Taking their cue from Trump’s racist campaign, some of his followers think lynching black people is a joke. Read stories here and here and here. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Racism’
September 27th, 2016 - 6:02 am § in Uncategorized
Southern cops and body cameras
Protests erupted in Charlotte last week after another black man was gunned down by cops. Police claim he pulled a gun, but can’t back that up. The police chief refuses to release dash and body cam videos to news media or the public. The man’s family complains they were shown only 3 minut[...]
September 24th, 2016 - 8:55 am § in Uncategorized
Trump supporter: Obama created racism
“Donald Trump’s campaign chair in a key Ohio county is resigning, following a firestorm over comments she made regarding racism and how it didn’t exist before President Obama took office. In an interview with the Guardian earlier this week, Kathy Miller, former chair of Trump’s campaign[...]
September 23rd, 2016 - 1:10 pm § in Uncategorized
GOP congressman explains Charlotte riots
Black people protest white cops killing black guy. White Republican congressman responds, “they hate white people because white people are successful and they’re not.” Actually, I suspect it’s more about white cops killing black people and getting away with it. Should we clue him in, or [...]
September 23rd, 2016 - 12:36 pm § in Uncategorized
Where’s the gun?
For three nights Charlotte, North Carolina, has experienced riots in the wake of a police killing of a black man named Keith Lamont Scott. The cops say he refused to obey commands to drop a gun. His family says he was unarmed. Earlier this week, the police chief said he would show video from police [...]
Why doesn’t my time playing Basketball count towards recreational experience?
Why doesn’t my time as a scholarship athlete at both the University of Washington and Portland State University count towards recreational experience on a job application? The amount of time put into the game of basketball should count for some type of experience other than, being able to list tha[...]
August 30th, 2016 - 12:45 pm § in America, The Ave Scene
Why, What, How, Where, When?
Why have me read, Ellison, Baldwin, Parks, and Wright as a kid, if at the end of the day, I was supposed to simply accept the cards I was dealt. What was the point of learning and studying about Malcolm, Toure, Seale and Huey, if all we are going to do in response to police […][...]
August 23rd, 2016 - 9:19 am § in Uncategorized
Time for a national lynching memorial?
To ask the question is to answer it. Read the story here. Check out the design in the video below. [...]
August 13th, 2016 - 6:47 pm § in Uncategorized
Police wouldn’t have shot this guy if he’d been white
Last month, on July 28, L.A. sheriff’s deputies searching for a carjacking suspect (who, unknown to them, had already been arrested) shot and killed Donnell Thompson, 28. They found him laying in a front yard. He was unarmed. He hadn’t committed a crime. But he suffered from development [...]
Why would I go overseas?