Claire Ortiz @clairityortiz wrote:
My baby girl child and her boo. His parents disowned him for having a black gf. We welcomed him w open arms, obvi.
Imagine the hate you’d hv to hv to disown your child. Like completely estranged…it’s sad. It really broke my daughters heart too. To be hated so much, for nothing.
Jeff Thompson @jeff_thompson wrote:
Such a gorgeous couple. She looks so much like you. It breaks my heart they had to go through this
Claire Ortiz @clairityortiz wrote:
Thank you, Jeff.
It is heartbreaking. But also karmic…he was raised by hateful Louisiana, MAGA racists. Goes off to college.
Scores a black, smart, pretty, student athlete from Cali.
Moves to LA, her liberal mom gets him his 1st engineering job. And they start their lives.
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
Birmingham private school assignment compares Barack Obama to monkeys
The assignment was passed out in the high school biology class earlier this month. The Birmingham private school prides itself on diversity and an alternative education, which costs up to $30,000 each year.
But this month, the curriculum passed out to students instructed students to pick from a gallery of photos labeled apes, monkeys, and lemurs. And there, in the second row, is former President Barack Obama.
FOX 2 obtained a photo of the school assignment from someone who was appalled at the racist messaging, which came from a teacher.
However, FOX 2 also obtained the letter that was sent to parents that explained the worksheet was taken from a 'highly regarded university' website and assigned in a high school biology class.
I am really curious what 'highly regarded university' they pulled this from and what the context was...
Also, the teacher's excuse that they simply did not 'vett' the assignment well enough, if it was true, is not actually much better and should get them fired for gross incompetence.
This is really weird. This school has a diverse board and the staff is not all white (one of the science teachers appears to be Islamic and maybe of Middle Eastern descent). I thought, at first, Detroit suburb private school maybe got the material from Hillsdale College but after looking into the school, I am confused as to how that might have happened.
I will reserve full judgment on how that happened until I hear more. If a teacher is not checking the material ahead of time, that is a big problem even if they didn't end up with the worksheet they had.
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears… To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies." -Octavia E. Butler
Dave from down under wrote: ↑Fri May 20, 2022 10:10 pm
He’s just saying the quiet part out loud…
Systematic racism, of which he is an agent, results in a greater proportion of African-American mortality than white.
And he is fine with that outcome.
14 words.
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
This planet....I don't think I want to live on it anymore...
"He sewed his eyes shut because he is afraid to see, He tries to tell me what I put inside of me
He's got the answers to ease my curiosity, He dreamed a god up and called it Christianity"
Walmart apologizes, pulls ‘Juneteenth ice cream’ after online backlash Critics accused the retail giant of commercializing a solemn holiday meant to commemorate the end of American slavery
By Jacob Bogage
May 24, 2022 at 1:42 p.m. EDT
Walmart pulled “Juneteenth ice cream” from its freezers and apologized Tuesday after a social media backlash and accusations of commercializing a holiday meant to commemorate the end of American slavery.
The retail giant was set to sell “swirled red velvet and cheesecake” ice cream in a container adorned with Pan-African colors and an image of two Black hands high-fiving each other. “Share and celebrate African American culture, emancipation and enduring hope,” the label read.
But the product drew swift online condemnations from users who accused the retailer of treating a solemn day as a moneymaking vehicle.
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In a statement to Fox television stations, which first reported on the products, the company said it would “remove items as appropriate” as it reviews its Juneteenth products.
“Juneteenth holiday marks a celebration of freedom and independence,” Walmart’s statement said. “However, we received feedback that a few items caused concern for some of our customers and we sincerely apologize.”
The company did not respond to a request for comment from The Washington Post.
Walmart’s website on Tuesday offered a wide array of Juneteenth products, including a T-shirt with a word cloud of social justice and Black empowerment themed phrases in the shape of Africa and Juneteenth party decorations.
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
New York fund apologizes for role in Tuskegee syphilis study
For almost 40 years starting in the 1930s, as government researchers purposely let hundreds of Black men die of syphilis in Alabama so they could study the disease, a foundation in New York covered funeral expenses for the deceased. The payments were vital to survivors of the victims in a time and place ravaged by poverty and racism.
Altruistic as they might sound, the checks — $100 at most — were no simple act of charity: They were part of an almost unimaginable scheme. To get the money, widows or other loved ones had to consent to letting doctors slice open the bodies of the dead men for autopsies that would detail the ravages of a disease the victims were told was “bad blood.”
Fifty years after the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study was revealed to the public and halted, the organization that made those funeral payments, the Milbank Memorial Fund, publicly apologized Saturday to descendants of the study's victims. The move is rooted in America's racial reckoning after George Floyd's murder by police in 2020.
The apology and an accompanying monetary donation to a descendants' group, the Voices for Our Fathers Legacy Foundation, were presented during a ceremony in Tuskegee at a gathering of children and other relatives of men who were part of the study.
Endowed in 1905 by Elizabeth Milbank Anderson, part of a wealthy and well-connected New York family, the fund was one of the nation's first private foundations. The nonprofit philanthropy had some $90 million in assets in 2019, according to tax records, and an office on Madison Avenue in Manhattan. With an early focus on child welfare and public health, today it concentrates on health policy at the state level.
"Mickey Mouse and I grew up together." - Ruthie Tompson, Disney animation checker and scene planner and one of the first women to become a member of the International Photographers Union in 1952.
"Mickey Mouse and I grew up together." - Ruthie Tompson, Disney animation checker and scene planner and one of the first women to become a member of the International Photographers Union in 1952.
You'll be astonished to learn that California State University, Long Beach University Police have different policies for Black faculty than they do white faculty.
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“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
Black firefighter: Captain pressured him to go to party with Trump cutout and fried chicken display
A Black firefighter notified the city of Rochester and the fire department that employs him of his intent to sue after he said he was pressured into attending a racist party disguised as a community event. During a news conference covered by WROC-TV on Aug. 11, Jerrod Jones described an environment with cutouts of former President Donald Trump and Juneteenth flags with buckets of Kentucky Fried Chicken "prominently displayed" nearby.
Jones, who has worked for the Rochester Fire Department for 14 years, said his captain, Jeffrey Krywy, took him and two other subordinates to the private party on July 7. While there, Jones watched Krywy collect a party favor bag with Cognac and a Juneteenth cup inside of it.
"It means a lot to me when I put that uniform on,” Jones said during the news conference, “and I've always wanted to represent my city in the correct manner, in a decent manner, honorable manner.
“And what I had to experience a month ago it cut me very deeply."
Rochester Mayor Malik Evans said in a statement CNN obtained on Tuesday that the city completed and internal investigation and Krywy, who wasn’t named in Jones’ notice of claim, decided to retire before the city began its termination proceedings against him.
Attorney for Jones is unhappy.
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Nate McMurray, Jones' attorney, responded to the statement in a Twitter thread. “The mayor of Rochester put out a statement this morning saying the captain involved in the racist incident is retiring,” McMurray tweeted. “Thus—presumably—full pension. Further, the Mayor says they’ve done an investigation. In other words, ‘All good.’”
He continued, that it's not all good:
“Here are the facts: He has yet to call my client—although he held a press conference at the same moment my client did at the same location on a different topic—why? The fire chief has also yet to call my client.
There has not been an independent review of how this happened and who was involved. There are no concrete changes to guarantee it can never happen again. And my client remains at risk, subject to threats and a hostile workplace, just years away from his own well earned pension.
The fact that this very limited and carefully crafted statement comes only after my client went public is troubling. Assuming the well intent of the mayor, he should understand that the people of Rochester demand more. And even the elected officials contacting me demand more.”
McMurray added that Rochester police and fire department members have contacted him wanting, “real change, not a quick sweep under the rug.”
"Mickey Mouse and I grew up together." - Ruthie Tompson, Disney animation checker and scene planner and one of the first women to become a member of the International Photographers Union in 1952.
Mr. Christopher @iamalmostlegend wrote:
Follow-up to the Black Firefighter in Rochester, NY who filed a discrimination lawsuit after attending a party mocking Juneteenth with KFC buckets.
The host couple turned on the White tears and “cancel culture can be cruel,” but watch what’s discovered at the end:
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
Mr. Christopher @iamalmostlegend wrote:
Follow-up to the Black Firefighter in Rochester, NY who filed a discrimination lawsuit after attending a party mocking Juneteenth with KFC buckets.
The host couple turned on the White tears and “cancel culture can be cruel,” but watch what’s discovered at the end:
Those performances rival Rittenhouse’s.
Here’s one of her anonymous not a racist tweets from the same thread.