The C.O.W.S. Compensatory Call-In 08/29/20

The Context of White Supremacy hosts The Context of White Supremacy hosts the weekly Compensatory Call-In. We encourage non-white listeners to dial in with their codified concepts, new terms, observations, research findings, workplace problems or triumphs, and/or suggestions on how best to Replace White Supremacy With Justice ASAP. We’ll use these sessions to hone our use of words as tools to reveal truth, neutralize White people. We’ll examine news reports from the past seven days and – hopefully – promote a constructive dialog.

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August 2020 didn’t conclude with a bang. We had a hurricane, the Republican National Convention, a police shooting and subsequent rioting in Wisconsin, and the possibility of an NBA strike over Racism. Along the gulf of Mexico, Hurricane Laura pummeled Louisiana and Texas, killing at least six. Wisconsin police didn’t kill Jacob Blake when a White officer shot him in the back on Monday. However, Blake is paralyzed, and according to his mother, handcuffed to a hospital bed. The shooting lead to more protests against police terrorism, where Kyle Rittenhouse, “a white, 17-year-old police admirer,” allegedly shot and killed two protesters. He has been arrested and charged. The latest police killing of an unarmed black male prompted a number of professional sports events to be canceled. Several players amplified calls to boycott the remainder of the season. With all this as a backdrop, Vice president Mike Pence and President Donald J. Trump made “law and order” a primary theme of the Republican Convention in North Carolina.