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Last Post 06/12/2020 06:19 PM by Nicholas Arenella. 31 Replies.
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longslowdistance
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| 06/02/2020 09:16 PM |
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Because I'm numb after all this and 45's actions. Damned right this is the dark side. |
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zootracer
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| 06/03/2020 12:20 AM |
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| It's going to get worse...this is just the beginning..... |
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6ix
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| 06/03/2020 08:03 AM |
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So much winning. It's just too much winning. I can't handle it.
Forum is still here but on life-support. Think there are only about 10 people on a planet of over 7.5 Billion that even look at this. |
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79pmooney
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| 06/03/2020 12:18 PM |
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I'm still here. And back into riding. Past the first three weeks. (Any athletic activity I have ever done has been grueling those first three, then there's the moment when i works and it's fun.) But worthy of its own thread so you'll have to check back!
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79pmooney
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| 06/03/2020 12:21 PM |
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| I didn't have much to say on the Castelli golve thread. Higher end gloves than I have ever owned. I checked back every day but it was still llsd at post #17. |
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Orange Crush
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| 06/03/2020 01:28 PM |
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Lots of interesting remote rides in recent weeks but this place is not particularly suited to posting pics so that joy is reserved to those on FB. I briefly crossed the border on a gravel road at Ross Lake International Point, Cascades NP. Someone wink wink said I should now be 14 days in quarantine but all I saw was bear squat.
Might be worth transitioning to an APP like Slack. My club uses it for ride planning and just general chit chat. Easy to post pics, make different threads/topics etc. etc.
Things are pretty brutal on your end of the 49th. It is mind numbing that the Kerner Commission report issued 52 years ago put their finger very precisely on all the sore spots and it was ignored (surprise surprise). 45 is particularly unhelpful in fanning the flames but this runs much deeper and longer than that. |
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6ix
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| 06/03/2020 01:33 PM |
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45 is that liquid stuff that leaks out of the garbage trucks.
Since 45 has thrown any adherence to the Constitution out of the window, what's the possibility we could bring Obama back? |
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zootracer
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| 06/03/2020 06:20 PM |
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I stopped riding around Thanksgiving of last year. I did a ride back in January and it nearly killed me. Bit the bullet and starting riding a few weeks ago. Extremely hard for this almost 78 year body. I don't think I will ever put it the miles like I did a few years ago. The summer heat kills me. Sometimes I wonder why I even try anymore. I take my Labrador Retriever for one hour walks and I can't manage both walking and riding the same day. Right now it's alternating riding and walking every other day. I did not heed my motto "never quit".
6ix-A president can not serve more than two terms in office. |
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79pmooney
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| 06/03/2020 09:27 PM |
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Posted By Orange Crush on 06/03/2020 01:28 PM
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Things are pretty brutal on your end of the 49th. It is mind numbing that the Kerner Commission report issued 52 years ago put their finger very precisely on all the sore spots and it was ignored (surprise surprise). 45 is particularly unhelpful in fanning the flames but this runs much deeper and longer than that.
OC, the big piece that never changes and is on the mind of every young to middle aged black man and every woman who loves him is that he knows he is on the wrong side of an unwritten law that has him pegged as a felon (and quite likely a capitol felon).
Yes, the law forbidding DWB is not on the books and any case will be instantly tossed it it is every said, written or heard. (The "D" isn't important, just the "WB".) So the legal system from enforcement to punishment has to come up with another felony to charge the guilty party. But all know he is guilty so that is easily done. And as this is a capitol felony, executing the punishment quickly serves the intent of the law nicely. (The enforcing police officer may be suspended, even fired, but rarely more than that.
If you study the written text of the law, you will see that what those police officers do qualifies as murder most of the time, But in accordance with our true legal system, that murder charge gets applied and held to 1% of the time. All black men know this. (Black lives matter? No, really black lives haven't since the value of a hardworking black man went from $2000 to $0 when the South surrendered 155 years ago.)
Do I like what I just wrote? Not at all. But it is the truth. And until we can talk about it as simple fact, it will never change.
Ben
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79pmooney
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| 06/03/2020 09:45 PM |
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Posted the above, went to my E-mail and read the following in my daily NY Times briefing.
"When jail becomes normal
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The exercise yard at California Medical Facility in Vacaville, Calif.Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press
For most white Americans, interactions with the police happen rarely, and they’re often respectful or even friendly. Many white people don’t know a single person who’s currently behind bars.
In many black communities — and especially for black men — the situation is entirely different. Some of the statistics can be hard to fathom:
Close to 10 percent of black men in their 30s are behind bars on any given day, according to the Sentencing Project.
Incarceration rates for black men are about twice as high as those of Hispanic men, five times higher than those of white men and at least 25 times higher than those of black women, Hispanic women or white women.
When the government last counted how many black men had ever spent time in state or federal prison — in 2001 — the share was 17 percent. Today, it’s likely closer to 20 percent (and this number doesn’t include people who’ve spent time in jail without being sentenced to prison). The comparable number for white men is about 3 percent.
The rise of mass incarceration over the last half-century has turned imprisonment into a dominant feature of modern life for black Americans. Large numbers of black men are missing from their communities — unable to marry, care for children or see their aging parents. Many others suffer from permanent economic or psychological damage, struggling to find work after they leave prison.
A recent study by the economists Patrick Bayer and Kerwin Kofi Charles found that 27 percent of black men in the prime working years of their lives — between the ages of 25 and 54 — didn’t report earning a single dollar of income in 2014. “That’s a massive number,” Charles, the dean of the Yale School of Management, told me. Incarceration, including the aftereffects, was a major reason.
The anger coursing through America’s streets over the past week has many causes, starting with a gruesome video showing the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. But that anger has also been building up for a long time. It is, in part, anger about incarceration having become normal.
An explainer podcast: How has mass incarceration happened? “Justice in America” — hosted by Josie Duffy Rice of The Appeal — tries to answer the question. The Times’s Caity Weaver recommends starting with the first episode, about bail. “I learn so much from this freaking podcast,” Caity tweeted yesterday." |
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longslowdistance
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| 06/03/2020 10:29 PM |
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| Kudos to Mathis and the Canadian Premier. https://twitter.com/i/status/1267845513786863617
Truly an appropriate pause that will be lost on the Jethros in full support of killing black men and the current occupant. |
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Orange Crush
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| 06/03/2020 11:31 PM |
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Ben - The Kerner report dealt with institutionalized segregation, first in official form though covenant law then later perpetuated to this day in many unofficial forms. The DWB is just one of the many outcomes of that segregation. The current state of affairs another. Etc etc.
6ix - the stuff that oozes out of back of a garbage truck. I like that parallel. Haha.
And dang we have a 78 yr old forum member. Now I feel like a spring chicken again at 55. |
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smokey52
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| 06/04/2020 10:38 AM |
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I'm 68 and riding less as well. Spring was cold and damp here in the Hudson Valley. Our son is a public defender in Greene County, so he does have to go into public places like court houses periodically, which means he has potential exposure to Corona. We have to keep our distance. A couple of weeks ago I met up with him on a Sunday in Woodstock and rode around Ashokan Reservoir: https://www.roberts-1.com/bikehudson/r/west/wood_ash/cue_sheet/index.htm
Later that same day, our daughter escaped Brooklyn with her husband and our two grandchildren and moved in with us for the duration. It's a joy but time intensive. The 4-year old is in pre-K and still doing school. My wife is his teacher and his Nonna. The 8-month old is my playmate. The daughter and son-in-law are both working remotely for now. The house is a mess, but worth it.
-Grandpa Smokey |
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79pmooney
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| 06/04/2020 11:54 AM |
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DWB goes much further back than institutionalized anything. Klu Klux Klan immediately after the Civil War and the patrols before where a black man needed a pass from his master to be on the street and better not get caught out after curfew. Severe whipping was the expected punishment. Survival was not guaranteed. The patrollers were vigilantes. The punishments they imposed were often far more than anything the slaves' owners wanted done to their property
While there is no written law, the current police practices look too much like those patrols. Any black man on the street can be stopped and ID'd. If suitable response isn't obtained (and even if it is), instant "justice" is applied.
I just finished reading "Voices from Slavery, 100 Authentic Slave Narratives". Sobering how little has changed. I spent three years of my life wondering if I was going to be required by my government to kill someone or be killed. These young men spend their entire lives in that limbo. And they don't get an envelop in the mail that says "your ordeal starts in 3 weeks". They may be put to that test at any time.
Speaking of institutions - the two crimes we have "outlawed" but institutionalized are slavery and murder. Want to commit murder? Join the military or the police. (You'll have to do your homework to get yourself into the right unit.) And slavery - preserved in the 13th Amendment. Section 1 "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Since all black men are by definition guilty of felony, it is just a matter of enforcing, ruling and now they are slaves again. That wording is no accident. The writers knew exactly what they were saying. (The song "Angola Penitentiary Blues" is a song of a black man convicted for life of a crime he didn't do, now picking cotton on the old Angola Plantation in Louisiana, only the mansion has been torn down and replaced by the prison. I heard Christian Scott tell the story, then play the song. He was born and raised in New Orleans. It was chilling. I guessed his version; the man being his teen cousin, at his house when the murder happened, was fiction but as time passes, I an thinking it might well be true. If not his cousin, somebody he knows.)
Another song that we all know - "House of the Rising Sun". A brothel in New Orleans. The woman of the song is going to New Orleans to work after her man is jailed (for whatever) as so many rural black women last century had to do because they could not maintain a a farm by themselves. Old story. Black man returned to slavery, house and property lost (to a white institution; town, bank, realtor), woman selling her body to survive.
I grew up thinking I was of the blood of the good guys. Boston, Union army, ... I now am pretty certain my family had money in the Lowell cotton mills that were the start if the industrialized revolution and that relied on cheap, slave picked cotton to function and make huge amounts of money. We used to summer n Bristol, RI. The downtown is of buildings built with huge blocks of choice granite, sidewalks and streets paved with granite. All built on money from the shipping trade - building and operating ships to deliver sugar cane from the West Indies to southern New England to be turned into rum to be shipped on the same ships to Africa to be sold to buy slaves to work that sugar can (again, same ships). (Some of the shipping income was from whalers, a little cleaner source of income.  )
To say this is an institutional issue is to write it off lightly. This goes to our blood, core and soul as a nation and as a people.
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79pmooney
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| 06/04/2020 11:58 AM |
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OC, I'm 67, With you and zoot, that makes me a 'tweener". (Takes me back a few years!)
Ben |
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