R.I.P. Scout26
Lightning strikes George Floyd memorial:https://www.newsweek.com/george-floyd-mural-collapse-lightning-strike-toledo-1609480I'm not sure if it's the weather or karma, but one of them has to be racist.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison moved the former Chamberlin Rock, an object that had become a painful symbol of racism to generations of students, to a site off the main campus on August 6.The rock had sat at the crest of Observatory Hill since 1925. That same year, it was referred to in a newspaper headline by a deeply offensive nickname that included a racial slur. The derogatory nickname was commonly used at the time to refer to any large, dark rock.
UW–Madison historians have not found evidence that the racist term attached to the rock in the 1925 newspaper article was used in any capacity by the university
Large dark rocksNo longer a memorial, rock removed from campushttps://news.wisc.edu/no-longer-a-memorial-rock-removed-from-campus/
Likewise, today’s Karen contains multitudes. Her bias isn’t necessarily overt; she may believe she doesn’t have any. She’s the liberal white girlfriend perfectly at ease dissing the cop who asks her Black boyfriend for I.D., counting on her whiteness to prevent violence, and simultaneously a psychopath who sees Black people as mere vehicles for white self-actualization, as in Jordan Peele’s 2017 film, “Get Out.” She’s bipartisan, at once the conservative TV show host Megyn Kelly, waxing nostalgic in 2018 for a time when blackface was “OK,” and the progressive senator Elizabeth Warren, who, as a law professor in the 1980s and 1990s, identified herself as Native American (and was accorded minority status) based solely on family folklore about a distant ancestor at least six generations removed. Widen the lens and any white woman — every white woman — could be a Karen, if she’s perceived as taking for granted the advantages bestowed by her skin color and ignoring the labor and suffering of others.
CAPITAL LETTERS!https://twitchy.com/brads-313037/2021/09/03/college-professor-declares-using-upper-case-letters-is-a-sign-of-oppressive-hierarchy-and-lol/
DAMN CAPITALISM!
Chivona Newsome, the other co-founder of BLM NYC, targeted Mayor Bill de Blasio’s vaccine mandate more specifically in her remarks. She implied that the edict has resulted in repeats of historical episodes when blacks were disenfranchised from society.…“Seventy-two percent of black people in this city from ages 18 to 44 are unvaccinated. So what is going to stop the Gestapo, I mean the NYPD, from rounding up black people, from snatching them off the train, off the bus?” she added.
The Professor, a renowned composer who survived the Cultural Revolution, showed his class at @UMich a video of Laurence Olivier playing Othello. Now he’s being investigated, vilified, & shamed for subjecting students to blackface. He apologized, but that only made things worse. https://t.co/0GrTcLT5f8 — Christina Sommers (@CHSommers) October 7, 2021
One colleague has accused Sheng of “pedagogical racism and abuse”—and she has alerted the MacArthur Foundation and Pulitzer Committee about his behavior. Imagine having a colleague like that. https://t.co/k8wR3wPT8M — Christina Sommers (@CHSommers) October 7, 2021
But it's perfectly okay -- in fact, it seems to be preferred -- if "people of color" portray historical white Americans (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_(musical))
That came to mind when I posted
EXCLUSIVE: A Seattle elementary school canceled Halloween over "equity" concerns. The district claims that black male students don't celebrate Halloween–it marginalizes them. Instead, the school will provide "thematic units of study about the fall." https://t.co/lfHNIqaZMJ — Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) October 13, 2021
“Historically, the Pumpkin Parade marginalizes students of color who do not celebrate the holiday,” the spokesperson claimed. “Specifically, these students have requested to be isolated on campus while the event took place. In alliance with SPS’s unwavering commitment to students of color, specifically African American males, the staff is committed to supplanting the Pumpkin Parade with more inclusive and educational opportunities during the school day.”
