Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

A black hockey player faced ugly racist taunts. Then his teammates went to work. The color of his skin didn’t matter to the ice. The color of his skin didn’t matter to the puck. And until this season, Divyne Apollon II believed that the color of his skin didn’t matter to his opponents. So Divyne, 13, the only black player on his Maryland hockey team, wasn’t prepared for the monkey sounds another team’s players made at him. And the n-word. And the constant chants of “Get off the ice! Go play basketball!” “I’ve never had it in my face like that before,” he said. But what really shocked him and his father, Divyne Apollon — a bear of a hockey dad — was the reaction by his own teammates after a particularly awful round of racial hazing at a tournament last weekend. “They were so angry about it. They seemed even angrier than us,” Apollon said. First, there was the brawl.   The entire Metro Maple Leafs team plastered their gear with this sticker hours after the

Vote Leave relied on racism. Brexit: The Uncivil War disguised that ugly truth The Channel 4 drama let Dominic Cummings blame others for a campaign that brought bigotry to the centre of British politics At the beginning of Channel 4’s drama Brexit: The Uncivil War , the ex-Tory Ukip MP Douglas Carswell tells Matthew Elliott and Dominic Cummings, newly appointed to run Vote Leave, that they will offer a “respectable alternative” to the “rightwing thugs” Nigel Farage and Arron Banks. Cummings, the “strategist” (and anti-hero of this semi-biopic ), soon returns to the theme: the Conservative-led and soon to be officially recognised campaign “needs to be respectable”, appealing beyond Ukip’s base if it is to win 50% plus one and the referendum. Elliott drums the point home: “We need to get them [Farage and Banks’ Leave.EU] to do the heavy lifting on the migration stuff – then we keep our hands clean.” "I was part of the remain campaign. There are lessons in Brexit: The U

WHY WE SUPPORT R. KELLY I will admit that im a 90s kid. I will admit that i am a huge fan of the pied piper. I grew up on bump and grind. Tp-2.com , twelve play, lord knows an 'down low'. Come'on now. I even remember vividly when he was apart of 'public announcement'. Vibe, 'honey love', 'slow dance'. And even though i thought it impossible, 'sweet sade' made me love my moms even more. R. Kellys music got me through some hard times. In the mid 90s i was in group homes. His self titled album took me away for awhile. Kept my spirits alive. Took me back home. I can still recall the feelings that came over me once the beat from 'when a womans fed up' video started. I was locked up during that time. My first trip to big boy jail. In the late 90s and early 2000s, i memorized fiesta. 'Feeling on your booty' not only put lil kim back on the map, but it was single handedly responsible for countless first danc

WHEC meteorologist Jeremy Kappell fired after on-air racial slur A television meteorologist is out of a job one day after Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren and City Council President Loretta Scott called for his firing for making a racial slur during a broadcast. During a weather forecast on Friday which showed a live shot of the city's Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park, Jeremy Kappell appeared to refer to it as "Martin Luther Coon King Jr. Park."  "It is beyond unacceptable that this occurred. There must be real consequences for the news personality involved and also for the management team that failed to immediately apologize and address the slur," the statement from Warren and Scott said. "The individual responsible for the slur should no longer be employed at Channel 10." Kappell, who had been WHEC's Chief Meteorologist since October 2017, said on Twitter Monday afternoon that he had been fired.  The station's vice preside