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From AZ Central’s opinion page (note the writer is just a random contributor, not a big name pro):
Phoenix restaurant says this is a photo of coal miners. But I see offensive blackface
Rashaad Thomas, opinion contributor Published 6:27 a.m. MT Jan. 28, 2019 |Opinion: Who determines what’s offensive? A photo in a downtown Phoenix restaurant raises this key question.
A few weeks ago, I attended a holiday party at a downtown Phoenix restaurant. I walked around to view the photographs on the wall.
Then a photograph caught my attention.
Friends said, “It’s coal miners at a pub after work.” It was a photograph of coal miners with blackened faces. I asked a Latinx and white woman for their opinion. They said it looked like coal miners at a pub after work. Then they stepped back, frowned and said it’s men in blackface.
I asked the waitress to speak with a manager. Instead, I spoke with a white restaurant owner. I explained to him why the photograph was offensive. Evidently, someone else had made a similar comment about the photograph before.
Yet, the photograph remained on the wall. He said he would talk to the other owners and get back to me. While leaving, I asked him had he spoke with the other owners. He had not spoken with them, but mentioned Google said it’s coal miners after work. …
For me, the coal miners disappeared and a film honored for its artistic merit, despite being the most racist propaganda films ever, D.W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation” (1915) surfaces, in which white actors appeared in blackface. The white owner saw coal miners in the photograph. Therefore, it was not offensive. …
That photo tells me I’m not welcome …
At the downtown Phoenix restaurant, my concern that the photograph of men in blackface was a threat to me and my face and voice were ignored.
A business’ photograph of men with blackened faces culturally says to me, “Whites Only.” It says people like me are not welcome.
Rashaad Thomas is a husband, father, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, poet and essayist. Reach him at [email protected].
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Dear black people: blackface refers to residue of burnt cork darkening the countenance of an entertainer except his lips because he is pretending to be black, lynching is all mob-driven extrajudicial execution and not the targeting of blacks or the specific use of rope, and slavery started thousands of years before America existed.
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But seriously, it’s not enough that Rashaad the Poet is obviously wrong, we have to start fighting back. It’a meaningless to laugh at this when there are federal judges ready to rule against the restaurant owner.
what the fuck is a latinx ?
I would of slapped you in the face for insulting the ancestry of the people who created the bar you mongrel parasite.
If the architect of this attack has both actually served in the Air Force in any capacity and actively purports to be a writer of some sort, then chances are he knows what he is doing. This is all a play to see who will play along.
Yeah. P*ss off, Raashad. You’re not welcome.
I used to think I was pretty articulate, always ready with the cutting retort. But there are limits. I have no words for Rashaad Thomas’s self-centeredness, abysmal ignorance, and lack of compassion for poor miners whose lungs were as black as their faces after a day in the pit.
Wait, maybe I’m getting my second wind.
Steve,
Unfortunately, this just the continuation of problems starting in 1619 with the Jamestown, Virginia arrival of 19 Africans.
Keep it up, Rashaad, Trump will need the votes come 2020.
“Un-blackened white faces have the same effect, oddly enough. It seems as though there must be only one possible solution. A solution for whites that is. A final solution.
If he gets his way here, he'll just be emboldened to move on to the next target; then on and on.
We need to dial back this minoritarian nonsense that anyone is entitled to be welcomed by anyone else. No, in fact, you are not.
This guy's narcissism simply makes the point that it is impossible to make everyone happy and/or "comfortable". The political lesson to draw from that is ... the state should not be forcing anyone to try. Merry Christmas.Replies: @The Wild Geese Howard
It's like when they found out that playing CLASSICAL music (you know, White Euro-derived mostly Christian music over the outdoor speakers at "convenience" stores drove away the ... troublesome yuts ... from hanging around and bothering the patrons!
Who could have imagined just a historical photo would drive off the aggrieved and whining blacks?! BRAVO!Replies: @Mr. Rational
What a dumb article, written by a dumb man. Why was this even published?
Counterinsurgency
This insanity will never end. If this is all you have to do in your life is to complain about a photo of coal miners who probably died young from mining coal to build this country….you need to get a fucking life.
Pretty soon, we will have a country again.Replies: @Avalanche
Your reply says to me “You aren’t welcome. Get out.”
Note the singular of “opinion”.
But wait… “woman” is singular, too. But “their”– is this non-binary?
How many individuals is he asking? And is even that question offensive? Whole number supremacism!
In the future, there will only be one opinion shared by all.Replies: @ChrisZ
His perception of reality is more important than reality itself. And everyone else must cater to his perception, even if it is false. This pretty much sums up all of modern Leftism as a form of solipsism or mental disease. If Rashaad says that he is a chick now, we have to accept that even if he still has all his boy parts. If Rashaad says that the photo is of men is blackface, it's of men in blackface, even though it isn't. Whatever Rashaad says we have to go along with - to do otherwise is raaaacist.
Skimming the byline in mid-sentence, for a moment I thought it was
instead of
I made a quick calculation of the likelihood in (current year) that the U.S. Air Force really employs poets. I had a hard time rejecting it outright. (Then I saw the comma.)
The dumbest, solipsistic and paranoid two legged beasts on this planet. A plague.
“It says people like me are not welcome.”
People like you–dimwitted, wannabe-counterfeiters of victimhood-currency–are NOT welcome anywhere that decent people gather. How desperate must our armed forces be that they would allow a cretin like you to wear the uniform?
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rashaad-thomas-506447191
This excitable boy complainer is one quarter African at best. Though maybe he used some Philippine whitening cream before he had this photo taken. Strictly for employment reasons of course. Though w deadlocks down past to yr shoulders and the name Rashad you have problems already. Except at google.
‘…That photo tells me I’m not welcome …’
In that case, leave.
Is this “coalface”? That is NOT what coal miners get after working all day; you’d call that “dirty”.
Coalface is when otherwise well-to-do men blacken their faces to appropriate coal miner culture.
This is really getting complicated.
This excitable boy complainer is one quarter African at best. Though maybe he used some Philippine whitening cream before he had this photo taken. Strictly for employment reasons of course. Though w deadlocks down past to yr shoulders and the name Rashad you have problems already. Except at google.Replies: @Hail, @Digital Samizdat
Your link delivers this to me:
Here are some Bing-Images results. There are a lot of Rashaas Thomases with mugshots.
Nonprofit Organization ManagementCurrent Phoenix Center for the Arts, Phoenix Centere for the Arts, Gutta' CollectivePrevious SCC Yoga Teacher Training Program, The Angels of New Hope, United States Air ForceEducation 500
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Not this country. Likely United Kingdom given the Bass ad in the pub photo.
In the words of another memorable blackface, the SJW left now goes “full retard.”
These people have become a parody of themselves as they reach further and further for a reason to take offense.
When revolutionaries are parodies of themselves is when they are most likely, given a nudge, to go on a massive killing spree.
The Hutus slaughtering Tutsies is a great example that springs first from ethnic difference.
^^^^^Seems I got onto his linked in just before it was disappeared. But this is what it said and the photo matched up. Note that he is/was yoga teacher.
Rashaad Thomas
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6WHBO_Qc-QReplies: @Clyde
They were watching this in “13 Hours Secret Soldiers of Benghazi”. See it you will like it, even though down in NZ
A BRIT WRITES: Bass is a British beer. Burton-on-Trent is a famed brewing town in the center of Englad. The photograph can be dated from the clothes; these are English coal miners before company-provided pithead baths became the norm. Miners would stop off at a pub called – unsurprisingly – The Miner’s Arms (complete with an apostrophe in the wrong place) after their shift and drink one or two pints of bitter beer. They would then have an overall wash in a tin bath in front of the kitchen fire or range at home. It was a hard and dangerous life – dangerous from the constant inhalation of coal dust [Miner’s Lung] and also from the dramatic events like flooding and the roof collapsing. Along with quarrying and deep-sea fishing it was potentially a lethal way of life.
Yet it was well-paid by comparison and many men gladly fled from the Wordsworth-Goldsmith rural idyll to become coal miners and some were willing to cross the seas and become miners in the Appalachians and Australia ,
This cretin Rashaad doesn't know he's born.
He should go cry to his ‘mammy’.
Cue Monty Python’s ‘Four Yorkshiremen’ sketch.
"You try to tell the young immigrants of today that, and they won't believe you!" "Nah, nah, they won't believe you."
I kid you not, #230, I just wrote that from my head. My 7-y/o and I have been watching this sketch every night for a coupla weeks (you know how kids are) and we about got it down!
Our 2nd-favorite version, for now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlIXn0r0AY8
Never mind The Beatles or the explosion of English pop music in the 1960s, the top selling music albums in the UK of the 1960s were cast recordings of the ‘Black and White Minstrel Show’ – yes, Britain had it too. Also, it was the most popular show ever put on the British stage.
The TV version -broadcast by the oh so PC BBC – from 1958 to 78 (incredibly) was one of the highest rated TV shows, regularly garnering over 20 million viewers, in a nation of around 55 million people.
Since the author is a poet, he should have written his article as a poem. Something like the following:
Old pictures of coal miners,
Oppress me in the diners.
You say they’re covered in coal,
But those pictures are stealing my soul!
Time to banish Racism’s ghost,
Now bring me some coffee and toast!
The opinion editor is just as much at fault. Then I checked the page of Rashaad Thomas’ er, thing.
Forget it, Jake; it’s Gannett.
I am going to put up a framed copy of that picture in my house by the front door. I hope it keeps Rashaad and his friends away.
Lmao he actually wrote “Latinx” unironically.
In that case, leave.Replies: @AndrewR
I doubt anyone, anywhere on earth would feel worse off if Rashaad [sic] Thomas decided to deprive them of his presence.
Newspaper doesn’t like you, guy.
Counterinsurgency
This excitable boy complainer is one quarter African at best. Though maybe he used some Philippine whitening cream before he had this photo taken. Strictly for employment reasons of course. Though w deadlocks down past to yr shoulders and the name Rashad you have problems already. Except at google.Replies: @Hail, @Digital Samizdat
Hush up, you quadroon-o-phobe!
The mass-reproduction of this delightful photograph will be a big money-maker for someone. I too would like to purchase a copy. Thanks to that whiny bitch Rashaad for the idea.
“That photo tells me I’m not welcome …”
This may be the “mother” of all non sequiturs. Of course, it “tells” nothing at all which makes it so suitable for launching the favorite SJW cri de cœur,”it’s offensive to me” whine. “It offends me” in contexts like this should always be translated into language that exposes it as an insidious mix of moral preening and veiled threat — “You, moral cretin, have failed to recognize my victimhood and you’re going to be sorry.”
http://fosterspeak.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-left-masters-of-extortio.html
photo number one is Rashad Thomases from linked in…and a few of the others
Yet it was well-paid by comparison and many men gladly fled from the Wordsworth-Goldsmith rural idyll to become coal miners and some were willing to cross the seas and become miners in the Appalachians and Australia ,Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @jim jones
Some years back I visited a retired English coal-miner with lung disease. He was confined to a chair, with an oxygen tube in his nose, subject to five-minute coughing fits.
This cretin Rashaad doesn’t know he’s born.
Ali G was waaaayyyyy ahead of this guy:
Top three mistakes this country has made: 1) Importing Africans slaves, 2) not sending the freed slaves to Liberia after the Civil War, and 3) changing the immigration laws in 1965, the net effect of which has been the transformation of this country from a 90% white European-based country (could have been even higher if #1 and #2 weren’t true) into a polyglot nation that’s little more than an international flea market and with about as much social cohesion.
Numinous Negroes!
Who created them? Abolitionism was a 100% WASP thing. The Emancipation Proclamation was a 100% WASP thing (a payoff from Lincoln to the truly 100% pure ethnic WASPs of New England and up state NY and the Connecticut Reserve). Reconstruction was 100% a WASP thing. And each of those was rich WASPs using poor angelic Negroes as the excuse to batter, rob, kill, demonize whites the WASPs hated/feared/envied as ‘not them, not WASP.’
But wait... "woman" is singular, too. But "their"-- is this non-binary?
How many individuals is he asking? And is even that question offensive? Whole number supremacism!Replies: @bomag, @Jack D
LOL
In the future, there will only be one opinion shared by all.
So were Stalinists of the late 1930s a parody of the earlier form of Bolshevik horror. But being a parody of a self-righteous revolutionary monster does not mean you would not like to see millions slaughtered and tens of millions imprisoned.
When revolutionaries are parodies of themselves is when they are most likely, given a nudge, to go on a massive killing spree.
The Hutus slaughtering Tutsies is a great example that springs first from ethnic difference.
Yet it was well-paid by comparison and many men gladly fled from the Wordsworth-Goldsmith rural idyll to become coal miners and some were willing to cross the seas and become miners in the Appalachians and Australia ,Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @jim jones
My family were coal miners in Durham, I can still remember my grandfather scrubbing himself in the tin bath in front of the living room fire.
Yes, the Rashaads of the world push these things down a continuum to the zero point.
If he gets his way here, he’ll just be emboldened to move on to the next target; then on and on.
Wait, maybe I'm getting my second wind.Replies: @Bard of Bumperstickers
But it’s OK for him to mine chalk and not wash.
I think this article was originally in The Onion and picked up by someone who needed space filler at AZ Central. It is about as thoughtful.
Does this mean we can no longer honor heroic individuals of the the Titanic (sorry to use this term) blackgangs? I understand many stood by their posts to allow the ship to keep its electric power going to the end. Or is that a myth? They were white. It must be a myth. Maybe someone can find one of them had an African great-great-grandmother. So had there only been a few more the ship would have been saved.
well at least the owner didn’t cave but eventually he will maybe this article will do it.To those who hold out for a peaceful resolution I again say are you fucking insane if we want to literally live much longer we are wasting the last bit of time we still have where we can win a war, guys like this and smart jews will soon be in total control.
Where is the chorus of immigrants and their latte-sipping, white back-up singers, complaining that only non-white immigrants do the dirty work?
In the future, there will only be one opinion shared by all.Replies: @ChrisZ
Or you might say, “In the future there will only be one opinion *to rule them* all.”
The urgent question is how many red pills this clown just handed out.
Next up is Whites getting a summer tan. That must stop. On the plus side it might cut down skin cancer rates and middle age women who look 80.
I was a waiter for a bit when I was in my early 20s. if 15% of a restaurants customers are black about 75% of its problem customers will be black. They are by far the most entitled group of people you will encounter.
It’s really insane to reconcile the lived experiences of urban whites like me vs. the “national dialogue on race.”
Who created them? Abolitionism was a 100% WASP thing. The Emancipation Proclamation was a 100% WASP thing (a payoff from Lincoln to the truly 100% pure ethnic WASPs of New England and up state NY and the Connecticut Reserve). Reconstruction was 100% a WASP thing. And each of those was rich WASPs using poor angelic Negroes as the excuse to batter, rob, kill, demonize whites the WASPs hated/feared/envied as 'not them, not WASP.'Replies: @istevefan
Strange that your historical account stopped at Reconstruction. Did nothing else happen after that, or does it not fit the narrative of your post?
Rasheed sounds like some tiny black duck still cool-mining for his spot in SJWBLM parthenon.
According to https://www.mylife.com/rashaad-thomas/e819527017248 :
Rashaad DOES have Arrest or Criminal Records
Rashaad DOES have Lawsuits, Liens or Bankruptcies.
Rashaad is only 39, so he still has space to grow- with all that sweet reparations moolah comming to his pockets circa 2024.
Wow, Rashaad Thomas is an anti-white, racist bigot.
What is there to say? Thomas is an ass.
It’s about me! Me, ya hear! Me!
His voice, er, complaint was not ignored. It was clear that he was listened to, but in the end the restaurant decided against him.
I think coal miner photos, as well as Korean charcoal face packs for women on Instagram, are the visual equivalent of the word niggardly. It’s racist to confuse dumb people.
Saul Alinsky says to make the opponent obey his own rules. I think there’s an opportunity here for creative counter action.
If a photo of coal miners is offensive because “blackface,” wouldn’t it stand to reason that coal mining itself should become illegal since it causes this condition to begin with?
What would happen if Rashaad Thomas walked past a mine at closing time and saw a bunch of “blackfaced” men file out? Would he file hate crime charges against the men or the mining company? Would he try to get mining banned because it’s a “racist” activity?
One of the problems of having a sub-group of adults who act like special needs children is that there really is no way to reason with them. Try debating a serious point and you get “racist!” or “I feel unsafe.” At some point, our entire society is going to stop functioning, and I actually see mining getting banned as a “racist activity” when the U.S. gets a “majority minority” population.
When they claim thet America was built on the back of black men, I had no idea they meant coal miners. Seems about right, though.
But wait... "woman" is singular, too. But "their"-- is this non-binary?
How many individuals is he asking? And is even that question offensive? Whole number supremacism!Replies: @bomag, @Jack D
Rashaad has a problem with plurals:
First, he acknowledges that the photo is in fact of coal miners but now they are “in blackface” anyway because HE (admittedly mistakenly) sees it that way. And step 2, since they are “in blackface” HE is threatened by the photo. And those dirty white people just don’t care about HIS feelings.
His perception of reality is more important than reality itself. And everyone else must cater to his perception, even if it is false. This pretty much sums up all of modern Leftism as a form of solipsism or mental disease. If Rashaad says that he is a chick now, we have to accept that even if he still has all his boy parts. If Rashaad says that the photo is of men is blackface, it’s of men in blackface, even though it isn’t. Whatever Rashaad says we have to go along with – to do otherwise is raaaacist.
I’m sure he was a great Airman.
If you click the link above to the original article you will see that AZ Central blatantly supported the complainer’s complaint by gratuitously adding, within the column, a link to a video from USA TODAY Opinion contributor Ellis Cose that helpfully explains why “blackface” is bad, bad, bad.
Nevertheless, if you look under the headline in that article, just above the “offensive” picture, you will find a COMMENT link. Click that and you will see an overwhelming majority of those comments are also opposed to the complainer’s complaint—and that’s good news!
The guy is retarded – and I mean that in the most politically incorrect sense of the word!
Who cares?
We need to dial back this minoritarian nonsense that anyone is entitled to be welcomed by anyone else. No, in fact, you are not.
This guy’s narcissism simply makes the point that it is impossible to make everyone happy and/or “comfortable”. The political lesson to draw from that is … the state should not be forcing anyone to try. Merry Christmas.
That single fact is all you need to know to judge the “quality” of his rant!
Haha, good timing for me. “We had to get up in the morning, 10 O’clock at night, half an hour before we went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work at mill for 29 hours, pay mill owner for permission to work, and when we got home our Dad would kill us and dance about our graves singing Hallelujah!”
“You try to tell the young immigrants of today that, and they won’t believe you!” “Nah, nah, they won’t believe you.”
I kid you not, #230, I just wrote that from my head. My 7-y/o and I have been watching this sketch every night for a coupla weeks (you know how kids are) and we about got it down!
Our 2nd-favorite version, for now:
Woah, that’s a bridge too far, iSteveFan. Eliminate tanning and you’ve pissed off hundreds of thousands of sorority chicks. Next thing, there’s no reason for spring break. Now, everybody’s pissed, off at this Rasheed guy: Let me tell you, the Greeks don’t want no Freaks!
It's really insane to reconcile the lived experiences of urban whites like me vs. the "national dialogue on race."Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
How about a “national dialog on tipping”?
We need to dial back this minoritarian nonsense that anyone is entitled to be welcomed by anyone else. No, in fact, you are not.
This guy's narcissism simply makes the point that it is impossible to make everyone happy and/or "comfortable". The political lesson to draw from that is ... the state should not be forcing anyone to try. Merry Christmas.Replies: @The Wild Geese Howard
Freedom of association is dead for white men in the US.
Just wait until the elite implement a social credit system similar to China’s.
“Don’t have any black or gay friends? We’re sorry, you’re no longer allowed to fly, get the best loan rates, or hold a job that pays more than poverty level wages….
….if you want to see your scores really improve, we suggest marrying a black transsexual and undergoing your own gender reassignment surgery….
Thanks, and have a nice day!”
Today on Bizarro World Point/Counterpoint:
Phoenix restaurant says this is a photo of coal miners. But I see offensive blackface
Rashaad Thomas, opinion contributor
Versus
Who determines what’s offensive? A photo in a downtown Phoenix restaurant raises this key question.
See that’s the thing about dolt-wrangling. Spin them and their low IQ bleatings just so, you can build a whole career in media out of pretending they’re something other than dolts AND not have to tax your own meager and lazy journalistic capacities in responding to their absolute ship-dit nonsense. A win-win for both dolts and chatterers.
Some might even call it co-devolution.
I eat at this restaurant all the time. it’s really good. it it is called “cornish pasty co”. it sells English pasty that the restaurant makes a point of describing as the dish miners in Cornwall used to eat. the mine theme is all over the restaurant, as is the English origin. no way anyone with half a brain could make racialist connotations from it. the restaurant even says the pasty traditionally had a braided handle so the dirty miners could keep their hands off the part they eat. anyway if you’re in phx or Scottsdale I recommend it
It's past time for both stupidity and the attempted exercise of racial entitlement to be painful.
Actually, we need to find a way to give them a life in some other country. Imagine building an island out in the Pacific, somewhere near Aitutaki, and we offer to send them there. It is a paradise. The catch is they can never come back to America. And to meet expected demand, we recognize that this must be an archipelago of lots of islands. Next, we send the complainers about sending the complainers there. And so on.
Pretty soon, we will have a country again.
I've always suggested we PAY them to move back to their homelands -- but insert a micro chip (WAY deep) so they cannot ever come back:
Chip 'em and ship 'em! Save the WHITE homelands!Replies: @Mr. Rational
People who tell us they don’t feel welcome never actually go somewhere else, do they?
All over America, librarians are rushing to pull this book off the shelves.
So the entitled snowflake either didn’t think this was significant (stupid) or deliberately concealed it (evil).
But someone asserting power could use it to harass.
It’s past time for both stupidity and the attempted exercise of racial entitlement to be painful.
GREAT! So, if I hang a picture of coal miners (or chimney sweeps) “in black face” — that will KEEP this black PoS OUT of my establishment!? Someone, quick, start a biz providing such pix in various sizes and frames!
It’s like when they found out that playing CLASSICAL music (you know, White Euro-derived mostly Christian music over the outdoor speakers at “convenience” stores drove away the … troublesome yuts … from hanging around and bothering the patrons!
Who could have imagined just a historical photo would drive off the aggrieved and whining blacks?! BRAVO!
Pretty soon, we will have a country again.Replies: @Avalanche
“The catch is they can never come back to America.”
I’ve always suggested we PAY them to move back to their homelands — but insert a micro chip (WAY deep) so they cannot ever come back:
Chip ’em and ship ’em! Save the WHITE homelands!
It's like when they found out that playing CLASSICAL music (you know, White Euro-derived mostly Christian music over the outdoor speakers at "convenience" stores drove away the ... troublesome yuts ... from hanging around and bothering the patrons!
Who could have imagined just a historical photo would drive off the aggrieved and whining blacks?! BRAVO!Replies: @Mr. Rational
What are you doing over here? Vox tell you to beat it or something?
I've always suggested we PAY them to move back to their homelands -- but insert a micro chip (WAY deep) so they cannot ever come back:
Chip 'em and ship 'em! Save the WHITE homelands!Replies: @Mr. Rational
Actually we’re already paying them at least $7700 per year per capita just to stay here. Giving them a one-time lump sum and a shipping-container house in Africa to leave… that would be something we could do.
This so-called essayist, Rashaad (Thomas?). all he does is talk about race. Racist makes himself out to be such a victim!. WTF? Hard working american coal miners, now this!
https://poetry.arizona.edu/blog/people-poet-year-black-sheep