Conservatives programed to trigger at words "Black Lives Matter" by Russian trolls.

FredH said:

I find you appear to know nothing about republicans and must be completely fooled by the leftrat media. Is there hope for your TDS damaged brain?

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BudmanTX said:

how many blacks in this picture...

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too soon?

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mooray said:

Something I enjoy thinking about is, if those were black people doing the same thing for Obama, do you know what kinds of words those trumpers would use to describe them? Because that's exactly what those trumpers climbing the wall are.

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FredH said:

That idiot commentator is a fool. If you think he is not the racist you need to back away from the pipe. Crenshaw is right, the Olympics is not a platform for braindeads to protest the fake narrative that America is a racist country. No race has benefited more from Whites than Blacks. No other country on earth is as diverse or treats it's minorities better than the US. To say otherwise is nothing less than Marxist propaganda.

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FredH said:

Funny in a way, are you saying everyone who supports the BLM movement is a Black? How about Antifa as the groups often work together? By the way the guy in the white shirt is Black. And for context where as this picture taken?

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FredH said:

Joy Reid dismantled nothing, she was rude and did not allow her guest to speak. The guy would have been happy to speak if she had let him.

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FredH said:

Read it closely, the part where you insinuated all the damage done last summer was caused by White Supremacists. Hilarious. Get a grip.

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FredH said:

Thanks for the welcome and no slithering just making for honest discussion looking for truth among the TDS sufferers. It appears many of you are a bit off. Are you still wearing your mask?

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FredH said:

How about Black Lives Matter as a topic. Seems pretty important to many of you. To the point of blaming White supremacists for what BLM did last summer. Which is racist by the way. Anyone argue that the people running BLM are not "trained Marxists"?

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FredH said:

Political antivaxxers? I had covid, wasn't as bad as the flu in my case. My antibodies are better than your experimental vaccine and with zero side effects.

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One of the nation’s largest teachers unions on Tuesday vowed to defend members who are punished for teaching an “honest history” of the United States, a measure that’s intended to counter the wave of states seeking to limit classroom discussion on race and discrimination.

In a virtual address to members of the American Federation of Teachers, president Randi Weingarten said the union is preparing litigation and has a legal defense fund “ready to go.” She promised to fight “culture warriors” who attempt to limit lessons on racism and discrimination by labeling it as critical race theory.

At least six states have passed new laws limiting how race can be taught in the classroom, and similar proposals are being considered in more than a dozen others. Many of the bills are intended to bar the teaching of critical race theory — an academic framework that examines history through the lens of racism. It centers on the idea that racism is systemic in the nation’s institutions and that they function to maintain the dominance of white people in society.

Last month, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a law forbidding schools from teaching that people “should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish or any other form of psychological distress” because of their race or sex. It adds that slavery and racism can only be taught as a deviation from the nation’s “authentic founding principles” of liberty and equality.

Bills in some other states threaten to fine individual teachers who violate the rules or reduce state funding to their schools.

“Mark my words: Our union will defend any member who gets in trouble for teaching honest history,” Weingarten said in her address. “Teaching the truth is not radical or wrong. Distorting history and threatening educators for teaching the truth is what is truly radical and wrong.”

In an interview, Weingarten said the union is adding $2.5 million to an existing legal defense fund in anticipation of local fights over the teaching of race. The funding will be used to defend teachers who are disciplined for teaching about slavery and racism. The union is also considering filing lawsuits to get clarification about new state laws limiting how racism can be discussed in schools, she said.

“We’re looking at these laws to see if courts will give some clarification in advance,” Weingarten said. “It just looks like it’s an attempt to erase so much of the history of the United States.”

Once an obscure academic idea, critical race theory has become a political rallying cry for Republicans who argue that it sows division and makes children feel guilty for being white. But Weingarten said the concept has mostly been taught at the college level and is not taught at the nation’s elementary, middle and high schools.

Instead, she says conservatives are invoking the theory to bully teachers and prevent any critical discussion of the nation’s history. Some of the state laws are so expansive, she said, that they appear to prevent any accurate lesson on the Civil War, slavery or its abolition.

“Teaching America’s history requires considering all the facts available to us — including those that are uncomfortable — like the history of enslavement and discrimination toward people of color and people perceived as different,” she said. “Years ago, the country unified against Holocaust deniers. We must unite again to address racism and its long-term effects.”

The nation’s other major teachers union, the National Education Association, recently issued its own call for an honest teaching of the nation’s racial histories. At the union’s national meeting last week, president Becky Pringle urged teachers to prepare students for a society that “has wrestled with the sins of its past” and learned from them.

“If this grand experiment in democracy is to succeed, if the inhabitants of our nation are to prosper, we must continuously do the work to challenge ourselves and others to dismantle the racist interconnected systems, and the economic injustices that have perpetuated systemic inequities,” Pringle said.

Weingarten’s pledge was included in a broader call for improved civics education. She called for better lessons on how to identify disinformation and on current events, such as the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. To help, the union is recruiting 20 teachers in three school districts to produce new classroom materials and share them with other teachers across the country.

Much of Weingarten’s speech focused on the coming school year and beyond, as the nation starts to recover from the pandemic. But she also raised concerns about the rapidly spreading delta variant of the coronavirus and what it means for reopening schools. Weingarten said schools “can reopen this fall” for full in-person learning, but she cautioned that “there are still risks.”

The union is seeking updated school guidance from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, asking whether students under 12 should wear masks and whether 3 feet of physical distance — the length recommended by the CDC in March — is still enough.

Weingarten warned that next school year will be the hardest in most teachers’ professional lives. Students will have “enormous” needs, she said, and many schools will be short-staffed. It will be made harder by critics “who have disparaged educators, scapegoated our unions and blamed us for things outside our control” during the pandemic, she said.

“We must find ways to support each other,” she sad. “Teachers supporting teachers, unions and school officials supporting school staff, and all of us supporting students and families.”

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FredH said:

Joy Reid dismantled nothing, she was rude

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FredH said:

So what is he doing wrong?

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A Florida man who was planning to have his ex-girlfriend and some of her family members killed devised a plan to pin the crime on Black Lives Matter protesters to throw police off his trail, federal investigators say.

Daniel Slater, 51, of Jupiter, Fla., wanted his ex-girlfriend killed, along with the woman’s sister and brother-in-law, whom he blamed for sabotaging the couple’s relationship, court documents state.

Slater believed he’d found someone to carry out the job and instructed them to spray paint “Black Lives Matter” at the scene of the crime, according to investigators. Slater devised the plan as protests erupted across the country last year in the wake of George Floyd’s murder.

The person Slater was trying to hire, though, turned out to be an undercover FBI agent.

Now Slater, who was indicted in June 2020 within days of trying to launch the plot, could serve up to 10 years in prison. He pleaded guilty last week to murder-for-hire in a deal in which federal prosecutors dropped several other charges against him.

Both sides agreed he should serve the maximum 10 years, although a judge will formally sentence him at a future hearing. His attorney declined to comment on the case.

Law enforcement officials began investigating Slater after a woman was found dead in Everglades National Park in February 2020, court documents state. The woman was identified as Brianne Slabaugh, a 26-year-old woman Slater recruited to spy on his ex-girlfriend and kidnap and kill “multiple individuals associated with” her, a prosecutor said during a November 2020 federal detention hearing.

Slabaugh was ultimately “unable to go through with the murder,” the prosecutor said. Her body was later found in the Everglades, according to the Sun Sentinel. The Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner ruled her death an accidental drug overdose.

The investigation into Slabaugh’s death led law enforcement to one of Slater’s associates, who later began cooperating with the FBI.

In May 2020, prosecutors said, Slater connected with an associate who owed him a drug debt. He offered to wipe the associate’s slate clean while sweetening the pot with cocaine and cash, if the person arranged to have his ex and two of her relatives killed, court documents state.

The associate promised to connect Slater with a hit man.

Slater was explicit in his instructions regarding his ex, prosecutors wrote in court documents: He wanted her teeth knocked out, nose broken and acid thrown in her face.

He even helped the associate scout the sister’s place. On June 8, the two drove there together. While camped outside, Slater pointed to a window, explaining how the sister and her husband sat in the living room at specific times — information he told the informant to use to shoot the two, according to court documents.

Slater told the associate to spray paint the house with the words “Black Lives Matter” so members of the social movement would be blamed.

Slater’s associate, then working as an FBI informant, was wearing a wire the whole time. The “hit man” the associate had Slater meet was an undercover agent.

On June 12, the associate told Slater that the hit man had killed both the sister and her husband. The two met later that night. The associate gave Slater pictures that had been doctored to show what appeared to be the bodies.

Slater paid the associate $400 and promised more when banks reopened. The indictments came three days later.

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