This is where I live. It’s a blood red state with a blood red legislature and no regard for anyone who is not a white “christian” male. Thank you for what you do.
Not a bit surprised. Grandfather was from Indiana. He used Racial Slurs. He had a photo of the house he grew up in circa nineteen-twenty. On the back he'd written, "Now Occupied By Blacks."
A. Who Cares.
B. What?
C. Was 'Occupied By Whites' An Option?
D. Once, in the car, he commented on the BOOMING BASS from a stereo as coming "from these coons up here."
"That's Not A Nice Word, Daddy!" my mother snapped. I felt like I was going to start crying and wanted to go home. Just another shopping drag wheeling his perverted ass around Walmart. He lived to be 97. They just never die. I wouldn't be surprised if his father was IN the Indiana KKK. He also couldn't be left alone with little girls. Yes, you can be all kinds of an asshole, why choose.
He grew up in Indiana in the Twenties. So, yeah, he picked that up. Home Grown. And yes, my grandmother, raised in Washington State was Less Racist. Should we go to court over it?
REESE APOLOGIZE? For what? For hearing racist talk and commenting on it but not having audible evidence to prove it? Good God, the amount of 'Shit That Goes Down' that 'can't be proven' is ENORMOUS, Life Time Wide. EVERY WHERE. Can you hook people up to a machine, ask them if they are Racist or used Racal Slurs and the computer has it? Good luck with that technology.
A lot of people are assholes, not many will admit it.
Saying that kind of stuff around your kids, especially on the regular, is child abuse. I relate to your experiences. My parents both used those kinds of words all the time.
Strangely, when I brought my best friend to the house in highschool, a Black kid, my mom was sweet as can be to him. Didn't even say weird "white" stuff. Served us both cokes and left us alone.
Angel Reese should NEVER apologize for what she experienced! Fuck Jim Banks and his racist ass! The problem is racism and bigotry, plain and simple. I wonder if Pacers fans feel the same way! I apologize for the language, but it is a shame that these assholes are continuing a tradition like this!
I once saw a graffiti on the wall of a men's room in the travel plaza on the Tollroad at Angloa that said Welcome to Indiana. Set your watch back 20 years.
I was shaken to learn when I moved to "liberal" Portland in the 1990s how HUGE the Klan was in Oregon. It's footprint is still huge in places. (Yeah, now I know much more about the terrible history of Black, Chinese and Japanese people in Oregon.)
What’s this? The Indiana Pacers playing for the championship of the NBA, and with a team roster primarily made up of Black players?
So this must be both a troubling and a confusing time for the Braun administration: here they are, all hell-bent to show the White House how Indiana is also dispatching any signs of Black accomplishment, yet here’s this team dominated by Black players on the precipice of making history — and being cheered on by so many white fans!
Braun hasn’t hidden his belief that no Black man is better-qualified for a position than just any old white guy, and that Blacks actually holding positions in state government (some positions of authority) could only be attributable to so-called DEI hiring policies, something that used to be called affirmative action.
Braun took steps to undo all that early on with an executive order banning such hirings throughout state government, a part of his administration’s efforts to whitewash Indiana, to return Indiana to the 1920s, when D.C. Stephenson and the Ku Klux Klan pretty much ran the state.
Now, even if a Black man is by far the better-qualified candidate, state policy is to prefer and hire a totally unqualified white man instead, which is really what all this anti-DEI stuff is all about: paving the way for state-sponsored white supremacy, a Hoosier apartheid.
This is progress under the Braun administration, bringing back Jim Crow. Well, the governor does think he’s the law in Indiana.
There is still room for the right kind of Black man in state government, someone willing to toe the mark, such as Quinn Buckner, the Pacers’s color analyst who, curiously and against precedent, was just appointed to a third term as an Indiana University Trustee. He seems to be a real favorite of the governor.
Technically, no member of the Pacers’s roster is an actual Hoosier; the closest is little-used Thomas Bryant, who played a couple of years at IU.
So the governor can breathe a little easier. Braun has the time to work on pressuring Pacers’s ownership to comply with his anti-DEI policy and “lighten-up” the team’s roster to remake Indiana’s NBA team into something more representative of the state itself — overwhelmingly white and underwhelmingly mediocre.
This is where I live. It’s a blood red state with a blood red legislature and no regard for anyone who is not a white “christian” male. Thank you for what you do.
Not a bit surprised. Grandfather was from Indiana. He used Racial Slurs. He had a photo of the house he grew up in circa nineteen-twenty. On the back he'd written, "Now Occupied By Blacks."
A. Who Cares.
B. What?
C. Was 'Occupied By Whites' An Option?
D. Once, in the car, he commented on the BOOMING BASS from a stereo as coming "from these coons up here."
"That's Not A Nice Word, Daddy!" my mother snapped. I felt like I was going to start crying and wanted to go home. Just another shopping drag wheeling his perverted ass around Walmart. He lived to be 97. They just never die. I wouldn't be surprised if his father was IN the Indiana KKK. He also couldn't be left alone with little girls. Yes, you can be all kinds of an asshole, why choose.
He grew up in Indiana in the Twenties. So, yeah, he picked that up. Home Grown. And yes, my grandmother, raised in Washington State was Less Racist. Should we go to court over it?
REESE APOLOGIZE? For what? For hearing racist talk and commenting on it but not having audible evidence to prove it? Good God, the amount of 'Shit That Goes Down' that 'can't be proven' is ENORMOUS, Life Time Wide. EVERY WHERE. Can you hook people up to a machine, ask them if they are Racist or used Racal Slurs and the computer has it? Good luck with that technology.
A lot of people are assholes, not many will admit it.
Apologize to The State? Kiss My Fat Ass!
Saying that kind of stuff around your kids, especially on the regular, is child abuse. I relate to your experiences. My parents both used those kinds of words all the time.
Strangely, when I brought my best friend to the house in highschool, a Black kid, my mom was sweet as can be to him. Didn't even say weird "white" stuff. Served us both cokes and left us alone.
Perfect!
You are correct. It was Indiana where the KKK resurrected itself after its first collapse.
Angel Reese should NEVER apologize for what she experienced! Fuck Jim Banks and his racist ass! The problem is racism and bigotry, plain and simple. I wonder if Pacers fans feel the same way! I apologize for the language, but it is a shame that these assholes are continuing a tradition like this!
Oh, look it's white people wearing clothing and masks that disguise their faces. So ICE agents looks like y'all are copying the kkk,
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1) What a bunch of sh*t! and
2) Is The "Church" of the Ku Klux Klan using religious, tax-exempt status to further their cause?
Ah, yes, Indiana…The great extended middle finger of the old Confederacy.
We were t in the confederate army!? We were a state in the Union! We sent people to fight for the Union!! The Union forever!!
take out Lake and Porter and Indiana is just Alabama without the coastline
I once saw a graffiti on the wall of a men's room in the travel plaza on the Tollroad at Angloa that said Welcome to Indiana. Set your watch back 20 years.
Flatten all the mountains in Wrst Virginia and you'd have Indiana…
I was shaken to learn when I moved to "liberal" Portland in the 1990s how HUGE the Klan was in Oregon. It's footprint is still huge in places. (Yeah, now I know much more about the terrible history of Black, Chinese and Japanese people in Oregon.)
What’s this?
What’s this? The Indiana Pacers playing for the championship of the NBA, and with a team roster primarily made up of Black players?
So this must be both a troubling and a confusing time for the Braun administration: here they are, all hell-bent to show the White House how Indiana is also dispatching any signs of Black accomplishment, yet here’s this team dominated by Black players on the precipice of making history — and being cheered on by so many white fans!
Braun hasn’t hidden his belief that no Black man is better-qualified for a position than just any old white guy, and that Blacks actually holding positions in state government (some positions of authority) could only be attributable to so-called DEI hiring policies, something that used to be called affirmative action.
Braun took steps to undo all that early on with an executive order banning such hirings throughout state government, a part of his administration’s efforts to whitewash Indiana, to return Indiana to the 1920s, when D.C. Stephenson and the Ku Klux Klan pretty much ran the state.
Now, even if a Black man is by far the better-qualified candidate, state policy is to prefer and hire a totally unqualified white man instead, which is really what all this anti-DEI stuff is all about: paving the way for state-sponsored white supremacy, a Hoosier apartheid.
This is progress under the Braun administration, bringing back Jim Crow. Well, the governor does think he’s the law in Indiana.
There is still room for the right kind of Black man in state government, someone willing to toe the mark, such as Quinn Buckner, the Pacers’s color analyst who, curiously and against precedent, was just appointed to a third term as an Indiana University Trustee. He seems to be a real favorite of the governor.
Technically, no member of the Pacers’s roster is an actual Hoosier; the closest is little-used Thomas Bryant, who played a couple of years at IU.
So the governor can breathe a little easier. Braun has the time to work on pressuring Pacers’s ownership to comply with his anti-DEI policy and “lighten-up” the team’s roster to remake Indiana’s NBA team into something more representative of the state itself — overwhelmingly white and underwhelmingly mediocre.
We grew up in a sundown town and HC had a sign up in the 1960!! I remembered reading it on the way to grocery!!