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Amps yeah it’s kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy isn’t it. The more people hold such beliefs the more it is borne out by events.

its obviously a really complex and nuanced topic though. You can’t lay all the blame at the feet of colonial attitudes and there has to be a degree of responsibility taken by the minority communities too of course.

Im not sure how well Obama ultimately served the needs of those communities and I am aware of a viewpoint which argues that BAME households have benefited from Trump’s administration but its hard to sort the fact from fiction isn’t it.

      C_J

      C_J BAME households have benefited from Trump’s administration but its hard to sort the fact from fiction isn’t it.

      I think that’s another completely fabricated bullet point on the MAGA soundbite challenge. At Trump’s absolute peak of economic heroism the economy only arrived back at where it was under Bush before Obama came in. Plus the jobs numbers use a statistic to inflate the real numbers such as; anyone dropping off the welfare register is added to the jobs list but there are countless reasons for that happening. Becoming a drug dealer (non racist assumption attempt) is one of them or simply dying. They don’t specifically use the numbers from the standpoint of people actually starting new employment. I saw an article by Robert Reich on the subject, I’ll try and find the link, but it’s all very simple manipulation of data.

          This is getting silly now….

            C_J You can’t lay all the blame at the feet of colonial attitudes and there has to be a degree of responsibility taken by the minority communities too of course

            Quoted for posterity.

              6 days later

              My company have “designated this Friday as a “Day of Solidarity” to celebrate Juneteenth, urging its employees to spend the day learning about the history of racism and taking steps to fight injustice. ”

              So I’m on the beers now, which is nice.

                Hursty

                Another absolute shit show mate. So uncle Ben only made the lovely rice because he was a slave for some white folk and it’s not fair to make money from that eh?

                    Hursty I followed it up with a White Russian, I’m done for!

                    RACIST.

                      Hursty One for Si…

                      Uncle Bens is rebranding its products to remove the image of the black man who portrayed ‘Uncle Ben’.

                      Racist bastards.

                      https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/18/uncle-bens-rice-firm-to-scrap-brand-image-of-black-farmer

                      Oh it’s not just Uncle Ben. Aunt Jemima, Mrs. Butterworth and the Cream of Wheat branding are out the door too.

                      https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/18/business/cream-of-wheat-racist-brands/index.html

                        I don’t know what to think about any of this.

                        Other than considering packing it all in and buying a house in the woods near Yosemite. I don’t care who my neighbors are. I just want less of them right now. Work from home and all that. I’ll die in a wildfire, sure, but I’ve had a good run so whatever.

                          jonattonyeah Other than considering packing it all in and buying a house in the woods near Yosemite. I don’t care who my neighbors are. I just want less of them right now.

                          Dreadful

                              6 black men have been found hanging from trees in public places during the past two weeks in America, and all have been ruled suicide.