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Damn...she really tryna put black ppl against immigrants
(CNN) When Europeans arrived in the Americas, they caused so much death and disease that it changed the global climate, a new study finds.
European settlers killed 56 million indigenous people over about 100 years in South, Central and North America, causing large swaths of farmland to be abandoned and reforested, researchers at University College London, or UCL, estimate. The increase in trees and vegetation across an area the size of France resulted in a massive decrease in carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, according to the study.
Carbon levels changed enough to cool the Earth by 1610, researchers found. Columbus arrived in 1492.
"CO2 and climate had been relatively stable until this point," said UCL Geography Professor Mark Maslin, one of the study's co-authors. "So, this is the first major change we see in the Earth's greenhouse gases."
Before this study, some scientists had argued the temperature change in the 1600s, called the Little Ice Age, was caused only by natural forces.
But by combining archaeological evidence, historical data and analysis of carbon found in Antarctic ice, the UCL researchers showed how the reforestation -- directly caused by the Europeans' arrival -- was a key component of the global chill, they said.
"For once, we've been able to balance all the boxes and realize that the only way the Little Ice Age was so intense is ... because of the genocide of millions of people," Maslin told CNN.
The Methodology
Researchers analyzed Antarctic ice, which traps atmospheric gas and can reveal how much carbon dioxide was in the atmosphere centuries ago.
"The ice cores showed that there was a larger dip in CO2 (than usual) in 1610, which was caused by the land and not the oceans," said Alexander Koch, lead author of the study.
A small shift in temperatures -- about a 10th of a degree in the 17th century -- led to colder winters, frosty summers and failing harvests, Koch said.
The Implications
The implications of the study go beyond climate science and also contribute to research in geography and history, Maslin said, noting that deaths of indigenous Americans directly contributed to the success of the European economy.
Natural resources and food shipped from the New World helped Europe's population to expand. It also allowed people to stop farming for sustenance and begin working in other industries for spare money.
"The really weird thing is, the depopulation of the Americas may have inadvertently allowed the Europeans to dominate the world," Maslin said. "It also allowed for the Industrial Revolution and for Europeans to continue that domination."
A substitute teacher was escorted from a school in Springfield, Mo., and banned from teaching in the district after being accused of making racist threats to two students.
Administrators at Hickory Hills Elementary and Middle School received a report on Jan. 16 regarding comments allegedly made to two black eighth-grade students, according to Stephen Hall, who is the chief communications officer for Springfield Public Schools. Hall tells Yahoo Lifestyle that the alleged comments were “disturbing, unacceptable, and are completely at odds with who we are a school district.”
Jean Hawkins, the mother of one of the eighth-graders, told the Springfield News-Leader that her son was in shock after walking into his technology class on that Wednesday morning to see a teacher he didn’t know greet him and a classmate with a threatening statement.
“The teacher tells them, ‘I was told to shoot you black boys. You black boys are nothing but trouble,'”
Hawkins told the local Missouri outlet. “[My son] just looked at [the teacher] and he couldn’t believe what he was saying. He was like, ‘Wow.’ He didn’t know if he should run.”
Hawkins said that the boys claim they didn’t act in any way to incite the substitute teacher’s alleged threats. Even after the unnamed teacher reportedly made the comments, the two students took their seats and no further incident occurred. Still, another student must have been alarmed by the statement and took an opportunity to report the incident to the front desk.
“He doesn’t know who told,” Hawkins explained. But the substitute teacher was immediately escorted out of the building.
“There is zero tolerance for any comment like those described. SPS remains committed to ensuring that all of our students thrive in a learning environment where they feel safe, welcomed and respected,” Hall told Yahoo Lifestyle. “Because of that commitment and our refusal to accept any behavior that fails to meet those standards, we can confirm that this individual was removed from the list of eligible SPS substitutes, on the same day the allegations were made, and will not return to SPS in any capacity.”
“We have no tolerance for such behavior,” a spokesperson tells Yahoo Lifestyle. “The substitute in question is suspended from all assignments, pending the completion of a full investigation. We are cooperating fully with Springfield Public Schools in the completion of that investigation.”
“We remain in contact with the parents of the students involved. That communication began on the day the incident occurred,” Hall explained to Yahoo Lifestyle. “Our ongoing commitment is to both listen to their concerns and to explain the steps we have taken to address the situation thoroughly and promptly.”
Seems like they never met a black girl before. That's not necessarily racists....she ain't American. It does, however, show lack of diversity in her circle, but then again she aint American.
Man she's Colombian and her husband plays pro futbol.
You would have to really go out of your way to not interact with any Black people.
She has lived in all of these places or owns homes there (Barcelona, Spain. Bonds Cay, The Bahamas. Miami, Florida)
A white woman in Deland, Fla. was arrested and naturally unhappy about being placed under arrest; but what really upset her was the fact that she was being arrested by a Black sheriff’s deputy. The woman was caught on tape going on a racist and violent rant against him.
BuzzFeed News reports that Volusia County Sheriff’s Deputy Brandon King was responding to a report of a disturbance at a home and upon arrival saw 53-year-old Julie Edwards trying to leave the property in her car.
King smelled alcohol on her breath and noticed that was slurring and walking unsteadily. Edwards reportedly refused to take a breathalyzer or submit to a field sobriety test. Once King put handcuffs on her, she walked away from him and put up a fight as he tried to put her in his police cruiser.
Once King got her into the vehicle, Edwards went on a racist rant, telling King “MyKKK people will find you.”
“They know people like you,” Edwards said. “Hey, ain’t a damn thing wrong with burning a cross in your yard, is there?”
She then added, “You fu**ed with the wrong white people.”
Edwards also told King that “ni**ers should’ve never been let out of slavery.”
She threatened him by saying his “eyes will be poked out” and the “KKK got your ***, boy.”
“My KKK friends will burn your family,” Edwards said. “You should never be here in the first place. You ever been whipped on a whipping post?”
According to BuzzFeed, King took the threats seriously.
The police report said “Deputy King is of African-American descent and knows the history behind the KKK and the pain and torture they have caused and still cause to African-Americans today.”
King was praised by Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood for his “calm response to all the racist garbage this KKK enthusiast could throw at him.”
A shadowy Apartheid-era South African paramilitary unit plotted to infect the continent’s black population with Aids, it has been claimed.
An ex-member of the South African Institute of Maritime Research (SAIMR) said the group “spread the virus” at the behest of its eccentric leader Keith Maxwell, who wanted a white majority country where “the excesses of the 1960s, 70s and 80s have no place in the post-Aids world”.
Speaking to the makers of the documentary Cold Case Hammarskjöld, former SAIMR intelligence officer Alexander Jones said Maxwell, who had few, if any medical qualifications, set himself up as a doctor treating poor, black South Africans.
“What easier way to get a guinea pig than [when] you live in an apartheid system?” Jones told the film, which premieres this weekend at the Sundance Film Festival. “Black people have got no rights, they need medical treatment. There’s a white ‘philanthropist’ coming in and saying, ‘You know, I’ll open up these clinics and I’ll treat you.’ And meantime [he is] actually the wolf in sheep’s clothing.”
The documentary makers found a sign advertising the services of a “Doctor Maxwell” in Putfontein, near Johannesburg, and spoke to locals who remembered a man who had a virtual monopoly on the area’s healthcare, despite offering strange treatments.
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One local shopkeeper said the so-called doctor had given “false injections”.
Mr Jones said SAIMR also operated outside South Africa, telling the documentary: “We were involved in Mozambique, spreading the Aids virus through medical conditions.”
SAIMR is long thought to have had covert ties to Apartheid South Africa’s armed forces.
It has also been accused of working with British intelligence and the American CIA to assassinate UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld.
The Swedish-born secretary general, a supporter of decolonisation, died in mysterious circumstances when his plane exploded just before landing in Zambia in 1961, as he tried to broker a peace between the newly independent Congo and the breakaway province of Katanga.
In 1998, post-Apartheid South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission revealed it had found letters on SAIMR-headed notepaper which seemed to suggest that British intelligence and the CIA had agreed that “Hammarskjöld should be removed”.
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Both Britain and the US denied involvement in any assassination plot, with the CIA dismissing the suggestion as “absurd and without foundation”.
Maxwell, who died in 2006, was an eccentric who liked to dress up in the style of an 18th Century admiral and give himself the rank of “commodore”.
It is not clear to what extent the alleged late 1980s Aids plot was just one of his fantasies, or whether he had access to the expertise and funding needed to turn it into reality.
An Observer article written with the assistance of the documentary’s co-producer Andreas Rocksen and its director Mads Brügger reveals the filmmakers were able to find writings in which Maxwell seemed to delight in how Aids might decimate the black South African population.
In one of the newly discovered documents, Maxwell wrote: “[South Africa] may well have one man, one vote with a white majority by the year 2000. Religion in its conservative, traditional form will return. Abortion on demand, abuse of drugs, and the other excesses of the 1960s, 70s and 80s will have no place in the post-Aids world.”
Some of Maxwell’s former associates, however, insist his interest in Aids was benevolent rather than genocidal.
Anti-abortion doctor Claude Newbury told the documentary: “He was against genocide and he was trying to discover a cure for HIV.”
You know how there’s a hot rumor swirling around and everyone is waiting to see if the person it’s about will address it? That’s how I’ve been for the last two days as rumor on the internet swirls around Mississippi Governor, Phil Bryant. Bryant has made news in his own right with his extremely puritan Christian policies but now people are talking about him for a different reason.
Last week it came out that Carolyn Bryant Donham, then just Bryant, the woman who was the center of the Emmet Till murder trial, lied about Till whistling at her. News of Donham’s statement was released as part of an interview for promotion of a new book expected to hit shelves this week. Dr. Timothy Tyson interviewed Carolyn in 2007 in preparation for his upcoming book, “The Blood of Emmet Till.” For the first time, the woman whose husband and brother-in-law kidnapped a 14-year-old boy from his bed and brutally murdered him, in her honor, admitted her lie.
Carolyn Bryant in 2012
Many people hadn’t even realized the 82-year-old Carolyn Bryant (Donham) was still alive. The impending release of the book has brought her and Till’s murder back into the public spotlight again. AS it often happens when rehashing historical events, people have been talking about the key players after the murder and trial. One name on a lot of lips is Phil Bryant.
Roy Bryant, Carolyn’s then husband, later admitted that he and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, beat and murdered Emmet Till after kidnapping him from a relative’s home. At least a year ago, someone started asking online if Mississippi Governor, Phil Bryant was really the nephew of Roy and Carolyn Bryant. I started to do my research and indeed, Roy Bryant had a sister named Estelle Bryant. Estelle Bryant, of Moorhead Mississippi, also happens to be the name of Governor Bryant’s mother.
Republican Gov. Phil Bryant delivers his State of the State address before a joint legislative session in House chambers at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Hearing the rumors, I started watching and digging at the same time. Watching for Governor Bryant to refute the claims and say that his mother was a different Estelle Bryant. Digging to see if I could find any concrete proof other than a much-shared tweet. While I watched and waited for Governor Bryant to make a public statement, I took note and screen shots at some of the messages he was receiving and ignoring on social media. It has been at least three days that people and constituents have been asking online if Bryant indeed in the nephew of Roy Bryant. Governor Bryant is silent on the issue.
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Finding a concrete answer was not easy and that in itself made me very suspect. In today’s world, it is very rare to not be able to find information on the internet unless someone important doesn’t want it found. No matter where I looked the only thing I could find out about Governor Phil Bryant’s mother is that Estelle R. Bryant was a homemaker who raised three boys. After two hours of searching for more information about not only Estelle Bryant, but more information about Governor Bryant’s childhood I was almost ready to give up.
I’m glad I didn’t.
What I found was first this Everpedia page. Now Everpedia is generally great information but I know the owner and I have an Everpedia page of my own so I didn’t want to show bias. I needed an outside source, something else I could give my readers as verification. At the bottom of the Everpedia page were reference links, I followed one in particular and struck gold. In June of last year a Washington based news station WKYC, reported on a USA Today story about the confederate flag debate in South Carolina. In the article was treasure I was looking for, I found the following statement:
I’m the cousin of Emmett Till,” said Edelia Carthan, 37. “It was Phil Bryant’s uncle (Roy Bryant) that admitted to murdering Emmett Till. So I’m not surprised by the governor’s reaction to all this because of his family history. It is in his blood."
This was said in June 2016 and not refuted. Just as Governor Bryant is silent as people are questioning the relationship this week.
If Governor Bryant is the nephew of Roy Bryant then it could make people question some of his practices and policies. Just last year when the article was written, many local residents were in an uproar, demanding that the state flag be altered. Mississippi is the only state that still overtly displays the confederate flag on it. In fact, earlier this month it was reported that a new bill is making its way through the Mississippi House of Congress where schools K-12 would be stripped of state accreditation if they effuse to fly the flag.
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This law will affect many Blacks and minorities in the area. As reported by the Mississippi Business Journal “Districts, especially those with majority African-American student bodies, sometimes object to the flag as racist. One example of a district that doesn’t display the flag is the city of Jackson, Mississippi’s second-largest school system.”
Many controversial issues have been swirling around Governor Bryant. In 2013, Governor Bryant made some very bothersome statements regarding America’s educational system. Bryant said that much of America’s educational problems started “when mom got into the workplace.” In 2012 he signed a bill into law that practically limited women’s rights to get an abortion. The law required doctors who did abortions to have admitting privileges at local hospitals, which they couldn’t because the abortion doctors weren’t local doctors. In 2016 Governor Bryant signed House Bill 1523, a religious freedom law that gives businesses the right to discriminate against doing business with/for people who live against their religious beliefs. Guess why this is so crazy, it’s been said Governor Bryant’s son Patrick is gay. If Bryant is the relative of Roy Bryant it seems the family penchant for retaliation against what it deems as wrong, continues. In April of 2016, Bryant declared April “Confederate Heritage Month.”
Governor Bryant’s Wikipedia page has been altered at LEAST four times today to include the fact that he is related to Roy and Carolyn Bryant. The revisions have been deleted each time.
In light of all of the questions being asked of Governor Bryant right now, I’ll be watching to see if he responds.
While traveling abroad this week, a black graduate student at New York University says he was told by a classmate that a class discussion was easier to facilitate without a “black presence” in the room. Now administrators at NYU’s Silver School of Social Work have acknowledged that it has a problem with “ongoing institutional racism,” especially in the classroom.
Shahem Mclaurin, a grad student in the Silver School, described the exchange on Tuesday in a widely shared Twitter thread. Mclaurin said he didn’t want to miss his classes while he was in Paris. For one course he emailed his classmates to ask if any of them could FaceTime him during the class period.
No one obliged. So Mclaurin corresponded with the student who had led that day’s discussion to explain how to FaceTime him in the future, Mclaurin said in a phone interview.
Then, McLaurin said, that student replied, “I’m just trying to be honest with you on why we did not end up calling you.” Part of the reason, the student wrote in an email, was “because I found it easier to lead the discussion without black presence in the room, since I do feel somewhat uncomfortable with the (perceived) threat that it poses — something which I have been working on, but it will take more time than I would like it to be.”
Mclaurin posted a screenshot of the email on Twitter. “You would think,” he tweeted, that “NYU was not like this, especially their SOCIAL WORK program. But I guess it is. I’m very tired. I’ve been dealing with this since I started.”
Mclaurin told The Chronicle that he was “very hurt” by the email. He said he’d previously raised concerns about this student with the school’s administration, “basically to no avail.” Last semester the student said some “blatantly racist things,” said Mclaurin, who declined to identify the student.
‘Deeply Sorry’
The School of Social work is “troubled” by the email exchange, John Beckman, an NYU spokesman, said in a written statement. “No student should be made to feel unwelcome in any setting at NYU because of his or her race,” he added.
In a joint email to the campus, three officials — Neil B. Guterman, the school’s dean; Courtney R. O’Mealley, associate dean of student affairs; and James I. Martin, associate dean of academic affairs — said they were “deeply sorry” to hear that a student had “experienced exclusion and bias.”
Both Guterman and O’Mealley reached out to Mclaurin, the email says, and “both students involved in the email exchange indicated their desire to resolve the issues in the class.”
The administrators also said that the episode took place in the broader context of “ongoing institutional racism at Silver, especially in classrooms.”
Last year several graduate-student groups wrote a joint letter to administrators, saying that the Silver School remains “a hostile environment for many students, faculty, and staff of color.” Not enough had changed, the students wrote, since 2010, when students organized to demand that the school reckon with its environment and its “deficient social-work education due to its lack of attention to racial justice.”
Part of the school’s next faculty meeting will be devoted to producing a collective statement of commitment to “intensive work on teaching and learning around issues of equity, inclusion, and belonging at Silver,” the administrators said in their message. The school has also contacted an “external consultant” to help with that mission.
Mclaurin compiled a list of actions that the Silver School should take to address those systemic issues. Professors should be better equipped to facilitate difficult conversations about race, he said, so that students of color don’t leave class feeling attacked or as the butt of a joke. The school could team up with local groups to conduct cultural-competency training, he said.
“My goal isn't to have anyone expelled, but it is something that people should learn from.”
“My goal isn’t to have anyone expelled” because of this email, Mclaurin said, “but it is something that people should learn from.”
He added that he worries that in the future much of the work of reckoning with racist incidents will implicitly be left to black students.
“I signed up for school to go to school,” Mclaurin said. He didn’t sign up to be anyone’s “revolutionary leader.” But when problems emerge, Mclaurin said, “it’s almost like black students have no choice but to take on roles like this.”
Out of all programs it’s a SOC WORK one smh. Now that’s entitlement at its finestAfter Black Student Is Kept Out of Class Discussion, NYU School Acknowledges ‘Institutional Racism’
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Shahem Mclaurin, a black graduate student at New York U.’s Silver School of Social Work, said he had already spoken with an administrator about the racism he’d faced, with no action taken.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/A...aY_uGwmrzxv-3NDulp6TfPD55pm5hjDBw2E3cD3BoI-Kc
Seems like they never met a black girl before. That's not necessarily racists....she ain't American. It does, however, show lack of diversity in her circle, but then again she aint American.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Never met a black person before... so let's put our hands in her face, pinch, squeeze and laugh as if IT were a puppy or something less than human.
Next they'll innocently want to know if it bleeds or perceives pain in the same way that they do.
FOH.
I get that if kids aren't exposed to other children that don't look like them natural curiosity will consume them. But stupid *** Shakira was standing there FILMING IT. Like they were at the zoo or some s***!
Her not being American is the lamest excuse ever.
Yup just like...
I guess those kids have racists parents, too. Because everyone has access to every race, just like we do in America.