Tag: Racism
A High School Named for a Klansman?
Boy, white people did some wacky stuff during the Civil Rights era. Here’s one example.
In 1959, after being compelled by the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Topeka Board of Education to stop maintaining separate “but equal” public schools, the Confederate Daughters of America (CDA) in Jacksonville, Fla. exacted revenge. They led a successful drive to name a public high school after none other than Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
Spiteful and childish move, amirite? I bet you’re thinking it didn’t take long to correct that little work of malice. Well, you’d be wrong. Because to this day, students in Jacksonville continue to graduate from Forrest High.
Sure, over the years, there have been various attempts to have the name changed. After all, Forrest, a Tennessee native, had no relationship with Jacksonville. In fact, he never even visited the town. The CDA just looked around for the worst example of a white guy they could find, and there, like a shimmering star, was Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Fox News Analysis Finds a Way to Co-Opt the ’50 Years After March on Washington’ Meme
If you’re Fox News, how do you deal with the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington? Co-opt it!
Thanks to Josh Barro at Business Insider for bringing this insightful analysis from Fox News to our attention. As WonkBlog points out, the construction lends itself to a wide variety of useful insights:
The great thing about this is that the formulation works for anything. “50 years after March on Washington, the bees are dying.” “50 years after March on Washington, some worry about Miley Cyrus’s ‘twerking’.” “”50 years after March on Washington, my sink is leaking.” “50 years after the March on Washington, we still don’t have jetpacks.”
We have a few more to add:
- 50 years after March on Washington, Congress still at loggerheads
- 50 years after March on Washington, Kanye West thinks he’s a god
- 50 years after March on Washington, black people are still black
- 50 years after March on Washington, some think tattoos are cool
Do you have any “50 years after March on Washington” insights to share? Leave a comment.
Zimmerman is the Gift that Keeps On Giving in Florida
$200,000 – $300,000
Amount George Zimmerman is asking the state of Florida to reimburse him for hiring expert witnesses, providing depositions, and other trial costs aside from attorney’s fees. Zimmerman was acquitted after he profiled, stalked, and finally shot and killed unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin last year. Since the trial, Zimmerman has been pulled over for speeding in Texas, and forced his lawyers to apologize after he was photographed taking a merry tour of the factory that made the gun he used to kill Martin.
MO Minstrel Show
Poor Barack Obama, his popularity numbers are down,
And coming up he’s got a budget and health care showdown.
But to add insult to injury
At the state fair in Missouri,
They portrayed our first black president as a rodeo clown.
Trayvon’s Mom Asks the Big Question
The conversation now becomes, “What do we tell our kids?” Do we tell them to walk fast, do we tell them to walk slow, do we tell them to take a friend with them, or do we tell them just to stay in the house? We have no clue what to tell our kids to prevent them from going to the store and not ever coming home.
— Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin.
Flashback 2007: Black Homeowner Convicted of Second Degree Manslaughter after Shooting Trespassing White Teenager
If the confessed killer of a white teenager had been a black man, would it have taken 45 days — or 45 minutes — to charge him with a crime? Would it have sparked serious outrage if this African-American self-confessed killer had asserted on, say, MSNBC that he had no regrets about murdering his young white victim?
And now, in the wake of the jury verdict Saturday night, there is a new question. Would Zimmerman have been acquitted by a predominantly white jury in Sanford, Fla, if he had been black and his teenaged victim had been white?
We can only speculate about how the race reversal might have played out in Florida, but there is an analog to it from 2007 in a white enclave of suburban Long Island that suggests that the Zimmerman trial would have had a different outcome if the races had been reversed:
Does Having a Black Wife Mean You’re Not Racist?
Let’s see Bruce Braley paint me as a racist with a black wife.
— Scott Schaben (R), quoted by the Carroll Daily Times Herald, saying his marriage to an African American woman would prevent opponents from portraying him as a racist in the Iowa U.S. Senate race.
Charges of Racist Behavior and Language Lodged against Food Network’s Paula Deen
“Well, what I would really like is a bunch of little niggers to wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties, you know in the Shirley Temple days, they used to tap dance around,” the lawsuit claims Deen said. “Now that would be a true southern wedding, wouldn’t it? But we can’t do that because the media would be on me about that.”
White “Nationalists” Try to Hide Behind Gun Appreciation Day
A couple of days ago, BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) tweeted this:
Is this the most racist White House petition ever created? https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/stop-white-genocide-halt-massive-third-world-immigration-and-forced-assimilation-white-countries/WVyzm59F
And here’s the petition:
WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:
STOP WHITE GENOCIDE: Halt MASSIVE third world immigration and FORCED assimilation in White countries!
Africa for Africans, Asia for Asians, White countries for EVERYBODY?These gun folks’ greatest wish seems to be that someday a (black) criminal will walk through their doors and give them the golden opportunity to kill a human being with no legal consequencesWhite countries are being flooded with third world non-whites, and Whites are required by law to integrate with them so as to “assimilate,” i.e. intermarry and be blended out of existence.
That’s genocide by United Nations Convention, Article II, part c:
“Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.”
We petition the President to end White Genocide in the United States, and to call for the end of White Genocide in Europe, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
Supporting White Genocide is not anti-racist. It’s anti-white!
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Signers: Please look for our three petitions each month that oppose White Genocide!Let’s grow!
Thankfully, the petition had only 388 signatures when I first viewed it, and has only gained about 10 more in the days since.
