Software developer Angie Jones' recent girls trip revealed that America still has a long way to go when it comes to race.To most, that's not surprising. But what's unique is how the specific experience Jones and her friends went through revealed the pervasive way systemic racism still runs through our culture.Jones is the Senior Director of Developer Relations at Applitools, holds 26 patented inventions in the United States of America and Japan, and is an IBM Master Inventor.On July 27, she tweeted about a flight she took with nine other Black women and they all sat in first class. "People literally could not process how it was possible," she wrote. "Staff tried to send us to regular lines. Passengers made snide remarks. One guy even yelled 'are they a higher class of people than I am?!'" — (@) Jones and her friends were the targets of racism that ranged from the seemingly unconscious — people who assumed that Black people don't sit in first class — to the blatant — those who were seriously bothered that Black people were being treated as having a higher status.It's interesting that she didn't mention anyone saying "good for you" for succeeding in a world that often holds people of color back. Instead, she was greeted with incredulity and jealous rage.There are a lot of white people who can't stand the idea of a Black person being elevated above them. It's disturbing that in 2021 there are still some who will admit it publicly.Jones' tweets inspired a lot of people to share their stories about the racism they've experienced while flying first class. — (@) — (@) — (@) — (@) — (@) — (@) — (@) Jones' tweets also angered some people to the point that they denied her story. To which she responded, "To those saying I'm lying, you're a huge part of the problem," she wrote. "You tell yourself a notable person is lying (for what reason, I cannot figure out) before you believe there are actual racists in...America." — (@) One Twitter user came up with the perfect retort to the person who asked, "Are they a higher class of people than I am?!" — (@) This article originally appeared on 07.29.21

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We’ll hear a lot of calls, many of them well intended, to “take down the temperature” of political rhetoric. And the temperature will go down — briefly. (Except on @MSNBC where some guest or host will surely call Trump a fascist within a week or two.) But then it’ll just revert to where it is now with the left calling the right fascists and calling Trump “actual Hitler”, and the right using somewhat but only somewhat less inflammatory language about the left. Here’s the thing: I think calling someone Hitler goes way too far because if someone were Hitler you can argue that any action taken to stop him would be justified. (Indeed, quite a few on the left feel that way about Trump.) But short of that, I think almost anything (especially facts and honestly held opinions, even if wrong/stupid) is fair game in politics. And it doesn’t matter if people get offended. People should study the rhetoric surrounding the presidential election of 1800. Yeah, we should take the temperature down…but only a few degrees. Not only is vibrant and quarrelsome political discourse an American tradition, but I also don’t like setting unattainable goals. And some sort of genteel and gentlemanly (even for women) version of American political debate is both impossible and, from my viewpoint, unwanted. So let’s deal with public pronouncements of wanting people harmed or comparing an American politician to one of the very worst figures in human history. But other than that, when it comes to our politics, I say carry on. READ MORE from Ross Kaminsky: Documenting the Ten Commandments Missing the Target on Bump Stocks The post Vituperative Political Discourse is American Tradition appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

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