Mr. Scorpio
Mr. Scorpio's JournalJust Be Honest And Say You Want Black People To Suffer In Silence
There’s been a media-wide push in the last year or so to try to understand the perspective of the Trump supporter. Publications have gone to every middle America county in America to try to get into the heads of the people who voted for Donald Trump. Meanwhile every political talking head show has invited Trump supporters to defend things like building walls to keep Mexicans out, explain why white supremacists aren’t so bad and why people don’t deserve healthcare. All under the guise that there’s a need to understand how people can be lead to hatred.
Remember when Trevor Noah was unilaterally praised for having a supposedly productive dialogue with anti-black scam artist Tomi Lahren? Remember when we were exposed to articles about Richard Spencer’s dapper brand of racism? Or Milo’s appearance on Bill Maher’s show? Have you seen all the free dinners racists have gotten while sitting in front of cameras spouting white nationalist rhetoric while pretending to be open to dialogue? It’s all been a widespread normalization of racism that only magnifies hatred.
Well, what about us? What about the people actually affected by the election of Donald Trump? For every article about a black person trapped in a Trump county that doesn’t want him or her around, there are 15 about people who voted for whiteness and now regret their decision. Because, let’s be clear, by every discernible metric, study or survey available, whiteness determined that Donald Trump would be president.
Yet there’s a futile search for a deeper reasoning as to why Trump won the election. That search comes from a desire to ascribe some other reason besides racism to the white nationalism that’s been visible across the country for centuries. It’s the same desire that makes so many white Americans rush to say “this isn’t us” or “this isn’t America” whenever racists swarm Charlottesville with Tiki torches to assert white power.
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"This is the homeless man Katie Quackenbush shot x2"
https://twitter.com/evenbev/status/908121085408935936Don't worry. That's just the economic insecurity talking...
https://twitter.com/AyeshaASiddiqi/status/907400634613121024"To be honest, thought you were Reince."
https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/907619431060209664For all of our friends out there in Trumpansistan:
https://twitter.com/Mr_Scorpio/status/907201031955775488It's pretty much self-evident that Hillary haters are either Russian trolls...
Or DUPES of Russians trolls who can't help having Hillary live in their heads rent free.
This post is just to help any wingers reading this who have had thoughts about anything other than hating her lately.
Make sure to wave!
Trumpanzees are already blaming Democrats for GOPrs failure to pass immigration fixes six months off
The GOPrs are in charge and these people won't hold them or Trump accountable for anything. The thing is that lots of OTHER people will, CEOs, Latino citizen voters, anyone with a freaking conscience. And all of this is happening just as it's time to get ready for the mid-terms.
The memories will be nice and fresh for sure.
Asking Dems to bail GOPrs out by demanding that they vote for Trump's stupid wall is an admission that they're incompetent. These fuckers are supposed to be in charge and they can't even legislate themselves out of a paper bag. Not to mention the fact that the list of things to accomplish is already full this year.
The clock's-a-ticking, Eddie Munster and The Turtle.
Anyone have some fresh popcorn?
In the past few weeks we've seen a white woman murdered with a high powered automobile...
We've seen an anxious white woman, who was a drunk driving suspect, being assuaged by a police lieutenant, telling her that cops "only shoot black people," and lastly there we've seen a white nurse who was brutally arrested by a cop because she had the temerity to do her job, follow appropriate rules and abide by the law.
And in all three cases, the outrage on behalf of these victims by decent people everywhere was swift, sympathetic and vocal. That was as it should have been, of course.
However, I wonder if the same would have been the case had in each of those cases had the only difference been the victim was black or brown. Because we've seen plenty of outrageous injustices inflicted upon black and brown people by white authorities and others over recent years without it resonating at all... Especially when it seems that the only people expressing that outage were black and brown people along with a relatively negligible number of white allies.
As we've just seen in the previously mentioned cases, white lives and the lives of white women in particular DO matter. But we also have to ask ourselves, when in this country will the lives of black (and brown) people also matter commensurately and concurrently?
That's of course the message of Black Lives Matter... Which was actually a warning to all whites: What has happened to us, can happen to you as well.
Anyone out there listening?
Bronx detective sued over a dozen times...
He's accused of terrorizing teens — and their mothers.
A Bronx detective, stripped of his badge and gun, has been sued more than a dozen times over the past decade.
In one lawsuit, a Bronx mom accused the detective, David Terrell, of body-slamming her after she pleaded for him and other officers to stop beating her son. In another lawsuit, Terrell is accused of promising to protect a Bronx mom’s son if she gave in to his sexual advances.
Charmaine Dixon, 43, was one of the first to sue Terrell over a false arrest, when he held the rank of officer in the 42nd Precinct.
In 2011, Dixon and her then-6-year-old daughter went to the Morrisania precinct stationhouse after she heard Terrell had arrested her 16-year-old son, Tamel, at his school. She said in her lawsuit, filed in Manhattan Federal Court, that when she approached the police station she could hear her son screaming.
“By the time I got over there, I heard my son yelling in the bullpen, ‘Ma, help me, Ma, help me!’ ” Dixon said.
When she looked through a window, she saw her son handcuffed with officers beating and pepper-spraying him, according to the lawsuit.
Terrell and four officers came outside the stationhouse. They began following the mom as she tried to walk away with her daughter. That’s when Terrell bear-hugged her and threw her to the sidewalk, permanently injuring her shoulder, neck and back, Dixon claimed in the lawsuit.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/lawsuits-accuse-nypd-terrorizing-teens-moms-article-1.3431296
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