Black Lives Matter Bollocks

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Does it never stop:

The first “officer” was said to be around 30-years-old, of mixed heritage, approximately 6ft 1in and with an athletic build. Police described the second as white,

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And here was I thinking they were an organized disrupter of peace

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/514456-black-l ... aign=Email

" While 2020 may be remembered as the year Orwell turned over in his grave – and also the year deemed the perfect "match" for Satan – 2021 might well be remembered for the year Alfred Nobel did back flips in his.
The Nobel Peace Prize has often generated controversy over many of its dubious nominees and recipients. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger shared the prize with his counterpart, Le Duc Tho, “for jointly having negotiated a cease fire in Vietnam in 1973.” Kissinger won despite his role in the bombings in Cambodia and in the killings in ‘Operation Candor’. President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, inspiring him to bomb seven countries as he managed to out-Bush G.W. Bush. The former Nobel secretary told the AP news agency in 2015 that in awarding the prize to Obama, “the committee didn't achieve what it had hoped for.” You don’t say?"

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The Nobel prizes are awarded by a committee, they are not beamed down on a sunbeam from the Heavens. The same ideological thinking that permeates academia and the self-appointed intellectual elite controls the awards. I take great pleasure in remembering that Nobel made his fortune in armaments and explosives a truth that probably makes the Peace Prize award committee cringe.

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Aunt Jemima finally has a new name
Was Mammy already taken?

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/09/business ... index.html

New York (CNN Business)Quaker Oats is releasing a new name and logo for its "Aunt Jemima" products, finally retiring the racist stereotype that has adorned its pancake mixes and syrups for decades.

The name "Aunt Jemima," long criticized as a racist caricature of a Black woman stemming from slavery, will be replaced with the Pearl Milling Company name and logo on the former brand's new packaging, according to parent company PepsiCo.
"We are starting a new day with Pearl Milling Company," a PepsiCo spokesperson said. "A new day rooted in the brand's historic beginnings and its mission to create moments that matter at the breakfast table."

The new brand is scheduled to launch in June, one year after the company announced the change. Aunt Jemima was one of several food brands — including Uncle Ben's, Cream of Wheat and Mrs. Butterworth's — to announce redesigns as protests against systemic racism erupted across the United States this summer.
The story behind 'Pearl Milling Company'
The Pearl Milling Company was the late-19th-century business that created the original ready-made pancake mix, according to PepsiCo. It was founded in 1888 by Chris L. Rutt.
Rutt named the original company after "Old Aunt Jemima," an 1875 song from a minstrel show that featured performers in blackface who wore aprons and bandana headbands.
The new Pearl Milling Company brand logo replaces the Aunt Jemima image with what appears to be a 19th century watermill, where flour was ground at the time. The new logo's red, white and yellow color scheme matches the colors that were used on Aunt Jemima's packaging.
"This name is a nod to where our delicious products began before becoming a family-favorite breakfast staple," PepsiCo said of its new Pearl Milling Company branding. "While the Aunt Jemima brand was updated over the years in a manner intended to remove racial stereotypes, it has not progressed enough to appropriately reflect the dignity, respect and warmth that we stand for today."
PepsiCo said it conducted extensive market research to come up with its new brand name.
"Quaker worked with consumers, employees, external cultural and subject-matter experts, and diverse agency partners to gather broad perspectives and ensure the new brand was developed with inclusivity in mind," the company said.
News of Aunt Jemima's rebranding in June started a domino effect among food brands with racist or otherwise controversial mascots. Within hours of the announcement, the Mars food company announced it would do away with the brand name and logo for Uncle Ben's rice, eventually rebranding itself as Ben's Original.
Conagra-owned syrup maker Mrs. Butterworth's, whose humanoid bottle shape looks like a woman of color when filled with maple syrup, announced they were changing the brand's name on the same day. And one day later, Cream of Wheat's parent, B&G Foods, said it was doing away with its Black chef logo, which was based on a dim-witted, blackface minstrel show caricature seen in early 20th century Cream of Wheat ads.
PepsiCo said Pearl Milling Company will also announce an annual $1 million commitment to empower and uplift Black girls and women in the coming weeks. This investment is in addition to PepsiCo's $400 million, five-year commitment to advance and uplift the Black community, the company said.
Pearl Milling is inviting the public to visit its website and nominate nonprofit organizations for an opportunity to receive grants to further that mission.
"The commitment we're making is a reflection of our broader PepsiCo values of diversity and inclusion and support of the Black community," PepsiCo said.
How will the public react?
It's tough to gauge the reaction to Aunt Jemima's new branding, said Apex Marketing Group president Eric Smallwood, who says the reception for the new branding will depend on Pepsi's rollout plan.
"It's a little different because you're changing the name of a brand," he said after previewing an image of the trademarked logo. "If you just saw it by itself, you'd have no idea it was Aunt Jemima, which had its tie longstanding with pancakes and pancake mix. This doesn't."
Allen Adamson, co-founder of New York-based branding consultancy Metaforce, says the new name of Pearl Milling is a strong choice.
"The name has craft and artesian imagery, a key for success in the food category," he said. "It is also importantly authentic, as it was the product's original name. Younger consumers are keenly interested in authenticity."
Howard University Afro-American Studies professor Greg Carr says it appears PepsiCo is trying to strike a balance between continuing to market a popular product while scrubbing every vestige of racism from that product's new branding.
"In a way, a change to Pearl Milling Company could be interpreted as a form of corporate mea culpa for an original sin it did not commit," Carr told CNN Business. But, he added, "the market will ultimately determine whether this will be a win for PepsiCo."

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create moments that matter at the breakfast table.

Why do I feel a great urge to roll on the floor laughing? If I want a moment that matters at the breakfast table it certainly will not be because of some over processed yuk.

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https://www.rt.com/op-ed/515430-priti-p ... aign=Email

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'Finger lickin good' is also racist implying as it does that it is eaten not off a plate with knife and fork.

Mind you, Americans have yet to master the use of knife and fork together.

Mind you, are there racist undertones in 'exceedingly fine cakes'?


Clue on request.

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https://www.rt.com/op-ed/515430-priti-p ... aign=Email

And yesterday she was pressed 5 times to say she had confidence in Cressida Dick after Dick authorised the investigation into a sex ring in Whitehall based on unsubstantiated and conflicting testament from one man. Each time she evaded a direct answer refusing to throw Dick under a bus.

She is extremely astute and I am surprised she isn't being toted along with Sunak for PM.

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Very good article on this in the DM today. Perhaps Nursie will post a link?

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I see the founder of BLM now wants a boycott of the Royal family. Now if that isn't 'itist' I don't know what is.

She should be careful about trying to couple two band waggons together.

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Isn't 'boycott' sexist?

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Isn't 'boycott' sexist?

Well, he did clout his girlfriend.

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Don't you be dragging that fine fellow into this bog.

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Cheese is racist.

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Oh for heavens sake!, Cheese is racist!, Anyway I thought highly processed foods were not good for you, yet all these 'Plant based' ones are actually Highly processed!?

And if you are a vegan and feel it is necessary to tell everyone.....why?

And if you are a vegan why are you making a big deal out of trying to replicate meat? Do vegans miss it that much?

I bought some sausages a while back and didn't realise they were 'plant based' It's all hidden in with the regular meat here, sneaky bastards.

Don't even start me on 'COON' brand cheese, name changed here to 'Cheers' Cheese as of July 1, the guy who invented the Cheese....name was Edward Coon...from Philadelphia, and the activist who protested for so long to change the name is now questioning that FACT. I suppose he's a holocaust denier as well.

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Another insult to the BAME fraternity: scientists in Indiana have created the whitest paint ever. How dare they!

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Another insult to the BAME fraternity: scientists in Indiana have created the whitest paint ever. How dare they!

As 'white' is an absence of colour, does this paint exist?

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Technically white is the presence of all colours.

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And it is not whiter than the blackest black is black.

Researchers believe the ultra-white colour they have created may be the closest equivalent of the blackest black – know as “Vantablack” – which absorbs up to 99.9 per cent of visible light.

The new paint reflects up to 98.1 per cent of sunlight and sends infrared heat away from a surface at the same time. Previous versions of ultra-white paint have reflected 95.5 per cent of sunlight.

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Yeah...well numbers have no colour and do not lie......