tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post3230984013847164072..comments2024-03-28T14:53:38.827-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: I Guess That Crooked Eucalyptus Tree AlsoUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-84681997915331773962020-09-01T06:59:50.686-04:002020-09-01T06:59:50.686-04:001)commentator paul craig roberts interprets the fo...1)commentator paul craig roberts interprets the following passage, which he quotes, as showing that national public radio hates white people - <br /><br /><b>“The very basis of property in the U.S. is derived through whiteness and through Black oppression, through the history of slavery and settler domination of the country. Looting strikes at the heart of property, of whiteness and of the police. It gets to the very root of the way those three things are interconnected. And also it provides people with an imaginative sense of freedom and pleasure and helps them imagine a world that could be. And I think that’s a part of it that doesn’t really get talked about—that riots and looting are experienced as sort of joyous and liberatory.” <br /><br /></b><i>https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/08/27/906642178/one-authors-argument-in-defense-of-looting</i><br /><br />my own view is different - <br /><br />to quote this explanation of why looting is fun<br />is not an endorsement that looting be done<br /><br />2)people can describe or depict something without necessarily endorsing it - for example, an obsolete and now-seen-as-offensive word can be used in a poem to illustrate the thinking and language of someone without such a depiction being racist in intention or in effect<br /><br />3)and speaking of race relations in north america - back in the previous millennium, prior to my retirement from the rat race, at my work place i saw several persons expressing their joy that their fellow ethnic group member o j simpson was acquitted <br /><br />3.2)i thought i understood their joy without agreeing with it<br /><br /><br />4)from reeve lindbergh's translation of francis of assisi's canticle of the sun<br /><br />for all thy gifts of every kind<br />we offer praise with quiet mind<br />be with us, lord, and guide our ways<br />around the circle of our days<br /><br /><br /><br />mistah charley, sb, ma, phd, jspshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14786934467640941804noreply@blogger.com