Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

✊🏿 On this day in 1968, standing on the podium at the 1968 Games in Mexico City, American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists to make the Black Power salute, a symbol of defiance against racism and injustice.

Woman goes on shocking racist rant at Phoenix restaurant: ‘I’d prefer the whole freaking nation be white’  woman went on a white nationalist rant at an Arizona restaurant after another customer asked to sit next to her. Lennys Bermudez Molina went into Wildflower Bread Company on Wednesday to eat and work on her laptop while charging her car outside, and she asked a woman sitting alone if she could sit in the open seat next to her in the crowded north Phoenix eatery,  reported KTVK-TV . “She’s like, ‘Do I have a choice?’ and I said ‘Well, yes, you have a choice, that’s why I’m asking you,’” Molina said. “And she says: ‘Well, I prefer white — let’s just put it like that.’” Molina pulled out her cell phone and began recording because she was so surprised by the woman’s remarks. “I have never been told that somebody prefers whites,” Molina says in the video. The woman was unapologetic, and said she would prefer the U.S. to be for whites only. “Yes, that would be m...

Racist hackers tried to ruin their chances in a NASA competition. Six months later, they’re undeterred. Bria Snell, India Skinner and Mikayla Sharrieff, left to right, all 17, have had a hectic few months since racists attempted to thwart their entry in a science competition. (Astrid Riecken/For The Washington Post) The three D.C. high school seniors had a whirlwind of a summer. First, they had a private meeting with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. Or was it Microsoft chief Satya Nadella? They can’t quite remember. But they know they loved it all. Google sent them to Flint, Mich., to distribute clean water. They traveled to Seattle to participate in a computer programming event, and to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. They received fan mail from Girl Scouts. They met black female scientists who offered career advice. Colleges called, swaying them to apply to their campuses. And Lester Holt featured them on “NBC Nightly News.” Their story tread an all-too-f...

OPRF teacher ‘reassigned’ after using racial slur in classroom, documents show A  visual arts teacher at   Oak Park   and   River Forest   High School has been “reassigned” by administrators after she admitted that she had used a racial slur during a class in October, according to school district documents, obtained through a   Freedom of Information Act   request. According to the documents, teacher Michelle Carrow acknowledged using the word in front of students during her second-period class on Oct. 23. School officials confirmed Carrow was placed on administrative leave the next day, and then briefly returned to her classroom Nov. 5. Officials said she has since been “reassigned.” Messages left with Carrow seeking comment on the matter were not returned. When asked to comment, OPRF administrators said: “Due to privacy laws, the district cannot comment on personnel issues.” According to a letter of reprimand sent by human resources dire...

Tekashi 6ix9ine Asks Who’s Gonna Stop Him From Saying the N-Word…Will He Keep That Same Energy in Prison? Possessed Rainbow Brite doll Tekashi 6ix9ine is facing down a potential life sentence for armed robbery, racketeering, and drug trafficking. Tekashi might have finally gotten himself into some shit he can’t wiggle his way out of with good lawyers or the inexplicable cosigns he’s gotten from other rappers despite pleading guilty to use of a child in a sexual performance and violating the terms of the plea deal. In addition to the laundry list of charges he’s racked up, he’s had some issues with his booking agents, whom he recently fired. They’ve threatened to sue him over defamatory comments he’s made in the time since. Aight, so boom. Tekashi recently went back to the Breakfast Club because they love fanning the flames of a trash fire. Because all his legal issues weren’t enough drama, he complained about hosts ignoring his music… then defended his habit of sayi...

WATCH: Chaos erupts inside Minnesota McDonald’s after angry white man pulls gun on Muslim teens A w h i t e m a n w h o h a r a s s e d a n d p u l l e d a g u n o n a g r o u p o f M u s l i m t e e n s ( l e f t ) i n a M i n n e s o t a M c D o n a l d s , a n d t h e f r a n c h i s e m a n a g e r ( r i g h t ) k i c k i n g t h e g r o u p a n d t h e m a n o u t o f t h e s t o r e . A w h i t e m a n p u l l e d a g u n o n a g r o u p o f b l a c k M u s l i m t e e n s i n a M i n n e s o t a M c D o n a l d ’ s — and the franchise’s manager kicked the teens out for the incident. Muslim Girl, a website by and for young Muslim women, reported that the white man in question pulled the gun on the group of four teens over his apparent displeasure at them taking too long at the register. Farida Osman, one of the teens in the group, told Muslim Girl that they were attempting to use Apple Pay to purchase their food bu...