"A new survey says white support for Black Lives Matter has slipped. Some historians say they’re not surprised" by Deanna Pan and Dasia Moore Globe Staff, September 24, 2020
Earlier this summer, thousands of Americans spilled into the streets in anger and anguish over the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, whose killings at the hands of police and vigilantes sparked an outcry against racism not seen in this country since the peak of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
Donations were made. Petitions were signed. Books like “How to Be an Antiracist" and “White Fragility" climbed to the top of bestseller lists. Protests spread from cities to suburbs, denouncing police brutality and demanding justice. More white Americans seemed willing to admit that deep-seated, structural racism did not end with the banishment of Jim Crow, but recent polling suggests white support for the Black Lives Matter movement has slipped.
“The unfortunate reality is that most white Americans are personally not directly impacted by racism. We still live in a very segregated society,” said Mark Warren, a sociologist at the University of Massachusetts Boston and author of “Fire in the Heart: How White Activists Embrace Racial Justice.” “So it’s easier for white people to just become passive or accepting of the situation without the sense of the urgency of it.”
The widespread demonstrations reached a fever pitch in June, with tens of thousands in cities across the country defying stay-at-home orders amid the pandemic to rally against police brutality and systemic racism. The protests were unprecedented in their scale and diversity, noted Brandon Terry, an assistant professor of African and African American Studies and Social Studies at Harvard University.
Months later, white engagement with the movement has slackened, mainly among white Republicans. By comparison, support among white liberals has held steady. The decision Wednesday by a Louisville grand jury not to indict any officers on charges related to the killing of 26-year-old Taylor, who was fatally shot in her apartment in March, has inspired a new wave of demonstrations following a recent lull in protests, but even among committed non-Black allies, energy has waned, said Toiell Washington, 22, one of the young organizers behind Black Boston 2020 and the massive 20,000-person march through Boston on May 31. She attributes the drop-off partly to anxiety and uncertainty about the future of the movement.
“After the marches die down, and everything stops . . . people say, ‘I’m going back to my normal life,’ which is a privilege for some,” Washington said. “The people who were at the front lines, who identify as Black, are still there. We’re still fighting, but we’re drained,” she added. “People get tired. And sometimes you don’t want to be the leader, you want to be the follower. You want somebody to tell you what’s next.”
In the context of US racial history, it is not surprising that support among non-Black groups, and white adults in particular, has fallen, experts said. Historians drew parallels between the current moment and the 1960s, a decade that saw sharp peaks and valleys in white support for the civil rights movement.
Many white Americans who had been apathetic felt compelled to take a stand in the early ′60s after seeing photos of the Birmingham church bombing that left four Black children dead and footage of police terrorizing marchers with dogs, water hoses, and clubs.
“Importantly, that groundswell of support . . . followed white perpetrators attacking nonviolent demonstrators,” said Tomiko Brown-Nagin, a legal historian and dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. “That’s the scenario in which whites are likely to support civil rights movements because there are two clear sides” representing “good" and "evil,” she said.
Polling in 1965 showed a clear majority of Americans in favor of civil rights legislation, with 76 percent of adults backing a proposed law to ensure equal voting rights, but in the second half of the decade, media coverage and political framing of the movement shifted. Some prominent organizers began to question their commitment to strategic nonviolence, and in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968, riots erupted in several cities across the country. White America’s support for the movement dwindled.
“What people saw on their television screens in the late ’60s was street protests,” said David Krugler, a history professor at University of Wisconsin-Platteville. “They see chaos, they see a breakdown of civil order, and they say, ‘I don’t want that’ and make an association between that and the civil rights movement and Black power.”
Krugler and Brown-Nagin said white backlash to the civil rights movement was intensified by the “law and order” rhetoric Richard Nixon deployed in his 1968 presidential campaign, which Trump and other political figures have echoed in their derision of protesters today.
“In the very early stages of the protests, I think the Republicans and their surrogates in the press were surprisingly invested in making distinctions between white leftists they caricatured as ‘Antifa’ and Black Lives Matter protesters who received more sympathy. . . . This shifted very quickly, however,” Terry said in an e-mail. “The Trump administration now is engaged in a full-scale demonization of Black Lives Matter, charging them with hatred of whites, police, and America.”
That parallel between the 1960s and 2020 resonated with the Rev. Miniard Culpepper, who came of age in the ’60s and has watched energy for racial justice in Boston wax and wane over the years. “I think it has become political. Some conservative politicians started labeling [protesters] as troublemakers,” he said.
There is, however, one significant way in which the current moment deviates from all historic precedent, specialists said. Despite the backslide in white, Hispanic, and Asian support for Black Lives Matter, a majority of American adults remain in favor of the cause.
“Black Lives Matter has really captured the imagination of the American public in a way that was unthinkable even five years ago. The fact of broad white support for it is truly remarkable in light of history,” said Brown-Nagin. “It is an extraordinary development in the context of a movement for Black lives.”
Elizabeth Rucker, a volunteer for the Boston chapter of Showing Up For Racial Justice, or SURJ, a national network of groups mobilizing white people against white supremacy, has seen “a huge uptick” in local interest in SURJ’s work. Since the start of the summer, SURJ Boston had added 60 core members, Rucker said. Their e-mail list has doubled. On Wednesdays, SURJ Boston hosts virtual “action hours,” in which participants make phone calls to lawmakers, write letters to the editor, and organize food and supply drives for organizations led by people of color.
Although participation in the action hours has dropped from a high of about 100 people in June to roughly 20 to 40 people any given week, Rucker said, members have “deepened their commitment" to fight for racial justice.
“I think we are seeing a stronger, more committed movement of people who are now activated, regardless of that drop-off we see," she said.
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"Angry restaurant and bar owners demonstrated in Marseille on Friday to challenge a French government order to close all public venues as of Saturday to battle resurgent virus infections. The protesters, and local officials in France’s second-biggest city, are also threatening legal action, to try to block the order via the courts. They argue that Marseille’s virus case rise has been stabilizing, and that the central government in Paris is unfairly singling out Marseille for the toughest virus measures in the nation. The government argues that hospitals in this Mediterranean city are under strain and the closures are the only way to stem the spread while avoiding new lockdowns....."
Don't tell me the French are going to fall for that again as they debate proper schoolwear.
"Authorities in Madrid are expanding restrictions on movement to another eight areas of the Spanish capital, which is leading the country’s coronavirus contagion curve, despite a recommendation from the national government that the partial lockdown should apply to all of the city. Over 850,000 residents in 37 neighborhoods have been confined this week to their areas unless they have a reason to go elsewhere, while maximum capacity in shops and restaurants has been reduced and parks closed. Those limitations will now be expanded to 160,000 more people in areas where more than 1,000 people per 100,000 residents have tested positive for the new virus in the past two weeks — the highest rates in Europe — the Madrid regional government announced Friday. The limitations in Madrid have been protested by locals....."
You can understand fascist tendencies in Spain, but England?
"Police moved into London’s Trafalgar Square on Saturday afternoon to break up a protest against coronavirus restrictions after demonstrators ignored warnings to observe social distancing rules. Thousands of people, most of whom weren’t wearing masks, crowded into the iconic square to hear speakers who criticized government-imposed restrictions as an overreaction to the pandemic that needlessly restricted the public’s human rights and freedom of expression. The Metropolitan Police Service said before the event that officers would first encourage protesters to follow social distancing rules and would take enforcement action if demonstrators failed to comply. As the event began, officers were visible around the perimeter of the square, but they didn’t move into the crowd for about three hours. The demonstration came as Parliament was preparing to review COVID-19 legislation and the government was imposing new restrictions to control the disease. It also came a week after a similar event during which thousands of people crowded into the iconic square. Police say several officers were hurt during that event when a “small minority’’ of protesters became violent....."
Time to get out of there and go home.
"European Union officials urged member nations Thursday to move quickly to slow the latest wave of COVID-19 infections to avoid a repeat of the broad lockdowns that paralyzed the continent’s economy in the spring. EU health commissioner Stella Kyriakides said the most recent risk assessment showed that some countries are reporting more cases now than they did during the earlier pandemic’s peak in Europe. “We are at a decisive moment. All member states must be ready to roll out control measures, immediately and at the right time, at the very first sign of potential new outbreaks,” Kyriakides said. “This might be our last chance to prevent a repeat of last spring.” To control the virus’s rebound, several EU nations have imposed localized lockdowns, limited public and private gatherings again, and restricted the operation of bars, restaurants and entertainment venues. European Center for Disease Prevention and Control director Andrea Ammon, noting the social impact of such moves, noted the need to maintain basic precautions such as physical distancing and frequent hand washing. “Until there is a safe and effective vaccine available, rapid identification, testing, and quarantine of high-risk contacts are some of the most effective measures to reduce transmission,” Ammon said. Her agency said in its latest evaluation of the pandemic that the level of immunity in the European population remains low, estimating it is under 15% in most of the EU and the U.K. “Most of the people can still be infected,” Ammon said. The ECDC said EU countries should emphasize curbing the spread of the virus among children and adults under age 50, making sure the public is aware that people in those categories can become seriously ill from COVID-19 as well as expose more vulnerable populations to the virus. While some EU members have shortened their mandatory quarantine periods, the ECDC continues to recommended 14-day quarantines for people who had contact with infected individuals. “The pandemic is far from over and we must not drop our guard,” Ammon said....."
They are setting the stage for a second, tighter lockdown based on false positive cases and utter lies.
The New York Times feels feels sorry for Americans, and my response is don't feel sorry for us, feel sorry for yourselves:
"Facing a worrying spike in coronavirus cases in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods, New York City health officials began carrying out emergency inspections at private religious schools on Friday and threatened to impose an extraordinary lockdown in those communities that would be the first major retreat by the city on reopening since the pandemic began. Mayor Bill de Blasio ordered the Police Department and the Sheriff’s Office to enforce public health guidelines in several Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in Queens and Brooklyn, where residents often do not wear masks or engage in social distancing, but community leaders said residents have been resisting the guidelines because of hostility toward Mr. de Blasio and the growing influence of President Trump, whose views on masks and the pandemic have been widely embraced. The crackdown is occurring shortly before Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, which begins on Sunday night, and it was not immediately clear the impact that the measures might have on the ability of people to gather in synagogues. The Health Department said that if significant progress toward following guidelines did not occur by Monday, officials could issue fines, limit gatherings or force closings of businesses or schools. “This may be the most precarious moment we are facing since we emerged from lockdown,” Dr. Dave A. Chokshi, the city’s health commissioner, said at a news conference in South Brooklyn. Officials this week released statistics showing that the positivity rate in some Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods had grown to anywhere from 3 percent to 6 percent, significantly more than the city’s overall rate of between 1 percent and 2 percent....."
Not even Jews are immune to totalitarian tyranny, and as usual will just accept it.
Or not:
"Israel tightens holiday lockdown, restricting prayers and protests" by Isabel Kershner New York Times, September 25, 2020
JERUSALEM — Warning that his country could be approaching “the edge of the abyss,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu imposed an even tighter lockdown than the one he announced last week to limit the spread of the coronavirus in Israel, which now has the highest rate of new cases per capita in the world.
What's the death rate because case totals are fraudulent.
The new measures mean that, starting Friday, in the midst of the Jewish High Holy Days, everyone except essential workers must stay home from work. The only gatherings allowed will be outdoors and include a maximum of 20 people — all of whom must have traveled no further than 1,000 meters from their homes.
“We have heard from the experts that if we do not take tough and immediate measures, we will reach the edge of the abyss,” Netanyahu told his Cabinet, which met through the night to decide on lockdown restrictions after the number of new cases per day had risen to about 7,000, but the intense haggling in recent weeks over the lockdown has exposed the extent to which Israel’s response to the coronavirus has gotten bogged down in its political and culture wars.
The battle pitted the generally pro-Netanyahu ultra-Orthodox against the sturdy contingent of anti-Netanyahu protesters. The ultra-Orthodox leaders argued that they should be allowed to pray without restrictions as long as the protesters were allowed to protest en masse, and the protesters argued that the situations were not comparable because the protests were outside and that the government was seeking to use the virus as an excuse to shut down the opposition.
Who ever thought an "anti-semitic" blogger like me would have reason to make common cause with the ultra-Orthodox Jews, but there it is. It's proof that this is a war of monsters against humanity.
The rules announced Thursday effectively ended both the protests and indoor worship, although they made an exception for Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, which begins at sundown on Sunday. The restrictions allow prayer services inside synagogues on Yom Kippur but with limits on the number of worshippers.
The protests, which have drawn tens of thousands of demonstrators each week to the streets outside Netanyahu’s official residence in Jerusalem, are calling for his resignation. Netanyahu, a polarizing conservative, is standing trial on corruption charges and is blamed by many Israelis for failing to prevent the country’s high rate of infections.
He has long railed against the protesters and cast them as anarchists and spreaders of the virus. Until Thursday, they were allowed to continue demonstrating because of an Israeli law that protects the freedom to protest.
It's the exact opposite here! Somehow, they are immune!
A growing chorus has criticized the mass protests, saying it was unfair to allow them to continue while there were already restrictions on communal prayer, and that the discrepancy was leading to an erosion of public trust and noncompliance with other antivirus guidelines.
The debate over protests vs. prayers encapsulated the divide in Israeli society, said Gayil Talshir, a political scientist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The protests represent the core of the liberal-left constituency, while the synagogues symbolize the national-religious outlook of the Netanyahu camp.
“This,” she said, “is the politicization of coronavirus that is happening in Israel.”
Look at that, left and right coming together!
Experts also questioned whether Netanyahu’s concessions will serve public health. Some pointed out that allowing all-day services inside synagogues on Yom Kippur will defeat the purpose of the tight lockdown, because evidence suggests that the virus spreads much more easily indoors than outdoors.
As on the Rosh Hashana holiday, last week, rabbis will be required to arrange worshippers into clusters of 20 to 50, wearing masks and separated by dividers. The number and size of the groups will be calculated according to local infection rates, how many entrances each synagogue has and the space available.
Ultra-Orthodox Cabinet ministers had argued that for many Jews, praying outdoors in the heat on Monday on Yom Kippur would be unbearable, especially for those observing the holiday’s 25-hour fast. An editorial in a popular ultra-Orthodox news site warned this week that closing the synagogues on Yom Kippur would be “a declaration of war on God and his Torah.”
Synagogues are typically packed to capacity on Yom Kippur, usually the most attended services of the year. Under the guidelines, some synagogues will be able to accommodate hundreds of people.
“Keeping the synagogues open on Yom Kippur sends the wrong message,” said Hagai Levine, a professor of epidemiology and chairman of the Israeli Association of Public Health Physicians. “In certain situations you can have dozens of people in synagogue for many hours.”
He said that the anti-Netanyahu demonstrations had not been a driving force behind the spread of the contagion.
Unless it's a Trump rally.
The double standards are what exposed the fraud.
As in New York, the crowded conditions in Israel’s ultra-Orthodox communities have already proved fertile ground for increased transmission.
Tighter lockdown coming to them as de Blasio raises bad memories for those people.
Some believe that the new restrictions, which will exact a high economic price, were largely designed to quash the protests.
“All the linkage between the protests and prayers is artificial, a Netanyahu spin,” said Ofer Koch, 67, a protester and businessman who has spent much of the last three months at a protest tent near the prime minister’s residence, even spending some nights on a thin mattress on the sidewalk. “His only goal is to stop the demonstrations,” but Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer, who runs a variety of programs catering to Orthodox communities in Israel, said his community had been “up in arms” about the discrepancy between the limitations on communal prayer gatherings and the mass demonstrations. “People were asking where’s the justice? Where’s the equality in this?” he said, adding that it had deepened the distrust in the government.
You read stuff like this and realize we are mostly all the same.
Netanyahu and his attorney general, Avichai Mandelblit, however, have said that the urgent need to address the public health crisis overrides even basic rights, including the right to demonstrate or to hold communal prayers without limitations.
“The meaning of leadership is making tough decisions, necessary decisions, lifesaving decisions,” Netanyahu said. “We do not have the privilege of knowing that we could have prevented additional mortality and did not do so.”
He called the accusation that he was primarily acting to halt the protests “ridiculous.”
Mandelblit said in a statement on Thursday that the high death rate legally justified restrictions on all gatherings, including demonstrations and prayers.
The protests will be allowed to continue, within limits. The police determined that up to 2,000 protesters could fit into the area around the prime minister’s residence, while maintaining social distancing and standing in separate clusters of 20 people, but under the new rules, only those who live within 1,000 meters may attend.
I guess it is the 2,001 protester that is infected, 'eh?
Since the freedom to protest is anchored in Israeli law, the restrictions announced on Thursday required the Israeli Parliament to approve ordinances to limit that freedom.
Where have Parliaments been during this rush to totalitarianism anyway?
Some ultra-Orthodox Israelis had themselves exploited the freedom to demonstrate. After Rosh Hashana, families identified as ultra-Orthodox were caught on video masquerading as protesters, lugging suitcases onto private buses marked as protest buses in order to get around restrictions on movement between cities, and to move through police roadblocks without being fined, and the protest movement lost much public support after the media aired video of dozens of activists enjoying an al fresco meal on Rosh Hashana eve at the protest tent in Jerusalem without social distancing, flouting the lockdown that had forced many other Israelis to eat alone. Another group gathered on the beach in Tel Aviv for a protest that turned into a beach party.
America is so much like Israel, and why wouldn't we be after years of being under Zioni$t control?
The national debate has also given rise to differences within the protest movement. Black Flags, one of the groups behind he protests, preemptively suspended its participation in the protests in central Jerusalem, saying it would limit its presence to smaller, local demonstrations on bridges and at junctions across the country.
At the protest tent, Koch’s group, “Ein Matzav,” which roughly translates as “No Way,” had planned a last stand on Thursday night: an event where participants were seated on chairs in the street, 2 meters apart, and listened to lectures about the government failure. Hundreds of people showed up.
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We have our own version of Netanyahu here at home:
Baker activates Mass. National Guard to help ‘maintain public safety during large scale events’
He is calling them out of the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home where 2 former officials face criminal charges over the COVID-19 outbreak that has blood all over Baker's hands.
"Amid a push for law enforcement reforms across Massachusetts, the state’s top public safety official is planning to step down after less than two years at the helm. Executive Office of Public Safety and Security Secretary Thomas A. Turco III, who oversees the State Police and the state’s prisons, parole board, sex offender board, and medical examiner’s office, sent his staff an e-mail Wednesday morning noting he plans to retire at the end of the year. Turco, 56, wrote that his decision came “following many long discussions with my family,” but offered no further explanation for his departure. Turco, who makes $170,000 a year, also asked the retirement board to boost his pension by reclassifying his two most recent positions with the state....."
Look at him grabbing for loot on the way out the door despite the suffering of the citizenry!
Quinte$$ential Ma$$achu$etts!
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I'm told he "has signaled that he’s ready to end Massachusetts' toughest-in-the-nation ban on evictions next month, but said he is working with state housing courts to soften the blow for renters at risk of losing their homes" even as a federal judge rules that the ban can stand for now.
"Brigham and Women’s Hospital scrambles to contain cluster of COVID-19 cases; The hospital is testing staffers, patients, and their contacts, and limiting visits" by Felice J. Freyer Globe Staff, September 24, 2020
Brigham and Women’s Hospital revealed Thursday that it is working to contain a cluster of COVID-19 cases in two of its medical-surgical units, an unusual outbreak that apparently occurred as “battle-weary” staffers let their guard down.
Hospital officials believe the outbreak was triggered by either a patient or an employee who interacted last week. The employee came to work while “presymptomatic” — infected but not yet showing symptoms. The employee tested positive on Sunday and the patient on Monday.
The patient went on to spread the virus to other patients and employees, who in turn spread it to others, possibly aided by a series of lapses in infection-control protocols, hospital officials said. By Thursday afternoon, the Boston hospital had identified eight patients and 11 employees infected in the cluster, and said it expects that number to grow as contact tracing continues.
Asked whether people should be scared to go to hospitals now, Governor Charlie Baker noted at a news conference Thursday that huge numbers of people have sought care for COVID-19 in recent months in hospitals, doctors' offices, and other locations. Even so, he said, “the number of outbreaks that we’ve seen in Massachusetts hospitals over that period of time has been pretty small, which is a big statement about the work that’s been done by our hospital community, and our health care community generally, to do a really good job.”
Baker said that the Brigham notified the state Department of Public Health as soon as the cluster was recognized, and that the state will “work with them and with their infectious disease specialist to chase down any additional cases . . . to make sure that the outbreak is contained.”
Additionally, health officials said, the state Public Health Lab is assisting with genetic sequencing to help identify patterns of transmission.
Anne Marie Pettis, president-elect of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, said in-hospital spread of coronavirus appears to be uncommon, based on her conversations with colleagues, but there’s no national database tracking such events.
WTF and why not?
“After a while people get tired out, and there’s that fatigue that comes along with having to do all of this, what I like to call the new abnormal,” Pettis said. The key, she said, is “constant auditing and monitoring” to make sure protocols are followed. “We cannot let our guard down,” she said, but hospital infections have occurred. In July, an employee of BayState Medical Center in Springfield traveled to a hot spot outside the state and apparently spread the virus to colleagues who were lax about mask-wearing in the break room, leading to a cluster of cases among workers and patients that eventually involved 55 people, according to news reports.
Hospitals in Massachusetts have been treating a steady but low number of COVID-19 patients for the past two months.....
Bull.
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Trump is right about the RINO.
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The Globe asks this morning if death is the great equalizer, and finds "quite the contrary. Death exposes in high relief the layers of inequities, in race and income, care and opportunity, that shape life down to its final hours. It is a truth the pandemic has only underscored — in the first in a three-part series as "in 2019, the Boston Globe Spotlight Team set out to research death in Massachusetts, to determine the effect of wealth and race on how long people live and how and where they die. This investigation involved an unprecedented statistical review of the information contained on 1.2 million death certificates, covering every Massachusetts death back to 1999. We surveyed by mail more than 450 families that had recently lost a loved one, asking specific questions about the end-of-life care their loved one received, and we collaborated with Suffolk University on an unusual survey, polling public opinion on issues related to death and dying. The findings were stark and striking. Here, in a progressive state that boasts some of the world’s greatest hospitals, poor people live shorter lives, much shorter, than those with money. Black and Latino patients get less hospice care, die with more pain, and suffer more early deaths than do white and Asian people. People who are Black, Latino, or poor die more often inside sterile hospitals, while the wealthier have long had better access to residential-like alternatives."
The Globe is hearing voices from the grave as the white man pisses away his privilege up Schitt’s Creek.
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