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Super Bowl fans whine over Kendrick Lamar's halftime show - 'DEI only goes one direction' (www.irishstar.com)

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Lamar filled the stage with performers, but none of them seemed to be white. While most may not even have noticed, some particularly upset users took to X to express their frustration.

"There's no diversity in the half time show. DEI only goes one direction and this horrible halftime show perfectly represents why DEI needs to die," a user wrote.

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[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Was never an issue when ya'll were pouring acid to get us out of the pool. Or when we couldn't go to "white only" businesses. Or schools.

A white performer can have an entire stage of nothing but white dancers and they wouldn't say boo, but the black performer does the same, suddenly they see it as unfair. 🙄

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

Was never an issue when ya'll were pouring acid to get us out of the pool

Hadn't heard about this one

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/motel-manager-pouring-acid-water-black-people-swam-pool-1964/

The motel manager, Jimmy Brock, in an effort to break up the party, poured a bottle of muriatic acid into the pool, hoping the swimmers would become scared and leave.

One swimmer, who knew that the ratio of acid to pool water was so great that the acid was no longer a threat, drank some of the pool water to calm the other swimmers’ fears.

It did not scare the swimmers, though it seems like it was effective in making the protesters at least nervous — the amount of acid to the amount of water being so small it was mostly safe—and so a cop jumped in to arrest people.

Ah that's why. Still a dick move, but definitely not the horror show it is intended to sound like, and not as often as it's intended to sound, being "once" and all.

An off-duty policeman, Officer Henry Billitz, jumped in—except for his shoes still fully clothed—in an attempt at dragging them out himself; he beat them up as well.

Yeah that's about what I'd expect.

In 2007, aged 85, Jimmy Brock died at his St. Augustine home.

Well, good news, looks like everyone who threw acid into pools to scare black people 61yr ago is dead! At least there's that. That whole "policeman" thing otoh...