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About Smart Film, Smart Glass, Projection Film Company Royal Tint

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Cool things about growing up as a Swiftie and a true Nashville local

1. I went to Hume-Fogg Academic in downtown Nashville for high school, which was one of the high schools chosen for filming of “Teardrops On My Guitar”. I ate lunch sitting in the fireplace in her bedroom scene from that music video. It got me through high school tbh.

2. Another thing about Hume-Fogg was that she later came back towards the end of my senior year and donated one of her Speak Now tour pianos to my school’s band program. They only use it on special occasions. The first was my graduation. YALL I GRADUATED IN BRIDGESTONE ARENA WHERE SHES HAD NUMEROUS SOLD OUT SHOWS TO THE SOUND OF THE PIANO THAT PLAYED LONG LIVE TO OVER A MILLION PEOPLE DO YALL EVEN UNDERSTAND

3. When @taylorswift first was debuted at the Country Music y’all of fame, the locals were the first to know! I got to see her post Speak Now exhibit up close! I got to see so much that I wouldn’t have seen if I had lived elsewhere. I got to see the the outfits only as far from me as glass would allow. The long flowy pink ‘Love Story’ dress. She had older things there too like the sparkly gold dress from Fearless. I got to see this in person. I touched the aerial thing from Speak Now’s ‘Love Story’ performance. Not gonna lie. That’s the closest I’ve been to her yet. Do not regret. One day it will be my turn.

4. Your friends run into her at the goddamn local Target while you’re at work. I can’t tell you how many people I grew up with and are friends with now that send me pictures of Taylor whenever they see her out and about. They’re casual about it, of course. Nothing but love was meant from them. They’re just updating me on my love! 💛

5. She donated $113,000 to the Nashville LGBT chamber of commerce to help fight against the anti LGBT bills that are have come into law lately, including allowance to discriminate on allowance of adoption and the other to discriminate against the transgender community. I’m pansexual. She has directly donated to something that is a part of daily life, the effects my daily life. It’s surreal.

6. Do I even need to talk about the butterfly wings in the Gulch?

7. She shopped at one of my old jobs a few times but I was off work every single time 🙃 They all showed me pictures, but they were so happy, so I was happy for them!

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How the DEA Allows for Racism in the War on Drugs

“The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Department of Justice agency devoted to preventing drug use and sale within the US, tells its agents not to enforce drug laws in rich white areas, according to a former employee.

Matthew Fogg, a former US Marshal and special agent for the DEA who worked his way up the departmental chain, earning the nickname “Batman” for his enthusiastic work, told the story in an interview with Brave New Films.

In the segment, Fogg makes explicit comparisons between the so-called “War on Drugs” and literal military wars. He also draws attention to the overt racist and classist nature of the decades-long internal “war” [...]:

‘We’re talking about Gotham city. … We were jumping on guys in the middle of the night, all of that, swooping down on folks all across the country, using these sort of attack tactics that we went out on, that you would use in Vietnam, or some kind of war-torn zone. All of the stuff that we were doing, just calling it the war on drugs.

And there wasn’t very many black guys in my position. So when I would go into the war room, where we were setting up all of our drug and gun and addiction task force determining what cities we were going to hit, I would notice that most of the time it always appeared to be urban areas.

That’s when I asked the question, well, don’t they sell drugs out in Potomac and Springfield, and places like that? Maybe you all think they don’t, but statistics show they use more drugs out in those areas [rich and white] than anywhere.The special agent in charge, he says “You know, if we go out there and start messing with those folks, they know judges, they know lawyers, they know politicians. You start locking their kids up, somebody’s going to jerk our chain.” He said they’re going to call us on it, and before you know it, they’re going to shut us down, and there goes your overtime.

What I began to see is that the drug war is totally about race. If we were locking up everybody, white and black, for doing the same drugs, they would have done the same thing they did with prohibition. They would have outlawed it. They would have said, “Let’s stop this craziness. You’re not putting my son in jail. My daughter isn’t going to jail.” If it was an equal enforcement opportunity operation, we wouldn’t be sitting here anyway.’ 

[...] Legal scholar Michelle Alexander masterfully details the overtly racist and classist origins and continued reality of the War on Drugs in her opus The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. In it, among myriad other pieces of proof evincing this fact, Alexander documents the unmitigated racism of President Nixon, the architect of the War on Drugs.

She writes:

Some conservative political strategists admitted that appealing to racial fears and antagonisms was central to this strategy [the so-called “Southern Strategy” of Republicans appealing to working-class whites in the South], though it had to be done surreptitiously.

H.R. Haldeman, one of Nixon’s key advisers, recalls that Nixon himself deliberately pursued a southern, racial strategy: “He [President Nixon] emphasized that you have to face that fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to.”

Similarly, John Ehrlichman, special counsel to the president, explained the Nixon administration’s campaign strategy of 1968 in this way: “We’ll go after the racists.” In Ehrlichman’s view, “that subliminal appeal to the anti-black voter was always present in Nixon’s statements and speeches.”

---from the article DEA Agent: We Were Told Not to Enforce Drug Laws in Rich White Areas by Ben Norton