What better way for a young, privileged White woman to ring in her 21st birthday than with a racist party full of stereotypical, ignorant depictions…
AMSTERDAM (AP) — The “Black Pete” tradition in the Netherlands is under fire from opponents who believe the figure is a racist caricature and who asked Amsterdam officials Thursday to revoke the permit for a popular children’s festival because of it. “Sinterklaas,” the Dutch version of Santa Claus, is portrayed as a tall white man […]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Two members of a notorious family that authorities say once tried to set up a whites-only nation in America were arrested this week in Arizona on federal firearms charges after a raid on a sprawling ranch netted dozens of weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition. Kirby Kehoe and his 37-year-old […]
Jimmy L. Davis Jr. alleges he was kicked out of Houston Motel 8 room because they complained about mold in their bathtub. The Georgia native is suing the company for $5 million citing discrimination over the 2011 incident. According to the Houston Chronicle: Davis and a friend were in Houston on Aug. 27, 2011, on […]
PARIS (AP) — A French court on Wednesday rejected claims that police identity checks on 13 people from minority groups were racist, saying officers didn’t overstep any legal boundaries. The decision upended an unusual bid to rein in law enforcement officers often accused of racial profiling. The verdict followed a one-day trial in July billed […]
The government shutdown is affecting racists, too. A Maryland-based KKK group, on Sept. 26, was granted a special-use permit for a rally at Gettysburg National Military Park, according to NBC 10 Philadelphia. The rally was scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 5, but had to be canceled when officials, as of 12 a.m. ET on Tuesday, were […]
Tonya Battle (pictured), an African-American nurse at the Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Mich., settled a lawsuit with the hospital, after administrators allowed a racist…
Tonya Battle (pictured), an African-American nurse at the Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Mich., settled a lawsuit with the hospital, after administrators allowed a racist…
Not long after 7-year-old Jakiyah McKoy won the title of the new Miss Chiquita Delaware did questions about her heritage lead to her being stripped of the title. McKoy is a Brooklyn, New York native who’s grandmother was born in the providence of La Vega in the Dominican Republic. Many people apparently felt Miss McKoy […]
LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Ohio planned to execute a white gunman who spewed racial slurs before fatally shooting a black man and a police officer in a 1994 rampage at his suburban Cleveland apartment complex, using a lethal injection that was to be the last before the state’s supply of its execution drug expires. Harry […]
Would it surprise you to learn that top administrators in a Pennsylvania school district sent text messages to each other using the N-word to describe black students? It happened – repeatedly. A prosecutor says officials at a large southeastern Pennsylvania school district exchanged “shockingly racist” text messages on district phones. Chester County District Attorney Tom […]
Blatant racism has seeped into the U.S. Open tennis tournament – and I’m waiting for heads to roll. Scott Dennison, 56, a vice president for special events at Contemporary Services Corp., — the firm that handles security for the U.S. Open — repeatedly used the N-word and called blacks “scum suckers” and “worthless” in e-mails […]
