Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

Failure to remove Sheriff Rand shows institutional racism alive and well, vice mayor says “You’ve got people complaining about naming a street after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, but we have a bigot sitting in a chair in office. That’s why the street renaming is so important,” Dancy said. “We need diversity, we need unity. Because we have people sitting in positions that don’t offer that. They offer bigotry, they offer hate. Hate in their heart.” https://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/2019/02/failure-to-remove-sheriff-rand-shows-institutional-racism-alive-and-well-vice-mayor-says.html

From Burberry noose shirts to Gucci blackface: When fashion brands got it wrong The designer brand issued an apology on its social media accounts: "We deeply apologise for the offence caused by the wool balaclava jumper. We can confirm that the item has been immediately removed from our online store and all physical stores."  According to  CNN , Burberry CEO Marco Gobbetti issued an apology, stating: "Though the design was inspired by the marine theme that ran throughout the collection, it was insensitive and we made a mistake."  https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/lifestyle/fashion-and-beauty/2019-02-20-from-burberry-noose-shirts-to-gucci-blackface-when-fashion-brands-got-it-wrong/

USA Today Editor Apologizes for Publishing Blackface Photo in College Yearbook Nicole Carroll, the editor in chief of USA Today, last April. “I am sorry for the hurt I caused back then and the hurt it will cause today,” she wrote this week about overseeing the publication of a blackface photograph in a college yearbook in the late 1980s. Credit Andrew P. Scott/USA Today, via Associated Press https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/us/nicole-carroll-usa-today-blackface.html

Blackface, KKK hoods and mock lynchings: Review of 900 yearbooks finds blatant racism  In one of the most extensive searches of college yearbooks ever, we found blackface and  Ku Klux Klan photos like Ralph Northam's far beyond Virginia. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, a stunning number of colleges and university yearbooks published images of blatant racism on campus, the USA TODAY Network found in a review of 900 publications at 120 schools across the country. At Cornell University in New York, three fraternity members are listed in the 1980 yearbook as “Ku,” “Klux” and “Klan.” For their 1971 yearbook picture, a dozen University of Virginia fraternity members, some armed, wore dark cloaks and hoods while peering up at a lynched mannequin in blackface. In one of the most striking images – from the 1981 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign yearbook – a black man is smiling and holding a beer while posing with three people in full KKK regalia. https://www.usatoday.

How racist history books spurred the black history education of today One Harvard researcher described Webster's text as "   distressingly typical   " of the time. Because it was written three decades before the end of the Civil War, the book only described slavery in the context of policy and completely ignored the abolitionist movement. That decision wasn’t just an oversight. Webster really believed that Africans had "no history" and — you can see this from his writings — that history was centered on European colonizers and politicians. https://www.wcpo.com/news/national/how-racist-history-books-spurred-the-black-history-education-of-today

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I've been asked over and over about the settlement, and who won, and who lost and what it means. With details still so scarce – and perhaps, always so, given the high stakes and confidentiality agreements – and so few individuals truly in the know, I'd caution against anyone throwing figures at a wall and guessing at what the NFL paid to try to put this uncomfortable, unfortunate and easily-avoidable era of football labor history to bed. I'd steer clear of anyone trying to couch it in terms of a financial victory or defeat. So I won't be going there. But I do believe there are still some conclusions that can be drawn by the way in which this case finally came to a resolution. As the days have gone by, some thoughts have resonated. And, sadly, I can't quite call anyone a winner in the way in which we usually associate the word with sports. Kaepernick, undoubtedly, got the league's attention. He forced its massive power structure to deal with him and, for the