An Iowa racist who tried to kill two children with her car got 25 years in prison for her crimes, The Hill reported on Saturday, May 29, 2021 (read story here). The children, a 12-year-old black boy and a 14-year-old Latina girl, were injured but not killed in separate attacks on December 9, 2019. [...]
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May 29th, 2021 - 12:56 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Racist car attacker gets 25 years for trying to kill kids walking to school
May 28th, 2021 - 10:14 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Cops charged with murder in Tacoma “I can’t breathe” case
Washington’s attorney general has charged two Tacoma cops with murder, and a third with manslaughter, in the March 2020 killing of a black man when he was “tasered, handcuffed, and hogtied, with his face covered by a spit hood,” AOL News reported on Thursday, May 27, 2021 (read sto[...]
A conservative student picked a fight over diversity, then claimed to be a victim
At the University of Iowa, a dental student used the school’s listserv — intended for professional announcements only — to disseminate his political views. Like other students who had violated the school’s listserv policy, he was summoned for a “professional misconduct [...]
May 23rd, 2021 - 2:27 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Prison for white cop who brutalized innocent black man
A federal judge sentenced Brett Palkowitsch (photo, right), 33, a white former St. Paul police officer, to 6 years in prison for kicking and allowing a police dog to maul a black man, a Minneapolis news outlet reported on Friday, May 21, 2021 (read story here). Palkowitsch mistook Frank Baker (photo[...]
May 20th, 2021 - 8:07 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Cops killed him, then said he died in a car wreck
It took two years to get the bodycam videos. Now, his family knows why. Ronald Greene wasn’t innocent. He led Louisiana state troopers on a high-speed car chase following a traffic stop. But he didn’t die in a crash, either. When the cops caught up with him, they dragged him from his car[...]
Trump left white evangelicals holding toxic trash
“How can you defend White evangelicals?” asks Diana Butler Bass (photo, right), a writer and scholar on religion and culture (bio here). You can’t. Rallying behind a “messiah” who has no morals, is a cheater and liar, a serial adulterer and bankrupt, with the governing [...]
May 15th, 2021 - 2:03 pm § in Racism
Walking while black in Vancouver BC
“Vancouver police have apologized after five officers wrongly handcuffed and detained a retired black judge while he was out on his morning walk,” the U.K. tabloid Daily Mail reported on Saturday, May 15, 2021. “Selwyn Romilly – who made history as the first black judge appoi[...]
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PHOTOGRAPHY: Freedom Ride
On May 4, 1961, a Greyhound bus with 13 civil rights activists aboard left Washington, D.C.; on May 20, in Jackson, Mississippi, the so-called “Freedom Riders” were attacked by a white mob. Wikipedia says (here) that “southern … police considered the actions of the Freedom Ri[...]
May 2nd, 2021 - 7:11 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
The wages of slavery
A South Carolina restaurant manager who worked a black slave 100 hours a week without pay for 6 years has to pay the emancipated slave over $500,000 in back wages. Bobby Paul Edwards (below left), 56, also was handed a 10-year prison sentence after pleading guilty in 2019 to forced labor charges. Re[...]