No, No, Don't Worry. Racism is Pretty Much Over.

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oliver wrote:
12 Dec 2019, 11:23am
WestwayKid wrote:
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When we lived in Greensboro, our apartment complex was right beside a national park commemorating the Battle of Guilford Court House, the second last battle of the AmRev. We were there for about a year and a half before we found any public literature that explained that the American colonists, in fact, lost to the British in that battle (tho Cornwallis' army suffered significant casualties, leading to the final defeat Yorktown). Public history!
We're good about telling the history we want to tell... :mrgreen:
This is why I mostly hate museums—they're ideological (which is fine) but usually seek to mask it as neutral, or just plain excise complicating evidence or information.

A few years ago, the Boss was part of a consulting group to revamp parts of Canada's national museum. One of the other members sought to downplay the white supremacist zeal of John A. Macdonald, the country's first prime minister. Macdonald believed Canada was destined to be a great power and part of the destiny required exterminating the indigenous people, be it thru starvation or more gradually by placing them on isolated reserves. This person wanted Macdonald's words to this effect scrubbed because of their negative connotation in today's political climate. Among the perversities of this is that if Macdonald were reanimated, he'd want those words to stand—he was a loud and proud white supremacist. Yet this historian wanted that downplayed if not excised. Luckily, the other members stood against this person. But it's a good cautionary tale about how public history is constructed.
We approached our local historical society to have a discussion that are village included racist housing laws. African-Americans were barred from moving here through a series of racial covenants, but they refused to have anything to do with it. They said it was too political.

I live in the Village of Greendale. It was a public works project created by FDR during the Depression. There are 2 other "Greenbelt" towns in the US. They literally created the entire town from scratch and for the first decade it was owned by the government. You rented your house from Uncle Sam and all of the business were co-ops...so it was essentially a big experiment in socialism. People like to now take that history and paint it as very perfect and quaint. They don't want to muddy it up with discussing anything unsavory like racism. Sure, Greendale was a great opportunity if you were a poor white family, but if you were a family of color you need not have applied.
Greendale is listed on the Sundown Towns website but unconfirmed as officially blocking non-whites... I'm sure they'd appreciate the info you have even if the local historical society didn't
https://sundown.tougaloo.edu/sundowntow ... php?id=519
Thanks for the heads up. I passed along some info regarding Greendale's past: https://www4.uwm.edu/eti/Archives/Racia ... enants.pdf
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Black History Month is racist if it doesn't celebrate white people!
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 67206.html
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
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Black History Month is racist if it doesn't celebrate white people!
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 67206.html
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Kory wrote:
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
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Black History Month is racist if it doesn't celebrate white people!
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 67206.html
How does the Onion stay in business?
It's chiefly a mask for a human trafficking operation now.
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This fucking country.
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BostonBeaneater wrote:
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This fucking country.
They can't just wait for a jury of their peers to acquit after 15 minutes of "deliberation"?
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
08 May 2020, 2:49pm
BostonBeaneater wrote:
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This fucking country.
They can't just wait for a jury of their peers to acquit after 15 minutes of "deliberation"?
Look at these paint eaters.

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BostonBeaneater wrote:
08 May 2020, 3:07pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
08 May 2020, 2:49pm
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This fucking country.
They can't just wait for a jury of their peers to acquit after 15 minutes of "deliberation"?
Look at these paint eaters.

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What's the over/under on the number of items they own that has the stars and bars? 9.5?
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BostonBeaneater wrote:
08 May 2020, 3:07pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
08 May 2020, 2:49pm
BostonBeaneater wrote:
08 May 2020, 2:30pm
This fucking country.
They can't just wait for a jury of their peers to acquit after 15 minutes of "deliberation"?
Look at these paint eaters.

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The master race!
Got a Rake? Sure!

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Honestly? These are the fine specimens you'd see in my neck of the woods (where I grew up).

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JennyB wrote:
09 May 2020, 10:35am
BostonBeaneater wrote:
08 May 2020, 3:07pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
08 May 2020, 2:49pm
BostonBeaneater wrote:
08 May 2020, 2:30pm
This fucking country.
They can't just wait for a jury of their peers to acquit after 15 minutes of "deliberation"?
Look at these paint eaters.

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The master race!
There's something satisfying (in a perverse way) that the proponents of master race ideology consistently look like missing links. Just an army of six-finger, six-toe mouthbreathers.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
09 May 2020, 10:57am
JennyB wrote:
09 May 2020, 10:35am
BostonBeaneater wrote:
08 May 2020, 3:07pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
08 May 2020, 2:49pm
BostonBeaneater wrote:
08 May 2020, 2:30pm
This fucking country.
They can't just wait for a jury of their peers to acquit after 15 minutes of "deliberation"?
Look at these paint eaters.

Image
The master race!
There's something satisfying (in a perverse way) that the proponents of master race ideology consistently look like missing links. Just an army of six-finger, six-toe mouthbreathers.
Yes.
Got a Rake? Sure!

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JennyB wrote:
09 May 2020, 1:42pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
09 May 2020, 10:57am


There's something satisfying (in a perverse way) that the proponents of master race ideology consistently look like missing links. Just an army of six-finger, six-toe mouthbreathers.
Yes.
They really seem to hate sunscreen and skin care as much as they hate people.
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BostonBeaneater wrote:
08 May 2020, 2:30pm
This fucking country.
Hello,

The man fit the description - yeah, he was black.

Did not comply with simple commands - yeah, he was black and didn't do what two white guys told him to do.

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Black Panthers show up in the neighbourhood where Ahmaud Arbery was murdered. I'm sure conservatives and 2A loons will regard this as a good development.
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