More on how to deal with the right wing trolls on social media and in person.
See this post first:
http://laladyrae.blogspot.com/2014/08/how-to-explain-ferguson-protests-how.html
And this one next:
how.htmlhttp://laladyrae.blogspot.com/2014/09/part-three-of-dealing-with-fox-news.html
Don't you just love it when some white person says "oh black people are playing the race card again"? Some of the trolls I have been encountering even insert "The Race Baitor" in between Eric and Holder.
Hilarious, as usual.
First, agree with them! That's right! Agree that black people (and white folks like me) are "playing the race card".
Who invented the card deck? The slaves? Did African people decide that they were not human? Chain themselves to cargo ships and work for free for hundreds of years? String themselves up in "Strange Fruit" trees? Write the Jim Crow laws?
Of course they did!
Slave women also participated in worldwide "black" plot to mix races by asking their owners to rape them so that they could give their children European DNA!
And "race riots", until the 1960's, meant white men killing, pillaging, and looting in black communities!
Here is another cut and paste from a social media comment I made. It lacks the humour I want, but I was also writing to someone that I care about.
What
I find interesting is that so many people that glorify the struggles of
their Irish or Italian, or whomever, ancestors fail to see the parallel
in the black community today. Vito Corleone and William the Butcher
are the same as Tookie Williams. (And the first two both have Scorsese
movies based on their lives.)
SOME
of the differences between African Americans and Irish and Italian
immigrants are that black people were already here for 400 years, and
then kept in segregation and Jim Crow laws. So until Civil Rights, they
really could not fully participate in society. When a large poor
populace of immigrants comes to a new country, there is generally a
period where the most "capitalist" among them duke it out for who will
control the resources of that particular group.
Moreover
(or perhaps "however") the Mafia had roots in Sicily to back them, and
the Irish had their people back in Ireland. Of all Americans, black
people are the most "melted" of the melting pot. 90% of DNA tested
black people in the African slave diaspora have Ghanaian dna. And over
60% have some European DNA. (There are black people that have more
Scottish DNA than I do.) They have no "people" in other countries to
back them. (And this too, was calculated by the colonial powers. Had
the US given the freed slaves reparation or sent them back to Africa,
they risked increasing the armies of the African countries fighting
Colonial rule.)
African
Americans have actually created a lot LESS havoc than the other groups
of immigrants that came to this country, and have had even fewer
opportunities than the Famine fleeing Irish did during the time of Kings
of New York movie.
If
black people are just supposed to shake off 500 years of oppression and
"get over" what they have gone through here, then perhaps the Irish
need to stop holding St Patrick's day parades, and the US should stop
celebrating Independence Day and liberation from the British. Etc.
The
race card was invented by white people. If black people are playing
it, it is because it is the only card they have been dealt.
EDIT: Let's not forget "Ebonics". I find this criticism especially hilarious when someone that says "Ebonics" talks with that Bavarian influenced harsh "r" after an "a" sound, i.e. "warsh" the dishes, etc. Black people were not allowed to learn to read or write for 400 years, and when they were finally allowed to go to school were segregated. Speech and language reflects the history of a people, black folks in this country are no less an example.
EDIT: Here is a great slam to Breitbart's racist commentary on Brown's funeral:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/30/1325704/-Saturday-nutpick-a-palooza-Michael-Brown-s-racist-funeral?detail=email
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Thursday, August 28, 2014
MORE ON HOW TO EXPLAIN THINGS TO THE FOX NEWS CROWD: RACE BAITING AND PLAYING THE RACE CARD
Labels:
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Eric Holder,
ferguson,
fox news,
Godfather,
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racism,
saint louis,
slavery,
the race card,
vito corleone,
William the Butcher
Thursday, August 14, 2014
SIGN THE PETITION REQUIRING MISSOURI POLICE TO WEAR CAMERAS WHILE ON DUTY
EDIT: As I say below, there can never be enough of these petitions, but this one already as 50,000 signatures. Please sign it too.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/mike-brown-law-requires-all-state-county-and-local-police-wear-camera/8tlS5czf
Also this one:
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/make-all-missouri-law?source=s.em.cp&r_by=11089267
This one is to stop the programme that gives used military equipment to the police:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-program-1033-which-gives-unused-military-equipment-police-departments-across-united-states/FKffCPs3
I've started what will likely be a string of petitions for police reform. TIME FOR CHANGE. Please, sign the petition and share this message with your friends if you agree:
Subject: AMENDMENT TO THE MISSOURI CONSTITUTION REQUIRING ALL POLICE TO WEAR AUDIO AND VIDEO RECORDERS WHEN ON DUTY
Hi,
The police are armed, have the right to detain us, to seize our assets, investigate and monitor us, and to use deadly force against us. If the officer that shot Michael Brown had been wearing a recording device there would be no question about what actually happened. There would be no need for an investigation. We pay for the salaries of the police, we pay for their jails and their cars and their guns. They work for us. We have a right to know how they are doing their jobs.
That's why I created a petition to The Missouri State House, The Missouri State Senate, and Governor Jay Nixon, which says:
"In the State of Missouri all uniformed police are required to wear functioning audio and video recording devices when on duty."
Will you sign this petition? Click here:
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/amendment-to-the-missouri?source=c.em.cp&r_by=11089267
Thanks!
EDIT: Also, please check out the following articles for more info about what is happening in Ferguson:
http://www.occupy.com/article/could-civil-rights-movement-have-happened-todays-militarized-police-state
http://rt.com/usa/181204-teens-mobile-app-police-abuse/
http://theantimedia.org/constitutional-rights-essentially-suspended-in-ferguson-as-police-raid-homes-door-to-door/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/michael-brown-shooting-amnesty-international-sends-team-within-us-for-first-time-as-national-guard-deployed-9675149.html
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/mike-brown-law-requires-all-state-county-and-local-police-wear-camera/8tlS5czf
Also this one:
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/make-all-missouri-law?source=s.em.cp&r_by=11089267
This one is to stop the programme that gives used military equipment to the police:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-program-1033-which-gives-unused-military-equipment-police-departments-across-united-states/FKffCPs3
I've started what will likely be a string of petitions for police reform. TIME FOR CHANGE. Please, sign the petition and share this message with your friends if you agree:
Subject: AMENDMENT TO THE MISSOURI CONSTITUTION REQUIRING ALL POLICE TO WEAR AUDIO AND VIDEO RECORDERS WHEN ON DUTY
Hi,
The police are armed, have the right to detain us, to seize our assets, investigate and monitor us, and to use deadly force against us. If the officer that shot Michael Brown had been wearing a recording device there would be no question about what actually happened. There would be no need for an investigation. We pay for the salaries of the police, we pay for their jails and their cars and their guns. They work for us. We have a right to know how they are doing their jobs.
That's why I created a petition to The Missouri State House, The Missouri State Senate, and Governor Jay Nixon, which says:
"In the State of Missouri all uniformed police are required to wear functioning audio and video recording devices when on duty."
Will you sign this petition? Click here:
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/amendment-to-the-missouri?source=c.em.cp&r_by=11089267
Thanks!
EDIT: Also, please check out the following articles for more info about what is happening in Ferguson:
http://www.occupy.com/article/could-civil-rights-movement-have-happened-todays-militarized-police-state
http://rt.com/usa/181204-teens-mobile-app-police-abuse/
http://theantimedia.org/constitutional-rights-essentially-suspended-in-ferguson-as-police-raid-homes-door-to-door/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/michael-brown-shooting-amnesty-international-sends-team-within-us-for-first-time-as-national-guard-deployed-9675149.html
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