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  1. I quoted Ibram X Kendi née Rogers’ book. You dispute any of those quotes.
  2. They really were armed to the teeth. They were so close to taking America down while they took selfies.
  3. Doubt it. That team isn’t constructed for the future.
  4. Blackface going to use emergency powers to crush protesters?
  5. Weird all those insurrectionists left their firearms at home. What a shitty coup
  6. Mitch Meluskey. For one brief, shining season. He actually got invited to the All Star game as a replacement last minute but was drunk as shit at South Padre and did not answer his phone.
  7. There is probably a way to adjust pass rating compared to league average of the time to compare QBs by era. Roger Staubach was extremely efficient compared to his peers. But if you looked at his career 83 pass rating he would look below average. Has Stafford ever been considered a top QB compared to his peers? I do not think he has.
  8. I have a buddy who played in the NFL and at A&M under Slocum. He is still connected to the program. He told me several years ago when Murray and Allen left around the same time, the team tried to convince Allen to stay. Murray's teammates literally packed his shit in his locker for him. They hated him. So did his baseball teammates.
  9. Boselli was on an all decade team and a 3x all pro with 5 pro bowls in his 7 years. He was considered the best LT of his time. Vince Young has more pro bowls than Stafford.
  10. You say this so tell us what it is? CRT has been defined in numerous ways. In an attempt to give a neutral definition, here is the definition provided by Encyclopedia Britannica: “Critical Race Theory (CRT) [is an] intellectual movement and loosely organized framework of legal analysis based on the premise that race is not a natural, biologically grounded feature of physically distinct subgroups of human beings but a socially constructed (culturally invented) category that is used to oppress and exploit people of colour. Critical race theorists hold that the law and legal institutions in the United States are inherently racist insofar as they function to create and maintain social, economic, and political inequalities between whites and nonwhites, especially African Americans. CRT was officially organized in 1989, at the first annual Workshop on Critical Race Theory, though its intellectual origins go back much farther, to the 1960s and ‘70s. Its immediate precursor was the critical legal studies (CLS) movement, which dedicated itself to examining how the law and legal institutions serve the interests of the wealthy and powerful at the expense of the poor and marginalized. (CLS, an offshoot of the Marxist-oriented critical theory, may also be viewed as a radicalization of early 20th-century legal realism, a school of legal philosophy according to which judicial decision making, especially at the appellate level, is influenced as much by nonlegal – political or ideological – factors as by precedent and principles of legal reasoning). Like CLS scholars, critical race theorists believed that political liberalism was incapable of adequately addressing fundamental problems of injustice in American society (notwithstanding legislation and court rulings advancing civil rights in the 1950s and ‘60s), because its emphasis on the equitable treatment under the law of all races (“colour blindness”) rendered it capable of recognizing only the most overt and obvious racist practices, not those that were relatively indirect, subtle, or systemic. Liberalism was also faulted for mistakenly presupposing the apolitical nature of judicial decision making and for taking a self-consciously incremental or reformist approach that prolonged unjust social arrangements and afforded opportunities for retrenchment and backsliding through administrative delays and conservative legal challenges. Unlike most CLS scholars, however, critical race theorists did not wish to abandon the notions of law or legal rights altogether, because, in their experience, some laws and legal reforms had done much to help oppressed or exploited people. In their work Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, first published in 2001, the legal scholars Richard Delgado (one of the founders of CRT) and Jean Stefancic discuss several general propositions that they claim would be accepted by many critical race theorists, despite the considerable variation of belief among members of the movement. These “basic tenets” of CRT, according to the authors, include the following claims: (1) Race is socially constructed, not biologically natural. (2) Racism in the United States is normal, not aberrational: it is the common, ordinary experience of most people of colour. (3) Owing to what critical race theorists call “interest convergence” or “material determinism,” legal advances (or setbacks) for people of colour tend to serve the interests of dominant white groups. Thus, the racial hierarchy that characterizes American society may be unaffected or even reinforced by ostensible improvements in the legal status of oppressed or exploited people. (4) Members of minority groups periodically undergo “differential racialization,” or the attribution to them of varying sets of negative stereotypes, again depending on the needs or interest of whites. (5) According to the thesis of “intersectionality” or “antiessentialism,” no individual can be adequately identified by membership in a single group. An African American person, for example, may also identify as a woman, a lesbian, a feminist, a Christian, and so on. Finally, (6) the “voice of colour” thesis holds that people of colour are uniquely qualified to speak on behalf of other members of their group (or groups) regarding the forms and effects of racism. This consensus has led to the growth of the “legal story telling” movement, which argues that the self-expressed views of victims of racism and other forms of oppression provide essential insight into the nature of the legal system.” I have read Kendi and Reynolds' Book. These are quotes from it: a. “White people think more of themselves, which further attracts them to racist ideas; b. “Racist and anti-racist ideas have lived in human minds for nearly six hundred years. Born in Western Europe in the mid-1400s [LMAO], racist ideas traveled to colonial America and have lived in the United States from its beginnings;” c. “To love capitalism is to end up loving racism;” d. “I did not fully realize that the only thing extraordinary about White people is that they think something is extraordinary about them;” e. “There is no such thing as a not-racist idea, only racist ideas and anti-racist ideas;” f. “Instead, they define policies not rigged for White people as racist. Ideas not centering White lives are racist. Beleaguered White racists who can’t imagine their lives not being the focus of a movement respond to ‘Black Lives Matter’ with ‘All Lives Matter;’” g. “Embattled police officers who can’t imagine losing their right to racially profile and brutalize respond with ‘Blue Lives Matter;’” h. “Do-nothing climate policy is racist policy since the predominantly non-White global south is being victimized by climate change more than the Whiter global north, even as the Whiter global north is contributing more to its acceleration;” i. “Race is a mirage…they fail to realize that if we stop using racial categories, then we will not be able to identify racial inequality;” j. “The most threatening racist movement is not the alt right’s unlikely drive for a White ethnostate but the regular American’s drive for a “race-neutral” one. The construct of race neutrality actually feeds the White nationalist victimhood;” Supporters of CRT believe that race is a social construct and racism is a defining element of American society, and the goal is to challenge practices that reinforce white supremacy, white privilege, and the oppression of people of color. Opponents of CRT argue this ideology is harmful in that it is Marxist in theory, divisive in nature, racist on its face, and anti-American in its teaching that America is an inherently racist nation.
  11. Now do Asians. Weird how they have the highest income, by far, of any racial group.
  12. The median inheritance in America is like $15,000 for whites and $3,000 for blacks. If you want to do reparations to make up for that delta. Lets do it.
  13. Watched maybe ten minutes worth. Been outside shooting baskets with kids and cooking out. Ending was good.
  14. You are asking for these freakshows to be self-critical and honest. You’ve come to the wrong place.
  15. Trump won the top two quintile income brackets. Biden won the bottom three
  16. No. It started in 1619 when a bunch of white people captured black people in Africa and brought them over here. First recorded incident of slavery in the world. The USA is fundamentally racist as are all of its systems and institutions so they need to be torn down. The American Revolution was actually a slaveholder's rebellion. Other countries did not ever have slavery.
  17. Johnny Sack

    Starlink

    I ordered one for the ranch near Navasota. We have a lot of trees. I assume you can roof mount to get a clear line of sight.
  18. Saw this guy in Colorado last summer
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