The Philadelphia Inquirer has apologized to readers and staffers after publishing the headline “Buildings Matter, Too” — an ill-conceived and racist riff on the Black Lives Matter movement for a column that ran Monday.
On June 4, we’re calling in sick and tired.
Touché.
The headline sounds like an excuse the Trump administration would use to justify the use of unreasonable force.
Trump originally wanted it to read: Bunkers Matter, Too.
A newspaper in Philly had the headline of “Buildings Matter, Too”? Seriously? Who the hell is the editor and why is (s)he still employed there?
There is a flaw in the thinking of people who put up Blue Lives Matter flags (my next door neighbor) or chant “All Lives Matter” (the knuckleheads who wanted to knock heads as vigilantes on Girard Ave in Philly the other day). “Black Lives Matter” in no way implies that other lives do not. You can say this to them and they still don’t get it. Is it an inability to think logically that drives the racism or the racism that makes it impossible for them to think logically?
I guess they can’t help but hear it as implying that other lives do not matter because at the root of it they don’t think Black Lives Matter or at least don’t matter as much as theirs…
Wow…just WOW! She is amazing!
ETA: She is also, according to a poster at the thread: “desiree barnes, former press aide for michelle obama”
I’m just singing along with Randy Newman, “It’s Money That Matters”.
Shades of Fannie Lou Hamer – an American hero.
Righteous.
Thanks for posting it here.
She worked for both Obamas for a decade, including in the White House.
Runs her own firm now.
Buildings are people too?!? Mitt Romney’s underground race of Corporation-People Are gonna be super jealous.
You know what they say about genius having its limits …
Is tone-deafness a pre-existing condition? Because it’s so widespread as to be a pandemic of its own.
They keep saying, “It’s bad that cops murder black folk, but people need to stop damaging property!”
They should try, “It’s bad that people damage property, but cops need to stop murdering black folk!”
They’re prioritizing the WRONG part.
We know where their priorities lie - they already told us that we’re all just chattel for the stock market and us olds are supposed to die now and get it over with so the rest of the population can get pedicures and their hair bleached.
One short step from there to: some things matter more than life - like buildings.
Someone actually thought it was clever.
Mind-boggling.
Legacy news media needs to start proving it’s value if I’m supposed to give a shit what happens to them. I’m tired of hearing about what poor, passionate journalists will do without you if you’re teaching them to be Maggie Haberman and Judy Miller.
