Artist Says Vans Stole His Design For Cow Print Sneakers - "While Vans pointed to its 2018 print for, it later corrected itself by highlighting that Vans had featured cow print shoes as far back as 1991. “Hey there Ment,” Vans wrote. “We just had to fact check ourselves on this one and we apologize we made a mistake in our last response. We dipped way back into the archives, our new customs and the 2018 shoe were inspired by this 1991 cow print.”"
The Case for Black Optimism - "When was the last time you heard good news about the state of black America? Given the way the topic is reported in the media, you could be forgiven for not remembering. Most will be familiar with the standard portrayal: black people are disproportionately poor, incarcerated, born into single-parent homes, and harassed by cops. There’s the test score gap, which places black kids at a disadvantage when applying to college; the school-to-prison pipeline, which prepares black boys for prison by punishing them disproportionately in school; and the racial wealth gap, which won’t close for several centuries if current trends continue. In an era when bipartisan agreement is scarce, the Left and the Right seem to be united in their somber assessment of black America, though they locate the blame in different places... The narrative of doom and gloom, however, is misleading. Though it has gone largely unnoticed, black Americans have been making rapid progress along most important dimensions of well-being since the turn of the millennium... From 2001 to 2017, the incarceration rate for black men declined by 34 percent... the black prison population will not only continue to shrink, but will shrink at an accelerating rate... The great incarceration decline for black youth has been matched by a decline in teenage motherhood. Between 2001 and 2017, the birth rate for black women aged 15–19 declined by 63 percent. In fact, the black teenage birth rate in 2017 was lower than the white teenage rate as recently as 2002. Nor has progress been confined to the younger generation. Between 1999 and 2015, the mortality rate for black Americans aged 65 and over shrank by 29 percent for cancer, 31 percent for diabetes, and 43 percent for heart disease. What’s more, all of those percentage drops were larger than the drops experienced by comparable whites over the same period. As deaths from disease have plummeted, black lives have extended. In 2017, black female life expectancy was 78.5 years, up from 75.1 years in 2000. Life expectancy for black men increased from 68.2 to 71.9 years over the same timespan. Not only are black Americans healthier and longer-lived than they were two decades ago, they’re also more educated. Between the 1999–2000 and 2016–2017 school years, the number of black students who earned bachelor’s degrees increased by 82 percent, from 108,018 to 196,300. Over the same period, the number of associate’s and master’s degrees awarded to black students more than doubled, rising from 60,208 to 129,874, and 36,606 to 89,577, respectively (population growth accounts for some, but not all or even most, of this growth). 2018 census data showed that 37 percent of black Americans aged 25–34 had some kind of college degree. If black America were its own country, that would place it in between Germany (31 percent) and Spain (43 percent) in terms of educational attainment. What’s more, the economist Raj Chetty has found that black women, though less likely to attend college than white women, are now more likely to attend college than white men from similar socioeconomic backgrounds. Along with more education has come more upward mobility. The Federal Reserve recently reported that over 60 percent of blacks at every level of educational attainment say they’re doing better financially than their parents—a higher percentage than either whites or Hispanics. And although black men still lag behind white men in terms of upward mobility, Chetty has found that black women now go on to earn slightly higher incomes than white women from similar socioeconomic backgrounds... the same data that justify this optimism can appear to justify pessimism if you look at it differently... In 2001, black men aged 18–19 were nine times more likely to be behind bars than comparable white men. By 2017, they were twelve times more likely to be behind bars. Framed as such, it looks like regress. This particular framing effect is just one example in a larger pattern: The evidence against racial progress tends to compare black-white gaps today to black-white gaps in the past. Here, white metrics are used as benchmarks against which to measure black progress. By contrast, the evidence in favor of progress tends to compare black metrics today against black metrics in the past. White metrics do not enter the equation. Crucially, the same data can often be made to look like either progress or regress depending on which framework is chosen... Imagine we had a button that doubled the amount of everything good for each racial group and halved the rate of everything bad—so, black wealth doubles, white wealth doubles, black incarceration is halved, white incarceration is halved, and so on. As we pressed the button repeatedly, America would increasingly approach utopia. Yet the racial gaps—that is, the ratios between black and white outcomes—would remain unchanged. Therefore, viewed through the gap-lens, we will have made no progress at all. Indeed, any amount of black progress can become invisible when viewed through the gap-lens, given sufficient white progress. That’s a problem... The gap-lens also relies on the dubious presumption that white outcomes are the best benchmark against which to measure black outcomes. One reason this presumption fails is that the median white American is a full decade older than the median black American. Thus, comparing all blacks to all whites on any outcome that varies with age—for instance, incarceration or wealth—is comparing apples to oranges. More importantly, when we compare black outcomes to white outcomes and blame all of the gaps on institutional racism, we treat American society as if it were a simple 8th-grade science experiment... But reality is more complex. Black Americans and white Americans are unique groups of people with different histories, different demographics, and different sociological characteristics. Such confounding variables make it overly simplistic to pin all racial gaps on institutional racism... a group of people can be doing quite well but can nevertheless be made to believe the opposite—so long as they are habitually compared to other groups in the media. It’s a truism that a single person suffers when he measures himself by the yardstick of another... A complete conversation about race and racial inequality must involve not just identifying what goes wrong, but also what goes right—for if we fail to learn from the triumphs of our own recent past, we are doomed not to repeat them."
Left wingers level down to make everyone worse off, so they focus on the gaps with whites
Larry Elder on X - "Alaysha “Lay” Johnson (@ImJustLaylay), congrats on making the Olympics. But why the, “This is for everybody who looks like me” crap? There was but ONE non-black runner—and she finished next to last. Can we quit this “we shall overcome” BS? For crying out loud, this is 2024!"
There will never be enough "representation"
Cori Bush on X - "The far-right justices occupying the Supreme Court have never been an unhoused single mother living out of their car while working a full-time job. I know that struggle firsthand. So let me be clear: Being unhoused is not a crime. Taking bribes as a SCOTUS justice is."
Sunny on X - "Clarence Thomas speaks English as a second language. He grew up in poverty in the Jim Crow south, born to direct descendants of slaves. You went to a private prep school in the 1990s and your dad was a mayor."
Meme - Paul Hundred, GED @paul_hundred: "Black twitter is funny because this will get 28k likes but then tomorrow the same person will complain about white ppl AVOIDING them in the hallway and it’ll get the exact same 28k likes and replies like “whypipo racist as hell”, “we finna kill ALL they cracka asses”, “das rite”."
@briehive: "i don't move out of white pp! way when i'm walking. i'll take your shoulder down the hallway with me. idrgaf.
yall are responding to this tweet like white people are incapable of moving.. making it my responsibility to clear the path way. and i won't do that.. intentionally or otherwise. to summarize: if you move, we don't bump.. if you don't.. we will."
Meme - *Black men swarming car, with 2 on top of it*
*Monkeys swarming car*
Meme - Richard Hanania @RichardHanania: "Asians and Hispanic children of immigrants earn more than their parents. That's to be expected. But second generation black immigrants end up earning less. This may be because they assimilate to American black norms, which wipes out the advantage of being born here."
Clearly, this is due to racism, even though immigrant blacks earn more than immigrant hispanics, but it's the reverse in the second generation
Unlimited L's on X - "NEW: Black activists in Jackson, Miss., are calling for a Texaco gas station to shut down because of the growing murders and crime in the area Someone said “The owner should have the integrity of a human being for [himself] to say, we need to shut this down” Councilman Kenneth Stokes says he will bring a vote of no confidence against the city's legal department for not shutting down the gas station sooner “Where people suffer harm or injury, it’s got to be considered a nuisance. How many people have to die here before they realize it’s harmful?” Councilman Stokes said"
Zod on X - "Then they’ll complain that there are no gas stations around."
Darth Crypto null af on X- "A man has to shut down his business because criminals are able to loiter and rob and murder people with impunity? How about the police patrol the area and arrest and/or shoot the armed criminals tormenting the community? Na. Let’s force a business to close instead. 🤯"
Staying Sane on X - "Councilman Brian Grizzell, Ward 4, said they have started the process with collecting the history of code violations and violent crimes around that gas station. He hopes to have enough evidence that the Council can declare the gas station a safety hazard. As the owner does not want them to shut down his business, they have found w2ays to force shut his business. The council hopes that when there is no gas station, their community will have nothing to loot, and crime will go down. This is democrat thinking 101."
howy on X - "So the answer is not to address the people who commit the crimes, it is to get rid of gas stations? 🤔😳"
Meme - Legendary Tweeter @MyTweetsRealAF: "If Black dudes didn't think gymnastics was gay, we would dominate. I seen a nigga flip over a fence with no hands, running from the cops."
Kim Balasanyan: "Damn now imagine the success you guys would have if black dudes thought crime was gay"
Thread by @UsingLyft on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Black Americans are the most privileged black humans to ever walk the face of this earth. I’m tired of hearing the insane excuses for why the crime rates amongst our group are so high. People pointing to gas stations and food deserts and magical invisible systems like the school to prison pipelines and shit instead of just accepting that niggas misbehave and fuck themselves up. I have never in my life met an intelligent black person who possessed self control and morals who struggled in life because of any evil white supremacist systems. Every single smart goal oriented hard working black person I know is living a great life. Seriously like point me to a black person you know who makes the right sacrifices and tries hard but white ppl are getting in their way and forcing them into a life of crime. Like what? Nobody actually believes such a person exists but it’s easy to pretend they must when you look at the size of group differences"
Meme - i/o @eyeslasho: "Young black American males are in a league of their own in everything from murderiness to academic underperformance to narcissism to excellence in fast-twitch-muscle-centric sports. It's quite a demographic, unlike almost any other in the world."
Crémieux on X - "Mortality for children aged 1-19 has mostly fallen in recent decades. Despite overall improvements, by 2020, the top cause of mortality in this group had somehow become firearms: But this is not true for Whites, Asians, or Hispanics, just for Blacks:"
Clear proof of systemic racism
Meme - "On May 6, 1886, inventor M.A. Cherry patented the tricycle."
Katherine Coty: "Thank you for sharing this!"
Malik Kimari Kibe: "'The first version
of the tricycle was invented in 1680 by a German man named Stephan Farffler. This version was operated, not by pedaling the feet, but by a series of gears and hand cranks. The tricycle as we know it today (operated by pedaling) was invented by two Frenchmen Blanchard and Maguier in 1789.' So, he stole a bike..."
Wocc𖤐 on X - "what’s the “blackest” name you have ever heard??"
i/o on X - "When I was a grad student I briefly worked a temporary job in my university's HR department organizing employee personnel files. I've never forgotten the name of an employee in the maintenance department: Cellophane D'Prince Watkins."
Meme - Nemo @thecaptain_nemo: "had no idea this trend was a thing we used to solve 95% of murders and now we barely solve 50%"
Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil: "A weird detail about this is that it's a race-specific trend."
We are told that if there're 12 bad police officers and 1300 good police officers, there're 1300 bad police officers, because the latter don't expose the former. So snitch culture means...
Meme - "Invented everything! *pyramids with thrusters and dogs as Egyptians*"
"Whitey stole it! *sailing ships*"
"Cant invent again :( *mud huts* *dogs*"
Letter ‘N’ under race - "Maybe it was a typo. Maybe it meant “Negro.” But Chris says police can look at her drivers license and see her face, which convinced her it was intentional. Christine Hall: “It says ‘N’. That means (expletive). But they should have put black.” Chris is so aggravated she used the word she despises and wants to make sure she never see that letter “N” under race again. Christine Hall: “So somebody thought I was not going to see it. But they dumb because I seen it. That’s why I call Help Me Howard.”... Alan Chin handles red light camera violations for the department. He showed us what happens when he writes NA for “not applicable” under race. Alan Chin: “It prints a single digit. So, instead of “NA,” it will read “N”. When I put gender, obviously it’s ‘M’ for male, ‘F’ for female.” A company in Colorado prints the tickets changing “NA” to “N,” and Chris wanted to make sure the department knew how much that computer printing one letter affected her. Wayne Jones?: “Some people get hurt because of this. It hurt me bad.” The police chief, Wayne Jones, had met with his staff to fix the problem. Wayne Jones: “I so appreciate you reaching out to Patrick Fraser on this because, quite frankly, we don’t want to have this happen again. We don’t want anybody to feel what you felt.” Instead of “NA,” which the computer turns to the letter “N,” under race and sex, the department will type “UK” for unknown, which will print out as “U” under both race and sex."
So much for "white fragility"
Meme - "Birth of Tragedy- Nietzsche Summarized and Explained
Brianca Jay
@incelcoreisart: "Smoke alarm beeps:
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Meme - @samesizeshoe: "is this a slur"
"You have received a refund from Popeyes
Hey, Chicken Lover:"
LEPRNCY. on X - "as a black man how tf can you feel remotely comfortable with this being your friendship group like it’s beyond me"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "The alt right is a different thing, but regular Black dudes are way more racist than regular Anglo white guys. #prove_me_wrong This below - with 60,000 likes and 6,000 heavily positive comments - is the reaction to one Black man posing with a group of sports-or-whatever buddies"
DonofOne🔴🔱⚫️ on X - "A black man was found hanging from a tree in Henderson North Carolina recently, all my black truck drivers be careful when passing through these predominantly white areas and always research the town you in"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "Totally made-up panic may literally be the biggest problem in our society today. The last lynching on record took place in 1968 (UMKC archive). Inter-racial crime between Blacks and whites is 3% of serious crime and 80% B-on-W."
Javion Magee death: Henderson NC investigation 'not a lynching' Vance County Sheriff says despite reports of hanging - "Magee's family, who lives in Chicago, is upset and demanding answers. They are calling for transparency and more answers from the Vance County Sheriff's Office about what happened... Magee went to a nearby Walmart shortly before he died. That is where he is believed to have bought the rope found around his neck... "There's been information put out there that there's a lynching in Vance County. There is not a lynching in Vance County. The young man was not dangling from a tree. He was not swinging from a tree. The rope was wrapped around his neck. It was not a noose. There was not a knot in the rope, so therefore, it was not a lynching here in Vance County."... Khalil Gay, who lives in Henderson, said, "I mean, honestly, I think we have to acknowledge that, No. 1, we do live in the South, and there's a deep history of racism and racist acts. And so people are obviously concerned about that."... There were no obvious signs of defensive wounds or scars on his limbs including arms and legs"
Clearly, he either lynched himself or was forced by white supremacists to buy the rope they hanged him with
i/o on X - "White elites treat black people like children. They listen to their tall tales and fibs without objection. They lift and put them in high chairs to make it easier for them to access what's on the table. They patiently watch their tantrums, making excuses. Everyone ends up losing."
Meme - "When an Afrocentric is confronted with facts , logic and exposing tampered artifacts, he always uses that card"
*Racism card*
"Egyptians having a civilized debate about their ancient heritage."
Into the Memory Hole on X - ">be black
>do anything
>anything at all
>never your fault"
Relatives mourn Brooklyn woman killed by backhoe - "The home health aide who was killed by a backhoe driver in Brooklyn Friday was remembered as “generous and loving” by her distraught loved ones on Sunday. Heartbreaking video obtained by The Post showed a yellow construction vehicle striking 61-year-old Estelle Davis with its shovel before running her over and dragging her along the corner of New Lots and Van Sinderen avenues in East New York."
Inquisitive Bird on X - "While whites were once most affected by drug overdoses in the U.S., this is no longer the case. Drug overdose deaths have dramatically increased among black people, and they now have substantially higher drug overdose death rate than white people."
Time to blame the usual scapegoats
Meme - My Mixtapez @mymixtapez: "Diddy's mother Janice Combs releases a statement regarding her son's legal troubles, "My son is not the monster they have painted him to be""
The Impatient Tourist @ImpatienTourist: "Behind every terrible man, is a boy mom supporting him all the way through."
Meme - *Is this a butterfly*
Leonarda Jonie @leonardaisfunE: "Black People"
"The Consequences of their actions"
"Is this racism?"
Dane @UltraDane: "The black community is shocked over the announcement that 7-11 is closing 400 stores in predominately black areas. "The move to close stores in Black communities is Jim Crow racism, and we won't stand for it", said Jamarius Washington, a Houston, Texas native. The chain has"
Meme - "ONLY IN AMERICA CAN AN ETHNIC GROUP HAVE BLACK AWARENESS MONTH, BLACK HOLIDAY, BLACK ORLY COLLEGES, BLACK ONLY DATING SITES. BLACK ONLY BARS AND CLUBS- AND TURN AROUND AND CALL EVERVONE ELSE RACISTS"
Meme -Hux “Man Of The People🤝🏻” @GrugAllman: "Blacks are 13% of the population, pay 6% of the taxes while collecting 26% of the welfare. We pay reparations every year..."
Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan: "Black America is owed #REPARATIONS. White America deserves RETRIBUTION."
Meme - Coddled affluent professional @feelsdesperate: "One of funniest things on this site is how often libs will do a racial inspection of Tyler and find him insufficiently black to have written something."
The Atlantic: "There's a widening mismatch between the worldview of many Black men and that of the Democratic Party, @Tyler_A_Harper writes:"
"Why Black Male Voters Are Drifting Toward Trump"
Norma Loquendi @nloqueni: "Please have a Black male writer tackle this. Sincerely, a subscriber"
Meme - Black Woman: "Jesus wasn't white."
White Christian Guy: "Ok."
Black Woman: "Hey whitey, didn't you hear me? I said Jesus wasn't white. LOL"
White Christian Guy: "Yeah. Jesus wasn't black either."
Black Woman: "WHY DO YOU CARE WHAT COLOR JESUS WUZ?!"
White Christian Guy: "LOL"
