Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

Black Conservatives Claim Uber Driver Kicked Them Out Because of ‘MAGA’ Hats A group of young, Black congressional interns claim their Uber driver discriminated against them for being conservatives after realizing they were holding “Make America Great Again” hats as they entered his vehicle. “To me, what happened took me back to the 60’s when black Americans were told they couldn’t sit in the front of the bus, they had to sit at the back of the bus, or eat at the same restaurant, or go to the same school or would be hosed in certain neighbors,” Matthew Handy told  CBN News . “So now we are going to discrimination not based on race but on political standing. We are gonna see people not welcome in places because they are conservative or liberal. So, that is more disturbing to me than any other aspect of this.”

NFL, Players Union Place National Anthem Policy on Hold The NFL and the National Football League Players Association agreed to stop the implantation of the recent national anthem policy while they both work on a resolution,  The Associated Press reports. In a joint statement released Thursday, the League and the players association said that no new rules on the national anthem will be made until they come to an agreement. “The NFL and NFLPA, through recent discussions, have been working on a resolution to the anthem issue. In order to allow this constructive dialogue to continue, we have come to a standstill agreement on the NFLPA’s grievance and on the NFL’s anthem policy. No new rules relating to the anthem will be issued or enforced for the next several weeks while these confidential discussions are ongoing,” the statement read. The announcement comes after The AP first reported that players for the Miami Dolphins who protested on the field during the anthem coul

NYC Releases Thousands of Documents on the Central Park 5 Case, Prosecutor In Case Says the Five Weren't 'Deserving' of Settlement On Thursday night New York City released several documents, recordings and other materials detailing the notorious Central Five case. The story of the Central Park Five should be a stranger to no one. It was only decades after their initial conviction that defendants Kharey Wise, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana and Yusef Salaam had their convictions overturned in 2002 after another inmate, Matias Reyes, confessed — supported by DNA evidence — that he raped then-28-year-old jogger Trisha Meili. In 2014, the five reached a settlement with New York City and were awarded $41 million. However, there are those who have long who argued that the defendants were not just randomly rounded up and arrested after Mieli’s attack, but in fact were part of a group known for attacking and harassing people in the park, whether th

Aryan Brotherhood member to spend decades in prison after murdering someone over a housing dispute A Texas man who police described as a member of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang has  pleaded guilty to murdering another man who was in a housing dispute with his friends . Sherman, Texas’ KXII reported that 31-year-old Manuel Miguel Wise shot and killed a man named Matthew Williams in a Motel 6 after Williams refused to move out of a room he was sharing with friends.

New York City brings internal charges against officer in chokehold death of Eric Garner New York City began disciplinary proceedings on Thursday against the police officer who applied a fatal chokehold to Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, in 2014, the Civilian Complaint Review Board said. Officer Daniel Pantaleo could face termination from the police force. His charging comes after the New York Police Department gave the U.S. Department of Justice an ultimatum earlier this week, saying it could no longer wait for a federal civil rights investigation to conclude.

Watch a white guy attempt a ‘citizen’s arrest’ on darker-skinned man he thinks is an ‘illegal alien’ : White people accosting people of color in public appears to no longer be limited to the United States in a new video showing a racist altercation that resulted in a failed “citizen’s arrest.” The Canadian Broadcasting Company reported that police are investigating the “race-related” incident that took place in a London, Ontario grocery store earlier this week after video of it went viral. In the video, a white man wearing a red shirt is seen …