@Lookout

wouldn't let Jack Johnson on board
"this ship don't haul no coal"
Fare thee well

I've enjoyed getting to know him through his interviews with Aaron and others.

Jack Johnson drove the racists crazy...

At the height of his career, the outspoken Johnson was excoriated by the press for his flashy lifestyle and for having twice married white women. He further offended white supremacists in 1910 by knocking out former champion James J. Jeffries, who had been induced to come out of retirement as a “Great White Hope.” The Johnson-Jeffries bout, which was billed as the “Fight of the Century,” led to nationwide celebrations by African Americans that were occasionally met by violence from whites, resulting in more than 20 deaths across the country.
In 1913 Johnson was convicted of violating the Mann Act by transporting a white woman—Lucille Cameron, his wife-to-be—across state lines for “immoral purposes.” He was sentenced to a year in prison and was released on bond, pending appeal. Disguised as a member of a black baseball team, he fled to Canada; he then made his way to Europe and was a fugitive for seven years.

@mhagle It's become a Woke buzzword that sets me off every time I hear it.

Ayn Rand had a point about the "Gospel of Envy" - and I think Nietzsche's observation about "slave morality" was spot-on. If you set it up so that "Power" is the Postmodern "Satan", then that's pathological beyond words.

[[I tried to insert Monty Python's "Complaints about complaints" sketch/segue here, but darn it if I can't find a copy of it online anymore]]

The theme is different. https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/540/our-great-reckoning It's a long interview, but worth it. She says that human supremacy is at the root of the problem.

The Sun Interview

Our Great Reckoning

Eileen Crist On The Consequences Of Human Plunder
By Leath Tonino • December 2020

Eileen Crist knows more than a person should, more than seems healthy, about dying birds and dying watersheds. She’s keenly aware of the global crisis of biodiversity loss and ecological collapse, and she sees what’s driving it: direct causes like climate change and what she calls the “ultimate causes” — population growth, overconsumption, and technological power. But the thing that really interests Crist, the thing that she’s been studying and publicizing for the past three decades as a professor and radical environmental thinker, is an even deeper question: Why is so little being done to address this planetary emergency?

She attempts, with a mix of intellectual rigor and lyrical passion, to provide an answer in her 2019 book, Abundant Earth: Toward an Ecological Civilization. The cause of our inaction, she says, is “human supremacy,” a largely unconscious belief that Homo sapiens are the masters of creation rather than just one humble species among millions. This worldview sanctions not only factory farming, clear-cut logging, mountaintop-removal mining, and bottom-trawl fishing, but also more commonplace behaviors such as cruising along in cars that slaughter wildlife and emit carbon dioxide. As long as human supremacy prevails, Crist writes, “humanity will remain unable to muster the will to scale down and pull back the burgeoning human enterprise that is unraveling Earth’s biological wealth.”