Sunday, August 13, 2017
More Reaction to Charlottesville
From Buzzfeed -
https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanschocket2/here-are-what-celebrities-are-tweeting-about-charlottesville?utm_term=.udVEPJYq7#.gdPX6A2qJ
https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanschocket2/here-are-what-celebrities-are-tweeting-about-charlottesville?utm_term=.udVEPJYq7#.gdPX6A2qJ
From the 13th Film
"The truth is: we are living at this time. And we are tolerating it." #Charlottesville pic.twitter.com/U4qBQl93qV— Ava DuVernay (@ava) August 12, 2017
Hmmmmmm.
🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️ I. Need some answers https://t.co/AL52LlcyWV pic.twitter.com/yACKsDxKaw— Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) August 12, 2017
You First
An excerpt from CNN -
Pilotless planes could save airlines billions. But would anyone fly?
Taking pilots out of the cockpit could save airlines billions. But would anyone buy a ticket?
by Ivana Kottasová
The aviation industry could save $35 billion a year by moving to pilotless planes, according to a new report from UBS. Just one problem: The same report warns that only 17% of travelers are willing to fly without a pilot.
UBS said that the technology required to operate remote-controlled planes could appear by 2025. Further advances beyond 2030 might result in automated business jets and helicopters, and finally commercial aircraft without pilots.
"The technologies in development today will enable the aircraft to assist and back up the pilot in all the flight phases, removing the pilot from manual control and systems operations in all types of situations," the report said.
Commercial flights already land with the assistance of on-board computers, and pilots manually fly the aircraft for only a few minutes on average.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/07/technology/business/pilotless-planes-passengers/index.html
Pilotless planes could save airlines billions. But would anyone fly?
Taking pilots out of the cockpit could save airlines billions. But would anyone buy a ticket?
by Ivana Kottasová
The aviation industry could save $35 billion a year by moving to pilotless planes, according to a new report from UBS. Just one problem: The same report warns that only 17% of travelers are willing to fly without a pilot.
UBS said that the technology required to operate remote-controlled planes could appear by 2025. Further advances beyond 2030 might result in automated business jets and helicopters, and finally commercial aircraft without pilots.
"The technologies in development today will enable the aircraft to assist and back up the pilot in all the flight phases, removing the pilot from manual control and systems operations in all types of situations," the report said.
Commercial flights already land with the assistance of on-board computers, and pilots manually fly the aircraft for only a few minutes on average.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/07/technology/business/pilotless-planes-passengers/index.html
Saturday, August 12, 2017
A Reignited Civil War
Excerpts from the Boston Globe -
In Charlottesville, a reignited Civil War
OPINION | RENÉE GRAHAM
Remember this day, August 12, 2017. This is Fort Sumter in our modern, reignited Civil War.
While President Trump cravenly condemned violence “on many sides,” it appears there was only one side plowing a car at a high rate of speed into peaceful anti-racism protesters at a “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va. There was only one side standing up for the values that America loves to espouse. Then there was that other side, boiling in hate, locked and loaded with fire and fury, who want to reclaim as theirs alone rights they have never been denied.
~~~~~~~~~~
Trump has never denounced this homegrown terrorism with the crazed fervor he reserves for Islamic terrorism. For a man who has so much so say about so many things, he’s downright tongue-tied when it comes to calling out this supremacist hatred. Of course, no politician condemns his most loyal base, and these are people sustaining this sinkhole of a presidency. Hatred has always been part of this nation, but Trump flipped over the rock and out slithered racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, bigotry, and misogyny in doses that might have made Jefferson Davis cringe.
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un is not America’s most clear and present danger. Nor is ISIS our biggest terrorist threat. It’s a savage mob of white supremacists so validated by this president that they see no need to hide their faces or conceal their identities. They marched with Confederate flags and swastikas, guns slung from their shoulders and strapped to their waists, believing their champion occupies this nation’s highest office. Trump not only understands their discontent — his exploitation of it propelled him into the White House — he won’t even condemn by name a barbarism that has taken a life and threatens to consume this nation.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/columns/2017/08/12/charlottesville-reignited-civil-war/gsqTeWwpxOeMSQgraA9acJ/story.html?event=event12
In Charlottesville, a reignited Civil War
OPINION | RENÉE GRAHAM
Remember this day, August 12, 2017. This is Fort Sumter in our modern, reignited Civil War.
While President Trump cravenly condemned violence “on many sides,” it appears there was only one side plowing a car at a high rate of speed into peaceful anti-racism protesters at a “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va. There was only one side standing up for the values that America loves to espouse. Then there was that other side, boiling in hate, locked and loaded with fire and fury, who want to reclaim as theirs alone rights they have never been denied.
~~~~~~~~~~
Trump has never denounced this homegrown terrorism with the crazed fervor he reserves for Islamic terrorism. For a man who has so much so say about so many things, he’s downright tongue-tied when it comes to calling out this supremacist hatred. Of course, no politician condemns his most loyal base, and these are people sustaining this sinkhole of a presidency. Hatred has always been part of this nation, but Trump flipped over the rock and out slithered racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, bigotry, and misogyny in doses that might have made Jefferson Davis cringe.
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un is not America’s most clear and present danger. Nor is ISIS our biggest terrorist threat. It’s a savage mob of white supremacists so validated by this president that they see no need to hide their faces or conceal their identities. They marched with Confederate flags and swastikas, guns slung from their shoulders and strapped to their waists, believing their champion occupies this nation’s highest office. Trump not only understands their discontent — his exploitation of it propelled him into the White House — he won’t even condemn by name a barbarism that has taken a life and threatens to consume this nation.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/columns/2017/08/12/charlottesville-reignited-civil-war/gsqTeWwpxOeMSQgraA9acJ/story.html?event=event12
History Lesson
An excerpt from the Atlantic -
The Lost History of an American Coup D’État
Republicans and Democrats in North Carolina are locked in a battle over which party inherits the shame of Jim Crow.
By ADRIENNE LAFRANCE AND VANN R. NEWKIRK II
By the time the fire started, Alexander Manly had vanished. That didn’t stop the mob of 400 people who’d reached his newsroom from making good on their promise. The crowd, led by a former congressman, had given the editor-in-chief an ultimatum: Destroy your newspaper and leave town forever, or we will wreck it for you.
They burned The Daily Record to the ground.
It was the morning of November 10, 1898, in Wilmington, North Carolina, and the fire was the beginning of an assault that took place seven blocks east of the Cape Fear River, about 10 miles inland from the Atlantic Ocean. By sundown, Manly’s newspaper had been torched, as many as 60 people had been murdered, and the local government that was elected two days prior had been overthrown and replaced by white supremacists.
For all the violent moments in United States history, the mob’s gruesome attack was unique: It was the only coup d’état ever to take place on American soil.
What happened that day was nearly lost to history. For decades, the perpetrators were cast as heroes in American history textbooks. The black victims were wrongly described as instigators. It took nearly a century for the truth of what had really happened to begin to creep back into public awareness. Today, the old site of The Daily Record is a nondescript church parking lot—an ordinary-looking square of matted grass on a tree-lined street in historic Wilmington. The Wilmington Journal, a successor of sorts to the old Daily Record, stands in a white clapboard house across the street. But there’s no evidence of what happened there in 1898.
Conservatives in North Carolina don’t often bring up the Wilmington Massacre. Even many of those North Carolinians who are now aware of it are still reluctant to talk about it. Those who do sometimes stumble over words like “insurrection” and “riot”—loaded terms, and imprecise ones.
Not only was it a coup, though, the massacre was arguably the nadir of post-slavery racial politics.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/wilmington-massacre/536457/
The Lost History of an American Coup D’État
Republicans and Democrats in North Carolina are locked in a battle over which party inherits the shame of Jim Crow.
By ADRIENNE LAFRANCE AND VANN R. NEWKIRK II
By the time the fire started, Alexander Manly had vanished. That didn’t stop the mob of 400 people who’d reached his newsroom from making good on their promise. The crowd, led by a former congressman, had given the editor-in-chief an ultimatum: Destroy your newspaper and leave town forever, or we will wreck it for you.
They burned The Daily Record to the ground.
It was the morning of November 10, 1898, in Wilmington, North Carolina, and the fire was the beginning of an assault that took place seven blocks east of the Cape Fear River, about 10 miles inland from the Atlantic Ocean. By sundown, Manly’s newspaper had been torched, as many as 60 people had been murdered, and the local government that was elected two days prior had been overthrown and replaced by white supremacists.
For all the violent moments in United States history, the mob’s gruesome attack was unique: It was the only coup d’état ever to take place on American soil.
What happened that day was nearly lost to history. For decades, the perpetrators were cast as heroes in American history textbooks. The black victims were wrongly described as instigators. It took nearly a century for the truth of what had really happened to begin to creep back into public awareness. Today, the old site of The Daily Record is a nondescript church parking lot—an ordinary-looking square of matted grass on a tree-lined street in historic Wilmington. The Wilmington Journal, a successor of sorts to the old Daily Record, stands in a white clapboard house across the street. But there’s no evidence of what happened there in 1898.
Conservatives in North Carolina don’t often bring up the Wilmington Massacre. Even many of those North Carolinians who are now aware of it are still reluctant to talk about it. Those who do sometimes stumble over words like “insurrection” and “riot”—loaded terms, and imprecise ones.
Not only was it a coup, though, the massacre was arguably the nadir of post-slavery racial politics.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/wilmington-massacre/536457/
This is Making America Great Again?
It's sad what's going on in Charlottesville. Is this the direction our country is heading? Make America Great Again huh?! He said that🤦🏾♂️— LeBron James (@KingJames) August 12, 2017
Oh How I Miss President Obama!
http://deadline.com/2017/08/barack-obama-nelson-mandela-quote-donald-trump-potus-charlottesville-twitter-alt-right-racist-1202147755/"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion..." pic.twitter.com/InZ58zkoAm— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 13, 2017
The United States of Amnesia
An excerpt from the NY Times -
Charlottesville and the Bigotocracy
By Michael Eric Dyson
The late, great Gore Vidal said that we live in “The United States of Amnesia.” Our fatal forgetfulness flares when white bigots come out of their closets, emboldened by the tacit cover they’re given by our president. We cannot pretend that the ugly bigotry unleashed in the streets of Charlottesville, Va., this weekend has nothing to do with the election of Donald Trump.
In attendance was white separatist David Duke, who declared that the alt-right unity fiasco “fulfills the promises of Donald Trump.” In the meantime, Mr. Trump responded by offering false equivalencies between white bigots and their protesters. His soft denunciations of hate ring hollow when he has white nationalist advisers like Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller whispering in his ear.
Such an ungainly assembly of white supremacists rides herd on political memory. Their resentment of the removal of public symbols of the Confederate past — the genesis of this weekend’s rally — is fueled by revisionist history. They fancy themselves the victims of the so-called politically correct assault on American democracy, a false narrative that helped propel Mr. Trump to victory. Each feeds on the same demented lies about race and justice that corrupt true democracy and erode real liberty. Together they constitute the repulsive resurgence of a virulent bigotocracy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/12/opinion/charlottesville-and-the-bigotocracy.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region
Charlottesville and the Bigotocracy
By Michael Eric Dyson
The late, great Gore Vidal said that we live in “The United States of Amnesia.” Our fatal forgetfulness flares when white bigots come out of their closets, emboldened by the tacit cover they’re given by our president. We cannot pretend that the ugly bigotry unleashed in the streets of Charlottesville, Va., this weekend has nothing to do with the election of Donald Trump.
In attendance was white separatist David Duke, who declared that the alt-right unity fiasco “fulfills the promises of Donald Trump.” In the meantime, Mr. Trump responded by offering false equivalencies between white bigots and their protesters. His soft denunciations of hate ring hollow when he has white nationalist advisers like Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller whispering in his ear.
Such an ungainly assembly of white supremacists rides herd on political memory. Their resentment of the removal of public symbols of the Confederate past — the genesis of this weekend’s rally — is fueled by revisionist history. They fancy themselves the victims of the so-called politically correct assault on American democracy, a false narrative that helped propel Mr. Trump to victory. Each feeds on the same demented lies about race and justice that corrupt true democracy and erode real liberty. Together they constitute the repulsive resurgence of a virulent bigotocracy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/12/opinion/charlottesville-and-the-bigotocracy.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region
What He Should Have Said
An excerpt from the Washington Post -
What a presidential president would have said about Charlottesville
By the Editorial Board
HERE IS what President Trump said Saturday about the violence in Charlottesville sparked by a demonstration of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members:
We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. On many sides.
Here is what a presidential president would have said:
“The violence Friday and Saturday in Charlottesville, Va., is a tragedy and an unacceptable, impermissible assault on American values. It is an assault, specifically, on the ideals we cherish most in a pluralistic democracy — tolerance, peaceable coexistence and diversity.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-a-presidential-president-would-have-said-about-charlottesville/2017/08/12/9f1ffec6-7fa4-11e7-9d08-b79f191668ed_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-c%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.cf3802db612c
What a presidential president would have said about Charlottesville
By the Editorial Board
HERE IS what President Trump said Saturday about the violence in Charlottesville sparked by a demonstration of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members:
We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. On many sides.
Here is what a presidential president would have said:
“The violence Friday and Saturday in Charlottesville, Va., is a tragedy and an unacceptable, impermissible assault on American values. It is an assault, specifically, on the ideals we cherish most in a pluralistic democracy — tolerance, peaceable coexistence and diversity.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-a-presidential-president-would-have-said-about-charlottesville/2017/08/12/9f1ffec6-7fa4-11e7-9d08-b79f191668ed_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-c%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.cf3802db612c
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