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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
     
    A shotgun fired twice outside of a New York state synagogue.

    A group of college students of Palestinian descent in Vermont shot while wearing keffiyehs.

    Since the outbreak of war between Hamas and Israel, antisemitic, Islamophobic, and anti-Arab hate incidents have reached unprecedented levels, according to civil rights advocates.

    Between 7 October and 7 December, antisemitic incidents reached the highest level ever for a two-month period since the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) began tracking the figure in 1979, topping 2,000……
    www.independent.co.uk

    Antisemitic and anti-Muslim hate in US reaches ‘staggering’ record amid Gaza war

    Incidents ranged from assaults to hateful graffitti
    www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
     
    Optimus Prime said:
    A shotgun fired twice outside of a New York state synagogue.

    A group of college students of Palestinian descent in Vermont shot while wearing keffiyehs.

    Since the outbreak of war between Hamas and Israel, antisemitic, Islamophobic, and anti-Arab hate incidents have reached unprecedented levels, according to civil rights advocates.

    Between 7 October and 7 December, antisemitic incidents reached the highest level ever for a two-month period since the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) began tracking the figure in 1979, topping 2,000……
    www.independent.co.uk

    Antisemitic and anti-Muslim hate in US reaches ‘staggering’ record amid Gaza war

    Incidents ranged from assaults to hateful graffitti
    www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
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    This isn’t an accident IMO. I think largely foreign actors, probably at the state level, are fanning the flames here in the US on purpose using social media. I do believe it’s a relatively small number of people who are being radicalized, but you don’t need many to just cause chaos and deepen divisions.
     
    CONWAY, SC (WMBF) - A cross burning in Conway has civil rights leaders sounding off across the state.

    The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, NAACP, is now launching an investigation into the cross burning caught on video over Thanksgiving weekend.

    The incident has Conway couple Shawn and Monica Williams re-thinking their move to the Grand Strand.

    South Carolina is just one of two states without a hate crime law.


    In the past three years, a hate crime bill has made it through the South Carolina State House but stalled on the Senate floor.

    Conway resident and NAACP task force member Cedric Blain-Spain said it’s time for real change.

    “This here renews our efforts,” Blain-Spain said. “I just hope that we would be resilient and come together because, certainly, this has opened old wounds for those who have lived through the Jim Crow era.”

    Shawn and Monica Williams claim they’ve spent years being harassed by their neighbors, which has reportedly ranged from racial slurs to threats.


    However, the final straw was finding a burning cross facing their home just feet away from their yard.

    That led Horry County police to arrest their neighbors, but Marvin Neal, 3rd vice president of the South Carolina State Conference NAACP, said the incident shows the need for a hate crime bill in South Carolina..................

    www.wmbfnews.com

    ‘It’s appalling’: NAACP launching investigation into Conway cross burning

    A cross burning in Conway has civil rights leaders sounding off across the state.
    www.wmbfnews.com www.wmbfnews.com
     
    Optimus Prime said:
    CONWAY, SC (WMBF) - A cross burning in Conway has civil rights leaders sounding off across the state.

    The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, NAACP, is now launching an investigation into the cross burning caught on video over Thanksgiving weekend.

    The incident has Conway couple Shawn and Monica Williams re-thinking their move to the Grand Strand.

    South Carolina is just one of two states without a hate crime law.


    In the past three years, a hate crime bill has made it through the South Carolina State House but stalled on the Senate floor.

    Conway resident and NAACP task force member Cedric Blain-Spain said it’s time for real change.

    “This here renews our efforts,” Blain-Spain said. “I just hope that we would be resilient and come together because, certainly, this has opened old wounds for those who have lived through the Jim Crow era.”

    Shawn and Monica Williams claim they’ve spent years being harassed by their neighbors, which has reportedly ranged from racial slurs to threats.


    However, the final straw was finding a burning cross facing their home just feet away from their yard.

    That led Horry County police to arrest their neighbors, but Marvin Neal, 3rd vice president of the South Carolina State Conference NAACP, said the incident shows the need for a hate crime bill in South Carolina..................

    www.wmbfnews.com

    ‘It’s appalling’: NAACP launching investigation into Conway cross burning

    A cross burning in Conway has civil rights leaders sounding off across the state.
    www.wmbfnews.com www.wmbfnews.com
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    Wow, Conway's less than an hour from us.....I hope those racists idiots that did this get their due karma.....
     
    On Wednesday Kevin Stitt, Oklahoma’s governor, signed an executive order in effect banning diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs at agencies and public colleges and universities across the state.

    The order prohibits them from using state funds, property or resources towards DEI initiatives and orders them to dismiss “non-critical personnel”. It is effective immediately, but institutions are expected to comply no later than 31 May 2024.

    The 25 public colleges and universities in the state also have to provide reports that detail the expenditure of their former DEI initiatives and job positions.

    Stitt said he is “implementing greater protections for Oklahomans and their tax dollars”. But according to local news outlet KFOR, only “around $10.2m was spent on DEI programs in the past decade. It accounted for three-tenths of one percent of all higher education spending.”…….

    www.theguardian.com

    Oklahoma governor signs order effectively banning diversity programs at public colleges

    Order prohibits agencies and public colleges and universities from using state funds, property or resources towards DEI initiatives
    www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
     
    The largest credit union in the US has the widest disparity in mortgage approval rates between White and Black borrowers of any major lender, a trend that reached new heights last year, a CNN analysis found.

    Navy Federal Credit Union, which lends to military servicemembers and veterans, approved more than 75% of the White borrowers who applied for a new conventional home purchase mortgage in 2022, according to the most recent data available from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. But less than 50% of Black borrowers who applied for the same type of loan were approved.

    While many banks also approved White applicants at higher rates than Black borrowers, the nearly 29-percentage-point gap in Navy Federal’s approval rates was the widest of any of the 50 lenders that originated the most mortgage loans last year.

    The disparity remains even among White and Black applicants who had similar incomes and debt-to-income ratios. Notably, Navy Federal approved a slightly higher percentage of applications from White borrowers making less than $62,000 a year than it did of Black borrowers making $140,000 or more.

    A deeper statistical analysis performed by CNN found that Black applicants to Navy Federal were more than twice as likely to be denied as White applicants even when more than a dozen different variables – including income, debt-to-income ratio, property value, downpayment percentage, and neighborhood characteristics – were the same............

    www.cnn.com

    The nation’s largest credit union rejected more than half its Black conventional mortgage applicants | CNN Business

    A major credit union serving military members and veterans rejected more than half of its Black conventional mortgage applicants
    www.cnn.com www.cnn.com

     
    Optimus Prime said:
    The largest credit union in the US has the widest disparity in mortgage approval rates between White and Black borrowers of any major lender, a trend that reached new heights last year, a CNN analysis found.

    Navy Federal Credit Union, which lends to military servicemembers and veterans, approved more than 75% of the White borrowers who applied for a new conventional home purchase mortgage in 2022, according to the most recent data available from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. But less than 50% of Black borrowers who applied for the same type of loan were approved.

    While many banks also approved White applicants at higher rates than Black borrowers, the nearly 29-percentage-point gap in Navy Federal’s approval rates was the widest of any of the 50 lenders that originated the most mortgage loans last year.

    The disparity remains even among White and Black applicants who had similar incomes and debt-to-income ratios. Notably, Navy Federal approved a slightly higher percentage of applications from White borrowers making less than $62,000 a year than it did of Black borrowers making $140,000 or more.

    A deeper statistical analysis performed by CNN found that Black applicants to Navy Federal were more than twice as likely to be denied as White applicants even when more than a dozen different variables – including income, debt-to-income ratio, property value, downpayment percentage, and neighborhood characteristics – were the same............

    www.cnn.com

    The nation’s largest credit union rejected more than half its Black conventional mortgage applicants | CNN Business

    A major credit union serving military members and veterans rejected more than half of its Black conventional mortgage applicants
    www.cnn.com www.cnn.com

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    Yeah, I saw that on CNN yesterday. That this nonsense is still happening today is absolutely shameful.
     
    The U.S. Army intends to remove a Confederate memorial from Arlington National Cemetery next week as part of its ongoing work to rid Defense Department property of divisive rebel imagery, defying dozens of congressional Republicans who have vociferously protested the move.


    A woman representing the American South, standing atop a 32-foot pedestal, lords above most other monuments within America’s most revered resting place. It portrays, according to the cemetery’s website, a “mythologized vision of the Confederacy, including highly sanitized depictions of slavery.”


    This month, 44 Republican lawmakers cautioned Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the first African American to hold the post, that the Pentagon would overstep its authority by removing the memorial, and they demanded that all efforts to do so stop until Congress works through next year’s appropriations bill.

    The memorial “commemorates reconciliation and national unity,” not the Confederacy per se, the group led by Rep. Andrew S. Clyde (Ga.) claimed.

    The Army, which operates Arlington Cemetery, informed lawmakers Friday that it would proceed with the monument’s removal, officials told The Washington Post, because it was required by the end of the year to comply with a law to identify and remove assets that commemorate the Confederacy.

    A congressional commission had previously decided the memorial met the criteria for removal. The task will cost $3 million.
These officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. They said that out of an abundance of caution, security at the cemetery would be enhanced when the work begins in coming days…….


     
    Optimus Prime said:
    The U.S. Army intends to remove a Confederate memorial from Arlington National Cemetery next week as part of its ongoing work to rid Defense Department property of divisive rebel imagery, defying dozens of congressional Republicans who have vociferously protested the move.


    A woman representing the American South, standing atop a 32-foot pedestal, lords above most other monuments within America’s most revered resting place. It portrays, according to the cemetery’s website, a “mythologized vision of the Confederacy, including highly sanitized depictions of slavery.”


    This month, 44 Republican lawmakers cautioned Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the first African American to hold the post, that the Pentagon would overstep its authority by removing the memorial, and they demanded that all efforts to do so stop until Congress works through next year’s appropriations bill.

    The memorial “commemorates reconciliation and national unity,” not the Confederacy per se, the group led by Rep. Andrew S. Clyde (Ga.) claimed.

    The Army, which operates Arlington Cemetery, informed lawmakers Friday that it would proceed with the monument’s removal, officials told The Washington Post, because it was required by the end of the year to comply with a law to identify and remove assets that commemorate the Confederacy.

    A congressional commission had previously decided the memorial met the criteria for removal. The task will cost $3 million.
These officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. They said that out of an abundance of caution, security at the cemetery would be enhanced when the work begins in coming days…….


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    Fork those Republican lawmakers. DOD has been working to remove all historical and memorials to Confederate history from DOD properties and documents for years now.

    Several bases and Installations have already changed their names. It's interesting seeing the old names when pulling up supporting docs for work I do and seeing the new names on cutrent docs. I have to remember to search by the old name to find the docs. It's a bit of a pain, but getting rid of the vestiges of Confederate history in the modern DOD is worth it.
     
    Guess this can go here
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    Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies within US companies will “come under full-out attack in 2024”, the president of the largest US human resources organization in the US has said.

    “It’s going to become a hot-button issue this year,” Johnny C Taylor Jr, president and chief executive of the Society of Human Resource Management, told reporters.

    The national shift to be more inclusive that followed the murder of George Floyd in 2020, and the Black Lives Matter protests that followed, is already fading, he said. “We’re already seeing companies go away from it.”

    Following Floyd’s murder and figures that showed how hard communities of color had been hit by the Covid pandemic, companies across the US pledged to make their workforces more diverse and tackle racism.

    “Covid and the murder of George Floyd kind of shine the spotlight on something that we already knew,” the JP Morgan boss, Jamie Dimon, said during an interview in 2020. “We’ve had racial inequality in this country since way before the civil war and we haven’t done a particularly good job of fixing it.”

    Taylor suggested the reset could be as strong as the backlash against the environmental, social and governance (ESG) movement that was critical of the fossil fuel industry. Texas in 2022 banned companies like BlackRock from doing business with the state because of their work with ESG investing.

    The backlash to DEI policies is already becoming clear. On Friday, Elon Musk posted on his social media platform, X (formerly Twitter), that “DEI must DIE”……..

    www.theguardian.com

    Diversity policies face ‘full-out attack’ in 2024, leading HR boss warns

    President of the largest human resources organization in country says national shift following George Floyd’s 2020 murder is fading
    www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
     
    Bigdaddysaints said:
    how long before Tuberville moves to block more promotions over this?
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    I didn't have much faith in Tubs when he ran but after the promotions stunt, I have faith in him and respect him.
     
    An agency created 54 years ago to bolster minority-owned businesses is fighting for its existence amid a legal challenge from White entrepreneurs who contend its mission is misguided and unconstitutional.


    The Minority Business Development Agency, housed within the Commerce Department, is one of several federal programs under siege over a fundamental assumption ingrained in Washington policy: that certain racial and ethnic groups are inherently disadvantaged in American society and therefore entitled to preferential treatment.


    The legal offensive, which also has targeted programs run by the Transportation Department and the Small Business Administration, is part of a broader conservative backlash against affirmative action and diversity efforts in government contracting and the private sector — a campaign that intensified after the Supreme Court in June overturned race-conscious college admissions.

    Experts say the federal programs may be uniquely vulnerable: The categories of disadvantaged minorities were drawn up in the early 1970s with little research or debate — and sometimes based on naked politics — creating a patchwork in which some programs presume a minority group to be disadvantaged while others do not.

    There was “never really a logic to it,” said John Skrentny, a sociology professor at the University of California at San Diego who has researched the origins of the federal government’s presumptions. “It’s a lot of important policy built on a house of cards.”


    Of the targeted programs, the Minority Business Development Agency is the most imminently imperiled. Established in 1969 by President Richard M. Nixon by executive order, the agency seeks to remedy past and ongoing discrimination in the business world. It runs more than three dozen centers across the country that help minority-owned businesses secure financing and navigate the federal contracting process.

    The agency was made permanent in 2021 under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which greatly increased its funding to $550 million over five years…….

     

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