Ronald Hall Partners reposted from The Conversation.US. For generations, intimacy between black men and white women was taboo. A mere accusation of impropriety could lead to a lynching, and interracial marriage was illegal in a number of states. Everything changed with the 1967 Supreme Cou[...]
Posts Tagged ‘racism’
October 24th, 2018 - 1:19 am § in America
Who Counts as Black?
October 18th, 2018 - 10:57 pm § in Uncategorized
Ads claim Democrats “will lynch blacks again” if they win
Arkansas Republicans are running radio ads targeting black voters which claim that Planned Parenthood was created “to exterminate black folks” and “white Democrats will be lynching black folk again” if a Democratic congressional candidate wins. His Republican opponent denounc[...]
October 16th, 2018 - 10:31 am § in Donald Trump, Hypocrisy
The Cherokee Nation and GOP Racism
The Cherokee Nation has joined Trump in a racist attack on Elizabeth Warren. What the Cherokee said is that she should not claim a tribal heritage based, on DNA, She has never made that claim. This is a sad story of Cherokee history of racism. The Cherokee were slave owners and fought for the [[...]
October 9th, 2018 - 12:20 pm § in Misc.
Woman calls cops on black man for babysitting white kids
In Georgia, a black man babysitting two white children was stalked by a woman who followed him home and then called the police to investigate whether the children were safe. In the video below the man, Corey Lewis, complains “this is how black people get killed.” Read story here.[...]
Why Did Vanderbilt Fire Dr. Eugene Gu?
This Vanderbilt surgical resident sued Trump and won. Now he’s out of a job. Based on reports in The Tennessean and MedPage Today. Eugene Gu was dropped after three years from his surgical residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Vanderbilt ended Gu’s residency, the five-ye[...]
September 12th, 2018 - 12:39 am § in Donald Trump
The OHSO WHITE Trump White House Interns
It must be hard to find this many young folks who want to be White House Interns with only two folks who are not white.[...]
September 3rd, 2018 - 7:44 pm § in Politics
Nike takes a side.
Its new ad pays homage to Colin Kaepernick. Read story here.[...]
August 29th, 2018 - 11:42 pm § in Donald Trump, Jews
Trump begins stripping American Hispanics of their citizenship
“His official American birth certificate shows he was delivered by a midwife in Brownsville, at the southern tip of Texas. He spent his life wearing American uniforms: three years as a private in the Army, then as a cadet in the Border Patrol and now as a state prison guard. But when Juan, 40[...]
August 22nd, 2018 - 1:21 am § in Misc.
RACISM: Black on Yellow
Don’t vote for the ching-chong!’ Rep. Bettie Cook Scott (D-Detroit) has apologized for a series of racial slurs sources say she used to describe her primary election opponent, Rep. Stephanie Chang (D-Detroit). Scott is alleged to have referred to Chang as “ching-chang” an[...]
August 17th, 2018 - 4:29 pm § in Politics
Racist Georgia election officials shutter black polling places
This November, Stacy Abrams, a black woman, will be the Democratic candidate for governor of Georgia. Apparently the folks who run elections in Randolph County, which is over 60% black, don’t want their citizens to be able to vote for her. They’re planning to shut down 7 of the county[...]