Racism in Southern America..

[AngryOfTuebrook]

27 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Terrifying that. I hope someones pisses on it to wash it away. 

Whoever did it wants a fucking good kicking, just for the lack of an apostrophe.

[Bjornebye]

The Daily mail have run an article saying Rugby fans might be banned from singing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" .... "a spokesperson said...". Ok so no-one said it, you are just pushing this story to get more people against the BLM movement you hate inciting bastards. 

[SasaS]

33 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

The Daily mail have run an article saying Rugby fans might be banned from singing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" .... "a spokesperson said...". Ok so no-one said it, you are just pushing this story to get more people against the BLM movement you hate inciting bastards. 

Except it may be true.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jun/18/rfu-may-urge-england-fans-against-singing-swing-low-slavery

[Bjornebye]

9 minutes ago, SasaS said:

Except it may be true.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jun/18/rfu-may-urge-england-fans-against-singing-swing-low-slavery

They have been 'reviewing' that song for years. The Mail have chosen to run this story now. Not surprised to see you straight on this though. 

[Anubis]

It’s not a song celebrating slavery but a song about hope that was sung on the Underground Railroad about being carried away from slavery? Or am I misreading the history? I stand to be corrected.

[SasaS]

14 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

They have been 'reviewing' that song for years. The Mail have chosen to run this story now. Not surprised to see you straight on this though. 

I'm in awe of your moral high ground. The Guardian have also chosen to run the story now.

[Bjornebye]

6 minutes ago, SasaS said:

I'm in awe of your moral high ground. The Guardian have also chosen to run the story now.

Yes, you just posted the link. 

 

[TheHowieLama]

Great tune that

[Dougie Do'ins]

Baltimore brothers wrongfully jailed for 24 years get $3.8m

 

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The Innocence Project, which worked to uncover new evidence in the case, says police pressured a 13-year-old suspect to identify Mr Simmons and Mr McPherson, and threatened the boy with murder charges if he refused.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53098758

[Moo]

On 16/06/2020 at 17:59, AngryofTuebrook said:

Just seen these fucking weirdos on Twitter.

 

Honestly we are in the territory of a Chris Morris or Stewart Lee here; certainly some satirical genius. These fine specimens of English manhood are gathered around the statue of the great novelist George Eliot in Nuneaton. They believe they are protecting it, though what from and why is anyone’s guess. Maybe they think she was a slave trader or a war hero. It is possible, I suppose, that they know she was the author of one of the finest novels in literature, Middlemarch, as well as Felix Holt the Radical and Daniel Deronda. They may have picked up a rumour that offence had been taken by BLM activists at the lack of black characters in these works and there were plans to daub the monument with graffiti. Off camera there may be a huge banner declaring ‘Dorothea was white, deal with it’.

 

If I was to write anything on the statue it would be done tastefully and carefully and it would remind passers by that George Eliot was a sympathiser with the 1848 Revolutions in Europe, an opponent of slavery, one of the few novelists in her time to challenge anti-semitism (in Daniel Deronda) and an advocate of Home Rule for Ireland. And then I’d ask these ‘lads’ if they wanted to stand alongside me and defend her for all of that.

 

 

I bet they don't even know that George Eliot was a woman and haven't looked at the statue long enough to notice. They've been watching stuff unfold on the telly and on their Facebook, spotted a statue and "George" and decided they want a piece of the action. 

Dickheads. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

6 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

The Daily mail have run an article saying Rugby fans might be banned from singing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" .... "a spokesperson said...". Ok so no-one said it, you are just pushing this story to get more people against the BLM movement you hate inciting bastards. 

Spot the difference:

 

BBC, Guardian, etc. run the story that the RFU is reviewing the use of the song.

Daily Heil run a screamer headline "England rugby fans could be BANNED from singing" it.

 

Despite the fact that literally nobody has suggested banning anyone from singing it, that is the word that the right-wing shit-stirrers have chosen to put in all capitals, the horrible lying cunts.

[Bjornebye]

7 hours ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

Spot the difference:

 

BBC, Guardian, etc. run the story that the RFU is reviewing the use of the song.

Daily Heil run a screamer headline "England rugby fans could be BANNED from singing" it.

 

Despite the fact that literally nobody has suggested banning anyone from singing it, that is the word that the right-wing shit-stirrers have chosen to put in all capitals, the horrible lying cunts.

Exactly. 

[Section_31]

 

The rice company Uncle Ben’s is to scrap the image of a black farmer the brand has used since the 1940s and could change its name, as companies react to growing concerns over racial bias and injustice.

 

 

[Bjornebye]

11 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

 

The rice company Uncle Ben’s is to scrap the image of a black farmer the brand has used since the 1940s and could change its name, as companies react to growing concerns over racial bias and injustice.

 

 

The fuck? I always thought that was Uncle Ben 

[Section_31]

6 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

The fuck? I always thought that was Uncle Ben 

I'll be honest I'm not arsed either way but I'm struggling with tenuous link to BLM with this one:

 

"The parent company, Mars, said Uncle Ben was a fictional character whose name was first used in 1946 as a reference to an African American Texan rice farmer.

The image who personifies the brand “was a beloved Chicago chef and waiter named Frank Brown”, the company said."

 

Smacks a bit of marketing opportunism. "You spoke, we listened, we're removing all brown M&Ms from M&Ms. M&Ms - the taste of a new generation, available in all good sweet shops.

 

You've got to love corporate America though, it will monetise anything, even a pandemic and a racial uprising.

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

I'll be honest I'm not arsed either way but I'm struggling with tenuous link to BLM with this one:

 

"The parent company, Mars, said Uncle Ben was a fictional character whose name was first used in 1946 as a reference to an African American Texan rice farmer.

The image who personifies the brand “was a beloved Chicago chef and waiter named Frank Brown”, the company said."

 

Smacks a bit of marketing opportunism. "You spoke, we listened, we're removing all brown M&Ms from M&Ms. M&Ms - the taste of a new generation, available in all good sweet shops.

 

You've got to love corporate America though, it will monetise anything, even a pandemic and a racial uprising.

I think things like this can be racist in themselves. If I was black I could easily say "Why are you taking a black man off your branding? I'm black and I find it offensive that you find a black man representing your company offensive" 

 

But you are spot on. People will jump on anything if it makes an extra few quid regardless of the morality or lack of. 

 

Take Kerry Katona. She will no doubt be wheeled out on Good Morning Britain or This Morning soon to talk about the pain of being a single parent, her money worries and how she has had to resort to getting her bristols out on Only-Fans to put food on the table. But you can get your bottom dollar she will be dressed provocatively. 

 

 

[RedKnight]

43 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

 

The rice company Uncle Ben’s is to scrap the image of a black farmer the brand has used since the 1940s and could change its name, as companies react to growing concerns over racial bias and injustice.

 

 

Made exactly the same reference when I read that story too.

[SasaS]

I was going to make a joke about Aunt Jemima, but see now she is already on the way out. 

[Bobby Hundreds]

I thought uncle Ben actually owned the company. Fucking lies.

 

[Section_31]

What did they send  you over for? I'm looking for a burger basket, not converted rice. 

 

Your woman looks embarrassed. 

 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

The Slavery Museum are removing Penny Lane from their display, because they now reckon it wasn't named after a slaver.

 

https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/reflecting-reviewing-and-responding

 

If this leaves a gap in the display, maybe they could replace it with Bramley-Moore Dock.

[Dougie Do'ins]

I presume Laura Kuensberg has already started tweeting about this ?

 

Tories suspend activist over 'back to Pakistan' comment about Labour MP

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53106605

[Ne Moe Imya]

I can remember when I thought that the actual closeted Nazis were a tiny minority, even among Republicans.

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-removes-trump-ads-violating-organized-hate-policy-n1231468

 

I mean, yikes. Not only did they use an obscure Nazi symbol for political prisoners, they specifically put 88 versions of the ad up. 88, you'll be unsurprised to know, is a frequently-used online neo-Nazi code, H (as in "Heil Hitler") being the 8th letter of the alphabet.

 

I predict zero people at Trump's campaign get sacked over this.

[ZonkoVille77]

Uncle Ben can fuck himself. 

[Bobby Hundreds]

1 minute ago, ZonkoVille77 said:

Uncle Ben can fuck himself. 

Black dick stereotype. Educate yourself.