Ignorance Is Strength

The topic at hand is the removal of the plaques in Philadelphia acknowledging Washingtons slaves.
could as well be the acknowledgement of any of Trumps attempts to remove any hint of African accomplishment in any other walk of life.

Ever been to Ellis Island ?

"Federal agencies have worked to comply with Trump-led attacks on African American contributions.

Earlier this year, the National Park Service briefly altered its Underground Railroad webpage to minimize the role of Harriet Tubman before restoring it under public pressure. The Department of Defense removed, then reinstated, information about baseball legend Jackie Robinson’s military service and the Medal of Honor earned by Maj. Gen. Charles C. Rogers, one of the highest-ranking Black servicemembers in Vietnam. "

We could also mention directives aimed toward the Smithsonian.
Where the fear is Black school children look at history and only see the heroics of "White Americans"
and none that resemble their family
 
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Even baseball great Jackie Robinson isn’t safe from getting labeled “DEI.”
The military history of Robinson — who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947 after serving as a second lieutenant in the Army as a younger man — was wiped off a Department of Defense website as the Trump administration works to eliminate anything it considers “diversity, equity and inclusion.”
The Pentagon has removed thousands of pages documenting the history of people of color, LGBTQ people, women and others from marginalized backgrounds and their contributions to the U.S. military. Among the targets? The Tuskegee Airmen, the Enola Gay aircraft (because it contains the word “gay”) the Navajo Code Talkers, prominent female fighter pilots and the Marines at the Battle of Iwo Jima. (In response to public outcry, a number of the pages have been reinstated.)


The crackdown on so-called DEI content isn’t limited to the Department of Defense; last month, references to transgender people were removed from a National Park Service website for the Stonewall National Monument, a park and visitor center in New York that commemorates a 1969 riot that was a major turning point for the LGBTQ+ rights movement. The “T” is still missing from the website today.
President Donald Trump has called DEI initiatives “immoral discrimination programs.” Apparently, a page featuring Robinson published in February 2021 as part of a series on the website titled “Sports Heroes Who Served,” fit that bill.

The Pentagon restored most of the deleted Robinson pages by Wednesday night while claiming it was acting in the name of colorblindness.
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“Everyone at the Defense Department loves Jackie Robinson, as well as the Navajo Code Talkers, the Tuskegee airmen, the Marines at Iwo Jima and so many others – we salute them for their strong and in many cases heroic service to our country, full stop,” Pentagon press secretary John Ullyot told HuffPost.
“We do not view or highlight them through the prism of immutable characteristics, such as race, ethnicity, or sex,” he added. “We do so only by recognizing their patriotism and dedication to the warfighting mission like [every] other American who has worn the uniform.”

Removing websites “is about power over which histories are remembered.”​

Christina L. Myers, an assistant professor in the School of Journalism at Michigan State University, finds the removal of Robinson’s contributions troubling, even if the DOD was quick to put the web pages back up.
 
sturg33 said:
I would like for you to explain in your own words how black Americans are systemically disadvantaged today
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You agree that at one time they were systemically disadvantaged though right? When exactly did that change? Many of the problems now are directly related to the systemic discrimination in the past. The black community of the 60's compared to even the 90's is night and day, I agree there are serious problems within black culture but its the direct result of bad policy that did systemically discriminate against them. In the 1930's the head of the commission of marijuana prohibition said it needed to be illegal because it makes white women sleep with black men. Yet here we are more than 100 years later and its still illegal technically largely because its a weapon to be used against the black community., Its no conincidence that the states that are stereotypically considered the most racist have the harshest marijuana policies. It would probably pass in those states if up for a vote like most states do but thats why they wont even let it come up for a vote. They are so red that theres little chance of a Democrat ever getting enough power to decriminalize and they refuse to let votes decide the issue directly specifically because they know it might pass. So we have southern states who have a history of being he most racist states. They hold one issue that predominately negatively impacts black people from getting a vote specifically because they are scared it will pass. And you are telling me there is no systemic racism today?


The degradation of the black community can be directly tied to the war on drugs. They tried to fix a drug issue with incarceration and it made the drug trade highly lucrative breeding gans and violence. The solving of actual crimes with a victim fell like a rock because theres no money in catching a rapist. Their strategy to combating crime was to oversaturate power neighborhoods and enforce every minor infraction on everyone they could to sniff for drugs. The cops dont understand that when they pull over a law abiding citizen for only using his blinker 90 feet before switching lanes, handcuff him for an hour while they search his car, then write him a ticket that costs half of what he made that day that they arent going to feel like they are keeping them safe. To them it feels like they have to worry about dodging both the police and the criminals.
 
So at worst they were scrubbed by an AI program and replaced by actual people !

Oh no the horrors !

Will it ever end !

57 you see what you want to see
 
My family is commemorated in a small way at Ellis Island.
Dont fuck with that.

So i get that outrage and ...

I live 5 miles from the Jackie Robinson birthplace. Local families take their children to see and celebrate that.

People still flock to Plymouth, Massachusetts by the bus load
 
It is rather amazing. Blacks are significantly worse off today than they were prior to the Civil rights era. And you can blame the federal government for subsidizing them into infinite poverty
 
I think the ChatGPT answer is better. Just putting on my grading hat. There are probably factors beyond the ones you mentioned (fatherless homes, poverty) that affect incarceration rates. Makes inference about causality tricky.

Having said that my a priori expectation is that it comes down to socialization. Quality of parenting matters there. On balance, having a father present improves quality of parenting. The average "present" father is better than not having one present. Though some fathers are best absent.

Both Gemini and ChatGPT would probably give you a pretty good overview of the literature. There are studies that try to control for confounding variables and endogeneity.
 
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Jon Ossoff on 2020: “Trump didn’t just lose Georgia. He lost Arizona. He lost Michigan. He lost Nevada. He lost Pennsylvania. He lost Wisconsin. And then tried to cling to power. He sent them to Fulton County to seize your ballots on a pack of lies. Now why Fulton? For the same reason this President posts videos that depict the Obamas as apes. See that the power of black voters ejected him from office may outrage him as much as defeat itself. So he tries to delegitimize your exercise of power. The power of the presidency is nothing compared to the power of the people”
 
sturg33 said:
It is rather amazing. Blacks are significantly worse off today than they were prior to the Civil rights era. And you can blame the federal government for subsidizing them into infinite poverty
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Look at South Africa - not all people can be governed the same an expect the same outcomes. Just not how the world works.
 
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