Lather, rinse, repeat.
Commentary by Chitown Kev
The white supremacist mass-murderer of ten Black people in a TOPS supermarket in Buffalo, New York left no doubt as to his motives, based on what was written on his AK-47.
Some people, however, still have doubts.
Can’t blame this one on the South, either.
Hell, given that the murderer got much of his inspiration from a white supremacist murderer in Christchurch, New Zealand who, in turn, got his inspiration from a white supremacist murderer in Oslo, Norway, you can’t even say that the motives behind the murder were even particularly American even though, especially given the prevalence and availability of guns in American society, this crime does take on some quite American characteristics.
So-called “Great Replacement Theory” has been quite the rage for quite some time.
That would be The Great American Novel, The Great Gatsby, BTW.
(The Great Gatsby was about a lot of things, but it wasn’t about “economic anxiety.”)
‘Getting very profound,’ indeed...
And I know— I just KNOW— that no one will even mention a word about forgiveness; not with as many sermons as I have given on the topic under these circumstances in this space.
I don’t have many words today, really.
For some reason, though, I consider the efforts of the Russian invading forces in Ukraine to eradicate the traces and provenance of Ukrainian culture from the planet, only to have Ukraine win the Eurovision contest with a folk/rap performance.
A folk/rap performance; wonder where they got that “rap” part from.
I have no doubt that there are a number of white Americans that would love to eradicate (to the point of genocide) Black people and Black culture from the planet, even if it happens one supermarket or one church at a time.
Folks been trying that one for a long time, with little or no success.
I have no reason to believe that the latest surge in such efforts of eradication will be any more successful, even at such an incalculable cost.
At times like these, I take little solace in that fact...but there is that.
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NEWS ROUND UP BY DOPPER0189, BLACK KOS MANAGING EDITOR
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The alleged Buffalo, New York, mass shooting suspect had plans to "continue his rampage" after opening fire at a supermarket, killing 10 people, city Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said Monday.
"There was evidence that was uncovered that he had plans, had he gotten out of here, to continue his rampage, and continue shooting people," he told CNN. "He'd even spoken about possibly going to another store."
There is "some documentation" the suspect had plans possibly to shoot "another large superstore," Gramaglia said.
"He was going to get in his car and continue to drive down Jefferson Avenue and continue doing the same thing," he said.
Outside a supermarket in a largely Black section of Buffalo, New York, mourners have been gathering to honor 10 people killed Saturday
in a mass shooting, their pain intensified by what authorities say was the gunman's racially charged motive.
Shock in this community and
around the nation has multiplied as more details have emerged of a racist manifesto allegedly written by the 18-year-old White man suspected of traveling nearly 200 miles from his home to unleash an attack at the grocery in a predominantly Black neighborhood.
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Historic heights in mountaineering were achieved this week as the first-ever team of all-Black climbers reached the summit of Mt.Bla Everest.
Seven Black climbers who braved the Full Circle Everest expedition reached the top of the world’s tallest mountain peak on Thursday, as reported by Outside, adding their names to a shortlist of people of African descent to accomplish the feat.
Before Full Circle, only 10 Black climbers were among the nearly 6,000 summits of Everest completed across approximately 60 years, a disparity the group deliberately set out to address through their latest ascent, per the outlet.
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The numbers reflect a stark reality — venture capital drives technology and Black entrepreneurs are just getting a pittance.
Venture capital funding for Black start-ups hit $1.8 billion during the first half of 2021, a figure that looks impressive but hides a more concerning fact.
That’s a drop in the bucket when you consider, according to Crunchbase, VCs awarded $147 billion in total funding during that same time period. In other words, start-ups by Black entrepreneurs received just 1% of the VC monies.
Venture capital remains the lifeblood for technology firms, which receive about 62% of VC funds on a global basis. Those fortunate enough to get those funds can grow and expand businesses in a sector valued at $5.2 trillion in the United States alone.
Black people in that sector, underrepresented and in some cases underappreciated, have a message: We can do this, too. And we’re moving forward without your help.
The issue of Black people in tech has become prominent recently as lawsuits and allegations of discrimination hound the industry. A group of Black former employees sued Google in March, claiming discrimination, saying they were relegated to low-level roles in the company.
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Attempts to isolate African nationalists sometimes involved incitement of racial tension. In early 1963, the IRD forged a statement from the World Federation of Democratic Youth, a Soviet front organisation, which denounced Africans as uncivilised, “primitive” and morally weak. The forgery received press coverage across the continent, with many newspapers reacting intemperately.
A similar forgery in 1966 underlined the “backwardness” and “political immaturity” of Africa. Another, a statement purportedly from Novosti, blamed poor academic results at an international university in Moscow on the quality of the black African students enrolled there. The IRD sent more than 1,000 copies to addresses across the developing world.
Cormac said there is little doubt that senior British policymakers knew about the IRD’s work.
In 1964, the Conservative prime minister, Alec Douglas-Home, told the IRD to target Ghana over fear that its mercurial president, Kwame Nkrumah, was tilting towards Moscow. Months later, the new Labour foreign secretary, Patrick Gordon Walker, encouraged the Foreign Office to maintain a “black propaganda potential and from time to time produce black material”. Walker was particularly interested in fomenting racial tensions between Africans and the Chinese.
As with most such efforts, the impact of the IRD’s campaigns was often difficult to judge. On one occasion, IRD officials were able to report that a newspaper in Zanzibar printed one of their forgeries about Soviet racism, and that the publication prompted an angry response. This was seen as a major achievement. Officials were also pleased when Kenyan press used fake material about the 1967 six-day war, and when newspapers across much of the Islamic world printed a fake Novosti bulletin on the conflict. Occasionally, western newspapers unwittingly used IRD materials, too.
Though the IRD was shut down in 1977, researchers are now finding evidence that similar efforts continued for almost another decade.
“The [new documents] are particularly significant as a precursor to more modern efforts of putting intelligence into the public domain.
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