Unhinged mom fires handgun, throws bowl of soup at server in wild sushi restaurant meltdown - "A deranged St. Louis mother opened fire and hurled a bowl of soup inside suburban Missouri sushi restaurant after allegedly hearing racial slurs through a translation feature on her headphones and having problems with her food order. Aaliyah N. Moorehead, 31, was inside the Kirkwood eatery on Wednesday night with her 9-year-old child and another adult woman, where police say she became agitated over an issue with her order... Wasabi Sushi Bar staff offered to fix the order, but Moorehead began swearing at a server and was promptly asked to leave. Moorehead then threw a bowl of soup at the server, striking him and other people inside of the restaurant, authorities allege. The male employee tried to block himself from Moorehead’s onslaught with a chair, but she grabbed it and threw it. The unhinged woman then took out a 9mm Glock handgun and said to the employee “you’re going to get it,” before firing a single shot in his direction shortly after 8:30 p.m... At the time of the shooting, Moorehead’s daughter was walking between her mother and the server... Moorehead later told local cops that she believed the restaurant staff were rude to her and her family on arrival, and that she had overheard the chefs making racial and derogatory comments about herself and her family in Spanish through a translation feature on her AirPods"
The violence of the oppressor is not the same as the violence of the oppressed! Time to release her and give her reparations!
New York Magazine on X - "“I once lived in a Black mecca. But by the summer of 2022, my toddler son and I were often the only Black folks on the playground in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a fact that felt both alienating and surreal,” the novelist Naomi Jackson writes. Jackson was born in Crown Heights to parents from the Caribbean — part of a tidal wave of late-20th-century West Indian and African emigration that changed the face of Black New York. “My formative years were in Flatbush, which is called ‘Little Caribbean’ even though it becomes less and less Caribbean,” she writes. Over two decades, from 2000 to 2020, New York City lost nearly 200,000 Black folks, or about 9 percent of its Black residents. These losses have been particularly notable in historically Black strongholds like Bedford-Stuyvesant and Harlem. Data shows that in 2000, Black residents made up approximately 75 percent of Bed-Stuy’s population, and that number dropped to about 40 percent between 2019 and 2023, with the white population increasing more than tenfold. In 2006, Jackson convinced her dad that buying property in Prospect–Lefferts Gardens was a smart idea. “At the time, I was 25 years old and scraping together a down payment on a modest studio apartment through a combination of savings and first-time-homebuyer grants. The neighborhood was already transforming; there was a new coffee shop and more white residents. Back then, the abbreviation PLG felt like a harbinger of gentrification that would protect my property value. Now, it feels more like a death knell for the childhood I remember.” Read Jackson on how gentrification has reshaped her sense of belonging in the city: https://nymag.visitlink.me/wlkg7h"
i/o on X - "Must be liberating for black people to be able to express how disappointing and "alienating" it is to see a neighborhood that was once overwhelmingly populated by people of their own race become mostly populated by people of another race and not be called a racist. And I can't help but notice that when this sort of thing happens to black people it almost always means that the neighborhood is getting safer and better and when it happens to white people it almost always means it is getting worse in nearly every way. You'd think that, this being the case, it would be white people who should be allowed to complain, and not black people. But that's not how it works in America."
Ricky "Bobby" Jones on X - "This isn’t just black people. In Mexico City, locals complain about white people moving in raising prices and making the area objectively nicer. In America we are racist if we complain about Mexicans moving in and making the area objectively worse, I think we are approaching or have reached the point where most of us just don’t care what they say anymore, they will always find something to whine and bitch about, and it’s always white people’s fault"
Lou Perez on X - "I'm a parent. My children have never heard the N-word and I plan on keeping it that way. That's why I refuse to live around people who say it."
Meme - "MEMPHISRAP. HIP HOP NEWS. WTF. Woman Beats Men in Rap Battle, So They Rape, Set Her on Fire and Shoot Her"
Woman Beats Men in Rap Battle, So They Rape, Set Her on Fire and Shoot Her - "Joey Betrail Garron, 28, Robert Carl Johnson, 23, and Ketorie Glover, 23 all of Columbus, Georgia could not handle losing to a woman in a hip hop rap battle, so they allegedly raped, beat, shot and doused the woman with gasoline setting her on fire before leaving her for dead."
No crimes reported at Lincoln Park since basketball hoops removed
Martin Luther King III on X - "Angela Davis is a scholar, activist, and unwavering advocate for justice. From prison reform to civil rights and LGBTQ+ rights, she continues to shape movements for equality and liberation. I’ll never forget seeing her at an event after her release when I was 14. Even then, I understood the gravity of her presence. This #BlackHistoryMonth, we honor her intellect, her leadership, and her lifelong commitment to freedom and justice for all."
A Gene Robinson on X - "No. You don’t get to wrap radical deviant prison-abolition ideology, Marxist theory, and anti-family activism in the language of “justice” and pretend it built the Black community. It didn’t. That’s a lie. I’m old enough to have lived through this. Angela Davis built movements around dismantling systems. Especially the black nuclear family. Understand, the Black community wasn’t built by dismantling anything. It was built by married mothers and fathers. It was built by discipline. It was built by church on Sunday and work on Monday. It was built by men who stayed. It was built by women who guarded the home. In 1960, nearly 70–80 percent of Black children were raised in two-parent households. Today that number has collapsed to roughly 22 percent. That collapse did not happen because we lacked “liberation theory.” It happened because the nuclear family was undermined… culturally and politically. You cannot celebrate “freedom and justice” while ignoring that fatherlessness is the single greatest predictor of poverty, incarceration, school failure, and violent crime. That’s not opinion. That’s Department of Justice and Census data. The civil rights generation fought for access to opportunity within a framework of family stability. What followed was an ideological shift that treated the family as optional… even oppressive. And the results are measurable. If we are going to honor Black history, then let’s honor the structure that actually sustained Black excellence: Married households. Present fathers. Mothers and fathers aligned. Faith communities reinforcing moral order. Without that structure, slogans mean nothing. The Black nuclear family is not a side issue. It is the infrastructure. Everything else is commentary. #SilentMajoritySpeaks #AStoneGroove"
Meme - Seamus (FreedomToons) ) @seamus_coughlin: "This is literally the first time in all of human history that "boys will be boys has been use as an excuse for rape and not a single shitlib is going to mention it"
End Wokeness @EndWokeness: ""This is a 12 year old boy. A black boy!! You gonna put him in jail?!?" Father of a 12-year-old r*pist:"
More to the point, apparently you're not supposed to send black boys to jail
Meme - iamyesyouareno @iamyesyouareno: "Just two years after his heart transplant, he carjacked someone, robbed a house, shot at an old woman, and finally got into a high speed police chase that killed him. But of course CNN used a picture of him playing chess."
"Teen heart transplant recipient killed in police chase"
My interactions with black people as an adult have turned me into a racist, and I don't know what to do. : r/TrueOffMyChest - "Growing up, race wasn't talked about or an issue around. I had friends of every race and didn't really think much about it. As I grew older, I learned about systematic injustices and absoltuely agreed they needed to be. Then, one summer in college, I worked at a restuarant (in a fairly white but diverse part of town) where a large percentage of our clientele were African American. While I did have a few "karens" or stuck-up white people, and really had shitty people of all races, the majority of my experience with African American customers was negative. They constantly tipped less (or not at all), ruder, dirty looks, insulted me, given the middle finger, got called a bitch for not letting a table leave without paying, seeing a coworker brought to tears because how a large party was treating her, etc. I left because I genuinely felt abused by a good percentage of the customers. I've always been a big believer that you can true character of a person based on how they treat those they perceive as less than them. In my experience in the restaurant industry, African American failed that test miserably. It really shifted my perspective in a negative light and I'm still working on overcoming it. After college, I got a job in my field and became a teacher. For a while, I the prejudices seemed tk By far, the majority demographic I struggle the most with classroom management and write referrals for are African American students. Plus, after I transitioned at school, I lost the complete respect of several black students, several started stopping by my classroom merely to gawk and/or laugh. They're the only ones who I've ever had to redirect using "gay" as derogatory. Literally no white, Asian, Middle Eastern, or Indian students cared; in fact a few said supportive things in private. I'm just like "no wonder transwomen of color are more likely to be murdered." I can't stand how loud they are, when they walk down the halls blasting rap music for everyone to hear, dress like thugs, and in fact the whole rap/hood/ghetto culture just rubs me the wrong way. It really does comes across as glorifying violence. Sometimes I'm like "How did we get from the Harlem Renaissance, jazz, blues, soul, and The Cosby Show to gangster rap and calling the characters on Blackish 'white washed'?" While us white people look back with disgust with shame about what our ancestors have done, sometimes I wonder if black people of the past are seeing their children and grandchildren and going "What are you doing?" So yeah... that's my story. I don't want to have these prejudices, and feel like I'm contributing to the problem because of it. I don't know what to do about it. I've opened up in some circles about this and they're either like "that's racism, we're not going to talk about that" or simply say "Stop being racist" as if it's a switch I can turn off."
Asian Dawn on X - "So far, I've seen clips saying Buddha, Sun Tzu, and Confucius were black...."
Meme - "WE WOULD HAVE GROWN UP TO BE SURGEONS BUT YALL PUT A PICTURE OF A BLACK WOMAN ON A BOX OF PANCAKES AND RUINED IT *2 black men sagging (pants falling off), one with a pistol*"
Meme - Sizwe SikaMusi: "Black people on average spend 30% more on luxury goods and brands than White people in the same income group. Why? Because wearing designer and luxury brands is necessary for affluent Blacks to gain respect and status in the White world"
"I can assure you nobody looks at your jordans and Versace hoodie, and thinks "wow. This guys great!""
Meme - Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne: "Remember six years ago when we were hearing about "The Talk"? Black parents had to sit their teenagers down and give them "the talk" about systemic white violence against black folk. What "talk" should white parents give?"
Taya @travelingflying: "Crimes in which Black people attack White people occur 42 times more often than crimes in which White people attack Black people."
"Interracial Violent Incidents Per Capita of Offending Race"
Thread by @cremieuxrecueil on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Some sociologists have proposed that American society discriminates against those with distinctively "Black names". One proposed effect is that people with Black names do worse on tests. However, they actually do no worse than their siblings with less Black names:
The reality is that people with more Black names are selected, even within the Black community. More competent and higher socioeconomic status Black parents are less likely to give their kids a distinctive name like 'Jaquan' or 'LaShawnda' and more likely to pick, e.g., 'Lisa'. But when comparing siblings from the same family, the more or less competent one is no more or less likely to be the one with the Black name."
Lauren Chen on X - "Over 11 years, there were no recorded cases of a white male raping a black female. Zero. In the whole country. Conversely, in a single year, there were 35,000 white females raped by black males. Insane."
Emily Saves America on X - "When I was 13 I was waiting outside of a mall for my dad to pick me up. I was probably barely 90 lbs then if that. A HUGE black guy ran up punched me shoved me to the ground and stole my phone and purse. Broad daylight. When I got up I realized it was all black people watching and not ONE came over, said anything, asked if I needed help, none offered to call 911. I looked around crying. They just looked at me like yeah that’s what you deserve. I hate to say it but things like that just change the way you see certain people. After that I always thought oh you guys just hate me."
Damn anti-blackness!
Raven-Symoné clarifies past remarks when she said, 'I'm not African American' - "Raven-Symoné is addressing a comment she made in 2014 during an interview with Oprah Winfrey that she said has "haunted" her ever since... "I want to be labeled a human who loves humans," she said. "I'm tired of being labeled — I'm an American, I'm not an African American. I'm an American."... "When that aired, I felt like the entire internet exploded and threw my name in the garbage," the former Disney Channel star said. "There was so much backlash from my community and others that misunderstood -- slash didn't hear the exact words that I said. And the exact words that I said is that, 'I'm an American, not an African American.'" "A lot of people on the internet thought I said that I wasn't Black, and I never said that. There's a difference between being Black and African," she said. When Maday asked her to clarify what she meant, she continued, "When I say that African American does not align with me, that label, it doesn't mean that I'm negating my Blackness or I'm not Black." "It means I am from this country, I was born here, my mom, my dad, my great-great-great-great-great — and that's what I'm saying. The pure logistics of it," she explained... To further justify the comment, she added, "When I am in another country, they don't say, 'hey look at that African American over there,' they say, 'that's an American,' plain and simple.""
She is quoted as saying "How long do a people have to live on a land before they're natives of that land .. If white people in America aren't European Americans, why do I have to be an African American ?! ", but doesn't seem to have said that
Eric Adams on X - "A 15-year-old kid was beaten and shot to death at a Southeast Queens playground yesterday. And somehow this isn’t the top story. Credit to AG Letitia James & BP Richards for speaking up. Where is everyone else, including @NYCMayor Mamdani? Outrage shouldn’t depend on zip code. Every child deserves protection."
Eli Steele on X - "This killing is more brutal than the far more famous Michael Brown shooting. The real scandal here is not just the violence, but the culture around it. In this video, you see a generation raised in moral chaos. Each one of these kids belongs to a family. What were they taught? What were they raised to believe? The crowd recording and taunting instead of intervening reveals a deeper rot. Where is the individual conscience? What we are witnessing are the internal failures that our white guilt racial order has long excused. Whites who have exploited blacks for cheap moral virtue all these years will never look this problem in the eye. They don’t want to see the horror they contributed to."
How true is Thomas Sowell's claim that poor Scots-Irish culture influenced African-American culture? : r/AskHistorians - "First, it’s important to understand what Sowell is saying in his essay titled “Black Rednecks and White Liberals.” He is not saying that Scots-Irish culture, as it existed/exists in the US, and especially the rural Southern US, merely influenced African-American culture. That claim would be nearly universally accepted by scholars. Poor whites and blacks have lived close to each other for hundreds of years, and there has been much interchange between the two communities. This means that yes, some amount of Scots-Irish-American culture has influenced African-American culture and vice versa. Recently, there has been a lot of interest in the African/black origins of the banjo, an instrument often associated with rural white music like old-time and bluegrass. I talked about this in an episode of the AskHistorians Podcast. Less well-known today is the tradition of ballads among Black Americans, an adaptation of the ballad tradition commonly found in Britain and Ireland. Popular folk songs like “John Henry” and “Stagolee” are examples of these types of songs, which have many hallmarks of these British/Irish ballads but are both by and about Black Americans. If you’re looking for some nice listening, the album Classic African-American Ballads on the Smithsonian Folkways Label has some great recordings of these songs. This is one tiny slice of Southern culture, but it shows that there was great interchange between communities that are often thought of in rigid boxes. One influenced another and vice versa, and often those influences compounded between them in a kind of blended culture. You can see, as another example, the popularity of various strands of Evangelical, Pentecostal, and Charismatic Christianities in both white and Black communities in the South, and similarities in theology even between church groups that are otherwise quite racially segregated. However, this simple concept of interchange is not what Sowell is contending. Sowell argues that black culture basically reproduced or took on poor white Southern culture, not just that it was influenced by it. And what exactly was this culture?
The cultural values and social patterns prevalent among Southern whites included an aversion to work, proneness to violence, neglect of education, sexual promiscuity, improvidence, drunkenness, lack of entrepreneurship, reckless searches for excitement, lively music and dance, and a style of religious oratory marked by strident rhetoric, unbridled emotions, and flamboyant imagery.
First off, it’s obvious to see where Sowell is going here. He also includes various anecdotes and quotes in the essay to try to show that all the stereotypes often associated with Black people in the US, especially poor black people, were once associated with poor whites. Or, as he puts it,
Much of the cultural pattern of Southern rednecks became the cultural heritage of Southern blacks, more so than survivals of African cultures, with which they had not been in contact for centuries. (Even in colonial times, most blacks on American soil had been born on American soil.)
And so if this culture was passed from poor whites down to poor blacks, where did the whites get it? Sowell traces it to varying migration patterns from Britain and Ireland throughout the years. Crucially, his argument is that poor whites in the American South came from certain areas, namely Northern Ireland, Highland Scotland, and Wales. Of particular interest are the so-called “Scots-Irish,” descendants of Scottish planters in Northern Ireland who ended up emigrating to the US. It’s obvious that one source Sowell uses and cites is Grady McWhiney’s Cracker Culture: Celtics Ways in the Old South. McWhiney uses the term “Celtic Fringe” for these areas he sees as the edges of Britain, the areas where the old “Celtic” culture remained and stayed with the people who would eventually emigrate to the US. These Celtic cultures supposedly had a number of tendencies, including many listed in the quote above, and people in those areas supposedly were imbued with these cultural characteristics more so than the populations that emigrated to other areas of the US like New England and the mid-Atlantic states. These remnants of old “Celtic” culture eventually became the backbone of so-called “Redneck” or “Cracker” culture of poor whites in the Southern US. There are a number of issues with this characterization, though, the first of which is that “Celtic” is a fairly dicey way to describe many of the people McWhiney and Sowell are discussing. In fact, the Scots-Irish, also known as Ulster Scots were/are primarily descended from lowland Scottish people who would not have been Gaelic/“Celtic” language speakers. This was a large part of the reason why they were brought to Ireland in the first place, as part of a plantation to displace the Gaelic residents of Ulster, the northern province of Ireland. Ulster Scots are, in fact, in many ways defined in opposition to Celtic culture!
Weird how poor Southern whites and Scots and Irish back in the old country aren't as dysfunctional today
The Key to Lasting Love: Why White Men/Black Women Marriages Stand Out - "In our family, there are mixed-race ancestors in the Silent Generation and, of course, during slavery, but no mixed-race marriages exist in the Boomer or the Generation X generations. It was strictly Black-on-Black crime. When we tried to question the older generation about why Aunt Keke was obviously ½ white, they would admit she was ½ white but refuse to tell us how that happened in the middle of a marriage. When we asked why they preferred we date Black — the answer was, “Shut up and don’t bring any white people home.” So, we did not dare. My mother’s father was ½ White, but he would not talk about it. Grandfather was smack dab in the middle of eight children, who were all as dark as blackberries as were their parents. He had a handsome, tall appearance and had a very light complexion. He would feel insulted if Black people called him white, but he used his fair skin to deceive others. How? Society considered light-skinned people more trustworthy and intelligent than darker-skinned people...
Interracial marriages are 28% more likely to end in divorce than same-race marriages. Within the first ten years of marriage, interracial couples have a 40% chance of divorce, while same-race couples have a 31% chance. The divorce rate of Asian and white interracial marriages is 59% higher than that of white and white unions. 12 years following marriage, 44% of white women who married a black man were divorced, compared to 33% of white women who married a white man. Black women married to white men have a 50% lower risk of divorcing than black women married to black men.
I checked this data on other websites, and it said the same thing. For interracial marriage compared to same-race marriage — all racial mixtures have a higher chance of getting divorced other than the white man/ black woman couple, which had a higher chance of staying married."
How Black Are Lakisha and Jamal? Racial Perceptions from Names Used in Correspondence Audit Studies - "Online correspondence audit studies have emerged as the primary method to examine racial discrimination. Although audits use distinctive names to signal race, few studies scientifically examine data regarding the perception of race from names. Different names treated as black or white may be perceived in heterogeneous ways. I conduct a survey experiment that asks respondents to identify the race they associate with a series of names. I alter the first names given to each respondent and inclusion of last names. Names more commonly given by highly educated black mothers (e.g., Jalen and Nia) are less likely to be perceived as black than names given by less educated black mothers (e.g., DaShawn and Tanisha). The results suggest that a large body of social science evidence on racial discrimination operates under a misguided assumption that all black names are alike, and the findings from correspondence audits are likely sensitive to name selection."
Not all black names are equally black (e.g. some "black" names are a lot more uniquely black than others, some "black" names are associated with the hood, some "black" names are given by uneducated mothers etc)
