Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

School Cheers When Kentucky Valedictorian Gives Inspirational Trump Quote… Until He Reveals It’s Obama The best kind of burn is the one you don’t see coming. Kentucky high school student and valedictorian  Ben Bowling  made his graduation speech a memorable one by quoting a famous figure. “This is the part of my speech where I share some inspirational quotes I found on Google,” Bowling told the audience at Bell County High School graduation. “‘Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.’ –  Donald J. Trump .” The audience erupted into applause, according to the  Louisville Courier Journal . 80 percent of Bell County, located in the southeastern part of Kentucky, voted for Trump in the 2016 election. “Just kidding,” Bowling said. “That was Barack Obama .” And a hush fell over the crowd. “The crowd erupted in applause and before they could even finish clapping I said I was kidding and the applause

Michelle Obama opened up about the racism she endured as first lady. It's heartbreaking. History will remember Michelle Obama as a bold,  resilient , and glass-ceiling-shattering pioneer in the White House. But behind closed doors, Obama silently wrestled with painful, unique hurdles literally no one else on Earth has experienced: being a black first lady of America. During a candid discussion at the Women's Foundation of Colorado's (WFCO)  30th anniversary fundraiser  on July 25, Obama opened up about the eight years of racist attacks she endured as first lady. When WFCO President and CEO Lauren Casteel asked Obama about which falling glass shard from the ceiling she shattered hurt the most, the former first lady replied that it was the targeted comments — rhetoric referring to her as an " ape " and discussing her body  — that were the toughest to shrug off, the  Denver Post reported.

Starbucks employees were shown 'video after video' of black people being abused during racial sensitivity training, staff claim Two Starbucks baristas spoke to Philly Mag after going through the company's bias training on Tuesday The employees said they thought the training videos were too graphic, showing black people being beaten by white people  One of the baristas said a woman in his class had to leave because the videos were making her uncomfortable  'I told them I didn’t like the video and they told me they understood and that I was open to give my opinion,' an 18-year-old female employee said  Starbucks closed 8,000 stores to give 175,000 employees race training Tuesday Came after two black men were arrested when manager called police

per cent more likely to be stopped by police in Missouri than white drivers Despite being less likely to be searched than black, Hispanic or American Indian drivers, white drivers were more likely to be caught with contraband. The data, which analysed the rate of vehicle stops in Missouri in 2017, also showed that 7.1 per cent of Hispanics and 6.6 per cent of blacks were arrested after stops, however only 4.2 per cent of whites were. Reacting to the report , John Gaskin, spokesperson for the St Louis chapter of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), said: Quite frankly, it's really deplorable. It's why we've ended up in a situation where people are talking about travel advisories and African-American groups are less likely to come and do business in our state.

The Black Unemployment Rate Just Hit A Record Low The Black unemployment rate fell to a record low of 5.9 percent in May, dipping dramatically by more than half a percentage point from April. This new number is the lowest since the government started keeping track in 1972. President Donald Trump will likely take credit for the new numbers released Friday. He wrongly boasted at this year's State of the Union address  that his administration had lowered the Black unemployment rate .

Roseanne cries to rabbi after racist tweet gets show cancelled Roseanne Barr  called up a rabbi friend sobbing about her ABC axing. The comedienne phoned a Jewish podcast in floods of tears over her racist tweets. Barr, 65, reached out to New Jersey-based, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who is a longtime spiritual advisor to the Jewish actress. Barr was reportedly crying over her May 29 tweets that cause shockwaves around America.

'Racism is a pro-life issue': The Catholic Church's latest response to racism in America The Catholic Church's struggles with race and racism are similar to other Christian denominations here and across the country. But with 461,000 members and the nation's sixth largest Catholic school system with about 43,000 students, the archdiocese is the most influential denomination in the area. Extending north from Cincinnati into west-central Ohio and east into Appalachia, the archdiocese has many small rural and sprawling suburban parishes that are overwhelmingly if not exclusively white. And it is more "brown than black," church leaders say, because of an increase in Hispanic families migrating from Central and South American nations. Many of the archdiocese's estimated 16,000 African-American members attend its four predominantly black urban churches – three of which are in Cincinnati's West End, Winton Hills and Bond Hill neighborhoods. The