A local business owner is ranting in several Facebook posts. Word has spread, even among those who don’t use Facebook. A sample of rant:
Please notice that Mr. Drake invokes the two-word epithet that’s in the news right now in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. Hardly an accidental choice, I’d say.
In another post, Mr. Drake writes, “Now to my little lib friends out there, I don’t give a flying fuck if you post that I’m a racist!” Okay. Even if we’ve never been introduced, I’ll say it: sir, you’re a racist.
Yes, on Sunday we had a march with more than two hundred people in support of Black Lives Matter. But this is where those of us who marched live.
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5:00 p.m.: Our mayor has issued a statement condemning hate speech. And the guy who liked the post and got his name on the screenshot that’s been circulated was fired by an area business this afternoon. So that’s also where we live.
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8:16 p.m.: I discovered by chance that there’s a Drake elsewhere whose business has the same name as this Drake’s business. So I’ve removed the name of the business from this post.
Friday, June 5, 2020
Where I live
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He says he tried to be colorblind, and then immediately drops the n-word, which tells me that he never tried very hard.
He must have struggled. I am told that he has a longer history of “troubling” posts.
I’d like to add that color blindness, as Michelle Alexander argues so effectively in The New Jim Crow, is part of the problem.
“In the era of color blindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don’t. Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color ‘criminals’ and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind... Once you are labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination—employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury duty—are suddenly legal.... We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.”
Yep. Thanks for adding that, Stefan.
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