Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

4 stupid fights lost because of racism Racism is all three of those things. Especially when a leader is about to send thousands — or even tens of thousands — of his most loyal troops into a situation they can't possibly win because that leader thinks victory is assured just because he's white. Or Chinese. Or Japanese. So, let's be honest with ourselves: The most spectacular examples of military leadership did not belong to any one race.

Outrage after video of police officer’s brutal arrest of 13-year-old boy and his little sister goes viral ‘I’m about to send this kid to the hospital!’ A case between a 13-year-old boy who reportedly has a mental disability who was manhandled by an angry cop is under review by the Baltimore police after the incident went viral. — Employee posts video of filthy Popeye’s restaurant with roaches and flies goes viral — The boy  Deontay , and his 11-year-old sister were reportedly looking for a cat in a neighbor’s yard when the police were called. A neighbor reported a potential burglary. In a video of the interaction, the officer can be seen trying to handcuff the 13-year-old. In another video, Deontay’s mother  Kimberly Townes  is trying to prevent the officer from taking her son,  Wbaltv reports. “He told them get on the ground. I said, ‘No, they ain’t getting on no ground,” Deontay’s mother, Townes said. “She 11 and he’s 13. They not getting on the ground. So I told them,

NYPD arrest and drag unconscious Black man as neighbors go off A disturbing video of New York City police officers dragging an unconscious Harlem man into a waiting police car has now sparked public outrage. According to  Patch.com , the clip shows community members having a shouting match with police over the July 16th arrest of  Keith Woody,  whose limp body can be seen being dragged from a house, then dropped on the street next to a police cruiser. Officers eventually lift the young man’s unresponsive torso into the backseat of the patrol car as horrified neighbors protest in disbelief and beg for officers to call an ambulance. “You don’t knock nobody out like that,” one woman pleads. “He’s out unconscious in 100 degree weather.” “He can’t even stand up,” another bystander yells, as officers dragged Woody’s body into the police car. “He did nothing wrong,” the crowd shouts. Even though police assured the public that an ambulance would be arriving, this ultimately

Bernie Sanders Takes on Unjust Cash Bail System, but Still Doesn't Make Direct Connection to Institutional Racism “In the mist of a broken criminal justice system, what is totally insane is that you’ve got around 400,000 people—perhaps 20 percent of people in jail today—in jail for the crime of being poor. That’s their crime,” Sanders told The Root. “We should not in the year of 2018 be locking up hundreds of thousands of people who have been convicted of nothing.”

This 1989 Artwork Asked Viewers to Step on the Flag. It Ignited a Firestorm That’s Still Raging Patriotic symbols, and those who protest them ,  are at the forefront of national news. President Donald J. Trump has verbally attacked Colin Kaepernick and other NFL players who refuse to stand for the national anthem at football games. In November 2016, Trump tweeted: “Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!” Politicians recently ordered the removal of  Josephine Meckseper ’s artfully stained flag from an exhibition at the University of Kansas. A simple piece of cloth can elicit very strong feelings.

Jerry Jones: Cowboys can't stay in locker room for anthem OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones doubled down Wednesday on insisting that his players stand for the national anthem, declaring that he wouldn't support anyone who chose to stay in the locker room. Speaking at his annual news conference to open training camp in California, the outspoken billionaire became the first owner to say publicly that his players would not be allowed to stay off the field during the anthem. "No," Jones said when asked if he would support players staying in the locker room. "Our policy is that you stand at the anthem, toe on the line."

A Sociologist Examines the “White Fragility” That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism In more than twenty years of running diversity-training and cultural-competency workshops for American companies, the academic and educator Robin DiAngelo has noticed that white people are sensationally, histrionically bad at discussing racism. Like waves on sand, their reactions form predictable patterns: they will insist that they “were taught to treat everyone the same,” that they are “color-blind,” that they “don’t care if you are pink, purple, or polka-dotted.” They will point to friends and family members of color, a history of civil-rights activism, or a more “salient” issue, such as class or gender. They will shout and bluster. They will cry. In 2011, DiAngelo coined the term “white fragility” to describe the disbelieving defensiveness that white people exhibit when their ideas about race and racism are challenged—and particularly when they feel implicated in white supre