So Nikki Haley identified as “white” on her voting registration. Is that an issue? Of course, if she can pass that is her privilege. The problem is not the fiction itself but how it is used. Being proud of your ancestry is usually a great GOOD .. unless that identity is used to demean ot[...]
Posts Tagged ‘racism’
December 21st, 2017 - 5:04 pm § in Misc.
Wh-a-a-a-t???
We previously posted about this story. Two Michigan cops searching for a 40-year-old female stabbing suspect drew guns on a terrified 11-year-old black girl, then handcuffed and detained her. Now, the police chief says the cops “followed procedure” and won’t be disciplined, and spe[...]
December 20th, 2017 - 4:40 pm § in Misc.
Charlottesville renames street where protester was slain
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December 19th, 2017 - 3:58 pm § in Misc.
Starbucks boots racist for harassing Korean student
A woman in a Walnut Creek, California, Starbucks who demanded that a Korean student “speak English” was ordered to leave by a store employee and escorted out by police. Yay for Starbucks! Read story here and watch viral video below. https://youtu.be/4JnDeMeYZLQ[...]
December 16th, 2017 - 1:28 pm § in Misc.
Police were looking for a 40-year-old white woman. This is who they arrested at gunpoint, handcuffed, and threw into a police car.
An 11-year-old black girl. Read the incredible story here. [...]
December 13th, 2017 - 12:42 am § in Politics
80th Anniversary: Remembering the Nanjing Massacre
A symbolic total of 1,213 soldiers remember the deaths of Nanjing Massacre victims at the memorial hall on Wednesday. On Dec 13, 1937, the Japanese army occupied Nanjing and killed more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and unarmed soldiers, according to Chinese historical documents. CUI XIAO / FOR CHI[...]
Jim Crow Begins
Nashira Priester FACEBOOK ON THIS DAY: (November 26, 1865) as the Civil War ends and the 13th amendment is adopted, Mississippi becomes the first state to pass “Black Codes,” a set of laws that restricted Black people’s right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, [...]
November 3rd, 2017 - 8:29 am § in Misc.
Greensboro Massacre
On this date in 1079 armed members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party pulled rifles out of a caravan of automobilesa nd shot protesters to death. In 1980 and 1984, all-white juries acquitted the shooters of all criminal charges. To date, not a single person has served jail time for[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: E.T … THE SEQUEL
E.T. Went Home to Hell, The Sequel Ken Ham, director of Kentucky’s Creation Museum, has announced that 20th Century Fox and the Creation Museum will produce a sequel to E.T. Mr. Ham explained that the movie glorified the innocence of an alien without explaining the alien’s final fate. [...]