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The Eclipse Is Racist Because It Fails To Affect Enough Black People, The Atlantic Suggests
The Daily Caller ^ | 08/20/17 | Eric Owens

Posted on 08/21/2017 9:50:58 AM PDT by Enlightened1

The Atlantic, a once-great magazine, has determined that the total eclipse of the sun due to occur on Monday will fail to affect enough black people.

The Atlantic’s very lengthy essay on the failure of the eclipse to occur where a sufficient number of black people reside is entitled “American Blackout.” It clocks in at a remarkable 4,544 words and does not appear to be satire.

Concerning “the Great American Eclipse,” Brooklyn Law School professor Alice Ristroph writes in the rapidly deteriorating magazine, “there live almost no black people” “along most of its path.”

The Atlantic’s longwinded law professor assures readers that “implicit bias of the solar system” is “presumably” not the cause of eclipse’s failure to affect enough black people.

“Still, an eclipse chaser is always tempted to believe that the skies are relaying a message.”

Oregon, where the eclipse will first appear in the continental United States, “is almost entirely white.” “There are very few black Oregonians, and this is not an accident.” It’s totally on purpose in 2017, The Atlantic claims, because the Pacific Northwest state had a “racial exclusion” clause in its original 1857 constitution.

The Atlantic notes that the eclipse will then move toward Wyoming and Idaho, which also have very low populations of black people. (RELATED: Now America’s National Parks Are Racist)

After an extensive discourse criticizing the U.S. Census, The Atlantic tells readers that the eclipse will travel through Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and Missouri. In this section of its essay, The Atlantic manages to drop the names of Bruce Springsteen, Jesse James, Eminem, Chelsea Manning, Michael Brown and Howard Zinn (a shallow socialist writer panned even by most serious socialists).

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blacks; eclipse; racist; theatlantic
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To: Enlightened1

Nothing is stopping black people from living anywhere in the USA. They are only 12-13% of the population, so it stands to reason that they will not be represented in large numbers everywhere. If they like living in the southeastern and northeastern USA and don’t want to move out west, that is their business.


41 posted on 08/21/2017 10:56:27 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: Enlightened1

And she didn’t even issue some disclaimer saying she was just kidding? Seriously if I had to go to court for so much as a parking ticket this shyster would be the last a**hole I’d want representing me.


42 posted on 08/21/2017 11:00:44 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (Islamophobic? NO! IslamABHORic)
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To: All

Astronomy, like Maffs and Histery be racis!!!


43 posted on 08/21/2017 11:02:03 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Enlightened1

Lunacy prevails. Over the weekend I read an article that said the eclipse was racist because the businesses in the path were mostly owned by white people who would make lots of money off the eclipse while blacks would miss out on the opportunity.


44 posted on 08/21/2017 11:02:34 AM PDT by kalee
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To: EinNYC
< “The Excitability of Black Holes”. >
Kinda sounds more like a lecture on porn.
45 posted on 08/21/2017 11:03:07 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (Islamophobic? NO! IslamABHORic)
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To: Enlightened1

AT LAST !! Someone GETS IT and publishes it for the world to see.

WE have been planning this for a long time.
It is a test run for the MAN MADE eclipse that will happen in 2020 when the US led expedition will engineer a total eclipse that will be fatal to all but WHITE people.

UNLESS, of course, they are Conservatives.

Special white wash solutions will be available (in secret) to those that believe.

Others will do without.

Hitler was working on this but couldn’t get the melanin balm to ‘work whiteness properly’ (In case if anyone didn’t notice, Hitler was on the dark side. Jewish in appearance—NOT that there is anything wrong with that!!)

Unbeknownst to all but a close inner circle, Trump spent his fortune to make this a happening and we can expect to see some results around Nov 2020, just prior to the election so the Libs can’t come up with an anecdote(sic).

Got to go, my coder ring is transmitting some foolishness that someone is going to ‘hide’ the sun.

If we wait till 2200, it will be ‘safe’ to hide the sun.


46 posted on 08/21/2017 11:12:21 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""If the earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now")
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Who woulda thunk that the Sun was racist? Just because it puts on blackface for a few hours, it doesn't mean it's a blazing Nazi racist Republican who voted for Donald J. Trump.
47 posted on 08/21/2017 11:13:52 AM PDT by GOP Congress
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To: Pride in the USA

The solar system is racist! Donald Trump must condemn the sun, and demand that NASA take it down.


48 posted on 08/21/2017 11:41:07 AM PDT by lonevoice (diagonally parked in a parallel universe)
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To: Enlightened1

Did they omit Matt Damon, the Commiewood actor who inflicted Howard Zinn on the credulous public?


49 posted on 08/21/2017 11:51:34 AM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: Enlightened1

For 2 minutes the moon suddenly becomes “mammy”...


50 posted on 08/21/2017 11:51:59 AM PDT by bar sin·is·ter (Climate Scientology - another example of science fiction morphing into a religious cult)
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To: Enlightened1

Someone please tell me this a joke!


51 posted on 08/21/2017 11:55:32 AM PDT by liberalism is suicide
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To: Enlightened1
Separated At Birth?
Professor Alice "The Eclipse is Racist" Ristroph      Matthew Gray Gubler
    

52 posted on 08/21/2017 12:20:47 PM PDT by Dahoser (Separation of church and state? No, we need separation of media and state.)
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To: Enlightened1

This has got to be satire. The sun and moon conspiring against black people?


53 posted on 08/21/2017 12:28:16 PM PDT by proud American in Canada
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To: Enlightened1

Anyone who fails to call out the sun should be forced to resign. And we should take the sun down immediately.


54 posted on 08/21/2017 12:31:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Enlightened1

That this was pinned by a Brooklyn Law School professor doesn’t surprise me ... the fact that a magazine editor chose to include it ,,,,,,,nah never mind, that doesn’t surprise me either


55 posted on 08/21/2017 12:37:22 PM PDT by Robe (A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: Enlightened1

She’s a very bad writer. A profusion of confusion.


56 posted on 08/21/2017 2:42:42 PM PDT by SallyM (the eclipse is racist?)
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To: Dahoser

Matthew’s prettier!


57 posted on 08/21/2017 3:30:58 PM PDT by twyn1
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To: Enlightened1
Yeah, definitely racist. It looks like Africa and Asia gets most of the eclipses.


58 posted on 08/22/2017 1:46:35 PM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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