(SPLC) It was supposed to be the start of another school day for 15-year-old Marie Justeen Mancha as she sat in her bedroom, waiting for her mother to return from an errand in town.
But on this morning in September 2006, Mancha, a U.
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ICE Sued for Illegally Detaining Latinos Because of Appearance
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Pay-by-race bake sale at UC Berkeley still on, student Republican group says
September 26, 2011 by editor (View Source)
(cnn) It's meant to be racist, and it's meant to be discriminatory.
And the controversial "Increase Diversity Bake Sale" hosted by the Berkeley College Republicans is still on, the club's president said, despite "grossly misguided comments" and threats aimed at supporters of the University of California, Berkeley, student group.
During the sale, scheduled for Tuesday, baked goods will be sold to white men for $2, Asian men for $1. 50, Latino men for $1, black men for 75 cents and Native American men for 25 cents. All women will get 25 cents off those prices. More...
Putting an Antebellum Myth to Rest. Slave marriages were not granted out of the goodness of “ole massa’s” heart. Rather, they were used as tools to keep slaves in line and to increase profits.
August 02, 2011 by editor (View Source)
(Tera Hunter/NYT) WAS slavery an idyllic world of stable families headed by married parents? The recent controversy over “The Marriage Vow,” a document endorsed by the Republican presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum, might seem like just another example of how racial politics and historical ignorance are perennial features of the election cycle.
The vow, which included the assertion that “a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA’s first African-American President,” was amended after the outrage it stirred.
However, this was not a harmless gaffe; it represents a resurfacing of a pro-slavery view of “family values” that was prevalent in the decades before the Civil War. The resurrection of this idea has particular resonance now, because it was 150 years ago, soon after the war began, that the government started to respect the dignity of slave families. Slaves did not live in independent “households”; they lived under the auspices of masters who controlled the terms of their most intimate relationships. More...
(CA) Buried in Anonymity, and Ignominy, Too. For decades, remains that were moved from the Gold Rush-era Negro Hill Cemetery were buried under headstones with a racial epithet.
June 12, 2011 by editor (View Source)
(nyt) Wedged between a strawberry patch and an encroaching swath of suburbia, the men and women who lie in the Mormon Island Relocation Cemetery are a long-dead, little-noted lot: a Mr. Outen, for example, who died in December 1862, or Elizabeth, the wife of James, who died in April some two decades later. But for the better part of five decades, the most notable tombstones at Mormon Island were those without names: 36 anonymous decedents whose grave markers shared a single, shocking label: “Moved from Nigger Hill Cemetery. ”
Perhaps more jarring were the words that followed, saying that the headstones were placed “by U. S. More...
Confronting the Coded Racism of Donald Trump. Racial dog whistles only work when a lot of people play along.
April 28, 2011 by editor (View Source)
(nation) If there were any doubts about the racial animus driving Donald Trump’s attacks on Barack Obama, the billionaire reality-show star exposed himself with his latest conspiracy. On Monday night, Trump questioned how Obama could possibly have been admitted to Ivy League schools, since Trump “heard” Obama was a “terrible student. ” Trump told the AP that he was investigating the issue, whatever that means, just as he claims to have dispatched investigators to Hawaii in order to find the president’s famous birth certificate.
“How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?” Trump said. “I’m thinking about it, I’m certainly looking into it. More...
Lawyers To Gentrify Bedford-Stuyvesant
April 09, 2010 by citizenwho (View Source)
It’s 2010 in all of the world except on one street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. On Tompkins Avenue between Madison Street and Putnam Avenue it’s the 1960’s.
Residences were shocked when they open their mail to receive a very disturbing letter from a group called, Lawyers to Gentrify North Brooklyn. The letter states, “we must gentrify Bedford Stuyvesant to rid from the filth Blacks have contaminated the area since 1955, once called Bedford Corners. ”
Several people on the block expressed their sadness and frustration of this incident. More...
(FL) Puerto Rican Man Denied Service in Diner. Kissimmee Police Department Initiates an Internal Investigation on a Hate Crime Cover-up
April 06, 2010 by editor (View Source)
Kissimmee, Florida — On January 10th, 2010, Mr. Hector Negron, a resident and business owner of the City of Kissimmee walked in to Joanie’s Diner in downtown Kissimmee at approximately 9:00-9:30 am to have breakfast. Mr. Negron then proceeded to sit at a back table, by the time he touched the chair to take a seat the waitress approached him and stated that he could not sit there because no Puerto Ricans and spics were allowed to sit at that table and that the table is for white people only. Mr. More...
Diaspora Restoration Unity Mission (D.R.U.M.)
March 31, 2010 by Afrodescendant
The National Commission for Reparations will hold its 3rd Annual D. R. U. M. Awards on Saturday, October 9, 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia. More...
John Mayer Apologizes: I Was 'Arrogant' To Use N-Word. He said in interview: if you really had a hood pass, you could call it a nigger pass.
February 10, 2010 by editor (View Source)
(hupo) John Mayer took to Twitter to apologize for using the N-word in an interview with Playboy magazine.
In the interview, in which he talks about his great sex with Jessica Simpson, he also used the racial epithet. The whole section of the interview is at the bottom, so scroll down to read it. . . More...
Hotel Owner Tells Hispanic Workers to Change Names (Anglo). And to stop speaking Spanish at work.
October 26, 2009 by editor (View Source)
(ap) Larry Whitten marched into this northern New Mexico town in late July on a mission: resurrect a failing hotel. The tough-talking former Marine immediately laid down some new rules. Among them, he forbade the Hispanic workers at the run-down, Southwestern adobe-style hotel from speaking Spanish in his presence (he thought they'd be talking about him), and ordered some to Anglicize their names.
No more Martin (Mahr-TEEN). It was plain-old Martin. More...
Black Member Tests Message of Masons in Georgia Lodges. Worshipful Masters were upset that Gate City had admitted a “nonwhite man” to its ranks.
July 05, 2009 by editor (View Source)
(nyt) The members of the Gate City Lodge No. 2 would like it known that Freemasonry, a centuries-old fraternal organization founded on the principles of the Enlightenment, is not racist.
But some of their fellow Masons here in Georgia are spoiling the message.
In June, the Worshipful Master, or leader, of the Gate City Lodge was served with complaints from two other lodges, whose Worshipful Masters were upset that Gate City had admitted a “nonwhite man” to its ranks.
Although the rules of Freemasonry do not say that members must be white, and there are numerous Hispanics, Asians and other ethnicities represented in lodges across the state, the Grand Master of Georgia decreed that the complaints would be heard in a Masonic trial that could have resulted in expulsion of a lodge or members of it. More...
(Video) KMBC Kansas: Young Man Finds "Dumb Nigger" Printed on His Store Receipt.
March 19, 2009 by editor (View Source)
(KMBC Kansas) On Oct 17, 2008 a young man went to "Journey's" (shoe store) in Kansas
City , MO. He bought a pair of shoes and then saw an identical pair at a different store for less. As such, he bought the identical shoes
from the cheaper store and took back the original more pricey pair to Journey's. Later on that night, as he was reviewing the receipt, he noticed that the reason for the return was "Dumb N*gger". When he took
the receipt back to the store, they didn't even apologize but did admit that the "reason" was in the system. More...
‘Katrina's Hidden Race War.’ Vigilante Whites Targeting Black Residents.
January 10, 2009 by editor (View Source)
(nation) The way Donnell Herrington tells it, there was no warning. One second he was trudging through the heat. The next he was lying prostrate on the pavement, his life spilling out of a hole in his throat, his body racked with pain, his vision blurred and distorted.
It was September 1, 2005, some three days after Hurricane Katrina crashed into New Orleans, and somebody had just blasted Herrington, who is African-American, with a shotgun. "I just hit the ground. More...
After Kicking Nine Muslim Passengers Off Plane, AirTran Issues Apology. Airline At First Would Not Apologize. Family Might Sue.
January 03, 2009 by editor (View Source)
(wapo) AirTran Airways apologized Friday to nine Muslims kicked off a New Year's Day flight to Florida after other passengers reported hearing a suspicious remark about airplane security. One of the passengers said the confusion started at Reagan National Airport just outside Washington, D. C. , when he talked about the safest place to sit on an airplane.
Orlando, Fla. More...
Racial slurs targeting Barack Obama were discovered spray painted on dozens of city vehicles in Orlando
June 29, 2008 by editor (View Source)
(wftv) Racial slurs targeting Barack Obama were discovered spray painted tonight on dozens of city vehicles in Orlando.
The vandalism happened in a City of Orlando parking lot on the corner of south and orange.
Phrases including “Obmama smokes crack” and others phrases with racial slurs were written in blue spray paint on the white city cars and trucks.
Other vehicles appeared to have had their gas tanks tampered with.
Along with the paint, hundreds of business cards were left on windshields. More...
J. Whitlock: I blame the white media (liberal and conservative) for the sensational coverage of Don Imus.
June 26, 2008 by editor (View Source)
(fox)
I blame the white media — liberal and conservative — for the sensational coverage of Don Imus' latest attempt at shock-jock relevancy.
The O. J. Simpson double-murder trial taught white television and radio executives they could attract huge ratings by allowing a white host to referee a simple-minded argument pitting opposing views on an alleged black-white racial dispute.
The show topics change from week to week, bouncing from the Jena Six to Imus to Duke lacrosse to whatever most-coveted guest Al Sharpton has on his mind that day. More...
3 in 10 Americans Admit to Race Bias. Survey Shows Age, Too, May Affect Election Views.
June 23, 2008 by editor (View Source)
(wapo) Even so, just over half of whites in the new poll called Obama a "risky" choice for the White House, while two-thirds said McCain is a "safe" pick. Forty-three percent of whites said Obama has sufficient experience to serve effectively as president, and about two in 10 worry he would overrepresent the interests of African Americans.
Obama will be forced to confront these views as he seeks to broaden his appeal. He leads in the Post-ABC poll by six percentage points among all adults, but among those who are most likely to vote, the contest is a tossup, with McCain at 48 percent and Obama at 47 percent.
His campaign advisers hope race may prove a benefit, that heightened enthusiasm among African Americans will make Obama competitive in GOP-leaning states with large black populations. More...
(Los Angeles) School rallies around dismissed Watts teacher deemed too 'Afro-centric.'
June 15, 2008 by editor (View Source)
(lat) Students and fellow educators are rallying behind a fired Jordan High School teacher they say was sacked for encouraging political activism among her students.
About 60 students rallied Wednesday at the Watts campus, while a colleague of the fired teacher said he and 15 other instructors planned to resign or transfer to other schools to protest the dismissal of Karen Salazar, a second-year English teacher.
The dust-up has gone digital as well. Salazar backers have posted videos on the website YouTube. The postings, which have attracted thousands of hits, intersperse music, outraged protesters and interviews, as well as statements from the outspoken educator. More...
Bill Moyers: Non-stop Media Grinder Prevents Honest Conversation on Race. Beware the terrible simplifiers.
May 07, 2008 by editor (View Source)
Bill Moyers: I once asked a reporter back from Vietnam, "Who's telling the truth over there?" "Everyone," he said. "Everyone sees what's happening through the lens of their own experience. " That's how people see Jeremiah Wright.
In my conversation with him on this broadcast a week ago and in his dramatic public appearances since, he revealed himself to be far more complex than the sound bites that propelled him onto the public stage. Over 2000 of you have written me about him, and your opinions vary widely. More...
The Clintons and Race: What Goes Around. The irony here, of course, is that Bill and Hillary only have themselves to blame for employing the kinds of political tactics now being used against them.
May 07, 2008 by editor (View Source)
True or not, the Clinton campaign has been accused of playing the race card. The irony here, of course, is that Bill and Hillary only have themselves to blame for employing the kinds of political tactics now being used against them.
As the Barack and Hillary Show extended its tour to such off-off-off Broadway primary states as Indiana and North Carolina (coming soon to Puerto Rico!), it was inevitable that both sides would dust off the "playing the race card" script.
Recently, Bill Clinton was asked whether he had played the race card when he compared Barack Obama's South Carolina victory to Jesse Jackson's in 1984 and 1988. "No," he said in one of his typical outbursts of enraged self-pity. More...
Condoleezza Rice: US denied black Americans the opportunities given to whites at the country's very founding.
March 30, 2008 by editor (View Source)
(Washington Times) In an interview last week Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that the United States still has trouble dealing with race because of a national "birth defect" that denied black Americans the opportunities given to whites at the country's very founding.
"Black Americans were a founding population," she said. "Africans and Europeans came here and founded this country together — Europeans by choice and Africans in chains. That's not a very pretty reality of our founding. "
As a result, Miss Rice told editors and reporters at The Washington Times, "descendants of slaves did not get much of a head start, and I think you continue to see some of the effects of that. More...
Racism in 'post-racial' America. Silence about race in the presidential campaign underscores the problem.
February 11, 2008 by editor (View Source)
(lat) I am shocked by the commentary on the prominence of race as a theme in the Democratic Party primaries. Shocked not because race is a theme but because so many in the media seem to think that race would not be or should not be mentioned. It is as if we think that not speaking about race is the equivalent of making progress on race issues.
The only thing more amusing than the use of a new term, "post-racial," to describe the positive response to Barack Obama's campaign is the lamentation at the loss of "post-raciality. "
This entire narrative is a media-concocted fiction. More...
Tiger Woods, racial slurs and Déjà vu
January 29, 2008 by Chuckhobbs (View Source)
By Chuck Hobbs
Denzel Washington is generating Academy Award buzz for his directorial efforts in “The Great Debaters,” a film that chronicles the success of the Wiley College Debate team in the 1930’s. Wiley was the first Historically Black College to compete, and win, against white institutions.
During one of the movies pivotal scenes the debaters, en route to a competition in southern Texas, stumble across a gruesome lynching in progress. The team’s coach, Melvin Tolson, who was played by Washington, frantically places his car into reverse as he and the team barely avoid becoming victims of the macabre spectacle.
I was reminded of this scene last week when media reports surfaced that Golf analyst Kelly Tilghman of the Golf Channel subjected Tiger Woods to a racial slur. More...
In Pursuit of Votes: “Many Latinos are not ready for a person of color. There’s always been tension in the Black and Latino communities."
January 14, 2008 by editor (View Source)
(nyt) As the Democratic candidates have moved from courting the overwhelmingly white voters of Iowa and New Hampshire to an expanse of 25 contests facing them in the next few weeks, they confront an electorate that is increasingly Hispanic, in Nevada, California and New York.
Although the two candidates aggressively court those voters, who could be vital for Democrats this year and for years to come, the challenge is especially complex for Mr. Obama. It arises as Mrs. Clinton sought to tamp down reaction from Obama supporters to remarks she had made about the Rev. More...
“If slavery was the price ancestors had to pay in order to make one an American, one should get down on one's knees every single day and thank the Lord that such price was paid."
January 06, 2008 by editor (View Source)
New Jersey might issue an apology for slavery. But some NJ politicians don't think an apology is needed. This is what Assemblyman Michael Patrick Carroll, R-Morris, said: "If slavery was the price that a modern American's ancestors had to pay in order to make one an American, one should get down on one's knees every single day and thank the Lord that such price was paid. "
"To the extent that America - or New Jersey -ever owed any kind of debt to anyone, that debt was more than repaid through the blood and suffering of 650,000 federal soldiers who died or were wounded during the war provoked by slavery," Carroll said. "No one today need feel the slightest guilt, as no one today participated in the wrong. More...
FBI Report: Hate Crimes Up Nearly 8 Percent in 2006
November 19, 2007 by editor (View Source)
(ap) Hate crime incidents in the United States rose last year by nearly 8 percent, the FBI reported Monday, as racial prejudice continued to account for more than half the reported instances.
Police across the nation reported 7,722 criminal incidents in 2006 targeting victims or property as a result of bias against a particular race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnic or national origin or physical or mental disability. That was up 7. 8 percent from the 7,163 incidents reported in 2005.
Although the noose incidents and beatings among students at Jena, La. More...
"Gang Rivalry Grows in Los Angeles." Economics is the Source of this Misguided Conflict.
October 21, 2007 by editor (View Source)
(lat) As the story goes, the East Coast Crips robbed a Florencia 13 drug connection of a large quantity of dope nearly a decade ago. Since then, the tale of how a black street gang ripped off a Latino rival has taken on mythic proportions.
But to this day police are uncertain if the fabled heist ever occurred.
"You hear so many different variations of this crime," said Terry Burgin, a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department gang detective. "Who knows what really happened? [But] the effects are tremendous. More...
Runways Fade to White: If there is one area where the lessons of chromatic and racial diversity have gone largely unheeded, it is fashion.
October 14, 2007 by editor (View Source)
(nyt) IN the days of blithe racial assumptions, flesh crayons were the color of white people. “Invisible” makeup and nude pantyhose were colored in the hues of Caucasian skin. The decision by manufacturers to ignore whole segments of humanity went unchallenged for decades before the civil rights movement came along and nonwhite consumers started demanding their place on the color wheel.
Nowadays the cultural landscape is well populated with actors, musicians, media moguls and candidates for the American presidency drawn from the 30 percent of the American population that is not white. Yet, if there is one area where the lessons of chromatic and racial diversity have gone largely unheeded, it is fashion. More...
Another Noose Story: A Black Professor at Prestigious Columbia Univ. (NYC) Finds Noose on Her Door
October 09, 2007 by editor (View Source)
A hangman's noose was found pinned to the door of an African-American professor's door at Teacher's College. The noose was discovered this morning and was reported to the New York City Police Department's Hate Crimes Task Force, members of which are currently investigating the incident.
Farrah Khan, a first-year student at TC and a member of the Black Student Network, indicated that the event had rocked the small TC campus. "I had a class at 5 and we talked about it for the whole two hours," Khan said. "The very moment that we say racism is far away, . More...
Queen Latifah flexes voice. Takes Blacks to task for not acting sooner against misogynist, violent and vulgar rap lyrics.
September 30, 2007 by editor (View Source)
(reuters) Queen Latifah, who has a new voice as a jazz singer, is taking blacks to task for not acting sooner against misogynist, violent and vulgar rap lyrics.
"It's a little late to say: 'Stop saying nigger,"' she told Reuters in an interview, in which she discussed the firing of radio personality Don Imus for racial comments and African-American protests over an assault case in Louisiana.
Asked about her transition from hip-hop star to singer, Hollywood actress and entrepreneur, Latifah said she also wants to be a voice for young blacks.
"I've never been a political person, but I do care about what's going on in my world, who's making the decisions for me," she said. "I would like to see young people be involved and active and voice our opinions. More...
Noose Found Hanging in Long Island, New York Police Station
September 30, 2007 by editor (View Source)
A noose was found hanging inside a Long Island, New York police station. This ought to make people of color feel safe and protected in the town of Hempstead, Long Island. (Newsday). . . More...
Boortz: Non-English-speaking Latinos are "the ones with sombreros" and "bandoliers full of bullets across their chest"
September 03, 2007 by editor (View Source)
(MMFA) On the August 10 broadcast of Cox Radio Syndication's The Neal Boortz Show, producer Belinda Skelton told host Neal Boortz about a bilingual Parent-Teacher Association meeting she had attended, remarking that she had been unable to tell how many of the families in attendance spoke English. Boortz responded: "[Y]ou can look at the parents and tell, because the ones with sombreros can't speak English. . . . More...
Jay Bookman (AJC): Even quiet racism can drive everyone a little bit crazy
September 03, 2007 by editor (View Source)
(Bookman/AJC) A few years ago, after an out-of-town friend snagged tickets to the Masters, we ended up riding the last few miles to the storied Augusta golf course in an RV crammed with half a dozen guys from South Carolina.
They were introduced as prominent businessmen in their hometown, and as we inched our way through traffic, I was astonished when they began passing time by telling each other jokes about black people — although "black people" wasn't the term they used — of a crudeness I hadn't heard since childhood.
My shock came not at the racism — it's no secret that racism remains a force in this country with very real consequences — but at the casualness with which it was expressed among "just us white guys. " It came as even more of a shock to my friend, on one of his first trips to the South.
Because racism is so rarely displayed blatantly these days, its influence usually has to be sensed rather than seen. More...
