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Washington Post reporter troubled by 'racist legacy' of some birds
Fox News ^ | 6/5/2021 | Joseph A. Wulfsohn

Posted on 06/05/2021 10:00:39 AM PDT by antidemoncrat

The Post ran an expansive report on Thursday, titled "The racist legacy many birds carry," focused on the "birding community," which apparently is having a difficult debate "about the names of species connected to enslavers, supremacists and grave robbers."

"Corina Newsome is a Black ornithologist, as rare as some of the birds she studies," Post environmental justice reporter Darryl Fears began his piece, noting she was hired to "break down barriers" at the Georgia Audubon nature preserve.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: birds; cialisnewsome; corinanewsome; darrylfears; environmentaljesters; environmentaljustice; josephawulfsohn; josephwulfsohn; latinnames; ornblackithologist; ornithology; waporeporter
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To: antidemoncrat

I knew a crow that was racist once.

His name was Jim.


21 posted on 06/05/2021 10:15:01 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It’s my government that I hate.)
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To: Fiji Hill

Too many dumbed down people and/or those who feel guilty about their luck and what they’ve earned in life. Maybe they think this gives their life meaning.


22 posted on 06/05/2021 10:19:43 AM PDT by Aria (- )
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To: antidemoncrat

“Breaking down barriers” = token, sunshine. That is what you are.
Chicken little comes to mind.


23 posted on 06/05/2021 10:20:21 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: SkyDancer

I’ve noticed at least 3 instances here of some blackbirds harassing a squirrel; chased him on the ground & also went after one in a tree. They (the city)seems to want to protect the blackbirds here. If it were up to me I’d put a year-around open season on the filthy things. The other birds(mostly) are OK here.


24 posted on 06/05/2021 10:21:52 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: antidemoncrat

I have a 15 yr old AFRICAN Grey. Is that raysis? Only racist thing she ever says is ‘yo mama’.


25 posted on 06/05/2021 10:22:10 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: bgill
It’s a she

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She’s a darling of Georgia local media ...bachelors in bird biology and they treat her like Jonas Salk....cause she’s colored ....partially at least....she wants biology nomenclature purged of bad whiteness...which is everyone pre 1970 per her...Darwin won’t do neither Audubon

26 posted on 06/05/2021 10:24:07 AM PDT by wardaddy (Feel my warmth)
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To: antidemoncrat
You're a racist bird


27 posted on 06/05/2021 10:25:15 AM PDT by Pollard
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To: antidemoncrat

kinda wonder why the term “murder of crows” was created...


28 posted on 06/05/2021 10:27:06 AM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value as well as making people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: oldtech

Oh I was just responding to that WaPo article; here though it’s starlings, nasty birds that go after sparrows and other smaller birds, eat their eggs.


29 posted on 06/05/2021 10:27:12 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Identify As Vaccinated)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

black activists hate hearing the truth,.......So,do their white dem masters....


30 posted on 06/05/2021 10:39:42 AM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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To: antidemoncrat

31 posted on 06/05/2021 10:40:27 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: antidemoncrat
"Orn blackithologist"

Maybe Cialis Newsome here should just STFU...

32 posted on 06/05/2021 10:42:46 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: wardaddy
Note how she is holding this bird by the feet. Imagine the terror being inflicted by this action!

Quick, call PETA, this human is focibly detaining a feathered denizen. How close to slavery is that?

33 posted on 06/05/2021 10:44:43 AM PDT by SES1066 (Ask not what the LEFT can do for you, rather ask what the LEFT is doing to YOU!)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

His skin is kinda light—suspect there is some of that evil white blood in there....


34 posted on 06/05/2021 10:46:17 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: antidemoncrat

I am so sick of this racist crap.


35 posted on 06/05/2021 10:46:38 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: antidemoncrat

Of course birds are racist. They are tribal just like any other species. I once raised 2 dozen mallard ducklings. A neighbor boy along the lakeshore came, and told me had gotten 2 white ducklings at Easter time and one had died. Would it be all right to put his lonely little duckling in with my flock I allowed it. It took about three weeks before the mallards allowed the white duckling to actually swim with the flock. At first, they would just scoot ahead of him whenever he would get close to them. It was comical to behold.

Eventually they decided he was a conservative like they were and let him become one of them.


36 posted on 06/05/2021 10:48:47 AM PDT by Gumdrop
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To: antidemoncrat

I think the birds need some kind of tweetment before they get a racist canarial disease which could lead to chirpees!


37 posted on 06/05/2021 11:07:35 AM PDT by laweeks (The air is always different to a midget on a crowded elevator.)
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To: antidemoncrat

38 posted on 06/05/2021 11:08:25 AM PDT by Category Four (Joy, Fun, the Joke Proper, and Flippancy ... Flippancy is the best of all.)
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To: Bonemaker

39 posted on 06/05/2021 11:09:51 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I knew an even more racist bird than Mr. Crow. His name was Jim Eagle.


40 posted on 06/05/2021 11:47:14 AM PDT by attiladhun2
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