#racial fight

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The Yankees of the 1950s were as well-known for their high-octane partying as their feats on the field. One infamous incident happened on May 16, 1957.

To celebrate Billy Martin's 29th birthday, a group of six Yankees, including Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, and Hank Bauer, and their wives, went to the Copacabana. They had already been to two other clubs, and were pretty buzzed.

A bowling team from Washington Heights, carousing above their station in life (that is a JOKE, no nasty notes please) was also present—and similarly sloshed. The headliner that night was Sammy Davis, Jr. Shortly after the Yanks entered, the bowlers began to heckle Davis, hurling racial epithets. The ballplayers asked the bowlers to cool it, and matters quickly went downhill.

What exactly happened was a mystery for decades. At any rate, a fight ensued. One of the bowling team, Edwin Jones, a 42-year old delicatessen owner, claimed that the big and beefy Bauer had socked him. He did go to Roosevelt Hospital with a concussion, a fractured jaw and a broken nose.

"Whitey or Yogi grabbed me and said, 'Get out of here,'" Bauer said later. "So I did, and we go back to the hotel. It's 2 or 2:30 in the morning by then, and around 4:30 the phone rings, and a writer tells me, 'Some guy claims you hit him.' I was booked, fingerprinted and walked down the street with a detective, and it made me feel like a criminal."

"Nobody did nothin' to nobody" was how Yogi summed it all up. But the Yankees were fined and Jones brought a lawsuit against Bauer, which was later dismissed. And later that season, Martin was traded (the team's owner thought he was a bad influence on Mantle, who was clearly the future of the franchise), causing much bitterness and leading to his slide as a player.

Above: Mickey Mantle, Billy Martin, Hank Bauer, and Charlene Friede Bauer after a grand jury cleared Bauer of assault charges from the fight at the Copa. Photo: Harry Harris for the AP via the NY Times

It wasn't until three years ago that another version of events came to light. Joey Silvestri, a bouncer at the Copa, told the New York Times that "[t]here were no Yankees involved in the fight. Nobody threw a punch but me." He said he'd socked Jones twice, and the victim's head had hit a wall. "Hank Bauer and Billy Martin have always been maligned, when they're really the good guys. They were protecting Sammy Davis that night. If that happened today, they'd build a monument to them."

Whether Silvestri was telling the truth or just protecting his pals, we'll never know. Everyone involved is now dead.

#vintage new york #1950s #baseball #NY Yankees #Joey Silvestri #Copacabana #Yankees Copacabana brawl #Yankees history #Hank Bauer #Billy Martin #Yogi Berra #Mickey Mantle #brawls #Sammy Davis Jr. #Whitey Ford #racial fight

[pcktknife]

why did they decide to give skullgirls the most insanely complicated controls for ps4

#theres no way other fighting games are like this 😭 #don't give me weird colored buttons just tell me the controlssssss #anyways in other news they updated the game to get rid of filias horrendous story intro andthe black egrets ugly armbands i think big bands #story was also changed a wee lil bit regarding racial violence and freaks are upset abt it #kae.txt

[your-local-aaa-battery]

My heart is broken for Ryan Gainer. No one deserves to die simply for being black and autistic. We must fight for the rights of all autistics, because no one will do it for us.

It is so close to autism awareness month, and my heart hurts knowing just how many people face the same discrimination for simply having a disability and being a POC.

I urge everyone to share and reblog as many posts as they can. Get the internet’s attention! Because we need everyone if we are going to continue the fight for justice for Ryan Gainer.

Rest in Power, Ryan Gainer

#ryan gainer #rest in power #blm #blacklivesmatter #autistic lives matter #autistic child #black children #police brutality #racisim #ableism #ableist bullshit #ableist nonsense #fuck ableists #fight for your right #fight for justice #social justice #justice for ryan gainer #autistic poc #POC #person of color #autism awareness #autism hate crimes #hate crimes tw #racial prejudice #stop prejudice #murdered children #tw murder #actually autistic #autistic community #autistic experiences

[sanyu-thewitch05]

Me watching the LGBT community who almost never rarely gives black women and girls, asexuals, or aromantics genuine respect, pretend we’re all friends and have always treated us right the minute it’s June 1st and want to use black women(mainly darkskinned) and girls as their little poster girl:

#asexual #aromantic #It’s always coming from the non black people(including other racial minorities) too #and the stuff coming out of the lgbt community towards black women and girls has gotten real nasty #i have seen numerous people(although they’re mainly black) say that black people are inherently queer because we’re unnatural and strange #in the eyes of white supremacy and white people #like are you ok in the head??? why do you want to say that black people are inherently strange and we defy every social standard #as of our existence is a social statement #I personally think the worst thing I’ve personally heard(from yet another black person) #was that black women and girls would get seen as men or trans women because our hair is nappy #what does our natural hair have to do with getting seen as men or trans women?? #and the white lgbt people just applauded them and hearted their tweet #it annoys me how for some weird reason political and social movements will mainly use black women especially darker black women as rep #and It’s almost always by a non black person #like why don’t you use a girl or woman from your own race in your political and social justice artwork #oh wait that’s right #because in general the lgbt community views black women and girls as magical negras who will be their ride or die sista soulja #who will mule and fight for them no matter how badly they outright insult us or sneakily talk badly about us #pride month is basically another black history month when it comes to how everyone reacts to it #every reaction to it is superficial and they’re only celebrating us because they feel like they had to or wanted social points #had it been any other month they would’ve been focusing on the group that they belong to

[suguruslut]

When Dick gets in a fight at school after being called a racial slur, Bruce dives into researching about how to help his child deal with racism, learning a lot about his son's identity (and his own) in the process.

#dick grayson #bruce wayne #dick & bruce #richard grayson #batman #robin #batman and robin #dc comics #dc universe #light angst #identity #romani dick grayson #racial slurs #school fights #gotham #modern au #ethnicity #wayne manor #father son relationship #character development #family fluff #dick grayson fanfiction #dc fanfiction

[elvisqueso]

I am on some bullshit right now, bruh

#just re-watched pocahontas for the first time in many many years and dawg #the character animation in that film is so gorgeous #like they went so hard on ACTING through the animation #im getting obsessed again like i was when i was little #like u gotta understand: the disney pocahontas character (a truly fictional character inspired by real events let's get that straight) #i was like in love with her. i wanted to be her like oh my god #and the way they animated john smith was such a departure from their other disney LI's up til then (as *i* recall) #so detailed!! the expressions!!! the fucking YEARNING!!!!!! #best love story out of all the disney flicks imho. as a Story it's so powerful #I'm gonna think about the symbolism of them having to part #after grandmother willow had told them 'only when the fighting stops can you be together' #implying that the fighting isn't over and probably never will be #fuxking painfuslfjk #i know i know: c'est ~~problématique~~ #but look. I'm from a racially diverse family okay? #my dad's side especially. nobody over there stuck to their own race/ethnic group #my parents are a mixed couple. i know how hard it is to make that work. #most interracial couples I'd seen on tv until that point were very...chaste? #mostly played for laughs (oh haha the cultural dissonance is so cute and funny!) or worse: to play up racial sterotypes #but to see one depicted as a straight-forward romance- as two people deeply in love and not played for a gag? AND as the core of the story? #mannnn that means a lot to me even all these years later #so yeah im deep in the 'hunting down feel-good fix-it fics' phase wish me luck

[mynnthia]

this is just me being petty over fandom-nonsense, but as a poc whos been reading dunmeshi for 6+ years, seeing white anime-onlys make posts about the characters of color that are inaccurate at best (and racist at worst) while woobifying white characters is so annoying

feeling like thistle, get these white interlopers out my dungeon

#yes these are just fictional characters. but Real Life People of Color can see how white ppl talk about fictional racialized characters #we can see how you assign positive intent to white characters being needlessly mean and rude #meanwhile assigning poc malicious intent when there is none or when they have justified concerns #speaking in general here bc ive seen white ppl being weird+racist abt all the major supporting characters of color #who have showed up in the anime so far #its not just me noticing this shit either lol. just as 1 example: #ive seen several east asian fans express how they empathized with toshiro's grievances towards Iaios re: feeling unable to express #their discomfort towards white ppl who were being pushy + crossing their boundaries + being racist (intentionally or not) #ive seen some who said they were shocked toshiro is hated by many western fans bc of that 1 fight #since the characters ended up forgiving each other afterwards + learning and growing from it #mynn.txt

[wishingforautumn]

I don't know if the whole Alabama Brawl situation has made it's way to tumblr yet but I gotta say the hypocritical, selective outrage i'm seeing from white folks is crazy. That black man hit a white woman with a chair and suddenly they're sooo against violence towards women, right? Did they miss the part where that white guy ran up and blindsided that young black woman by grabbing her face, putting his arm around her throat and taking her to the ground? Or did she deserve that for being in the fight in the first place? Keep that energy for those white women who had no problem punching and kicking men and women and even continued hitting that security guard after initially jumping him in the first goddamn place.

Also them saying "well how do you know they were racist, it's just a fight that happen to be between black and white people" Uhhmmmm... Sure Jan. Is it really a coincidence that Trump was in Montgomery Friday and Saturday this shit happens? I'm sure that maga spirit was flowin' through them and they took it out on a black security guard for having the audacity to tell them what to do.

#the whole situation is so crazy #and it could have been so much worse #but hey #solidarity #this shit aint gonna fly in 2023 #make racists afraid again #alabama river boat brawl #montgomery alabama #alabama river fight #personal #my 2cents #tw: violence #racisim #racial justice

[hussyknee]

Not entirely sure how I'm expected to respond when I point out something is white as fuck and the person I'm criticizing goes "I'm literally PoC!!" Okay? Good for you? Get well soon??

I literally live in South Asia, a place still nursing the world's worst colonial hangover. That's like one billion brown people desperately in need of joining Bootlickers Anonymous. If I had to respect the rancid takes of every yahoo that lives here I'd have to drown myself in the sea.

Living in white countries does something odd to diaspora brains. If you call yourself BIPOC in your own head long enough you end up forgetting you're just a garden variety idiot mainlining white supremacy like everyone else.

#essay: why I hate the term BIPOC #1) it's North American as fuck #seriously the word has little meaning for Black and brown people in Europe. We're all just darkies over there bc the whites dgaf #also there's two systems of race over there. the global colour system that's a result of european colonization of the other continents #and the older system unique to the region where white Indo-Europeans hates the fuck out of everybody else #so you have to be very specific about the fact that you're coloured of skin #i mean black people in australia are aboriginals. 'black' even in the US used to be a political identity not only a racial one #2) i'm not fucking BIPOC in my own country. I just live here. #I am the default. it's whites that are alien and specified #considering we're literally the global majority‚ it would be very funny if we just called ourselves 'people' and only singled whites out #it's them that invented race after all. just so they could proclaim that white people were the master race #i know it wouldn't work bc then they'd all be like 'how DARE you call us white' like Zionists. but it would be funny #i just think that this whole BIPOC thing makes whites out to be default and makes us hyperaware of ourselves as political entities first #and fuels neoliberal identity politics that culminates in fighting over twitter hashtags and 'Diversity Equity Inclusion' bs #where they make Black and brown people mouthpieces and cops of white supremacy and imperialism #and calls it 'representation' #racism #white supremacy #colonialism #colonization #knee of huss

[andromedasummer]

can one of you f1 girlies become a journalist and interview the drivers who refused to take a knee because they wanted to fight racism in a different way/disagreed with how blm went about seeking justice and ask them, now that nearly 3 years have passed since the may protests, what steps they've taken to educate themselves on racism? what actions they've taken to improve things for people of colour within formula one/motorsports as a whole? or how they've gone about promoting racial equity in their own country?

#f1 #formula one #its been long enough surely they must have made some headway? right? (: ? #no those dumb fucking black and white anti racism videos dont count because their vagueness allowed #for them to be co-opted by white people who believe racism exists and that the whole of blm/equality movements are racist to them #from what ive seen literally only lewis has taken action to set up foundations and research groups focusing #on improving racial diversity at both grassroots and professional levels #others have given lip service but genuinely if another driver has been helpful in fighting racism in motorsports do mention #it would be a very very pleasant surprise #because the whole we race as one movement was very much image control #it was always going to be down to lewis and the other poc in the sport like zhou or yuki to fight against the unique and #insidious racism they face in the sport. ultimately the others won't because while racism is a problem they have #and causes problems for others. they see it as a problem they're not responsible for solving #and im sure most of them genuinely truly dont think theyre racist. dont know how their actions can enforce racism #but lewis has stood there and explained over and over again both behind closed doors and tv screens #and at a certain point that continued refusal to listen or engage becomes active and malicious ignorance #and that makes you racist. whether they believe that of themselves or not.

[undercooked-icicle]

Life imitates art.

#disney zombies is my favourite allegory for racial segregation in america #will and kate are not zombies #you look delicious #oh i mean gourgeous #Zed canonically has eaten people #that is why he would fucking annihilate Troy Bolton in a fist fight

[flango87]

#activism #human rights #social justice #free palestine #ceasefire now #climate change #climate action #climate justice #climate crisis #fight for justice #collective liberation #liberation #collectivism #anti capitalism #quotes #racial justice #activist

[waywardsalt]

linebeck character sheet yippee

excuse the messy screenshots i could not figure out how else to share these while also keeping them comprehensible

#if needed i think by converting it to pdf i can get descriptions of all of the spells and cantrips #loz #legend of zelda #linebeck #phantom hourglass #wtf else do i tag this #anyways. +11 to persuasion +8 to deception and performance. #based on my own ideas for him. didnt bother with the bio segment bc thats all technically up to interpretation #look you can fight me on the dex and int but those were my chosen racial bonuses and also i think it fits #salty talks #my post #also i just picked a bard instrument proficiency at random its whatever #I ALMOST FORGOT A SCREENSHOT OF THE SPELLS LMAO #ive never made a character sheet for an existing character so this is def a lil rough #the thing im least certain of is the save the dying cantrip #but i picked it with the idea that hes got decent medical skills and would find it useful for whatever reason

[cupiare]

this school really deserves its impending doom bcs management is soooo tone deaf “but why do our students choose to go to uni in their own city and out of the 2 they choose the non russell group one why aren’t we doing something to support them to aim higher 🤔” could it possibly be that this school is in one of the most deprived areas of the city/nationwide and thats a significant factor affecting academic achievement so students default to the uni w lower entry requirements theyre likely to get into? or maybe that our predominantly immigrant students and their families don’t share the culture of moving out and living independently at 18? that their immigration status and overseas qualifications affect their entry requirements ? that many of them are responsible for their families and don’t want to leave them? that its more affordable to stay home and not be in even more debt by taking out a maintenance loan to stay alive? the girls who aren’t allowed to leave home before marriage? what a truly confounding phenomenon that our students don’t go to a russell group uni it must be a very bad look that we get 90% students in higher education or formal training after college but not the ‘best’ choice. But what do i know i guess !

#p #theres no institutional racism and no racial and ethnic segregation here guys don’t worry. our students have equal opportunities! #unreal how tone deaf that whole email was #asking what we’re doing wrong where we’re going wrong #as if its no achievement to consistently send off students to uni regardless of status or rank #and like we have loads of students who Do move out and go to very good unis and even oxbridge #loads of students going into medicine and engineering and law #and loads of students whom we had to fight and advocate for to their families to even allow them to go to uni!!!!!! #you’re looking at one of the shittest areas and one of the shittest schools and acting like we’re getting disappointing results #shove your british values up your ass fix your country #on the same note as shitting themselves over ofsted and getting less than a good rating My brothers ofsted is comparing our school to #schools in the posh neighborhoods (some of the most middle upper class areas nationwide also) #and instead of seeing this as an opportunity to challenge standards and place value on everything we do right by our students #they’re trying to get the stats equal to those other schools and its having tangibly adverse effects on achievement engagement and attendanc #i’m sick from frustration with this damn schools leadership u are all shit #they should maybe possibly potentially look at what has actually improved student achievement and whose ideas they were #hint. not the white british leadership team’s #but i digress .

[randomnameless]

It's kinda funny how consistent it is that every time Rhea brings up Willy during an argument with Edelgard the latter just pretends she didn't hear that part of the speech and focuses entirely on some minor throwaway comment instead for her response lol

Remember how her lines, when you use her in NG+ against Supreme Leader are basically "Willy :'(" over and over?

I mean (and big thanks to @deathbirby for the lines!) :

Rhea engaging against Supreme Leader :"You bear such a resemblance to him.. It breaks my heart that I must defeat you."

Rhea rekting Supreme Leader : "Wilhelm. If only you were alive today."

I remember a blogger made a meme about Supreme Leader being pissed that Rhea always talks about Willy when she talks to her, and well, that's not completely wrong? lol

But yeah, more seriously, if Supreme Leader really thinks Rhea doesn't value human life at all - because she is a Nabatean (note how she adds "Child of the Goddess "女神の眷���" at the end of this sentence in the jp text, that Treehouse obliterated for ~reasons~) - it is actually very telling : the very same Supreme Leader, faced with Rhea expressing grief/ or thinking fondly about Willy, thus, valuing at least Willy's life (even if he is long dead), aka a human life, doesn't react at all.

But that's a very Supreme Leader thing, she will bulldoze through her path, even if you dangle evidence in front of her eyes that she operates on wrong/faulty premises, and never reconsiders or self-reflects. Rhea very obviously still cares about Willy? Well, Supreme Leader dgaf, Rhea is a Nabatean, and Nabateans don't value human life.

#anon #replies #iirc this issue/gap/discrepency when i first played Tru Piss in 2019 threw me in that hell hole #Rhea obviously cares about humans and humans want her dead #look at that lolcalisation lolcalised work #'no no no we cannot have our favorite character be racially biased against the evil church lady' #'let us edit this where is 4Kids's magical pen?' #FE16 #is it the wilhelm hour? #that dude throws so many wrenches in how Rhea is portrayed by this game #uwu alone b4 u? No she had her sibs but moreover the dude she remembers 1k years after his passing as a guy who saved and supported her #and in nopes she wrote an elogious history about him why missing him textually when she fights #uwu doesn't care about humans? Rhea ran a giant orphanage and again cares a lot about willy even beyond his death #but this verse never confronts Claude and Supreme Leader about their misconceptions about Rhea even if Claude in VW #has an epiphany and realises water is wet #3 nopes #those fighting lines lol #Rhea stuff

[humanrightsconnected]

Today marks 3 years since George Floyd's murder. His death sparked demonstrations around the world and was the largest racial justice protests in the United States since the civil rights movement.

As we honor his life and legacy, discover from Advancement Project, Baltimore Action Legal Team (BALT), BlackOUT Collective, BYP100 (Black Youth Project 100), Dream Defenders (DD), Know Your Rights Camp (KYRC), Live Free, Organizing Black, Race Forward, and Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation (SOUL) how you can continue the fight for racial justice! 

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#george floyd #justice for george floyd #say his name #i can't breathe #police brutality #end police brutality #black lives matter #blm #blm movement #racial discrimination #racism #racism in america #institutional racism #systemic racism #end racism #stop racism #fight racism #anti-racism #no racism #no to racism #say no to racism #racial justice #racial equality #equality #racial equity #civil rights #social justice #human rights