When you think about it, since the Quaker company has nothing to do with the society of friends and the William Penn caricature is a little insulting too, there seems to be a pattern.

Wholly shit these campaigns were fucking horrible.I decided that they are so racist that I made them spoilers. I cannot really get my head around that this was ever OK.

oh boy can't wait for all the fb posts from the anti-PC crowd!

B'bye Uncle Ben!

Meanwhile the Washington Redskins remain

@kylegriffin1
ATLANTA (AP) -- Prosecutor: Officers stood on Rayshard Brooks' shoulder, kicked him while he lay on the ground struggling for life.

Fulton County District Attorney: Garrett Rolfe, the former Atlanta police officer who shot Rayshard Brooks, has been charged with felony murder and aggravated assault.

Fulton County District Attorney on former officer Garrett Rolfe: "We are asking that he not be granted a bond."

JFLNYC wrote:B'bye Uncle Ben!

Welcome Spider-Man Rice.

A developing concern for me is indiscriminate doxxing of people and businesses. In the long run I think it impedes progress.

Saw it last week with the guy stenciling BLM on his own home. Not only was the offender cancelled but an unaffiliated business with a similar name hours away also felt the impact.

Since last night I read movements about Bojangles and Taco Bell. Unsure about the Taco Bell but Bojangles was a franchise location. Without reading the franchise agreement I'm not sure what control in this area corporations have over their franchisees.

I can support boycotting the offending location or franchise ownership. Not sure who it helps to damage locations who share nothing but name and menu.

The other problem with doxing is misidentification is common.

CalvinBall wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:B'bye Uncle Ben!

Welcome Spider-Man Rice.

FBI found the woman who set the police SUV(s) on fire in Center City thanks to her tattoo, shirt, and internet profiles. Pretty wild.

...federal authorities say they’ve identified the arsonist as 33-year-old Philadelphia massage therapist Lore Elisabeth Blumenthal by following the intricate trail of bread crumbs she left through her social media history and online shopping patterns over the years.

The path took agents from Instagram, where amateur photographers also captured shots of the masked arsonist, to an Etsy shop that sold the distinctive T-shirt the woman was wearing in the video. It led investigators to her LinkedIn page, to her profile on the fashion website Poshmark, and eventually to her doorstep in Germantown.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/philly-pr ... utType=amp

I obviously did a shitty job of explaining it earlier in this thread but this is sort of what I was getting at earlier re: the statue removal discussion

W. Kamau Bell @wkamaubell
6h
Just so we're clear, white people, firing Aunt Jemima & giving us Juneteenth off are not the frontlines of defeating white supremacy & dismantling structural & instutional racism. Better schools, a just criminal justice system, access to healthcare was more what we were thinking.

PSUsarge wrote:I obviously did a shitty job of explaining it earlier in this thread but this is sort of what I was getting at earlier re: the statue removal discussion

W. Kamau Bell @wkamaubell
6h
Just so we're clear, white people, firing Aunt Jemima & giving us Juneteenth off are not the frontlines of defeating white supremacy & dismantling structural & instutional racism. Better schools, a just criminal justice system, access to healthcare was more what we were thinking.

I agree but those things are not mutually exclusive.

Phred wrote:

PSUsarge wrote:I obviously did a #$!&@ job of explaining it earlier in this thread but this is sort of what I was getting at earlier re: the statue removal discussion

W. Kamau Bell @wkamaubell
6h
Just so we're clear, white people, firing Aunt Jemima & giving us Juneteenth off are not the frontlines of defeating white supremacy & dismantling structural & instutional racism. Better schools, a just criminal justice system, access to healthcare was more what we were thinking.

I agree but those things are not mutually exclusive.

Absolutely agree - but seems to be increasing amounts of coverage / focus on the former over the past week or so, which I am guessing is what sparked his tweet (and is definitely what sparked my comments earlier in the thread).

PSUsarge wrote:

Phred wrote:

PSUsarge wrote:I obviously did a #$!&@ job of explaining it earlier in this thread but this is sort of what I was getting at earlier re: the statue removal discussion

W. Kamau Bell @wkamaubell
6h
Just so we're clear, white people, firing Aunt Jemima & giving us Juneteenth off are not the frontlines of defeating white supremacy & dismantling structural & instutional racism. Better schools, a just criminal justice system, access to healthcare was more what we were thinking.

I agree but those things are not mutually exclusive.

Absolutely agree - but seems to be increasing amounts of coverage / focus on the former over the past week or so, which I am guessing is what sparked his tweet (and is definitely what sparked my comments earlier in the thread).

I get that. I would say that every little bit helps, small increments of positive forward progress is good, we need to walk before we can run and let's pick the low hanging fruit first before we aim at the top of the trees.

Defund the Police/Give it to Artists is a movement designed to fail

PSUsarge wrote:I obviously did a shitty job of explaining it earlier in this thread but this is sort of what I was getting at earlier re: the statue removal discussion

W. Kamau Bell @wkamaubell
6h
Just so we're clear, white people, firing Aunt Jemima & giving us Juneteenth off are not the frontlines of defeating white supremacy & dismantling structural & instutional racism. Better schools, a just criminal justice system, access to healthcare was more what we were thinking.

This is kinda what I was getting at awhile ago about breaking the cycle of poverty.

“I did something good: I made Juneteenth very famous,” Trump told the Journal in an interview Wednesday, referencing the news coverage of the planned rally that was moved to a later date. “It’s actually an important event, an important time. But nobody had ever heard of it.”

Juneteenth has been a day to mark the end of slavery in the United States for more than 150 years and is recognized as a holiday in 47 states and the District of Columbia.

Trump told the Journal that a black Secret Service agent informed him of the meaning of Juneteenth.

Trump was surprised to learn from an aide during the interview with the Journal that the White House put out a statement marking the occasion last year.

“Oh, really? We put out a statement?

Never had a more woke president ever.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administra ... ery-famous

Not sure he's even awake.

Just how polluted IS Lake Erie?

Minorities (BLACK PEOPLE) talk of SOCIAL JUSTICE when they cannot take care of their own or anyone else with out playing the race card, why?

https://www.goerie.com/news/20200618/er ... sfeed=true