All things Racist...USA edition (3 Viewers)

[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

 

[Sendai]

Seems more like the left was outraged about it. Even the prosecutor had to resign in disgrace.

The prosecutor, Mike Nifong, was disbarred because of his actions in the case.

 

[Texan1211]

The prosecutor, Mike Nifong, was disbarred because of his actions in the case.

I am guessing little poutrage because the actual victims were white guys.

 

[fooferdoggie]

I am guessing little poutrage because the actual victims were white guys.

ya them white guys need to stay in their place.

 

[Texan1211]

ya them white guys need to stay in their place.

Remember the whole "Believe All Women" mantra? Lol!

 

[Optimus Prime]

A young Black woman who was subjected to racist abuse after being selected to lead celebrations of a Swedish festival of light in Helsinki has received an apology from the Finnish prime minister.

According to the Swedish tradition, each year a young woman or girl is chosen to represent Saint Lucia by dressing in a costume of a white gown, red waistband and crown of candles as part of the official annual festivities in Finland at the Lutheran Cathedral on 13 December to mark the shortest day according to the Julian calendar.

About 5% of people in Finland, which until 1809 was part of Sweden, speak Swedish as their native language, which is one of two national languages in the Nordic country.


Daniela Owusu, 20, who is Finnish Ghanaian, received thousands of hate messages after on Friday becoming Finland’s first Black Lucia. The organisers have reported the abuse to police and the discrimination ombudsman and are considering taking legal action.

During a visit to the Finnish parliament on Tuesday, where the Lucia choir sang in the state hall, the prime minister, Petteri Orpo, met the group and said he was sorry for the comments to which Owusu had been subjected, adding that he wanted to build a safe and equal Finland.…..

Black woman targeted by racist abuse in Finland over festival role

Finnish PM apologises to Daniela Owusu after she received hate messages after becoming first Black woman to represent Saint Lucia

www.theguardian.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

A white teacher at a rural New York public school is accused of questioning a pair of light-skinned Black students about their fair complexions, asking both — in front of a classroom full of kids — if they were “‘pure-bred’ Black,” according to a staggering lawsuit obtained by The Independent.

Monique-Gale Messina, an educator at Eldred Junior Senior High School in Sullivan County, also scrutinized the texture of the teens’ hair, according to the suit, which was initially filed in New York State Supreme Court last month before being removed to White Plains federal court on Tuesday.

In response to complaints to the administration by the two students, who at the time were in the ninth and eleventh grades, the lawsuit says school district higher-ups said Messina could not possibly be bigoted “because… she ‘ate tacos’” — that is, Messina is LGBTQ.

Black pupils comprise four percent of the student body at Eldred Junior Senior High, or eight out of 230 kids in total, according to state data……

The incident took place in an afternoon study hall in February, the lawsuit says, noting that both of the students, who are named in court filings as D.C. and T.B., along with their respective parents, “identify as members of the African-American race.”
In the midst of the period, for reasons “unbeknownst” to D.C. and T.B., Messina proceeded to quiz the two “about their light-colored skin tone and the texture of their hair, and whether each of the infant plaintiffs was a “‘pure-bred’ Black,” the suit alleges.

D.C. and T.B. reported Messina to the school district, which launched an investigation, according to the lawsuit. It says Messina was found to have “engaged in an inappropriate and racially discriminatory conversation that utilized discriminatory vocabulary and statements,” a violation of the state’s Dignity for All Students Act.

However, the suit goes on, Ferreira duly informed D.C. and T.B.’s parents “that Messina was not a person of prejudice because, upon information and belief, she ‘ate tacos,’ and… identified as a member of the gay and lesbian community.”……

Public school teacher under fire for asking Black students if they were ‘pure-bred’

Exclusive: District Superintendent Traci Ferreira allegedly said the educator couldn’t possibly be racist because she was a member of the LGBTQ community, according to a staggering lawsuit obtained by The Independent

www.independent.co.uk

 

[fooferdoggie]

However, the suit goes on, Ferreira duly informed D.C. and T.B.’s parents “that Messina was not a person of prejudice because, upon information and belief, she ‘ate tacos,’ and… identified as a member of the gay and lesbian community.”……

well, that tells us they are so open-minded. but maybe because she does not eat chicken and waffles.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Guess this can go here

 

[Optimus Prime]

Late Monday, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) announced it plans to launch the first-ever federal investigation into the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, in which hundreds of Black Tulsans were killed, thousands were displaced and forced into internment camps overseen by the national guard, and Greenwood, the thriving district once known as “Black Wall Street”, was decimated, looted and burned by a racist mob.

The review, launched by the civil rights division’s Cold Case Unit, comes after a major setback for survivors and descendants of the massacre. In June, Oklahoma’s supreme court dismissed a lawsuit brought by two survivors, Lessie Benningfield Randle, 109, and Viola Fletcher, 110. In July, the women once again called for Joe Bidenand the justice department to intervene.

Kristen Clarke, the assistant attorney general who announced the DoJ review, called the Tulsa race massacre “one of the deadliest episodes of mass racial violence in this nation’s history”.

“We honor the legacy of the Tulsa race massacresurvivors, Emmett Till, the Act that bears his name, this country and the truth by conducting our own review and evaluation of the massacre,” Clarke said, announcing that the review should be finalized by the end of the year.

“We thus are examining available documents, witness accounts, scholarly and historical research and other information on the massacre. When we have finished our federal review, we will issue a report analyzing the massacre in light of both modern and then-existing civil rights law.”…….

US justice department announces investigation into Tulsa race massacre

Review of 1921 massacre comes months after Oklahoma supreme court dismissed lawsuit brought by two survivors

www.theguardian.com

On Friday, the Department of Justice (DoJ) released its report on the Tulsa race massacre after announcing the review last September.

The report came more than 100 years after a June 1921 report by the justice department’s Bureau of Investigation, a precursor to the FBI, blamed the massacre on Black men and alleged that perpetrators did not violate any federal laws.

The Friday DoJ report, however, acknowledged that the attack by white citizens on Black residents “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”.


“The Tulsa race massacre stands out as a civil rights crime unique in its magnitude, barbarity, racist hostility and its utter annihilation of a thriving Black community,” Kristen Clarke, the assistant attorney general of the DoJ’s civil rights division, said in a statement. “In 1921, white Tulsans murdered hundreds of residents of Greenwood, burned their homes and churches, looted their belongings, and locked the survivors in internment camps.”

“Until this day, the justice department has not spoken publicly about this race massacre or officially accounted for the horrific events that transpired in Tulsa. This report breaks that silence by rigorous examination and a full accounting of one of the darkest episodes of our nation’s past. This report lays bare new information and shows that the massacre was the result not of uncontrolled mob violence, but of a coordinated, military-style attack on Greenwood.”

The 126-page report was conducted by a team of lawyers and investigators from the Emmett Till Cold Case Unit of the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division who “spoke with survivors and with descendants of survivors, examined firsthand accounts of the massacre given by individuals who are now deceased, studied primary source materials, spoke to scholars of the massacre and reviewed legal pleadings, books, and scholarly articles relating to the massacre”, according to the department.

Despite the report’s findings, Clarke noted that “there is no living perpetrator for the justice department to prosecute”. Last June, the Oklahoma supreme court threw out a lawsuit brought by Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher, two Tulsa race massacre survivors, that sought to make the city of Tulsa pay restitution to survivors and their descendants. Randle and Fletcher, who are both 110, were children at the time of the massacre.……

DoJ releases its Tulsa race massacre report over 100 years after initial review

DoJ report acknowledges attack ‘was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence’

www.theguardian.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

Growing up, there was a wearying and familiar pattern for me on the first day of school, or whenever a substitute teacher took the register.

“Blake.”

“Here, sir.”

“Aaron.”

“Yes, sir.”

“Hmm … wow … how do I …? Please forgive me if I mispronounce your name.”

My seven-year-old self would look up in anticipation of this awkward moment, and see a mixture of fear, panic and confusion as the teacher gazed at my name. You’re probably wondering how to pronounce it as you read this.

“It’s Xaymaca [zy-ma-ka], sir.”

I like to get in there first, to minimise any embarrassment. I’ve heard it all, from “Zakamaya”, to “Can I call you something for short?”, to “I’m not even going to try pronouncing that”.

My name is considered cool at best, and weird at worst. But beyond the difficult first interactions, I have the kind of name that could have a detrimental impact on my life, and my finances.

A 2022 study of the US job market investigated the employment outcomes of more than 1,500 job applicants from 96 economics PhD programmes.

It found that candidates with difficult-to-pronounce names were much less likely to find their first academic job, and when they did, it was at institutions with lower research standards.

My Yoruba surname, Awoyungbo, only adds to the difficulties I could face in the job market.

According to research by the Centre for Social Investigation at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, people like me with Nigerian heritage need to send 80% more applications than white Britons to receive a positive response from an employer.

None of this is a surprise to those of us who have long lived with the impacts of such prejudice.

Some of us decide to shorten our names to make them easier to pronounce.

The actor and comedian Mindy Kaling shortened her Tamil surname, Chokalingam, because emcees at comedy gigs had trouble pronouncing it. “It’s bittersweet,” she said in 2020, “but I have to say, it was such a help to my career to have a name that people could pronounce.”

Others switch to anglicised versions. The actor Kal Penn, from the Harold and Kumar films, was born Kalpen Modi, but put Kal Penn on his résumé “almost as a joke to prove friends wrong, and half as an attempt to see if what I was told would work [that anglicised names appeal more to a white-dominated industry]”.

He said he saw his audition callbacks increase by 50% as a result of the switch. “I was amazed,” he said. “It showed me that there really is such an amount of racism – not just overt, but subconscious as well.”……..

They say a name like mine can hold you back in life, but I will never change it | Xaymaca Awoyungbo

An unusual name can have a detrimental impact on your life and finances – but in my experience, it also has advantages, says football writer Xaymaca Awoyungbo

www.theguardian.com