Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

Must Watch: Restaurant Manager Threatens To Call Cops On Black Couple After They Sit Down W ith the country on edge against restaurant racism after recent incidents at  Starbucks  and Waffle House , more racist alarms are being sounded. The latest #DiningWhileBlack (or trying-to-dine-while-Black) instance took place at a Plano, Texas, restaurant when a manager threatened to call police on a Black couple as if he was competing for a Guinness World Record for the quickest time to jump into racist mode.

A black former White House staffer was moving into a new apartment. Someone reported a burglary. Darren Martin, a former White House official under President Obama, was moving into his new Manhattan apartment on April 27, when neighbors called the police.   (Darren Martin) Darren Martin moved to New York City this winter after years working for the Obama White House in Washington to take a job as an aide in the city’s government. After a couple of months crashing with friends and family, he finally found his own place on the Upper West Side.

Watch: Six Cops Accuse Black Man Of Breaking Into His Own Apartment In NYC D arren Martin spent many years working in Washington D.C. on Capitol Hill and in the White House with the Obama Administration. He recently moved back (Martin is originally from the Bronx) to the allegedly liberal New York City in a gentrified area called the Upper West Side. While moving into his apartment on Friday, a neighbor called the police and he was accused by the NYPD of being a burglar — in his own home.

Mother of Saheed Vassell rips NYPD cops for ‘unjustified’ shooting as hundreds attend vigil honoring her son The distraught family of  slain Brooklyn man Saheed Vassell  and hundreds of supporters gathered Thursday to mourn at the site of his untimely death.  The vigil in the 34-year-old’s honor began with a moment of silence at 4:40 p.m. — the time cops came rushing into Crown Heights after receiving three 911 calls about a man waving what appeared to be a silver gun.

Family of Kimani Gray, teen shot and killed by NYPD cops who thought he had a gun, reaches $250G settlement  The family of Kimani Gray, a 16-year-old boy who was shot and killed five years ago by cops in Brooklyn who thought he had a gun, has agreed to a $250,000 settlement from the city. Gray, who was with several friends, was shot not far from his home in East Flatbush by two plainclothes cops who said he was reaching in his waistband when they sought to question him.

Meet Kromsby, the friendly alien who is here to save  The Cosby Show We recently reported  that Bounce TV had pulled reruns of  The Cosby Show , a decision that only came after Bill Cosby had been found guilty on three counts of aggravated indecent assault, but perhaps that wasn’t the right move after all. Bill Cosby is the one at fault, so much like how  Ridley Scott got Christopher Plummer to save  All The Money In The World  from Kevin Spacey , perhaps there’s also a way to save  The Cosby Show  from Bill Cosby? Writer/producer Jon Friedman ( Girl Code ,  Part Timers )  seems to have found the solution  in the form of Bol Kromsby, a green alien who he has digitally inserted into some clips from  The Cosby Show .

Kanye West Says Slavery Was a ‘Choice’ in Bizarre TMZ Live Interview Kanye West  took a break from tweeting to stop by TMZ’s Los Angeles, Calif. newsroom and share his opinion that slavery was a “choice.” During a conversation on  “TMZ Live”  with Harvey Levin and Charles Latibeaudiere, West said, “When you hear about slavery for 400 years. For 400 years?! That sounds like a choice. You was there for 400 years and it’s all of y’all. It’s like we’re mentally in prison. I like the word ‘prison’ because ‘slavery’ goes too direct to the idea of blacks. Slavery is to blacks as the Holocaust is to Jews. Prison is something that unites as one race, blacks and whites, that we’re the human race.”