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Post by code on Apr 15, 2022 0:41:25 GMT
Suspect Frank James was spewing racist hate years before Brooklyn subway shootingBy Miranda Devine April 13, 2022 How did Frank R. James, the apparent black nationalist arrested for Tuesday’s subway rampage, become radicalized? The social media rants of the 62-year-old suspect reveal a man consumed with hatred of white people and convinced of a looming race war. “O black Jesus, please kill all the whiteys,” was one meme he posted.
He could use a bro, just saying
and I haven't heard whitey in while
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Race
Jun 18, 2022 15:35:35 GMT
Post by code on Jun 18, 2022 15:35:35 GMT
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Post by code on Jun 20, 2022 19:11:23 GMT
Overlooked No More: William B. Gould, Escaped Slave and Civil War DiaristHe served nearly three years in the U.S. Navy and documented almost all of it, leaving an invaluable record of Black life during the war.
 Gould picked up his trade skills where he left them before the war, working as a plasterer and eventually as a contractor. While helping to oversee the construction of St. Mary’s Church in Dedham, he noticed that a few of his employees had fallen asleep while laying cement, which dried incorrectly. Gould knew that the mistake would likely go unnoticed, but that it could also lead to serious damage years in the future. He had the work torn down and redone, a costly decision that almost bankrupted his business but, as word about it spread, won him significant esteem around town.
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Jun 20, 2022 19:42:17 GMT
Post by missouriboy on Jun 20, 2022 19:42:17 GMT
Overlooked No More: William B. Gould, Escaped Slave and Civil War DiaristHe served nearly three years in the U.S. Navy and documented almost all of it, leaving an invaluable record of Black life during the war.
Gould picked up his trade skills where he left them before the war, working as a plasterer and eventually as a contractor. While helping to oversee the construction of St. Mary’s Church in Dedham, he noticed that a few of his employees had fallen asleep while laying cement, which dried incorrectly. Gould knew that the mistake would likely go unnoticed, but that it could also lead to serious damage years in the future. He had the work torn down and redone, a costly decision that almost bankrupted his business but, as word about it spread, won him significant esteem around town.
A display of personal honor and integrity so lacking at times. |
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Race
Jan 17, 2023 15:57:43 GMT
Post by code on Jan 17, 2023 15:57:43 GMT
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Post by code on Jan 17, 2023 16:08:11 GMT
A comment in the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2022/12/01/business/economy/california-black-reparations.html#commentsContainerBill FL Dec. 1, 2022 The concept of reparations has several problems: 1. Slavery ended in 1865. Only a small minority of White Americans owned slaves and most White Americans descend from immigrants who arrived post-1865 and did not own slaves, and thus do not owe reparations. 2. Many Blacks do not descend from slaves and thus are not owed reparations. 3. Some Blacks descend from African tribes that captured other Africans and sold them into slavery and thus owe reparations. 4. Several thousand Black Americans owned slaves; will their descendants owe reparations? 5. Will payments to Blacks of mixed race be pro-rated on percentage of Black/slave ancestry? 6. Do all Americans have to pay reparations, or only Whites and other non-Blacks? 7. Will rich Blacks receive reparations? 8. Will illegal immigrants receive or pay reparations? 9. Will payments to Blacks be reduced by amounts paid for welfare, affirmative action and other benefits they and their ancestors received since 1865? 10. Will reparations end affirmative action for Blacks? 11. What about reparations for Native Americans, who lost so much land and were subjected to genocide? 12. Poor Whites and poor Hispanics far outnumber poor Blacks; shouldn’t all poor people receive payments? 13. Will descendants of Northern Whites who fought or died in the Civil War to free the slaves have to pay reparations? 14. Will the Supreme Court approve reparations since they are clearly based on racial criteria? |
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Jan 17, 2023 18:23:39 GMT
Post by code on Jan 17, 2023 18:23:39 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Jan 17, 2023 18:33:01 GMT
Are the Irish saying ... "Hey! What about us?" I think that a few more might be added to that list. But they have the wrong political affiliation? |
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Post by Sigurdur on Jan 18, 2023 13:36:20 GMT
Are the Irish saying ... "Hey! What about us?" I think that a few more might be added to that list. But they have the wrong political affiliation? How much Irish would I need? Problem is, I don't have any debt to claim. Should I run out and do something stupid?? 🤔 |
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Post by missouriboy on Jan 18, 2023 16:23:04 GMT
Are the Irish saying ... "Hey! What about us?" I think that a few more might be added to that list. But they have the wrong political affiliation? How much Irish would I need? Problem is, I don't have any debt to claim. Should I run out and do something stupid?? 🤔 A rush to entitlement compensation will not help those with an entitlement persuasion. Only they can do that. |
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Post by code on Jan 20, 2023 19:50:12 GMT
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Post by slh1234 on Jan 20, 2023 21:45:20 GMT
A comment in the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2022/12/01/business/economy/california-black-reparations.html#commentsContainerBill FL Dec. 1, 2022 The concept of reparations has several problems: 1. Slavery ended in 1865. Only a small minority of White Americans owned slaves and most White Americans descend from immigrants who arrived post-1865 and did not own slaves, and thus do not owe reparations. 2. Many Blacks do not descend from slaves and thus are not owed reparations. 3. Some Blacks descend from African tribes that captured other Africans and sold them into slavery and thus owe reparations. 4. Several thousand Black Americans owned slaves; will their descendants owe reparations? 5. Will payments to Blacks of mixed race be pro-rated on percentage of Black/slave ancestry? 6. Do all Americans have to pay reparations, or only Whites and other non-Blacks? 7. Will rich Blacks receive reparations? 8. Will illegal immigrants receive or pay reparations? 9. Will payments to Blacks be reduced by amounts paid for welfare, affirmative action and other benefits they and their ancestors received since 1865? 10. Will reparations end affirmative action for Blacks? 11. What about reparations for Native Americans, who lost so much land and were subjected to genocide? 12. Poor Whites and poor Hispanics far outnumber poor Blacks; shouldn’t all poor people receive payments? 13. Will descendants of Northern Whites who fought or died in the Civil War to free the slaves have to pay reparations? 14. Will the Supreme Court approve reparations since they are clearly based on racial criteria? I don't even try to speak on it anymore, but it's frustrating, and I'm beat down. I'm 1/4 Cherokee, and the lineage is such that I am blue eyed. Couple that with the fact that so many people who really cannot claim native blood have suddenly discovered or declared themselves to be Cherokee in recent years. People will always look at it suspiciously when I actually claim to be what I am. But then, it really did count when we adopted my son (who is 1/2 Timbisha Shoshone) since we fell into the second (I believe) consideration for adoption under the Native American Child Welfare Act and we were allowed to adopt him. But my family is also proud, and always taught me that I should not expect special consideration for anything, and if anything, I should be striving to be better than anybody else at anything I did. They credited Benjamin Franklin for saying "Anything worth doing is worth doing well" and that was a philosophy I was raised with. I always hated the race question in school because I would be asked what race I am, but I'm not one race. Choosing one race seemed to me to be choosing one part of my family over another, and that never seemed right. The school always wanted me to put "American Indian" because it made their metrics look good. As I got old enough to understand statistics, I realized all those racial distribution charts for schools or other populations are built on this question, and that question was designed so that they could have pie charts with nice sharp edges. But I'm a fuzzy edge in there. There are no fuzzy edges in their charts, though. I began to resent that race question more when I had kids of my own because my biological kids are 1/2 Korean, and that adopted son is 1/2 Timbisha Shoshone (which is only distantly related to Cherokees since Cherokees were a southeastern tribe before removal, and Timbisha were/are the people of Death Valley, CA.) And what are my biological kids supposed to answer. (Note: All of my kids are adults with all but one being in their 30s) I'm perfectly comfortable when, in our discussions, my biological kids will say things like "I'm Asian" or "I'm Korean" because that is true in the context they are discussing - not disowning me. However; my younger daughter was very stressed after the George Floyd murder and just started declaring "I'm Asian" in all public aspects in a way that almost seems to target severing herself from me in order to identify as a minority in a way to feel marginalized. My older daughter still maintains my attitude. At work, it has begun to feel like I'm constantly under attack because I'm "white" and I won't say anything to try to escape the discomfort (And in truth, I AM white. It's just that's not the whole story. This is consistent with my kids saying they're Asian/Korean/Timbisha - they are. It's just that's not the whole story). I don't feel guilt over being white, and don't feel guilt for things done long before I was born. In truth, my family search leads to irish, dutch, Cherokee, Scottish, and apparently English although we can't really trace the origin of that name. They were too poor to own slaves so far as any branch I know of, and in fact, there are stories of mistreatment of one of my Cherokee ancestors who took in war orphans near the end of the civil war - she was attacked and almost killed, her food stolen, and her house burned, and it was only due to the actions of one of the orphans she took in (who was white) that her life was saved. I recorded it as a family story, but I can't change those things, and grieving for them doesn't change anything for me, nor help any of my kids or family that I actually can affect. I have worked wherever I lived in relief areas where I could including orphanage work in Korea, and working to establish computer science programs in poor schools in Mexico. I did those things because my Christian upbringing taught me I SHOULD be doing these things, so I have always WANTED to do these things. They don't count in today's ideas of "diversity" in the US, though. I never did them to show them to anybody at work and don't want to share them, not because I'm ashamed of any of it, but because of Jesus' words about not doing charitable works to be seen by men. In my view, my family is the picture of diversity, but I've been told in recent months "You're not diverse. You're white." (That doesn't even make grammatical sense, much less look to see what/who I am) In the last couple of years, I've started counting the months until I can actually retire. I think my company will probably like that since they've been saying in so many words that the company has "too many old, white men." I never looked forward to retirment until recently, and never felt like I was ostracized by generation gap, but I do now, and this racial issue is the main thing. Truthfully, I still like the technical work I do, but all the other stuff at work that makes me feel constantly attacked has begun to stress me to the point of losing sleep, and when I get that stressed, I am not as good of a husband or a grandfather as I can be, and this bothers me. At this point, I don't even want to discuss it with people anymore. They already have their ideas set, and they are not willing to listen even to stories like mine because they don't fit their ideas and stereotypes. I don't want to tell anybody outside of family who I am racially - I just want them to consider me to be human. It's a shame that I feel like I have to put a PS on this, but ... I don't think my story compares with African Americans, or for that matter, you can't even compare the Cherokee Trail of Tears with the Timbisha story. We all have had hardships, and every group's story is unique. I just want my race to be considered "human." Ironically, I feel more like that is the case when I'm working in Mexico or East Asia than it is when I am working in the US. For that matter, these days, it's even difficult to talk to one of my daughters (which includes two of my grandkids). |
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Post by missouriboy on Jan 21, 2023 0:23:49 GMT
I'm glad I retired before the diversity thing became manic. People don't fit into neat descriptive boxes, and shouldn't be forced to. Bean counters count beans. If they are told to find more blue beans, they find more blue beans. Nobody should be manipulated or discriminated against for something they had/have no control over. Everybody should apologize for being an asshole. Some people have more to apologize for than others. Based on sight alone, the USGS was the whitest place I ever did work. But dig a bit and there was a huge amount of diversity ... at least as much as every body there.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by their character. (MLK) One can substitute many other words for color and still be correct.
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Post by flearider on Jan 21, 2023 18:52:36 GMT
never judge a man/women on the colour of there skin ... just judge them on being a cunt or not .. simples ...
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Jan 22, 2023 1:13:50 GMT
Post by ratty on Jan 22, 2023 1:13:50 GMT
never judge a man/women on the colour of there skin ... just judge them on being a cunt or notcharacter .. simples ... It is how Konstantin Kisin framed it during the Oxford Union Debate.  |
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