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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Residents of Nashville, Tennessee, are struggling to find ways to respond to a sudden upsurge in neo-Nazi and white supremacist activity in the city as small groups of extremists have descended on the community carrying swastika flags, chanting “Sieg Heil” and handing out flyers saying “Diversity means fewer white people”.

Over the past two weeks, neo-Nazi groups and affiliated organizations, including the Patriot Front and a network calling itself the Goyim Defense League, have staged antisemitic stunts in the city center – including stopping passersby and asking them if they are Jewish. They have also disrupted a city council meeting.

While the groups have first amendment rights of free assembly, political and law enforcement leaders have encouraged residents to avoid engaging with the far-right extremists, as to do so would play into their desire for attention.

On Sunday, about 400 people gathered in Bicentennial Park for a peace rally in an attempt to present a positive alternative message to the hate. The Jewish Federation of Greater Nashville, which organized the event under the hashtag #NashvilleTogether, said: “We stood up for kindness, decency and respect in the face of bigotry, cruelty and dangerous propaganda being spread by those who want to promote a Nazi agenda.”


Nashville has become a popular destination in recent months for outside far-right and antisemitic groups convening online. It appears to have been cherrypicked by the neo-Nazis because of its status as a Democrat-run city surrounded by staunchly conservative rural areas.

The extremists have also been emboldened by a rash of recent anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-transgender legislation moved by Republicans in the state legislature, including a bill to ban Pride flags in public schools.

The city’s police chief, John Drake, said he had intelligence that the Goyim Defense League had taken up temporary residence in Scottsville, Kentucky, about 65 miles (105km) away. The group is described by the Anti-Defamation League as a loose network of white supremacists and antisemites who specialize in harassing Jewish people.……

Nashville struggles to respond as neo-Nazi groups turn focus on to city

Upsurge in activity from white supremacists and swastika-toting extremists follows rash of anti-LGBTQ+ state laws

www.theguardian.com

 

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Residents of Nashville, Tennessee, are struggling to find ways to respond to a sudden upsurge in neo-Nazi and white supremacist activity in the city as small groups of extremists have descended on the community carrying swastika flags, chanting “Sieg Heil” and handing out flyers saying “Diversity means fewer white people”.

Over the past two weeks, neo-Nazi groups and affiliated organizations, including the Patriot Front and a network calling itself the Goyim Defense League, have staged antisemitic stunts in the city center – including stopping passersby and asking them if they are Jewish. They have also disrupted a city council meeting.

While the groups have first amendment rights of free assembly, political and law enforcement leaders have encouraged residents to avoid engaging with the far-right extremists, as to do so would play into their desire for attention.

On Sunday, about 400 people gathered in Bicentennial Park for a peace rally in an attempt to present a positive alternative message to the hate. The Jewish Federation of Greater Nashville, which organized the event under the hashtag #NashvilleTogether, said: “We stood up for kindness, decency and respect in the face of bigotry, cruelty and dangerous propaganda being spread by those who want to promote a Nazi agenda.”


Nashville has become a popular destination in recent months for outside far-right and antisemitic groups convening online. It appears to have been cherrypicked by the neo-Nazis because of its status as a Democrat-run city surrounded by staunchly conservative rural areas.

The extremists have also been emboldened by a rash of recent anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-transgender legislation moved by Republicans in the state legislature, including a bill to ban Pride flags in public schools.

The city’s police chief, John Drake, said he had intelligence that the Goyim Defense League had taken up temporary residence in Scottsville, Kentucky, about 65 miles (105km) away. The group is described by the Anti-Defamation League as a loose network of white supremacists and antisemites who specialize in harassing Jewish people.……

Nashville struggles to respond as neo-Nazi groups turn focus on to city

Upsurge in activity from white supremacists and swastika-toting extremists follows rash of anti-LGBTQ+ state laws

www.theguardian.com

You would think that the bolded part would make someone stop and think, "Neo-Nazis, racists, and antisemites love these policies. Maybe I should reconsider my support."

But it won't. It never does.

 

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Olympic silver medalist Jordan Chiles recounted racist remarks she endured while competing as a child in a sport that’s historically lacked diversity.

Days before the Olympics kick off in Paris, the 23-year-old gymnast opened up to Teen Vogue about the vicious comments she’s faced — and how she learned to ignore the hate and “live life to the fullest.”

“Some lady in the crowd basically was like, ‘She doesn’t deserve to be on the floor. She doesn’t even look like anybody else,’” Chiles said.

“People were racially attacking me without me even really knowing,” the athlete continued. “I’m young, so I only know the story because my mom told me. Security had to come and say, ‘Ma’am, she’s doing everything just like everybody else.’”

“I’ve gotten medals taken away from me. I’ve been told that my mom wasn’t my mom. I’ve gotten told that I wasn’t Black,” Chiles told the magazine.……

Team USA star Jordan Chiles speaks out about racism she’s endured in gymnastics

The gymnast opened up about how she learned to deal with racist remarks made about her as a child competing in a predominantly white sport

www.independent.co.uk

 

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s governor on Wednesday signed a law that prohibits discrimination against people wearing Afros, curls, locs, twists, braids and other hairstyles in the racially diverse U.S. territory.

The move was celebrated by those who had long demanded explicit protection related to work, housing, education and public services.

“It’s a victory for generations to come,” Welmo Romero Joseph, a community facilitator with the nonprofit Taller Salud, said in an interview.

The organization is one of several that had been pushing for the law, with Romero noting it sends a strong message that “you can reach positions of power without having to change your identity.”

While Puerto Rico’s laws and constitution protect against discrimination, along with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, a precedent was set in 2016 when a U.S. Court of Appeals dismissed a discrimination lawsuit and ruled that an employer’s no-dreadlock policy in Alabama did not violate Title VII.

Earlier this year, legislators in the U.S. territory held a public hearing on the issue, with several Puerto Ricans sharing examples of how they were discriminated against, including job offers conditional on haircuts.

It’s a familiar story to Romero, who recalled how a high school principal ordered him to cut his flat top.

“It was a source of pride,” he said of that hairstyle. “I was a 4.0 student. What did that have to do with my hair?”



With a population of 3.2 million, Puerto Rico has more than 1.6 million people who identify as being of two or more races, with nearly 230,000 identifying solely as Black, according to the U.S. Census.

“Unfortunately, people identified as black or Afro descendant in Puerto Rico still face derogatory treatment, deprivation of opportunities, marginalization, exclusion and all kinds of discrimination,” the law signed Wednesday states.…….

Puerto Rico bans discrimination against those who wear Afros and other hairstyles on diverse island

Puerto Rico’s governor has signed a law that prohibits discrimination against people wearing Afros, twists, braids and other hairstyles in the racially diverse U.S. territory.

apnews.com

 

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Hope she burns in hell.

Emmitt Till is the most known but how many 1000s of similar stories are out there (I had never heard about this particular case)
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In the predawn hours of July 16, 1949, a young White couple — Norma Lee Padgett and her husband, Willie — were driving along a desolate road in central Florida after a night of whiskey drinking and dancing at the local American Legion hall.

They were near the rural crossroads of Okahumpka, on the way to get a bite to eat, when their Ford stalled. After no one else stopped to assist them, two Black men in a sedan rolled up and asked if the couple needed help. The Padgetts later said a fight broke out that left Willie Padgett lying in a ditch. What ignited the fight, and whether it even took place, has not been conclusively established.

At daybreak, after walking several miles, 17-year-old Ms. Padgett appeared on foot at a dine-and-dance club in Okahumpka and asked the night watchman for a ride to her home down the road in Groveland, an agricultural town also in Lake County. Once there, Ms. Padgett told authorities that the Black men — who she said were four in number — had beaten her husband, then drove her away in their car at gunpoint and took turns raping her in the back seat before releasing her.

Ms. Padgett, whose accusation precipitated what is now recognized as a grotesque miscarriage of justice in the Jim Crow South, died July 12 at 92.

The Washington Post obtained a copy of her death certificate from the vital records office of the probate court in Taylor County, Ga. According to the death certificate, she died at her home in Butler, Ga. No cause of death was listed. Efforts to reach members of Ms. Padgett’s family were unsuccessful or were declined.

It would take seven decades for the state of Florida to offer a posthumous pardon and then exonerate the men — long known by advocates as the Groveland Four — who were picked up by local deputies under a segregationist sheriff known for his brutal approach to law enforcement.

Ms. Padgett refused to publicly recant her story. “I’m not no liar,” she insisted, at age 86, before a clemency board in 2019. “They done it.”

But after two books — one in 2003 and another in 2012 — examined the case and a mountain of long-suppressed evidence against her claim emerged, credence in Ms. Padgett’s allegation dissolved. It was replaced by the horror that her charge had left two Black men gunned down — Ernest Thomas was killed in 1949 and Samuel Shepherd in 1951 — and sent two others to prison, Charles Greenlee for 12 years and Walter Irvin for 18½ years. Irvin was nearly sent to the electric chair in 1954.

The case continues to resonate across the South and beyond, as ever more stories have emerged of concocted evidence, coerced confessions and abuses of the law to enforce Jim Crow-era white domination, said Gilbert King, author of “Devil in the Grove,” which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and heightened interest in the case.

“There are a lot of Black families that have been gaslighted,” King said in an interview. “They know what the truth is. They know these stories are out there, and they never get anywhere. There’s no judicial relief.”

In the case of the Groveland Four, King noted, the FBI conducted its own investigation parallel to the sham prosecution in Lake County, and King obtained unredacted FBI files during his research. “They put together a story that was undeniable, in my estimation,” King said..............

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/07/31/norma-padgett-groveland-four-dies/

 

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from same article
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A jury deliberated for 90 minutes before returning guilty verdicts, convinced by a prosecutor that the defendants had confessed to the sheriff. Jurors did not see their bruises from beatings in which they were handcuffed to overhead pipes and pummeled with batons, the defendants later told NAACP attorneys.

Other exculpatory evidence was kept from the defense, including a medical report from a physician, Geoffrey Binneveld, who examined Ms. Padgett hours after her alleged assault and told FBI investigators that he found “no spermatozoa was present.”

Jurors also were not told that Greenlee was in custody for vagrancy 20 miles from the scene of the alleged assault at the time it was said to have occurred.

Newspapers highlighted other inconsistencies. The St. Petersburg Times (now the Tampa Bay Times) reported in 1950 that Ms. Padgett claimed to be “crying profusely and visibly shaken” when she first encountered the night watchman.

But the watchman told the newspaper that she was “extremely calm” and that even though she claimed to have been held captive, she said the men had “not harmed her.” Moreover, she told him, according to the paper, that “she had not seen her captors clearly enough to be able to identify them.”..........

As a minor, Greenlee had been given a life prison sentence, not the death penalty, and did not appeal his case, after his lawyers told him a new jury might be less sympathetic and order his execution. He was paroled in 1962 after 12 years in prison.

A retrial was ordered for Irvin and Shepherd. While driving them from the Florida State Prison in Raiford to the Lake County jail for retrial in late 1951, McCall pulled off a back road and shot both prisoners. Shepherd died, while Irvin survived by playing dead. The sheriff claimed the handcuffed prisoners tried to attack him when he stopped to check a tire.

“He made Bull Connor look like Barney Fife,” King later told the New York Times, referring to the brutal commissioner of public safety in Birmingham, Ala., during the civil rights era and the dimwitted deputy sheriff on “The Andy Griffith Show.” “Connor used dogs and fire hoses. McCall actually killed people.”

Three years later, after Irvin was retried and again found guilty, he narrowly escaped execution in the electric chair and his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. He was paroled in 1968 and found dead in his car a year later when he returned to Groveland for a funeral............

But lawyers for the state reached the opposite conclusion. Further evidence had come to light from unredacted FBI files, internal documents from the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and a new interview with a descendant of a key protagonist.

That descendant was the grandson of Jesse Hunter, the state attorney who prosecuted the case. Broward Hunter found letters in his grandfather’s dusty law office that he said showed neither his grandfather nor the judge believed a rape had ever occurred.............

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/07/31/norma-padgett-groveland-four-dies/

 

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good read
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..........But as we grapple with the excitement of having an Indian American woman in the White House in some capacity, we must too understand the role the model minority myth is playing — particularly when it comes to Usha Vance.

The model minority myth positions Asian Americans as the “good” minority, exploiting our successes to minimize racism and other race-based disparities and creating a harmful stereotype that isn’t in line with many of our lived experiences. It also sets up expectations within our communities that we must succeed at all costs, and act as that “model” to ease other people’s biases against us.

Last month, an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal posited that Usha Vance “exemplifies the rise of an immigrant group that has prospered without quotas or affirmative action,” that she is proof that systemic racism and white privilege are just excuses, rather than real barriers to success for many people of color.

But positioning Indian Americans as a “model minority,” an “acceptable” immigrant group, is using white, Christian acceptance as the measure for success. It is, in a way, naive and dangerous for people like the author of that op-ed, for people like Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, and now Usha Vance to assume their money and success somehow hide their skin color or the faiths in which they grew up.

For those of us who grew up in an Indian community that often solely measured success — and acceptance — by income alone, coupled with living in a majority white area when there was not the exposure to Indian culture there is now, people who think of Usha Vance and those like her as the only acceptable model are holding us back as a community.

With Vance specifically, the Indian American community’s conversation is different than it is with Harris — both of her parents are Telugu and she grew up in San Diego in an Indian community like the one I grew up in. While some say Harris hides her Tamil roots until it’s convenient for her, though I’ve seen no evidence of this.

At the RNC, though, Vance was trotted out not just in support of her husband and the Trump ticket, but as a sort of plea for approval by a party that has embraced hatred, all while there were xenophobic signs in the crowd and tweets (here) that called the VP nominee’s stances into question because of his wife’s race.

The Wall Street Journal op-ed made me worry that we hadn’t learned anything as a community, but there was pushback and discussion in a variety of circles from people I didn’t expect to hear from. The piece’s denial of some key facts were immediately pointed out: the Indian American community as it is would not exist today if it weren't for the strides made during the Civil Rights movement by Black people and there is indeed lobbying of all kinds done by the community on Capitol Hill, primarily related to affirmative action.........

MSN

 

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A former soldier who appeared on recruitment posters for the British army has received a settlement and an apology after taking it to an employment tribunal over the racist and sexist abuse she was subjected to during her career.

While still in training, Kerry-Ann Knight was pictured on a recruitment poster above the words “Your army needs you and your self-belief”, confidently looking over her shoulder.

Knight, 33, thought the army would offer stability, a type of family and the chance of a fantastic career. She had a “bright hope” she could pave the way for other young, Black women.


Now, after 12 years of service, her hopes are in tatters. After enduring more than a decade of racist and sexist abuse, she was forced out of the role she loved.

Knight joined 26 Regiment Royal Artillery (26 RA) after enlisting at the age of 20 following training, and was posted to Germany.

“I had to serve alongside people that claimed to support the KKK, Britain First and/or the English Defence League,” she said in her witness statement provided to the tribunal. She said male soldiers would call her a “black birch” but say: “I’d still shag you though.”

“One evening I returned to my room to see someone had drawn images of huge black penises all over the wardrobes in my room,” the statement said.

When Knight appeared on the recruitment poster she thought she had been asked because of her achievements in training. “I didn’t know it was because I was going to be the only Black woman in that regiment,” she told the Guardian. “I didn’t know what I was in for.”


When she signed up for the campaign, Knight said, she had “this bright hope that I’m helping to change things”. In promotional materials, she looks happy and excited – “but when I turned up to the unit, that wasn’t my lived experience”, she said.

“There was a lot of sexism. However, when you put race into play, as well, for me, it just felt like it was multiplied by 10.”

After she accepted a post as an instructor at the Army Foundation College in Harrogate in 2021, Knight hoped things would be different. Her role was to train new recruits, who enlist at 16 and 17.

But from the outset, she said, she did not feel welcome. In her witness statement she detailed how colleagues “took it in turns to shout out ‘watermelooooon!’ anytime I walked into the room. Every time they did this the others would laugh,” she said, adding that she “felt humiliated and mocked”.

She heard colleagues talking about her “getting lynched” and being “tarred and feathered”. One said he would put her in a “hot box” – a reference to a scene in the film Django Unchained in which a black female slave is tortured by being locked inside a wooden coffin-type box.

In her statement, Knight said the Tarantino film “was regularly played by my colleagues – seemingly on repeat”.…….

Face of British army recruitment drive wins payout for racist and sexist abuse

Kerry-Ann Knight hoped to pave way for Black women but was instead subjected to 12 years of abuse

www.theguardian.com

 

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Awful.

Man who stole Jackie Robinson statue leaving only feet given 15 years in jail

Ricky Alderete sentenced for three offenses before Kansas unveiling of new statue of baseball and civil rights pioneer

www.theguardian.com

 

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RENO, Nev. (AP) — A rural Nevada sheriff is investigating a potential hate crime after a Black man who was collecting signatures for a ballot measure recorded a confrontation with another man he said directed a racial slur at him and said “they have a hanging tree” for people like him.

“I’m still shaking every time I think about it,” Ricky Johnson told The Associated Press by phone Monday as he boarded a plane in northern Nevada back to his home in Houston, Texas.

Johnson posted part of the video of the Aug. 2 incident in Virginia City, Nevada, on social media, and the comments drew swift condemnation from local and state officials. Sponsors of the 10-day Hot August Nights classic car event that was being held at the time said it revoked the registrations of those identified in the video confronting Johnson.

Storey County Undersheriff Eric Kern said Monday the office has completed interviews with Johnson and potential suspects and delivered the case to the district attorney for a decision on any charges.

“As far as a hate crime, it could be an element,” Kern told AP. “There is an enhancement we are looking at.”………

Rural Nevada sheriff probes potential hate crime after Black man says he was racially harassed

A rural Nevada sheriff is investigating a potential hate crime after a Black man who said he was collecting signatures for a ballot measure recorded a confrontation with another man after the man told him “they have a hanging tree for people like me.”

apnews.com

 

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ANAHUAC, Texas (AP) — A Black high school student’s monthslong punishment by his Texas school district for refusing to change his hairstyle does not violate a new state law that prohibits race-based hair discrimination, a judge ruled on Thursday.

Darryl George, 18, has not been in his regular Houston-area high school classes since Aug. 31 because the district, Barbers Hill, says the length of his hair violates its dress code.

The district filed a lawsuit arguing George’s long hair, which he wears in tied and twisted locs on top of his head, violates its policy because it would fall below his shirt collar, eyebrows or earlobes when let down. The district has said other students with locs comply with the length policy.

After about three hours of testimony in Anahuac, state District Judge Chap Cain III ruled in favor of the school district, saying its policy is not discriminatory because the CROWN Act does not say that exemptions for long hair can be made for hairstyles that are protected by the law, including locs. And he said courts must not attempt to rewrite legislation.



“Judges should not legislate from the bench and I am not about to start today,” Cain said.

The CROWN Act, which took effect in September, prohibits race-based hair discrimination and bars employers and schools from penalizing people because of hair texture or protective hairstyles including Afros, braids, locs, twists or Bantu knots.

The judge encouraged George to ask the state Legislature or the school board to address the issue.

George’s family has also filed a formal complaint with the Texas Education Agency and a federal civil rights lawsuit against Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton, along with the school district, alleging they failed to enforce the CROWN Act. The lawsuit is before a federal judge in Galveston.

Allie Booker, George’s attorney, said she planned to seek an injunction in the federal lawsuit to stop George’s punishment and that she also would appeal Thursday’s decision.


For most of the school year, George, a junior, has either served in-school suspension at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu or spent time at an off-site disciplinary program.

“The Texas legal system has validated our position that the district’s dress code does not violate the CROWN Act and that the CROWN Act does not give students unlimited self-expression,” Barbers Hill Superintendent Greg Poole said in a statement.

The district did not present any witnesses, instead only submitting evidence that included an affidavit from the district’s superintendent defending the dress code policy. Its attorneys argued that the dress code policy does not violate the CROWN Act because the law does not mention or cover hair length.


Before the trial, George and his mother, Darresha George, said they were optimistic.

Wearing locs is “how I feel closer to my people. It’s how I feel closer to my ancestors. It’s just me. It’s how I am,” George said.

After the ruling, George and his mother cried and declined to speak with reporters.

Candice Matthews, a spokesperson for George’s family, said the 18-year-old asked her as he left the courthouse: “All because of my hair? I can’t get my education because of my hair?”

Testifying for George, Democratic state Rep. Ron Reynolds, one of the co-authors of the CROWN Act, said that while the protection of hair length was not specifically mentioned in the CROWN Act, it was inferred.


“Anyone familiar with braids, locs, twists knows it requires a certain amount of length,” Reynolds said.……

Texas school legally punished Black student over hairstyle, judge says

A judge has ruled that a Black high school student’s monthslong punishment by his Texas school district for refusing to change his hairstyle does not violate a new state law prohibiting race-based hair discrimination.

apnews.com

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed most of the claims in a lawsuit filed by a Black high school student who alleged that school officials committed racial and gender discrimination when they punished him for refusing to change his hairstyle.

The ruling in the case of Darryl George was another victory for the Barbers Hill school district near Houston, which has said its policy restricting hair length for male students instills discipline while teaching grooming and respect for authority.

But in his order, US district judge Jeffrey Brown questioned whether the school district’s rule causes more harm than good.


“Not everything that is undesirable, annoying, or even harmful amounts to a violation of the law, much less a constitutional problem,” Brown wrote.

The Associated Press left phone and email messages seeking comment with the school district and George’s attorney, Allie Booker, on Tuesday.

George, 18, was kept out of his regular high school classes for most of the 2023-24 school year, when he was a junior, because the school district said his hair length violated its dress code. George either served in-school suspension at Barbers Hill high school in Mont Belvieu or spent time at an off-site disciplinary program.

The district has argued that George’s long hair, which he wears to school in tied and twisted locs on top of his head, violates its policy because it would fall below his shirt collar, eyebrows or earlobes if let down. The district has said other students with locs comply with the length policy.

George and his mother, Darresha George, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit last year against the school district, the district superintendent, his principal and assistant principal as well as Texasgovernor Greg Abbott and attorney general Ken Paxton.

The suit also alleged that George’s punishment violates the Crown Act, a new state law prohibiting race-based hair discrimination. The Crown Act, which was being discussed before the dispute over George’s hair and which took effect in September, bars employers and schools from penalizing people because of hair texture or protective hairstyles including Afros, braids, locs, twists or Bantu knots.


The lawsuit alleged the school district’s policy was being enforced mainly on Black students. But Brown said George had not shown “a persistent, widespread practice of disparate, race-based enforcement of the policy”.

The lawsuit also alleged that George’s first amendment rights to free speech were being violated. But Brown wrote that George’s lawyer could not cite any case law holding that hair length “is protected as expressive conduct under the first amendment”.

Brown dismissed various claims that George’s due process rights under the 14th amendment were being violated. He also dropped Abbott, Paxton, the district superintendent and other school employees from the case.

The only claim he let stand was an allegation of sex discrimination based on the school district’s lack of clearly defined policies on why girls could be allowed to have long hair but boys could not.

“Because the district does not provide any reason for the sex-based distinctions in its dress code, the claim survives this initial stage,” Brown said.……

Texas: judge rules against Black high school teen in hair discrimination case

Darryl George, 18, filed civil rights lawsuit after Barbers Hill school system punished him for refusing to alter hairstyle

www.theguardian.com

 

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It Was Very Humiliating’: Black Ohio Restaurant Owner Wrongly Arrested and Taken to Jail In Front of Customers Because He Had Same First Name as Drug Trafficking Suspect​

'It Was Very Humiliating': Black Ohio Restaurant Owner Wrongly Arrested and Taken to Jail In Front of Customers Because He Had Same First Name as Drug Trafficking Suspect

A Black restaurant owner in Ohio is considering pursuing legal action after he was caught up in a case of mistaken identity that almost landed him in jail

atlantablackstar.com

 

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It Was Very Humiliating’: Black Ohio Restaurant Owner Wrongly Arrested and Taken to Jail In Front of Customers Because He Had Same First Name as Drug Trafficking Suspect​

'It Was Very Humiliating': Black Ohio Restaurant Owner Wrongly Arrested and Taken to Jail In Front of Customers Because He Had Same First Name as Drug Trafficking Suspect

A Black restaurant owner in Ohio is considering pursuing legal action after he was caught up in a case of mistaken identity that almost landed him in jail

atlantablackstar.com

Considering legal action?

Most definitely should be legal action

 

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Considering legal action?

Most definitely should be legal action

Yeah, you'd think that goes without saying.

 

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MIAMI (AP) — A South Florida man was sentenced Friday to three years and one month in federal prison for attacking a Muslim U.S. Postal Service worker and trying to pull off her hijab.

Kenneth Pinkney, 47, of Fort Lauderdale, was sentenced in Miami federal court, according to court records. He pleaded guilty in April to assault on a federal employee with a hate crime enhancement.

“Hate crimes represent vicious attacks on the very fabric of our diverse communities,” First Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Davis said in a statement. “No one should live in fear of being targeted because of their religious beliefs.”…….

Florida man gets over 3 years in prison for attacking a Muslim mail carrier and grabbing her hijab

A South Florida man has been sentenced to three years and one month in federal prison for attacking a Muslim U.S. Postal Service worker and trying to pull off her hijab.

apnews.com

 

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MIAMI (AP) — A South Florida man was sentenced Friday to three years and one month in federal prison for attacking a Muslim U.S. Postal Service worker and trying to pull off her hijab.

Kenneth Pinkney, 47, of Fort Lauderdale, was sentenced in Miami federal court, according to court records. He pleaded guilty in April to assault on a federal employee with a hate crime enhancement.

“Hate crimes represent vicious attacks on the very fabric of our diverse communities,” First Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Davis said in a statement. “No one should live in fear of being targeted because of their religious beliefs.”…….

Florida man gets over 3 years in prison for attacking a Muslim mail carrier and grabbing her hijab

A South Florida man has been sentenced to three years and one month in federal prison for attacking a Muslim U.S. Postal Service worker and trying to pull off her hijab.

apnews.com

Good. Fork that guy.

 

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A former University of Kentucky student who was accused of hurling racial slurs and attacking a Black schoolmate while drunk has pleaded guilty to assault and other charges.

Sophia Rosing, 23, admitted four counts of fourth-degree assault, one count of disorderly conduct, and one count of public intoxication, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.

She was arrested and charged in 2022 after she attacked a Black student working at a campus residence hall while she was drunk.

The attack was caught on video and went viral on social media. The victim in the attack, Kylah Spring, says in the video that Rosing struck her numerous times and kicked her in the stomach.

As Spring is explaining what happened to her, Rosing can be heard yelling at her in the background, calling the Black student the n-word and a "b****" throughout the footage. She uses the racial slur approximately 200 times over the course of the video……..

College student who drunkenly attacked Black classmate pleads guilty

Rosing agreed to make a guilty plea after sitting for a mediation session with the woman she attacked

www.independent.co.uk

 

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A former University of Kentucky student who was accused of hurling racial slurs and attacking a Black schoolmate while drunk has pleaded guilty to assault and other charges.

Sophia Rosing, 23, admitted four counts of fourth-degree assault, one count of disorderly conduct, and one count of public intoxication, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.

She was arrested and charged in 2022 after she attacked a Black student working at a campus residence hall while she was drunk.

The attack was caught on video and went viral on social media. The victim in the attack, Kylah Spring, says in the video that Rosing struck her numerous times and kicked her in the stomach.

As Spring is explaining what happened to her, Rosing can be heard yelling at her in the background, calling the Black student the n-word and a "b****" throughout the footage. She uses the racial slur approximately 200 times over the course of the video……..

College student who drunkenly attacked Black classmate pleads guilty

Rosing agreed to make a guilty plea after sitting for a mediation session with the woman she attacked

www.independent.co.uk

200 times? How the heck long is this video? Quentin Tarantino must be beside himself with envy at her prolific efforts.