I’ve only ever seen the clips, but that sounds likely.
I read a bit of the response and the gist of it is that they are looking into privacy violations concerning the recordings. What was actually recorded? Not so much.
A Canadian friend of mine recently mused that it’s a mystery why blacks have not slit the throats of every white American they come across.
Basically the plot of Trees by Wendell Everett. Manages to be hilarious and horrific at the same time. Highly recommended.
Jazz musician Miles Davis famously answered the question of how he’d like to spend his last five minutes: “With my hands around a White man’s neck.”
I’ve had the same thought about Indigenous people in Canada: I’m impressed and grateful that they are so patient and willing to try to build a better society for us all.
The part about the charred body and barbeque was definitely a joke. It had a punchline and laughter and everything. The rest sounds like casual talk, shootin’ the breeze. Without further evidence I wouldn’t say it amounts to a conspiracy to place a hit on a journalist, but it still reflects very poorly on them. Longing for the days when sheriffs could lynch Black people sounds just as bad as it looks in print.
~Max
The county commissioner has resigned.
I don’t know what kind of folks you hang around with where this is “casual talk”, and people tell jokes about charred bodies. But I don’t think I want to know them.
It wasn’t too long ago in that part of the country that people were burning black men alive and putting photos of it on postcards.
Oklahoma law looks pretty much like my state’s open meeting law, which says that anytime we have a quorum, it is functionally a meeting of the board or committee. when we had open meeting law training from the state, counsel told us not to get together a majority of our committee unless we were going to announce it, even for a beer.
More specifically, from the presentation below:
Hypothetical: Post-Board Meeting Lunch
Does the OMA apply?
• Best Practice: majority of body’s members should
not attend lunch together
• Note: If members insist on a group lunch, announce it at the end of the meeting, and invite everyone to join the public body.
As for recording, there’s this:
Any person may record the meeting, provided it does not interfere with the meeting
Indeed. I remember seeing a post on my local transit agency’s website recently announcing a public board meeting at a long-time driver’s retirement party, because a quorum of the board was expected to be in attendance.
I hope his party wasn’t ruined by people demanding to know when the 62B is going to resume late-night service at pre-covid levels.
(seriously though ending service at 9 PM is an absolute joke)
It reminds me of the four drunken frat boys in Borat, they were saying pretty much the same thing.
The scene at issue in the lawsuit depicts Borat conducting a drunken interview with three college frat boys in a motor home. As the four grow increasingly inebriated, they make racist remarks about slavery and how minorities in the United States “have all the power.”
Oh, and they lost that lawsuit.
Never heard of it, just now got it on Kindle from my local library. Percival Everett.
Thx - and sorry. Was reading a lot of Percival Everett and Wendell Berry earlier this year.
Everett definitely has an interesting point of view - well worth reading.
I’ll second (or third) the recommendation of Trees. An amazing read.
Let’s put aside the reality that most people, black or white, aren’t murderers.
Look at the numbers. 75.8% of Americans are white. 13.6% of Americans are black. If there is a race war in the United States between blacks and whites, black people are going to lose.
The fear that black people could institute a system of anti-white racism in America is just a paranoid delusion of some white power idiots who are bad at math. (They probably failed most of their other classes as well.)
It gets better. The newspaper just released the entire tape and transcription. It appears to include an exchange that indicates sexual favors were exchanged for raises.
History is full of societies where ethnic or religious minorities wielded all the power. There are even a few extant today. So that alone isn’t what makes the white power idiots dead wrong. Although you’re spot on that they’re both wrong and idiots.
What makes them wrong is that the entity with all the political power is always the entity with all the economic power. And however outnumbered US blacks are today measured by headcount, that is dwarfed by how much they are outnumbered by dollar count. The tales of highly paid athletes and millions (!) of welfare queens driving gold-plated Rolls Royces in every city notwithstanding.
We are suffering a plague of morons this century.