Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

White HBCU Law Student Wishes She Could Take Credit for Pipe Bomb Sent to Obamas  White student at a predominantly black college in North Carolina who used a racial slur on social media and said she wishes she could take credit for the pipe bomb packages that were sent to the Obamas and Clintons last month. Needless to say, the black students at North Carolina Central University are beyond pissed at law student Morgan Kendall and are calling for her to be expelled. Those students, who say they now fear for their safety, met Thursday with the dean of the law school, Elaine O’Neal, and campus police Chief Fred Hammett, WRAL-TV. “I don’t feel safe. I don’t know what she’s capable of, and I would like to see her expelled immediately,” said Kayla Britt. “I think she should be kicked out of law school,” said Jazemine McSween. “I just don’t think it’s fair that someone with those sentiments to receive a degree from this school that was founded by the very people that she has disr...

Arkansas bar awards man dressed as a KKK member ‘best costume’ An NAACP chapter in Arkansas has raised concerns after a b a r a w a r d e d a m a n d r e s s e d a s a K u K l u x K l a n m e m b e r “ b e s t c o s t u m e . ” Fort Smith, Arkansas’ KFSM reported that the Lil’ Dude Tavern defended the red KKK-robed man winning best costume because “the patrons voted.” Leo Good, the legal redress spokesperson for the Sebastian County chapter of the NAACP, said he knows the people who run the Lil Dude Tavern and although they are not racists, they shouldn’t have allowed the costume to win. “I happen to know the owner of Lil’ Dude, the mom and her son,” Good told KFSM. “The son is a very dear friend of mine, no way is he a hateful person. But, this is the clientele that Lil’ Dudes are letting filter their place, and I totally disagree with that because the NACCP is not about hating folks.” A patron defended the man in the KKK robes winning b...

City fires officer who fatally shot unarmed man A 10-year veteran of the Philadelphia police force will be fired for violating department policy in the fatal shooting of an unarmed Black man two days after Christmas, top Philadelphia police officials say. In late December, police were chasing a car driven by Dennis Plowden, a 25-year-old resident of East Germantown. Authorities believed his car was linked to a homicide. Even though Plowden was not involved in the slaying, he attempted to elude police — possibly because of an open warrant for unpaid tickets. The chase ended with Plowden crashing into a police vehicle before speeding away and hitting two parked vehicles. At that point, four officers surrounded Plowden, who had stumbled out of the car and was sitting on a curb with one arm behind his back. Plowden looked dazed and disoriented, police said. Three of them took cover to assess the situation, but Officer Eric Ruch opened fire. A single bullet pierced...

Idaho teachers mocked Mexicans and dressed up as a border wall for Halloween party A group of Idaho teachers mocked Mexicans and dressed up as President Donald Trump’s proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border during a Halloween party this week. L o c a l n e w s s t a t i o n K T V B r e p o r t s that photos of the teachers dressed both as a giant wall with a “Make America Great Again” slogan written across it and as Mexicans in mustaches and sombreros were actually posted on the school’s Facebook page before online backlash forced them to take them down. Dr. Josh Middleton, the Middleton School District’s superintendent, posted a public apology on the school’s Facebook page in the wake of community outrage over the photos. “I was shown those photos and [was] deeply troubled by the decision by our staff members to wear those costumes that are clearly insensitive and inappropriate,” he says in the video. “We are better than this. We embrace all students. We hav...

Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick started a movement by refusing to stand during the national anthem before games in 2016 to protest social injustice. Cheerleader takes a knee during national anthem on Colin Kaepernicks old team the 49ers! Kaepernick hasn’t been able to land an NFL job since that season, but a cheerleader from his former team appears to be helping to keep the movement alive. The woman kneeling in the endzone as her fellow cheerleaders stand at attention has yet to be identified. She is thought to be the first NFL cheerleader to protest in such a manner during the anthem. Back in May, t h e N F L p a s s e d a r u l e stating that players or personnel on the field are required stand "and show respect for the flag and the anthem." Those who chose not to were required to remain in the locker room. Two months later, however, the league and the NFL Players Assn. announced that plan h a d b e e n p u t o n h o l ...

Pennsylvania girl confronts boys trick-or-treating in blackface and Confederate flags: ‘Nobody was saying anything’ A Pennsylvania family confronted a pair of teenage boys trick-or-treating in blackface costumes and wearing Confederate flag capes. Esperanza Menendez, 17, was taking part in Halloween festivities Wednesday in Lower Macungie Township with her sisters, ages 10 and 18, when they encountered the pair — and they couldn’t believe what they saw, r e p o r t e d L e h i g h V a l l e y L i v e . “I turn around and my stomach drops because I see these two ignorant kids in blackface right in front of me,” Menendez told the newspaper. “I was so enraged when I saw these kids, I never thought I’d see something like that in person honestly,” she said. “The fact they walked around … dressed like that and they had a bag full of candy and no one said anything, it just makes me so angry.” She confronted the boys and swore at them, and they smiled and insisted, “It...

Army quickly bans white Minnesota teens who posed in KKK hoods and blackface A photo circulated by high school students in Minnesota shows what appear to be teenagers wearing a highly racist costume,reports the Med City Beat. The image shows two students in KKK robes, displaying a Nazi salute. The conceit of the costume appears to be that the Klansman have apprehended a black man—that’s the third student, who’s in blackface. John Marshall High School, where at least two of the teenagers were students, issued a statement condemning the costume. “The social media post is not a reflection of what our district students and staff believes and feels,” the district said in the statement, which was also sent out to local media. “We will use this as an opportunity to talk, educate, and grow as a community as we work to become even stronger and more inclusive to all students.” Meanwhile, an Army recruiter at the school said they were not welcome to join the US armed forces. “Because t...

Chicago cops post racist memes in Facebook group connected to Russia’s pro-Trump electoral interference A BuzzFeed News investigation revealed not only that f o r m e r a n d c u r r e n t C h i c a g o c o p s w e r e s h a r i n g r a c i s t m e m e s i n a p r i v a t e F a c e b o o k g r o u p — but that the group’s founder was an unwitting target of Russian electoral interference. In response to police officer J a s o n V a n D y k e b e i n g c o n v i c t e d o f m u r d e r last month for shooting black teen Laquan McDonald, one member of the Chicago Code Blue group said it was “very sad” that Chicago had “give[n] the keys to the city to the thugs.” The group boasts more than 53,000 members, the report noted — many of whom appear to be violating CPD’s social media policy that bars them from sharing “content that is disparaging to a person or group based on race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other protected class.” One meme shared...

Oprah says the blood of lynching victims ‘seeped into my DNA’ in stunning speech for Stacey Abrahams In an impassioned speech for Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, Oprah Winfrey spoke about the importance of voting for groups that were barred from doing so in the past. She recalled a story from Rev. Otis Moss Jr. of Cleveland, Ohio, who described his father’s struggle to vote for the first time. He woke up, put on his only suit and tie and walked six miles to the polling location. He was told to go into a garage and when he got there, they told him, “Boy, you’re at the wrong place. You need to go to Mountville.” He walked another six miles and was told again he was in the wrong place. “And I picture him walking from dawn to dusk in his suit, his feet tired, getting to the Rosemont School and they said, ‘Boy, you’re too late,'” she continued. “The polls are closed. He never had a chance to vote. By the time the next election came around, he had died.” She told ...

"They are not ‘former slaves’" GOP Rep. Mark Sanford on why Haitian babies born in US don’t deserve birthrights  Outgoing South Carolina Republican Rep. Mark Sanford on Wednesday insisted that some babies born in the U.S. — from places like Haiti — do not deserve to be granted birthright citizenship because the 14th Amendment was only intended to apply to descendants of slaves. During a discussion on MSNBC about President Donald Trump’s plan to end birthright citizenship, Sanford argued that the constitution did not apply to immigrants when it said all “persons” born in the U.S. have the right to be citizens. “What do you make of the suggestion that birthright citizenship can be revoked with the stroke of a pen?” MSNBC host Craig Melvin asked the South Carolina Republican. “I would find that hard to believe,” Sanford replied. “I’m not a fan of birthright citizenship. But I think it’s much more complex than the stroke of a pen.” “Why are you not a fan of it?” Melvin...

Ferguson protester lynched found hanging from a tree but police say it was suicide A Ferguson protestor’s son was found dead near their St. Louis County home last month, the Associated Press reported. Melissa McKinnies thinks her her son, Danye Jones, was murdered, the AP reported, but police are investigating it as a suicide. “They lynched my baby,” Jones’ mom wrote on Facebook, according to the AP. Facebook has since removed the post, the AP reported, but screen shots of it are now circulating across social media. The post included graphic photos of Jones hanging from a white piece of cloth. He appears to be next to a tree. McKinnies’ post has stirred controversy about how Jones really died. Was he lynched? Or was it suicide? The St. Louis County Police Department confirmed to McClatchy that officers responded to the home at about 6:10 a.m. on Oct. 17. They were responding to a “report of a suicide,” spokesman Sgt. Shawn McGuire said in a written statement. “Detectives...

Philadelphia police investigating after shocking photo appears to show police officer Hung Nguyen in blackface Police officer Hung Nguyen in blackface Philadelphia police officer Hung Nguyen posted a photograph of himself in b l a c k f a c e o n h i s F a c e b o o k a c c o u n t , according to a local activist. Black Lives Matter activist Asa Khalif saw a photo of Nguyen wearing blackface and demanded the police station investigate the matter. “Meet Philadelphia Police Officer Hung Nguyen badge number #6659 posted this picture of him in blackface on his FB page. I’m asking Commissioner Richard Ross to immediately fire the officer,” he tweeted. M e e t P h i l a d e l p h i a P o l i c e O f f i c e r H u n g N g u y e n b a d g e n u m b e r # 6 6 5 9 p o s t e d t h i s p i c t u r e o f h i m i n b l a c k f a c e o n h i s f b p a g e . I ’ m a s k i n g C o m m i s s i o n e r R i c h a r d R o s s t o i m m e d i a t e l y f...