«There’s a ton of work to be done reforming the police. But going back to the Pinkerton’s era has got to be one of worst ways to reduce inequality in a city already riven by it.»
In Hendersonville NC, saw a big black flag waving off the back of a Jeep. Figured since it wasn’t yellow, it’d be one of those POW/MIA things. Nope. Black Lives Matter. You go, bro (or sis, as the case may be).
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1278684311529586688?s=20
Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) Tweeted: Throughout this crisis, there’s been evidence that people’s behavior is only loosely tied to a state’s formal degree of openness. So there should perhaps be more explanations rooted in “people thought it was safe/got bored/complacent”; maybe not as simple as “reopened too soon”.
Interesting little essay:
https://www.propublica.org/article/what-can-heirs-property-owners-do-to-protect-their-land-loss
Ok, but what can we dooo?
https://twitter.com/RNS/status/1278010409576882176?s=20
Finally, the supreme court doing what it was hired to do.
Religion News Service (@RNS) Tweeted: In a 5-4 ruling today, the Supreme Court made it easier for religious schools to obtain public funds. https://t.co/KwW3xCB1hR
Chris Illuminati (@chrisilluminati) Tweeted: Much like the pandemic, this vintage store warning sign escalated quickly https://t.co/wm9LMVw7Dx
https://twitter.com/chrisilluminati/status/1277786909666955265?s=20
It occurs to me that without ENDLESS videos on social media of ugly behavior, this would still be us. “Oh, racism is mostly a thing of the past.” And since that ugly behavior is all we see, we STILL think racism is nothing but ugly individual behavior.
from “Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America” by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva – “Nowadays, except for members of white supremacist organizations, few whites in the United States claim to be “racist.” Most whites assert they “don’t see any color, just people”; that although the ugly face of discrimination is still with us, it is no longer the central factor determining minorities’ life chances”
Finally stopped reading Twitter long enough to finish reading this book. It’s not super-complicated.
Here, Read This 