Racism in America.... Is it worse now after the 2016 election?

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[LD0506]

I know I've made this point before, and yes it's subjective/anecdotal/local to me/etc, but it feels like things are actually getting better in some ways. The rightwing loon demographic has been self isolating in their basements or bunkers or whatever and everyone else is just going ahead with their lives, and getting along quite well. It's like the Anthropause, when everyone was quarantining and not driving and the air cleared, flowers bloomed and animals had a holiday. By virtue of the pollution removing itself from the public sphere people are healing themselves. It's a breath of fresh air so to speak. People have been more comfortable, more open and willing to chat and interact in a normal, sane, social manner without that lurking fear of the crazies disrupting it.

 

And yes I know, it's still out there and just as bad as ever and their minions are still trying to wreck stuff because that's their only move, but to a large extent they're just ignored. People getting along with people could get to be a habit.

[China]

The coming battle for the racist vote in America

 

A sitting governor and a former president are facing off in a white supremacist race for power.

 

Opinion - Yannick Giovanni Marshall 

 

We are in a newly built coliseum. It is wide enough to hold millions. Comfortably seated among us is a lynch mob jeering at the people in shackles being exhibited at the centre of the arena. These are the colonised brought out to be trashed.

 

It is the final show. Two demagogues are jousting for power. Each is attempting to prove to all of America’s New Nuremberg now standing atop their seats, cheering (if not outright straight-arm saluting), that it is he, not his opponent, that should be awarded the racists’ vote.

 

On one side is a governor. He promises a refined, Ivy League-educated, more methodical racism. A new and improved version. One less vulnerable to outbursts and legal challenges but still with enough markers of klan country – a “monkey” here, a “woke ideology” there – to be admired by the “silent majority”.

 

He raises his lance, offering the crowd his exhibition. A spectacle of Black seniors being manhandled by police officers and arrested for allegedly voting as felons. The point here isn’t to prosecute but simply to march out to the middle of the arena confused and worried Black people. To offer their heartbreak as red meat to the hungry mob.

 

Other, smaller, politicians follow suit. They ban classic works of African-American literature. They expunge anti-racist ideas from the schools. They call up armed citizen poll watchers to return Black voters as near as they can to a moment in history when the White League and ex-Confederate white soldiers placed pistols at Black voters’ temples to “ensure electoral integrity”.

 

Then, from one end of the coliseum to the other this governor sends brown and Black survivors of odysseys through jungles and deserts, fleeing the roving warlord of American imperialism, to “Democrat cities”. He orders them to be dumped in front of liberal politicians’ houses as if to say – but also plausibly deny saying – “you deal with this trash”.

 

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[China]

California police more than twice as likely to use force against Black people – report

 

California police were more than twice as likely to use force against Black residents than white residents during traffic and pedestrian stops in 2021, according to a new report on racial profiling.

 

The annual report from a state board also found that law enforcement searched Black people at 2.2 times the rate of white people, and that Black youths ages 15 to 17 were searched at nearly six times the rate of white teenagers. Latino residents were stopped and subjected to force at 1.4 times the rate of white people, and Latino youths were searched at nearly four times the rate of white youths.

 

The disproportionate searches of Black and Latino people have persisted despite the fact that from 2019 to 2021, officers were least likely to find contraband on members of those groups compared with white people, the report said.

 

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[China]

Student 'accidentally' broadcasts racially-based comments during Umatilla High basketball game

 

he Umatilla School District (USD) reported hateful statements had been broadcast during a Umatilla High School basketball game on January 20, leading the district to immediately launch an investigation. 

 

"The statements were appalling, and we denounce them..." said the district's initial social media post about the incident. "Hate has no place at Umatilla High School. We, as a school community, stand for respect and inclusion, a place where all are free to learn in a safe and welcoming environment. Following the investigation, we will move forward to address this act and ensure that all people are accepted and treated with respect in our schools." 

 

The Umatilla School District reported the investigation has been completed on January 23. According to the results of this investigation, a student had been playing with a microphone, thinking it was turned off, during half-time. The student made racially-based comments, which were then broadcast. USD says the comments do not reflect the district's values. 

 

"The student made the remarks while believing to be 'joking' with friends; however, there is nothing funny about racially hateful statements," said the USD press release. "Whether intentionally broadcast or not, words have impact and the District is taking this situation seriously." 

 

USD says it is privately handling sanctions with the student, a minor. That said, it will be working with all students and school leadership to further educate students on the importance of word choice, according to the press release. Resources for parents wanting to further the conversation are included, like the OSAA STAR Initiative training. 

 

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Word choice?  Racism is more than just saying particular words.

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[Simmsy]

23 hours ago, Cooked Crack said:

 

 

My initial reaction was to sue the store, but I think the store TRIED to do the right thing (I guess). However, she doesn't have a case against the store...suing those three for assault though...

[Captain Wiggles]

Sue them all. The store owner was basically like "keep the $50 n we'll just forget this happened". Hope this ruins their business and they go belly up. 

[China]

Shopper outraged after finding sugar label with racial stereotype at Presidente Supermarket

 

A product label found in a South Florida supermarket is in the spotlight after it left a shopper disturbed and outraged.

 

Paul Taffe told Local 10 News’ Layron Livingston that he was shopping at the Presidente Supermarket in Margate earlier this month when he came across Azucar Morena brown sugar.

 

 

“Doesn’t matter how you look at it, it’s racism in any form,” Taffe said. “Bottom line, and it should not be on the shelf.”

 

The woman on the label has darkened skin, a big smile, bright eyes, and hair tied up in a scarf.

 

“When you see an image of a Mammy dancing around with two sugar cane stalks in her hand, thinking that she’s having a jolly old time, it’s not,” Taffe said. “It was never a jolly old time for us.”

 

The Mammy stereotype, a depiction of happy enslaved Black women, only grew in popularity after the Civil War, and into the early 20th century.

 

“I’m not surprised that it’s present,” she said of the packaging. “I’m surprised that it’s on the shelf. I would think that in this day and age that some type of GM or some type of supermarket regulatory agency would be able to say, ‘Hey, what is this?’”

 

The sugar was still on the shelf when Livingston stopped by.

 

Local 10 News reached out to South Florida-based Presidente but they have yet to respond.

 

Taffe says he took his concerns to a store manager and was told the issue would be addressed.

 

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[Spaceman Spiff]

I saw this on Twietnam last night. Any news on what happened to those girls? I’m hoping for some expulsion from whatever prep school they’re at. 

[China]

Wendy’s manager in Plainfield accused of using racial slurs, refusing to serve high school basketball team

 

A fast food restaurant manager was charged with breach of peace after he admitted to using racial slurs toward a high school basketball team in Plainfield.

 

Plainfield police said they charged 22-year-old Brett White with second-degree breach of peace.

 

The incident happened Thursday just before 10 p.m. at the Wendy’s Restaurant on Pratt Road.

 

Dispatchers said they received a 911 complaint that reported a verbal argument over refusal of service.

 

Officers said they arrived on scene and made contact with members of the Woodstock Academy basketball team. The players reported being refused service. They also said they were called racial slurs by the manager on site.

 

In a statement, Woodstock Academy said that the team had been returning from an away game when it stopped at the restaurant. It said the team was refused service as soon as its players entered the business.

 

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[China]

Park district cancels controversial cooking camp

 

The Park District of Oak Park will no longer offer a summer cooking camp for children based on the foods found during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The day camp was pulled following intense public criticism that it glorified this country’s painful history of forcibly removing African people from their homelands, stripping them of the most basic human rights and enslaving them. 

 

The camp was included in the park district’s 2023 summer camp guide, where it was described in language not dissimilar to what is used in cruise ship brochures.

 

“Your camper will cook and investigate the history and flavors of the transatlantic slave trade,” the description stated. “Each day, your camper will discover a new port from the route and understand the significance of slavery on every meal we eat.”

 

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[Captain Wiggles]

Wait till that lady finds out every tv has a SAP setting. 🤣

 

 

Edited February 25, 2023 by Captain Wiggles

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[China]

Family of missing Black man found dead believe he was lynched and dismembered, call on DOJ to investigate

 

The family of a Black man whose remains were found a month after he went missing in Mississippi believes he was lynched and dismembered, calling on the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the death and a text he sent his mother saying white men in trucks were trying to kill him.

 

Rasheem Carter’s head was severed from his body, his spinal cord separated from his head and his body parts were scattered after the 25-year-old went missing in October, family attorney Ben Crump said at a news conference.

 

The Smith County Sheriff’s Department said his body was found in a wooded area on Nov. 2, near Taylorsville, about 63 miles southeast of Jackson, Mississippi. Carter was reported missing on Oct. 2 in Laurel, about 22 miles southeast of where his remains were found. Initially, officials said they had no reason to believe foul play was involved but also said the case remained under investigation with the help of state investigators and the FBI.

 

The medical examiner’s report did not specifically say Carter was dismembered, CNN reported. Two dozen bones and fragments were found scattered across two acres and evidence found during the autopsy indicated that animals had scavenged Carter’s remains, the outlet reported.

 

The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation reportedly said due to the condition of the remains, the medical examiner could not reasonably determine a cause of death.

 

Smith County Sheriff Joel Houston told CNN he would welcome a federal probe into the case. He said investigators had not found evidence to corroborate the allegation that Carter was being followed.

 

“To this date, we do not have evidence of foul play, but everything is on the table,” Houston told CNN. “Until we turn over every stone, it’s still an open investigation.”

 

Crump called it a nefarious, evil act.

 

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[China]

KFC releases official statement over ‘appalling’ sign at Lubbock location

 

A Lubbock location of fast-food chain KFC released an official statement on Wednesday morning in regards to a sign that some people referred to as racist. 

 

A spokesperson for KFC said the location at 1208 50th Street was “vandalized with an appalling message.” The sign featured a racial slur about people getting sold for two cents.

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[Captain Wiggles]

Oklahoma has definitely been working on theys Southern accents I see. I've spent over 33 years in the south n even I need an interpreter for that audio. 

[China]

Oklahoma official resigns over recorded convo about hanging Black people

 

Oklahoma’s governor, at the urging of protesters, has called for multiple county officials to resign after they were recorded talking about hanging Black people and killing a journalist.

 

As NBC News reported on Monday: 

 

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The governor of Oklahoma has called for the resignations of the sheriff and other top officials in a rural county after they were recorded talking about "beating, killing and burying" a father/son team of local reporters — and lamenting that they could no longer hang Black people with a “damned rope.”

 

Gov. Kevin Stitt called for McCurtain County Sheriff Kevin Clardy, county Commissioner Mark Jennings, sheriff's investigator Alicia Manning, and Jail Administrator Larry Hendrix to step down after the McCurtain County Gazette-News published an article over the weekend about what was captured on the recording.

 

As of Wednesday afternoon, only Jennings had resigned.

 

In one of the recordings, an official identified by The McCurtain County Gazette-News as Jennings bemoans the job of modern-day sheriffs and speaks fondly of a time when, he says, officials could mete out harm against Black people. 

 

“If it was back in the day ... when Alan Marshton would take a damn Black guy and whoop their ass and throw him in the cell? I’d run for f------ sheriff,” Jennings says, according to the Gazette-News.

 

A man identified by Gazette-News as Clardy, the sheriff, responds that “it’s not like that anymore." Jennings then appears to take things a step further: 

 

“I know. Take them down to Mud Creek and hang them up with a damn rope. But you can’t do that anymore. They got more rights than we got.”

 

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[China]

Saginaw optometrist who threatened Starbucks' BLM supporters heads to prison

 

A Saginaw optometrist is going to federal prison for 10 months for threatening to harm Black Lives Matter supporters in a series of rants he made over the phone to Starbucks employees, who got an earful about his beef with workers wearing BLM T-shirts.

 

According to court records, 62-year-old Kenneth Pilon admitted to calling nine Starbucks stores in 2020 and telling those who answered his calls to relay this message to employees wearing BLM T-shirts: “The only good (N-word) is a dead (N-word).”

 

Pilon also admitted to telling one Starbucks employee, “I’m gonna go out and lynch me a (N-word).”

 

Starbucks stores weren't his only target. The FBI says Pilon also left nooses at Kroger and Walmart parking lots in Saginaw, and also tucked one inside a beverage cooler at a 7-Eleven store with a handwritten note attached that read: “An accessory to be worn with your ‘BLM’ T-shirt. Happy protesting!'"

 

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[China]

Wisconsin School District Claims Teacher’s Anti-Asian Slurs Were Harmless

 

Members of the Asian American community in Wausau, Wisconsin, are outraged that the school district has put a teacher it admits used racist and sexist language back in the classroom.

 

“While a preponderance of the evidence shows that Mr. Perkins did not engage in harassing or discriminatory behavior, he did engage in insensitive and unprofessional conduct,” the district superintendent wrote in a letter this week.

 

“Witnesses indicate that he did use language that could be insensitive to students of different protected classes, including race and sex, but that language does not rise to the level of discrimination or harassment.”

 

An open letter signed by Asian American leaders in Wausau—which is 81 percent white according to census data, but has a large Hmong-Lao population—said they were outraged by the reinstatement of high school band teacher Robert Perkins.

 

“Despite corroborating statements confirming Mr. Perkins’ use of anti-Asian, racist slurs such as ‘chink’ and ‘ching chong,’ as well as statements from other witnesses that Mr. Perkins’ conduct caused unease among students from protected classes, the WSD investigator still found no grounds for a determination of harassment,” the letter reads.

 

“This decision sends a strong message that using racist, sexist, and homophobic slurs are permissible, so long as they made are in good faith, and that is just unacceptable to us.”

 

The school district’s letter, which summarized its internal investigation into a student complaint about Perkins, said that “all students report that Mr. Perkins uses humor to engage students and create a ‘fun’ environment.”

 

It then went on to say, somewhat confusingly, that while Perkins does say things that causes students “unease,” the students also believe he creates a “safe space” and “does not meant to harm anyone.”

 

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