Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 08, 2022 3:52 am
What’s the big deal with beads ?
It’s a traditional Black hairstyle, so it must be outlawed. They usually won’t straight up outlaw it, but will instead consider it ornamental like jewelry and insist they be removed. The Crown Act will protect against discrimination based on race-based hairstyles.
There is an element of danger with the beads, though. One of the Williams sisters, I forget which, lost a bunch out of her hair in the middle of a match. Had someone stepped on a missed bead, there could have been real consequences.
There were reasons for the accident though (temp extensions?) I dont think inventing a no bead rule in the middle of a game is a very good solution.
When I played volleyball, we weren't allowed to have anything in our hair except rubber-like ties or headbands - no hairclips or scrunchies, definitely no barrettes or bobby pins. No earrings, necklaces, bracelets, rings. It was considered a safety factor. But in a power lifting competition, I can't imagine any of these, or hair beads, being a safety factor. (Maybe rings.)
“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
If you click a few levels through the various embedded links, you'll find the name of the person who made the gasp-worthy comment, and then if you search based on that, you'll find that his own son came out and disavowed him publicly, which gives me some hope. Some.
But the sunshine aye shall light the sky,
As round and round we run;
And the truth shall ever come uppermost,
And justice shall be done.
- Charles Mackay, "Eternal Justice"
Yeah, that is one issue with blaming parents for everything or expecting the child to be the same. Sometimes the kid turns out to go in a completely different direction. Granted, sometimes this means they go in a bad direction, but it is always something to remember. If we understood why this happens (or why some students retain the school learning later in life), we could make life all perfect. Sadly, we don't so we muddle on.
Stereotypes are bad. Having a bias against a family because of the parents can mean we lose the student as well. Some turn out like their parent because we expect them to so we do not give them a chance.
Lol, I didn't know where to put it either, I choose the Carlson thread. We already knew he was a real piece of work, but I didn't know Penn Law had that level of a racism issue.
“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
raison de arizona wrote: ↑Mon Apr 11, 2022 2:11 pm
Lol, I didn't know where to put it either, I choose the Carlson thread. We already knew he was a real piece of work, but I didn't know Penn Law had that level of a racism issue.
Right? As I was overthinking the choices, I decided that it wasn't about Carlson. Ergo. I'm so relieved you've got it covered!
Tenured Penn Law professor Amy Wax reiterated racist remarks against Asian and Black Americans, retaliating against the University's recent decision to initiate sanctions against her.
Wax, who has worked at Penn for two decades, decried the current state of higher education and the conservative political movement in the United States. This is not the first time Wax has made headlines for discriminatory rhetoric, as her anti-Asian remarks earlier this month ignited an online firestorm and strong reactions from the University community and local politicians.
"Given the realities of different rates of crime, different average IQs, people have to accept without apology that Blacks are not going to be evenly distributed throughout all occupations. They're just not, and that’s not a problem. That’s not due to racism," Wax said in an interview with Concordia University professor Gad Saad on Jan. 24.
Ryan Shead @RyanShead wrote:
This would be a young Black girl having beads removed from her hair during a power lifting competition after a judge was going to disqualify her over them.
This angers me past words, honestly!
This is why we needed the #CrownAct in the first place.
I didn't realize this had happened in a very small Mississippi town. A couple thousand people at most.
Girls from schools Campbell was competing against gathered around her to help take the beads out in time for her next lift. Girls like Jorja Roberson from East Union High School, who was going up against Campbell in the same weight class.
“We were just trying to give her an opportunity to still compete,” she said. “Because it’s not fair to her to not have that opportunity because of something so small.”
“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
"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.
It's possible they are missing the point of Juneteenth and instead hijacking it.
“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
It's possible they are missing the point of Juneteenth and instead hijacking it.
I can find out. Let me check around. The sponsors include a Back business and a nonprofit.
"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.
I might consider that seeing the lack of diversity on the speaker list however, I do see the Urban League of the State of Arkansas is sponsoring it (not to mention the Boy Scouts and the Boys and Girls Club). I cannot easily say they are hijacking it without more info.
Actually, it has been canceled already. Apparently, the organizer, Muskie Harris, took heat for what was a proof for the ad,, not a published ad (it leaked out).
That said, with Muskie Harris being the organizer (hint, he is a person of color), I don't think I would call it a hijack, just possibly sloppy, though I don't have all the facts or the time to find out.
Muskie Harris is a local Black entrepreneur and politico.
"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.
northland10 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:44 pm
I might consider that seeing the lack of diversity on the speaker list however, I do see the Urban League of the State of Arkansas is sponsoring it (not to mention the Boy Scouts and the Boys and Girls Club). I cannot easily say they are hijacking it without more info.
Those aren't sponsors, they are the ones who would have benefited.
northland10 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:44 pm
I might consider that seeing the lack of diversity on the speaker list however, I do see the Urban League of the State of Arkansas is sponsoring it (not to mention the Boy Scouts and the Boys and Girls Club). I cannot easily say they are hijacking it without more info.
Those aren't sponsors, they are the ones who would have benefited.
All the hosts are employed by white owned businesses. The Arkansas Democrat Gazette is owned by Walter Hussman who did not want Nikole Hannah-Jones to receive a full tenured position at North Carolina cuz she co-wrote the The 1619 Project and she's a Black woman.
"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.
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