Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

Steve McQueen: 'I experience racism every day' Y o u f i r s t w a t c h e d L y n d a L a P l a n t e ’ s I T V s e r i e s W i d o w s a s a 1 3 - y e a r - o l d i n 1 9 8 3 . D o y o u t h i n k i t ’ s h a r d e r f o r p e o p l e t o o v e r c o m e s t e r e o t y p e s – a s t h e w o m e n i n t h e s e r i e s a n d y o u r f i l m d o – i n B r e x i t B r i t a i n t h a n i n T h a t c h e r ’ s B r i t a i n ? No. Nothing much has changed at all. I don’t know what has happened but we have taken two steps backwards. Nationalism absolutely has a part to play. The day after Brexit, my mother went to her favourite high-street shop. She had a new credit card with her and was struggling to remember the pin. The guy behind the till said: “It’s four digits in this country.” My daughter was with her at the time and said: “Granny, why didn’t you say anything?” She replied: “When they go low, we go high.” But the day b e f...

Senate passes bill making lynching a federal crime Washington (CNN)The Senate approved a bill on Wednesday that would make lynching a federal crime after more than a century of such attempts to outlaw the act. The Justice for Victims of Lynching Act, which passed unanimously, was introduced earlier this year by the chamber's three African-American senators: California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris, New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker and South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott. The proposal outlines the specific act of lynching -- a mob killing without legal authority -- and would add lynching to the federal list of hate crimes. Harris touted the vote on Twitter, calling the moment "history." The bill describes lynching as "the ultimate expression of racism in the United States" following Reconstruction and counts 4,742 overwhelmingly African-American victims reported from 1882 to 1968. It notes further that some 200 anti-lynching bills had been b...

Meek Mill's grandmother's home spray-painted with graffiti in South Philadelphia SOUTH PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) --Police continue to search for a graffiti vandal caught on surveillance spray-painting the side of a South Philadelphia home where family members of rapper Meek Mill live. The rapper went on social media Tuesday to say his grandmother and aunt live in the home.   M e e k M i l l ✔ @MeekMill A white man sprayed a racial remarks on my Grandmom’s house last night in south philly referencing white Privileged.... the crazy part is this was a all black neighborhood 20 years ago It was gentrified and now this! Just don’t let us catch you coward! T… https://ift.tt/2PJLpGQ 11K 12:04 PM - Dec 18, 2018 Twitter Ads info and privacy 3,734 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy "A white man sprayed a racial remark on my grandmom's house...just don't let us catch you coward! " Mill tweeted. Meek Mill's aunt Jua...

Milwaukee cop fired for racist memes after Sterling Brown arrest tries to get his job back The Fire and Police Commission will likely decide Wednesday whether to uphold the firing of a Milwaukee police officer fired in the aftermath of the tasing of Milwaukee Bucks player Sterling Brown. Chief Alfonso Morales fired Officer Erik Andrade in September for making inappropriate posts on social media about Brown's arrest. R E L A T E D : One officer involved in arrest of Milwaukee Bucks player Sterling Brown fired, chief says Brown has filed a civil rights suit against the Police Department claiming wrongful arrest and excessive force during his arrest and tasing about 2 a.m. Jan. 26 in the parking lot of a Walgreens drug store.  Body camera video of the incident shows officers taking Brown to the ground and tasing him. Additional video showed Brown on the ground after he was tased in the back, with one officer holding his shoulder and another standin...