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[Aeson]

I hope the UFC fights tonight are a complete and total disaster. I want it to have the lowest ratings for a UFC fight ever. I hope a lightning bolt strikes Dana White right in center of the ring. It's an abomination. A humiliation. A shame if these people were capable of feeling shame. No one in their right mind should show up to this joke. Sadly, that's not going to happen. It'll be a huge success. In the end greed and evil will always win.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

In the end greed and evil will always win.

I don’t know if I agree with that, but I like the rest of your post.

 

[Aeson]

I don’t know if I agree with that, but I like the rest of your post.

It's hard to believe otherwise.

This isn't about data centers, it's about everything else. I've been stocking up on water. I'm going to start stocking up on food and first aid. I'm thinking of investing in a generator.

 

[Aeson]

I kid you not, a real conversation I just had with my mom.

Me: Friday is Juneteenth.
Mom: It's a made up holiday.
Me: All holidays are made up.
Mom: Yeah, but it's meaningless, but it means something to the Blacks.
Me: speechless I'll talk to you later. Hangs up phone
Me:

I just couldn't with her. I don't know what to think.

 

[Aeson]

I started thinking about this. My mom would never admit to being racist, because I honestly believe, she doesn't think she is racist. I've heard the comments, she's racist. Despite spending her entire life in the South, she claims she never saw segregation. She was born in 1949 South Carolina. She lived in Texas in the 50s and 60s. Graduated highschool in Georgia. Don't tell me she didn't witness segregation.

Correct me if I'm wrong on this, this what systemic racism looks like. She doesn't see herself as racist but it influences her decision making. This is also the very thing Critical Race Theory is about. It's way too complex for children to understand. Hell, it's too complex for some adults to understand. I don't know why anyone would believe it's being taught to children.

I don't think she sees my youngest niece and nephew as brown, but see them as white, because they were raised by white people. I'll never hear her say anything about them, but she has a lot to say about others. To be honest, they see themselves more as white too. They are aware of how others might see them though. Skin and hair color first.

I'm also aware of my own racism. I am a product of the environment in which I was raised. I acknowledge it and always strive to overcome it.

 

[Aeson]

Today's USA Today.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I started thinking about this. My mom would never admit to being racist, because I honestly believe, she doesn't think she is racist. I've heard the comments, she's racist. Despite spending her entire life in the South, she claims she never saw segregation. She was born in 1949 South Carolina. She lived in Texas in the 50s and 60s. Graduated highschool in Georgia. Don't tell me she didn't witness segregation.

Correct me if I'm wrong on this, this what systemic racism looks like. She doesn't see herself as racist but it influences her decision making. This is also the very thing Critical Race Theory is about. It's way too complex for children to understand. Hell, it's too complex for some adults to understand. I don't know why anyone would believe it's being taught to children.

I don't think she sees my youngest niece and nephew as brown, but see them as white, because they were raised by white people. I'll never hear her say anything about them, but she has a lot to say about others. To be honest, they see themselves more as white too. They are aware of how others might see them though. Skin and hair color first.

I'm also aware of my own racism. I am a product of the environment in which I was raised. I acknowledge it and always strive to overcome it.

It’s very possible she didn’t recognize segregation when she witnessed it. If blacks are kept out of a space by racism, most people won’t ask questions about their absence. Sometimes, little myths crop up to paper it over.

“Black people can’t/don’t like to swim.” is the reason cited for why there’s no blacks at the swimming pool instead of laws preventing access or threats of bodily harm.

My Dad was the first black person to be admitted to (and graduate from) his medical school. While there, he also participated in the evaluation of admitting potential students. Whenever people say that affirmative action should be ended, he points out that “legacy” admissions are never threatened. If a medical school over 100 years old has only admitted minorities for less than 1/3 of its existence, how many qualified minorities were barred in favor of people whose main qualification was that great uncle Festus attended the school 75 years ago? Of course there’s a bunch of white legacy students- they had a generations-long head start.

But people can’t see that. They only see the process outputs, not the process itself.

 

[Aeson]

I wanted to get a better shot of the paper and the inside.

 

[Aeson]

It’s very possible she didn’t recognize segregation when she witnessed it. If blacks are kept out of a space by racism, most people won’t ask questions about their absence. Sometimes, little myths crop up to paper it over.

“Black people can’t/don’t like to swim.” is the reason cited for why there’s no blacks at the swimming pool instead of laws preventing access or threats of bodily harm.

My Dad was the first black person to be admitted to (and graduate from) his medical school. While there, he also participated in the evaluation of admitting potential students. Whenever people say that affirmative action should be ended, he points out that “legacy” admissions are never threatened. If a medical school over 100 years old has only admitted minorities for less than 1/3 of its existence, how many qualified minorities were barred in favor of people whose main qualification was that great uncle Festus attended the school 75 years ago? Of course there’s a bunch of white legacy students- they had a generations-long head start.

But people can’t see that. They only see the process outputs, not the process itself.

I appreciate that. I suppose if it was the status quo then it wouldn't stand out to a child. Something else I should have taken into consideration. She would have been starting school at the time desegregation was being enforced.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I appreciate that. I suppose if it was the status quo then it wouldn't stand out to a child. Something else I should have taken into consideration. She would have been starting school at the time desegregation was being enforced.

So unless she was at one of the forcibly desegregated schools, or her parents watched the (sometimes sparse) news coverage, the enormity of it may have been concealed from her.

It’s kind of like some of the Ukrainians were saying of phone conversations with their Russian family members early in the invasion: the Russians in cities far from the front were completely oblivious to the realities of the war, completely believing the propaganda.