Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

Majority of white Americans believe discrimination against whites exists, poll finds A majority of white Americans believe discrimination exists against them in the United States, according to a poll released Tuesday. The poll , conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, found that 55% of whites surveyed believe that "discrimination against white people exists in the U.S. today.”  Of those white Americans surveyed, only a small percentage say they've experienced discrimination firsthand.  Among whites, 19% said they've "been personally discriminated against" because of their race when applying for jobs, while 11% said it occurred when applying to or while at college. Thirteen percent of whites said they experienced discrimination when being considered for equal pay or promotion at work. According to NPR, income seemed to "affect individual responses to the question of dis

Alvin Kamara Wears Donald Trump-Style Hat With Colin Kaepernick Jersey in Protest After Saints Win In Monday night's matchup between the New Orleans Saints and Washington Redskins, the former made a big statement against one of the best defenses in the NFL, while their quarterback Drew Brees nabbed the league's all-time leading passer mark all by his lonesome.  The 43-19 spanking by New Orleans told us a bunch about both teams, but the postgame activities brought a different sort of statement, this time by running back Alvin Kamara. In Monday night's matchup between the New Orleans Saints and Washington Redskins, the former made a big statement against one of the best defenses in the NFL, while their quarterback Drew Brees nabbed the league's all-time leading passer mark all by his lonesome.  Here’s a better look at Alvin Kamara’s postgame attire.  pic.twitter.com/Tng6Xw9S2B — Josh Katzenstein (@jkatzenstein)  October 9, 2018 The Saints' youn

High School Band Halftime Show Depicts Police Being Shot Forest Hills High School is facing outrage and backlash after their band did a half-time performance Friday night in which they depicted police officers being shot. Forest Hills High School’s band performed the skit against Brookhaven High School. Two officers in Brookhaven, Mississippi, were shot and killed in gunfight less than a week prior to the halftime routine. WLBT  reports  that the halftime performance featured students with toy guns depicted as shooting SWAT officers. KDVR  reports  that  Jackson Public Schools Superintendent Errick L. Greene responded to the public backlash against the performance by indicating it was as loose enactment of the movie “John Q.” Greene nevertheless apologized, called the skit “insensitive,” and released a statement: JPS has a great deal of respect and appreciation for our law enforcement partners. The band’s performance does not depict the values and people in our com

Black pastor: ‘White women’ who kneel for anthem to protest ‘rape culture’ are hijacking ‘movement’ Kneeling during the national anthem began with former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick in the 2016 season, who said he was protesting police brutality and oppression of people of color. Kaepernick hasn’t played since the end of that season but has become a left-wing icon and landed a spot on Nike’s 30th anniversary “Just Do It” campaign. The impetus for Swan’s declaration about white women may have been a tweet from actress Molly Ringwald the previous day: Ringwald made no distinction between the three singers’ ethnicities in her tweet — and it followed her post the same day in which she called Sen. Susan Collins of Maine a “betrayer of women,” presumably for the Republican’s announcement that she would vote to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court after Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation he sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers over 35 years ago. H

Substitute teacher hit boy with a clipboard and called him the N-word — at school named for MLK: lawsuit The family of a former student at a Portland middle school is suing the school district after a  white substitute teacher allegedly assaulted her black son and called him a racial slur . The Oregonian  reported that Lamar Warren was 13 and an eighth-grader at Portland’s Martin Luther King Jr. School in October 2017 when substitute teacher Bruce Neimann allegedly hit the young black student in the head with the metal part of a clipboard. According to the lawsuit filed by Warren’s mother, the boy and his friends approached Neimann later in the day because he was “upset and hurt” by the incident. Attorney Grey Kafoury told  The Oregonian  that the substitute then called Warren and his friends “the N-word, made derogatory comments about African American families and downplayed what was happening by saying something about how it could have been worse if he’d hit them with a c

Latina Trump supporter screams she’s a ‘Mexican racist’ in bizarre rant caught on video During a President Donald Trump rally, a Hispanic woman shouted that she was a “ Mexican racist.” “My name is Karina, and I’m a Mexican racist,” she said in a video posted online. While holding a Trump 2020 sign, Karina, yelled that people need to “wake up,” and that Barack Obama was the greatest “deception” in American history. “Obama is the greatest deception in American history. Watch the Obama deception,” she said. She continued, “All you zombies, you’re so dumb, wake up, wake up. If you’re illegally here, you’re illegally here. What’s so hard to understand?” The video was posted online by Adrian Garcia. Garcia wrote, “Unfortunately, a Latino’s worst enemy is another Latino.” Watch the video below. https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/watch-hispanic-woman-holds-a-trump-sign-shouting-that-she-is-a-mexican-racist/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Obama's 'My Brother’s Keeper' Alliance Under Trump? In 2014, President Obama launched My Brother's Keeper (MBK) and issued a powerful call to action to close opportunity gaps facing boys and young men of color. The initiative sparked candid dialogue and action around the country to help more of our young people reach their dreams, regardless of their race, gender, or socioeconomic status. To scale and sustain this mission, My Brother's Keeper Alliance (MBK Alliance) was launched in 2015 as an independent nonprofit organization. Since launching, a national movement has grown: Nearly 250 cities, counties, and Tribal Nations have accepted the MBK Community Challenge -- President Obama's call to action to adopt innovative approaches, strengthen support, and build ladders of opportunity for boys and young men of color -- scores of new initiatives have been implemented, and there has been an exponential increase in aligned private sector commitments, all helpin