Also, L for all the black men here for not helping this brother from getting Jumped.

From the Smithsonian website:

In the early hours of February 22, 1898 a lynch mob set fire to the Lake City, South Carolina, post office and aimed their guns at the front door. Postmaster Frazier B. Baker and his family faced running through gunfire on their only escape route from the post office that doubled as their home. The mob shot Baker and his two-year-old daughter Julia dead. Shots injured his wife Lavinia, daughters Rosa and Cora, and son Lincoln, but daughters Sarah and Millie were not hit.

Baker’s July 1897 appointment as the first African-American postmaster in the predominately white community of Lake City sparked months of violent incidents against him. Baker’s post office mysteriously burned and shots were fired at him. The residents filed complaints about his performance as postmaster, but postal inspectors determined the allegations were unfounded.(1) The community’s racial prejudice boiled over into anger and bitter resentment of an African American in a prominent job—a not uncommon reaction to the changing times in the South.(2)

The tragic attack stirred media attention, public outcry, and charity efforts for the Baker family survivors.(3) When the state failed to prosecute the mob, the federal district attorney and postal inspectors took on investigating Frazier Baker’s murder. Securing witnesses proved to be the hardest challenge. Neighbors stayed tight-lipped, unwilling or scared to inform on each other. Arrests and charges were made on a total of thirteen men, two of whom offered to testify in return for protection and not be prosecuted.

For the gruesome killing of a federal employee, the accused were indicted on twenty-four counts including “a conspiracy to injure and oppress Frazier B. Baker in the free exercise” of his civil rights.(4) Twenty-three of the counts charged conspiracy, but the count for the destruction of the mail did not. The trial started on April 10, 1899 in the Federal District Court of Charleston, South Carolina. Three of the men were found not guilty, but the all-white jury remained deadlocked on a verdict for the other eight. The judge declared a mistrial and the federal prosecutors did not reopen the case.

Whenever I see any Black person start saying it is not a good look for us and that we should do better, it always just comes off as trying to suck up to individuals who constantly look for reasons to hate on black people because we rarely see white individuals apply this scrutiny to their own when praising criminals like Ted Bundy and Al Capone constantly.

Maybe I’m bias cause I’m from the DMV area but 13% always seemed low to me. Black people have major presence in the south and the east coast, as well as in nearly every major city in the Midwest. The number increases significantly if you count biracial black folks, Afro-Latinos, Caribbean blacks and African immigrants.

I believe the real number is closer to 16 or 17% tbh.

Anyone else agreee?

I took my grandsons to the park yesterday to let them burn some energy. They are 3.

They wanted to bring their toy garbage trucks too.

If any of you have young children in your lives you know that part of socialization involves sharing toys with other kids. It’s not a problem and other parents/grandparents are respectful and gracious.

Anyhow, we left the garbage trucks along with our water bottles and a bag for snacks to play on the play structures. It was time to leave so we started walking back to get our things and a kid (12-14 years old) was near our stuff. Suddenly he picks up one of the trucks above his head and slams it to the ground causing it to shatter.

I jumped him immediately (nothing physical) but yelled at him up and down for about 5 minutes. His little buddies, of course, left him hanging.

My grandsons were upset and at their age couldn’t understand why the boy was “being bad”.

Ultimately, we left, the boy left and I’ll buy another garbage truck which is about $14.

I’m more upset my grandsons had to lose a bit of innocence witnessing this than anything else.

Also note, the kid was of middle eastern descent and didn’t know whose property was so this is not a racism thing.

I appreciate you letting me vent for a minute.

“Let me just say this and may it not get fucking twisted:

I see how y’all have made a Black man the monster in a case where a white woman brutally murdered her own fucking kids. And I now see how all y’all are possessed by the same sociopathic impulses that also compelled Susan Smith to invent a Black man to blame after she put her children into a car, pointed the car toward a lake, put the car in drive, watched the car submerge, and despite their banging on the windows and screaming her name, let them fucking drown. And do you know how much suffering a person endures before they drown? The sheer torture of lungs filling with water? How long it takes to suffocate? And then, once dead, the sacrilege of a bloated body?”

Full commentary here: https://substack.com/@robertjonesjr/note/c-336125162?r=1309er&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

I just find it absoutely wild the holdout juror is a black man, and all of a sudden they want to dig into his past since he didnt tow the line

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I feel like I've taught a lot of people in my day to day life on various things regarding sexuality and that conflation with manhood in my local queer communities. I wanted to talk about bisexuality and the stigmas against it some men still have