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[Slo_Ride 5,000+ posts]

Since I'm not gonna post a pic your not gonna believe it. Love at first sight. I'm in trouble. Oh my bro. I'm fucked but I wanna be?

 

[Popwarhomie 5,000+ posts]

 

[PsychoWhite]

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So TI posted that the sculpture on Stone Mountain should be removed. I disagree. Maybe cause it's a sentimental place for me but you can't just go around destroying history. I don't see any one wanting to destroy the pyramids in Egypt. They had slaves and did craaazy fukked up shit to humans. So no. Back up bro.

The Civil War ended in 1865.

Stone Mountain - Wikipedia

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It was funded, owned, created, and commemorated by members of the KKK. It's about as or even more synonymous with the KKK as it is with the figures on the wall. It was the site of their rallies for 50 years until Georgia put a stop to it. Notably the brothers who commenced it did so more to honor the heros of the KKK and mark the land for its purpose, which was cross-burnings and rallies, than the civil war which ended when even the oldest of the 2 brothers was a child.

Sometimes things take on new meanings as they age, but the original meaning is still important too. Many of these statues were put up in the 20th century (like Stone mountain), not the 19th, as a part of Jim Crow laws to oppress black people who were no longer slaves and cement in their descendants who had never been slaves that they still weren't equal.

Slavery in ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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"There is a consensus among Egyptologists that the Great Pyramids were not built by slaves. Rather, it was peasants who built the pyramids during flooding, when they could not work in their lands."

 

[Bobbytwonames 5,000+ posts]

My thoughts exactly!

 

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My thoughts exactly! View attachment 22142

That's might be the laziest suggestion I've ever seen from a white person about race other than, "get over it." Still, you're right in part, just not that it's a cause for racism, more so it's a cause for slow progress against forever-skeptics who want an out from their role in systemic racism. It also holds the message back in a way because the more you utter one phrase the more it begs to be countered without extra thought by what conservative commentators have already said, nullifying the fresh example before it triggers additional awareness of the ongoing systemic issues against black people. In other words it speeds up normalization of something that shouldn't be. I think this article lays out a valid journalistic mindset about the inclusion of race in a title.

‘Unarmed Black Man’ doesn’t mean what you think it means - Poynter

Three words that repeatedly appear in stories about racially motivated shootings reinforce the biased assumptions that journalists are trying to expose.

www.poynter.org

"And when a journalist writes or utters the phrase “unarmed black man,” she is often honestly trying to quickly convey the key question the audience has: What was the circumstance of the confrontation?

Here’s how that logic plays out.

Journalist: A white man shot a black man.
Dubious audience member who might dismiss the story: What was the black man doing that caused the white man to shoot him?
Journalist: Well, the black man didn’t have a gun, he posed no deadly threat.
Audience: That’s important for us to know (because we have these hidden biases).
Journalist: Right, a white man shot an unarmed black man.

But it doesn’t work.

Language itself is complicated and it changes context,” said Karen Yin, a veteran editor and the creator and keeper of the Conscious Style Guide, a resource that amalgamates dozens of recommendations and best practices for language describing communities historically marginalized by communicators. “The same language that works in one setting doesn’t work in another setting.”

Without being completely aware of it, journalists are using the phrase, “unarmed black man” to indicate an episode in the wide arc of unjustified violence by white people against black people."

 

[Bobbytwonames 5,000+ posts]

That's might be the laziest suggestion I've ever seen from a white person about race other than, "get over it." Still, you're right in part, just not that it's a cause for racism, more so it's a cause for slow progress against forever-skeptics who want an out from their role in systemic racism. It also holds the message back in a way because the more you utter one phrase the more it begs to be countered without extra thought by what conservative commentators have already said, nullifying the fresh example before it triggers additional awareness of the ongoing systemic issues against black people. In other words it speeds up normalization of something that shouldn't be. I think this article lays out a valid journalistic mindset about the inclusion of race in a title.

‘Unarmed Black Man’ doesn’t mean what you think it means - Poynter

Three words that repeatedly appear in stories about racially motivated shootings reinforce the biased assumptions that journalists are trying to expose.

www.poynter.org

"And when a journalist writes or utters the phrase “unarmed black man,” she is often honestly trying to quickly convey the key question the audience has: What was the circumstance of the confrontation?

Here’s how that logic plays out.

Journalist: A white man shot a black man.
Dubious audience member who might dismiss the story: What was the black man doing that caused the white man to shoot him?
Journalist: Well, the black man didn’t have a gun, he posed no deadly threat.
Audience: That’s important for us to know (because we have these hidden biases).
Journalist: Right, a white man shot an unarmed black man.

But it doesn’t work.

Language itself is complicated and it changes context,” said Karen Yin, a veteran editor and the creator and keeper of the Conscious Style Guide, a resource that amalgamates dozens of recommendations and best practices for language describing communities historically marginalized by communicators. “The same language that works in one setting doesn’t work in another setting.”

Without being completely aware of it, journalists are using the phrase, “unarmed black man” to indicate an episode in the wide arc of unjustified violence by white people against black people."

This story didn't get quite as much publicity. A black cop shot a handcuffed black man, who was handcuffed (behind his back) and sitting in the police car.

 

[Slo_Ride 5,000+ posts]

Lulz

 

[Slo_Ride 5,000+ posts]

 

[Bobbytwonames 5,000+ posts]

Mount Rushmore will be next! Blow that mountain up!

 

[Slo_Ride 5,000+ posts]

Mount Rushmore will be next! Blow that mountain up!

Just change it to Kennedy, Clinton, and Obama!

 

[Ridinhi 5,000+ posts]

Lift shirt!!

 

[Slo_Ride 5,000+ posts]

I never said the Pyramids were built by slaves. I said the Egyptians had slaves. The carving on Stone Mountain wasn't made by slaves either. Just sayin'.