Alarmed over the discovery of 215 multiracial bodies found buried in a pauper’s cemetery behind the Hinds County, Mississippi jail, Reverend Hosea Hines,
What does “multiracial bodies” mean? American news is so weird sometimes. Absolutely, hopelessly, psychotically obsessed with race.
“Gretchen Hankins, who is white…”
“Mary Moore Glenn, a Black woman…”
The article barely provide any other details, it’s so confusing to a European. The reader doesn’t need to know, it has no bearing on the story, it’s really jarring.
Anyway I thought this would be an old prison cemetery, but it sounds like a relatively recent mass grave. Containing, as they were keen to point out in the first sentence of the article, people of various ethnicities.
What series of decisions led to this, I wonder? Could it have been during the pandemic? At least that might partly justify something like this as a temporary measure.
Police violence in the US is disproportionately leveraged against black people. Cops have a deserved reputation for being racist as hell, so whenever there is police fuckery we naturally want to know if it’s yet another example of law enforcement’s obvious disdain for black lives or if there’s something else going on.
The aim of CRT is to make race the forefront of everyone’s identity. Which is odd, considering the first point of CRT is that race is a social construct, and not a biological truth (which I agree with after initially struggling to understand). In far left Liberal circles now, people are identifying other people through race and sexual orientation when texting or emailing. My buddy who is very liberal will tell me about interactions he has with people I don’t know and he always adds something like “so she (black, gay, her) told me bla bla bla” to the text. I was quite confused the first time he did it and I asked why he felt those were necessary identifiers, and he said because they are at the core of our identities and imperative to understanding her perspective. I do not agree with this new perspective, but I’m in the minority among the liberal circles. I would prefer to see us united as people, part of the human race, not divided into a thousand sub-tribes. The news often does it to sensationalize their stories, adding racial outrage to otherwise mundane reporting. I will probably be accused of bigotry, and downvoted for pointing out that I disagree with this approach to communication and perspective, but such is the state of things these days.
What does “multiracial bodies” mean? American news is so weird sometimes. Absolutely, hopelessly, psychotically obsessed with race.
“Gretchen Hankins, who is white…”
“Mary Moore Glenn, a Black woman…”
The article barely provide any other details, it’s so confusing to a European. The reader doesn’t need to know, it has no bearing on the story, it’s really jarring.
Anyway I thought this would be an old prison cemetery, but it sounds like a relatively recent mass grave. Containing, as they were keen to point out in the first sentence of the article, people of various ethnicities.
What series of decisions led to this, I wonder? Could it have been during the pandemic? At least that might partly justify something like this as a temporary measure.
Police violence in the US is disproportionately leveraged against black people. Cops have a deserved reputation for being racist as hell, so whenever there is police fuckery we naturally want to know if it’s yet another example of law enforcement’s obvious disdain for black lives or if there’s something else going on.
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Very scary to think it could be a literal dumping ground for institutionalised serial killing. I wish the article was better.
well put, excellent summary.
Reads like a robot wrote it.
The aim of CRT is to make race the forefront of everyone’s identity. Which is odd, considering the first point of CRT is that race is a social construct, and not a biological truth (which I agree with after initially struggling to understand). In far left Liberal circles now, people are identifying other people through race and sexual orientation when texting or emailing. My buddy who is very liberal will tell me about interactions he has with people I don’t know and he always adds something like “so she (black, gay, her) told me bla bla bla” to the text. I was quite confused the first time he did it and I asked why he felt those were necessary identifiers, and he said because they are at the core of our identities and imperative to understanding her perspective. I do not agree with this new perspective, but I’m in the minority among the liberal circles. I would prefer to see us united as people, part of the human race, not divided into a thousand sub-tribes. The news often does it to sensationalize their stories, adding racial outrage to otherwise mundane reporting. I will probably be accused of bigotry, and downvoted for pointing out that I disagree with this approach to communication and perspective, but such is the state of things these days.
Yeah, you’re going to get violently shat on for that take, but it’s pretty spot on. Terrible isn’t it?
Very much so.