Plan: lift in the later morning, then do 45 minutes on the exercise bike. Hips are a bit sore from the weekend of walking (absurdly low mileage) and the toe ached a bit..probably related to my glute pain.
Yes, I saw the Chiefs lose 8-4 to the Quad Cities, though I did see a couple of huge home runs; glad I went to the game and walked, even though the walks were painful.
Attendance has been lower than in 2019; prices have not gone up by that much, but I do wonder if the lack of group trips (often arranged in the preseason) is hurting attendance.
Yeah, I love the leg room, but I want the Chiefs to succeed ..I’d miss them if they were gone.
Of course, I actually like the live baseball (I don’t watch much, if at all, on TV). But the Chiefs, or Bradley Basketball, or even Bond Films and their fans gives people a low-stakes topic to talk about. And I think that humans need that; if our team loses, or if the fans rate this Bond actor better than that Bond actor…it really doesn’t matter. But it is good exercise for our brains..very light limber-up stuff.
It is not advanced mathematics, and it isn’t something that one’s livelihood depends on (unless you work in that industry).
And that leads me to an emotional/heated discussion I had on Twitter.
Now, I think that this cartoon misses the mark…sort of.
Yes, it raises a point: there ARE some grade school texts that sanitize slavery and Jim Crow; no doubt about it. And yes, there are some school districts where slavery was portrayed as mostly benevolent; you can see some of the text excerpts presented in this thread.
But I honestly feel that much of the pushback against “Critical Race Theory” ..well, I admit that most don’t really understand that academic sub-discipline, but what is being pushed against is NOT the teaching of the history of the evils of slavery or Jim Crow.
Rather, the pushback is related to what is said here:
It is “what to do about said history.”
I think that the “poles of the mainstream” are these:
- The legacy of Jim Crow is so strong that we need continued effort and resources to overcome this. These might include “reparations”, reminding non-Blacks that they haven’t had to deal with such legacy and current discrimination and unfairness, enhanced diversity and inclusion programs, and it is fair and just to ask those from the majority culture to make this sacrifice.
- Yes, the history was brutal and unjust, but that was then and this was now. Most of our ancestors had to endure some hardship..yes, some more severe than others. But where does it stop? Black immigrants do well …and we have affirmative action programs, safety nets and the like. Heck, this country elected a Black President twice; progress has been enormous. Let’s face it; we’ve reached a point to where if you fail, that is on YOU..”their” attitudes are holding “them” back more than anything else.
Again, I see these as “poles” of the mainstream; few are exactly at either pole and I honestly think that most people differ on “degree.”
The other thing I’ll talk about is where “the Trump voter” is. Frankly, many voted Trump for the continued business deregulation, business friendly judges, tax cuts, and because their stocks/retirement accounts were doing well. The “racism”, for some, just wasn’t a major issue (“meh, Hershel Walker supports Trump, doesn’t he?”) “hey, the wokes complain about everything….and yeah, the police screwed up when they killed George Floyd but he wasn’t exactly a model citizen….probably not MY issue.”
It isn’t as if said Trump voters were hostile to the “anti-racism” agenda of the activists..they were mostly indifferent to it…with the main effect being things like snarled traffic from the protests and the damage caused by the associated looting and riots (ok, often not done by the actual protesters)
Life of an old goat 