Well, do ALL black lives matter? Or just the ones that advance leftism and anarchy? Getting rid of Aunt Jemima pancakes, and tearing down statues shows that democrats are trying to erase their history asap before people catch on. Democrats don't want you to know about Andrew Jackson and why they want to get him off the $20 bill( founder of the Democratic Party (Trail of Tears Indian Killer and big time slave owner. Founders and head of the KKK. ( Democrats) There are a lot of black people that do not want history erased. https://youtu.be/wR2lK36Tc4M
FYI: the parties switched right around the passage of the civil rights act of 1964. So the democrats you mention from the late 1800s are today’s Republicans and the party of Lincoln are today s Democrats. And robert e lee didn’t even want statues; I m not following how we erase history by taking down statues. I m not sure if taking down these statues will have the desired effect everyone is looking for but I am also not a person of color so I am not sure how it affects them.
ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER, not just some. FYI: "the parties switched right around the passage of the civil rights act of 1964. So the democrats you mention from the late 1800s are today’s Republicans and the party of Lincoln are today s Democrats." Ok well then, the Earth is flat, water flows uphill and the moon is made out of cheese. That is revisionist history and total LIES. Huge gargantuan lies and false crap! That is why most of todays colleges are cesspools of disinformation. Lincoln, Reagan, and Trump are the same party. Sorry but youve been lied to. That is why it's almost impossible to have conversations these days. Southern Democrats were the Confederacy, and today's Democrats are still the oppressors. Sorry, but You can't just flip a switch in 1964 for convenience purposes, sorry the Democratic partie owns its long bloody history. That is very inconvenient for lefties to overcome. That's why they want to erase it. And by the way, nothing has changed much, look what goes on in all the major cities run by democrats for the last 50-100+ years how's it going there?
You are telling me with a straight face that during the civil rights movement the parties, especially southern democrats, didn’t switch? And you honestly think the parties of Lincoln and Trump are the same? What similarities do you see between the two? and yes southern democrats did create the KKK, no one is trying to rewrite history (where does that even come from?)
Can you go full on history teacher here? I know a decent amount about the last major party shift around the civil rights act but not enough. Well enough to know that it is information nowhere near flat earth territory. I have only really been spending time on AMT for a couple months, really expected better from people that pay to be part of a politically active bands message board....
The modern music industry is built almost entirely on Black art. The wealth that rightfully belonged to Black artists was stolen outright and to this day continues to grow outside their communities. No one artist could come close to paying the debt we owe to the Black originators of our modern music and their children and grandchildren. As an individual I have recognized the unfairness of the life I live in relation to the deprivation of people whose work mine is but a shadow of. I’ve tried to compensate for those inequities in both my public and private life. It hasn’t been enough.
I’ve often thought there should be an industry-wide plan to address this enormous injustice. Considering that our business prides itself on its progressive ideals and commitments to social justice, I’ve waited, thinking we would eventually put some type of sustained tithing in place — some initiative that would allow us all to redirect a portion of our revenue to the communities that have been deprived of it. I’ve resisted being the one to initiate such a plan for reasons I find unpersuasive now. I feel it’s important to pledge my personal commitment to paying this debt, and to publicly ask every one of my peers to work toward doing the same.
What I propose going forward is a program that allows songwriters and musicians to direct a percentage of their “writer’s share” revenue to organizations that assist and support Black communities. This could take the shape of a box to check on rights management contracts, putting it at the foundation of our business. Or it could take another shape entirely. I don’t possess the expertise to manifest this initiative, but I can begin to do my part by committing 5% of my writer revenue to organizations that are working toward racial justice, which include but are not limited to Movement for Black Lives and Black Women’s Blueprint.
To BMI, ASCAP, SESAC, and all other organizations that collect and disburse songwriter’s royalties, I ask you to please investigate a way to implement such a program. To industry leaders: please join me in forming a coalition. My small contribution alone is a sincere but insufficient gesture. Hundreds of us joining together could provide some tremendous relief. Thousands of us committing to a reparations initiative could change our business and the world we live in. Black Lives Matter. Thank you.
The modern music industry is built almost entirely on Black art. The wealth that rightfully belonged to Black artists was stolen outright and to this day continues to grow outside their communities. No one artist could come close to paying the debt we owe to the Black originators of our modern music and their children and grandchildren. As an individual I have recognized the unfairness of the life I live in relation to the deprivation of people whose work mine is but a shadow of. I’ve tried to compensate for those inequities in both my public and private life. It hasn’t been enough.
I’ve often thought there should be an industry-wide plan to address this enormous injustice. Considering that our business prides itself on its progressive ideals and commitments to social justice, I’ve waited, thinking we would eventually put some type of sustained tithing in place — some initiative that would allow us all to redirect a portion of our revenue to the communities that have been deprived of it. I’ve resisted being the one to initiate such a plan for reasons I find unpersuasive now. I feel it’s important to pledge my personal commitment to paying this debt, and to publicly ask every one of my peers to work toward doing the same.
What I propose going forward is a program that allows songwriters and musicians to direct a percentage of their “writer’s share” revenue to organizations that assist and support Black communities. This could take the shape of a box to check on rights management contracts, putting it at the foundation of our business. Or it could take another shape entirely. I don’t possess the expertise to manifest this initiative, but I can begin to do my part by committing 5% of my writer revenue to organizations that are working toward racial justice, which include but are not limited to Movement for Black Lives and Black Women’s Blueprint.
To BMI, ASCAP, SESAC, and all other organizations that collect and disburse songwriter’s royalties, I ask you to please investigate a way to implement such a program. To industry leaders: please join me in forming a coalition. My small contribution alone is a sincere but insufficient gesture. Hundreds of us joining together could provide some tremendous relief. Thousands of us committing to a reparations initiative could change our business and the world we live in. Black Lives Matter. Thank you.
- Jeff Tweedy
An interesting idea that brings up the touchy subject of reparations. It seem so to me a lot of well meaning people (and I don't mean Mr. Tweedy- I like his idea of supporting fair management contracts for blacks or righting other inequities in towards black in the music industry), people who good hearts and are generous but who believe that simple giving money is going to make a difference in black lives. It actually takes a good deal of research to make sure dollars are actually helping people (or in the case of environmental issue- the plant. I've stopped giving money to a number of environmental organizations that are top heavy and spend far too much money on infrastructure and not enough on actually accomplishing something beneficial to the planet.)
I am in favor of supporting organizations that work toward the betterment of underprivileged people who are victims of prejudice and discrimination. But I'm more interested in that whole concept of "Give a person a fish, and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to fish, and they learn to feed themselves for a lifetime." But I think there has to be a better saying than this because that one implies "whites as saviors" syndrome. But hopefully the point I'm trying to make with my addled old brain is coming across well enough.
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
That read was very confusing. I came out of it feeling like someone was trying very hard to say well slavery wasn’t so bad they abused poor white people too and we didn’t invent the slavery it existed in Africa anyways. Kind of a sorry not sorry way of trying to wash the hands of the blame of slavery and racism. Reminds me of a talk I had on a jobsite once where someone was telling me that his Irish ancestors actually had it worse than slaves but nobody talks about that....I think somewhere in the article it says racism didn’t cause slavery, slavery caused racism, except there was racism long before slavery in the US. I feel like I just listened to a hand dryer blow for 10 minutes. Thanks for the read anyways
That read was very confusing. I came out of it feeling like someone was trying very hard to say well slavery wasn’t so bad they abused poor white people too and we didn’t invent the slavery it existed in Africa anyways. Kind of a sorry not sorry way of trying to wash the hands of the blame of slavery and racism. Reminds me of a talk I had on a jobsite once where someone was telling me that his Irish ancestors actually had it worse than slaves but nobody talks about that....I think somewhere in the article it says racism didn’t cause slavery, slavery caused racism, except there was racism long before slavery in the US. I feel like I just listened to a hand dryer blow for 10 minutes. Thanks for the read anyways
I disagree with your take on it. During my college and grad school years, I read enough of the primary sources that the historians in the article discuss to know it is absolutely true that Africans (particularly North Africans) freely participated in court life during the Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance. There was an extensive free commercial trade with North Africa during that time. Racism, if it existed at all as a concept, was in the form of wondering about the "exotic other" as explorers increasingly interacted with them. The Moors, aka North Africans, actually controlled much of Spain during the Middle Ages. In the English Renaissance, one of Shakespeare's great tragic heros -- Othello -- was a Moor, a North African [edit:MARRIED to a WHITE woman, the daughter of a wealthy Venetian}. Much has been written about race in Shakespeare's plays, because Othello was not the singular character of African descent featured in his plays. They were not slave characters, except for Caliban in the Tempest, and he is of Caribbean descent and depending on how you interpret the language at the end of the play, Prospero frees him.
The idea of race was not legally codified in the Virginia colony until decades after that 1619 ship *accidentally* arrived, and those first "slaves" in 1619, were actually treated as indentured servants and freed after their seven year period, the same way every indentured servant was. There was a small community of free black people living in Virginia throughout the 17th century until the plantation system took hold, the Triangular Trade Route was established, and the laws began to change to exploit the need for labor. It was only after that time that you begin to see in the primary documents the devaluing of human life and the escalation of cruelty that we now think of with slavery. In the words of Frederick Douglass himself (actually a terrible paraphrase), the institution of slavery works on the mind of the master as much as it works on the mind of the slave. The authors of this article are not the first to posit that racism as a concept was a result of slavery, not the cause of it. I've seen it in the historical research of the period, I've actually quoted it in papers I wrote, and I've looked specifically at the evolution of the language of the Virginia Code with my own eyes.
The authors of this article are not disputing that slavery for Africans was horrible. They are disputing the way the author of the 1619 Project is trying to make it seem like racism is a permanent, innate feature of being white, absent of historical context of the way slavery, emancipation, and the fight for civil rights actually evolved in Europe and the Americas. The author is critiquing the way the capitalist elite power structures, since the dismantling of slavery, have used race as a way to divide the poor and working class who have more in common in their *current* oppression than the race theorists would have us believe (if you were got to the end of the article to see this). Neither view works well for any of us, black or white, and we need to be aware of it.
As someone who watched the movie Selma the other night with tears streaming down my face for a good portion of the movie, I am highly compassionate toward specific injustices carried out toward African Americans. I am not apologizing for being white, nor am I excusing away the resentments of others. I am just highly suspect of simplistic "us versus them, good versus evil" arguments about what is right and what is wrong. On June 10, I attended a seminar with a prominent African American educator who asked the very question: Do the young people on the streets even know their own history? Have we taught them that history? This article just asks that same question in a different way, and suggests the current way the 1619 Project is framing history is just flat out wrong.
That read was very confusing. I came out of it feeling like someone was trying very hard to say well slavery wasn’t so bad they abused poor white people too and we didn’t invent the slavery it existed in Africa anyways. Kind of a sorry not sorry way of trying to wash the hands of the blame of slavery and racism. Reminds me of a talk I had on a jobsite once where someone was telling me that his Irish ancestors actually had it worse than slaves but nobody talks about that....I think somewhere in the article it says racism didn’t cause slavery, slavery caused racism, except there was racism long before slavery in the US. I feel like I just listened to a hand dryer blow for 10 minutes. Thanks for the read anyways
I disagree with your take on it. During my college and grad school years, I read enough of the primary sources that the historians in the article discuss to know it is absolutely true that Africans (particularly North Africans) freely participated in court life during the Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance. There was an extensive free commercial trade with North Africa during that time. Racism, if it existed at all as a concept, was in the form of wondering about the "exotic other" as explorers increasingly interacted with them. The Moors, aka North Africans, actually controlled much of Spain during the Middle Ages. In the English Renaissance, one of Shakespeare's great tragic heros -- Othello -- was a Moor, a North African. Much has been written about race in Shakespeare's plays, because Othello was not the singular character of African descent featured in his plays. They were not slave characters, except for Caliban in the Tempest, and he is of Caribbean descent and depending on how you interpret the language at the end of the play, Prospero frees him.
The idea of race was not legally codified in the Virginia colony until decades after that 1619 ship *accidentally* arrived, and those first "slaves" in 1619, were actually treated as indentured servants and freed after their seven year period, the same way every indentured servant was. There was a small community of free black people living in Virginia throughout the 17th century until the plantation system took hold, the Triangular Trade Route was established, and the laws began to change to exploit the need for labor. It was only after that time that you begin to see in the primary documents the devaluing of human life and the escalation of cruelty that we now think of with slavery. In the words of Frederick Douglass himself (actually a terrible paraphrase), the institution of slavery works on the mind of the master as much as it works on the mind of the slave. The authors of this article are not the first to posit that racism as a concept was a result of slavery, not the cause of it. I've seen it in the historical research of the period, I've actually quoted it in papers I wrote, and I've looked specifically at the evolution of the language of the Virginia Code with my own eyes.
The authors of this article are not disputing that slavery for Africans was horrible. They are disputing the way the author of the 1619 Project is trying to make it seem like racism is a permanent, innate feature of being white, absent of historical context of the way slavery, emancipation, and the fight for civil rights actually evolved in Europe and the Americas. The author is critiquing the way the capitalist elite power structures, since the dismantling of slavery, have used race as a way to divide the poor and working class who have more in common in their *current* oppression than the race theorists would have us believe (if you were got to the end of the article to see this). Neither view works well for any of us, black or white, and we need to be aware of it.
As someone who watched the movie Selma the other night with tears streaming down my face for a good portion of the movie, I am highly compassionate toward specific injustices carried out toward African Americans. I am not apologizing for being white, nor am I excusing away the resentments of others. I am just highly suspect of simplistic "us versus them, good versus evil" arguments about what is right and what is wrong. On June 10, I attended a seminar with a prominent African American educator who asked the very question: Do the young people on the streets even know their own history? Have we taught them that history? This article just asks that same question in a different way, and suggests the current way the 1619 Project is framing history is just flat out wrong.
Fascinating and educating post. what dreams, thanks!
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
What are the police supposed to do, let them beat her up? I understand the point that this lady sucks but what does the police protecting her have to do with anything?
So all of this shit stiring was due to a freaking garage door pull rope...just wow...
I know that nascar probably has its fair share of racism, but this “noose” was not an example of it.
What wasn't to believe? A crew member, not Wallace saw the rope and given the climate, thought it was done on purpose towards Bubba. NASCAR was quick to have an investigation.
The FBI came in and found it to be there since last year and was not meant as a racial gesture.
I am glad it was nothing. I'm glad that the WHOLE NASCAR TEAMS rallied around Bubba Wallace. I am glad that NASCAR had the FBI due their due diligence quickly.
So all of this shit stiring was due to a freaking garage door pull rope...just wow...
I know that nascar probably has its fair share of racism, but this “noose” was not an example of it.
What wasn't to believe? A crew member, not Wallace saw the rope and given the climate, thought it was done on purpose towards Bubba. NASCAR was quick to have an investigation.
The FBI came in and found it to be there since last year and was not meant as a racial gesture.
I am glad it was nothing. I'm glad that the WHOLE NASCAR TEAMS rallied around Bubba Wallace. I am glad that NASCAR had the FBI due their due diligence quickly.
I guess it’s just annoying that so many jumped to conclusions...over nothing...like the media is so hell bent on getting a story about racism that they don’t even attempt investigative journalism.
So all of this shit stiring was due to a freaking garage door pull rope...just wow...
I know that nascar probably has its fair share of racism, but this “noose” was not an example of it.
What wasn't to believe? A crew member, not Wallace saw the rope and given the climate, thought it was done on purpose towards Bubba. NASCAR was quick to have an investigation.
The FBI came in and found it to be there since last year and was not meant as a racial gesture.
I am glad it was nothing. I'm glad that the WHOLE NASCAR TEAMS rallied around Bubba Wallace. I am glad that NASCAR had the FBI due their due diligence quickly.
I guess it’s just annoying that so many jumped to conclusions...over nothing...like the media is so hell bent on getting a story about racism that they don’t even attempt investigative journalism.
Not a lot to investigate as NASCAR had the FBI do it for them.
Usually I would agree with you but this to me was handled right.
I also follow NASCAR so I didn't get any info from any other source about this as I can only imagine what it was like from other news outlets.
That read was very confusing. I came out of it feeling like someone was trying very hard to say well slavery wasn’t so bad they abused poor white people too and we didn’t invent the slavery it existed in Africa anyways. Kind of a sorry not sorry way of trying to wash the hands of the blame of slavery and racism. Reminds me of a talk I had on a jobsite once where someone was telling me that his Irish ancestors actually had it worse than slaves but nobody talks about that....I think somewhere in the article it says racism didn’t cause slavery, slavery caused racism, except there was racism long before slavery in the US. I feel like I just listened to a hand dryer blow for 10 minutes. Thanks for the read anyways
I disagree with your take on it. During my college and grad school years, I read enough of the primary sources that the historians in the article discuss to know it is absolutely true that Africans (particularly North Africans) freely participated in court life during the Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance. There was an extensive free commercial trade with North Africa during that time. Racism, if it existed at all as a concept, was in the form of wondering about the "exotic other" as explorers increasingly interacted with them. The Moors, aka North Africans, actually controlled much of Spain during the Middle Ages. In the English Renaissance, one of Shakespeare's great tragic heros -- Othello -- was a Moor, a North African. Much has been written about race in Shakespeare's plays, because Othello was not the singular character of African descent featured in his plays. They were not slave characters, except for Caliban in the Tempest, and he is of Caribbean descent and depending on how you interpret the language at the end of the play, Prospero frees him.
The idea of race was not legally codified in the Virginia colony until decades after that 1619 ship *accidentally* arrived, and those first "slaves" in 1619, were actually treated as indentured servants and freed after their seven year period, the same way every indentured servant was. There was a small community of free black people living in Virginia throughout the 17th century until the plantation system took hold, the Triangular Trade Route was established, and the laws began to change to exploit the need for labor. It was only after that time that you begin to see in the primary documents the devaluing of human life and the escalation of cruelty that we now think of with slavery. In the words of Frederick Douglass himself (actually a terrible paraphrase), the institution of slavery works on the mind of the master as much as it works on the mind of the slave. The authors of this article are not the first to posit that racism as a concept was a result of slavery, not the cause of it. I've seen it in the historical research of the period, I've actually quoted it in papers I wrote, and I've looked specifically at the evolution of the language of the Virginia Code with my own eyes.
The authors of this article are not disputing that slavery for Africans was horrible. They are disputing the way the author of the 1619 Project is trying to make it seem like racism is a permanent, innate feature of being white, absent of historical context of the way slavery, emancipation, and the fight for civil rights actually evolved in Europe and the Americas. The author is critiquing the way the capitalist elite power structures, since the dismantling of slavery, have used race as a way to divide the poor and working class who have more in common in their *current* oppression than the race theorists would have us believe (if you were got to the end of the article to see this). Neither view works well for any of us, black or white, and we need to be aware of it.
As someone who watched the movie Selma the other night with tears streaming down my face for a good portion of the movie, I am highly compassionate toward specific injustices carried out toward African Americans. I am not apologizing for being white, nor am I excusing away the resentments of others. I am just highly suspect of simplistic "us versus them, good versus evil" arguments about what is right and what is wrong. On June 10, I attended a seminar with a prominent African American educator who asked the very question: Do the young people on the streets even know their own history? Have we taught them that history? This article just asks that same question in a different way, and suggests the current way the 1619 Project is framing history is just flat out wrong.
Fascinating and educating post. what dreams, thanks!
Thank you. Just trying to keep learning in order to make sense of these terrible times we're going through. I can't fill my brain with memes. I need scholarship. Unfortunately you can't get to the actual 100 page 1619 Project without a NY Times subscription but through a teacher lesson plan page, I was able to find the original essay that has sparked so much criticism from historians. It's powerful. I understand its purpose and the need for it. But it hardly deals with 1619 at all. I'm not sure if my attaching the PDF will work from my phone but I'll try.
So all of this shit stiring was due to a freaking garage door pull rope...just wow...
I know that nascar probably has its fair share of racism, but this “noose” was not an example of it.
What wasn't to believe? A crew member, not Wallace saw the rope and given the climate, thought it was done on purpose towards Bubba. NASCAR was quick to have an investigation.
The FBI came in and found it to be there since last year and was not meant as a racial gesture.
I am glad it was nothing. I'm glad that the WHOLE NASCAR TEAMS rallied around Bubba Wallace. I am glad that NASCAR had the FBI due their due diligence quickly.
I guess it’s just annoying that so many jumped to conclusions...over nothing...like the media is so hell bent on getting a story about racism that they don’t even attempt investigative journalism.
Not a lot to investigate as NASCAR had the FBI do it for them.
Usually I would agree with you but this to me was handled right.
I also follow NASCAR so I didn't get any info from any other source about this as I can only imagine what it was like from other news outlets.
I don’t follow NASCAR, but I was getting was post after post on social media about how “they need to find these racist assholes”. I was in agreement, only to find out it was just a damn garage door pull rope, lol
What are the police supposed to do, let them beat her up? I understand the point that this lady sucks but what does the police protecting her have to do with anything?
Great questions. Stupid statement to try and make this about cops.
So all of this shit stiring was due to a freaking garage door pull rope...just wow...
I know that nascar probably has its fair share of racism, but this “noose” was not an example of it.
What wasn't to believe? A crew member, not Wallace saw the rope and given the climate, thought it was done on purpose towards Bubba. NASCAR was quick to have an investigation.
The FBI came in and found it to be there since last year and was not meant as a racial gesture.
I am glad it was nothing. I'm glad that the WHOLE NASCAR TEAMS rallied around Bubba Wallace. I am glad that NASCAR had the FBI due their due diligence quickly.
I guess it’s just annoying that so many jumped to conclusions...over nothing...like the media is so hell bent on getting a story about racism that they don’t even attempt investigative journalism.
Not a lot to investigate as NASCAR had the FBI do it for them.
Usually I would agree with you but this to me was handled right.
I also follow NASCAR so I didn't get any info from any other source about this as I can only imagine what it was like from other news outlets.
I haven’t seen pictures of the noose. Was it tied like a real noose, or just a loop?
Also, why did it warrant FBI to investigate? If it was meant for Bubba, yes that’s horrible. But couldn’t local police investigate first? Or, even better, NASCAR take 10 minutes to ask some questions and probably would have learned it had been there almost a year and maybe longer.
Seems like the natural progression would be for NASCAR to to a little digging within. Then reach out to local police if needed, then they ask for FBI assistance if needed. I’m guessing because of the publicity they skipped all that, but there’s a reason to not immediately jump and send 15 federal agents.
So all of this shit stiring was due to a freaking garage door pull rope...just wow...
I know that nascar probably has its fair share of racism, but this “noose” was not an example of it.
What wasn't to believe? A crew member, not Wallace saw the rope and given the climate, thought it was done on purpose towards Bubba. NASCAR was quick to have an investigation.
The FBI came in and found it to be there since last year and was not meant as a racial gesture.
I am glad it was nothing. I'm glad that the WHOLE NASCAR TEAMS rallied around Bubba Wallace. I am glad that NASCAR had the FBI due their due diligence quickly.
I guess it’s just annoying that so many jumped to conclusions...over nothing...like the media is so hell bent on getting a story about racism that they don’t even attempt investigative journalism.
Not a lot to investigate as NASCAR had the FBI do it for them.
Usually I would agree with you but this to me was handled right.
I also follow NASCAR so I didn't get any info from any other source about this as I can only imagine what it was like from other news outlets.
I haven’t seen pictures of the noose. Was it tied like a real noose, or just a loop?
Also, why did it warrant FBI to investigate? If it was meant for Bubba, yes that’s horrible. But couldn’t local police investigate first? Or, even better, NASCAR take 10 minutes to ask some questions and probably would have learned it had been there almost a year and maybe longer.
Seems like the natural progression would be for NASCAR to to a little digging within. Then reach out to local police if needed, then they ask for FBI assistance if needed. I’m guessing because of the publicity they skipped all that, but there’s a reason to not immediately jump and send 15 federal agents.
What does it really matter as long as they can come to a conclusion as to what happened and done so rather quickly.
Now can Bubba Wallace win a race and close the deal?
Peace
*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
So all of this shit stiring was due to a freaking garage door pull rope...just wow...
I know that nascar probably has its fair share of racism, but this “noose” was not an example of it.
What wasn't to believe? A crew member, not Wallace saw the rope and given the climate, thought it was done on purpose towards Bubba. NASCAR was quick to have an investigation.
The FBI came in and found it to be there since last year and was not meant as a racial gesture.
I am glad it was nothing. I'm glad that the WHOLE NASCAR TEAMS rallied around Bubba Wallace. I am glad that NASCAR had the FBI due their due diligence quickly.
I guess it’s just annoying that so many jumped to conclusions...over nothing...like the media is so hell bent on getting a story about racism that they don’t even attempt investigative journalism.
Not a lot to investigate as NASCAR had the FBI do it for them.
Usually I would agree with you but this to me was handled right.
I also follow NASCAR so I didn't get any info from any other source about this as I can only imagine what it was like from other news outlets.
I haven’t seen pictures of the noose. Was it tied like a real noose, or just a loop?
Also, why did it warrant FBI to investigate? If it was meant for Bubba, yes that’s horrible. But couldn’t local police investigate first? Or, even better, NASCAR take 10 minutes to ask some questions and probably would have learned it had been there almost a year and maybe longer.
Seems like the natural progression would be for NASCAR to to a little digging within. Then reach out to local police if needed, then they ask for FBI assistance if needed. I’m guessing because of the publicity they skipped all that, but there’s a reason to not immediately jump and send 15 federal agents.
What does it really matter as long as they can come to a conclusion as to what happened and done so rather quickly.
Now can Bubba Wallace win a race and close the deal?
Peace
Use of resources doesn’t matter? Sending 15 FBI seems like overkill when they probably could have just gotten the answer by interviewing the last few drivers who used it. I’d rather those 15 agents be investigating something else.
Its not about Bubba. He can win a race, I really don’t care about NASCAR that much. But it seems like if the people involved did just a little due diligence it could have saved a lot of time, money and resources.
A county in Oregon has issued an order requiring face masks to be worn in public but has exempted nonwhite people over fears of racism.
Health officials in Lincoln County, Oregon, which is inhabited by roughly 50,000 people, issued the order for any situation in which individuals might come within 6 feet of another person, but “heightened concerns about racial profiling and harassment” mean that nonwhite people aren’t required to abide by the rule, according to the New York Post.
The decision to exempt nonwhite people from wearing masks comes as some have attempted to make the case that minorities are in danger when required to wear masks.
“For many black people, deciding whether or not to wear a bandana in public to protect themselves and others from contracting coronavirus is a lose-lose situation that can result in life-threatening consequences either way,” American Civil Liberties Union Racial Justice Program Director ReNika Moore said to CNN in April.
An article published by Stat News in early June displayed the headline: “‘Which death do they choose?’: Many Black men fear wearing a mask more than the coronavirus.”
“When the CDC issued guidelines in early March asking people to wear masks to prevent the spread of coronavirus, the question for many Black men was not where to get a mask or which kind,” the article said. “It was: How do I cover my face and not get shot?”
California, Oregon’s neighbor to the south, recently imposed a similar rule, with Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom mandating that face masks be worn in public places, which has resulted in pushback from many residents, and some officials have said they won’t enforce the rule.
A county in Oregon has issued an order requiring face masks to be worn in public but has exempted nonwhite people over fears of racism.
Health officials in Lincoln County, Oregon, which is inhabited by roughly 50,000 people, issued the order for any situation in which individuals might come within 6 feet of another person, but “heightened concerns about racial profiling and harassment” mean that nonwhite people aren’t required to abide by the rule, according to the New York Post.
The decision to exempt nonwhite people from wearing masks comes as some have attempted to make the case that minorities are in danger when required to wear masks.
“For many black people, deciding whether or not to wear a bandana in public to protect themselves and others from contracting coronavirus is a lose-lose situation that can result in life-threatening consequences either way,” American Civil Liberties Union Racial Justice Program Director ReNika Moore said to CNN in April.
An article published by Stat News in early June displayed the headline: “‘Which death do they choose?’: Many Black men fear wearing a mask more than the coronavirus.”
“When the CDC issued guidelines in early March asking people to wear masks to prevent the spread of coronavirus, the question for many Black men was not where to get a mask or which kind,” the article said. “It was: How do I cover my face and not get shot?”
California, Oregon’s neighbor to the south, recently imposed a similar rule, with Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom mandating that face masks be worn in public places, which has resulted in pushback from many residents, and some officials have said they won’t enforce the rule.
Obviously that Oregon county wants a participation trophy in the racial divide category. What’s next, separate busses? Restrooms? Water fountains? Oh wait, those things have been done before....
A county in Oregon has issued an order requiring face masks to be worn in public but has exempted nonwhite people over fears of racism.
Health officials in Lincoln County, Oregon, which is inhabited by roughly 50,000 people, issued the order for any situation in which individuals might come within 6 feet of another person, but “heightened concerns about racial profiling and harassment” mean that nonwhite people aren’t required to abide by the rule, according to the New York Post.
The decision to exempt nonwhite people from wearing masks comes as some have attempted to make the case that minorities are in danger when required to wear masks.
“For many black people, deciding whether or not to wear a bandana in public to protect themselves and others from contracting coronavirus is a lose-lose situation that can result in life-threatening consequences either way,” American Civil Liberties Union Racial Justice Program Director ReNika Moore said to CNN in April.
An article published by Stat News in early June displayed the headline: “‘Which death do they choose?’: Many Black men fear wearing a mask more than the coronavirus.”
“When the CDC issued guidelines in early March asking people to wear masks to prevent the spread of coronavirus, the question for many Black men was not where to get a mask or which kind,” the article said. “It was: How do I cover my face and not get shot?”
California, Oregon’s neighbor to the south, recently imposed a similar rule, with Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom mandating that face masks be worn in public places, which has resulted in pushback from many residents, and some officials have said they won’t enforce the rule.
On the surface, I admit this looks like another example over over-blown attempts to be politically correct. But then you get to the part where it says, the question for many Black men was not where to get a mask or which
kind,” the article said. “It was: How do I cover my face and not get
shot?”, then it makes sense assuming that means "If I'm black and I cover my mace someone may think I'm a robber and might shoot me." I don't know how likely that is, but I'm not black so I don't know how fearful I would be wearing a mask if I were black.
Thanks for making a complex situation worse, COVID-19.
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
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There are no kings inside the gates of eden
There are no kings inside the gates of eden
There are no kings inside the gates of eden
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The modern music industry is built almost entirely on Black art. The wealth that rightfully belonged to Black artists was stolen outright and to this day continues to grow outside their communities. No one artist could come close to paying the debt we owe to the Black originators of our modern music and their children and grandchildren. As an individual I have recognized the unfairness of the life I live in relation to the deprivation of people whose work mine is but a shadow of. I’ve tried to compensate for those inequities in both my public and private life. It hasn’t been enough.
I’ve often thought there should be an industry-wide plan to address this enormous injustice. Considering that our business prides itself on its progressive ideals and commitments to social justice, I’ve waited, thinking we would eventually put some type of sustained tithing in place — some initiative that would allow us all to redirect a portion of our revenue to the communities that have been deprived of it. I’ve resisted being the one to initiate such a plan for reasons I find unpersuasive now. I feel it’s important to pledge my personal commitment to paying this debt, and to publicly ask every one of my peers to work toward doing the same.
What I propose going forward is a program that allows songwriters and musicians to direct a percentage of their “writer’s share” revenue to organizations that assist and support Black communities. This could take the shape of a box to check on rights management contracts, putting it at the foundation of our business. Or it could take another shape entirely. I don’t possess the expertise to manifest this initiative, but I can begin to do my part by committing 5% of my writer revenue to organizations that are working toward racial justice, which include but are not limited to Movement for Black Lives and Black Women’s Blueprint.
To BMI, ASCAP, SESAC, and all other organizations that collect and disburse songwriter’s royalties, I ask you to please investigate a way to implement such a program. To industry leaders: please join me in forming a coalition. My small contribution alone is a sincere but insufficient gesture. Hundreds of us joining together could provide some tremendous relief. Thousands of us committing to a reparations initiative could change our business and the world we live in. Black Lives Matter. Thank you.
- Jeff Tweedy
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/06/1619-s06.html
There are no kings inside the gates of eden
The idea of race was not legally codified in the Virginia colony until decades after that 1619 ship *accidentally* arrived, and those first "slaves" in 1619, were actually treated as indentured servants and freed after their seven year period, the same way every indentured servant was. There was a small community of free black people living in Virginia throughout the 17th century until the plantation system took hold, the Triangular Trade Route was established, and the laws began to change to exploit the need for labor. It was only after that time that you begin to see in the primary documents the devaluing of human life and the escalation of cruelty that we now think of with slavery. In the words of Frederick Douglass himself (actually a terrible paraphrase), the institution of slavery works on the mind of the master as much as it works on the mind of the slave. The authors of this article are not the first to posit that racism as a concept was a result of slavery, not the cause of it. I've seen it in the historical research of the period, I've actually quoted it in papers I wrote, and I've looked specifically at the evolution of the language of the Virginia Code with my own eyes.
The authors of this article are not disputing that slavery for Africans was horrible. They are disputing the way the author of the 1619 Project is trying to make it seem like racism is a permanent, innate feature of being white, absent of historical context of the way slavery, emancipation, and the fight for civil rights actually evolved in Europe and the Americas. The author is critiquing the way the capitalist elite power structures, since the dismantling of slavery, have used race as a way to divide the poor and working class who have more in common in their *current* oppression than the race theorists would have us believe (if you were got to the end of the article to see this). Neither view works well for any of us, black or white, and we need to be aware of it.
As someone who watched the movie Selma the other night with tears streaming down my face for a good portion of the movie, I am highly compassionate toward specific injustices carried out toward African Americans. I am not apologizing for being white, nor am I excusing away the resentments of others. I am just highly suspect of simplistic "us versus them, good versus evil" arguments about what is right and what is wrong. On June 10, I attended a seminar with a prominent African American educator who asked the very question: Do the young people on the streets even know their own history? Have we taught them that history? This article just asks that same question in a different way, and suggests the current way the 1619 Project is framing history is just flat out wrong.
Fascinating and educating post. what dreams, thanks!
So all of this shit stiring was due to a freaking garage door pull rope...just wow...
The FBI came in and found it to be there since last year and was not meant as a racial gesture.
I am glad it was nothing. I'm glad that the WHOLE NASCAR TEAMS rallied around Bubba Wallace. I am glad that NASCAR had the FBI due their due diligence quickly.
Usually I would agree with you but this to me was handled right.
I also follow NASCAR so I didn't get any info from any other source about this as I can only imagine what it was like from other news outlets.
Also, why did it warrant FBI to investigate? If it was meant for Bubba, yes that’s horrible. But couldn’t local police investigate first? Or, even better, NASCAR take 10 minutes to ask some questions and probably would have learned it had been there almost a year and maybe longer.
Seems like the natural progression would be for NASCAR to to a little digging within. Then reach out to local police if needed, then they ask for FBI assistance if needed. I’m guessing because of the publicity they skipped all that, but there’s a reason to not immediately jump and send 15 federal agents.
Now can Bubba Wallace win a race and close the deal?
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Its not about Bubba. He can win a race, I really don’t care about NASCAR that much. But it seems like if the people involved did just a little due diligence it could have saved a lot of time, money and resources.
Oregon county imposes face mask requirement targeting only white people, minorities exempt over racism fears
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/oregon-county-imposes-face-mask-requirement-targeting-only-white-people-minorities-exempt-over-racism-fear
A county in Oregon has issued an order requiring face masks to be worn in public but has exempted nonwhite people over fears of racism.
Health officials in Lincoln County, Oregon, which is inhabited by roughly 50,000 people, issued the order for any situation in which individuals might come within 6 feet of another person, but “heightened concerns about racial profiling and harassment” mean that nonwhite people aren’t required to abide by the rule, according to the New York Post.
The decision to exempt nonwhite people from wearing masks comes as some have attempted to make the case that minorities are in danger when required to wear masks.
“For many black people, deciding whether or not to wear a bandana in public to protect themselves and others from contracting coronavirus is a lose-lose situation that can result in life-threatening consequences either way,” American Civil Liberties Union Racial Justice Program Director ReNika Moore said to CNN in April.
An article published by Stat News in early June displayed the headline: “‘Which death do they choose?’: Many Black men fear wearing a mask more than the coronavirus.”
“When the CDC issued guidelines in early March asking people to wear masks to prevent the spread of coronavirus, the question for many Black men was not where to get a mask or which kind,” the article said. “It was: How do I cover my face and not get shot?”
California, Oregon’s neighbor to the south, recently imposed a similar rule, with Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom mandating that face masks be worn in public places, which has resulted in pushback from many residents, and some officials have said they won’t enforce the rule.
Pearl Jam bootlegs:
http://wegotshit.blogspot.com
Oh wait, those things have been done before....