Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

black-oakland-electric-slides-on-racism-by-throwing-big-were cops were called What’s the best way to deal with pervasive, persistent and blood-pressure rising racism on the daily, as well as give a big fat fuck you to gentrification and the criminalization of black folks? Why throw a cookout, of course! In a pointed response to a recent incident where a white woman thought it her civic duty to call the police on a few black couples using a grill in a public park, the melanated masses of Oakland threw their own party at that very same site, Lake Merritt Park.

Woman throws 'ashes' at LA Police Chief following niece's death Two women were detained by police after one of them threw what was reported to be ashes at LAPD Chief Charlie Beck during a Los Angeles Police Commission meeting.

Why Obama vs. Trump Is Such A Blowout Americans, by a wide margin (56 percent to 37 percent), think Barack Obama was a better president than Donald Trump has been, according to a  CNN poll of adults released this week. Americans think Hillary Clinton  would have been  a better president than Trump has been, but by a much smaller margin (47 percent to 44 percent). These numbers aren’t that surprising, but they are weird. First, Clinton and Obama have very similar public policy views . They’re both Democrats, of course, but more than that, they’re the same  type   of   Democrat : left of center but not super liberal.

Why the FBI's "Black Identity Extremist" Classification Is Dangerous The FBI defines this group as "individuals who seek, wholly or in part, through unlawful acts of force or violence, in response to perceived racism and injustice in American society."

Alleged Black extremist Identity Secretly Watched By The FBI Is Released From Jail Christopher Daniels , better known as Rakem Balogun, believed the FBI targeted him as a part of its new government classification “black identity extremists (BIE),” according to a  report  from The Guardian. The classification is defined as someone who resorts to violence or unlawful activities “in response to perceived racism and injustice in American society.”

US legislators worried by FBI term 'Black Identity Extremist ' US  legislators met to discuss the FBI's "Black Identity Extremist" (BIE) designation as a  discriminatory measure  that could be used by law enforcement to halt African American activism across the country.

Is-this-the-first-victim-of-cointelpro-2-0-jailed-black Last year, just nine days before white supremacists stormed Charlottesville, Va., the FBI released a report citing “black identity extremists” as a growing threat to law enforcement. In the report, first obtained by Foreign Policy , the FBI claimed that police attacks on black Americans could spur “premeditated, retaliatory lethal violence” against the police. Now  The Guardian has spoken  to a man believed to be the first prosecuted under the FBI’s effort to track “black identity extremists”: a man who spoke out against police brutality and became a federal target because of it.