Migrant kids were stripped, drugged, locked away. So much for compassion. – The Washington Post
Agggggggggggggggggggh!
Category: Race,
Why the Justice Department Is Targeting Affirmative Action
The Justice Department’s New Civil-Rights Cause: Discrimination Against Whites – The Atlantic
Ooooo, oooo, ooooo. [raising hand and waving it wildly]
I got this one. Is it white male fragility stoked by a flaming helping of both bigotry and greed?
Trump administration tells ACLU to find deported parents
The Trump administration on Thursday informed a federal judge that it isn’t responsible for locating deported parents separated forcibly from their children at the southern border.
DOJ said in a court filing that the American Civil Liberties Union, which represents plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit over family separations, should instead take the lead in reunifying deported parents with their children.
via Trump administration tells ACLU to find deported parents – POLITICO
Gawd almighty… I can’t even.
Harris blasts critics of ‘identity politics’
Sen. Kamala Harris accused critics of “identity politics” of weaponizing the term to diminish issues of race, gender and sexual orientation, pressing Democrats on Friday to address those issues head on.
“I have a problem, guys, with that phrase, ‘identity politics,’” Harris told the progressive gathering Netroots Nation, wading into a messaging debate roiling Democrats ahead of the midterm elections. “Because let’s be clear, when people say that, it’s a pejorative. That phrase is used to divide, and it is used to distract. Its purpose is to minimize and marginalize issues that impact all of us. It is used to try and shut us up.”
Harris blasts critics of ‘identity politics’ – POLITICO
mmmhmmm
Smith College Employee Called Police On Black Student Eating Lunch
Smith College Employee Called Police On Black Student Eating Lunch | HuffPost
Jeezus kerrrr-eyest.
You know, fellow white people? Maybe it’s time for a conversation on how it’s nice that you are able to see the police as helpful and protective of you but perhaps we as a people need to slow our fucking roll on calling them up every freaking time something makes one of us the least fucking bit uncomfortable or confused.
Confused about something? Not understand why somebody is doing whatever they’re doing? (Ahem, like, say, being alive while black???) Try actually fucking speaking with the person. See what they are about. You know, BEFORE you snap to judgement and way the fuck before you reach for that phone to try to have them dragged off to jail???!
Fucking A….
NH State education department official posted a lot of racist crap on his own personal facebook page. …And then whined and complained when he was called out for it
Schinella posted on his Facebook page, “Northern New England is the way it is because we’re the only people who want to be here. We’re very welcoming (see the Free State Project), but don’t come here if you’re going to change everything. We like it the way it is, which is why we are here and not where you live now.”
…“We don’t want or need New Hampshire to become any kind of cesspool. We have enough problems and many of us don’t want or need to pay more taxes because the new people moving in expect the same things they had in their other states. We are small; we don’t have the ability to tax our way out of problems.”
…“Diversity for diversity’s sake doesn’t bring us anything. An extreme example? 1,300 illegal alien Dominican drug dealers moving from Lawrence to, say, Concord will make the state 1 percent more diverse; but it would also bring more crime, higher taxes for public safety, and higher taxes for schools to teach their children.”
…”The people involved in this movement think they can bring in the ‘right’ kinds of people, but there is no guarantee of that. Central planners can’t control where people go and what they do; people move because they want to or they find opportunities; they don’t move because they don’t want to. It’s really that simple.”
NH Primary Source: State education department official says Facebook post not racially motivated
sigh….
Chicago poke company: We’re not trying to own ‘aloha,’ but we’re not backing off from trying to intimidate and bankrupt Native Hawaiian owned businesses either. So, you know, fuck Aloha.
Chicago poke company: We’re not trying to own ‘aloha,’ but we’re – Hawaii News Now – KGMB and KHNL
Brad? Becky? this is why we can’t have nice things.
Actor Ving Rhames said neighbor called 911 to report him as ‘a large black man’ living somewhere she was too racist to believe he lived
[Rhames] was watching television in his Santa Monica home when he heard noise coming from the backyard. …It was police.
…”I get up, I open the door, there’s a red dot pointed at my face from a 9 millimeter,” Rhames said …on Friday. “And they say, ‘Put up your hands.”
…”My problem is, as I said to them, what if it was my son, and he had a video game remote or something? And you thought it was a gun, just like you know, I don’t know, Trayvon had a bag of Skittles,” he said in the interview.
Actor Ving Rhames said neighbor called 911 to report him as ‘a large black man’ breaking in
Actions that negative effect others should have consequences.
On that note, two things….
One, there should be punitive legal consequences for civilians who call 911 because of their own racial profiling. Call the police on your neighbor? The police should come for you instead.
Two, the officers clearly did not look into who residing in the home before they arrived. Bad police-work like that gets people killed. They should face punitive consequences for not doing a better job of assessing the actual situation before they went into action. When the police don’t think before they act, people get killed and that can not be tolerated.
It doesn’t matter if they, the officers, were not being overtly racist by responding to this call. They did a shoddy job of performing their work responsibilities and -like in any other industry- that should merit negative consequences.
Minneapolis police shooting: No charges to be filed against officers in death of Thurman Blevins
14 shots at someone who is fleeing and not shooting back? that’s not self-defense. That’s murder, clear and simple. Hope the family sues the city into bankruptcy.
Albany Home Depot employee turns down offer for old job
Social media exploded over the weekend with the story about the Albany man who was fired from the Home Depot on Central Avenue because he didn’t seek a manager’s help in dealing with a customer’s racist rant.
Home Depot has since offered Maurice Rucker his old job back. His response — thanks but no thanks. In his own words, Rucker does not feel comfortable putting on the orange apron again.
…Rucker didn’t hear from the individual store. Instead, he heard from the corporate office in Atlanta.
“‘We want you back.’ It’s like, no, you want this to stop. That’s what you want,” said Rucker.
Albany Home Depot employee turns down offer for old job | WNYT.com
What a fail on the part of Home Depot… They really, really look racist.
Fox and Friends Book the Wrong Guest
“Fox and Friends First” hosts …thought they were talking to Ann Kirkpatrick — a Democratic congressional candidate from Arizona they believed would speak in favor of the policies of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
…Schmitt and Mele kicked off the conversation on live television by asking L’Italien — believing she was Kirkpatrick — “why you do support ICE?”
…“Good morning, I’m actually here to speak directly to Donald Trump. I feel that what’s happening at the border is wrong,” said L’Italien, who is running for the Third Congressional District seat in the US House of Representatives. “I believe that separating kids from their parents is illegal and inhumane.”
L’Italien went on to identify herself, making it clear that the hosts weren’t speaking to Kirkpatrick, before continuing her message.
In response to questions about whether he had deceived the Fox show, [L’Italien’s campaign] told the Globe: “We showed the exact same commitment to truth, fairness, and accuracy that Fox News always has.”
…Meanwhile, Kirkpatrick, the guest Fox had hoped to have on air, distanced herself from the station’s narrative, and said in a tweet that she is opposed to Trump’s immigration policies.
“This morning, Fox News and other outlets put out false reports on my position on ICE, without a single word from me,” she said.
Error or deception? Mass. congressional candidate hoodwinks Fox News show – The Boston Globe
Remains found of African-Americans forced into labor
The remains are likely those of people who worked at a plantation through a “convict leasing program” in the late 1800s and early 20th century. Archaeologists estimated the cemetery was used from 1878 to 1910. (To give that some context: The emancipation proclamation was issued in 1863, while the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in 1865).
…The leasing program was a “system in which Southern states leased prisoners to private railways, mines and large plantations,” according to the Equal Justice Initiative. Though states profited from this arrangement, “prisoners earned no pay and faced inhumane, dangerous and often deadly work conditions. Thousands of black people were forced into what authors have termed ‘slavery by another name’ until the 1930s,” the school district continued.
…Between 1885 and 1887, many prisoners worked to build the Capitol building in Austin, while others worked to construct the Texas State Railroad between 1893 and 1909, according to the Texas State Historical Association.
…Out of the 95 burial sites identified thus far, 48 have been exhumed, according to a statement from the school district. All were male but one, archaeologists said. Their ages ranged from 14 to 70 years old.
In addition to finding the remains, archaeologists also uncovered rusted tools and chains laborers likely wore.
Remains found of African-Americans forced into labor
hmmmm
Woman harassed over Puerto Rican flag shirt says officer “blatantly ignored” her pleas for help
Irizarry, a veterinary technician, said Friday Trybus and two other people were sitting in a picnic shelter for which she had purchased a permit, so she approached them and asked them to leave. Trybus asked her twice if the flag on her T-shirt was a Texas flag, she said, and she replied both times that it was a Puerto Rican flag.
That’s when she said Trybus moved closer to her and stepped on a table.
…In the video, Trybus is seen telling Irizarry not to wear a T-shirt celebrating Puerto Rico if she’s an American citizen — despite the fact that Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory and Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens.
…Officer Connor then arrived, but the video shows he didn’t intervene even as the Trybus invaded Irizarry’s personal space and continued to harangue her as she asked for assistance.
…Her cousin, who had stepped away before the encounter, returned from the car and intervened. At that point the officer told the cousin to step back.
…Cook County Commissioner Luis Arroyo called the video of “appalling, gut-wrenching, and a real wake-up call to everyone.”
…The officer “embarrassed many of our law enforcement officers and tarnished the whole department with his failure to act,” Arroyo said.
….Irizarry said she finds the actions of Trybus and the officer “equally offensive.” She said she was “severely disappointed” that the officer stepped down from the force before he explained his motivations.
“I will never get to hear from this man, this protector, the reason for why my safety — no, my life — had such little value to him,” Irizarry said. “Why an American citizen would not reap the benefits of the police force when it was most needed.”
…Irizarry called the officer a “coward” for resigning.
“I just want justice for the whole thing, and I want the ex-officer to really be held accountable, whatever that looks like,” Irizarry said. “Of all the people who have apologized to me, the one person that hasn’t is him.”
hmmm
State Dept trafficking report includes ill effects of family separation
The State Department trafficking report, in addition to drawing attention this year to “modern day slave markets” in Libya, the dislocation of thousands of Rohingya in Burma, “untold numbers” of North Koreans subject to forced labor and the punishment of trafficking victims in Iran, also includes a section on the negative effects of family separation.
…”Studies have found that both private and government-run residential institutions for children, or places such as orphanages and psychiatric wards that do not offer a family-based setting, cannot replicate the emotional companionship and attention found in family environments that are prerequisites to healthy cognitive development,” the report reads. “The physical and psychological effects of staying in residential institutions, combined with societal isolation and often subpar regulatory oversight by governments, place these children in situations of heightened vulnerability to human trafficking.”
The report made reference to “ill-managed facilities” as a prime target for traffickers.
State Dept trafficking report includes ill effects of family separation – CBS News
Sigh….
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