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    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
     
    You’re not celebrating the Irish people, your kids aren’t learning about the history, trials and tribulations of the Irish, there’s no packages about the life of Saint Patrick on the evening news

    You wear something green, say ‘Top O’ the mornin’ to ya’ in a truly atrocious attempt at an Irish accent, then go get piss drunk on cheap green beer

    Repeat sentiments for Cinco de Mayo
     
    There are some truly evil people in the world
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    A West Virginia couple found guilty of abusing their adopted children by locking them in a shed, forcing them to sleep on the floor and to use buckets as toilets, have been sentenced to decades in prison.

    Jeanne Kay Whitefeather, 62, and her husband Donald Lantz, 63, received maximum sentences, to be served consecutively, a judge ordered in Kanawha County Circuit Court on Wednesday.

    Whitefeather, who was sentenced to 215 years, will have to serve at least 40 years before she is eligible for parole while Lantz, who got 160 years behind bars, will have to serve at least 30. They will each also have to pay $280,000 in restitution to the children.


    The couple, who are white, adopted the five Black siblings, ranging in age from 5 to 16, moved to West Virginia in 2023, and were arrested after two of the children were found locked in a shed in unsanitary conditions.

    “You brought them to West Virginia, a place I know as almost heaven, and you put them in hell,” Judge Maryclaire Akers told the couple before handing down the sentence. “This court will now put you in yours. May God have mercy on your souls because this court will not.”

    The sentencing comes nearly two months after a jury on January 29 found the pair guilty on multiple counts of forced labor, human trafficking, and child abuse and neglect. Whitefeather also was convicted of civil rights violations based on race.……

    West Virginia couple convicted of treating adopted Black kids as ‘slaves’ sentenced

    In January, a jury found Jeanne Whitefeather and Donald Ray Lantz guilty on multiple counts of forced labor, human trafficking, and child abuse and neglect
    www.independent.co.uk
     
    Optimus Prime said:
    good article about one of the most famous pictures from the civil rights era
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    While segregation was declared unconstitutional in 1954, it would take years for white schools to integrate. For Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, that day was set for Sept. 4, 1957.

    Nine Black students were due to integrate the first high school in a major southern city amid public outcry from segregationists – including the governor of Arkansas.

    Governor Orval Faubuseven had even called up the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the students from entering the school, saying it posed a risk of rioting and breaching the peace.

    On the first day of school, hundreds of segregationists had gathered to harass and obstruct the Black students, who would become known as the Little Rock Nine. Civil rights organizers had told them to arrive with their parents and meet as a group so they could go in the school’s back entrance together, but they were turned away by the Arkansas National Guard.

    Fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Eckford did not get the message to meet, and arrived alone at the front entrance of the school. She was immediately surrounded by a mob of segregationists as she walked to guards at the entranced of the school.

    Eckford recounted the day in a 1998 interview with the Guardian newspaper.

    “I walked up to the guard who had let the white students in. He too didn’t move. When I tried to squeeze past him, he raised his bayonet and then the other guards moved in and they raised their bayonets. They glared at me with a mean look and I was very frightened and didn’t know what to do,” she said. “I turned around and the crowd came toward me. They moved closer and closer. Somebody started yelling, ‘Lynch her! Lynch her!'”

    Television and newspaper reporters, including Arkansas Democrat Photographer Will Counts, captured the mob harassing Eckford. Counts captured the above image of a white student, Hazel Bryan Massery, shouting “Go home, (n-word)! Go back to Africa” at Eckford.

    That photo would be shared across the world and give international attention to the struggle to integrate U.S. schools.

    Eckford saw a nearby bus bench and walked to it thinking it would give her some form of safety.

    “I sat down and the mob crowded up and began shouting all over again. Someone hollered, ‘Drag her over to this tree! Let’s take care of that (N-word).’ Just then a white man sat down beside me, put his arm around me and patted my shoulder. He raised my chin and said, ‘Don’t let them see you cry,'” Eckford said in the Guardian interview.

    The man was Benjamin Fine, a reporter for the New York Times, who had a daughter around Eckford’s age. Soon Grace Lorch, a white civil rights activist and teacher stood up for Eckford and escorted her onto a city bus to safety.

    The school district later condemned the governor’s actions and President Dwight Eisenhower asked the governor to withdraw the troops, but chose not to take any federal action until two weeks later, when the Little Rock Nine attempted to integrate again.

    With a police escort, the Black students entered the school on Sept. 23. That day an even larger white mob had gathered and were able to trespass into the school. The Black students were taken to the principle’s office and then evacuated for safety.

    Outside, a group of white segregationist attacked and beat L. Alex Wilson, a Black reporter Memphis Tri-State Defender who was covering the story. One person jumped on his back and choked him, and another man hit him on the head with a brick, causing an injury that likely shortened his life. He died three years later at the age of 51.

    The image of Wilson’s attack, also taken by Will Counts, and a telegram from the mayor of Little Rock urging presidential intervention prompted Eisenhower to finally use the Insurrection Act to send federal troops to Arkansas.............

    Eckford never graduated from Central High School and ended up taking correspondence and night courses for her diploma. She enlisted in the army and later served as a probation officer. As she got older, she was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder.

    The white student in the iconic photo, Hazel Bryan Massery, left school at 17 when she married. In the years since that photo, her views on desegregation had changed, writes Author David Margolick in his book “Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock”.

    Massery realized that her children would one day see her as the snarling girl in history books and in 1963 she called Eckford to apologize. Eckford accepted and the two didn’t speak again for decades.

    Massery later got involved in peace activism and social work.

    “She taught mothering skills to unmarried black women, and took underprivileged black teenagers on field trips. She frequented the black history section at the local Barnes & Noble, buying books by Cornel West and Shelby Steele and the companion volume to Eyes on the Prize,” Margolick writes.

    “She read David Shipler’s study of black-white relations in America, A Country of Strangers, a book Elizabeth herself had helped inspire.”

    In 1997, on the 40th anniversary of Central High School’s desegregation, Journalist Will Counts arranged for the two women to meet again for another photograph at the school. That year they also made speeches together at a reconciliation rally. The photograph of the two women decades later would later become a poster promoting racial healing.

    The meeting sparked an actual friendship, Margolick writes.

    “They went to flower shows together, bought fabrics together, took mineral baths and massages together, appeared in documentaries and before school groups together. Since Elizabeth had never learned to drive, Hazel joked that she had become Elizabeth’s chauffeur,” Margolick writes.

    The two women even took a months-long racial healing seminar together discussing race relations.

    But the close time they spent together led to hard realizations for both women, and by 2000 they had stopped being friends.

    Eckford told Margolick that she felt Massery “wanted me to be cured and be over it and for this not to go on… She wanted me to be less uncomfortable so that she wouldn’t feel responsible anymore.”

    When asked what she felt after seeing the photograph Massery responded that she was “just hamming it up and being recognized, getting attention” and that it wasn’t worth remembering.

    But Eckford said that she learned that Massery had had weekly contact with the students on a local dance show “and she was part of an organized group that attacked us physically in the school,” Eckford told NPR.

    Meanwhile Massery felt like she was under attack...............



    Behind the photo: Little Rock desegregation

    The story behind the photograph of one of the first Black students to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.
    america.cgtn.com


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    I've read that the GI Bill is one of the most important single things responsible for making America has we know it

    Suburbs explosion with home loans, so many people going to college, middle class and more and everything that comes with all of it

    Black America (and America) looks much different today if these soldiers (my grandfather also served during WWII) were able to get GI Bill benefits

    I've always known that reparation based on slavery was going to be a hard sell since "it was sooooo long ago" Jim Crow, redlining, this GI Bill, etc. much more recent and theoretically an "easier" argument to make (but still would be a hard sell)
     
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    An attack on a Somali Muslim woman by four suspects in Ohio should be investigated by police as a possible hate crime, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

    Video footage of the assault showed the Muslim woman outside an apartment building arguing with the group, who appear to be white, on March 20 in Columbus after dropping her children at the school bus stop. The individuals then attacked her by punching and shoving her to the ground, the group said.

    While on the ground, one of the attackers repeatedly kicked her. As she moved to get up and walked toward the building, another assailant exited the structure and struck her across the face.


    The victim, who was not identified, believes she was targeted because of her ethnicity and religion, the organization said. She obtained treatment at a nearby hospital and was later released.

    Earlier this month, the group, which is the country’s largest Muslim civil liberties organization, reported that it had fielded 8,658 complaints regarding anti-Muslim and anti-Arab incidents last year, representing a 7.4 percent increase year on year. It was also the highest number since CAIR began collecting data in 1996……..

    Attack on Muslim woman in Ohio street should be probed as hate crime, says group

    Somali woman was attacked by four suspects outside apartment building in Columbus, Ohio, says Council on American-Islamic Relations
    www.independent.co.uk
     

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