D Magazine Booted off Grocery Store Magazine Rack (Dallas)

[Budi]

D Magazine Cover


Here's a screenshot of the Point of Controversy, as shown on the cover, at my local SouthLake Central Market grocery store today.
They chose to display the D Magazine.


We can file this under 'American History'

From the Article:
https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2021/11/d-magazine-booted-off-grocery-store-magazine-rack/

SNIP
....
"But a confrontation is exactly what we intended to create. The entire city needs to be confronted with this history. Some folks need to feel uncomfortable. We can’t find a better future without learning from our past. If you haven’t yet heard, that concrete will soon be torn up and replaced by a park. This is a huge step forward — and it doesn’t even come close to settling the score.

That’s what I can tell you about our thinking on the November cover. That’s how we tried to attract attention to a story about the White people who were in charge 50 years ago and how they used their institutions to diminish the lives of Black folks who lived near Fair Park and undermine generations of people who would follow.

Teaching this sort of history has gotten difficult lately. Some parents, it seems, would rather that their children never be exposed to uncomfortable truths.
State lawmakers have decided that local school districts can’t make their own determinations about the ability of their teachers to convey information. Instead, the state that prides itself on limiting government interference has passed a law that injects the state into every public school in Texas, in a purported effort to protect young people’s feelings (I’m summarizing).

I hope folks will take the time to read before they react. I hope they can talk to their kids about what happened 50 years ago and what’s going on today. "

[dchill]

1. "Some folks need to feel uncomfortable. "

We already know that Gopublicans CAN'T have their fee-fees hurt. It's in the Constitution, I guess.

[elleng]

2. 'We can't find a better future without learning from our past.'

but many don't want to do that.

[brush]

3. 50 years is not that long ago. The effects are still being felt...

today. What happened to all those displaced Black people and their descendants? How were they financially affected...negatively I mean?

By quite a bit we can be sure.

No wonder so many in charge at the time, and now, don't want their dirty deeds exposed. Why their children might not feel bad about themselves, they'll feel bad about their parents and grandparents.

It's so pathetic when your history is so evil you go to extreme measures to keep it hidden.

[Budi]

4. Yes. Applauding the DMagazine for running this on it's Cover.

That some store/s couldn't face the past as the Magazine stared their customers in the face & chose to not display it at all, gives even more creedence to the editor of the D, in putting it right there, front & center.

Bold step up & much appreciated.
Now THIS is good journalism.

Bravo, D.

This is also echoed in the recent NYC controversy as well.
Where freeways & bridges were placed to draw racial lines on the city map.

Shine that light!

[KS Toronado]

5. Probably QublicOn store owner afraid of CRT

when in fact it's simply history from one journalist.