From just about all outlets, both in the mainstream and alternative media, the commissioner of the +NBA, +Adam Silver, announced that the league was banning the owner of the +Los Angeles Clippers, +Donald Sterling, for life and ordered him to disassociate himself from any franchise elements. This is a move I heavily applaud, as racism has no place in the +NBA, nor should it be tolerated when it comes up. And it’s not just in the +NBA where it shouldn’t be tolerated, racism should never receive any toleration in any sphere of American daily life. It’s a burden from our past that we need to embrace and by taking on this burden, we should try to open our eyes to the experiences of people on the receiving end of it. The sooner we have this discussion, the better. We need to do so to learn from our past so that we don’t repeat it again.
Monthly Archives: April 2014
Update on the NBA Racism Fiasco
From just about all outlets, both in the mainstream and alternative media, the commissioner of the +NBA, +Adam Silver, announced that the league was banning the owner of the +Los Angeles Clippers, +Donald Sterling, for life and ordered him to disassociate himself from any franchise elements. This is a move I heavily applaud, as racism has no place in the +NBA, nor should it be tolerated when it comes up. And it’s not just in the +NBA where it shouldn’t be tolerated, racism should never receive any toleration in any sphere of American daily life. It’s a burden from our past that we need to embrace and by taking on this burden, we should try to open our eyes to the experiences of people on the receiving end of it. The sooner we have this discussion, the better. We need to do so to learn from our past so that we don’t repeat it again.
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New Bout Of Racism
In all ways to slam the Republicans for racist commentary, or the Right-Wing in general, that won’t happen in this post. I have a slightly different person to go after, Donald Sterling, the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, over comments he made to his girlfriend about posting pictures with African American or Latin American men. What’s the critical and racist commentary for? For instilling racialist demagoguing? This is not the 1960s! Why anyone thinks it’s alright to degrade people because of their race or ethnicity is beyond my level of understanding.
While I hope the +Golden State Warriors do well in the playoffs and make it to the finals, I also feel for the +Los Angeles Clippers, as well. Like just about every other team in the +National Basketball Association, the heaviest proportion of the Clippers’ players are African American, and so the comments by Sterling make their play-off time that much more difficult as it provides them with an unneeded distraction.Besides being a distraction, it’s really goes beyond offensive. They’re insensitive and this is the worst representation of the NBA. I hope the NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and the commission board of the NBA will get to the bottom of what happened as soon as possible. There needs to be a message sent throughout the league that this type of language is not permissible.
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New Bout Of Racism
In all ways to slam the Republicans for racist commentary, or the Right-Wing in general, that won’t happen in this post. I have a slightly different person to go after, Donald Sterling, the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, over comments he made to his girlfriend about posting pictures with African American or Latin American men. What’s the critical and racist commentary for? For instilling racialist demagoguing? This is not the 1960s! Why anyone thinks it’s alright to degrade people because of their race or ethnicity is beyond my level of understanding.
While I hope the +Golden State Warriors do well in the playoffs and make it to the finals, I also feel for the +Los Angeles Clippers, as well. Like just about every other team in the +National Basketball Association, the heaviest proportion of the Clippers’ players are African American, and so the comments by Sterling make their play-off time that much more difficult as it provides them with an unneeded distraction.Besides being a distraction, it’s really goes beyond offensive. They’re insensitive and this is the worst representation of the NBA. I hope the NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and the commission board of the NBA will get to the bottom of what happened as soon as possible. There needs to be a message sent throughout the league that this type of language is not permissible.
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Why We Need To Vote This November
This picture says it all, and the reason behind the words is clearer than ever in my eyes. The Koch Brothers, along with other ultra-wealthy ultra-conservatives, attempting to tell us to keep out of our own nation, unless we re-instill White Supremacy with racial segregation and go after the Black community for even forcing the whole Civil (aka: Special) Rights issue, which is completely bogus. It’s not going to happen, as most Americans of all racial origins do not want the return of Jim Crow. It doesn’t serve our needs.
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Why We Need To Vote This November
This picture says it all, and the reason behind the words is clearer than ever in my eyes. The Koch Brothers, along with other ultra-wealthy ultra-conservatives, attempting to tell us to keep out of our own nation, unless we re-instill White Supremacy with racial segregation and go after the Black community for even forcing the whole Civil (aka: Special) Rights issue, which is completely bogus. It’s not going to happen, as most Americans of all racial origins do not want the return of Jim Crow. It doesn’t serve our needs.
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White Supremacism Taking On Nazi-esque Themes And New Lows From The Far-Right
Somehow, whenever anything happens that seems to have to do with penalizing someone who’s White for breaking the law, the racialist-right goes absolutely nuts. Take for example the Cliven Bundy case: on the nose, it’s an open and shut case of where the typical rancher has to pay a fine for not paying fees to graze cattle on federal land. Another factor to bear in mind is that approximately 80% of all land in Nevada is federally owned (nearly 20% more than the next state in line Utah), and when ranchers graze cattle in the area, they have to pay an annual fee to get a permit in order to let their cattle graze there, and Bundy had not been paying the fees annually nor the fines from the racked up fees, and so he was forcibly evicted from the area.
However, what has me concerned is that there’s been some figures who’ve backed Bundy, have also declared their intention to bring women and children as human shields. This reminds me exactly of the type of extremism that we purportedly tried to fight off in the Middle East, with only some temporary success. Still, it makes me sick to hear of Americans, specifically those from the right-wing, championing this. This is not principled conservatism, this is just outright insanity. To think that this is mainstream is even more sickening to me.
It should be time for the American public to rise up and call out the right for continually calling for violence. It’s not the American way, and to say that Democracy is Socialism, and that “Americanism” is dictatorship, bullshit! This is way we need to shut down the funding to +The Tea Party, and end their reign of violent “credibility”.
However, what has me concerned is that there’s been some figures who’ve backed Bundy, have also declared their intention to bring women and children as human shields. This reminds me exactly of the type of extremism that we purportedly tried to fight off in the Middle East, with only some temporary success. Still, it makes me sick to hear of Americans, specifically those from the right-wing, championing this. This is not principled conservatism, this is just outright insanity. To think that this is mainstream is even more sickening to me.
It should be time for the American public to rise up and call out the right for continually calling for violence. It’s not the American way, and to say that Democracy is Socialism, and that “Americanism” is dictatorship, bullshit! This is way we need to shut down the funding to +The Tea Party, and end their reign of violent “credibility”.
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White Supremacism Taking On Nazi-esque Themes And New Lows From The Far-Right
Somehow, whenever anything happens that seems to have to do with penalizing someone who’s White for breaking the law, the racialist-right goes absolutely nuts. Take for example the Cliven Bundy case: on the nose, it’s an open and shut case of where the typical rancher has to pay a fine for not paying fees to graze cattle on federal land. Another factor to bear in mind is that approximately 80% of all land in Nevada is federally owned (nearly 20% more than the next state in line Utah), and when ranchers graze cattle in the area, they have to pay an annual fee to get a permit in order to let their cattle graze there, and Bundy had not been paying the fees annually nor the fines from the racked up fees, and so he was forcibly evicted from the area.
However, what has me concerned is that there’s been some figures who’ve backed Bundy, have also declared their intention to bring women and children as human shields. This reminds me exactly of the type of extremism that we purportedly tried to fight off in the Middle East, with only some temporary success. Still, it makes me sick to hear of Americans, specifically those from the right-wing, championing this. This is not principled conservatism, this is just outright insanity. To think that this is mainstream is even more sickening to me.
It should be time for the American public to rise up and call out the right for continually calling for violence. It’s not the American way, and to say that Democracy is Socialism, and that “Americanism” is dictatorship, bullshit! This is way we need to shut down the funding to +The Tea Party, and end their reign of violent “credibility”.
However, what has me concerned is that there’s been some figures who’ve backed Bundy, have also declared their intention to bring women and children as human shields. This reminds me exactly of the type of extremism that we purportedly tried to fight off in the Middle East, with only some temporary success. Still, it makes me sick to hear of Americans, specifically those from the right-wing, championing this. This is not principled conservatism, this is just outright insanity. To think that this is mainstream is even more sickening to me.
It should be time for the American public to rise up and call out the right for continually calling for violence. It’s not the American way, and to say that Democracy is Socialism, and that “Americanism” is dictatorship, bullshit! This is way we need to shut down the funding to +The Tea Party, and end their reign of violent “credibility”.
This is +jgsf1987, Share this among your friends and families.
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Software Testing
Hey all, +jgsf1987, here. I’m going to put politics aside for a moment to talk on my newest adventure as of yet, software testing. It’s pretty simple, but a little tedious at times, as you need to watch what you’re doing as precisely as possible. Basically, all I’m doing is looking for bugs, and making a note of such bugs. Like I said, simple yet tedious.
Anyhow this is my newest gig thus far.
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Software Testing
Hey all, +jgsf1987, here. I’m going to put politics aside for a moment to talk on my newest adventure as of yet, software testing. It’s pretty simple, but a little tedious at times, as you need to watch what you’re doing as precisely as possible. Basically, all I’m doing is looking for bugs, and making a note of such bugs. Like I said, simple yet tedious.
Anyhow this is my newest gig thus far.
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