But sometimes when racist cops arrest Black people, they ask EMTs/paramedics to load up a syringe full of Ketamine (a horse tranquilizer) and inject the formerly healthy Black person.
Then if they leave the Black person face down, they can be too tranquilized to even breath, and they die.
Some cops are racist.
Some firefighters are racist.
And yes, some EMTs and paramedics are racist too. And yes, a racist EMT is *more* dangerous than a racist cop too.
If you ask a Black medical doctor if a person can just die from "excited delirium🤡" they'll tell you that that is not a real thing
And as usual, the thing that racism is best at, is portraying Black victims of unspeakable violence, as the oppressors.
A lot of white folk have convinced themselves that some cops are racist, but that no firefighters are.🤷🏿♂️
A racist firefighter is *more* dangerous than a racist cop.
Seriously.
Somewhat related:
The less someone knows about anti-Black racism and nazis, the more that they think that American History X is an anti-racist film and opposes nazism.
Nazis use that movie *to recruit*.
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All the Black characters are bad except for one, and listening to him ends in tragedy.🤷🏿♂️
🤔Wait... I'm confused...
On the one hand, I read that the Afghan war was the longest war in the history of the United States? That it lasted 20 years?
On the other hand, I read that Afghanistan never surrendered unconditionally? Ever?
That can't be right? Is that right?
I thought we won?
🤔To estimate how long it might take Iran to "surrender unconditionally," maybe we can use Afghanistan as a proxy?
Afghanistan's army was 100K people. Iran's is 600K. So maybe we should look at how long it took to get Afghanistan to surrender unconditionally, and then multiply that by 6?
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Republican chat groups seem to have all the same emergent properties.
Once you recognize the New York Times special “exculpatory tense” for right wingers you see it CONSTANTLY
The New York Times Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida After the secretary of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party created the chat for college students, it devolved into slurs against Black and Jewish people.
Slurs spoke themselves unto the mouths of young GOP members again! I just hope that they're all OK!🤡
Slurs emitted themselves fully formed, from the fingertips of innocent far-right people! That must have been terrifying for them! 🤡
Pray for those that survived spontaneous chat room devolution! 🤡
The far-right dudes can host as many round tables on college sports and NIL as they want.🤷🏿♂️
This is your periodic reminder that I was part of the group that got the NIL laws passed. No one in the government was going to protect Black athletes or women athletes, so we helped ourselves.
But when I go to City Hall, I find that some of the ordinances are missing.
Because someone that *still lives in the town*, killed a Black person in the 70s or 80s, enforcing the sundown ordinance.
So the town stonewalls or destroys the records.
That town is only listed on the map as "possible."
Tougaloo asks me if I have relatives or loved ones that lived in the town, that they can include, because they only have a few records, and need more to confirm.
I say, "Nah, but I'll just go to city hall and look up old ordinances after work. I've pulled construction ordinances, so I can do this."
Example of not being safe:
I might think that "town X" was a sundown town. I submit it to Tougaloo College.
They ask me if it was really a sundown town? Or was it just a 24-hour racist town?🤡
I ask them "How can I tell the difference?"
Tougaloo tells me "Oral records, or city Hall records."
The submissions need to go through a rigorous process put in place by the History Department at Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi.
You can submit towns to be reviewed at their website.
It's not always safe to go to city halls and pull up records from a time that they would like to forget.
Fair.
The database is maintained by the History Department at Tougaloo College. They have a rigorous process for verifying submissions.
Some places resist providing the information needed for submissions.
bsky.app/profile/mekk...
Unfortunately it's not enough to know.
It has to be verified.
And Philadelphia, MS may not have been a sundown town. Because Black people may not have been safe there before sundown either. A 24 hr klan town is not a sundown town🤷🏿♂️
The database only has towns that fit the very specific definition.
The process for verifying sundown towns is rigorous. It has to pass the criteria set by the History Department at Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi.
"Sundown town" doesn't just mean "super racist." That would be most places in the US.
There's a specific definition that they are verifying.
No. Not AI.
Human beings and the History Department at Tougaloo College in Jackson Mississippi made this.
Tougaloo is an HBCU.
The process for verifying sundown towns has to go through this process. If there are sundown towns missing from the database, you can help add them.
I'm not linking to the United Nations reports on targeting, because you honestly cannot unread that stuff.
It's more comforting to the US mind, to believe that precision bombs sometimes hit the wrong building blocks away.
Or to believe that old data made them think the building was still a base.
The UN experts on targeting would say:
The school likely *was* the target.
There was someone at the school at 9:40 am, that the US decided was important enough that they should double tap the location, despite civilian collateral damage.
And by civilian collateral damage, I mean children.
🚢🇨🇳"Excuse me, I don't mean to be rude, y'all appear to be in the middle of something, don't mind me, Imma just scooch on by y'all, just passing through! Much obliged, carry on, sorry to disturb y'all, have fun with whatever it is y'all are doing!"
"... and no side has yet taken responsibility."🤡
This isn't journalism.
Right? Like, I park every day....🤔
No!
Pure electric!
You're looking at purchase options available in the market before yesterday. I'm talking about the upgrade they just announced today.
Hey, while we pay super high prices for gas, just know that BYD recently announced an EV that gets 1000 km of range on a 10 minute charge. That's 621 miles for us Americans.
It only costs $48,000. About the same as a Honda pilot.
A full charge for those $621 miles is around $15 USD.
I do ONE DAY of field prep work on the farm and Kristi Noem gets fired
great news, I got a bunch more to do for the coming week+
LOL!
🤔Where did I say that Talarico is a Christian nationalist?
Number 5 is extra silly, because doctors aren't doing secret surgery on kids for anything. You have to be a special kind of transphobic to believe that.
A parent can't even get their kid's teeth cleaned without express written consent of a parent.
It's a silly non-issue to pretend to be upset at.
