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I'm tired of having to continually learn that what I thought were benign elements of our language, are actually mired in racism.

The Racial History Of The 'Grandfather Clause'

The 15th Amendment, which prohibited racial discrimination in voting, was ratified by the states in 1870. If you know your history, you'll realize that African-Americans were nevertheless kept from voting in large numbers in Southern states for nearly a century more.

Various states created requirements — literacy tests and poll taxes and constitutional quizzes — that were designed to keep blacks from registering to vote. But many poor Southern whites were at risk of also losing their rights because they could not have met such expectations.

"If all these white people are going to be noncitizens along with blacks, the idea is going to lose a lot of support," says James Smethurst, who teaches African-American studies at the University of Massachusetts.

The solution? A half-dozen states passed laws that made men eligible to vote if they had been able to vote before African-Americans were given the franchise (generally, 1867), or if they were the lineal descendants of voters back then.

This was called the grandfather clause. Most such laws were enacted in the early 1890s.

 

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They're really getting obvious in these efforts.

All-White Virginia School Board Tried to Be Slick, Bringing Back Proslavery Names to Piss Black Folks Off

An all-white, local Virginia school board must think they’re slick because they just voted to roll back the renaming of two schools commemorating Confederate military and pro-slavery icons Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and Turner Ashby.

In the wake of the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement, Virginia’s Shenandoah County school board changed the names of Stonewall Jackson High School and Ashby Lee Elementary School in Quicksburg, Virginia, to Mountain View High School and Honey Run Elementary School. Per American History, Jackson, Lee, and Ashby were all big on keeping Black people in bondage.

However, as reported by WTVR Richmond, the school board this week has voted 5-1 to reverse that decision and return to their roots, so to speak. The decision garnered celebrations from some and condemnation by others.

 

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They're really getting obvious in these efforts.

All-White Virginia School Board Tried to Be Slick, Bringing Back Proslavery Names to Piss Black Folks Off

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Seems about white: Justice Department and Department of Labor Secure Agreements with Tech Company to Resolve Discriminatory “Whites Only” Job Posting

 

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Racism and religious bigotry, all rolled into one sickening little package.

They took part in Apache ceremonies. Their schools expelled them for satanic activities

In October 2019, three teenage girls were punished for participating in a spiritual ceremony. Their Arizona school expelled two of them, and let the third off with a warning, citing their attendance as a violation of school policy and grounds for expulsion.

Caitlyn, now 18, says she and her friends were disciplined for participating in a Sunrise Dance, a traditional Native ceremony at the core of White Mountain Apache culture.

 

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Labour's fomer leader, Jeremy Corbyn, who assures us that he doesn't have an antisemitic bone in his body and that all suggestions to the contrary are zionist smears, also infamously liked this same image.

 

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Wow.

Sacramento high school biology final includes racist questions, targets students

A Luther Burbank High School freshman was surprised to read his full name included on a biology final. Not only that, but he was being ridiculed.

“In high school, there are individuals who are cross-eyed like (the name of a fellow student) and (the name of the student previously mentioned), which is a dominant trait. We call those individuals ‘weirdoes’. So, if you crossed two weirdoes (the two students named again), that are heterozygous for being cross-eyed, what is the offspring that would result?”

Many students in the class were targeted by first and last name on the exam. Teacher Alex Nguyen chose to describe these students by their ethnicities and physical features, and then paired them up, posing questions about what traits a theoretical child of these two students would have. On one question, the teacher wrote a disclaimer, saying “in no way do I promote students being sexually active,” but the student’s parents and other teachers at the school said that the implication of any sexual relationship between students is inappropriate.

I don't think promoting sexual relationships is the problem here. One of the other Qs:

 

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Caught on audio: Oakland Co. judge called self a 'new racist,' used gay slurs

An Oakland County Probate Court judge who was removed from her docket last week for "unprofessional conduct" made a series of comments about Black people and used gay slurs, including at least two against Oakland County Executive Dave Coulter, before her removal, according to audio recordings obtained by The Detroit News.

The six recordings were verified Thursday by Coulter's office and Oakland County Board of Commissioners Chairman David Woodward as being the voice of Probate Court Judge Kathleen Ryan. They include graphic statements about Coulter, who is gay, and refer to Black people in the United States as "lazy."

This quote really sells just how bad this woman is:

"Like I said before, I was not racist before. I f------ h---, I am now," Ryan said. "I really f----- am now. I can honestly say that. OK, I’m not systemically racist, I’m a new racist.

Ah, the new racist.

 

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Tyreek Hill: Police release body cam footage of detainment before Dolphins' season opener

The Miami-Dade Police Department released body camera footage on Monday afternoon from the incident that left both Miami Dolphins players Tyreek Hill and Calais Campbell detained briefly ahead of their season opener on Sunday.

Hill was detained by police after being pulled over on an apparent traffic stop while he was on his way to their game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, and he was seen in handcuffs on the ground just a few blocks away from Hard Rock Stadium. Campbell said he stopped to try and de-escalate the situation, and he was detained by police, too. Both players were released in time to play in the game as scheduled.

Miami-Dade Police Department Director Stephanie V. Daniels announced Sunday that one of the officers involved in theboth , incident was placed on administrative duties and that the incident was under investigation. Daniels released body camera footage Monday night, and Hill posted a very short message on social media shortly after.

This is the usual sickening situation of police officers abusing their power, but the response to it from the Miami-Dade Police Department, and their quick release of the videos from the officers' body cams, is encouraging. Also, the Dolphin's head office comments don't feel completely like the standard PR bullshit.

 

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... the response to it from the Miami-Dade Police Department, and their quick release of the videos from the officers' body cams, is encouraging. Also, the Dolphin's head office comments don't feel completely like the standard PR bullshit.

I'll believe it when they give the same level of response to an ordinary black motorist. In America nowadays, Fame, in too many instances, is an absolute defense. All this shows is, they have a good grasp of the optics of a situation.

 

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Republicans at work.

Watch: GOP Senator Goes Full Racist in Attack on Arab American Witness

Republican Senator John Neely Kennedy accused an Arab American activist of being a member of Hamas, in an incredibly racist tangent during a congressional hearing.

newrepublic.com

During a congressional hearing on hate crimes Tuesday, Republican Senator John Kennedy accused Maya Berry, the executive director of the Arab American Institute, of supporting terrorism.

Berry was invited to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the rise in hate crimes against Arab and Jewish Americans since October 7. Instead of hearing her thoughts, the Louisiana senator advanced an antagonistic and acrid line of questioning.

“You support Hamas, do you not?” asked Kennedy. Berry replied, to the applause of some in attendance, “Hamas is a foreign terrorist organization that I do not support, but you asking the executive director of the Arab American Institute that question very much puts the focus on the issue of hate in our country.”

The real kicker is Kennedy's response at the end here, especially considering recent draconian laws enforced by the Taliban.

“Sir, I think it’s exceptionally disappointing that you’re looking at an Arab American witness before you, and saying, ‘You support Hamas.’ I do not support Hamas,” Berry responded, before another interruption from Kennedy. “You know what’s disappointing to me,” the senator said. “You can’t bring yourself to say you don’t support UNRWA, you don’t support Hamas, you don’t support Hezbollah, and you don’t support Iran. You should hide your head in a bag”—a comment that elicited gasps from attendees.

 

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Pennsylvania college investigates swim team after racial slur is carved on student

A student at Gettysburg College in southern Pennsylvania has left the school after a campus investigation found the student responsible for etching a racial slur across another student's chest during a social gathering earlier this month.

The incident occurred on Sept. 6 during an informal gathering among the men's swim team at an on-campus residence, according to statements made by the college and the victim's family.

There, a student used a box cutter to write the N-word across their teammate's chest, the victim's family wrote in a statement published Friday in the campus newspaper, The Gettysburgian. The family added that their son was the only person of color at the gathering.

Read that headline again: The student was carved into. With a box cutter. Not "scratched," like other news services are reporting. Not "etched," as the following story states. A student cut six letters into another student. What's not reported in the story? There's been no arrest or criminal investigation, as far as I can find. This is a story about a school's inquiry. Amazing.

 

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Mike Lindell's new MyPillow price sparks "Nazi" claims

The price of a deal from MyPillow has sparked "white supremacist" accusations, as the value of the deal matches a neo-Nazi slogan.

www.newsweek.com

MyPillow posted an advertisement on X, formerly Twitter, on September 20 that their "Standard Classic MyPillow" which usually sells for between $29.99 and $49.98, was being marked down to $14.88.

This specific price of $14.88 raised eyebrows as, to keen observers, it is affiliated with white supremacists and online neo-Nazi groups.

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It's nice to have so much hate in your heart.

18 years for woman who hoped to destroy Baltimore power grid and spark a race war

US says ex-cons exchanged letters while in different prisons, then planned attack.

arstechnica.com

A Maryland woman was sentenced to 18 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release "for conspiring to destroy the Baltimore region power grid," the US Justice Department announced yesterday. Sarah Beth Clendaniel, 36, admitted as part of a plea agreement in May to conspiracy to damage energy facilities.

"Sarah Beth Clendaniel sought to 'completely destroy' the city of Baltimore by targeting five power substations as a means of furthering her violent white supremacist ideology," US Attorney General Merrick Garland said. The planned shooting attacks were prevented by law enforcement.

 

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Continuing the apparently never ending story of The Idiot Republican.

Idaho GOP stands behind Senator after racist outburst

A bipartisan forum in a small Latah County community took a turn when Republican Senate incumbent Dan Foreman stormed out of the event, following a racist outburst directed at a Native American candidate.

www.boisestatepublicradio.org

 

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This is one of the most hilarious things I've seen.

Props to Mr. Jourdon Anderson, his wife and descendants.

 

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Trump has made this possible.

Sen. Mike Braun said interracial marriage ruling should be left to states

In a media call on Tuesday, U.S Senator Mike Braun (R-Ind) said that the U.S. Supreme Court was wrong to legalize interracial marriage in a ruling that stretches back to Loving v. Virginia in 1967.

According to Braun, the decision should not have been made by the country’s highest court and instead been left to individual states. Even though some states had made interracial marriage illegal prior to the Supreme Court ruling.

But not to worry, as the Senator changed his mind later, once he was no doubt informed how racist he sounded:

On Tuesday evening, Braun sent out a statement saying he had “misunderstood a line of questioning that ended up being about interracial marriage” and condemned “racism in any form” saying there was “no question the Constitution prohibits discrimination of any kind based on race.”

But but, what about States Rights?!?!

Five hours earlier, however, during the press call, Braun had been explaining how he felt Roe v. Wade, the ruling that legalized abortions, should never have been a federal decision and been left to states to decide.

A reporter then asked Braun if he applied the same reasoning to decisions like Loving v. Virginia, which struck down state laws that made interracial marriages illegal.

Braun responded: “When it comes to issues, you can’t have it both ways. When you want that diversity to shine within our federal system, there are going to be rules and proceedings, they’re going to be out of sync with maybe what other states would do. It’s the beauty of the system, and that’s where the differences among points of view in our 50 states ought to express themselves.”

Someone is a little mixed up.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Jail for the 200 n bombs in ten minutes chick

 

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Jail for the 200 n bombs in ten minutes chick

I'm not a fan of the skill, but I have to admit she has talent.