Racism in the USA

[SouprMatt]

Having hair on one’s head while black:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/19/us/darryl-george-barbers-hill-suspension/index.html

This is a continuation of a previous suspension. The principal doesn’t understand why everybody is calling him a racist. He’s only obeying the law! Oh wait, he’s specifically disobeying the law in order to discriminate? Oh well... they’ve had their school in court for YEARS over this nonsense with other students too. They will spend “taxpayer dollars” to fight for their right to be racist a$$holes. Here’s the story from a week ago before they went after the kid for suspension #2.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/11/us/barbers-hill-student-hair-suspension/index.html

Punishing a CHILD because a bunch of right-wing nuts don’t like a new law protecting black kids from discrimination based on their hair. Let him be a victim in their court battle to challenge their right to be racist pieces of 💩? Seriously, F these people.

This is still ongoing?

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/06/1217580867/black-texas-student-returns-to-class-suspended-again-natural-hair?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=news&utm_source=press.coop

A Black high school student in Texas who was suspended for more than a month for wearing a natural hairstyle returned to regular classes this week after spending more than a month at an alternative school.

The move, however, was short-lived. His family says he was suspended again for refusing to cut his locs to comply with the school's dress code policy.

Darryl George, 18, showed up for class Tuesday at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu (a town roughly 30 miles outside of Houston) before a school administrator said he was in violation of the dress code.

Darryl was later referred to in-school suspension, according to Candice Matthews, a spokesperson for the George family.

WTF??? 🤬

 

[SouprMatt]

Woman tried to burn down Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth home, police say

A woman was arrested Thursday afternoon after attempting to burn down Martin Luther King Jr.’s childhood home in Atlanta, police said. The Atlanta Police Department said the woman poured gasoline o…

thehill.com

A woman was arrested Thursday afternoon after attempting to burn down Martin Luther King Jr.’s childhood home in Atlanta, police said.

The Atlanta Police Department said the woman poured gasoline over the house’s front porch and bushes before being stopped and detained by two off-duty New York Police Department officers who were visiting the home.


“That action saved an important part of American history tonight,” Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum told reporters after the arrest.

 

[lizkat]

^^^ Man oh man. People need to quit complaining that if there's really a God where the hell is he when ya need him.

"The Atlanta Police Department said the woman poured gasoline over the house’s front porch and bushes before being stopped and detained by two off-duty New York Police Department officers who were visiting the home. "​

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Maybe they were off duty but it could look like a just deity was definitely on the job.

 

[SouprMatt]

Another example of arguments that don’t add up:

 

[SouprMatt]

It took 84 years, but sometimes there is good news:

Opal Lee’s childhood home returned to her

Police stood by as the White mob wielding baseball bats gathered outside for a raid on June 19, 1939, and forced Lee, then 12, and her family from the Fort Worth home they had just moved into the day before — breaking the windows with stones, smashing the furniture, burning their belongings. The event was traumatic for Lee, now a 97-year-old civil rights activist known for her tireless efforts to turn Juneteenth, the day commemorating Black freedom from slavery, into a national holiday.

“The fact that it happened on the 19th day of June has spurred me to make people understand that Juneteenth is not just a festival,” she told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in 2021.

Now, more than 84 years after the racist mob forced her from her home, Lee has been given back the land where her house once stood. And Trinity Habitat for Humanity has gone one step further: A house is being built for Lee and expected to be completed sometime in 2024.

 

[Thomas Veil]

Love it, I’m just sorry justice came to her so late in life.

 

[Jay Mysteri0]

On January 9, 1961, thousands of white people violently rioted because Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes registered at the University of Georgia, becoming the university's first Black students. Their enrollment came days after federal judge William Bootle ordered the university to admit them, ending a two-year administrative and legal fight to integrate the school.

When Ms. Hunter and Mr. Holmes arrived to register for classes they were met by nearly 100 white students opposing their admission. The crowd grew in the coming hours and the opposition escalated into full-scale riots, involving nearly 2,000 white students, local residents, and Ku Klux Klan members. The rioters set fires outside Ms. Hunter's dormitory, hurled rocks inside, and yelled racist epithets. At least one student in the dormitory was injured by a flying object. After several hours, campus officers, city police, and local firefighters quelled the riot.

In response to this violent white mob, composed of many white students from the university, officials forced Ms. Hunter and Mr. Holmes to withdraw from the university and Georgia state troopers escorted them home. White student leaders gloated at their victory, and one cited the University of Alabama's violent reaction to the enrollment of Autherine Lucy in 1956 as inspiration for their own demonstration.

Holmes and Hunter-Gault: They followed their dreams

First African Americans to enroll at UGA kept their eyes on the prize.

news.uga.edu

 

[SouprMatt]

60 years later, going to school while black can still get you suspended.

A Houston-area student with dreadlocks has been suspended again for his hair. Does this violate the

Texas’s CROWN Act says that grooming or dress policies may not discriminate against a hair texture or hairstyle that is commonly or historically associated with race. That includes braids, dreadlocks and twists.

www.keranews.org

 

[SouprMatt]

This is still ongoing?

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/06/1217580867/black-texas-student-returns-to-class-suspended-again-natural-hair?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=news&utm_source=press.coop

WTF??? 🤬

Now the school superintendent is doubling down, buying a full-page ad in the newspaper insisting that America is about conformity?

Texas Superintendent Defends Suspending Black Student Over Locs Hairstyle in Full-Page Ad: ‘Being American Requires Conformity'

A full-page newspaper defends the punishment high school student Darryl George has faced over his hairstyle.

themessenger.com

The ad that appeared Sunday in the Houston Chronicle was written by district superintendent Greg Poole.

“Being an American requires conformity with the positive benefit of unity,” he stated, referencing strict codes at the military academies.

I could’ve sworn I learned America was all about freedom as a kid. Probably just all the evil CRT in my school gave me that false impression.

 

[P___X]

Now the school superintendent is doubling down, buying a full-page ad in the newspaper insisting that America is about conformity?

Texas Superintendent Defends Suspending Black Student Over Locs Hairstyle in Full-Page Ad: ‘Being American Requires Conformity'

A full-page newspaper defends the punishment high school student Darryl George has faced over his hairstyle.

themessenger.com

I could’ve sworn I learned America was all about freedom as a kid. Probably just all the evil CRT in my school gave me that false impression.

Texas superintendent defends suspension over Black student's hair

The superintendent of the Texas school district that has suspended a Black student over his locs hairstyle is defending the district in a newspaper ad.

www.chron.com

He said "it is a matter of public record" that George, referred to as "the child," moved from a "neighboring school district that allows long hair on males" and that all students and parents sign off on the dress code at the start of the year.

He rebuked claims from "the Chronicle and other media" that Barbers Hill ISD "is clinging to outdated values or social norms but academic excellence never goes out of style," noting that the school board commissioned a study in 2020 using data from every high school in the state that found " districts with a traditional dress code had higher academic performance and were statistically significantly safer."
Poole said his four decades as an educational professional "tells me districts relax their dress code expectations because they simply get tired of enforcing it and pursue easier, lesser goals."

"Our military academies at West Point, Annapolis and Colorado Springs maintain a rigorous expectation of dress. They realize being an American requires conformity with the positive benefit of unity, and being a part of something bigger than yourself," Poole wrote.

But here's the zinger:

"Barbers Hill ISD will continue to make decisions to protect and fight for the rights of its community to set the standards and expectations for our school district even if that path takes us to the U.S. Supreme Court," Poole wrote. "We will not lose sight of the main goal — high standards for our students — by bending to political pressure or responding to misinformed media reports. These entities have 'lesser' goals that ultimately harm kids — just as keeping students out of school in response to the COVID-19 health crisis ultimately did and lowering student expectations will."

So let me paraphrase him in bulletpoints:
1. Keep people out of my school district who don't belong
2. I have data that justifies discrimination, but I ain't sharing it (I couldn't find it anywhere, and data like this is usually confounded by much more important factors)
3. I wish my district was a military district
4. I hate political pressure and disinformation, so I'll use political pressure (SCOTUS) and recite disinformation😀

He's totally a racist, small government for me, big government for you, conservative nutjob who's not good at education, so he does dress code.

 

[Huntn]

Texas superintendent defends suspension over Black student's hair

The superintendent of the Texas school district that has suspended a Black student over his locs hairstyle is defending the district in a newspaper ad.

www.chron.com

But here's the zinger:

So let me paraphrase him in bulletpoints:
1. Keep people out of my school district who don't belong
2. I have data that justifies discrimination, but I ain't sharing it (I couldn't find it anywhere, and data like this is usually confounded by much more important factors)
3. I wish my district was a military district
4. I hate political pressure and disinformation, so I'll use political pressure (SCOTUS) and recite disinformation😀

He's totally a racist, small government for me, big government for you, conservative nutjob who's not good at education, so he does dress code.

These people just want Burger King- Have it My Way, including discriminating and screw what you want… 🤔🔥

 

[SouprMatt]

Sad reminder that there are still a lot of hateful people in the world.

Statue of Jackie Robinson Stolen from Public Park

WICHITA, Kan. — A prized statue of Jackie Robinson was stolen from a public park in Kansas, spurring a police search Friday and outrage across the city of Wichita.

The statue honors the first player to break Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947. Surveillance video was released of two people hauling the sculpture away in the dark. Wichita police said in a Facebook post that it went missing Thursday morning.

"Many people want to find those folks before law enforcement," Johnson said. "So again, like the chief and the (district attorney) said, if you've got that statue, bring it here today. Now."

 

[Jay Mysteri0]

 

[lizkat]

I'm furious at any school districts that are taking a shot at rolling back to "sanitized" versions of American history. Progress in acknowledging the effects of racism has seemed so slow to begin with and now comes what seems like a concerted effort from the far right to deny how deeply our ways of living are still corrupted by old patterns of both direct and veiled exclusion of people of color from equal chances to try to thrive in the USA... or even equal chances to hail a damn taxi after dark (which fact prompted some of the companies I worked for to provide vouchers for town car services after working late), never mind apply to a country club or a prep school.

I'm also disappointed that there is such a concerted effort to undo corporate programs for diversity, equity and inclusion ever since Trump made white supremacy "acceptable" again. Let's face it, the reason these DEI programs are facing such pushback is that they had been proving effective in making playing fields more level.

So now we see some white people whining about "preferential treatment"i of minorities in school adminissions or corporate hires, and they're essentially saying they don't want a level playing field but not in so many words. So it's back to codespeak again, eh? I guess they liked it better when classrooms. newsrooms. boardrooms or locker rooms were not only all white but often a matter of "legacy admissions" of white-is-right elites, and there was an assumption that of course this cream of the crop was simply born meritorious. Honestly if you are of a certain age you have to put on some set of mental blinders not to remember all the deadwood used to gather up in the partnerships and boardrooms of American companies. Bleached driftwood, baby!

 

[SouprMatt]

Sad reminder that there are still a lot of hateful people in the world.

Statue of Jackie Robinson Stolen from Public Park

They found what was left of the statue burned and in a trash can. The search for the perpetrators is still ongoing.

Jackie Robinson Statue Stolen from Youth Baseball Facility Found Burned, Destroyed

The Jackie Robinson statue stolen from a youth baseball field in Wichita, Kansas, last week was found destroyed Tuesday morning. The Wichita Fire Department…

bleacherreport.com

 

[lizkat]

They found what was left of the statue burned and in a trash can. The search for the perpetrators is still ongoing.

Jackie Robinson Statue Stolen from Youth Baseball Facility Found Burned, Destroyed

The Jackie Robinson statue stolen from a youth baseball field in Wichita, Kansas, last week was found destroyed Tuesday morning. The Wichita Fire Department…

bleacherreport.com

This was such a low act. Right before start of Black HIstory month too.

In the USA we are still not teaching American history well.... and so we're still not living it well either.

 

[Jay Mysteri0]

I wish some certain school districts would learn from this, how F'N hard is this?



Who knows? Thanks to that one man's effort we may get another much needed firefighter in the future.

 

[Jay Mysteri0]

 

[Huntn]

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If she said that to gain acceptance from her losers, then she’s a loser too. 👎🏻

 

[Jay Mysteri0]

GBRS Group: Was James Humphrey Arrested For Theft? Case Update Revealed - 247 News Around The World

Find Out "Was James Humphrey Arrested For Theft?" Delve into the injustice surrounding the arrest of James Humphrey and uncover the intricate details of

247newsaroundtheworld.com

This is some shit. Guy is falsely accused, proven innocent, but the police are disappointed they can't get him on something else.

Instead the police supported the person & company that made the false accusations, and absolutely no thought is given towards an apology or making any kind amends.