All things Racist...USA edition (1 Viewer)

[Farb]

I was looking for a place to put this so we could discuss but didn't really find a place that worked so I created this thread so we can all place articles, experiences, videos and examples of racism in the USA.

This is one that happened this week. The lady even called and filed a complaint on the officer. This officer also chose to wear the body cam (apparently, LA doesn't require this yet). This exchange wasn't necessarily racist IMO until she started with the "mexican racist...you will never be white, like you want" garbage. That is when it turned racist IMO

All the murderer and other insults, I think are just a by product of CRT and ACAB rhetoric that is very common on the radical left and sadly is being brought to mainstream in this country.

Another point that I think is worth mentioning is she is a teacher and the sense of entitlement she feels is mind blowing.

https://news.yahoo.com/black-teacher-berates-latino-la-221235341.html

 

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A week after a Texas superintendent took out a newspaper ad to defend the continued suspension of Darryl George over the way he wears his hair, the Black teen’s family filed a third request for a religious exemption to allow him to return to school months after he was originally disciplined.

George’s family sued the state’s governor and attorney general in September, alleging that the state failed to enforce a new law that prohibits hair discrimination when the high school junior was suspended because the district said his hair was too long. George has been repeatedly suspended and disciplined since.

“Being an American requires conformity with the positive benefit of unity,” wrote Greg Poole, the superintendent, in a Jan. 14 full-page advertisement in the Houston Chronicle, referencing dress codes at military academies as an example he said demonstrated the importance of rigorous standards. The ad ran after the Chronicle published an editorial criticizing the district’s actions.

Poole wrote that the suspension was based on George’s hair length — not style — which he argued is not protected under the Crown Act passed last year. He added that “despite our relatively small percentage of African-American students,” the district has a progressive history, pointing to Black school board members in the 1970s and now who help set policy.

The Barbers Hill Independent School District superintendent also wrote that other Black students have received religious exemptions for the school’s dress code, which he said allows braids, locs and twists but requires that boys’ hair must not extend past their eyebrows and earlobes. George wears locs that do not go below his ears, and family representatives said they had applied twice for that exemption but were denied. The district has said George’s hair is longer than allowed when let down.

“The men in our family show they locks as a sign of connection with our roots and ancestors, which keeps us connected and closer to the Higher power God,” wrote Darresha George, Darryl’s mother, in an exemption form filed Tuesday viewed by The Washington Post.

The mother also filed on Tuesday a complaint calling for the Texas Education Agency to investigate the district while alleging that school officials failed to turn in previous grievances to the district. The BHISD previously told the family and its representatives it would not provide another denial memo, according to emails shared with The Post.

The request is the latest in a months-long conflict between the family, which says that they are facing discrimination because they are Black, and the district, which says that it is enforcing a hair-length requirement that extends to all students. The dispute is taking place in Mont Belvieu, Tex., a town of almost 9,000 about 30 miles east of Houston.

“That is a pretextual excuse,” said Allie Booker, the family’s attorney. “The truth is that they allow White males to wear their hair long, just not Black ones. … It’s about race and nappy coarse hair being long.”

Booker and Candice Matthews, the state chair of the Texas Coalition of Black Democrats, spoke to The Post on the family’s behalf because they said George’s mother has had a mental breakdown because of the case. Matthews added that George has considered giving up the fight and cutting his hair because of the effect the drawn-out saga has had on his family. He has so far refused, though, to cut his hair.............

MSN

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/01/23/darryl-george-hair-superintendent-newspaper-ad/

 

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https://www.meidastouch.com/news/charlie-kirk-if-i-see-a-black-pilot-im-going-to-be-like-boy-i-hope-hes-qualified

Kirk’s producer, Blake Neff chimed in, blaming the left for Kirk’s racist outburst. Neff said it’s “the reality the left has created.” Kirk went on to essentially argue that DEI hiring policies give him racist thoughts.

 

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The Maplewood-South Orange School District says a varsity girls basketball player was prohibited from entering a game because she had beads in her hair — in violation of an anti-discrimination state law.

“I was shocked when I learned that one of our very own student-athletes was subjected to the same discrimination that New Jersey’s CROWN Act was established to prevent,” Acting Superintendent Kevin F. Gilbert said in a written statement. On Monday, Gilbert filed a racial bias complaint with the NJSIAA, the association that sets the rules for high school sports in New Jersey.

Gov. Phil Murphy signed the Create a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair Act, also known as the CROWN Act, in 2019. The law bars discrimination based on traits “historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture, hair type and protective hairstyles.” It followed an incident in which a high school wrestler was forced to cut his dreadlocks off in 2018.

At the Maplewood basketball game Thursday, two white referees refused to allow the player, who is Black, onto the court with beads in her hair, according to Aaron Breitman, head coach of the Columbia High School varsity basketball team in Maplewood. She tried three times to tie her hair back in tighter and tighter ways to appease the referees, Breitman said.

He did not identify the referees or the teen player.

“The student in question was clearly upset. She was embarrassed and the rest of the team was very confused,” Breitman said. “And in all honesty, it took away from the first quarter of the game. We started off very slow because the game was no longer our focus. “

The girl was allowed to reenter the game in the second quarter, after the Columbia coaches pointed out rules by the National Federation of State High School Associations saying beads and other hard objects are allowed in hair so long as they’re secured............

Teen booted from basketball game over her hairstyle despite NJ anti-racism law, school says

The CROWN Act bans discrimination based on physical characteristics historically associated with race, like hair texture and type.

gothamist.com

 

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Tessa Tookes had already gone wedding dress shopping once, but nothing compared to a gown she found while scrolling through Instagram. When the 28-year-old NYC-based model discovered a boutique that carried the dress, she traveled to Ontario, Canada, to try it on.

“It really felt like that ‘Say Yes to the Dress’ moment that I was looking for,” said Tookes, who met her fiancé, Joey Kirchner, on season two of "Bachelor in Paradise Canada," which premiered in 2015. “But then the conversation took a turn.”

As Tookes stood on the pedestal in her dream dress, the boutique employees grabbed two brown-colored breast cups. The cups already built into the dress were beige, or “nude” — and free — but if she wanted the undergarments of the dress to match her skin color, she’d have to pay an extra $200.

The experience immediately took Tookes back to her highschool dance performances, she said, when she had to “pancake” her pink ballet shoes with foundation and dye her “nude” tights with tea bags to match her skin.

“I just received the information in silence and defaulted to being uncomfortable,” Tookes, who was the only person of color in the store at the time, told USA TODAY. “I was not acutely aware of my blackness until [that moment.] It was incredibly isolating, and I felt very othered.”

This is not an isolated incident, even in 2024 as many fashion and beauty brands make strides in inclusivity, according to Mariel Buqué, psychologist and author of “Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma.”

“It sends a clear message that darker-skinned women are seen as an ‘other’ and afterthought in the industry,” Buqué said. “This can cause emotional injuries that impact a bride’s joy about such an important event in her life, her self-esteem and her sense of worthiness — deleterious effects that can even last far beyond her big day.”

A video of Tooke’s fiancé describing the incident has garnered more than 3 million views and over 709,000 comments, some of which came from Black wedding dress designers offering to professionally dye the cups for free or custom make her dress altogether. In the expletive-filled video, Kirchner demands wedding dress designers take note, "You should be called out," he says firmly, pointing at the camera. "Figure it out."

The boutique in question contacted Tookes after seeing the video and offered to pay for the wedding dress in full, which Tookes thought was generous but “didn't necessarily get at the heart of the issue.”

In hindsight, Tookes said that she could have spoken up in the moment, but she wanted to avoid becoming a “bridezilla.” Plus, it shouldn’t be her responsibility to do so: “To have to defend your skin tone just doesn't feel fair.”

Women didn’t hold back from voicing their solidarity online. Some shared similar experiences at bridal boutiques, while others were shocked that employees in Tookes’ scenario even felt comfortable enough to mention the upcharge.

But it’s OK to feel at a loss for words in this situation, Buqué says, despite wanting to speak up.

“When we experience an event that makes us feel like we don’t belong or aren’t seen, it can make us emotionally freeze. Know that even a response of immobility is not your fault nor the wrong response,” Buqué said. “It’s simply the way your body figured out to protect you through a hurtful circumstance. And when this type of experience is the norm, which is the case for Black women, immobility is even more possible.”...........

A bride was told her dress would cost more because she's Black. Her fiancé won't stand for it.

Tessa Tookes said it's not her responsibility to defend her skin color. She's right. Yet that's what happened when she went wedding dress shopping.

www.usatoday.com

 

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When Tiffany Blount started competing in indoor rock climbing a few years ago, she was often the only Black woman at the contests. “It was awful,” Blount said.

Fellow competitors were sometimes unhelpful, Blount recalled, claiming that they didn’t see her finish a climb. (Witness signatures are needed to verify attempts.) Another time, a gym manager told her that she couldn’t complete a route because she wasn’t strong enough. Blount’s frustration mounted. Enduring what she characterized as repeated microaggressions took a toll on her.

So in March 2020, Blount, who is 42 and based in New Jersey, launched Black Girls Boulder, a social climbing club that hosted meet-ups in New York and New Jersey. Then a couple of years later, she led the first Blk Out Fest in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where Black climbers gathered to train, camp, watch films featuring Black athletes and share vulnerable conversations about climbing while Black.…..

‘I don’t have to code-switch’: how Black and brown rock climbers are revamping the sport

People of color are carving out safe spaces for themselves within the white male-dominated activity

www.theguardian.com

 

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Conservatives Are Blaming A New Racist Theory For Airline Accidents​

Republicans Think They Know What’s Behind All The Scary Plane Accidents

Republicans have gone all-in on a theory that racial minority groups are being put in charge of airline safety with disastrous results.

www.huffpost.com

 

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People just don’t mind saying anything now.

 

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When Dr. Uché Blackstock left her faculty position in academic medicine four years ago, she had no way of knowing she was making a life-or-death decision. After enduring years of racism and sexism in a toxic work environment, she’d had enough and decided to prioritize her own mental health and well-being.

Now, on the heels of the release of her debut memoir, Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine, which also takes a critical look at the intersection of racism and healthcare, Blackstock is grateful she chose herself.

“Best decision I ever made and it’s not lost on me that I was one of the lucky ones to be able to find a way out,” she recently posted on X (formerly Twitter) nearly one week after the suicide of Dr. Antoinette “Bonnie” Candia-Bailey, vice president of student affairs at Lincoln University. “We just want to be able to do the work we love on behalf of our communities in ways that feel authentic to us, where we can speak up about systemic inequities without fear of retaliation, but really it feels like we are asking for too much so we just create our own spaces.”

Which is exactly what Blackstock did in 2019 when she founded her consultancy, Advancing Health Equity, as a way to dismantle racism in healthcare by partnering with health organizations to diversify their hiring and combat racial health inequities. With Black women accounting for less than 3% of U.S. doctors (even though Black people make up 13% of the U.S. population), Blackstock is aware that training more Black physicians is only part of the solution.

“I would love for there to be more Black physicians because that can help to solve the problem,” she says in a video interview with Fortune. “But the other piece of it is we need physicians who are not Black to be able to adequately and competently care for Black people as well.”

This culturally competent care is an important skill Blackstock learned firsthand from her mother, Dr. Dale Gloria Blackstock. Together, with Uche’s twin sister, Oni, the trio became the first Black mother-daughter legacies from Harvard Medical School. Tragically, their mother died from acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) at the age of 47. The experience opened Uché’s eyes to the many ways systemic racism plays a critical (and often fatal) role in the lives of Black Americans.

Studies have shown that people who live in low-income communities, such as the one Uché’s mother grew up in, have higher exposure to toxic environmental contaminants, which can lead to higher rates of cancer. Additionally, as Blackstock writes in Legacy, cancer diagnoses are often delayed for Black patients due to “lack of access to health care and lack of quality, culturally responsive care.”

“Often when people hear these very dismal and sobering statistics about Black communities and health, there is this assumption that there is something wrong with us,” she says. “I need people to see how systemic racism behaves and how it impacts our communities through these practices.”

In a country where Black men have the shortest life expectancy; Black women are more likely to die in childbirth than any other group and Black babies have the highest infant mortality rate, Blackstock is committed to shining a light on the deep inequities that exist in the U.S. healthcare system. Although she’s crystal clear that it is not on Black people to fix a problem we didn’t create.

“Sometimes I think it’s easy for people to see interpersonal racism, like when someone is called a racist slur or mistreated because they’re Black,” she says. “It’s something entirely different to see how policies our own federal government sanctioned and created have led to racial health inequities. Once you’re able to connect the dots, it’s very hard to unsee them.”..............

MSN

www.msn.com

Racism is rampant in health care and a new memoir reveals how deadly the consequences can be

"Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine," by Dr. Uché Blackstock, takes a critical look at the intersection of racism and health care.

fortune.com

 

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When Dr. Uché Blackstock left her faculty position in academic medicine four years ago, she had no way of knowing she was making a life-or-death decision. After enduring years of racism and sexism in a toxic work environment, she’d had enough and decided to prioritize her own mental health and well-being.

Now, on the heels of the release of her debut memoir, Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine, which also takes a critical look at the intersection of racism and healthcare, Blackstock is grateful she chose herself.

“Best decision I ever made and it’s not lost on me that I was one of the lucky ones to be able to find a way out,” she recently posted on X (formerly Twitter) nearly one week after the suicide of Dr. Antoinette “Bonnie” Candia-Bailey, vice president of student affairs at Lincoln University. “We just want to be able to do the work we love on behalf of our communities in ways that feel authentic to us, where we can speak up about systemic inequities without fear of retaliation, but really it feels like we are asking for too much so we just create our own spaces.”

Which is exactly what Blackstock did in 2019 when she founded her consultancy, Advancing Health Equity, as a way to dismantle racism in healthcare by partnering with health organizations to diversify their hiring and combat racial health inequities. With Black women accounting for less than 3% of U.S. doctors (even though Black people make up 13% of the U.S. population), Blackstock is aware that training more Black physicians is only part of the solution.

“I would love for there to be more Black physicians because that can help to solve the problem,” she says in a video interview with Fortune. “But the other piece of it is we need physicians who are not Black to be able to adequately and competently care for Black people as well.”

This culturally competent care is an important skill Blackstock learned firsthand from her mother, Dr. Dale Gloria Blackstock. Together, with Uche’s twin sister, Oni, the trio became the first Black mother-daughter legacies from Harvard Medical School. Tragically, their mother died from acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) at the age of 47. The experience opened Uché’s eyes to the many ways systemic racism plays a critical (and often fatal) role in the lives of Black Americans.

Studies have shown that people who live in low-income communities, such as the one Uché’s mother grew up in, have higher exposure to toxic environmental contaminants, which can lead to higher rates of cancer. Additionally, as Blackstock writes in Legacy, cancer diagnoses are often delayed for Black patients due to “lack of access to health care and lack of quality, culturally responsive care.”

“Often when people hear these very dismal and sobering statistics about Black communities and health, there is this assumption that there is something wrong with us,” she says. “I need people to see how systemic racism behaves and how it impacts our communities through these practices.”

In a country where Black men have the shortest life expectancy; Black women are more likely to die in childbirth than any other group and Black babies have the highest infant mortality rate, Blackstock is committed to shining a light on the deep inequities that exist in the U.S. healthcare system. Although she’s crystal clear that it is not on Black people to fix a problem we didn’t create.

“Sometimes I think it’s easy for people to see interpersonal racism, like when someone is called a racist slur or mistreated because they’re Black,” she says. “It’s something entirely different to see how policies our own federal government sanctioned and created have led to racial health inequities. Once you’re able to connect the dots, it’s very hard to unsee them.”..............

MSN

www.msn.com

Racism is rampant in health care and a new memoir reveals how deadly the consequences can be

"Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine," by Dr. Uché Blackstock, takes a critical look at the intersection of racism and health care.

fortune.com

There is a reason the black population suffers more from chronic disease, childbirth mortality, and any number of other health issues. It needs to be addressed.

 

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There is a reason the black population suffers more from chronic disease, childbirth mortality, and any number of other health issues. It needs to be addressed.

and it's a combination of systematic racism (redlining, where neighborhoods were built, using stockpiles of lead paint in those houses, etc.) and current racism (dismissing or underestimating pain and/or symptoms)

 

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SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The diversity, equity and inclusion coordinator of public schools in South Portland, Maine, has resigned and left the state, saying he fears for his family's safety after receiving a threatening letter from a white supremacist.

The attack on Mohammed Albehadli, who came to the U.S. a decade ago from Iraq after it became too dangerous, comes at a time when many Republicans are opposed to efforts to recruit and retain faculty and students of color.

Albehadli said he knows from experience in Iraq how threats can escalate: “You hear something first. And the next thing, an action follows.”

He decided not to wait to find out what the action might be.

The Dec. 29 letter, released to The Associated Press under a freedom of information request, contains racist epithets and indicates the New England White Network told Albehadli that he should “go back to the Middle East where you belong."

Superintendent Timothy Matheney described the letter as the “most vile email message I have seen in my 35 years in education.”

Albehadli, who announced his resignation a week ago, was “an exemplary staff member” who was making a “positive impact” on city schools, Matheney said.

“Because we deeply value the diversity of our students and staff members, this situation has saddened all of us who seek to ensure safe and welcoming schools. Nevertheless, we will continue to pursue diversity, equity and inclusion here because the importance of that work is even more evident and urgent to us now,” he said in a statement.

South Portland Police Chief Dan Ahern said a school resource officer and detectives are investigating and consulting with state and county prosecutors to determine if a crime was committed.

Similar emails from the same sender have gone to other people of color — including Portland, Maine, city councilors Victoria Pelletier and Pious Ali, who recently ran for mayor. In 2022, an email to state Rep. Charlotte DiLorenzo in New Hampshire was investigated by the state attorney general's office. Recently, another email to a mayor in New Hampshire called the mayor's gay son an “abomination.”

“Quite honestly, these attacks take a toll. How could they not?” Ali wrote in a statement about the incident. But Ali vowed that he wouldn’t be intimidated and urged people to come together to stand up against racism.

The emails' sender, Ryan Murdough, the New Hampshire founder of the New England White Network, is active on Gab, a social networking website popular with white nationalists, where he said that he has received a no-trespass notice for school property in South Portland along with a police officer's warning that hate speech can be viewed as a threat...............

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Why can’t white America leave Black children’s hair alone? | Tayo Bero

A Texas school is punishing a teenager for wearing his hair in neat locs. How is this still happening in 2024?

www.theguardian.com

 

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Awful.

 

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And the Robert E Lee statue sympathisers are celebrating.. becuase, you know, they smbolize the same thing..lol

 

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Awful.

In the same vein
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A plaque recognizing the racist history of a southern California beach town that seized land from a Black family in the 1920s has been stolen, police say.

The monument was erected last year in Manhattan Beach in Los Angeles county to honor the history of Bruce’s Beach, where a Black couple built a popular resort for Black Americans in the early 1900s before the local government took control of their land and destroyed their business.

The plaque at Bruce’s Beach park by the ocean was reported stolen on Monday, according to Manhattan Beach police, which has solicited tips about the theft.


The site received national attention in recent years as LA county moved to return the valuable land to descendants of Willa and Charles Bruce. The Bruces bought the land in 1912 along the waterfront and built a resort that provided rare California beach access to Black residents. The family faced violence and harassment from the Ku Klux Klan and white locals, but the establishment continued to thrive until 1924, when Manhattan Beach officials condemned the land and adjacent homes owned by Black residents.

The city used eminent domain to take the family’s property, claiming the site was needed to build a park. Instead, the property sat vacant for decades. The Bruces had sought $120,000 in litigation, but were awarded only $14,000; they were priced out of the area and moved to the east side of LA, where they worked as cooks in other establishments.

Descendants of the family fought for years for restitution and return of the land, which became home to an LA county lifeguard-training headquarters and parking lot. In 2022, the county agreed to give the land back to the family, which initially leased the property to the county for its continued use. The move was considered a significant victory in the ongoing fight for reparations in California and across the country. The family sold the land back to the county last year for around $20m.

Bruce’s Beach was one of many Black sites of leisure that were shut down by racist government projects in the early 1900s. Santa Monica, next to Manhattan Beach, was home to a thriving Black community until the construction of a freeway displaced hundreds of families.…….

Plaque acknowledging racist history of California beach town stolen, police say

Bruce’s Beach was a rare resort for Black residents of Manhattan Beach starting in 1912, until city seized it in 1924

www.theguardian.com

 

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Tom should have worn his klan hat to the hearing...

 

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WIMBERLEY, Texas (KXAN) — You may want to take a close look at the legal documents you sign.

Some of them include racist language dating back decades. A Hays County couple is working to get rid of some of that language in the deed of their home.

It’s only possible now under a new Texas law.

Jenell and Angela Pham love living on the property they own in Wimberley. They’ve called it home since 2019. But there’s been one major thing they haven’t been able to shake: the words in their deed.

“The owners, their heirs or assigns, shall not sell or convey any part of sale premises to a person not of the Caucasian race and no residence lot shall beused by persons not of the Caucasian race except as domestic servants working for the family occupying the residence,” the deed reads.

“When you’re somebody not white living in this subdivision, it brings up fear and disgust,” Angela Pham said.

It’s a common deed practice implemented in the 1920s through the 1960s.

“I felt so disempowered to watch Angela’s reaction to that statement, and to feel emotionally, how it impacted her,” Jenell said.

The Phams said their realtor said it wasn’t enforceable. But the words mattered. They advocated with the neighborhood’s property owner’s association to get the law changed. In fact, Jenell became president of their association.

It changed in 2021. On Monday, the Phams filed the paperwork at the Hays County Clerk’s Office that will allow them to get rid of deed restrictions in their neighborhood.

“It’s upturning decades and centuries of discrimination and oppression and racism,” Angela said.

Though there’s no clear record of how many deeds still have this language, the Pham family is hopeful other neighbors will look into it............

MSN

 

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Tom should have worn his klan hat to the hearing...

has he given his weak sauce apology yet?

EDIT: Nope doubling down