{"id":44583,"date":"2020-06-23T16:50:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T20:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=44583"},"modified":"2020-06-23T16:50:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T20:50:51","slug":"racism-corporate-and-christian-awakenings-and-police-blotters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=44583","title":{"rendered":"Racism, corporate and Christian awakenings, and police blotters"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Harper’s Weekly Report:<\/p>\n

Colgate-Palmolive announced that it is considering changing the brand name Darlie, which is marketed in Chinese as \u201cBlack person toothpaste\u201d; the line was formerly called \u201cDarkie\u201d and used a man in blackface for its logo.<\/em><\/p>\n

“…considering…”<\/p>\n

The Washington Redskins officially recognized Juneteenth; an Amazon warehouse in Chicago served chicken and waffles to celebrate the holiday; and Snapchat introduced and later apologized for a Juneteenth filter that superimposed CGI chains behind a user\u2019s head that broke when the user smiled.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Minnesota jail that currently holds Derek Chauvin was accused of bias after allowing only white officers to guard or communicate with him. In response to the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, Georgia\u2019s Senate approved a bill penalizing hate crimes that includes police officers on the list of \u201cprotected classes.\u201d An Austrian man was fined $565 and charged with \u201coffending public decency\u201d for farting at a group of police officers. The Viennese police responded in a tweet: \u201cOur colleagues don\u2019t like to be farted at so much.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

An Atlanta megachurch pastor was criticized for suggesting the term \u201cwhite privilege\u201d be replaced with \u201cwhite blessing.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

After NASCAR banned the Confederate flag from its events, a noose was left in the garage stall of NASCAR\u2019s only Black driver.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cProbably, McDonald\u2019s has created more millionaires within the Black community than probably any other corporation on the planet,\u201d said the CEO of McDonald\u2019s.<\/em><\/p>\n

Painful.<\/p>\n

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From Harper’s Weekly Report: Colgate-Palmolive announced that it is considering changing the brand name Darlie, which is marketed in Chinese as \u201cBlack person toothpaste\u201d; the line was formerly called \u201cDarkie\u201d and used a man in blackface for its logo. “…considering…” … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,5800,1175],"tags":[5806,1594,5810,5807,5802,5811,5805,3257,5809,2924,5803,5801,752,4496,5808,5804],"class_list":["post-44583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-racism","category-the-facts-of-life","tag-ahmaud-arbery","tag-amazon","tag-bubba-wallace","tag-colgate-palmolive","tag-corporations-and-racism","tag-darlie-toothpaste","tag-derek-chauvin","tag-harpers-weekly-report","tag-juneteenth","tag-mcdonalds","tag-nascar","tag-police-news","tag-racism","tag-snapchat","tag-washington-redskins","tag-white-privilege"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t