#Placerville #Noose #WhiteGuilt #California The California Gold Rush town of Placerville will change its logo to remove a noose that stems from its mid-19th century reputation as 'Hangtown' following lynchings of criminal suspects by mobs of miners. The first lynchings, of two Frenchmen and a Chilean, was carried out in 1849 - five years before the official founding of the town. Placerville is 50 miles east of Sacramento, and now home to 10,000 people. The City Council voted Tuesday night to remove the noose after listening to emotional comment from residents. Some argued that it is part of the history of the town, but others said it is violent and gives the city a bad reputation, the station reported. The council's vote was unanimous. 'I am horrified and deeply hurt that we have a symbol of a noose in our logo,' said one caller during a Zoom debate on the issue on Tuesday. 'A noose is a symbol of death. A noose is a symbol of lynching. A noose is a symbol of racism. I think we're better than that.' Yet others, according to KCRA, said it should be put to a public vote. 'I would like us to keep our noose. It's taking away from our history,' said another. 'We need to keep our history. This world right now is taking inch by inch little pieces of our history and throwing it away. 'If you guys are gonna change anything it needs to come out to the people and the people should be able to vote on it.' The decision comes amid a reconsidering of images of nooses in the context of racial injustice and the history of violence against black people in America. The signs and symbols of Hangtown are commonplace in Placerville, the El Dorado County seat in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada about two hours northeast of San Francisco. The circular logo shows a miner washing gold in a stream. The noose hangs from a tree in the background. Written around the image are the words 'City of Placerville,' 'Old Hangtown' and '1854,' the year the city was incorporated. Placerville dates to the era when thousands of fortune-seekers from all over the world suddenly descended on California in search of the Mother Lode. According to the city's history presentation, the area was first called Dry Diggins - a reference to a type of mining. It became known as Hangtown when three men - two French and one Chilean - were lynched in 1849 on suspicion of crimes. The fourth and final lynching occurred in 1850 after a man stabbed someone in a saloon, according to the presentation by Brendan Lindsay, associate professor of history at California State University, Sacramento. Other lynchings were considered but suspects were ultimately turned over to authorities and the name Placerville rapidly overtook the nickname in published reports. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=himHK1tSepY

#Pepsi #CocaCola #White #BeLessWhite #Diversity Coca-Cola employees were urged to be “less white” as part of the company’s alleged diversity training — but the material was yanked offline following a viral whistleblower post. The “Confronting Racism” course in question was offered by LinkedIn Education and allegedly utilized by the soft-drink titan. “In the U.S. and other Western nations, white people are socialized to feel that they are inherently superior because they are white,” reads one of the slides, allegedly sent from an “internal whistleblower” and posted on Twitter by YouTube commentator Karlyn Borysenko. Another slide suggests “try to be less white” with tips including “be less oppressive,” “listen,” “believe” and “break with white solidarity.” Borysenko, who describes herself as a supporter of banning critical race theory, said the screenshots were sent to her from an “internal whistleblower” from Coca-Cola, who told her the course was “required.” Her tweet from Friday has garnered 18,000 retweets and more than 34,000 likes. On Monday, LinkedIn said it had pulled the controversial course — featuring interviews with sociologist Robin DiAngelo, the author of “White Fragility.” “The Confronting Racism course featuring Robin DiAngelo is no longer available in our course library, at the request of the 3rd party content provider we licensed this content from,” Nicole Leverich, vice president of corporate communications, told Newsweek in an email. Leverich continued, “We provide a wide variety of learning content, including more than 270 courses on the topics of diversity, inclusion and belonging. We will continue to add new courses to help people learn the skills they need to be more successful in their career, including the foundational skills we all need to be effective allies and help build a more equitable future.” DiAngelo, meanwhile, insists she was unaware she was featured in the course. “The slides included were not created by Dr. DiAngelo,” said her rep, Caitlin Meyer. “She was unaware that the videos had been re-edited in this way, or that they were being marketed as a course/training on anti-racism, since the way the content was put together did not accurately represent the way she would facilitate that type of work.” Coca-Cola denied that the training was mandatory for employees, Newsweek reported. But Borysenko told the outlet that multiple workers said it was, in fact, required. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvAJtML9VRI

#Ruben #Jail #Prison #BootyBandit #CheekBuster #Lockhimup #Trump #GOP A former digital strategist who helped design social media ads for Donald Trump's reelection campaign was arrested Friday for his alleged role in a child-porn distribution ring. Ruben Verastigui, 27, was charged with distributing child pornography, according to a release from the Metropolitan Police Department. 'Between March 2020 and February 2021, an investigation revealed the suspect distributed, received and possessed images of child pornography,' the release states. According to his LinkedIn, Verastigui worked for the Senate Republican Conference from March 2019 until July 2020. By then, the investigation into Verastigui had been in full swing. The Texas native had most recently been working at non-profit Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions. He was no longer working there as of Saturday, the Daily Beast reports. 'The details of the allegations against Mr. Verastigui are tragic and shocking,' a spokesperson for the non-profit told the Daily Beast. 'He is no longer employed by the organization and we are prepared to fully cooperate with law enforcement requests in this matter to any extent needed.' Special agents with Homeland Security began looking to Verastigui while investigating a group of at least 18 people who they say were trading child porn, according to court documents. The website name was not released 'to protect the integrity of the ongoing investigation.' Investigators say that Verastigui allegedly went by the username 'Landon' in the group chat and used the handle @somethingtaken. In one instance of communication, Verastigui is said to have told another user that 'babies' were his 'absolute favorite.' 'Well like I said babies are some of my biggest turn-ons and beast,' Verastigui allegedly said in the direct message, according to the court documents. 'Young r***… F**k I love all that.' He also allegedly sent additional messages about wanting to look at 'hardcore' videos, responding 'F**K YES!!!' to a video he was sent of an adult sexually penetrating a child. Photos on Verastigui's social media show him all over the White House and the Capitol last year. Following the attack on the Capitol January 6, Verastigui posted a photo of the Capitol building. 'America will prevail,' he said in the post. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvQEcM9BNTw

#PiersMorgan #CNN #Biden #Kamala #Trump #Lies #Vaccine Well, the brave new world of honesty in American politics lasted a grand total of 24 hours. President Joe Biden promised an immediate end to the constant lying from the White House that we endured over four years of Donald Trump's tenure. But then he couldn't help himself and promptly spewed the kind of brazen, bare-faced, media-bashing whopper that Trump would have loved. Biden's made a big noisy deal of setting a target of 100 million coronavirus vaccines in his first 100 days. But he knows that hitting this target would be a completely bogus 'achievement' because the US is already at that level of vaccination, averaging 914,000 daily doses administered last week according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and rocketing to 1.6 million on the very day of Biden's inauguration. So, at this rate, the goal will be easily attained, and masks the reality that America could and should be aiming a lot higher. That, though, wasn't the lie. That was just the kind of under-promise, over-deliver type of sneaky political spin designed to grab headlines and win a cheap 'victory' down the line when the target is easily met. No, the lie came when Biden was asked by a reporter at the White House to defend such a comparatively derisory target and angrily snapped back: 'When I announced it, you all said it's not possible. Come on, give me a break, man. It's a good start - 100 million.' This was utter nonsense. Nobody qualified to comment in the mainstream media said it was impossible. In fact, on the day in December when Biden first made his 100 million pledge, CNN's medical expert Dr Sanjay Gupta said it was 'very doable' given what he'd been told by the vaccine companies controlling supply. Biden knows this, because he'll have been told the same information by the same companies. Yet he chose to pretend the media had ALL attacked him for making an impossible promise. And he did that to deflect them from rightly pulling him up on the weakness of his pledge. Good politics, bad optics – especially from the man the media seems to think is more Saint than President. I didn't have a problem with the generally euphoric reaction to Biden's inauguration. Like most people, I found his unifying speech very inspiring and it was a welcome relief to hear some civility coming out of the mouth of the President of the United States again after four long profane years. But by the following morning, I expected the US media to start doing to Biden what they did to Trump from the moment HE got elected and hold his feet to ferocious fire. After all, the most important function of the media is to make government accountable for its actions. Instead, the open fawning has carried on in a quite naus ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaUJAeh_9dk