Thought it was bad at Clemson, UT feeling the heat
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This makes me grateful for how our players handled this.
Maybe I missed it but ole miss probably gonna get a complete overhaul.
Here are their requests:
Campus Actions
- The renaming of buildings: Robert Lee Moore Hall, Painter Hall, Littlefield Hall (to include the patio cafe and fountain, James Hogg Auditorium (to include the permanent removal of the James Hogg statue
- The replacement of statues with more diverse statues on campus designed by artists/sculptors who are people of color
- The inclusion of modules for incoming freshmen discussing the history of racism on campus (ex. Texas Cowboys) and providing racial injustice awareness
- An outreach Program for inner cities (Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio)
Athletics Actions
- More diversity in The Hall of Fame to include: permanent black athletic history exhibit
- The UT Athletics Department to donate 0.5% of their annual earnings to black organizations and the BLM movement
- The renaming of an area of the stadium after Julius Whittier, the first black football player at UT
Changes regarding the entire black community at UT
- The replacement of The Eyes of Texas with a new song without racist undertones (lifting the requirement of athletes to sing the song
I don't see anything wrong with anything the Texas players are doing either.
BLM is a tough ask, but I'm sure they can find some local non-profits that work in the black community in Austin.
and before anyone freaks out, its $110,000 a year they are asking for.
Yale sure is lucky no one gives a shit about their football program.
Am I missing how the Eyes of Texas has racist undertones?
I didn't follow the explanation there, other that that it was based off of something Robert E. Lee used to say to students at his school. That it was borrowed from a Lee phrase it gives it racist undertones?
I didn't follow the explanation there, other that that it was based off of something Robert E. Lee used to say to students at his school. That it was borrowed from a Lee phrase it gives it racist undertones?
BLM is a puppet organization of Antifa. Something seems wrong for a white radicle group (Antifa) to be telling and ordering a black group around, pulling their strings like marionettes. With that chain of command I wouldn't give a nichol to BLM.
no more statues period
when are people going to learn
quit making graven images
gonna piss someone off
and there aint a dang soul that doesn't have a few skeletons in the closet
whom ever pays the most for naming rights gets to name it
That was just a quick glimpse at its history. Here is more detail.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bu...xas-alma-mater-racist-history-texas-longhorns
or
https://www.hookem.com/story/histor...ed-minstrel-shows-now-part-every-day-ut-life/
Lyrics:
The Eyes of Texas are upon you,
All the livelong day.
The Eyes of Texas are upon you,
You cannot get away.
Do not think you can escape them
At night or early in the morn --
The Eyes of Texas are upon you
Til Gabriel blows his horn.
Except all BLM donations are filtered directly to ActBlue Charities, an organization that funds Democratic political candidates campaigns. Very little actually goes to any “change” organizations.
100% Wrong & Antifa is Not An Organization! I am sure there is an local counter terriorist organization in your community that can provide true meaning of these groups!
No. You are absolutely wrong about what act blue is. It's basically PayPal. They aren't paying money to Dems, the money that goes to Dems was donated to Dems THROUGH ActBlue.
Do some research before you repeat false idiocy you read on Twitter or hear from friends.
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Lolololol. What the actual **** are you talking about?
Yikes at demanding they donate to BLM and change the fight song...
Does Texas support disrupting the nuclear family and ending “cisgender privilege”?
Does Texas support disrupting the nuclear family and ending “cisgender privilege”?
Antifa really is an organization, but they’re loosely organized because of their left-wing ideology. I don’t think we need to pretend like they don’t exist or are benign to not see them as some kind of scapegoat for the rioting.
That’s some pretty thin gruel as far as an argument for the song being racist. At most, it’s associated with a minstrel show. But there’s nothing beyond an association to suggest that the lyrics are referring to slavery or white supremacy. Lee’s quote was just trying to motivate the Texas troops. This argument that the song is racist is like saying that a song always has to have the worst purpose it was ever put to. The article even points out that the song is better known as “I’ve Been Working On the Railroad.”
On the other hand, if it’s true that many black people in Texas and elsewhere take offense, they should probably reconsider it, even if people are wrong about the meaning of some lyrics.
Let’s take another example of a song that could be problematic: My Old Kentucky Home. There’s a notoriously racist lyric, but that one hasn’t been sung for a long time. Does that make the tune racist even though that lyric isn’t used, and most people don’t associate the song with racism?
They ARE funneling all proceeds to dem political candidate campaigns. So, when someone donates money through ActBlue to BLM, where does the money go?
I doubt all of BLM’s money is going to Act Blue. BLM is avowedly left-wing and they’re for-profit, so it shouldn’t be surprising that they donate to left-wing political candidates.
They arent. ActBlue is a pass through. It's essentially PayPal. They provide a platform that Dem campaigns and progressive causes use (and I've been using them for a decade +). When you go to the BLM page and donate to blm, act blue processest contribution and mails or wires BLM a check. That's how it works for campaigns too. ActBlue only works with Dems, and the Republicans have WinRed, which is the same thing, just for Republicans.
All I can say is it is sad you do not know who/what Antifa is and who pushes their buttons. Find you another hole to stick your head in. The current one you are using is blocking all your senses and logic.
This isnt how this works at all. BLM is. 501c3. They literally can't give to candidates and they don't.
ActBlue is simply a payment processor. They are a middle man. ActBlue is not contributing any money to campaigns. They are just sending money that people donate to those campaigns. It's not ActBlue making decisions about who to send the money too.
Again, they are nothing but a payment processor.
They are a 501c3 non profit organization. They are not a for profit org.
https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/black-lives-matter-foundation/
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https://secure.actblue.com/about
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/06/donations-to-black-lives-matter-group-dont-go-to-dnc/
Guys. This is easy. Look it up before parroting talking points from Twitter (or Infowars, lol)
ActBlue = PayPal (payment processor)
BLM = 501c3 (not for profit organization).
All of this is in the public record. BLM cant contribute to political campaigns.
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/06/donations-to-black-lives-matter-group-dont-go-to-dnc/
Guys. This is easy. Look it up before parroting talking points from Twitter (or Infowars, lol)
ActBlue = PayPal (payment processor)
BLM = 501c3 (not for profit organization).
All of this is in the public record. BLM cant contribute to political campaigns.
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If true, my bad.
ActBlue was specifically set up to fundraiser for progressive causes, was it not?
Doesn’t BLM have a PAC?
Yes. It exists to only work with Dems and progressive causes. Republicans have their own version, it's called WinRed.
But its a tech platform that we all use to make it easy to collect money. They aren't promoting Dems or giving to Dems themselves. I go on a candidates "ActBlue" page, click donate, and ActBlue mails that contribution to the candidate I picked.
They are just like a paypal for Dem political campaigns and cause.
Here is an ActBlue page for a colorado congressman. (not my boss)
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/website-jn?refcode=1706-temp-page
If I go to this page and donate to Joe Neguse through it, act blue keeps 4% for their operating expenditures and sends the rest to the candidate.
And here is the republican version, winred
https://secure.winred.com/stevehouse/donate
Re a pac. Not one that I can find. There seems to have been 2 registered in 2015 but you can see on the fec they haven't had any money in years.
Plus, if they did have a pac, money used to contribute to campaigns through that PAC cannot come from the c3. That money would need to be raised separately
Thanks for clarification, although we’ll have to agree to disagree on the topic of where the BLM donations are being ultimately used.
What you all are missing is that BLM really doesn't like democrats. Dems are establishment and racist. We select candidate like joe biden instead of people of color. We refuse to say #defundthepolice and we perpetuate the system BLM is fighting against. The activists on the ground hate us. This is the reality on the ground here.
Well, yes, the radical left doesn’t love liberals, but there are a growing number of non-liberal leftists in the Democratic Party.
The same way there are a growing number if qanon nutsos on the R side. One basically just got elected in Georgia. Sure
I’d say they’re more similar to the populists on the right who just want to tear the whole system down. It’s why you have a lot of agreement between right wing populists who love Trump and the Sanders partisans.
Those q anon people are insane, though. I’d like to see more people like Ben Sasse who will call them out.
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I've come across a few dumbasses in my life time, but not many complete dumbasses, so I guess you should pat yourself on the back. My question, did you learn to be a complete dumbass, did just come naturally, or was it by accident, I mean dropped too many times?
Have you looked into the horseshoe theory? Political spectrum is more like a horseshoe, with the far left and far right trending closer and closer together.
I think that’s mostly about opposing “the establishment” or the status quo as you get further from the mainstream. You can have radicalism in common even if you’ve got nothing else in common.
It was performed in minstrel shows in 1903 by folks in blackface. I believe that's what i read earlier today.
