“The death of 93-year-old Holocaust survivor Samuel Willenberg marks the passing of the last known link to the notorious death camp of Treblinka, perhaps the most vivid example of Nazi Germany’s attempt to destroy European Jewry. “ Last Treblinka survivor dies. Of the 875,000 Jews [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Racism’
February 3rd, 2016 - 9:59 am § in Uncategorized
Racist cops arrest school cleaning lady
From Collegedale, Tennessee, comes this bizarre story of police work gone awry. Two cops patrolling past a school building at 8:15 pm noticed an open door, so they stopped to investigate. Upon entering the building, they spotted a trash can and cleaning supplies outside a rest room and “briefl[...]
January 26th, 2016 - 3:00 pm § in Politics
Cleveland fires 6 killer cops
Cleveland has taken disciplinary action against 13 cops involved in one of the more notorious recent police killings of black people, firing 6 officers, imposing suspensions without pay on 6 more, and involuntarily retiring another. In November 2012, police fired 137 shots into a car driven by Timot[...]
January 21st, 2016 - 1:26 pm § in Politics, The Ave Scene
BREAKING NEWS: Jayapal runs for McDermott’s Seat, Sawant out!
Jayapal to Announce She’s Running for Jim McDermott’s Seat Jayapal, 49, is a fascinating candidate: She doesn’t live in McDermott’s district. She comes to politics from the corporate world, having worked on Wall Street. As an Indian and an immigrant, she is likely to identify with many of [...]
January 15th, 2016 - 5:22 pm § in Uncategorized
A Republican governor’s shocking disregard of history
“We’ve never in the history of this country passed any laws or done anything based on race or religion. Let’s not start that now.” — South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley The only thing you can conclude from this is that Gov. Haley doesn’t think of black people as human and therefore her s[...]
January 8th, 2016 - 12:05 am § in Uncategorized
Racist cop beats Native Hawaiian for praying over seal
This story of police abuse is so outrageous it makes your blood boil. On Sept. 10, 2014, Jamie Kalani Rice, 41, a native Hawaiian, sat down on a beach near a monk seal he thought was sick and began performing a traditional healing ritual that consisted of rubbing sand on himself. Yes, there are sign[...]
January 7th, 2016 - 12:17 am § in Politics
A diversity lesson
America is a diverse nation. More than 320 million people live here, of numerous races, religions, ethnic groups, ancestries, and identities. We possess a wide range of differences in education, political beliefs, sports team loyalties, food preferences, and so on. John Pisone of Mars, Pennyslvania,[...]
December 13th, 2015 - 12:07 pm § in America, The Ave Scene
ANTHONY on the Central District
I have talked to a few of you about oral history of the CD and the importance of documenting it. I mentioned it to my teacher and she said that she would help me. I have used real life examples in class to give students a better understanding of why some public policy solutions actually […][...]
Anthony: Everybody move to the back of Bus
An 80-year-old Black man, proud of the accomplishments made during the Civil Rights movement, gets on a half empty Metro bus. This tall, but slightly crouched, handsome, copper complexioned man, with no visible wrinkles, despite his age, would have been 19-20 years old around the time that the Mon[...]