September 9, 2019 8:25 AM
Morning Reads for Monday, September 9, 2019
Oh, happy morning, fellow Georgians.
- There are four missing crew members from the capsized Golden Ray cargo ship off the Georgia coast.
- Dahlonega is bracing for a rally organized by white supremacists.
- This Georgia man caught a SEVEN HUNDRED POUND alligator in Eufaula.
- State lawmakers are studying the potential for economic benefits with expanded gambling. Adding horse racing or casino gambling in the state would require Georgians to approve a constitutional amendment allowing the expansion.
- Y’all. Who would have thought Georgia State’s football team would be this good? At this rate, we’ll still be tailgating in Atlanta when Andee’s 18, but with a lighter shade of blue…
- Former Secretary of State Cathy Cox has opinions on the new voting system that current SoS Raffensperger is working to put in place.
- Need a good laugh this morning? Quick—what’s the correct spelling, “Georgia O’Keefe” or “Georgia O’Keeffe”? And before you say anything, know this: How you answer may literally depend on which reality you live in.
- Georgia Southwestern alumna donates solar bench to university.
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Now some internal subjects have dared to suggest that King Falwell has no clothes. I am shocked, shocked I tell you…
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/09/jerry-falwell-liberty-university-loans-227914
Good link to comprehensive journalism that there seems to be less and less market for.
‘Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland’
https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/jonathan-m-metzl/dying-of-whiteness/9781541644984/
Author Jonathon M. Metzl explains his research revealing “a reality that liberal Americans were often slow to realize: Trump supporters were willing to put their own lives on the line in support of their political beliefs … make tradeoffs that negatively affect their lives and livelihoods in support of larger prejudices or ideals.”
The book is based on research of the material effects of various Republican policies in three GOP-run states, KS, MO, and TN, where the policies “gave certain white populations the sensation of winning, particularly by upending the gains of minorities and liberals” and “owning” those groups. More people died, and more people’s overall health suffered significantly, among both poor and middle-class whites, as well as the minorities they resent.
It’s people “literally dying of whiteness” as “anti-blackness, in a biological sense, then produces its own anti-whiteness. An illness of the mind, weaponized onto the body of the nation.”
A Guardian interview with the author focuses on the gun element of the book’s research, but the book is also about GOP healthcare policies and reducing education spending: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/08/racism-gun-control-dying-of-whiteness
From the interview: “When the shooter is white, the context is the individual narrative – this individual disordered white mind. When the shooter is black or brown, all of a sudden the disorder is culture.”
Guns are a signature issue in the research—-relaxing regulation for instance being correlated with increased white suicide. The author in the interview overall isn’t as anti-gun as might be construed by that quote.
Exhibit 1 in support of the Guardian interview quote above, from Rep. Jay Lawrence, R-Scottsdale at an Aug 29 forum organized by “March For Our Lives” on how to stop gun violence.
“Black and brown communities, if you look at the weapons that they have, they are not licensed. They are better armed than the police officers who are supposed to be controlling them. They have firearms galore. Black and brown communities, black communities in particular, have gangs. And the gangs have to be stopped.”
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2019/09/06/gun-violence-isnt-black-brown-problem-jay-lawrence/2233499001/
Lawbreaking brown and especially black communities are more well-armed than the police whose job it is to control them. An opinion by a GOP Congressman at a public forum that it hardly merits reporting.
I’m going to default to the Wisconsin State archive as relating to her birth and life in rural Sun Prairie and go with the 2 FF answer.
The alternative weekly reader has hit the ether. Yesterday was the first day of the NFL season. At 1:05, I turned the tv on. The Falcons were making their first punt of the new year. It was blocked.
Local breaking news on the rescue of the 4 crew members confirmed alive.
https://www.wtoc.com/2019/09/08/ship-tips-its-side-port-brunswick/
https://twitter.com/USCGSoutheast?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1171074253845946368&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wtoc.com%2F2019%2F09%2F08%2Fship-tips-its-side-port-brunswick%2F
If you are near the coast this week, show your favorite eateries some love.
https://eatitandlikeit.com/even-with-a-miss-restaurants-see-hurricane-conditions/