Why does no one ever ask the follow up, “That would seem to suggest that you think the disparity is in the DNA of Black people. Is that how you explain it?”
There is racism in human “dna”. Since the dawn of time, humans have looked for reasons to make “others” lesser to themselves. Race/ethnicity/religion/class (and let’s not forget gender).
It’s just that in lolAmerica we came up with a whole system of perpetual generational chattel slavery and held onto it until we killed each other in a massive war. Then we found ways to keep the racism part and a signicant fraction continue to work at it as we speak.
A significant amount of our constitution was based on enabling and protecting slavery.
This story begins with McElroy being offered a tenured position to run Texas A&M’s journalism program and ends with her offer being whittled down to a one-year non-tenured contract, mostly because she’s a black woman and that made important Texans angry.
Oh and House conservatives are considering tanking their own defense bill if they don’t kill the Pentagon’s policy of reimbursing service members who travel for abortions.
Lol I really really really want these guys to fight the military. I can’t believe Tommy has been able to annoy them to the degree he has without getting severely punished somehow. None of this major contributors have military contracts? There’s no base in his district that could have units reassigned to other bases? None of the major defense contractors have any suction at all with a Tommy fucking Tuberville?
Very weird world we live in. Real life influence is both simultaneously so prevalent it’s stifling, but also super limited and random in terms of how it works and when.