It’s simply about white supremacy. Conservatives like a status quo that puts white people in charge, gives white people preferential treatment, and keeps black people “in their place.” After George Floyd became yet another black man murdered by a white cop, millions of Americans pa[...]
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The other Kenosha vigilante is a black woman. She’ll likely be convicted.
Her name is Chrystul Kizer (photo, right). She’s black. She claims to be a sex trafficking victim, and says she killed her pimp — a white man (photo, left) — in self-defense. Authorities have charged her with murder. She’s out of jail on bond raised by supporters while awaiti[...]
More voting fraud found!
Across the country, Republican legislatures are restricting access to the ballot, taking away American citizens’ right to vote. It’s necessary, they say, to prevent voting fraud. By Republicans. I don’t recall reading about any cases of fraudulent votes cast for Biden in 2020, alth[...]
November 20th, 2021 - 3:21 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Sheriff charged in black newspaper carrier case
A Kitsap County judge will “oversee the criminal case against Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer, who is charged with two misdemeanors over his confrontation with a Black newspaper carrier,” a Seattle TV station reported on Saturday, November 20, 2021 (story here). A states investigation (s[...]
Seattle activist behind attacks on “critical race theory”
The tsunami of rightwing attacks against “critical race theory” didn’t come from nowhere, or happen by spontaneous combustion. It’s the brainchild of a very smart conservative activist named Christopher Rufo, who has Seattle connections. Rufo, 37, a California native, graduat[...]
November 16th, 2021 - 11:53 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Did an Iowa town whitewash a lynching?
Grinnell is a college town of 9,564 mostly-white folks (fewer than 2% African-American) a long way from anywhere. In September 2020, a local black man was found in a ditch, a rope around his neck, and his dead body on fire. A jury has decided his girlfriend’s white ex-boyfriend did it. On Tues[...]
November 14th, 2021 - 1:06 am § in Racism
Racist veteran embarrasses himself, the service, and our country
The council voted 4-1 for one of the two sites under consideration. A local veteran identified as Eugene Kaplan, a supporter of the rejected site who served in the Air Force from 1964-1970 (see here), ripped into Vice Mayor Tammy Kim as follows: “You came from South Korea. How do you feel abou[...]
Utah school ignored racist bullying, now it’ll pay millions to family of a dead student
Izzy Tichenor is 10, black, autistic, and dead by her own hand. She committed suicide on Saturday, November 6, 2021, after relentless bullying and teasing by other students, including frequent use of the “N” word, which her teacher and principal ignored despite her parents’ repeate[...]
November 11th, 2021 - 7:47 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Should black pastors be banned from lynching trials?
The Rev. Al Sharpton sat so quietly in the courtroom’s spectator benches the judge didn’t even notice he was there. The jury probably didn’t, either, until the lawyer defending one of the white men accused of lynching black jogger Ahmaud Arbery complained to the judge. Kevin Gough [...]
November 11th, 2021 - 1:43 pm § in Racism
Racist ex-police chief assures us he’s not a racist
He was caught on surveillance video (below) “leaving a ‘Ku Klux Klan’ note on a Black officer’s raincoat,” NBC News says (here). That’s not all. He also “fashioned a KKK style hat out of paper” and told the officer “he had to wear it on his next [...]