Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

High-tech redlining: AI is quietly upgrading institutional racism How an outlawed form of institutionalized discrimination is being quietly upgraded for the 21st century. During the heyday of redlining, the areas most frequently discriminated against were black inner city neighborhoods. For example, in Atlanta in the 1980s, a Pulitzer Prize -winning series of articles by investigative reporter Bill Dedman showed that banks would often lend to lower-income whites but not to middle-income or upper-income blacks. [ During the Great Depression, the federal government created the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, which made low-interest home loans, and the Federal Housing Administration, which guaranteed mortgages made by private banks. The people running HOLC didn’t know much, if anything, about local borrowers, so they constructed “residential safety maps” that graded neighborhoods on a scale of A to D, with D neighborhoods color-coded in red to denote undesirable, high-risk ar

High-tech redlining: AI is quietly upgrading institutional racism How an outlawed form of institutionalized discrimination is being quietly upgraded for the 21st century. During the heyday of redlining, the areas most frequently discriminated against were black inner city neighborhoods. For example, in Atlanta in the 1980s, a Pulitzer Prize -winning series of articles by investigative reporter Bill Dedman showed that banks would often lend to lower-income whites but not to middle-income or upper-income blacks. [ During the Great Depression, the federal government created the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, which made low-interest home loans, and the Federal Housing Administration, which guaranteed mortgages made by private banks. The people running HOLC didn’t know much, if anything, about local borrowers, so they constructed “residential safety maps” that graded neighborhoods on a scale of A to D, with D neighborhoods color-coded in red to denote undesirable, high-risk

They're prepping for a race war. And they see Trump as their 'ray of hope' They're prepping for a race war. And they see Trump as their 'ray of hope' They're prepping for a race war. And they see Trump as their 'ray of hope' Late on August 22, US President Donald Trump launched into some trademark Twitter diplomacy. After apparently watching a segment on Fox News, the President felt moved to instruct Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to “closely study the South African land farm seizures and expropriations and large scale killing of farmers.” Newsroom editors scratched their heads. State Department officials scrambled. The South African government, which had spent months gingerly navigating the Trump presidency, swiftly hit back. Officials called the tweet “unfortunate” and “divisive” and hauled in the US Embassy’s Chargé d’Affaires for a dressing down. South Africa is engaged in an intense debate about equitable land ownership and righti

A former Atomwaffen member revealed the neo-Nazi's terrorist plans -- but what officials did next is a mystery : It was a grisly scene inside Apartment 3722 at the Hamptons, a gated community in Tampa, Florida. One body lay face up on the floor, wedged between a wall and an air mattress. A handgun was stuffed in a holster on the dead man’s waist. The other body, clad in a black T-shirt and shorts, was slumped back on a futon, a shattered and bloody iPhone on his lap. A police investigator would later write …

Mississippi senator who is under fire for 'public hanging' comments gets caught wearing Confederate Army hat : A photo of Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) wearing Confederate garb surfaced this week just days after she said she would attend a “public hanging” if invited. According to Politico, the photo was taken when Smith visited the Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library in 2014. Davis served as president of the Confederacy during the Civil War. In the photo posted to Facebook, Hyde-Smith holds a rifle and is wearing a Confederate States Army soldier’s …

Video shows violent struggle as officer says student grabbed for gun This leaked footage from Brusly Middle School of a police officer wrestling a student now has the Louisiana State Police investigating for allegations of excessive force. Newly leaked footage of an incident in October at Brusly Middle School shows a police officer wrestling with a student and slamming him to the ground twice as school staff members nervously look on. During the altercation, the officer says the student tried to grab the officer’s gun, two sources say. The incident occurred the morning of Oct. 5 in the main office at Brusly Middle School. The footage shows a young male student, believed to be 14-years-old, walk into the office and approach the desk where staff members appear to help him make a phone call. Sources familiar with the case say the student had just gotten into a verbal argument with the school’s vice principal and was in the office to call his grandmother to come pick him up. At a

South African white nationalist who marched in Charlottesville tells CNN that Trump is his ‘ray of hope’ Neo-Nazis at Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville Simon Roche, a white nationalist from South Africa who demonstrated with neo-Nazis at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in 2017, tells CNN that President Donald Trump is his “ray of hope” for the future. Roche is the leader of a paramilitary organization called the Suidlanders, a group of white South Africans who are preparing for a race war against black South Africans. Although Roche denies being a racist or a neo-Nazi, CNN reveals that he demonstrated alongside neo-Nazis at the infamous Charlottesville riots, and he had nothing but praise for the demonstrators who chanted “Jews will not replace us.” “The guys did a superb job,” Roche said in a voice message to his followers in South Africa after the Charlottesville demonstrations. “The people behaved themselves respectfully and decently.” Roche tells