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Redskins' defensive end Jason

artappraiser — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 06:28:42 +0000

In reply to Supreme Court rules that rejecting trademarks that ‘disparage’ others violates the First Amendment

Redskins' defensive end Jason Hatcher knows how to play The Victim Olympics.

AA, here is my statement

rmrd0000 — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 05:25:07 +0000

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AA, here is my statement about the era of Trump

Good luck with this in the era of Trump. When the DOJ under Eric Holder found police departments filled with racial bias. The DOJ attempted to make changes. Some police chief applauded the suggestion. Police unions fight them tooth and nail. Members of the NYPD called David Dinkins nigger. A newer generation of NYPD officers turn their backs on DeBlasio. Fellow police officers are willing to lie about events on police forms. The rank and file likes the status quo.

Edit to add:

Sessions retreats from police oversight

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/04/jeff-sessions-consent-decree...

Sessions is rolling back police oversight. You disagree that this is a game changer? The Trump DOJ will not intervene on police abuse. That is the era of Trump. Where do you disagree?

Edit to add:

The high school and college events were during the Obama administration.

I stand corrected on the 80%

rmrd0000 — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 05:20:05 +0000

In reply to P.P.S. Watched the 2016 movie

I stand corrected on the 80% number. I stand by the statement that Trump is different. Sessions is threat,

I did come across an article on frequency of the use of the word nigger. 64-66% percent of blacks know people who use the word or have used the word in the past five years. About half of white people know people who use the word nigger and almost a third have used the word in the past five years.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/06/25/using-the-...

P.P.S.

I saw "Get Out". "Keanu" didn't seem worth my time.

P.P.S. Watched the 2016 movie

artappraiser — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 04:59:29 +0000

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P.P.S. Watched the 2016 movie Keanu last night on cable TV. Lead writer of script and lead actor: Afro-American. I swear characters in the script used the N word every 5 minutes, to excess, I found it as tacky as when Quentin Tarantino does it. Blaxploitation genre handled straight or ironic = not my cup of tea, but appears to be very popular these days among audiences of all colors.

Oh and here's the detailed history about the faux news about the myths about audience for hip hop, how it all started as a way to get "play".

I'm done, not interested in causing outrage about stuff I'm not saying.

I take it you don't consider

artappraiser — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 04:45:33 +0000

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I take it you don't consider race important in the Trump era?

Wrong. I was referring to your reply to me on the other thread a few hours ago. Where you imply it's impossible for racial problems to get better in "this era of Trump". Yet here you imply some things are improving. In "this era of Trump" as you put it.

You're doing the same thing you do with oceankat: making me a straw man to argue against and not reading my comments, so you can continue on a jihad about racists. Carry on, I'll stop with trying to get into analyzing the current culture, that's obviously not in your program.

P.S. Everyone on this site knows there are racists and hate mongers in this country, we know there are racists and hater mongers in every country, we are news junkies.

In the era of Trump, too,

rmrd0000 — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 04:18:27 +0000

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In the era of Trump, too, fancy that.

I take it you don't consider race important in the Trump era?

By the way the SAE incident was 2015

The t-shirt incident was in January 2016.

In both situations there were consequences.

Trump, Sessions, DeVos, etc. are creating a new normal regarding race

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I would be surprised if the high schoolers and the college students hadn't heard that their black fellow student might object to their use of the word nigger. Did they nap during their multi-culti contacts?

The nigger song and t-shirts

rmrd0000 — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 03:38:26 +0000

In reply to In the era of Trump, too,

The nigger song and t-shirts are revolutionary?

In the era of Trump, too,

artappraiser — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 03:09:36 +0000

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In the era of Trump, too, fancy that.

It's important to keep in mind that these two are also minorities: 1) Trump supporters 2) confederate sympathizers

And that the millenial generation has these two characteristics: 1) raised by baby boom generation parents and grandparents, known to have caused revolution of social norms 2) increasingly cafeteria multi-culti with multi-ethnic background in the extreme (to the point of best being described as American, the hyphenation would be too long) and multi-racial.

The Confederate flag came

rmrd0000 — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 15:24:13 +0000

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The Confederate flag came down in South Carolina. Confederate statues are coming down in Virginia and New Orleans. Confederates' names are being removed from universities. Streets are renamed to replace Confederates. When a frat sings a nigger song, they get called out.

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/inside_higher_ed/2015/03/behind_the_c...

The frat is not allowed to escape scrutiny by claiming they don't know the real meaning of the word. The frat brothers have access to books and the internet. In many cases all we are seeing is racists bringing attention to themselves. By claiming the word slant, the band may just be allowing racists to expose themselves.

Edit to add:

When a group of white teen girls decided to spell out nigger with, t-shirts, they were suspended.

https://newsone.com/3339125/arizona-teens-suspended-for-spelling-out-rac...

Being unaware to the meaning of the word was no excuse.

The word seems to be being "disappeared" in many spaces.

But if I'm used to bands

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 14:27:00 +0000

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But if I'm used to bands called the Slits or Stayns or Circle Jerks or Niggas with Attitude, I can't help but feel these discussions are about sinething that belonged in say the borsch belt in the Catskills 60 some years ago. Like if someone says dago or mick or wop or hymie, don't you just roll your eyes and wonder why they didn't make it past I Love Lucy or latest Archie Bunker days.