How to end systemic racism?

[hutch]

We need something like this on a national scale.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/us/north-carolina-asheville-reparations/index.html

I don’t think we are going to get it

[grateful]

Maryland is trying -- for the 10th time -- to name a new state song.


What do you think it should be?

[sweetcell]

how to not end systemic racism: “It’s like stop and frisk meets Guantanamo Bay”

Trump Unleashes His Secret Police in Portland
In a dangerous authoritarian move, federal agents in camouflage and without badges are rounding up American citizens.

The Authoritarian Operation in Portland Is Only a Dress Rehearsal
A major American city is being softly Pinochet’ed in broad daylight.

(tip of the hat to Hutch on that last one...)

haven't seen a lot of mainstream reporting on this... hopefully it'll get picked up soon.

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The Authoritarian Operation in Portland Is Only a Dress Rehearsal
A major American city is being softly Pinochet’ed in broad daylight.

(tip of the hat to Hutch on that last one...)

haven't seen a lot of mainstream reporting on this... hopefully it'll get picked up soon.

it's all over twitter...and just checked NYT, USAtoday, TheHill and other media are running stories

[sweetcell]

not just portland, happened in columbus too:
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/columbus-paramilitary-police-with-assault-weapons-jump-out-of-unmarked-vans-to-abduct-protester/


yeay fascism!

[Dejecty-hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

how to not end systemic racism: “It’s like stop and frisk meets Guantanamo Bay”

Trump Unleashes His Secret Police in Portland
In a dangerous authoritarian move, federal agents in camouflage and without badges are rounding up American citizens.


haven't seen a lot of mainstream reporting on this... hopefully it'll get picked up soon.

Well this is awkward...when you agree with Rand Paul
Senator Rand Paul@RandPaul
We cannot give up liberty for security. Local law enforcement can and should be handling these situations in our cities but there is no place for federal troops or unidentified federal agents rounding people up at will.

[hutch]

Another traitor


A major one

Who cares what he says Sidehatch? Do you?

[sweetcell]

The Robert E Lee monument in downtown Richmond, VA on Saturday night.
 

[hutch]

That’s ending it right there!

[sweetcell]

dude, i think you need to get to bed

[Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT]

Page 9, huh? So I'm guessing the last 8 has just been people saying "Julian is correct, it is mandatory busing and the removal of private/home school options and there is no reason to propose anything else"?

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"Julian is correct"

That has been said....never?  (see here is a good job for GGW)

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Robert E. Lee High School renamed for John Lewis in Fairfax County

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Tom Cotton thinks he found a way to end it!
"Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) introduced a bill to cut off federal funding to public K-12 schools that teach the 1619 project, an interactive New York Times Magazine project aimed at re-examining America’s legacy of slavery that has come under fire from conservatives and some historians for alleged inaccuracies.

[sweetcell]

White supremacists posing as BLM protesters instigated Richmond riots: Police