All things Racist...USA edition (4 Viewers)

Farb said:

Yep. Sure. I dragged this out and I was wrong. Sure.

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All you can do now is learn from your mistake and move on.

Saintamaniac said:

All you can do now is learn from your mistake and move on.

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Honestly, it is all we ever hope for, is it not? Thank you for the chance for personal growth.

Posted this on EE also
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MEMPHIS — It’s rare for a Black community ba notch a win against a large industrial polluter, but that’s what happened on this city’s south side.

Residents stood up to a proposal by two oil and gas industry giants to build a pipeline under their properties and forced them to back down. When the news broke last year in July, the rejoicing began.

But it didn’t last long.

Just two weeks after Valero Energy Corp. and Plains All-American abandoned their pipeline bid, the Tennessee Valley Authority announced its plan to truck millions of tons of contaminated coal ash through south Memphis for nearly 10 years and dump it in a landfill there. And there was nothing residents could do to stop it.

What happened in south Memphis is another example of how industries constantly work to fight their way into communities of color already teeming with pollution — and get their way more often than not.

By spring this year, earthmovers were crawling on a mountain of the toxic pollutant and dumping it into trucks with sealed cabins to protect the drivers against breathing it.

Every weekday, the convoy rolls toward Interstate 55, starting a 19-mile procession to dump waste laced with mercury, arsenic and other contaminants at a landfill in south Memphis and cover it with dirt.

Diesel trucks operated by a contractor, Republic Services, will make 240 trips per day to remove 3.2 million cubic yards of coal ash — about 4 million tons — through an environmental justice community that already faces heavy industrial pollution from nearby oil and gas refineries, pipelines, freeways, rail yards and trash dumps.

Residents, conservationists and local politicians who oppose the plan say that the TVA — the nation’s largest public utility — failed to consult them adequately or seriously consider less harmful alternatives……

again with the home appraisals
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A Maryland couple has sued a local real estate appraiser and an online mortgage loan provider, alleging that the housing appraisal they received was unfairly low due to their race, in violation of the Fair Housing Act, after a second appraisal returned a result nearly $300,000 higher.

Nathan Connolly and Shani Mott filed suit against 20/20 Valuations LLC, its owner Shane Lanham, and loanDepot.com on Monday, alleging the defendants 20/20 Valuations LLC and its owner “discriminated against Plaintiffs by dramatically undervaluing their home in an appraisal because of Plaintiffs’ race and their home’s location adjacent to a Black census block, notwithstanding that it is also located within Homeland, an affluent, mostly white neighborhood,” and loanDepot.com discriminated against them by relying on that appraisal in denying their refinance loan.

According to the complaint, Connolly and Mott are Black professors at Johns Hopkins University who applied to loanDepot.com to refinance the mortgage on their four-bedroom home in Homeland, Maryland, a predominantly White Baltimore neighborhood.

Lanham’s company, 20/20 Valuations, performed the appraisal for loanDepot and returned a valuation that was more than $75,000 below the conservative estimate of valuation which loanDepot had given the couple, according to the lawsuit. LoanDepot denied the couple the mortgage refinance because of the low valuation, according to the complaint.

“Plaintiffs were shocked at the appraisal and recognized that the low valuation was because of racial discrimination. They told this to their loanDepot loan officer and challenged the appraisal in a detailed letter,” the suit reads.

Gabriel Diaz, an attorney for the couple, told CNN the lawsuit represents his clients’ point of view.

Connolly and Mott later re-applied with another lender, and “whitewashed” their home, according to the lawsuit. This included removing photos of their Black family from the home, and having a White colleague present the property to the appraiser. The suit claims this valuation came back at $750,000, more than a quarter of a million dollars higher than 20/20 Valuations’ appraisal of $472,000...........

Optimus Prime said:

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I want to know a lot more. Like why where they doing that? Who gave the kids the idea to do that? Where were the adults and who was recording that? Did not one person have the presence of mind to see how racist that is/appears?

“Racism wouldn’t exist if leftists would stop talking about it”.

Keep reading on this one - the best part is at the end.

superchuck500 said:

“Racism wouldn’t exist if leftists would stop talking about it”.

Keep reading on this one - the best part is at the end.

Couple behind party that roiled Rochester Fire Department defend themselves

The Rochester couple who allegedly threw a party mocking Juneteenth and local elected officials say they've been unfairly portrayed. Local dentist Dr.

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I mean, nothing racist at all about any of this . But we just need to stop talking about it.

When they got there, Jones says they saw Juneteenth flags with buckets of Kentucky Fried Chicken underneath them and photos of some politicians on spikes in the ground. Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the emancipation of slaves.

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The City of Rochester has completed an investigation into Jones' claims, which led to the retirement of Capt. Jeffrey Krywy. In a statement in the city's report, Krywy admits to taking some firefighters to the party while they were on duty. He says he didn't think anything of the photographs of the politicians and that they were not derogatory. Krywy also says he was given a gift bag, which included a Hennessy bottle and a Juneteenth cup, as well as a candle, tiny hat, and stuffed bear.

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In the days since Jones' allegations came to light, there have been rumors that Mary Nicosia operated a Twitter account with racist content under a fake name. On Tuesday, she admitted posting "blatantly racist comments" online "under a veil of a persona."

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"The culture of Twitter operates that way and it's part of its charm. I don't want to say its charm, but it gives you an opportunity to be someone that you're not," she said. "For these comments, I'd like to apologize to the African American community and other people in the community that I have hurt or offended by doing what I was doing on Twitter."

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I love how part of "Twitter's charm" according to Mary is the ability to be an anonymous racist.

superchuck500 said:

“Racism wouldn’t exist if leftists would stop talking about it”.

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Paul's motto

A Black pastor in Alabama is filing a discrimination lawsuit against police after he was arrested for watering his neighbour’s flowers.

Pastor Michael Jennings, who leads the Vision of Abundant Life Ministries in Sylacauga, had just returned from a Sunday service to his home in nearby Childersburg in May when he went to his neighbour’s house to water her plants. He told police that his neighbour had asked him to take care of the plants while they were out of town.

But while he was watering, someone in the neighbourhood called the police – telling authorities that there was an unknown man on the property.

Body camera footage from a Childersburg police officer shows that when the officer began speaking with Mr Childress, the pastor was still watering with a hose. Two other police officers were on the scene as well.

“I’m supposed to be here,” Mr Jennings says in the video. “I’m Pastor Jennings. I live across the street... I’m looking out for their house while they’re gone.”

The police officer asks Mr Jennings to present identification, which Mr Jennings declined to do – telling the officer that he “did nothing wrong.”

After less than two minutes of the recorded interaction, police officers took Mr Jennings’ phone and handcuffed him. Shortly thereafter, police officers began screaming at Mr Jennings that he must identify himself to them while Mr Jennings accused the officers of improper conduct..........

New York dentist bitterly complains about losing clients after his Juneteenth-mocking party gets exposed in lawsuit​

I'm not racist, i just pretend to be on Twitter...

However, Znidarsic-Nicosia also admitted that she ran an overtly racist Twitter account, although she claimed that the account was merely a racist "persona" she created and was not reflective of her true views.

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“I have made blatantly racist comments under that persona,” she said. “The culture of Twitter operates that way. It gives you an opportunity to be someone you’re not.”

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dentist Nicholas Nicosia and his wife, real estate agent Mary Znidarsic-Nicosia, held a press conference this week to claim that their Juneteenth-ridiculing party was not racist, despite the fact that it prominently featured "Juneteenth flags displayed over buckets of fried chicken."

Znidarsic-Nicosia claimed that the friend chicken at the party was simply a coincidence, and that the party had been designed to attack liberals and not Black Americans specifically.

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It wouldn't be racist if we just didn't talk about it...

Bigdaddysaints said:

New York dentist bitterly complains about losing clients after his Juneteenth-mocking party gets exposed in lawsuit​

I'm not racist, i just pretend to be on Twitter...




It wouldn't be racist if we just didn't talk about it...

MSN

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You can be anyone you want to be on twitter.

I chose to be racist.

Weird defense.

The absolute travesty of having to deal with the consequences of your own stupidity.

It began yesterday when Fox13 reported a police officer and high school principal had experienced racial profiling at Houston's Restaurant. The station then revealed that since that first report, other accounts of racism have poured into the station.

The previous report was from a law enforcement officer and high school principal who said they were humiliated by the restaurant after being accused of smelling like marijuana.

“I don’t plan on patronizing this establishment anymore,” said Marcus Mosby.

“She said, ‘There’s a strong odor of marijuana coming from your party in this area.’ I said, ‘Ma’am, we don’t smoke marijuana. You’re mistaken.’ She said, ‘I’ve gotten complaints. People have called and said they smell.’ I said, ‘Ma’am, no one has walked past us but you,’” said Mosby.

“You would think when I advised her of my occupation, my wife’s occupation, you would think she would reassess what she thought. She didn’t want to hear it. She said, ‘You still have to leave,’” said Mosby.

After Mosby's story was reported on the station, the station heard several other complaints from people of color who were asked to leave or made to feel uncomfortable at the Houston's Restaurant. The most notable was a former security guard who worked at Houston's for two years before he couldn't take it anymore and asked to be reassigned.

“They would come in and they would tell them that they’re booked and they wouldn’t be able to get a seat for the next four or five hours. Sometimes they would say they were booked for the whole day and then you would see white people come in and they would take them on in,” he explained, emphasizing he wanted to remain anonymous.

“And then I would see the manager tell people to , ‘just come in behind me …don’t say anything … just walk to the table with me. Don’t say anything. Just act normal like you have reservations.’ He would let white people come sit down, but he wouldn’t let black people come in,” he adds.

One customer of color, Linda Lane, said that a host asked if there were other shoes the customer could change into, saying that they banned crocks in the dining room. The customer explained she had just injured her ankle, showing the host.

“And then another waitress came and told my cousin, ‘You can’t wear a hat in the dining area.’ He said, ‘What’s the problem? I see other people wearing hats.’ She said, ‘They’re veterans.’”

The problems the steakhouse had with them only persisted from there. At one point the manager "said they were trying to keep their establishment upscale, and I said, ‘I really don’t want to stay in this establishment. I’m uncomfortable.’”

Lane emphasized her party was dressed appropriately. “We were dressed to the nines as we would say in our language because I had on a dress and they had on linen suits.”

White customers were allowed to be in violation of the Houston's dress code, however, she said............

Americans adopt thousands of children each year. And as the nation has become increasingly diverse, and with the growth of international adoption in recent decades, many of those children don't look like their adoptive parents.

That intersection of race and adoption has prompted many people to submit their six words to The Race Card Project, including this submission from a Louisiana woman: "Black babies cost less to adopt."

Other contributors have also addressed the skin-color based fee structure for many adoptions, including Caryn Lantz of Minneapolis. Her six words: "Navigating world as transracial adopted family."

Lantz and her husband, both white, are the adoptive parents of two African-American boys. The couple had struggled for years to conceive a child. When they finally decided to turn to adoption they were willing to adopt kids of another race. But they wereconcerned by what they discovered about the differential costs…..

Moving through the process would be quicker if the family was open to adopting an African-American (not biracial) child, the social worker explained to her. "And that is because they have children of color waiting," Lantz says.

Adopting biracial, Latino, Asian or Caucasian children could be a slower process, she was told, because there were more parents waiting for them…..

The Race Card Project spoke with social workers, adoption agencies and adoptive parents about adoption costs based on ethnicity. We discovered that this is not widely talked about, but it is common, Norris tells NPR's David Greene. "No one is comfortable about this."……

Non-white children, and black children, in particular, are harder to place in adoptive homes, Norris says.

So the cost is adjusted to provide an incentive for families that might otherwise be locked out of adoption due to cost, as well as "for families who really have to, maybe have a little bit of prodding to think about adopting across racial lines."

In other words, Norris explains, there are often altruistic reasons for the discrepancy — "but people who work in adoption say there's one more reason, quite simply: It's supply and demand."…….

Why does it cost so much in the first place?

MT15 said:

The absolute travesty of having to deal with the consequences of your own stupidity.

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yeah, and people cry "cancel culture"
um, no. It is being held accountable

SaulGoodmanEsq said:

Why does it cost so much in the first place?

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The link they posted gives a clue "christianadoptionconsultants.com"

Apparently not a charity.