This Walmart employee in Minnesota lost her job after this video surfaced on Facebook. In the video, the Walmart employee refused to allow the Muslim woman a clean changing room. She tells a co-worker, “If she wants to go in, she can go into a dirty one.” She is also heard saying, “they think they… Continue reading Walmart Employee Fired for Harassing Muslim Woman – Video
Category: Racial profiling
Unarmed Black Man Shot And Killed By Sacramento Police in His Backyard
Here’s something I’m sure you’ve heard before. It’s a statement from Sacramento police after the shot and killed a 22-year-old unarmed black man while he was standing in his backyard. “The officers believed the suspect was pointing a firearm at them. Fearing for their safety, the officers fired their duty weapons striking the suspect multiple… Continue reading Unarmed Black Man Shot And Killed By Sacramento Police in His Backyard
Sacramento Police Beats Black Man for Jaywalking – Video
Police Brutality has not stopped, although it’s not front and center in the news these days. The Sacramento Police Department on Tuesday announced a formal investigation into the actions of one of their officers who was seen slamming a black man to the ground and beating him — all sparked by an alleged case of jaywalking,… Continue reading Sacramento Police Beats Black Man for Jaywalking – Video
Black Charlotte Officer Cries When Questioned by Protesters – PIC
The question was a simple one, but it caused a reaction on the Charlotte officer that caused the photo below to go viral. What was the question? Was the job worth more than the Black lives killed? Black Charlotte cop crying after protesters ask whether the job was worth the Black lives killed… #KeithLamontScott… Continue reading Black Charlotte Officer Cries When Questioned by Protesters – PIC
Charlotte Police Chief Will Not Release Police Video of Keith Lamont Scott’s Killing – Video
So much for transparency. After yet another police shooting of yet another black man, this time in Charlotte North Carolina, the chief of police decided to keep the video showing the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott a secret. Asked by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer why he chose not to release the video, Chief Kerr Putney said that… Continue reading Charlotte Police Chief Will Not Release Police Video of Keith Lamont Scott’s Killing – Video
Black Veteran Dies in Custody as Cops Accused Him of Faking his Injury
Elliott Williams, a 37 year old veteran who suffered with mental illness, was taken into custody in Tulsa County Oklahoma. He somehow suffered a broken neck while in custody and spent the last five days of his life in torment as his captors relentlessly taunted him and accused him of faking his injuries before he… Continue reading Black Veteran Dies in Custody as Cops Accused Him of Faking his Injury
The Urgency of King’s Message: Forty Eight Years and Counting
I think I’ve found a new, potent source of energy; Martin Luther King, Jr. spinning in his grave over the state of race relations in the country and on the presidential election trail. All we need to do is tap into it and we can power our devices for the foreseeable future. Unfortunately, it won’t… Continue reading The Urgency of King’s Message: Forty Eight Years and Counting
Police Tackles Teenager For Attempting to Use ATM Machine – Video
Well, he had to be tackled! Apparently, he does not have the right to use an ATM machine! On Monday, D.C. Metropolitan Police converged on 18-year-old Jason Goolsby as he stood outside of a bank on Pennsylvania Ave. Goolsby, who was with two friends, ran as the cop cars approached him. Several blocks away, police detained him.… Continue reading Police Tackles Teenager For Attempting to Use ATM Machine – Video
Black Woman Beaten and Arrested for Filming White Cops – Video
Her husband was getting arrested, so like anyone else with a cellphone, she turned on her camera and began recording the arrest when the two white officers in Jacksonville Florida, suddenly became afraid for their lives and decided to attack her and her cellphone to save their lives. “I was beaten, and then falsely arrested,… Continue reading Black Woman Beaten and Arrested for Filming White Cops – Video
Freddie Gray’s Parents Awarded $6.4 Million in Freddie Gray’s Death
No award is going to bring back Freddie Gray, but $6.4 million is a step in the right direction. The deal, announced Tuesday, appeared to be among the largest settlements in police death cases in recent years and happened just days before a judge is set to decide whether to move a trial for six… Continue reading Freddie Gray’s Parents Awarded $6.4 Million in Freddie Gray’s Death
Acting Stupidly Would be an Improvement
Remember the halcyon days of 2009, when the country was embroiled in the first racial controversy of the brand new Obama presidency? You know, when the Cambridge, Massachusetts police thought that the world-renowned Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was arrested for essentially breaking into his own house because the front door was stuck? Those… Continue reading Acting Stupidly Would be an Improvement
The Race Confronts Race
Racial politics is sometimes like the weather. Everybody complains about it or has an opinion about it, but there’s precious little that we can seemingly do about it. Here we are again, having the same conversation about the same issue and the politicians are crafting their statements and the sociologists are telling us about how… Continue reading The Race Confronts Race