Tag Archives: Race

My white friends are upset about Eric Garner

July 16, 2020Homelessness, Justice, National news, Thursday postsCharles Krauthammer, Crime, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, O. J. Simpson, Police, Preponderance of the evidence, Probable cause, Race, Reasonable doubt, The Homeless BloggerWilliam Tell

Garner grand jury case reaction unifies left and right
Krauthammer: Decision not to indict NYPD officer ‘totally incomprehensible’

Garner was middle-aged, as we are. He had not just robbed a cigar store, rough-handling the clerk; he was selling “loose ones,” as we all do. We all buy and sell them all the time. There’s some risk to it, as in Baltimore this activity in public can get you a $150 ticket (and you must appear for trial).

Death, however, isn’t normally in the scenario.
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Podcast – Candor

July 14, 2020Get on your feet, OUR BEST POSTS, Podcast, The William Tell ShowBarclay, Black-on-black crime, George Floyd, Race, Racism, Self-love, Suge Knight, Upward mobility, WorkWilliam Tell

Until black folk love themselves
like white folk love themselves,
there will be no change.

Candor

Related: FBI – UCR – Table 21
Related blog post: Someone stole my tablet.
Related blog post: Many problems, one solution
Related: The Endless Fall of Suge Knight

Music: George Benson, “The Greatest Love of All”

“How municipalities in St. Louis County, Mo., profit from poverty”

July 2, 2020Homelessness, Justice, National media, National news, Poverty, Squalor, Thursday postsAutonomy, Cause and effect, Chaos, Conspiracy theories, Jack Kirkland, Prisons, Race, Radley BalkoWilliam Tell

“[T]he uprising in Ferguson was an inevitable reaction to the institutional racism coursing through the area for decades.” — Jack Kirkland

I’m homeless. At this writing, I’ve been homeless for exactly 3½ years.

When you meet a homeless man for the first time, you won’t notice his skin color. Not first. You’ll notice the condition he’s in. You’ll notice his clothes, his grooming, his conduct. Skin color is so far down the list, it might as well be left off completely.

Some disagree. They seem to think race is the only factor in poverty.

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Manners a cure for racism, sexism?

June 11, 2020Clippings, National news, National politics, Thursday postsAlyssa Rosenberg, Charles Krauthammer, Conservativism, Emotional intelligence, Glenn Kessler, Keystone XL pipeline, Misogyny, Race, Rich Lowry, Sexism, WisdomWilliam Tell

Bookmarks:
What conservatives get right about stopping racism and sexism • 7 Habits of Chronically Unhappy People • About the Keystone XL pipeline

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“School’s Nation of Islam handout paints Founding Fathers as racists”

June 4, 2020National media, National news, Thursday postsJon Stewart, Public schools, Race, Todd StarnesWilliam Tell

I have no background with Todd Starnes. I am aware of his October 27 column, “School’s Nation of Islam handout paints Founding Fathers as racists,” only because Yahoo! News captured it. He plays fast and loose with the facts, which does not reflect well on him or Fox News & Commentary.

(Disclaimer: In a follow-up column October 28, Starnes reports information from a second parent that confirms some of his suspicions and contradicts statements of the superintendent and the teacher. For other reasons, I have chosen to write this based on the facts as they were known on October 27.)

Sommer Bauer’s third grade son came home from school with a paper that bore an impressive image of Mount Rushmore. The captions made unflattering remarks about the Presidents shown. The source was a Nation of Islam web page.

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Podcast – I don’t want to live among these people.

June 2, 2020Homelessness, Podcast, Squalor, The William Tell ShowBlackness, Courage, COVID, Cross theology, Housing First, Infantilism, Race, Racism, Rapid rehousingWilliam Tell

That may motivate me to seek my own place.

I don’t want to live among these people.

Fox News host complains he can’t make racist comments on the air

May 28, 2020Clippings, National media, The William Tell ShowAstrology, Jaime Fuller, Kanye West, Race, Robert Sobel, Ted CruzWilliam Tell

Bookmarks:
How to poison race relations • Exceptional horoscopes update 2014-11-17 • Ted Cruz or Kanye West?

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I am exhausted from grieving race.

May 23, 2020Get on your feet, Job search/Job prospects, Justice, The William Tell ShowGrief, Here - Now - Can, Jesus, Power, Presence, Race, Racism, Responsibility, Serenity prayer, Stewardship, Upward mobilityWilliam Tell

The practice has done me a ton of damage, and no good.

So now I take a different approach. Continue reading I am exhausted from grieving race. →

“Acting White”

May 21, 2020Audition files, Get on your feet, Justice, OUR BEST POSTS, Thursday postsAutonomy, Blackness, Kristen Coke, Race, RacismWilliam Tell

‘Acting White’

Against the notion that blacks victimize themselves by “acting black,” Princeton undergraduate Kristen Coke complains that “acting white” does not insulate her from petty racist insults. After all, she doesn’t act “ghetto.”

I’m not concerned about victimizations that occur when blacks “act white” in the presence of whites. In my world, there aren’t enough white people to matter. I’m concerned about the victimizations that occur when black people “act black” among blacks.

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