Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

WATCH: Knife-wielding white woman threatens black family while yelling the n-word : A racist woman this week was caught on camera threatening a black family with a knife while shouting racial slurs. The Oregonian reports that 20-year-old Emora Roberson this week filmed an unidentified white woman screaming at her and her family because they supposedly did a poor job of parking their car next to her pickup truck. After Roberson’s boyfriend, Keysuan Goodyear, warned the woman to back off, she pulled out a knife and continued her …

Ole Miss takes donor's name off school after racist comment O X F O R D , M i s s . ( A P ) - The University of Mississippi journalism school no longer bears the name of a donor who shared a Facebook post criticized for being racist. The Oxford Eagle reports the university this month removed Ed Meek's name from the school now known as the "School of Journalism and New Media." Meek had posted photos of black women online in September and suggested they exemplified problems threatening the local economy. University Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter said the post had an "unjustified racial overtone." Meek and university officials then requested to end his university association. State College Board trustees voted in October to remove Meek's name. The journalism school was named after him in 2009 after he and his wife gave it $5.3 million. Meek previously led Ole Miss public relations for over 30 years.

2 plead guilty to writing racist, Nazi graffiti on school GLENELG, Md. (AP) — Two Maryland teenagers have pleaded guilty to writing racist and Nazi graffiti on their Glenelg high school over the summer. The Baltimore Sun reports 19-year-olds Joshua Shaffer and Seth Taylor pleaded guilty to a hate crime charge Thursday as part of a deal. Prosecutors say Shaffer wrote racist graffiti targeting the Glenelg High School principal, who is black. Shaffer was sentenced to 18 weekends at a detention center followed by supervised probation and community service, among other requirements. Prosecutors say Taylor spray-painted “KKK” and swastikas around the school and was sentenced to nine weekends at the center and other requirements similar to Shaffer. Two other teens, 18-year-olds Tyler Curtiss and Matthew Lipp, are also charged with hate crimes in the vandalism. Their trials are set for January and February, respectively.

Cricket fans at the MCG were ejected while others were warned over racially taunting Indian players over the first three days of the Boxing Day Test. Spectators in the MCG's famous Bay 13 were heard chanting "show us your visa" sparking a formal warning from Cricket Australia that if the chanting did not stop then the entire bay would be ejected from the ground.  Several fans were booted from the venue as a result on day three. It is understood the “visa” chant was directed at Indian fans on the second day. Australian and Indian fans have reportedly clashed near Bay 13 during the Test, with both groups provoking each other. Police and security officials have been positioning themselves in the aisles to separate unruly spectators. Footage of the chant, obtained by  ESPNcricinfo , was passed on to Cricket Australia, who then referred the video to Victoria Police and stadium management. Other chants from the bay, such as "Kohli's a wanker"

Cincinnati police officer under investigation for using 'N' word during arrest CINCINNATI, OH (FOX19) - A white Cincinnati police officer was suspended Wednesday after he used a racial slur while he attempted to arrest a black woman during an incident at Brownstone Nightclub in Roselawn on Saturday, according to our media partners at the Cincinnati Enquirer. Officer Dennis Barnette's use of the slur can be heard on the body camera of a fellow officer, Police Chief Eliot Isaac wrote in an email to his boss, City Manager Patrick Duhaney. "This type of behavior is unacceptable and will not be tolerated inside the department," Isaac wrote. Isaac shared details of the incident via email Wednesday night with Duhaney, who in turn notified other city officials.  The emails were obtained by The Enquirer.  According to Isaac’s email, Barnette responded to the Reading Road nightclub to assist with parking complaints and traffic control. During the cou

Black door-to-door salesman says cop aimed weapon at him before he could pitch his product Omar Segura says a California officer told him he wasn't welcome to sell security systems on his doorstep, but the gunplay was racially motivated A black man on the job as a door-to-door salesman testified Wednesday that a cop stuck a gun at his head when he went to his home to sell him a security system,  The San Gabriel Valley Tribune   reports. Omar Segura  said he was the victim of a racially motivated clash with Officer  Sam Priyamal De Sylva  at the cop’s Santa Clarita home when he aimed a gun “straight at my head,” upsetting the 37-year-old salesman. “It was a very surrealistic experience,” the Stevenson Ranch resident said. “I couldn’t comprehend how this could have occurred.” Segura filed a civil rights lawsuit and was testifying in the Los Angeles Superior Court at the trial against 45-year-old De Sylva. Segura said when he went to De Sylva’s home on Jan. 2, 2015 arou

One death, alleged racist abuse and a Boxing Day of shame in Serie A A fan was killed before the Inter v Napoli match while Kalidou Koulibaly faced alleged racist abuse from the stands during it I t should have been an occasion to celebrate. For the first time since 1971, a round of Serie A fixtures was being played on 26 December – St Stephen’s Day, to most Italians, though the sporting press seemed eager to embrace the English lexicon of “Boxing Day football”. More than a quarter of a million fans attended games up and down the country, and many were treated to entertaining fare. In Bergamo, Atalanta became only the second team this season to take points off Juventus. Despite falling behind in the second minute, they roared back to lead 2-1 and appeared to be in the driving seat with the champions reduced to 10 men. That was until Cristiano Ronaldo, left out of Juventus’ starting lineup for the first time this season, came off the bench to head home the equaliser from