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In acid parlance, some of

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 19 May 2020 15:24:45 +0000

In reply to Thanks.

In acid parlance, some of these aren't "connections", they're "trails".

Thanks.

rmrd0000 — Tue, 19 May 2020 14:16:31 +0000

Thanks.

The world is changing, people are scared. So we get Confederate masks, Klan hoods, and people in Trump hats who look like they are in a zombie movie..

I wish I could say that I care about them, but they are actively trying to kill me. They support a guy in the White House trying to kill me. I don't wish them any harm, I just don't want them in charge of anything important. I am trying to Be Best, but so far it is not working.

The usual retorts are that it is not all of them are bad. The response is that it is enough of them are bad. Like MLK Jr, I will pray for them.

Another retort, what about black on black crime? That is more important. The response: violent crime is decreasing. It is still too high, but it does not mean we divert our attention from murders by neighborhood watch people.

In Georgia, we are on DA number 4. We are in an area where the person who videotaped the murder thought the video exonerated the two alleged murderers. There is no guarantee that there will be a conviction.

While there are those who don't make connections between Emmett Till, Medgar Evers, Trayvon Martin, and Ahmaud Arbery, it simply doesn't matter. Watch or listen to Joy Reid, Don Lemon, Julani Cobb, Tiffany Cross, Charles Blow, Jonathan Capehart, Eugene Robinson, etc, they make the connections, as do many others.

I am not angered by people who don't make the connections, I feel sad for them.

An I for an I, before you

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 19 May 2020 14:04:58 +0000

In reply to Do you ever have any

An I for an I, before you come to Blows.

"You say 'Awesome' a lot" -

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 19 May 2020 14:03:52 +0000

In reply to That’s my last Duchess

"You say 'Awesome' a lot" - Kendall Roy, Succession

That’s my last Duchess

Flavius — Tue, 19 May 2020 13:28:51 +0000

In reply to "...the connection to past

That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now; Fra Pandolf’s hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said
“Fra Pandolf” by design, for never read
Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
The depth and passion of its earnest glance,
But to myself they turned (since none puts by
The curtain I have drawn for you, but I)
And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst,
How such a glance came there; so, not the first
Are you to turn and ask thus. Sir, ’twas not
Her husband’s presence only, called that spot
Of joy into the Duchess’ cheek; perhaps
Fra Pandolf chanced to say, “Her mantle laps
Over my lady’s wrist too much,” or “Paint
Must never hope to reproduce the faint
Half-flush that dies along her throat.” Such stuff
Was courtesy, she thought, and cause enough
For calling up that spot of joy. She had
A heart—how shall I say?— too soon made glad,
Too easily impressed; she liked whate’er
She looked on, and her looks went everywhere.
Sir, ’twas all one! My favour at her breast,
The dropping of the daylight in the West,
The bough of cherries some officious fool
Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule
She rode with round the terrace—all and each
Would draw from her alike the approving speech,
Or blush, at least. She thanked men—good! but thanked
Somehow—I know not how—as if she ranked
My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name
With anybody’s gift. Who’d stoop to blame
This sort of trifling? Even had you skill
In speech—which I have not—to make your will
Quite clear to such an one, and say, “Just this
Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss,
Or there exceed the mark”—and if she let
Herself be lessoned so, nor plainly set
Her wits to yours, forsooth, and made excuse—
E’en then would be some stooping; and I choose
Never to stoop. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt,
Whene’er I passed her; but who passed without
Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;
Then all smiles stopped together.

All it takes.

Or someone jogging ( for godś sake-!!give me a break ) through a neighborhood that's ¨changing¨.

The justifications for violence roll on and on. But the

underlying one is pretty much the same: one human

being: A duke or someone on a neighbor watch, or whatever,

decides that he (always) has been gifted with the right that someone else

should die.

There are no individuals that have that right.

rmr doesn t have decide why Arberryś killers

hadn t the right to be killers .

No individuals do.

In the next ,last ,stanza the killer

duke is off to be paid to choose yet another some wife-for-a while

Till she smiles too much

so give Browning his conclusion

There she stands
As if alive. Will’t please you rise? We’ll meet
The company below, then. I repeat,
The Count your master’s known munificence
Is ample warrant that no just pretense
Of mine for dowry will be disallowed;
Though his fair daughter’s self, as I avowed
At starting, is my object. Nay, we’ll go
Together down, sir. Notice Neptune, though,
Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity,
Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!

Robert Browning
(for ever immortalizing an asshole)

¨Touche ¨

Flavius — Tue, 19 May 2020 13:01:03 +0000

In reply to try the word "I" sometime

¨Touche ¨

Not much, no.

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 19 May 2020 03:16:00 +0000

In reply to You want to continue this.

Not much, no.

How about Emmett Till and Ahmaud Arbery? How about Rodney King and Freddie Grey and Eric Garner?

Sure, you can find lots of cases where police either refused to investigate or helped cover up or wouldn't bring charges.

But it's still possible to find more similar and less similar cases within those categorues, rather than seeking for the Grand Unified Theory of Racism, all things connected, every time.

K.I.S.S.

Sure, you can compare the Arbery case to Trayvon Martin, but the dissimilarities start rising quick: clear day vs rainy night, local resident vs recent unknown transplant, jogging vs hanging out in the parking lot, assailants drive & block victim as a team in 2 trucks with weapons drawn from start vs pursuer walking by self at a perceived safe distance while talking to dispatcher, police treat case as stand your ground & leave shooters their weapons vs disarming Zimmerman & doing forensics & taking him to the station....

Tomorrow I'm writing a piece, "Black Panther and House Party: Uncanny Similarities"

try the word "I" sometime

rmrd0000 — Tue, 19 May 2020 01:21:43 +0000

In reply to Do you ever have any

try the word "I" sometime

Nah

I'm writing opinion. That is clear. The style I use, without repeatedly saying "I", is common practice. For example, here is an opinion column by Charles Blow:

Obama is everything that Trump is not: intellectual, articulate, adroit, contemplative and cool. He also happens to be a black man. The fact that he could not only ascend to the height of power but also the heights of celebrity and adoration vexed Trump.

Trump set about to demonstrate that none of that mattered, none of it could supersede the talents of a confident counterfeit. He convinced himself that Obama was the convenient recipient of affirmative action adulation from a world thirsty for racial recompense, an assuaging of white guilt.

Trump has held this view well before anyone heard the name Barack Obama. In 1989, Trump said in an NBC News interview, “A well-educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well-educated white, in terms of the job market.” Trump went so far as to say that “I’ve said on occasion, even about myself, if I was starting off today I would love to be a well-educated black because I really believe they do have an actual advantage today.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/17/opinion/trump-obama.html?action=click&block=associated_collection_recirc&impression_id=974176900&index=0&pgtype=Article&region=footer

There no point in the column where Blow says that he is stating his opinion.

Stating opinion without using the word "I" is done all the time at dagblog:

“Rumors of War,” Mr. Wiley’s largest sculpture to date at a towering 27 feet high and 16 feet wide, was inspired by the heroic, equestrian statues of Confederate generals in Richmond, Va., that line its famous Monument Avenue. After the sculpture leaves Times Square in December, it will be permanently installed in Richmond on Arthur Ashe Boulevard, a major thoroughfare, recently renamed after the Richmond-born African-American tennis icon, that crosses Monument Avenue.

This is how you change culture. Not by being bothered by the old, not by tearing down history. Just add new to show who you are now. To requote my excerpt:

....was inspired by the heroic, equestrian statues of Confederate generals in Richmond, Va., that line its famous Monument Avenue....

This is what art does, this is what it is "for", and a lot of what the best art does comes from "appropriation".

by artappraiser on Sat, 09/28/2019 - 5:05pm

"This is how you change culture" indicates there is only one option

Do you ever have any

artappraiser — Mon, 18 May 2020 20:57:54 +0000

In reply to What's interesting is that

Do you ever have any realization of the thing where if you just spoke for yourself, IN THE FIRST PERSON, your own feelings and reactions to things, INSTEAD OF CLAIMING TO REPRESENT what a whole bunch of people think and feel, that few would have much of a reaction against what you are thinking and feeling?

not to mention splaining what this phantom group of people whom you claim to know how they feel and think against whole nother bunch of phantom strawmen...

try the word "I" sometime, you might like it, speaking for yourself instead of irritating everyone here with splaining for a tribe like you were elected to represent it to the dopes on dagblog

You want to continue this.

rmrd0000 — Mon, 18 May 2020 20:16:59 +0000

In reply to So how do you justify "some

You want to continue this.

Do you see a direct connection between Ahmaud Arbery and Trayvon Martin? Do see you see a connection between the lack of official attention to Jackson State and Ahmaud Arbery's case being initially swept aside?