Race

if there is something we can agree on

building statues and painting black lives matter on a street is pointless if you literally change nothing else to combat issues in this country
 
Mayor Lightfoot seems like a good place to start these days .

She’s in the Mt Rushmore if dumbassery with cuomo
 
Mayor Lightfoot seems like a good place to start these days .

She’s in the Mt Rushmore if dumbassery with cuomo

https://www.google.com/amp/s/chicago.suntimes.com/platform/amp/news/2021/5/20/22446414/jamal-green-crashes-lightfoot-news-conference-youth-center-auburn-gresham-closed-school

Chicago activist and former mayoral candidate Ja’Mal Green crashed a news conference on Thursday held by Mayor Lori Lightfoot for not backing his efforts to bring a youth center to Auburn Gresham.

“Mayor stop the bullcrap! Stop the bull!” Green said, interrupting Lightfoot. “You know exactly about this center. Don’t lie. … You just texted me about it so don’t lie! Learn how to be honest.”

Lightfoot, remaining composed, didn’t engage with Green and waited for police officers to escort him from the news conference.


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It’ll be funny when non white journalists grill her and pretty soon she’s not talking to anyone
 
I might add that we have a poster around here who has managed to indulge in both racism and Islamophobia simultaneously by referring to Michelle's husband as Hussein.
 
The employees were also asked to recite and internalize 50 “white privilege statements,” including: “My culture teaches me to minimize the perspectives and powers of people of other races”; “I can commit acts of terrorism, violence or crime and not have it attributed to my race.”

After the participants finished their white privilege statements, they were asked to recite and internalize 59 “male privilege statements,” including: “My earning potential is 15-33% higher than a woman’s”; “My reproductive organs are not seen as the property of other men, the government, and/or even strangers because of my gender.”

For the final step, the employees recited and internalized 59 “heterosexual privilege statements,” including: “I am not asked to think about why I am straight”; “I can have friendships with or work around children without being accused of recruiting or molesting them.”
 
The employees were also asked to recite and internalize 50 “white privilege statements,” including: “My culture teaches me to minimize the perspectives and powers of people of other races”; “I can commit acts of terrorism, violence or crime and not have it attributed to my race.”

After the participants finished their white privilege statements, they were asked to recite and internalize 59 “male privilege statements,” including: “My earning potential is 15-33% higher than a woman’s”; “My reproductive organs are not seen as the property of other men, the government, and/or even strangers because of my gender.”

For the final step, the employees recited and internalized 59 “heterosexual privilege statements,” including: “I am not asked to think about why I am straight”; “I can have friendships with or work around children without being accused of recruiting or molesting them.”

The useful idiots cheer
 
If forcing people to recite a bunch of untrue nonsense is what solves racism, I guess we’re one step closer. At least for their sake they were on the clock.
 
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