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Posts Tagged ‘Racism’
April 8th, 2015 - 10:06 pm § in Uncategorized
3 More Innocent Black Men Freed
Railroaded to prison, 3 black kids — just 17 and 18 when they were scooped up by Cleveland’s flawed and racist criminal justice system — walked out of prison as free men last month after serving nearly 20 years for a murder they didn’t commit. It took years of legal work to f[...]
April 7th, 2015 - 7:33 pm § in Uncategorized
This police shooting was murder. This time authorities admit it was.
https://youtu.be/QSHktRebJFM North Charleston, South Carolina. White cop. Black driver. Traffic stop. Another dead black man. Shot in the back while running from the cop, who claims he fired in self-defense and believed his life was in danger. The cop, Michael Slager, claimed the victim, Walter Scot[...]
April 7th, 2015 - 10:11 am § in Schools & Colleges
Rioting in Kentucky! But no one is shot by the police.
https://youtu.be/aRvML-qG-Ng “For the second year in a row, Kentucky has been bounced from the NCAA tournament. And, for the second year in a row, riots broke out on and off campus in Lexington. As fires blazed in the middle of the street, citizens burned lawn chairs, shirts and other items[...]
April 3rd, 2015 - 12:11 pm § in Misc.
Another railroaded black man is released from death row
“Anthony Ray Hinton is thankful to be free after nearly 30 years on Alabama’s death row for murders he says he didn’t commit. And incredulous that it took so long. Hinton, 58, looked up, took in the sunshine and thanked God and his lawyers Friday morning outside the county jail in [...]
April 1st, 2015 - 8:08 am § in Uncategorized
Oxnard cops flaunt civilian killings
Yes, I know this is April Fool’s Day. No, this article isn’t satire. I wish to God it was, but sadly, it’s the real Magilla. The Oxnard, California police department has a horrible reputation for gratuitous violence. It has paid multiple 7-figure settlements for killings of innocen[...]
March 30th, 2015 - 1:36 pm § in Uncategorized
Feds indict Alabama cop who left elderly visitor from India paralyzed
A U.S. Attorney has filed criminal charges against an Alabama cop who inflicted severe injuries on an elderly foreign visitor by slamming him to the ground during a Feb. 6 stop-and-question. The man was merely out walking in his son’s neighborhood, but his dark skin color prompted a suspicious[...]
March 28th, 2015 - 9:36 pm § in Uncategorized
What does it take to fire a bad cop?
Apparently it’s impossible in some places. William “Robocop” Melendez of the Inkster, Michigan, police department has been sued a dozen times by citizens accusing him of vicious beatings, false arrest, framing suspects, planting evidence, lying on police reports, and racism. In the[...]
March 27th, 2015 - 7:45 am § in America, The Ave Scene
APARTHEID IN WASTATE
Liberals and conservatives in WASTATE think this is a liberal state. Data like this, however, argue otherwise. It seems to me that the State and especially Seattle have effectively spread cosmetics over our problem by creating affluent, self satisfied mainstream communities while African Americans, [...]
Practice what we preach
How can African Americans expect to rid our society of bigotry and racism towards the African American community, if we practice bigotry towards other minority groups.[...]