Thread: Racist Eclipse!

On August 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse will arrive mid-morning on the coast of Oregon. The moon’s shadow will be about 70 miles wide, and it will race across the country faster than the speed of sound, exiting the eastern seaboard shortly before 3 p.m. local time. It has been dubbed the Great American Eclipse, and along most of its path, there live almost no black people.

Presumably, this is not explained by the implicit bias of the solar system. It is a matter of population density, and more specifically geographic variations in population density by race, for which the sun and the moon cannot be held responsible. Still, an eclipse chaser is always tempted to believe that the skies are relaying a message. At a moment of deep disagreement about the nation’s best path forward, here comes a giant round shadow, drawing a line either to cut the country in two or to unite it as one...

Oregon, where this begins, is almost entirely white. The 10 percent or so of state residents who do not identify as white are predominantly Latino, American Indian, Alaskan, or Asian. There are very few black Oregonians, and this is not an accident. The land that is now Oregon was not, of course, always inhabited by white people, but as a U.S. territory and then a state, Oregon sought to get and stay white. Among several formal efforts at racial exclusion was a provision in the original state constitution of 1857 that prohibited any “free Negro or Mulatto” from entering and residing in the state.

All at: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/...ticle-comments

Fixated is an understatement, but BAAH will be along soon...

Originally Posted by jabir

Fixated is an understatement

S'funny, just what I was thinking.

Wrong state I suppose... Is this racist? I don't think so.

What next, not even an eclipse is safe from crazy people fixated by racism.
So when many eclipses have come and gone over Africa, no mention of a sign from the Sun and Moon gods, or racist chasers.

Originally Posted by jabir

Oregon, where this begins, is almost entirely white.

Don't forget our Jeff, who's been residing there for the past 30 years or so.

Not sure who Jeff is, but on another site somebody asked if they could move it to the weekend because their kids have to go to school that day. Hopefully the school teaches them not to ask the sun to reschedule.

Originally Posted by wasabi

What next, not even an eclipse is safe from crazy people fixated by racism.
So when many eclipses have come and gone over Africa, no mention of a sign from the Sun and Moon gods, or racist chasers.

...a racist complaining about others making things about race!

What's the term for that? Irony??

Nagh that's not irony, ^ it's your moonie that's been eclipsed by Smegs shadow.


Still Butthurt ? Are we?

Everythig has been eclipsed by "repro", wasabi. Whatever the fook that is.