Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

A homecoming parade in the small town of Blanchardville has quickly turned to controversy after a float designed like the U.S./Mexico border wall was called racist.  While the Pecatonica School District doesn't sponsor the event, administrators released a

How the scourge of racism continues to tarnish English football By Matias Grez, Zayn Nabbi and Darren Lewis, CNN Updated at 1332 GMT (2132 HKT) September 12, 2019

Blacks aren’t the only people who’ve sabotaged themselves through victimology. Take the eerily similar case of the Boston Irish, the target of contempt and discrimination in nineteenth-century America. By the 1920s, when anti-Irish bigotry had receded greatly, historical memory allowed Mayor James Michael Curley to maintain power by stoking Irish resentment very like today’s black resentment. Curley found “anti-Irish” sentiment everywhere: merit hiring systems were “anti-Irish”; “Anglo-Saxon” culture was fatally diseased. Even today, the remnant of this mentality still traps members of South Boston’s Irish community in crummy housing projects full of idle adults who have high rates of substance abuse and even speak a local dialect it takes a little while to wrap one’s ears around. In South Boston, as in South Central, a fatalistic skepticism that you can rise above your community and a deeply embedded wariness of mainstream culture thwart ambition even where opportunity is availabl

“Remember you were shaking in a police car.” Philly police officer mocks a Black teenager for being afraid after he was forced into a police car on his way home from school. The teen’s dad believes his son was racially profiled. ⁣⁠

A just-released Congressional Budget Office report finds that a $15 minimum wage would have tremendous benefits for low-wage workers of all races and ethnicities. Yet the stakes are particularly high for black workers. The share who would benefit from the Raise the Wage Act is far larger than the share of white workers who would benefit—38 percent compared with 23 percent. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/07/17/william-barber-tipping-racist-past-227361 History, Racist

CAMDEN – A federal jury on Monday acquitted a Camden County police officer who was accused of using excessive force during a Fairview arrest in February 2018. But the officer, Nicholas Romantino, faces an internal affairs investigation and a likely civil suit in connection with an alleged assault on Camden resident Edward Minguela. The acquittal came after the second trial for Romantino, who was cleared in June on a related charge of falsifying records. https://www.courierpostonline.com/sto... #whytheracecardisplayed

Getting killed by police is now a leading cause of death for young black men in America https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.lati...