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She's back in the news

Her husband killed their dog because it nipped at one of her kids...allegedly beat and shot the dog right in front of them

As a result, she's had her children removed from her custody

Saw something else about the husband wanting to tour the country with a confederate flag and plant it in every state

I wish them nothing but the worst...worthless trash people
 
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White Male Suicide: The Exception to Privilege
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A boy poses in a picture for suicide awareness day. Although raising awareness through days like this are very important, initiatives to counter the societal flaws that lead to high suicide rates and to target subsets of the population, like white middle aged men, that have high suicide rates must be viewed as necessary, life-saving public health measures. Source: Flickr.

https://yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2017/05/14/white-male-suicide-the-exception-to-privelege/

In recent years, both the American government and public have given increasing amounts of attention to mental health issues and awareness on college campuses and among adolescents. While college students and adolescents represent two vulnerable populations in America, they are not necessarily at the highest risk for suicide. Although white men historically maintain a place of privilege in the United States, they represent one subpopulation at the highest risk for death by suicide. In 2015, the crude suicide rate for white non-Hispanic males aged 40 to 65 was 36.84 per 100,000 people, more than twice the rate of suicide in the general American population.

An inadequate analysis might claim that the elevated rate of suicide among middle aged white men exists simply because they have higher prevalence of mental illnesses such as depression. Research, however, shows that women, not men, have a higher incidence and prevalence of depression.3 While suicide has long been linked to depression, high rates of suicide are not the definitive product of high rates of depression; as a result, not every case of depression will result in suicide or even suicidal thoughts. A 2001 study of members of five US ethnic groups and both sexes found white males to have the highest suicide rate relative to prevalence of depression over the course of one year. This study, however, did not attempt to define a causal relationship between gender, race, and suicide. Societal and cultural explanations for the elevated rates of suicide among people within specific subpopulations, especially middle aged white men, must be investigated. As Jason Houle, PhD, articulated in a report published in Sociological Perspectives, “we often think of suicide as an individual act, but the social and physical environment is really an important determinant of suicide.”

Part of the explanation for the elevated rate of fatal suicides among middle aged white men in America is that, on a broad level, men of all races and ethnicities are more likely to die by suicide than women. Although women attempt suicide at a greater rate than men, the mortality rate of suicide is significantly higher among men than women. In 2015, the age adjusted suicide rate in white men was almost four times as high as that of white women.

One explanation for this paradox is that men are more likely to use methods of high lethality such as guns and hanging, whereas women are more likely to attempt suicide by methods that can be reversed, such as drug overdoses and poisoning. The high prevalence of suicide among middle class white males, however, cannot be reduced to a gun control issue because it is next to impossible to regulate the materials needed for other equally lethal methods such as hanging.

The difference in the lethality of methods chosen by men and women explains the gender disparity in fatal suicides, but the motivation behind these different types of self-harm is more difficult to determine. One theory that could explain the increased rate of suicide amongst white males is “cultural script theory,” which posits that social expectations can influence people’s choices. The idea of cultural scripts is not specific to the study of suicide, but its proponents believe that societies in which men more frequently die by suicide have cultures that view fatal suicide as a dignified masculine behavior, but attempting suicide or committing non-fatal self-harm as a weak feminine behavior. According to the cultural script theory, this phenomenon ultimately creates a vicious cycle in which “cultural expectations about gender and suicidal behavior function as scripts; individuals refer to these scripts as a model for their suicidal behavior, and to make sense of others’ suicidal behavior.” The cultural script theory provides a social explanation for the difference in suicide methodology and fatality between men and women in the United States and other English-speaking Western countries such as Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.


Although women are more likely to attempt suicide, men are more likely to die by suicide. In 2015 white men in the United States had an age adjusted suicide rate of 23.6 per 100,000 whereas white women in the United States had an age adjusted rate of 6.92 per 100,000.

Aside from the gender gap, middle-aged white men still make up a particularly large percentage of the deaths by suicide in the United States. A 1977 study found that “there is reason to believe that the mechanisms for unleashing suicidal thoughts are no different in blacks and whites.” In other words, the same characteristics lead to an increased likelihood of suicide in black men as in white men. After coming to this conclusion, the study sought to explain the disparity in suicide fatalities between white and black men by investigating whether these “mechanisms” occurred more frequently in white men than in black men. In an analysis of the general population, the study found that white men were more likely to be unmarried, to know someone who had committed suicide, to feel that suicide was sometimes justified, and to lack pride in becoming older. While this study demonstrated a potential association between these attitudes and race, it was not able to conclusively determine which specific variables accounted for the high risk of suicide in older white men because it lacked a completely representative sample.

Few studies have attempted to identify specific risk factors for suicide in white middle aged men, but some have investigated these risk factors in areas that happen to have large populations of middle aged white men. The states of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming constitute a region that has come to be known as the “suicide belt” since sociologist Matt Wray noticed an alarming trend in the early 2000s. This “suicide belt” is disproportionately populated by middle-aged white men who are often socially isolated, unemployed, and have access to guns. Although suicides in these states occur outside of the middle aged white male population, the large concentration of white men in these areas enables data from the suicide belt to provide a useful indication of the risk factors that lead to high rates of white male suicide fatalities. Recent research has found, for example, that residential instability plays a large role in the suicide belt’s elevated suicide rates.5

The high rate of suicide deaths in older white men is most likely a result of a mix of many risk factors that, when combined, can be fatal. The common thread in research surrounding suicide in older white males is evidence of a sense of separation from society. The increasing rates of death by suicide among middle-aged white men, therefore, may indicate broader societal problems such as declining levels of social connectedness, weakened communal institutions, and fracturing along class, cultural, geographic, and educational lines. More research is necessary to identify specific risk factors so that public health officials can create more precise modes of suicide prevention. In the meantime, our health institutions must take broader steps to prevent suicide.

White men accounted for 7 out of 10 suicides in 2015. This is in part because they make up such a large portion of the American population, but also because the rate of suicide among middle-aged white men is so inflated. Middle-aged white men are a subset of the American population that deserves more attention when it comes to suicide prevention. Currently, suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States.1 As treatments and prevention initiatives improve for biological diseases such as cancer and stroke, developed countries will continue to see deaths by suicide and the associated problems of overdose and addiction climb to the top of their mortality lists. Policy makers currently struggle to justify spending on anti-suicide measures because it is difficult to determine direct causes of suicide, and the complex set of risk factors for suicide hinders efforts to quantitatively evaluate the success of preventative initiatives. Even the studies cited in this paper are observational rather than experimental; as a result, while they are useful for theorizing, they cannot conclude direct causation. As difficult as the study of suicide may be, however, it is critically important. As researchers work to identify more specific risk factors for suicide, initiatives to counter the societal flaws that lead to high suicide rates and to provide prevention resources for high-risk populations, such as white middle aged men, must be viewed as necessary, life-saving public health measures.

No matter your age, gender identity, race, or ethnicity, suicide is never the solution. There is never shame in getting help. If you or someone you know needs help, please contact the resources below:

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
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sugafree said:
Asians love to white worship and will even hire non educated experienced whites over actual qualified non white applicants.
They love and live by white image and its societal privilege.
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I was wondering how all of that got started.
 
'Loqueesha' Director Responds After New Film About A White Man Pretending To Be A Black Woman Is Dragged
THE FILMMAKER TRIED TO DEFEND HIS CHOICES BY COMPARING HIS WORK TO THE 2004 MOVIE "WHITE CHICKS."

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https://www.essence.com/entertainment/loqueesha-director-responds-film-dragged-black-twitter/

The writer and director of Loqueesha, (yes, seriously) has responded after Black Twitter became enraged once discovering the existence of the new independent film where a White man pretends to be a Black woman to get a job at a radio station so that he can (get this) pay his son’s private school tuition.

Jeremy Saville, wrote, directed and stars in the controversial film, which is slated for limited release on July 12, according to IMDB, follows a White man as he uses auditory blackface to fulfill the tired stereotype of the strong, sassy, Black woman, as played by Mara Hall.

Black Twitter is not here for this movie at all, and rightfully so. Critics immediately began to point out the more obvious problematic aspects of the movie’s premise, but also the layers and layers of societal and racial issues associated with it.



They compared the film to Soul Man, the 1986 comedy where a White man wears blackface to gain admission into Harvard.



Critics also jabbed at the strongly coded title, and the unlikeliness that a Black woman would ever be offered a job “sight unseen” right away.



Saville tried to defend his choices over the weekend by comparing his work to the 2004 movie White Chicks where the Wayans brothers go undercover as a pair of privileged white heiresses to protect them from potential kidnappers.

He even went as far as posting a picture of himself with star Marlon Wayans (as if it were some type of implied co-sign.)



“With @marlonwayans. @LoqueeshaMovie meet #WhiteChicks. Have a great weekend everybody,” he wrote.

Wayans immediately responded Friday night, shortly after social media erupted.



“I hate when people tag me in their ********,” he wrote, seemingly referring to Saville. “It’s annoying as f–k.”

Like Wayans, Black Twitter was not pacified by the picture. See what else they had to say about Loqueesha below:

https://twitter.com/Lovely_Latrece/...director-responds-film-dragged-black-twitter/

https://twitter.com/SophiaTheAuthor...director-responds-film-dragged-black-twitter/

https://twitter.com/LeslieStreeter/...director-responds-film-dragged-black-twitter/
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Is 'Blackfishing' Cultural Appreciation or Appropriation?

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Taylor Crumpton (right) and Jasmine Powell at KQED after discussing "blackfishing" on Forum. (Chanelle Ignant/KQED)

https://www.kqed.org/news/11744599/is-blackfishing-cultural-appreciation-or-appropriation

Many people have heard of the online phenomenon catfishing — using other people’s photos without their consent to build fake social media profiles.

Blackfishing is a new trend on social media that some people say is similarly misleading. Influencers, mostly white women, are appropriating African-American features, using makeup, clothing and accessories to appear black, mixed-race or Latino to get sponsorships from companies and gain more followers.

Taylor Crumpton, a freelance columnist for Essence and Teen Vogue, said the trend first made news in 2018 when before-and after-photos of white models wearing dark makeup and traditionally black hairstyles went viral. She adds, blackfishing is an extension of the white fashion world’s long history of co-opting black women’s beauty characteristics.

“Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City wore a gold nameplate necklace which was very characteristic of black and latinx women in the South Bronx and Harlem,” said Crumpton during a discussion this week on KQED’s Forum.

Similarly, Kim Kardashian came under fire for sporting braids in a way that smacked, for some, of cultural appropriation.

Crumpton says society allows white women “to wear these kinds of black women’s beauty characteristics such as our jewelry and our fashions because it had been put on a white female's body, so it was now deemed fashionable.”

However, black women say they’ve faced consequences at work or school for wearing culturally black fashion.

Jasmine Powell, a student at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland, says the issue hits close to home. As the sole black player on an almost all-white volleyball team, she says her white teammates ridiculed her for wearing her hair in a traditionally black hairstyle.

“I had singles, which are like really long braids, and one of my teammates said that’s what they wanted to wear for Crazy Hair Day," she said. "And that kind of baffled me because that hairstyle is a part of my culture and what I wanted to do with my hair.”

Powell now sees her traditionally black hairstyle cropping up in white fashion.

This is nothing new. There is a long history of white culture imitating black culture, like the minstrel shows of the 1930s.

When white culture imitates blackness, it “never comes from a true meaning to honor the culture, but in fact, to demonize it … and the people who created the culture,” says Crumpton.

Leslie, a listener who called in to the Forum show, notes that black women are often lampooned for their gender performance, which adds to the sting when white women are applauded for wearing black fashions.

“You have people who would talk about Michelle Obama being an ape in heels, for example," she said. "And one of my issues is, where are these women who are appropriating black women's beauty standards?”

Leslie says white women who imitate black female expression should be the first to stand up for black women who are being degraded.

“If these celebs really want to praise blackness,” one listener Tweeted during the Forum discussion, “they should use their influence to help their black brothers and sisters gain equal rights and status.”
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Racial Prejudice Has Declined as a Reaction to Trump’s Presidency, a New Study Suggests


President Trump fields questions from reporters in August 2017 about his comments on the events in Charlottesville. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/24/racial-prejudice-trump-presidency-study

Donald Trump began his campaign for the presidency by branding Mexicans as “rapists.” He initially declined to denounce David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. One week after his 2017 inauguration, the president temporarily banned people from seven mostly Muslim countries from entering the United States. That summer, he said there were “very fine people” among torch-wielding white supremacists who descended on Charlottesville.

Now, those who are seeking to deny President Trump a second term say their mission is not only replacing him in the Oval Office but also leading Americans back from their own baser instincts.

Joe Biden said he is engaged in a “battle for the soul of this nation.”

And Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) said Trump “isn’t trying to make America great; he’s trying to make America hate.”

Has he succeeded?

A new study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania suggests there is room for doubt, despite rising incidents of hate crimes, notably in the very counties that hosted a Trump rally in 2016.

Racial prejudice has not increased among white Americans since the explosive 2016 election, argues political scientist Daniel J. Hopkins. It has actually decreased by some measures, he found, possibly as a reaction to Trump’s unexpected ascension to the White House.

Hopkins told The Washington Post that the results initially surprised him. Upon reflection, however, “it’s quite conceivable that Trump has simultaneously galvanized a small number of highly prejudiced white Americans while also pushing millions more to affirm that they are not as prejudiced,” he argued.

In other words, Hopkins believes the study provides evidence that the racially incendiary rhetoric and policies issuing from Trump’s White House have pushed the majority of Americans in the opposite direction.

The specialist in race and political behavior acknowledged that his findings speak only to professed bias and not to concrete behavior, such as whether Americans are moving into heterogeneous neighborhoods.

The study, currently under review but posted on the Social Science Research Network on Thursday, starts from an unambiguous premise: “As a political leader, Donald Trump has used racist rhetoric to build political support.”

Hopkins and an undergraduate student, Samantha Washington, set out to determine what effect that rhetoric was having on white Americans, 57 percent of whom voted for Trump in 2016, according to exit polling. Among white men, that figure was 62 percent.

Most think the president is motivating his racist supporters to declare their bigoted views. A Quinnipiac University poll last summer found that 55 percent of voters believed that Trump was emboldening people who hold racist beliefs to state them outright.

There are two ways that effect might play out, the study observes. One is normalization, whereby members of the public would feel more comfortable expressing racist beliefs that they always harbored but once felt were outside the mainstream. The other is so-called opinion leadership, whereby the public would be moved to adopt racist positions advanced by political elites.

Instead, the authors found evidence of an altogether different effect — people actually moving away from the positions embraced by those in power.

“Our findings contradict both hypotheses, as we primarily find declining prejudice and racial resentment, and certainly no increases,” the paper states.

The data was drawn from a nationally representative sample of about 20,000 people, interviewed five times between 2007 and 2008. Subsets of the sample submitted to eight further interviews, most recently in November 2018.

Prejudice was assessed based on the credence that white Americans gave to stereotypes. Specifically, they were asked to rank different racial groups on scales of trustworthiness and work ethic. Respondents also weighed in on race-related policies, such as whether the government should make special provisions for black Americans or whether minority populations should fend for themselves.

Across the roughly 12-year period covered by the data, anti-black prejudice declined based on these metrics, with an especially marked drop between November 2016 and November 2018. The effect was only slightly more pronounced among Democrats than among Republicans. Education was not a decisive factor.

“The decline was apparently not driven by Trump’s candidacy — or by white Americans’ reactions to his campaign rhetoric in 2015 and 2016 — but instead by their reactions to his presidency itself,” the paper claims.

Anti-Hispanic prejudice showed a similar decline between Trump’s election and the fall of 2018, but the shift in this case was driven by people who identified as Democrats. There was a small increase in professed anti-Hispanic sentiment among Republicans between 2012 and 2018.

A poll by the Pew Research Center published in January found record-high support among Republicans for Trump’s proposed wall along the southern border. A majority of the country nevertheless opposed the president’s emergency declaration over the situation at the U.S.-Mexico frontier, according to polling.

The study allows that factors beyond Trump’s rise — such as the election of the nation’s first black president and the spotlight cast on police-involved shootings — may have contributed to changes in expressed prejudice.

“It is also possible that Trump’s rhetoric clarified anti-racist norms,” the study notes, pointing to the pronounced decline in certain measures of bias in the period after Trump’s election as evidence that his presidency in particular has “pushed public opinion in the opposite direction.”

Whether the shift discovered by researchers has actually “shaped social behaviors” — rather than being empty value statements or even cover for discriminatory conduct — “is another critical question for future work,” the study suggests. But it casts into doubt whether hate crimes that rose 17 percent in 2017 reflect deepening hatred across the board.

Instead, the political scientist points to the increasing isolation of an extremist minority whose prejudices have intensified in the face of a broader shift away from the sort of opinions aired in Trump’s White House and on his Twitter feed.

Although he was surprised by the results, Hopkins said his discovery is not out of step with other assessments. In fact, his conclusions are in line with recent scholarship suggesting that bias, both implicit and explicit, has declined when it comes to race and sexual orientation, though prejudice has remained steady regarding people with disabilities and actually increased regarding obesity.

Other studies have tracked opinions of race relations, rather than underlying racial beliefs. For instance, amajor survey published last month by Pew found that 58 percent of Americans have a negative view of race relations in the country. Nearly as many think Trump has worsened relations between the races, and about two-thirds of people said the expression of racist views has grown more common since Trump’s election.

Hopkins’s study hardly invalidates these concerns. But it questions how broad a swath of the population has imitated the president’s rhetoric. It does not explain the rationale of those who sanctioned his conduct at the voting booth but profess not to embrace it personally.
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Is Gordon Hayward Getting Favorable Treatment Because of His Popularity With Some Fans?

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https://sports.yahoo.com/report-gordon-hayward-celtics-players-182429210.html

Why were the Celtics so invested in Hayward?

Several reasons:

He’s earning $31,214,295 this season and is due $66,887,775 the next two years. He was going to factor significantly into the team’s roster construction, regardless. There was plenty of financial pressure to get Hayward on track.

Hayward suffered a season-ending injury in Boston’s first game last season. He didn’t get healthy until shortly before the season. Hayward reaching full speed was always likely to require a rocky transition into game play at some point.

Celtics coach Brad Stevens coached Hayward at Butler. It always helps to have the coach so personally believe in you.

And then there’s the element of Boston, Massachusetts. They don’t just want a star. Of course, they’ll take any star that they can get, because their priority is winning. But everybody and their mother knows that particularly when it comes to Boston, if we can have a white superstar, that would be even better. And they view Gordon Hayward as having that kind of potential.

So, all of those things considered, the players recognize this, were aware of this. And ultimately those who were compromised by having to be on a court with Gordon Hayward were sensitive to it.

Not because they don’t like him. Not because he’s not a good guy, because he is a good guy. It’s just that they know he hasn’t fully recovered 100 percent from his injury. So, he’s not the same as he used to be. They know he’s going to be a step slower. They know he’s going to be compromised. I have spoken to people in the league who literally have said, “Look man, no disrespect to Gordon Hayward, nice guy, but he’s really, really compromised right now. He’s not the same guy that he was.” And they said, “We actually kind of feel sorry for him, because he is a nice guy, and we know he’s trying to come back from injury.”

Are there Celtics fans who’d prefer a white star? Yes.

Has that thinking trickled into the team’s actual decision-making? I don’t know.

Are Celtics players sensitive to all of this? Apparently so, according to Smith.

There are no clear motives here. Not every fan cheering for Hayward did so because he’s white. Even the fans who prefer their team has a white star rarely admit it, including to themselves.

But it doesn’t have to be only one thing. Whatever is happening with Irving, the situation around Hayward could also be causing resentment.

There are plenty of good reasons to lean on Hayward – his contract, his upside as he gets healthier. More than with any other player, the Celtics have played best when Hayward is playing well. It’ll be difficult for Boston to reach its goals without Hayward clicking.

He and the Celtics have played better lately. The micro problem could be solving itself – at least one micro problem.

Like most things, Boston’s issues are likely complex.
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Report: Brad Stevens’ Dedication to Gordon Hayward Caused Chemistry Issues With Celtics

https://sports.yahoo.com/report-brad-stevens-dedication-gordon-032947835.html

Basketball is a game of chemistry, and the Celtics seemed to lose theirs over the course of the year. At least externally, it appeared Boston was disintegrating. Now, according to a report from Jackie MacMullan, we have some confirmation of this rift.

“You hate to pick on Gordon Hayward because he was coming back from injury and he was doing the best he could, but I really think that’s where it started,” she said. “They were force feeding him on his teammates, Brad [Stevens] knew Gordon well, he wanted to get his confidence back.

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“I would contend that Brad Stevens would have done that for any player on that roster that had a catastrophic injury, he would want to fill him with that same confidence, but that’s not what happened,” MacMullan continued. “He gave the benefit of the doubt over and over to a player that wasn’t ready, to a guy who had history with him, and it rankled that locker room, and it bothered that locker room.”
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The Celtics have a roster on paper that should have been good enough to get them deep into the playoffs. But Hayward returned and never really looked like himself, and Stevens devoting his faith to his former Butler Bulldog was obviously misplaced.

Chemistry issues for Boston were not all to blame on Stevens and Hayward. Irving is perennially mercurial. Given a situation where he got his own team (whatever that means) he didn’t lead the way folks were expecting.

Unless something drastic can be done — and don’t put it past Danny Ainge to get wild — Boston could be taking a step back next season.

Their saving grace, ironically, could be a fully healthy Hayward who has more reign to do what he wants and an unrestricted role on offense. We’ll see how that goes.
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