After Jared Williams was elected Augusta DA, a lawyer and state lawmaker made an unusual proposal: that the whitest county split from the circuit
I’m tired of learning that people are still being racist fucks and nobody is doing anything about it in 2023
I really hope this kind of shit is pissing people off as much as it does us. It sure riles me the fuck up, and at a minimum serves as a reminder to keep voting.
The south didn’t change much since the civil war and are proud of that as ‘their heritage’.
The younger generations there are better, but the south really got the very worst of boomerism.
“Waaah, our gerrymander failed! This is so unfair, it was supposed to be used to suppress black voters! Not white voters! We want all our white people back, since they failed to properly police the black people like we had hoped!”
Mississippi is absolutely the apartheid model you can expect Republicans to look to for guidance on expanding apartheid to every corner they control
Yet another item to add to my ever growing list of reasons NOT to visit Murica.
Trump was projecting when he referred to countries as Shit Holes.
Believe it or not, you’re the one being racist now - by painting all of the US and all Americans with the same brush.
You don’t hear about all the people that are perfectly fine folks and all the places that aren’t insane because that makes boring news. So the only news you hear about are the whackjobs and bottom-feeders like this.
Don’t make the same mistake of judging an entire country by a partial set of facts because that puts your feet on the first steps of the same path the people in this article walked.
Thinking about it from the tourist perspective, why go someplace that may ruin your trip with socially accepted hatred on display?
Absolutely. America should just be more civilized, like the UK and keep all their police killings done out of sight, and don’t you worry! Just because you’re 7 times more likely to be killed by police interactions in UK by being brown, it’s not racism! They investigated themselves, and it’s all fine.
Perhaps American police agencies should start investigating themselves more and the papers should 100% just believe all their findings. That way you can just conveniently ignore it until the next time an American has to point it out to you.
Remember kids! If you just pretend the racism doesn’t exist in your country, it doesn’t!
With all that sarcasm, “I can’t breathe”
Throwing out a false equivalency doesn’t make it any less true.
I get you but then you’d never go anywhere, I’ve recently come back from the states and it was a great trip - all the roads near where I was staying were lined with beautiful trees, houses had great front gardens many growing vegetables, there were lots of vegan and vegetarian restaurants, endless pride flags well into July, lots of friendly cultural events, I felt welcome whenever I went and mixed with a diverse community in various settings. Weed is legal and sold at very reasonable prices… It was a lot more progressive and interesting than most places in my own European country or others I’ve visited, certainly on par with even the cool sections of Berlin, Barcelona, Bristol. It would be crazy missing out on visiting Baltimore just because you heard there are some especially shitty racists in the country it’s part of.
This would be nationalist if anything, or generalized prejudice, as “American” isn’t a race. Though, to be fair, all racism is a misnomer, as our race is human, but still.
Prejudiced yes. Racist? No, American is not a race. And yes, I agree that to really know the USA, you need to visit many of its states, but the current state of the country doesn’t invite many of them to visit.
Americans aren’t a race you blithering idiot.
But that’s what you get from an American education I guess.
The GOP continues to be racist. Not that shocking.
As a Canadian, the more I read these kind of news about the USA, the sadder I become about the country and feel that these social issues will never be fixed
Kinda fucked that prosecutors are elected at all
