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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
« Reply #135 on: August 06, 2015, 05:40:45 pm »
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
« Reply #137 on: August 27, 2015, 08:28:30 pm »
Agelbert NOTE: This is a rush job so I didn't format the pictures and graphs. They are VERY good and VERY descriptive, if you know what I mean. See them HERE.

Tue Aug 25, 2015 at 09:30 AM EDT.

The hate next door: Unexpected faces of the Neo-Confederacy

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It is far too easy - and all too human - to make sweeping judgements about people based solely on limited experience and unlimited assumptions. But it is important to work past that genetically encoded human defect for any number of reasons, not the least of which are that: (1) knowledge is power, and (2) stereotyping is not.
Please join me below the fold for an exclusive and detailed look at the surprising demographics of the fast-rising Neo-Confederate movement of North Carolina.
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There's nothing new about loose talk extolling the virtues of a second secession in America's south. In Texas, of course, such talk is all but an article of the state constitution, and long has been. And in the Deep South - states like Mississippi and Alabama - Confederate flags hanging limp in the withering heat are as much a part of the quotidian scenery as are magnolia blossoms and Moon Pies. But North Carolina is different...or so, at least, many of our sons and daughters would like to think. The last of the states to secede, on May 20th, 1861 (and even then only with great ambivalence), and the first and foremost to raise a sustained, home-grown, and devastating Unionist guerrilla movement behind the lines during the War Between the States (see, for instance, William T. Auman's Civil War in the North Carolina Quaker Belt: The Confederate Campaign Against Peace Agitators, Deserters and Draft Dodgers), North Carolina was then, and is now, on balance more Northern in its sympathies and temperament than even more northerly rebel states such as Virginia. And with our state's top-ten rank in population growth (fueled largely by northern immigrants bearing northern dollars), North Carolina becomes more 'Northern' every day.

Still, old habits die hard, and waves of new immigrants do not overnight sweep away the Old Guard before them. Just how true this is here in the Tar Heel State has been starkly revealed by the paroxysm of Neo-Confederate sympathy suddenly and shockingly witnessed in the wake of the recent Charleston massacre and the ensuing lowering of the rebel battle flag in neighboring South Carolina. The Southern Poverty Law Center's Mapping Hate project has cataloged some 13 Confederate flag rallies across the state since Charleston, with a combined attendance earning the Tar Heel State second place in the U.S. for total attendance (just behind the much more populous Florida). SPLC's attendance estimates are sometimes greatly at odds with those of most reliable local observers, but on the other hand some recent North Carolina rallies are missing from its database.

I recently attended one such 'Southern Heritage' rally, in nearby and highly progressive Hillsborough, NC, and covered it (as well as the locals' resistance to it) in this recent diary. In its aftermath I found myself succumbing to the human urge to stereotype, referring to the assembly's denizens as looking "like they were fresh from a cardiologist's waiting room: unhealthy, obese, aging smokers." I was, thankfully, called on this by one of the opposing Red Strings I had interviewed for that diary, who pointed out that it is important to understand who these people really are, instead of being blinded by misguided images of whom we would like them to be.

Moved by that wisdom, my colleagues and I have just completed an unique demographic analysis of self-identified North Carolina Neo-Confederates, the findings from which I report here exclusively. We were aided in this effort by Facebook, where North Carolina-specific Neo-Confederate pages make it easy to identify the movement's leading sympathizers. Those pages include (but are not limited to):

Alamance County Taking Back Alamance County
Orange County Taking Back Orange County
Guilford County Taking Back Guilford County
Person County Taking Person County Back
Rockingham County North Carolina Taking Back Rockingham County
Caswell County Taking Back Caswell County
North Carolina Taking Back North Carolina
North Carolina Sons of Confederate Veterans
and the page of the North Carolina chapter of the notorious secessionist White Power group, the League of the South

 Using largely automated scripts to simplify the task, we tagged the most explicit post-Charleston Neo-Confederate posts from these and similar pages, extracted approximately 1,000 of the user profiles of readers who liked, shared, and/or commented favorably upon those posts, and cross-indexed those names with North Carolina's remarkably forthcoming downloadable database of registered voters' demographic information and voting behavior (the latter totaling about 24 million records). To minimize the chance of mis-identifying these individuals in that database we employed a three-point test: a Facebook user was associated with an individual voter record only if his name matched that of a registered voter, his Facebook profile's 'lives in' descriptor matched the voter's town or county of residence, and the preceding two criteria matched one and only one voter record in the database. This process produced a list totaling 367 Neo-Confederates plus their detailed demographics: age, gender, race, residence, political affiliation, complete histories of all their voter registration transactions - such as address updates and changes of party affiliation - and voting behaviors (which elections they did or did not vote in and, for "Unaffiliated" voters, which party's ballot they chose in each primary election in which they voted). The results outlined below are based on these data, supplemented with U.S. Census data where indicated.
The analysis presented here supersedes a preliminary effort which I offered in my earlier Hillsborough diary, which was based upon a much more limited sample of only 50 registered voters.

Summary Demographics of North Carolina Neo-Confederate Sympathizers

Race:
 Unsurprisingly, 99.5% of our collection of Neo-Confederates self-identified in voter registration records as being 'White.' The remainder specified 'Other.' None are 'Black.' Compare this with the racial distribution of currently-registered North Carolina voters overall, among whom 71% self-describe as 'White' and 22% as 'Black.'

Gender:
 A decent respect for the presumably more refined sensibilities of women-folk, coupled with casual observation of rally participants, had initially led us to expect that men must surely outnumber women among Neo-Confederate sympathizers (hereafter, NCS) by a wide margin. But nothing could be further from the truth: among our 367 NCS, 56% are men and 44% are women, precisely matching the gender breakdown of white North Carolina voters overall. Neo-Confederate sympathy is a gender-neutral phenomenon in The Tar Heel State.

Party Affiliation:
 While registered Republicans predominate among NCS (50% overall, and 73% of all those who are not 'Unaffiliated"), Democrats nonetheless manage a surprisingly strong showing (18% overall, or 26% of all NCS who are not 'Unaffiliated').

Understanding this perhaps surprising finding requires some historical perspective. In the North, the anti-slavery movement and the Civil War itself were largely championed by the Republican "Party of Lincoln," and the vast majority of Union-appointed Reconstruction officials were Republicans as well, whereas Northern Democrats of that era were inclined to tolerate slavery in the South, and many were sympathetic to the Confederates' motivation, if not their cause. As a result, a legacy of distrust of Republicans and affinity for Democrats (reversed only as late as the Nixon administration, with its Southern Strategy) was long common among vanquished Confederates - a legacy which lives on today in North Carolina's high frequency of DINOs (Democrats in name only), who are Democrats only by virtue of family history, not by political beliefs or voting behavior.

Reinforcing this explanation is our survey's observation that, among registered NCS who claim no party affiliation (32% of all NCS), nearly twice as many vote exclusively Republican ballots in primaries (45%) as do those who vote exclusively Democratic ballots (26%); the remaining 28% have voted a mix of the two parties' ballots over the years.

Still, it is difficult to explain how today's NCS voters with documented Democratic sympathies (those 26% of Unaffiliateds who vote exclusively Democratic primary ballots) can harbor both Democratic and Neo-Confederate sympathies at the same time, without being forced to conclude that the Democratic Party in North Carolina itself still harbors its own fair share of bigots. But, in fairness, the reader should note that these Democratic-voting Unaffiliateds are a very small fraction of our sample (just 4% of all NCS) - the majority of Unaffiliated NCS voters (59%) have never voted any partisan ballot, Republican or Democratic.

In short, Republicans-in-fact plus Republicans-by-sentiment comprise the lion's share - but by no means all - of our NCS sample.

Age Distribution:
 Contrary to what we had hoped (namely, that Neo-Confederate sympathizers, at this 150 year remove from the War, are a dying breed), today's NCS are a remarkably youthful group, as the graph below illustrates.

Age distribution of North Carolina Neo-Confederate sympathizer voters, versus all white North Carolina voters

 
Age distribution of Neo-Confederate sympathizer (NCS) voters (red) versus all white North Carolina voters (grey)
While it is good to bear in mind that our sample of NCS voters was derived from social media - and thus may be somewhat skewed toward its users' overall age distribution - nonetheless a comparison of the NCS age distribution in the figure above with that of Facebook users overall illustrates that the abundance of young NCS voters in our sample cannot be accounted for by the demographics of Facebook users overall. Younger voters (ages 18-32) account for one-third of all NCS in our sample, suggesting a movement whose sympathies are likely to live on for decades to come.
It should perhaps not be surprising that a movement featuring shiny objects, in-your-face rebelliousness, and a style calculated to offend, might well prove attractive to a certain segment of youth. Discouraging, certainly...but not surprising.

Socio-Economic Status:
 Looking out over the clutches of Neo-Confederate sympathizer who actually attend public rallies, one might well be forgiven for arriving at the conclusion the the NCS movement as a whole is comprised primarily of lower-income citizens. Indeed, as the NC-NAACP's Laurel Ashton so eloquently said at an NAACP Historical Accuracy press conference in Hillsborough just days before the flag-waver rally there:

The tragedy is that these very people, those who will drive through the Piedmont waving Confederate flags, converging here in this courtyard, these very people, many of whom are poor and face a system of economic oppression daily, are hurting and sometimes even dying because of the policies passed by our elected officials. It is these poor white southerners who are so often without healthcare, who are underpaid and need a raise in the minimum wage, who have children struggling in under-resourced public schools, who live alongside black folks in rural communities where they can’t drink the water because of lack of environmental protections. It is these poor white folks who need access to affordable women’s healthcare, who need an end to the death penalty, who need emergency unemployment and earned income tax credits.
Yet, here again, the data indicate that the stereotype is an over-simplification of the reality. For, as the graph below illustrates, while activist flag-wavers with nothing better to do of an afternoon may indeed be primarily low-income folks (a question which our data cannot speak to), clearly the greater Neo-Confederate sympathizer movement is primarily a middle-class phenomenon.
Percent of residents below the poverty level (U.S. census data) in Neo-Confederate sympathizers' zip codes, versus all white North Carolina voters
Percent of residents below the poverty level in Neo-Confederate sympathizers' zip codes (red), versus all white North Carolina voters (grey). Poverty data from the 2013 American Community Survey of the U.S. Census Bureau.
Judging by U.S. Census data regarding the poverty levels in the zip codes in which they reside, NCS voters are remarkably middle-class - indeed, more so than North Carolina white voters overall.
Political Engagement:
 In America, clouds of brightly colored fluttering scraps of cloth may attract outsized attention, but they do not win battles; votes do. And here we find some good news, for - as the graph below illustrates - NCS voters are comparatively disengaged when it comes to actually turning out to vote.

Registered voter turnout at the polls for the 2000 through 2014 elections, comparing Neo-Confederate sympathizers (red) and all white North Carolina voters (grey)
Registered voter turnout at the polls for the 2000 through 2014 elections, comparing Neo-Confederate sympathizers (red) and all white North Carolina voters (grey)
North Carolina's NCS voters routinely post election turnout figures which are 10 to 20 percentage points below those of all white voters, reflecting their relatively low degree of meaningful political engagement. It is also worth noting that the two election years which witnessed their highest turnouts - 2008 and 2012 - are the two years in which an African American stood for the office of president, in keeping with the notion that racial politics can be a motivating factor for NCS voters.
Our survey's methods do not enable us to calculate the percentage of all NCS commenters who are registered to vote, but our distinct impression has been that it is likely to be much lower than 50%.

Geographical Distribution:
 As the map below illustrates, NCS voters in our sample are largely concentrated in three hot-spots throughout North Carolina. The largest of these, by far, is the old "Quaker Belt" region of the north-central Piedmont - which, ironically, William Ausman's book (cited at the beginning of this diary) identifies as the nexus of the anti-Confederate unionist guerrilla movement of the Civil War era. Equally unionist-dominated back then was another of the state's current NCS hot-spots, in the extreme west's Blue Ridge Mountain region (specifically, just south of Asheville). As Ausman discusses at length, both of these regions of North Carolina had extremely low numbers of persons held in slavery during the antebellum period (because the regions' poor soils made large plantations unfeasible), rendering these the homes of poor subsistence farmers and 'mechanics,' who neither needed nor could afford slaves and, as a result, had no dog in the fight that was the Civil War, and no sympathy for it.

Our NCS voters reside in at least 55 of North Carolina's 100 counties. The top ten - those which are home to 2% or more of the NCS in our survey - include Alamance (26%), Orange (13%), Henderson (8%), Rockingham (6%), Gaston (4%), Guilford (4%), Person (3%), Cleveland (3%), Wake (3%) and Granville (2%).


Geographic distribution of North Carolina Neo-Confederate sympathizers, from voter registration home address data

 
Geographic distribution of North Carolina Neo-Confederate sympathizers in our sample, from voter registration home address data
Connections to Racist/Secessionist Groups:
 Throughout the research underlying this report we noted repeated connections between some of the most active NCS commenters and old-school racist/secessionist organizations including the League of the South and the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Evidence of such links includes:
Eight very active NCS commenters on Facebook "Taking Back" pages are also members of the restricted North Carolina League of the South (LOS) Facebook page (including the individual who, according to numerous press accounts, was the organizer of the single largest North Carolina rally to date)
Comments posted on "Taking Back" pages by LOS's North Carolina chapter chairman, Harold Crews, eagerly inquiring about turnout numbers shortly following recent rallies. Crews has also blogged on the NC-LOS web site regarding his participation in NCS rallies featuring "a good number of League members and supporters"
Facebook profile and avatar photos, belonging to dozens of NCS commenters, which incorporate the "Black Cross" flag of the LOS - including this avatar for the organizer of one of the state's largest rallies to date, symbolizing the melding of the Confederate battle flag and the LOS Black Cross:


Regarding the symbolism of its Black Cross flag, LOS states:
The white field stands for our Folk and for purity. The black cross stands for no surrender.
Sentiments:
 Neo-Confederate sympathizers seldom miss an opportunity to repeat their "heritage, not hate!" mantra - a tag-line so smart that it is tempting to suspect the hand of a professional wordsmith in its creation. But the more unguarded comments of North Carolina NCS Facebook users belie that assurance of reverence for history free of racial hatred:
Truly sad. But, when you crawl out of that blighted, cesspool portion of society who works for nothing and demands that everything be handed to them....senseless destruction of other people's property means nothing to you.

So when will they start taking down all the MLK statutes and dig him up and move him???

And when they remove the MLK statues they need to remove his name from the public roads all buildings and HISTORY books

To many ass kissing spineless people bowing down to the naacp and other racist groups and letting them destroy Americas history. Im getting more and more closer to not being an american flag on the front of my house. Its getting ready to be just my confederate nc flag and southern cross. I guess i will just consider myself a southern confederate instead of an american. If American politicians want to hate on my history and what i believe in then i will hate on them and just follow what i believe in.

All lives matter and time has come for the Blacks to stop their racist ways.

Maybe a black person had a white do it. The spelling is really good. Very few can write that well if they are the caliber to do that at all. Just saying

stand guard and shoot if anyone comes close with paint in hand

Shoot all them basterds

The real meaning of NAACP is National Association for the Advancement of Crazy Peopl

I hope people plan on bringing firearms for protection.

they are the ones committing the crimes, not us, and they need punished for it

I don't see any of them protesting in front of abortion clinics or in gang banger neighborhoods where most black lives are lost.

Just talk about rioting. That's what they threaten (or do) to get what they want.

Put the Haters and Yankees in Libby Prison, Ric. Virginia

sooo tired of this B.S. Let's just fight this war over again.. I got everything i need..

they keep ordering the murder of white ppl & have been successful in a lot of cases & act as tho black ppl do not commit mass murders
Welcome to the Neo-Confederates' dystopian vision of a new New South - the same as the Old South: a heritage of hate. These are folks some of whom you may even know: pest control technicians, used car salesmen, cashiers at Walmart, mechanics, truck drivers, stay-at-home mommies, beauticians, burger-flippers, community college students, office workers, bikers, veterans, the unemployed, retired folks and (Jesus wept) even little children. They are mostly young to middle-aged. They are white. They are men and women alike, mostly (but not exclusively) Republicans. They are largely middle class. They are white supremacist secessionists. They are angry and armed and politically ineffectual. And, ironically, many of their 'Confederate' ancestors were actually Unionists at heart.
They are the faces of the Neo-Confederacy.

Questions or comments? Reach me at docdawg666 [at] gmail [dot] com

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/25/1414925/-The-hate-next-door-Unexpected-faces-of-the-Neo-Confederacy

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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
« Reply #138 on: August 27, 2015, 08:31:51 pm »
When it's said and done, I just prefer to own arms, just in case I might need them.  They are only good for one thing though, and that's killing something or somebody. Obviously' owning a gun and using a gun is something that requires really good judgment, which seems to be in ever shorter supply.  Meanwhile, guns are cranked out by the millions, and anybody who wants one can get one.

We have a real problem with stupid people killing innocent people with guns. I wish there were a test for good judgment that one had to pass to own a gun, but we don't seem to be able to do that in any way that can't be rigged.

I expect more and more of these racially driven shootings. But it's more of an excuse for powerless, angry ****s to use to justify their inability to control their own violent emotional outbursts. It's not so much to do with race as it does being cornered like rats in a world with poor prospects and no frontiers.

Too many people. 

Eddie,
Race has nothing to do with it in places where everybody is more or less the same color (see Puerto Rico). Yet claiming the violence is because people are "Stupid" is incorrect. Humans are emotional creatures. Your claim to being able to blow somebody away in self defense is as "valid" for you as for anyone else out there. Keeping guns out of human hands is the only way deaths from angry confrontations or revengeful vendettas will be reduced.

In the USA, RACE has EVERYTHING to do with it, no matter how much you want to dance around this by claiming it is an issue of intelligence level.

LOOK at these comments, Eddie!
I have read similar comments HERE from some rather intelligent people. Don't tell me you have to be "stupid" to agree with them. All you have to be is BIGOTED! And lots of BIGOTS have college degrees and make a lot of money, pal!

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Neo-Confederate sympathizers seldom miss an opportunity to repeat their "heritage, not hate!" mantra - a tag-line so smart that it is tempting to suspect the hand of a professional wordsmith in its creation.

But the more unguarded comments of North Carolina NCS Facebook users belie that assurance of reverence for history free of racial hatred:

Truly sad. But, when you crawl out of that blighted, cesspool portion of society who works for nothing and demands that everything be handed to them....senseless destruction of other people's property means nothing to you.

So when will they start taking down all the MLK statutes and dig him up and move him???

And when they remove the MLK statues they need to remove his name from the public roads all buildings and HISTORY books

To many ass kissing spineless people bowing down to the naacp and other racist groups and letting them destroy Americas history. Im getting more and more closer to not being an american flag on the front of my house. Its getting ready to be just my confederate nc flag and southern cross. I guess i will just consider myself a southern confederate instead of an american. If American politicians want to hate on my history and what i believe in then i will hate on them and just follow what i believe in.

All lives matter and time has come for the Blacks to stop their racist ways.

Maybe a black person had a white do it. The spelling is really good. Very few can write that well if they are the caliber to do that at all. Just saying

stand guard and shoot if anyone comes close with paint in hand

Shoot all them basterds

The real meaning of NAACP is National Association for the Advancement of Crazy Peopl

I hope people plan on bringing firearms for protection.

they are the ones committing the crimes, not us, and they need punished for it

I don't see any of them protesting in front of abortion clinics or in gang banger neighborhoods where most black lives are lost.

Just talk about rioting. That's what they threaten (or do) to get what they want.

Put the Haters and Yankees in Libby Prison, Ric. Virginia

sooo tired of this B.S. Let's just fight this war over again.. I got everything i need..

they keep ordering the murder of white ppl & have been successful in a lot of cases & act as tho black ppl do not commit mass murders
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/25/1414925/-The-hate-next-door-Unexpected-faces-of-the-Neo-Confederacy

And then UB has the BRASS BALLS to claim putting people like that in prison is "hate".

And then UB, because I left out a bunch DETAILS on the STRICT gun control laws in Puerto Rico, tries to make a case for what "works" and what "doesn't work" with his personal experiences and a list of fines that allegedly equal "stricter" gun control laws.  ::)

Whatever...
 

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Matt 10:37

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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
« Reply #139 on: August 27, 2015, 09:12:14 pm »
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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, being the best security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; but no person religiously scrupulous shall be compelled to bear arms. In late August 1789, the House debated and modified the Second Amendment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

I make no attempt to rationalize my position. I just refuse to be disarmed.  I don't consider it a God-given right. Just a choice.

TPTB are considering every excuse to outlaw ammunition, if not firearms themselves. They have had some success there already.

I predict greater repression. It is the logical expectation.


You are a smart man. Me too. Your pea shooters don't stand a chance against TPTB the instant they decide to take them away from you.

Back when I was taking military tactics at West Point, we had to learn to do all kinds of neat stuff with weapons. We had to disassemble and assemble 45 caliber automatics in a certain number of seconds. But the real bear was loading, firing and reloading a continental Army musket from the Revolutionary War. They had bayonets (LONG BAYONETS) on them because that durn thing was used way more often than not.



It was quite a dance to get the wick ready (and it had to be kept DRY along with the powder during combat too!), jam the powder and then a cloth and then a round ball and then aim and then hope your flint hadn't crapped out and then shoot. At that point, it was rinse and repeat unless the red coat was charging you close by. Some people got really good at it and could reload in less than 30 seconds. Most could not.

I bring all this irrelevant babble to the fore because THAT weapon is the basis of all the rhetoric in the Second Amendment. The RIGHT to shoot ONCE  IF your powder, wick and flint are dry within a minute or so was the mindset of the folks who wrote that piece of paper.

But things have changed. I can take an AR-15 and file something on it and turn it into a machine gun. The Army knows all this. And yet they have not moved against the dudes out there that have enough clips and "hunting" rifles/machine guns to start a little war. The reason is that they are ALL pea shooters compared with what TPTB can bring to bear.

Yes, I know you aren't claiming you own weapons because of this or that Constitutional rhetoric. But you ARE claiming that you are somehow more capable of deciding when to use lethal force than most of the rest of the population. Yes, I know you don't give a rat's patutty if that doesn't sit well with some folks.

But your claim that being locked and loaded will keep TPTB at bay is wishful thinking. TPTB won the arms race with the population over a century ago.

You can kill your neighbor (by accident or because of strife) or some local thief with your hardware, Eddie. That's it.
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
« Reply #140 on: August 27, 2015, 09:42:17 pm »
Wed Aug 26, 2015 at 10:22 AM EDT.

Two Seattle police officers fired after body camera worn by bus driver catches them in a huge lie


On November 14, 2014, Kelvin Kirkpatrick, an African-American Metro bus driver with over 20 years of experience in Seattle, requested that sheriff's officers remove sleeping homeless men from his bus, per company policy. The officers weren't helpful and even lied to Kirkpatrick about why they weren't being helpful. He got back on his bus and got back to work.

Little did he know that two of the officers involved would flat out lie about the entire encounter in a report that they completed, stating that he dropped f-bombs and berated them. The thing is, that never happened—and a body camera, worn by the bus driver himself, captured the entire ordeal as you can see below the fold.

The firings resulted from an investigation into a complaint filed by King County Sheriff’s Office Sergeant Lou Caballero after an early morning argument on Nov. 14 between him and driver Kelvin Kirkpatrick in downtown Seattle, internal Sheriff’s Office documents showed.

During the argument, Kirkpatrick, a 20-year transit veteran, criticized Caballero and his deputies for not removing non-paying “sleepers” from his bus.

Caballero said Kirkpatrick yelled at him: “You got three fu cking deputies out here that don’t do nothing.” 
 Another deputy, Amy Shoblom, attested to that in a witness statement. 

Both officers have now been fired   , but it shows you the frightening ease with which officers will not only make sh it up, but back each other up on the fiction. 



America. 2015.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/26/1415635/-Two-Seattle-police-officers-fired-after-body-camera-worn-by-bus-driver-catches-them-in-a-huge-lie
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
« Reply #141 on: August 31, 2015, 12:29:56 am »


http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/08/ut-austin-removes-jefferson-davis-statue.html/

Rejoice, the world has been made safe for political correctness and racial diversity.

At least the U. got something for the money they spent on Dr. Gregory Vincent's 315K salary this year, their house nig ger VP for Diversity and Community Relations.

You apparently missed the part about the PC Police also deciding to remove the statue of Woodrow Wilson today too, because, somehow, by some convoluted logic, his bronze likeness was also some kind of throw-back to Jim Crow. It'd be hilariously funny to me if it weren't such a tired sack of pure sh it. Who will they go after next, Davy Crockett?

http://dailycaller.com/2015/08/11/university-of-texas-might-remove-woodrow-wilson-statue/

Why doesn't your mocking, dismissive tone not surprise me?  ::)

I seem to have read similar, though less erudite, comments along exactly the same lines recently...

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Truly sad. But, when you crawl out of that blighted, cesspool portion of society who works for nothing and demands that everything be handed to them....senseless destruction of other people's property means nothing to you.

So when will they start taking down all the MLK statutes and dig him up and move him???

And when they remove the MLK statues they need to remove his name from the public roads all buildings and HISTORY books

To many ass kissing spineless people bowing down to the naacp and other racist groups and letting them destroy Americas history. Im getting more and more closer to not being an american flag on the front of my house. Its getting ready to be just my confederate nc flag and southern cross. I guess i will just consider myself a southern confederate instead of an american. If American politicians want to hate on my history and what i believe in then i will hate on them and just follow what i believe in.

All lives matter and time has come for the Blacks to stop their racist ways.

Maybe a black person had a white do it. The spelling is really good. Very few can write that well if they are the caliber to do that at all. Just saying

stand guard and shoot if anyone comes close with paint in hand

Shoot all them basterds

The real meaning of NAACP is National Association for the Advancement of Crazy Peopl

I hope people plan on bringing firearms for protection.

they are the ones committing the crimes, not us, and they need punished for it

I don't see any of them protesting in front of abortion clinics or in gang banger neighborhoods where most black lives are lost.

Just talk about rioting. That's what they threaten (or do) to get what they want.

Put the Haters and Yankees in Libby Prison, Ric. Virginia

sooo tired of this B.S. Let's just fight this war over again.. I got everything i need..

they keep ordering the murder of white ppl & have been successful in a lot of cases & act as tho black ppl do not commit mass murders
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If only it was just the Republicans...   
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"When I go to the grocery store and see a choice between crap cereal and sh it cereal, I'm not buying cereal. It's not my problem, it's the cereal makers' problem."
-- Puddytat on low voter turnout
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
« Reply #142 on: September 02, 2015, 10:28:51 pm »
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
« Reply #143 on: October 13, 2015, 08:17:26 pm »

Special Report: Pepperspray, Por nography, And Two Bad Apples

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Under an ugly shadow:
The path to redemption for the Rutland City Police Department

by Elizabeth Hewitt

Andy Todd had been at the Rutland City Police Department for six years when he filed a formal written complaint with his command staff.

It was not spur-of-the-moment.

It came:

Six years after he first heard coworkers use racial slurs.

Four years from the time he saw an officer pocketing items during illegal vehicle stops.

Nine months after Todd heard officers laughing about African American Jamek Hart, who was pepperballed in his cell more than 20 times.

Four months since Todd witnessed a coworker slam a teenage African American face-first into the wall of a cell.


Finally, on Sept. 21, 2010, Todd filed a written complaint to his supervisors documenting his concerns about the alleged misconduct of fellow officers.

Five years later, Todd’s allegations of racial discrimination in the Rutland City Police Department are headed to court in January.

His lawsuit exposed a police culture that was rife with misconduct and aggressive racial bias during the time when Todd, who is black, served as an officer with the department from 2004 to 2011.

That culture, in which police openly discriminated against blacks, used excessive force, threatened other officers and had sex with informants on the job, has been kept a secret until now. Todd’s lawsuit brings to light internal reports, affidavits and depositions that detail alleged misconduct and a hostile work environment at the Rutland City Police Department.

The court case has sparked questions about whether the department has done enough to address racial bias and alleged officer misconduct.

Rutland City officials say the department has been fully reformed. Two officers who are fingered in Todd’s lawsuit have left, and the internal culture of the Rutland City Police Department has changed dramatically since the lawsuit was filed, they say.

But former officers and local residents say they are not so certain all that much has changed.
 
The Epicenter Of An Epidemic


Gov. Peter Shumlin’s state of the state address in January 2014 drew attention to the opiate addiction crisis in Vermont, and shortly afterward, a front-page story in the New York Times identified Rutland as the unofficial epicenter of Vermont’s heroin epidemic.

The publicity drew attention to an issue that wasn’t new to residents of this central Vermont city of 16,000. For more than a decade, the local newspaper, the Rutland Herald, has reported on drive-by shootings, drug possession charges, arrests of dealers and drug-related burglaries.

Local law enforcement has struggled with how best to apprehend drug dealers, many of whom are black and hail from the New York City area and Springfield, Massachusetts. Vermont enacted a bias-free policing law that required a few years ago, but studies show that racial profiling remains prevalent.

 

Special Report: Rutland, Vermont Police Under an ugly shadow
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
« Reply #144 on: December 17, 2015, 07:58:36 pm »
Racist of the Year Award winner announced by Survival international

Fernando Furtado , Survival's Racist of the Year 2015, addresses the Maranhao state assembly
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Survival International today announced the winner of the Racist of the Year Award 2015 as Fernando Furtado, a deputy in the Brazilian state of Maranhao.

Furtado, of the Communist Party of Brazil, was given the award for comments he made in a speech in July, in which he said that Amazonian Indians should be left to starve. He also called them “a bunch of little gays.” After having caused outrage in Brazil, Mr. Furtado was forced to issue a formal retraction.

Addressing a meeting of loggers and ranchers, Mr. Furtado said of indigenous Brazilians: “They don’t know how to plant rice    , so let them die of hunger in poverty, that’s the best thing, because they don’t know how to work.”





The speech was delivered to a settler community in São João do Caru, close to the border of the Awá indigenous territory. Multiple fires started by the loggers are still raging in this area, threatening the lives of several hundred Awá tribespeople. This includes a group of uncontacted people, who are one of the most vulnerable societies on the planet.

Tribes like the Awá frequently suffer prejudice and violence
© Fiona Watson/Survival

Considering the extremity of Mr. Furtado’s remarks and the context in which they were delivered, Survival is calling for them to be considered as incitement to racial hatred. There is widespread resentment towards tribes in the region after a government operation to expel loggers from the Awá’s reserve following a high profile campaign by Survival. It is highly probable that these sentiments were part of the motive behind the arson attacks on the local Awá people.

This is the second year running that a Brazilian has received Survival International’s notorious award. Fellow Brazilian politician Luis Carlos Heinze    was named Racist of the Year 2014 for saying: “the government … is in bed with the blacks, the Indians, the gays, the lesbians, all the losers.”

Survival director Stephen Corry said: “These loathsome remarks indicate the extent of racism against tribal peoples among some of the most powerful people in Brazilian society. It’s important that people both within and outside of Brazil are aware of the prevalence of these attitudes because they underpin the genocidal onslaught of violence that Brazilian tribes face today. That’s why we’ve decided to make Furtado Racist of the Year 2015.”

Read this online: http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/11058

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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
« Reply #145 on: December 21, 2015, 07:58:07 pm »
The Creeping Villainy of American Politics

Posted on Dec 20, 2015

By Chris Hedges

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_creeping_villainy_of_american_politics_20151220


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Maxwell  • a day ago 

There is nothing creeping about American politics. It barges through the door and blows your brains out when and where it wants to- which not coincidentally happens to be where the precious resources are positioned that the savage capitalists wish to appropriate.

ISIS is largely a fiction that serves the needs of the US National Security State. These various bogeymen have morphed through the years- anyone who does not understand how this works and can't see through it is trapped in a manufactured reality.

List them through the years- the innumerable threats that were and are coming to get us and that needed our full attention (and taxpayer dollar)- Commies, Al Qaeda, Chavez, Mossadegh, Arbenz, SARS, Russians, Hussein, Black Panthers, FARC, Reefer, Rock N Roll, Zapatistas, Pan Africa, Mujahideen, the list goes on and on and on and on- any and all threats all the time. Pimpin' fear to keep us believing that any and all of these cretins that are peddling the fear are actually interested in our welfare.

Meanwhile what's really going on, the very real threats that are coming at us every moment of every day- Wall St., the MIC, Republicans, Chamber of Commerce, NED, CIA, NSA, the School Board, the police, gated communities, Democrats, mortgage, rent, food insecurity, no health care, grinding debt, poverty, repossessions, drug war, soil erosion, pollution, car trouble, water turned off and on and on and on and on- are all kept hidden from view even as they bash us over the head- all kept hidden by the distractions of the LATEST MANUFACTURED TERROR- AND THAT'S WHY THEY DO IT FOLKS- which has no bearing on the reality of virtually every single individual that exists in this country.
 
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
« Reply #146 on: February 29, 2016, 10:33:35 pm »

Marchers demand racial justice in Vermont schools

Feb. 28, 2016, 8:45 am by Morgan True

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Mark Hughes, with the group Justice for All, urged activists to take a broader view of institutional racism in Vermont. It extends well beyond the schools and plays an insidious role in housing and the criminal justice system, he said.

Institutions rely on the discretion of individuals whose perception is invariably colored by personal bias, he said. That leads to racial disparities, whether it’s suspensions in schools or sentencing in court.

see pictures at article link  8)

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Vanessa Sanchez, 49, of Brattleboro, is visibly emotional during a rally for racial justice Saturday in St. Albans. Photo by Morgan True/VTDigger


ST. ALBANS — Advocates for racial justice marched through the city Saturday calling for an end to the mistreatment that people of color say their children are experiencing in Vermont’s schools.

“The time has come in Vermont when systemic racism just won’t do,” said Ebony Nyoni, an organizer with Black Lives Matter Vermont, during a rally before the march.

The march drew close to 75 people from across the state. It was not met with the same angry response as a rally here in December.

Some passers-by honked or gave thumbs up. A few appeared frustrated with marchers who momentarily blocked traffic on Main Street. No police were present.

Nadine Morales, a 23-year-old biracial mother of three from St. Albans with Puerto Rican heritage, told the crowd of marchers that she spent years being ostracized by her peers and ridiculed with racial slurs at Missisquoi Valley Union High School.

Her daughter, a fourth-grader in St. Albans public schools, has already been teased for taking pride in her Puerto Rican heritage, Morales said, and she declared it’s time for that to change.

Nadine Morales, 23, a mother of three who is of Puerto Rican heritage, advocates for racial justice in Vermont schools during a march Saturday in St. Albans. Photo by Morgan True / VTDigger

Morales described feeling bullied and alone, forced to constantly defend her identity, simply because she was the only Puerto Rican at her school and the other students had negative associations about her people.

“I was the only one fighting this fight,”
Morales said.

Morales said the bullying pushed her in the wrong direction, leading to fights with other students, skipping class and drinking. She didn’t stop getting in trouble until a counselor saw potential in her and asked her to lead group counseling sessions, she said.

Now she’s a student at Champlain College and making a life for herself that she never imagined in high school when she felt completely isolated, she said.

Morales and the other organizers of Saturday’s march are calling on teachers and administrators in Vermont’s schools to work with people of color in their communities to develop cultural competencies they say are lacking, leaving schools unprepared to deal with racial bullying.

They also want public schools to end the use of suspension and expulsion as a disciplinary measure, because it disproportionately affects students of color and students with disabilities.

A Vermont Legal Aid report released in January found that African-American and Native American students were two to three times more likely to be suspended than white students. Students with disabilities were three times more likely to be suspended.

Mohamadou Ndione, a foreign language teacher who has worked in central Vermont public schools for more than a decade, said white children in Vermont have very little cultural awareness.

When students say things that are racially insensitive to Ndione, who is African-American, he said he tries to use it as a teachable moment, but he and others said there isn’t formal curriculum that teaches about race from a nonwhite perspective.

“Schools should create curriculum to teach about other cultures because the kids really want to know,” he said. Many of the hurtful things students say are simply parroted from what they hear at home, he said.

“Our children should read books by slaves, not books about slaves,” Morales said. She wants her children to learn about race and ethnicity before they’re checking a box on a job application declaring it.

Brigham Young, 31, of Essex, said he came to the rally to support Morales, who is a friend. Young, who is white, said he appreciates the work she is doing to bring about a dialogue about race in Vermont schools.

“They don’t teach any of this in school,” said Young. His oldest child is 11 and learns more about race from television than in school, Young added.

Part of the problem is that Vermont is so overwhelmingly white that the experiences of people of color are not visible, said many activists.

Mark Hughes, with the group Justice for All, leads marchers in song in St. Albans on Saturday. Photo by Morgan True / VTDigger


Stina Booth, 38, was in Taylor Park enjoying the city’s annual winter carnival, which was happening at the same time as the march. Her young children were drawn to the protest songs and accompanying band as they went by on Main Street.

Booth said her kids are too young to have raised questions about race, having not started elementary school, but she seemed unsure what she would tell her children when the time comes.

Booth, who grew up in St. Albans, said she was always more aware of economic inequality in her community and hadn’t given much thought to racial inequality.

There was only one black student in her class growing up, she said. “I didn’t realize he was black until an embarrassingly late age,” she confessed.

Charles Rainey, 18, is an African-American freshman at Middlebury College who grew up in Atlanta. He said he joined the march because he’s felt discriminated against a number of times on the campus of the elite educational institution.

It happens most frequently when white progressives won’t acknowledge that race still affects the lives of nonwhites, Rainey said. They want to believe Vermont is post-racial, he said, and that has not been his experience.

  “We need to dismantle the white liberal power structure that isn’t hearing our voices,”
Rainey said while addressing marchers.

Mark Hughes, with the group Justice for All, urged activists to take a broader view of institutional racism in Vermont. It extends well beyond the schools and plays an insidious role in housing and the criminal justice system, he said.

Institutions rely on the discretion of individuals whose perception is invariably colored by personal bias, he said. That leads to racial disparities, whether it’s suspensions in schools or sentencing in court.

“We need to shine a light on those decision points and demand accountability,”
  he said.

http://vtdigger.org/2016/02/28/marchers-demand-racial-justice-in-vermont-schools/
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The TRUTH that empathy deficit disordered people that DEFEND the polluting, racist, profit over people and planet CORRUPT, BLOOD THIRSTY, CRUEL and SADISTIC STATUS QUO (they have BENEFITED FROM  ) work 24/7 to deride, disdain, ridicule and LIE about.

They do this BECAUSE they LIKE the TRUTH about the total absence of ethics in their beloved "real world" and don't want anybody to change it.






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Brilliant brilliant David Stockman, still a patriot in this desperate time. I am certainly going to vote for Mr. Trump, not only as the "lesser evil" as compared to the Deathshead female impersonator Harpy Shrillary but as a possible if imperfect Hercules to begin cleaning the Nasty Augean Stables that this impaired Republic has become under its card carrying Oligarcic Usurious Overlords. Since most continual jawboners prefer doing nothing while vicariously licking their chops at the flames and demise of our Motherland, some Patriots would appreciate a still living hope that something could be tried to avert this catastrophe. I would rather have honest hope than continual fat chewing cynicism any day. I am glad and proud that millions agree. Karpatok

Still off your meds, K? You referring to anyone else as a "harpy" is truly risible. The gods of irony laugh.
You and the other American Nazis here need to be resisted by any means necessary.



Oh thank you so much Surly . Not a surprise coming from all negative you. Bet your meds in number far surpass mine. I don't take any so I guess it's just that clean living and thinking positive and becoming a bit more spiritual. I truly wish the best for you considering your physical state. Like letting go of some of the anger and bitterness and thinking of how to be a bit more constructive and helpful. Check out what they tell you about enlarging your heart space instead of contracting it constantly. That would help you know, if you really want to stick around. I'm doing well,thank you, I now see a lot more hope and possibilities for all. What a difference a season makes,eh?  Cheers, Karpatok

Here's some of that K-style "spirituality" and "enlarged heart space:"







Exactly right.   

The "spirituality" of Trump supporters:



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The lobby to preserve the market for prisoners and prison labor.


Yes.  :(   

But there is quite a bit more to this story of 'screw the little guy for profit'. Some the best dividend yield stocks over the last thirty years, loved by all state (and FEDERAL) pension funds (i.e. just about anybody with a 401K may own some of these profit over minorities stocks), are Prison Industry stocks. 

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