Could y'all P-listers help me out?

[David Morris]

http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/multimedia/photos/collection_0b881fe6-3c87-11e7-8567-1bddc845fb73.html

Images from Lee Circle [New Orleans] where the fourth and final targeted
Confederate monument — Robert E. Lee — is set to be removed on Friday
morning.

Lost Cause Protester:

https://twitter.com/DCMonteverde/status/862605428429029376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ffirst-draft.com%2F

"I pray for another Katrina."

White privilege, loosing it.  Boo-fucking-hoo.

David Morris

On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think this is a real thing. As I've said before, I live in the Deep Dark
> South. Attitudes don't suddenly change, or even slowly change, it seems.
> They're just coated with a veneer of PC. I think the black community is
> being eroded, to put it mildly.
>
> My grandfather basically owned a slave. We didn't call it that, and it
> wouldn't have legally been called that, but that's more or less what it
> was. That shit isn't that far away from us.
>
> My kids are half black. When one of them was about 7 or 8, he told me,
> "Dad, it's better to be white because you have more opportunities."
>
> A few years ago, I was complaining about something to a black woman I
> knew. She said, "oh, you'll be alright, you're a white man."
>
> Www.innergroovemusic.com
>
> On May 19, 2017, at 9:37 AM, jbloocher at gmail.com wrote:
>
> Hmmm difficult. I've been told by too many men that I am imagining some of
> the (for me glaring) issues of misogyny in life and the workplace to ever
> feel able to comment on anyone's experience of racism, no matter how shrill
> or conspiracy-theorist. I'm white, British, middle-class and steer clear of
> comment, my status makes my comments invalid (even if I have opinions on
> it). But yeah...
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 19 May 2017, at 14:25, Laura <laurakelber at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You're going conservative in your dotage.
>
> *Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID*
>
>
> Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Am I going conservative in my dotage, or is this the most idiotic
> bunch of blathering hyper-shrill unsubstantiated false-accusatory
> identity politics bullshit YOU've read recently, too?
>
> https://medium.com/@thedididelgado/mark-zuckerberg-hates-black-people-
> ae65426e3d2a
>
> I mean, I believe in the existence of some version of the Black Tax
> mentioned in this article, but the author is describing an alternate
> universe that I suspect exists only in the fever swamps of her vastly
> over-active imagination.
>
> And y'all?
> Jerky
>
> PS - My blog has some fun stuff relating to the Trump wave having
> finally, at long last, crested - www.dailydirtdiaspora.blogspot.com
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
>
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