#Virginia school board restores #Confederate leaders’ names to 2 #schools
The change comes 4 years after the schools had removed the names during the national racial reckoning sparked by #GeorgeFloyd’s killing.
Like other #SchoolDistricts across the #South, the county had decided to remove the #Confederate leaders’ names during the national reckoning about race sparked by the 2020 killing of #GeorgeFloyd.
Private donations will fund the implementation of the name change, according to the school board’s meeting agenda.
Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names to two schools.
CNN reports from Shenandoah County, where the schools were renamed four years ago. "That 2020 move was part of a resolution condemning racism and affirming the district’s 'commitment to an inclusive school environment.'" None of the 2020 board members still serve.
A Black Montreal police officer is alleging he was racially profiled while off duty in a lawsuit against four of his provincial counterparts and Quebec's attorney general.
"If you're a Black man, either you're a judge, you're a lawyer, you're a police officer, wherever you are in the society, you are subject to being racially profiled," said the plaintiff's lawyer, Fernando Belton.
Senior #Toronto cop, Supt. Stacy Clarke, says she helped Black officers cheat to fight structural #racism#police#Canada
In her explanatory letter to professional standards, she wrote: “I’ve had to prove myself over and over to all the naysayers and doubters who believe my ascent through the ranks is solely due to the colour of my skin. I’ve had to jump through hoops that were created just for me.” #RacialInequity#BlackMastodon#BlackFedi
According to mediocre white guy, #CharlieKirk, there's nothing in this world so awful as other #racist white guys being held accountable for their virulent #racism and #bigotry. In his mind, the real victim in all this is the obnoxious, racist prick, #JPStaples. And the real villain is the uppity black woman who stood there taking his abuse. And #JoeBiden, of course. Can't forget Joe Biden.
NEW FAVORITE HOBBY JUST DROPPED! Watching Marylanders lose their shit over the mere suggestion of maybe NOT naming the replacement for the Francis Key Scott bridge after the slaver who openly thought of black people as inferior.
Hey Maryland. It's a bridge. Scott took a British song and put new lyrics (including racist ones, see 3rd verse) on it.
Having it both ways (He is a privileged, elected member of Congress.) congressman Mike Collins (R-GA), applauds racist attacks "mocking the Hamas loving fat girl." after expressing how he feels about Jews-
"In March, Collins participated in a vehemently anti-Semitic attack against a Washington Post journalist on X. Collins endorsed a post by a racist meme account, @GarbageHuman23, who attacked journalist Maura Judkis for being Jewish." https://popular.info/p/congressman-praises-racist-heckling #Racism#Georgia#MikeCollins
The Far Right’s Campaign to Explode the Population >>
"The threat, we are told here this weekend, is existential, #biological, epoch-defining. Economies will fail, #civilizations will fall, and it will all happen because people aren’t having enough #babies.
“The entire global #financial system, the value of your money, and every #asset you might buy with money is defined by leverage, which means its value depends on growth...." >>
>> ...And to ensure that these #children grow up to be adults who understand their #proper place in both the #family and the larger #social order, we need to oust #women from the workforce and reinstitute #male-only spaces “where women are #disadvantaged as a result,” shampoo magnate and aspiring warlord Charles Haywood says, prompting cheers from the #men in the audience."
So unsurprising how conservative commentary about declining birth rates inevitably leads to #racism and #misogyny 🤷🏻♀️🙄
Never let these brazenly #racist pieces of shit get away with their performative indignation over being correctly called out for being racist. And don't let them peddle the lie that #racism is over, or that the south isn't a haven for virulently racist scumbags. These people are certified human garbage, and they should be reminded of that fact everytime they open their hateful, bigoted mouths.