UPDATED 6.11, 6:55 MDT It’s been a bad few days to be a statue of a figure associated with colonialism, slavery, or racism. In London, witnesses say a statue of slave trader Edward Colston tripped and fell into the river, while one of “noted slaveholder Robert Milligan has been removed from outside the Museum of London Docklands.” Mayor Sadiq Khan has launched
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Q: Who this week referred to “the obvious racial discrimination that we’ve seen on full display on our television screens over the last two weeks”? A: This guy.
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Updated 2020-6-7 12:45pm The NFL is talking the talk. Now for the walk… What a week this has been. I’m wondering if, when historians look back, they’ll regard this as being the most significant moment of the era in which we have lived. But I’ve greeted it with a degree of cynicism, sarcasm, and snark.
Read moreI’m glad you said this, Commish. Respect. One last question, sir – who will Colin Kaepernick be playing for this season?
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Brees doesn’t get it. And Malcolm Jenkins is a hero. First Drew Brees makes clear he has no idea what he’s talking about by pretending Colin Kaepernick’s protest had something to do with “the flag.” Then people landed on him – hard – most notably his teammate Malcolm Jenkins.
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I’ve heard people the past few days saying these protests feel different to them. Like, maybe this time we’ll get results? Like George Floyd’s murder was the straw that broke the camel’s back? Like this is the tipping point and justice will no longer be denied? I’m long past betting that protesters can stay in for the long haul. America
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Antifa: Trump says group will be designated ‘terrorist organisation’ Hey #ChickenDon, what’s the opposite of “anti-fascist”?
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Watch this video now. Whoever these people are, they are not protesters. The optics are bad shooting up peaceful gatherings so it’s important for authority to establish at least the illusion of justification. By whatever means necessary. So if the protesters won’t loot and burn, then maybe somebody masquerading as a protester has to do it. The real protesters confronting
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Our desperation is no accident. Desperation is good for business. Colorado reopened for business yesterday. There were precautions galore, like these posted on the website of one of our favorite local restaurants: You must wear a mask or face covering until drinks and food arrive and while you are moving about the restaurant and bar Practice social distancing by staying
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Why do I follow “radical” sources like The Left Fist? This is why. Last night thousands of people took to the streets of Minneapolis to protest the murder of an unarmed black man by white city police officers. There was chaos and destruction in Minneapolis Tuesday night as police officers and protesters clashed over the death of George Floyd. The
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My friend Mario Nicolais, who writes for the excellent Colorado Sun, this morning recommended an Atlantic article to his Facebook friends: “Jonathan Haidt Is Trying to Heal America’s Divisions.” It’s a worthy read and I hope Mario will take it up in a forthcoming Sun column. I’m trying to frame my own response to Haidt’s hopefulness and I’m having trouble. I
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Another company has done something to offend a lot of people and, again, I don’t know how this keeps happening. This time it’s VW. The car giant Volkswagen has apologised for a ‘tasteless’ advert that appeared on social media following an online backlash that slammed its ‘racist’ undertones. The ten-second advert posted on Instagram and Twitter shows a giant white
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As any number of Facebook posts and memes have pointed out in recent weeks, we don’t wear masks to protect ourselves, we wear them to protect others. Our homemade cloth masks don’t do a great job of keeping the virus out, but they’re fairly effective at keeping it in. In other words, minimizing the spread of Coronavirus depends on concern
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