“A Justice Department investigation will allege sweeping patterns of discrimination within the Ferguson, Missouri, police department and at the municipal jail and court …. [P]olice disproportionately use excessive force against blacks …, black drivers are stopped and searched far m[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Racism’
March 3rd, 2015 - 1:45 pm § in Uncategorized
DOJ finds “sweeping” racism in Ferguson police and courts
March 1st, 2015 - 10:52 am § in Misc.
South Carolina preserves Southern tradition
This is a tale of two plaques, old and new. The old plaque commemorates Greenwood, South Carolina’s fallen of World War I — segregated under “White” and “Colored” headings. The new plaque, bought with $15,000 raised by the town’s two American Legion posts &#[...]
March 1st, 2015 - 12:00 am § in Uncategorized
Cleveland blames 12-year-old boy for being shot by trigger-happy cop
CBS News reports, “The city of Cleveland is arguing in court documents that 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was fatally shot by police while holding a pellet gun last November, was responsible for his own death. … In a court document filed Friday, the city … states that the family&#[...]
February 25th, 2015 - 4:16 pm § in Hypocrisy
Fashion police hypocrisy
Get a load of Pink Hair (anyone know who she is?) involving herself in TV host Giuliana Rancic’s racist jibe at Zendaya Coleman’s Oscars hairstyle: http://youtu.be/w81uOPRCbVU [...]
February 21st, 2015 - 8:29 pm § in Uncategorized
Colorado NAACP bombing arrest
A man arrested in connection with the bombing of an NAACP office in Colorado Springs last month reportedly told authorities he has nothing against the NAACP and was only trying to blow up his tax preparer’s office next door. Too bad the NAACP is in the same building, because that brought the F[...]
February 20th, 2015 - 2:46 pm § in Uncategorized
Race Relations In Today’s America
It doesn’t appear we’re quite there yet …[...]
Misinformation
I joined a conversation about women’s rights yesterday at work with two white women. It was interesting until one co-worker started questioning why African American history received so much attention in comparison to women’s studies. All history should be discussed, there is no[...]
February 17th, 2015 - 7:31 pm § in Politics
Mississippi GOP legislator blames his racist remarks on news reporter
In a remarkable tour-de-force of non-courage, a Mississippi GOP legislator whose racist remarks got him in hot water with his own fellow Republicans after he was quoted by a newspaper is trying to pass the buck to the reporter who wrote the story. State Rep. Gene Alday, R-Walls, who came under fire [...]
February 17th, 2015 - 3:10 pm § in Uncategorized
Food stamp rogues gallery
Thirty-two people have been arrested in upstate New York for food stamp fraud. Guess how many of them are “lazy blacks”?[...]
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