Messages Charles M. Blow got regarding "the Deep South"

[geek tragedy]

Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow)

4/18/16, 4:16 PM
Just 2 give u a taste of the elitist/condescending/racist/absolutely preposterous steaming pile of BS in my inbox...

pic.twitter.com/21jQjQv9rx

https://mobile.twitter.com/charlesmblow/status/722156959651270656

Nothing racist about the "Deep South" dog whistle, nope.

For those who can't see the image, it's a screenshot of the following message:

Deep South to me is built on two foundations: descendants of slaveholders and descendants of slaves who then stuck around because they basically accepted that environment. The more intelligent African-Americans left the South and that is why their descendants are voting more intelligently today.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

1. disgusting

[Hekate]

2. You survived an alert 1-6

I was Juror #5.

AUTOMATED MESSAGE: Results of your Jury Service

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On Mon Apr 18, 2016, 01:29 PM an alert was sent on the following post:

Messages Charles M. Blow got regarding "the Deep South"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511770473

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

Racist

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Mon Apr 18, 2016, 01:42 PM, and the Jury voted 1-6 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Where is the violation of TOS? Not racism by the poster.
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Charles Blow is a NY Times Op-Ed columnist. He's African American. He is reporting what kind of emails are flooding his in-box. The emails he's getting are hurtful, rude, and insensitive all right, but Geek Tragedy is not writing them, just quoting from Blow's column and commenting about it. Conclusion: Geek Tragedy is not a racist. Alerter should stop twisting people's words.
Juror #6 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #7 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: seems to me that the person is calling out racism. not racist themselves. LLP

Thank you very much for participating in our Jury system, and we hope you will be able to participate again in the future.

[geek tragedy]

3. thanks, I figured putting the offending language in excerpt would make it clear

it wasn't my language

[Hekate]

4. You did right. Now that I am on juries, I make sure to do my research before responding.

If it's a post within a thread, I read context from the thread. If it's an OP a little Wikipedia never hurts to confirm a hunch.

You are welcome. I like to see justice done if I can.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

6. i am number 7. i usually sign my jury votes.

[Cali_Democrat]

5. I see Bernie supporters are continuing the efforts to "reach out" to the African American community