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Mayor of New Orleans unveils sculpture of a giant hair pick just in time for Juneteenth
https://twitchy.com ^ | 06/18/22 | Brett T

Posted on 06/20/2022 10:07:31 AM PDT by justme4now

Anyone else tired of this crap?

Here in Virginia they've torn down all the historic "white men" statues!😡

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell announced Friday that, in recognition of the city’s black and brown artists, the city has dedicated $7.2 million in bond funding to public art, and has already purchased over 60 pieces of work created by local black artists.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: afro; afropick; blackpowerfist; fakeholiday; juneteenth; junetenth; mayor; moronization; neworleans; notsatire; sculpture; statue
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To: justme4now

https://www.theroot.com/the-black-workforce-by-the-numbers-1790876971

1. In total, black Americans make up about 12 percent of the workforce. That’s about 18,758,000 black Americans in a workforce of about 155 million people.

2. African Americans are overrepresented in the federal government, which was one of the first sectors to integrate. Just over 20 percent of the black workforce is employed by federal, state and local governments.

3. Sixty-four percent of black female workers are in white-collar positions. Fifty percent of black men hold similar positions.

4. When it comes to blue-collar jobs, 36 percent of black men are employed in that sector, compared with 8 percent of black women.

5. The unemployment rate for black teens remains higher than that of white teenagers. As of July 2014, the unemployment rate for black teenagers ages 16-19 was 34.9 percent, while the unemployment rate for white teens was 18.3 percent.

6. Nearly 30 percent of black workers are employed in education, health care or social assistance.

7. Although black Americans’ employment rate lags behind that of white workers at every educational level, the gaps are smaller for those with higher education. For example, the unemployment rate for African Americans with a college degree stands at 7.1 percent, compared with 3.9 percent for white Americans. Black Americans with only a high school diploma are experiencing a 15.5 percent unemployment rate, compared with 8.4 percent for white Americans with just a high school diploma.

8. The overall percentage of black Americans in the workforce, at 61.7 percent as of July 2014, is the lowest among all racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. This is not a new phenomenon: Black unemployment has been higher than that of white Americans and Latinos for 40 years.

9. The average weekly pay for black men is $653. For black women, it’s $595.

10. Black Americans make up just 2 percent of high-level executives in Fortune 500 companies.

This is 2014 data, it is surely much higher now. Tell me again where the pre-judging is going on in Government? It is against whites in all areas but the very top, where the elites don’t allow blacks (lower case b) to enter in anything but a minor pct.


61 posted on 06/20/2022 11:28:30 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts ((“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer,)
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To: justme4now

These idiots seem proud of this insulting piece of sculpture. Is that a clenched fist symbol at the top of the handle? If so, that makes the sculpture appearing to suggest that the hair pick is being used as a weapon to symbolically stab someone.


62 posted on 06/20/2022 11:31:09 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Leaning Right

I think the Republican leader did the emancipation proclamation much earlier than June 19 1865. It just took that long for the realization to hit that it was twue.... just a joke.... when Texans found out, the mail was a tad slower then. Not a joke.

How long until Juneteenth supercedes Independence day, Kwanza supercedes Christs Mass, and MLK day supercedes Washingtons or Lincolns birfdays...strike that last one... the birthdays of our most important Presidents are just memories of old people.


63 posted on 06/20/2022 11:33:28 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts ((“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer,)
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To: deks
"I noticed the raised fist is being used as a "Juneteenth" symbol."

I noticed that, too, but I think you were the first person to comment on that. To me, it transforms the hair pick into a symbolic weapon. But maybe I'm overthinking it.
64 posted on 06/20/2022 11:35:15 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: mass55th
"How are all the black women who get their hair treated, colored, and wear wigs, and such so they can look more like white women, relate to that?"

About two years ago I started seeing a lot of TV ads depicting young black women and girls with hairstyles that look like Mickey Mouse ears. I think it looks absolutely stupid.
65 posted on 06/20/2022 11:40:35 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: justme4now

Hair Pick?

Not a Prison Shiv?


66 posted on 06/20/2022 11:46:32 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: justme4now

I’m sure they had to put something up to replace all those Conferate Statues.


67 posted on 06/20/2022 11:49:20 AM PDT by Tai_Chung
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To: justme4now

I tried a little bit, but did not find out who that horn player is on the left.

(On the LEFT of course, but I speak positionally.)


68 posted on 06/20/2022 11:51:28 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: Sacajaweau

speaks of the shallowness of a once proud culture...a hair comb....


69 posted on 06/20/2022 11:52:38 AM PDT by cherry (;)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Nothing there a few guys with sawzalls can’t fix.


70 posted on 06/20/2022 11:54:37 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: justme4now

It’s not a giant pick. It’s a black power and separatist symbol supported by a fake giant pick.

It means “Whitey, we hate you even if we live off your money. We blame you for our self-inflicted failures and want you dead, after you give us all your money!”

Paid for with taxpayer money.


71 posted on 06/20/2022 11:55:21 AM PDT by I want the USA back (To get the USA back - we have to recover from the current wave of insanity.)
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To: cymbeline

“many whites continued to treat blacks terribly, and some still do, and I wish that weren’t so.”

In the world I have lived in for seventy years, many blacks continued to treat whites terribly every single year. I wish that weren’t so.


72 posted on 06/20/2022 11:55:30 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Leaning Right

Whitemen fought, bled, and died to hand freedom on a silver platter to black slaves. On June 19th, 1865, a small number of those former slaves were informed of that gift. Their descendants are whining because the platter wasn’t gold ...

People generally don’t value what they haven’t earned.


73 posted on 06/20/2022 11:57:23 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: cgbg

“In the world I have lived in for seventy years, many blacks continued to treat whites terribly every single year. I wish that weren’t so.”

A worthy addition to my post. I haven’t seen that but I don’t know the inner thoughts of the blacks in my world (mainly at my job).


74 posted on 06/20/2022 12:02:34 PM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Spok

So did I. This is Babylon Bee material.


75 posted on 06/20/2022 12:03:05 PM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: NorthMountain

I’m sure the average liberated ex-slave was very grateful for what the overwhelmingly Republican Union army did for them. Their descendants, not so much.

That doesn’t mean that those descendants are willfully blind. No, it’s because they have been subject to decades and decades of Democrat propaganda, all with little GOP pushback. It’s a damn shame.


76 posted on 06/20/2022 12:05:26 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: justme4now

A hair pick. Yeah that’s appropriate to demonstrate the advances of technology brought from africa. This is actually perfect.


77 posted on 06/20/2022 12:05:38 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: cymbeline

My age of innocence ended when I was twelve years old.

A young black man from the nearby big city visited the neighborhood and raped one of the local housewives.

Then everybody installed burglar alarms and bought big dogs.

Before that moment (for many decades) all the doors in the neighborhood were unlocked and everyone felt safe twenty four/seven.


78 posted on 06/20/2022 12:09:40 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: justme4now

79 posted on 06/20/2022 12:12:47 PM PDT by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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To: Blurb2350
"So did I. This is Babylon Bee material."

You would think that a memorial depicting the end of slavery would include some symbolic representation of liberation, e.g., a figure with broken broken chains or shackles, or maybe a statue of MLK or some other champion of liberation, along with a quote on the pedestal. But a hair pick? "Well, it has a clenched fist on top." Yes, but the clenched fist has become a symbol of leftist-militancy in general, and is a divisive symbol rather than a uniting one. Moreover, in my opinion it makes the hair pick look almost like a weapon, like something you would stab somebody with.
80 posted on 06/20/2022 12:15:05 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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