersey Gym Where He's a Paid Member
If you thought the Starbucks incident was bad...
https://www.alternet.org/black-man-bloc ... aid-member

Congrats, your brand is now nationally known for its Secaucus, New Jersey racism and abuse of paid customers.

(real name and address)

[billy.pilgrim]

The only white actors in Black Panther are Martin Freeman, who played Bilbo Baggins, and Andy Serkis who played Gollum.

They're the Tolkien white guys.

They're also Ring-ers.


Nurse Who Said Stephon Clark "Deserved" To be Shot by Police is Fired From Job

Probably wouldn't have posted here, but love this comment:

Social media is the technological equivalent of Darwinism.

And the Comment of the Year Award goes to - "Social media is the technological equivalent of Darwinism"

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A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It.
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening Thursday in Montgomery, Ala., is dedicated to victims of white supremacy.

[billy.pilgrim]

A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It.
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening Thursday in Montgomery, Ala., is dedicated to victims of white supremacy.

Planning to go soon.

[billy.pilgrim]

Most people don't know about Rosewood

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosewood_massacre ...

Not far from you, billy.pilgrim.

Africatown (AL), A Small Historically Black Town Fighting a Billion Dollar Company That’s Devastating Its Community with Toxic Waste

Pulp mills are nasty, nasty, nasty. I lived near one for awhile.


Ben Carson Removes Anti-Discrimination Language From HUD Mission Statement

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


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

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Cable, internet and satellite TV companies should prevent channel switching, too.

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Air the Banned Episode of "Black-ish"

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.

Enough is enough: sign now to demand that ABC airs the canceled episode of Black-ish.

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Richmond school named after confederate general will be changed to Barack Obama Elementary

... The Richmond Public School Board voted 6-1 Monday to change the name of J.E.B Stuart Elementary School ...

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The Color of Law
A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

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....

(School) Segregation’s History Repeats Itself in North Carolina’s HB 514

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Papa John's Gets Badly Burned In Twitter War With DiGiorno

Pizza Hut counters Papa John's claim of NFL hurting pizza sales

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.

Papa John's Chairman John Schnatter resigns

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.