Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

Colin Kaepernick wins first head to head battle against the NFL In what is the most tangible victory thus far for Colin Kaepernick and his legal team, the arbitrator overseeing his collusion case has denied the NFL’s dismissal attempt. The decision comes in the wake of a summary judgement hearing in which the NFL argued Kaepernick’s attorneys did not have the evidence to meet an appropriate standard proving a collusive effort to keep the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback out of the league. A trial date for the collusion case is expected to be set before the end of the 2018 calendar – but not before the issue of additional discovery is decided. If Burbank reopens discovery for Kaepernick’s legal team, that would mean another round of evidence gathering and also likely entail additional depositions of team owners. The key component of this: The fact that the NFL passed and then froze a rule that would allow teams to discipline players for conduct during the national anthe

Trump-loving GOP official in Pennsylvania raged against black NFL ‘baboons’ and told them to go back to Africa The GOP secretary of the Republican Committee of Beaver County, Pennsylvania called NFL players baboons for protesting the national anthem and suggested they go back to Africa. She also whined about reverse racism, reports the Times online, and predicted an impending Civil War. Carla Maloney posted the comments to Facebook in 2017. “Tired of these over paid ignorant blacks telling me what I should believe in. I will tell you what I believe in and that is our Flag the National Anthem and America period end of story,” she wrote. “You don’t like it here go to Africa see how you like it there. We are all Americans not African American not Hispanic American. WE ARE ALL AMERICAN.” She went on to call the players animals. “Steelers are now just as bad as the rest of the over paid baboons. You respect your flag, country and our national anthem. How many men and women have

Marines Corps seeks to root out white supremacists and racial extremists in its ranks The United States Marine Corps has taken steps to combat racial extremists in its ranks, issuing an updated order emphasizing that participation in white supremacist and other groups is prohibited and encouraging service members to report fellow Marines involved with such groups. The actions come after an active-duty Marine was documented taking part in last year’s deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and two others were arrested after hanging a racist banner off a building in North Carolina. “The order reaffirms the Marine Corps’ commitment to maintaining a culture of dignity, respect and trust in which all members of the organization are afforded equal opportunity to achieve their full potential based solely upon individual merit, fitness, intellect and ability,” Maj. Brian Block, a Marine spokesman, said. A ProPublica and Frontline investigation this year revealed

Officer Van Dyke speaks out for the first time since shooting Laquan McDonald 16 times In his first interview in the nearly four years since the shooting, Van Dyke spoke with the Tribune for about 40 minutes Tuesday at his lawyer’s downtown offices. Occasionally looking at handwritten notes, he would not discuss the shooting or its aftermath. Instead, he brought copies of his commendations, suggested he was a political scapegoat and decried “the bandwagon of hatred” on social media. With jury selection set to begin next week, he acknowledged a pressing desire to challenge the image many paint of him as a racist, trigger-happy cop who was indifferent to taking the life of a troubled 17-year-old. “I pray every day” for McDonald’s family, said Van Dyke, who is Catholic. “I offer up a rosary every day.” Van Dyke appeared uncomfortable in the spotlight, often pausing for long periods and struggling for his words in an interview that was tightly controlled by his attorneys an

Jordan Edwards’ family calls ex-cop’s 15-year sentence too short By RYAN TARINELLI, Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A Texas jury gave a white former police officer too lenient of a punishment when sentencing him to 15 years for the shootingdeath of an unarmed black teenager who was in a car leaving a house party, the victim’s family members said. Roy Oliver fired into the car filled with teens the night of the April 2017 party in suburban Dallas, killing 15-year-old Jordan Edwards. “He can actually see life again after 15 years and that’s not enough because Jordan can’t see life again,” Edwards’ stepmother, Charmaine Edwards, said of Oliver after he was sentenced Wednesday night. She praised the work of prosecutors as well as the jury’s decision to convict Oliver of murder on Tuesday. But she wanted that same jury to send Oliver to prison for a longer period. Daryl Washington, an attorney for Edwards’ father, said the sentence could have been longer but still sends a messa

University of Arizona football player dismissed over racist video calling Black teammates ‘monkeys’ A University of Arizona linebacker was caught on video launching into a racist tirade calling his former Black Texas A&M teammates “monkeys.” That nasty comment got the football player Santino Marchiol dismissed from the team and launched a bigger investigation by the NCAA after Marchiol alleged he was involved in back door cash deals to recruit players for his former school. On Monday, University of Arizona coach Kevin Sumlin announced that he viewed a video where Marchiol made the offensive remark, on Marchiol’s Hudl account, a Web site where film and other analytics are stored, USA Today reports.  Texas A&M fans circulated the video widely on social media.  In the video Marchiol and a woman are watching film of him. The woman asks, “Who’s 26, carrying the ball?” A male voice, assumed to be Marchiol, responds “Yeah, one of those monkeys.”  In another clip, the woman asks a

Maryland Officer Referred to 'Black Bad Guy' in K-9 Lesson for Kids The chief of the Prince George's County Police Department apologized to residents on Monday after he says an officer misspoke and made "an unfortunate remark" on video. The officer, who Chief Hank Stawinski did not name, referred to "a black bad guy" while teaching a group of young children how K-9s help officers find suspects, video shows. "He knows from his training that he sits down when he finds something, when the handler tells him, that has human odor on it. So, for instance, if a black bad guy is running and he drops a cellphone, or he drops this piece of leather that may have evidence or DNA on it," an officer, who is white, said before the video cut out. The video was a Facebook Live published on the police department's own page on Friday. It did not appear on the page on Tuesday. In a video the police department released Monday, Stawinski said the off