Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

Halle Berry stopped in her tracks after two black reporters were denied an interview with her at the New York City premiere of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum this week.

Crimes against women are notoriously underreported in the United Kingdom and around the world—particularly when they’re of a sexual nature. Now, one police unit in England is trying to address this problem, and it’s a surprisingly bureaucratic response to a very violent problem: The unit is changing how the complaints are classified as they come in, and early research indicates it may be having effective results.

CAIR says the money is being used to support anti-Muslim lobbying, legislation and policies, and to distribute false information to the media and on social media.

[Editorial note: Identity Evropa and the American Identity Movement are proven to be the same group, so at times the groups’ names are used interchangeably. The American Identity Movement is also abbreviated as ‘AmIM’ to avoid confusion with the American Indian Movement (AIM).]

A drunken woman was caught in shocking video going on a foul-mouthed, racist tirade against “foreigners” at 39,000 feet before a flight attendant — a former TV presenter — calmed her down.

This essay historicizes the phenomenon of mass shootings within the context of transformations in the spatial and political economy of the U.S. neoliberal state. While mass shootings are not usually understood as iterations of racial violence, this essay argues that both the discursive and actual phenomenon of mass shootings must be understood in relation to the manifold forms of violence structured by racial capitalism—from territorial conquest to U.S. imperialism, spatial privatization to mass incarceration. It suggests that doing so disturbs and complicates positivist conceptions of the relation between race and violence that predominate in the humanities and social sciences, while demanding a reconsideration of the meaning and trajectory of civilian life within studies of race and bio-politics. #whytheracecardisplayed

Note: This video was originally published on August 24, 2018 Chicago Police officer Jason Van Dyke was released Monday from Cook County Jail after posting $1.5 million bond. Van Dyke is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting of Laquan McDonald.