Is Hate Here To Stay?

It seems like it was just yesterday—because it was—that we talked about the students at Belfast High School in Belfast, Maine, rallying together to get their Pride festival started again after two years of a COVID shutdown. I thought they were the future, and then I read these two stories, and realize these students are, sadly, the future, too.

Students at Colerain High School in Cincinnati thought it might be cool to tape “Blacks only" and "Whites only" signs over water fountains and then sharing the pictures across social media because … racism is funny?

The Northwest Local School District announced after the incident was aired by a local news station earlier this month that they would start an investigation.

The learned that the signs over the water fountains were posted for about 30 seconds, while the students responsible took photos, then took the signs down, and posted photos of their handiwork online.

Oh, so it was just a short burst of racism by a bunch of ignorant children, who then blasted their ignorance around the world on the internet. The district released a statement:

"Those who participated in this tasteless and hurtful act have been issued significant disciplinary actions. Any student, including those who are found to have taken part in sharing the post online will also be subject to disciplinary action. The actions that were displayed do not reflect the values and culture of Colerain High School or the Northwest Local School District."

I don’t know if I’d call it “tasteless” and “hurtful,” because what it’s actually Hate Speech.

Meanwhile in Florida, the Martin County School District has launched their own investigation after a photo showing six middle school students spelling out the N-word was posted on social media. The photo was arranged, photographed, and posted to social media by students at Hidden Oaks Middle School in Palm City.

Each student in the photo is holding a letter spelling out a common racial slur aimed at the Black community which the students made in an art class.

In class? Where was the teacher? Did that person know what was planned and do nothing?

The school board was scheduled to hold its regular meetings that day, just hours after the photo was posted and while the photo was not set as a topic that night people still packed the room to voice their opinions to the board.

“It’s racism.”

“I am appalled.” said another woman.

“What is happening is not OK.”

Jimmy Smith, president of the Martin County chapter of the NAACP, was at the meeting:

“I was very heartbroken. We all have made mistakes, but when you get to that degree and that depth to come up with an idea like that, there’s something else going on.”

Many people at the board meeting also noted that it was just a small step from posting that picture racially motivated shooting that killed 10 people in Buffalo over the weekend.

District officials said there is no question the students in the photo will be punished but said the exact punishment would be determined by the outcome of their investigation.

How about kicking them out of school? Or better yet, since this was Florida where the governor doesn’t want white kids feeling bad about racism and slavery and the way this country has treated people of color for hundreds of years, maybe the school should start teaching history … slavery … Jim Crow … lynchings … Civil Rights … and then maybe these dumbass kids won’t think they’re so cute.

And then their parents should gather together and vote out of office every single Republican from the fascist in charge on down out of office, because this is laid directly at the feet of Ron DeSantis.

He doesn’t want white people being made to feel bad by our racist past but he has said nothing about Black people continuing to be hurt by it.

NBC News: Colerain High School

WPBF: Hidden Oaks Middle School 

Bobservations

It seems just like last week—because it was—when _____ was rallying and shouting and inciting fear, and generally having what he calls a good time, just ahead of the midterms. Then …

… the midterms; and his party, and _____, had their asses handed to them and now he is lost and sullen and bitter. Maybe it has something to do with incoming Democratic House majority going after his tax returns and investigating his other illegal actions.

Sorry …not sorry.

Speaking of sad _____s, Melanie has asked for Deputy National Security adviser Mira Ricardel, to be fired, after Ricardel ALLEGEDLY had a series of run-ins with the Melanie’s office, who released this statement:

“It is the position of the Office of the First Lady that she no longer deserves the honor of serving in this White House.”

That’s an extraordinary, if not unprecedented, move for a First lady, but then so is posing with your coochie out.

While the students of Parkland banded together to demand gun control after the shooting at their school, the students at Baraboo High School decided to give a Nazi salute in a prom photo last spring.

Now that the photo has gone viral, they’re all trying to spin it, but it’s hard to spin all those students holding their arms in the exact same position at the exact same moment … and then laughing while they do it.

Asshats; sheep.

I dunno, should he be called Lord Gaga?

At a couple of premieres for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Ezra Miller is doing his level best to make the promotion interesting.

And I think Gaga might be nervous that someone is stepping on her drag.

We all know _____ cancelled trips to both the Aisne-Marne American cemetery in France—where 1,800 Americans died—and a follow-up visit to Arlington on Veteran’s Day because it was raining.

I guess he was right about that Robert Mueller witch hunt; apparently, if he gets wet, he’ll melt? Or, he’s just an over-indulgent, narcissistic, bloated, whining man-baby.

Oh, and also, while in Paris, when seventy world leaders walked to the Arc de Triomphe, marking 100 years since the end of World War I, there were just two world leaders who didn’t participate:

Putin and ____. Maybe they were having special alone time?

Down in the land of my birth, Mississippi, GOP Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith is in a runoff election against Democrat Mike Espy, and at a recent event where rancher Colin Hutchinson praised her, Hyde-Smith actually said:

“If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row.”

In Mississippi. Where’s she’s in a runoff with a Black man; Mississippi, which has a long and brutal history of lynchings and public executions of African American citizens.

But hey, she supports _____ and he supports her, so is anyone surprised?

Speaking of Veteran’s Day at Arlington, while _____couldn’t get his rug wet, guess who showed up to honor American veterans?

The French.

Our president couldn’t be bothered but the French …

Lucy McBath, a member of Mothers of the Movement, a group of black women who have lost children to gun violence, has won her election to represent Georgia’s 6th Congressional District—a seat the GOP has held for 30 years.

McBath is the mother of Jordan Davis, a 17-year-old young man who was shot to death by a white man who thought Davis was playing music too loudly outside a Florida gas station.

And now she’s in Congress in Georgia. Brava!

Rumor has it that Hillary Clinton will try to reinvent herself “as a liberal firebrand” and run for president again in 2020.

Please, for the love of the goddess, Hillary, just stay home. We are in a Blue Wave and need some new faces, some strong, faces. You’ve had your chance, twice; let it go.

Oh, and that goes for you, too, Bernie.

It appears that _____is planning to fire Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen very soon.

Poor girl; how is she gonna torture more families and lock more children up in cages if she’s out of a job. Bye bitch.

Finally, it’s a cold wet Thursday in Smallville, and I need a little Henry Cavill to heat things up, especially with his new longer, luscious, curly hair.

And while we’re at it let’s throw in Jay Hayden and Sterling Sulieman, who play gay lovers on ABC’s Station 19; we don’t watch, but I did catch a glimpse of a rather passionate love scene between the two men.

My how TV has changed since Lucy and Ricky slept in double beds.

Just sayin’.

Arms Dealer Ollie North Calls Student Activists 'Terrorists'

Well, traitor, arms dealer, and spanking new president of the NRA wasted almost no time showing what an absolute ignorant asshatted douche he continues to be when he … wait for it, it’s the height of stupidity, seriously …  compared student-led protests against the National Rifle Association to the violent and racist attacks on the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

North called it "civil terrorism":

"This is the kind of thing that's never been seen against a civil rights organization in America. You go back to the terrible days of Jim Crow and those kinds of things—even there you didn’t have this kind of thing."

Seriously, he called the f**king NRA a civil rights organization. And he says his proof of the violence against the NRA lies in the vandalism at NRA lobbyist Chris Cox's home—Cox says his house was splashed with fake blood … twice …clearly much worse than the real blood splattered at a church in Charleston or a school in Florida or movie theater in Aurora r a concert in Las Vegas.

And yet the student-fueled #NeverAgain movement stresses the importance of civil, non-violent disobedience, but, as is the way with the NRA, the GOP, gun nuts and morons, they spin their own message and pin themselves with the “victim” tag … unlike the nearly 21,000 shootings in 2018 … the 5,208 people killed by guns in 2018 … the 9,000 Americans injured by guns.

Yet Oliver North claims the NRA is the victim. And North also accuses the gun control movement of going after "our bank accounts, our finances"—clearly up in arms that #NeverAgain activists put pressure on businesses to cut ties with the NRA, cutting the group’s power, which has resulted in several companies ending benefits programs to NRA members and other companies choosing to stop selling guns.

Um, yeah, Ollie, hitting y’all in the bank account, spurring boycotts against supporters of gun nuts, who care not a whit about the Second Amendment because their only concern is selling guns and pocketing coins in their pockets.

And, oddly enough, and Ollie fails to mention this, that student-led gun control movement, March for Our Lives, doesn’t even mention the NRA in their mission statement, but instead focus on expanding background checks for gun purchasers and other legislative reforms.

Ooh, sounds like terrorism … to Ollie “Arms Dealer” North.

Common Dreams

Children ... There Is Hope In Children

A teacher in England, who just happens to be gay, was speaking to his class as a part of the school’s anti-bullying week, and asked his students if any of them had ever heard the word ‘gay’ used as an insult.

Nearly every student raised their hand.

Then he asked who thought that people who were gay or lesbian were bad or wrong in some way.

Again almost every hand went up.

He spoke to the head of the school, and they both agreed that he could, and should, tell his class that he was gay so that they all knew at least one gay person and then begin to stop using that word, and ask others to stop, because when they did they were talking about their teacher.

His students’ reaction was as expected: some gasps, some shocked looks, some questions — Do you have a boyfriend — and then it was over and back to business as usual.

Then he got “the” letter from one of his students, a nine-year old girl:

Dear Mr R

Even though you’re gay, I will always treat you the same way as I do now. I still think about you the same way as I used to. You’re a great teacher and these are just some of the word’s that I would describe you as: great, amazing, fantastic, brilliant, awesome and brave.

The reason why I say brave is because you shared a personal secret which was very brave.

You don’t have to feel scared because I know that everyone in the class feels the same way as I do.

From A x x

He read it, and then wiped the tears from his eyes and thanked her for it. She said something that one of the boys in class had said during the anti-bullying lesson before going back to her seat:

‘It’s just your life.’

Children. There is hope in the children.

via Pink News