Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

New Jersey sheriff caught on tape complaining about ‘the blacks’ and Sikh AG’s ‘turban’: report In a leaked audio recording, Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino of New Jersey can be heard making several racist remarks about black people and state Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, who happens to be the first Sikh to hold the office. W N Y C , w h i c h o b t a i n e d t h e r e c o r d i n g , r e p o r t s that New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has called on Saudino to resign because of the recording, which includes disparaging references to “the blacks” and Grewal’s “turban.” In particular, Saudino can be heard bitterly complaining about a speech that Murphy gave endorsing reform of the criminal justice system earlier this year. “He talked about the whole thing, the marijuana, sanctuary state… better criminal justice reform,” the sheriff said. “Christ almighty, in other words let the blacks come in, do whatever the f*ck they want, smoke their marijuana, do this d...

Arizona police release video of cop punching Hispanic woman in the face then dragging her during traffic stop Police officials in Goodyear, Arizona have released bodycam video of a police officer who punched a Hispanic woman in the face during a traffic stop before dragging her prone body on the asphalt as he arrested her for protesting the arrest. According to AzCentral , the incident occurred on Sept. 6 when an officer identified only as “M. Ross” pulled over Renee Armenta, who was accused of driving with a suspended license. In the video, the woman is told to step out of the car because she was under arrest and when she protests and backs back into her seat the officer immediately grabs her arms and the strikes her in the face (which can’t be seen clearly) causing her sprawl in the street. Officer Ross then grabs her by hands and wrists and drags her on the asphalt before forcing her into his police cruiser. When Armenta’s male passenger exits the vehicle to ...

IS BETO O'ROURKE THE WHITE OBAMA? O’Rourke’s growing appeal to Democrats beyond Texas was confirmed once again last week when a NowThis video of him defending the N.F.L. player protests rocketed around the Internet. “I can think of nothing more American,” he said of the protests, responding to a Fort Worth voter who was clearly uncomfortable with the idea of players taking a knee. The O’Rourke clip was viewed over 44 million times across Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube as of Tuesday, according to a NowThis spokeswoman. The clip simply captured O’Rourke speaking off the cuff at one of his town-hall meetings, all without pandering or poll-tested varnish, and it was enough to land him a re-tweet from LeBron James and a guest spot on Ellen next month. The Legend of Beto is growing bigger than Texas. He’s already a bona fide political celebrity among Democrats, and he’s just a candidate for Senate in a state that shouldn’t be competitive. It’s not a stretch to...

‘We got us one’: Picture of white Alabama teens standing on black student sparks race row A group of white Alabama high school students are at the center of a racism storm after a photo of them standing on a black pupil surfaced online with the caption ‘We got us one.’ Participants insist the stunt was a “joke.” The snap sparked fury on social media after it was handed over to a left-wing Instagram account, @agirlhasnopresident, which claims it contacted the school in question – Moody High School (MHS) in Alabama – to report the incident. According to the whistleblower’s post,  “every Friday during football season the students dress up.”  On the day the photo was taken, the whistleblower alleged that students were dressed up for ‘Redneck Day.’

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION Affirmative Action Law and Legal Definition. ... For federal contractors and subcontractors, affirmative action must be taken by covered employers to recruit and advance qualified minorities, women, persons with disabilities, and covered veterans. Affirmative action was first created from Executive Order 10925, which was signed by President John F. Kennedy on 6 March 1961 and required that government employers "not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, creed, color, or national origin." In 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 10925, ordering that federally funded projects “take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin.” Why it was started: The earliest implementation of affirmative action policies, before Kennedy coined the phrase, began under President Franklin Ro...

More Guns, Not the Crack Epidemic, Drove ’90s Murder Boom The violent crime wave of the late 1980s and early 1990s is a subject of perennial debate among policymakers and social scientists: what caused the spike in America’s murder rate, which by 1993 soared to the highest level ever recorded? And just as important, why did it subside? One p o p u l a r t h e o r y attributes both the surge and ebb of homicides to crack cocaine. The logic is persuasive. In poor urban areas hollowed out by deindustrialization and cut off from economic opportunity by racial discrimination, the drug provided one of few lucrative incomes for young black men. They resorted to bloodshed to defend their businesses, while the addicts who bought the drug turned to crime to feed their addictions. Then came the “war on crime” and go-go economy of the Clinton years, which dried up the crack trade and reduced murders along with it. But two new academic papers posit that drug market dynamics alo...