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Carla Javier
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I don’t believe in erecting statues to living people, but once he dies Frederick Douglass absolutely deserves a statue, as more and more people are noticing. Read more
I would like Buffalo, NY to replace the statue of Millard Fillmore outside City Hall (as posted previously, signer of the Fugitive Slave Act, candidate for the Know Nothing Party) with Florence Finch. (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/us/florence-finch-dead-coast-guard-war-hero.html?mcubz=3) Read more
Leonard Peltier, John Africa, Huey Newton. Read more
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James Baldwin.
Carla Javier. Thank YOU for creating a space for a dialog. I appreciate reading your words and the comments you’ve elicited here. (My 2 cents, get Teddy Rosevelt off the horse above the other people. If it is true that he had the first black person to the white house for dinner, then that seems like a great thing for… Read more
“I therefore think if we are going to honor the pioneering of gynecology his victims should be honored, not him. Or if he is to be mentioned it should be in that context, with the recognition others paid a high price without their consent to acquire the knowledge that earned him his fame, and as a warning to… Read more
Hi Carla, as the OP said, I think the original headline was harmless. I wish your post was focused more on the content of article as this note you shared here shows. That looks like the real insensitive part! Writing about boba seems very newsworthy. Even though it has been around for a very long time there is… Read more
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I mean, people all over The Internet are still “discovering”(/insulting) Mexican candies and snacks. I agree that major newsrooms should be hella diversified by now. Read more
Yeah, not only has it been around forever, but there’s way WAY more than “one of eight” in all of NYC. Christ, there’s probably more than eight just in K-Town alone. Unless they meant that there were eight just of that one brand of shop, in which case, far more believably but poorly worded... Read more
Heh, I think this article was predictably timed. It’s been present in New York and elsewhere for a while now, but definitely more outlets in the past couple of years—or resurgence, if it was over in 2002—which means just about time for a Times article. Dead stupid angle to go at it though, when it merits—if you need… Read more
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Have had “bubble” tea in bumf**k Georgia for years. Can even get it at a Spanish bodega on Buford Highway. Just how sheltered are these NYC hillbillies?
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I think Albany, NY is thinking about erecting a statue of Pete Seeger, who wrote songs to aid Hitler, at Stalin’s instruction, before Hitler invaded Russia, and then started writing anti-Hitler stuff when Stalin needed him to. As late as 1956, Seeger was still literally singing the praises of genocidal Soviet… Read more
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Name a statue of a white man that shouldn’t come down. Lewis Carroll in Central Park — you know about him, right? Shakespeare: Racial stereotyping of black men. Winston Churchill — prejudiced against POC, obviously outweighs any of his supposed “accomplishments.” Ditto Washington, Wilson, FDR. Every general on every… Read more
Just you guys and my girlfriend apparently. She loves that show, I think a big part of it for her is that she’s a white girl and i’m an Asian guy, which is obviously not a pairing you see a lot on TV. Read more