The Golden Potlatch Festival was organized and held July 17 – 22, 1911 by the Seattle Carnival Association The slogan: “A hot time at a cool festival.” July 17th was chosen as the date when, in 1897, two tons of gold arrived in Seattle from the Yukon on the steamship Portland. A mile-long [...]
Posts Tagged ‘racism’
July 16th, 2018 - 11:24 am § in Uncategorized
Ohio woman arrested for spray painting “Hail Trump” and N-word on black neighbor’s house
Patricia Edelen of Toledo, Ohio, is in jail for spray painting hate messages on her black neighbor’s house. Read story here. [...]
July 12th, 2018 - 7:15 pm § in Misc.
Charges for harassing Puerto Rican woman upgraded to felonies; apathetic cop resigns
Charges against Timothy Trybus, 62, have been upgraded from misdemeanor assault and disorderly conduct to felony hate crimes after the Cook County D.A. reviewed the video of his inebriated encounter in a public park with a woman wearing a shirt depicting the Puerto Rico flag. The woman, Mia Irizarry[...]
July 9th, 2018 - 7:45 pm § in Donald Trump
91-year-old visitor from Mexico clubbed with brick
Told to “go back to your own country” He was visiting relatives and went for a walk in the neighorhood. While passing a woman and her child on the sidewalk, he accidentally bumped the child, according to a witness. The woman accused him of trying to snatch her child, pushed him to the gr[...]
June 5th, 2018 - 1:30 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Fox News caught faking Philadelphia Eagles “protests” that never happened
“Fox News apologized Tuesday after receiving a torrent of criticism over the network’s use of photos of various players for the Philadelphia Eagles kneeling in prayer, creating the misleading impression that they were demonstrating during the national anthem.” — CNN A Fox New[...]
May 28th, 2018 - 10:30 am § in Donald Trump
Farrakhan Endorses Trump
Mr. Trump is destroying every enemy that was an enemy of our rise. Who is the enemy of our rise? Is it the Department of Justice where we get none? Is it Congress where you make a law that favors us and then you turn around and destroy it? https://t.co/iK8VMI667b pic.twitter.com/Byk0Px2Avo — MIN[...]
May 21st, 2018 - 10:53 am § in Uncategorized
Border agent detains U.S. citizens for speaking Spanish
The ACLU may take legal action on behalf of two women, both American citizens, who went to a convenience store to buy milk and eggs in a Montana town near the Canadian border and were stopped by a Border Patrol agent who overheard them conversing in Spanish. The women are Mexican-American, and bilin[...]
May 18th, 2018 - 10:35 am § in Misc.
RACISM and REPARATIONS
Woman with slave girl in the mid 19th century, New Orleans.http://www.burnsarchive.com/ Should the U.S. provide reparations for slavery and Jim Crow? Carlton Mark Waterhouse, Indiana University More than 150 years of scholarship and activism hasn’t brought us any closer to consensus.[...]