A Texas jury has found Amber Guyger, an off-duty cop who entered the wrong apartment and killed the resident, a black man, guilty of murder. She was fired from the police force. Now, she faces up to life in prison. The case received national media attention, in part because Guyger is white and the v[...]
Posts Tagged ‘racism’
September 16th, 2019 - 12:50 pm § in America
Racist bank employees call 911 on black doctor who only wanted to open an account
Anthony Onyegbula, M.D., a cancer specialist practicing in Georgia, believes employees of United Community Bank in Henry County profiled him when they called police thinking he intended to rob the bank. “I feel like he’s up to no good,” a teller told the 911 dispatcher, offering li[...]
Wake Forest University: for staff who identify as staff of color ONLY: Monday, May 6 at 4:00 pm in ZSR Room 477
The sad part of this is the continued insistence by all parties that race is real. Race bigotry is real but “people of color” is as much a pejorative as the N word. I do not doubt the good intentions of the Wake Forest administration but it is horrid that fifty-seven years after the [...]
April 11th, 2019 - 1:02 pm § in Misc.
Racist rant against utility worker lights up YouTube
A woman the internet is dubbing “WalMart Wendy” tore into a black utility worker and called the cops because he asked her to move her car. In her profanity-laced tirade, captured in the video below (caution: not safe for work), she insists she’s not racist because “my dad is [...]
As someone who looks up to African Americans, I feel the concept of POC has hurt the black community.
An African American friend on Facebook challenged his readers to say they would choose a black skin despite the racist heritage that afflicts anyone who looks like an African American. I answered “YES!” I would easily choose to have a black skin because I look up to the African America[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Whatever “white” means, Jesus was not a Caucasian unless, as some have suggested, the real Jesus was “Yoshua ben Pantera” .. a Roman bastard?
Black woman responds to Megyn Kelly’s claim that Jesus is white—and it’s stunning “How can she says Jesus was a white man when he died the blackest way… Share DAILYKOS.COM[...]
March 4th, 2019 - 1:37 am § in Misc.
March 4: Anniversary of Andrew Jackson Taking Office As President
On March 4, 1829, Andrew Jackson took the oath of office and became the seventh President of the United States. He went on to conduct a war of genocide against indigenous Americans in South Carolina.[...]
February 19th, 2019 - 11:54 am § in Uncategorized
Alabama editor urges KKK to “ride again” and lynch Democrats
Update: Racist owner hires black female editor to take paper “in a new direction,” but will retain ownership, NBC reports. Goodloe Sutton, who began working for a small-town newspaper in Linden, Alabama, in 1964 and inherited it from his father in 1985, has a long history of publishing r[...]
THE VIRGINIA SCANDALS: Will the Real Hamilton Please Now Stand UP?
IMAGINE IF A REVERED FIGURE IN GOVERNMENT WAS FOUND TO HAVE BEEN A SLAVE OWNER While our dysfunctional society quarrels over whether the current, liberal governor of Virginia may have once worn black face, Broadway celebrates a fairy tale musical, HAMILTON. Fact is that Lin-Manuel Miranda got Alexan[...]