Race

[Jaw]

you obviously did not read the article because if you had you would understand the quote was from the 1870's

b) this week a shooter shot 8 people in Cherokee County. The Sheriffs department initially bent over backwards (ala Dylan Roof) making excuses for the shooter.
Last week would also have been Breeona Tayor's 27th birthday.

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Denying 21st century racial injustice is willful ignorance
y'all can do better

If you think this is bad, you really don't want to look at weekly homicide stats from Chicago.

[Jaw]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/li...ghan-character

The midseason series 'United States of Al' is coming under fire, and an executive producer has tweeted a staunch defense.

The uproar was seemingly sparked by the show's official trailer, which first debuted online a couple weeks ago, but ignited a controversy that had Lorre trending over the weekend. The show is framed as a warm-hearted comedy about the friendship between a Marine combat veteran (Parker Young) struggling to readjust to civilian life in Ohio, and his Afghan interpreter, Awalmir (Adhir Kalyan), who served with his unit and has just arrived to start a new life in America.

Some have slammed the show as being offensive, such as Qasim Rashid, a human rights lawyer, author and a former candidate for Congress, who tweeted, "This is so ridiculous and offensive I don't have the words to express just how terribly bad this is on every conceivable level."

Writer Rekha Shankar tweeted, "Can someone tell Chuck Lorre that 'what if a white person liked a brown person' is not a tv show concept."

I don't see anything wrong with this trailer. Seems like most other sitcoms, more of less.

Didn't he do the same thing with the Indian guy in Big Bang Theory?

[striker42]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/li...ghan-character

The midseason series 'United States of Al' is coming under fire, and an executive producer has tweeted a staunch defense.

The uproar was seemingly sparked by the show's official trailer, which first debuted online a couple weeks ago, but ignited a controversy that had Lorre trending over the weekend. The show is framed as a warm-hearted comedy about the friendship between a Marine combat veteran (Parker Young) struggling to readjust to civilian life in Ohio, and his Afghan interpreter, Awalmir (Adhir Kalyan), who served with his unit and has just arrived to start a new life in America.

Some have slammed the show as being offensive, such as Qasim Rashid, a human rights lawyer, author and a former candidate for Congress, who tweeted, "This is so ridiculous and offensive I don't have the words to express just how terribly bad this is on every conceivable level."

Writer Rekha Shankar tweeted, "Can someone tell Chuck Lorre that 'what if a white person liked a brown person' is not a tv show concept."

I don't see anything wrong with this trailer. Seems like most other sitcoms, more of less.

I'm getting Perfect Strangers vibes from this.

[thethe]

Damn white supremacists.

[mqt]

Damn white supremacists.

I know there are some particularly loony theories on racism when it comes to non-white people, but do you think anybody here actually thinks the only cause to this is white supremacy?

[thethe]

I know there are some particularly loony theories on racism when it comes to non-white people, but do you think anybody here actually thinks the only cause to this is white supremacy?

When you see the left discuss anti Asian bigotry they couple it with white supremacy. Just responding to those claims since it’s clear who is actually committing violence against Asian Americans.

[Tapate50]

I don’t know about other areas but around here the Hispanic folks and African Americans don’t get violent with each other per se, but it’s a well known fact they don’t like each other and choose not to live near each other

[nsacpi]

The Evanston City Council approved the first phase of reparations to acknowledge the harm caused by discriminatory housing policies, practices and inaction going back more than a century. The 8-to-1 vote will initially make $400,000 available in $25,000 homeownership and improvement grants, as well as in mortgage assistance for Black residents, primarily those can show they are direct descendants of individuals who lived in the city between 1919 and 1969 and suffered from such discrimination.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...915_story.html

[Jaw]

[thethe]

Statistics are real and they tell stories that we shouldn’t just pretend aren’t truths.

[goldfly]

Statistics are real and they tell stories that we shouldn’t just pretend aren’t truths.

lol

[nsacpi]

btw i don't remember where i read this (or maybe i am completely misremembering one of those alternate facts) i believe i read somewhere that the best predictor of a child's academic success was the number of books in the house, not parents' income or educational attainment

[sturg33]

Regressive backwards looking people

[sturg33]

Regressive racist tyrants dominating our public discourse

[Tapate50]

Should probably put VP Harris family members tweets here too

[Jaw]

Regressive racist tyrants dominating our public discourse

She is literally one of the stupidest people I've ever read. That anyone, much less a formerly great news outlet, could put her in charge of writing anything beyond her name or food orders is shocking.

[Jaw]

btw i don't remember where i read this (or maybe i am completely misremembering one of those alternate facts) i believe i read somewhere that the best predictor of a child's academic success was the number of books in the house, not parents' income or educational attainment

Seems to be tied to culture, as I suspect we all suspected. I guess Nicole Hannah Jones would say that makes studying an act of whiteness.

[Tapate50]

People love to cry victim.

[nsacpi]

Seems to be tied to culture, as I suspect we all suspected. I guess Nicole Hannah Jones would say that makes studying an act of whiteness.

In looking at the issue of intergenerational poverty in certain communities, all of the above is the box to check. To say we need to make it easier for people to escape poverty is not to say that values like individual responsibility, work ethic and good study habits are unimportant.

[thethe]

In looking at the issue of intergenerational poverty in certain communities, all of the above is the box to check. To say we need to make it easier for people to escape poverty is not to say that values like individual responsibility, work ethic and good study habits are unimportant.

I’m just not sure what else can be done.

We have welfare systems.

We have schools ready to write blank checks to minorities with reasonable achievement.

We have companies BEGGING to hire minorities.

What else are you suggesting exactly?