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westslope

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Posted: Nov 22, 2018 - 8:35am

Racism can be bad for your health.

A man hurled racist slurs and a punch at a FedEx driver — then died after he was punched back

westslope

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Posted: Nov 17, 2018 - 1:18pm






westslope wrote:

 R_P wrote:
Miami-Dade Police Give Most Pot Citations to White People, While Black People Are Jailed 

I am not quite sure what to think of this.  Does it mean that Black American pot smokers are more public and in-your-face about pot smoking than White Americans?

Then, why do cities with large Black American populations refuse to sign the ordinance that would see citations substituted for arrests?   Explanations anyone?

  

 pigtail wrote:



$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$  Privatizing the correctional systems makes a huge difference.
 

Huh?  So you are saying that private prisons have paid local Black political leaders to not sign the ordinance?   Or that Black political leaders are shareholders in these private prison companies?   That does not make any sense to me.  

My weak guess is that most Black American voters — the ones that actually vote and thus matter — are a lot more conservative than most of us outsiders realize and they are worried that  the citations will contribute to higher delinquency and crime rates as well poorer educational results.       Like I said:  weak guess.  
westslope

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Posted: Nov 17, 2018 - 1:11pm

A Black Security Guard Caught a Shooting Suspect. Police Arrived—and Killed the Guard.


Red_Dragon

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Posted: Nov 16, 2018 - 9:51am

White Official To Black Woman: Being In ‘Master Race’ Isn’t Why I Rejected Plan
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Posted: Oct 31, 2018 - 1:45pm

“I’m white and I’m hot, so what are you doing here?”
pigtail

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Posted: Oct 1, 2018 - 1:12pm

 westslope wrote:


 R_P wrote:
 

I am not quite sure what to think of this.  Does it mean that Black American pot smokers are more public and in-your-face about pot smoking than White Americans?

Then, why do cities with large Black American populations refuse to sign the ordinance that would see citations substituted for arrests?   Explanations anyone?

 
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$  Privatizing the correctional systems makes a huge difference.
westslope

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Posted: Oct 1, 2018 - 1:10pm



 R_P wrote:
 

I am not quite sure what to think of this.  Does it mean that Black American pot smokers are more public and in-your-face about pot smoking than White Americans?

Then, why do cities with large Black American populations refuse to sign the ordinance that would see citations substituted for arrests?   Explanations anyone?
Red_Dragon

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Posted: Oct 1, 2018 - 9:36am

California high school students line up to spell out racial slur at senior picnic
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Posted: Sep 12, 2018 - 1:19pm

Miami-Dade Police Give Most Pot Citations to White People, While Black People Are Jailed
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Posted: Jun 26, 2018 - 5:52am

Oh heck, I thought this was about cars.....{#Cheesygrin}
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Posted: Jun 25, 2018 - 5:27pm

 R_P wrote: 
Yeah, this is wrong.  Period.
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Posted: Jun 25, 2018 - 4:12pm

 pigtail wrote:

How ugly this is.

 
Just another person who's life is ruled by fear.
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Posted: Jun 25, 2018 - 4:10pm

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How ugly this is.
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Posted: Jun 25, 2018 - 2:34pm

What we need is civility!
Trump supporter berates landscapers because they're 'Mexican,' calls them 'rapists and animals'

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Posted: Jun 6, 2018 - 10:26am

The rap group Public Enemy famously stated that “911 is a joke”. But that was in 1990. These days 911 is dead serious. Anyone in the United States can dial those three numbers and summon people with guns and handcuffs to participate in their anti-black paranoia. It’s racial harassment, sponsored by the government and supported by tax dollars.

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Posted: May 24, 2018 - 6:33pm

Trump reverses Obama-era rule designed to prevent racial bias by car dealers

President Donald Trump has signed legislation rolling back auto-lending guidance designed to protect minorities from discrimination by car dealers.

Congress voted last month to overturn guidance from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) that targeted “dealer markups” – interest rate hikes that auto dealers place on third-party auto loans to make a profit. Mr Trump signed the bill into law on Monday in a private session.

Studies have shown minorities are regularly charged more for dealer markups than white buyers with similar credit. The CFPB warned dealers in 2013 against using these markups, saying they could lead to a lawsuit from the agency. Since then, the bureau has penalised major companies like Honda, Toyota, and Ally Financial for lending discrimination. (...)

(...) In fact, a recent study by the National Fair Housing Alliance (NHFA) — entitled, "Discrimination When Buying a Car: How the Color of Your Skin Can Affect Your Car-Shopping Experience" — sent out non-white and white testers with fake credentials to auto dealerships. All the white testers' credentials showed they had less income and were less eligible than the non-white testers for dealership car loans.

The results were staggering:

  • 62.5 percent of the time, non-white testers who were more qualified than their white counterparts received more costly pricing options.

  • On average, non-white testers who experienced discrimination would have paid an average of $2,662.56 more over the life of the loan than less-qualified white testers.

  • 75 percent of the time, white testers were offered more financing options than non-white testers.

  • Dealers offered to help bring down interest rates and car prices using incentives and rebates or by making phone calls to personal contacts for white testers more often than they did for non-white testers.

A nationwide study by the National Consumer Law Center found similar results:

In Wisconsin, black Ford Motor Credit Company borrowers paid an average $1,041 markup, whereas white buyers paid $156. In Alabama, black General Motors Acceptance Corporation borrowers paid markups that averaged $836, but the markup for white buyers was only $276.

We found statistically significant racial disparities in every state with sufficient data and in every region of the country.

However, Mick Mulvaney — head of both the Office of Management and Budget and acting chief of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — heralded the discriminatory measure. He said that he was "heartened that the people, through their elected representatives, have corrected this instance of Bureau overreach." In the Trump administration, preventing discrimination if it interferes with corporate profit is deemed undesirable. (...)

Code/buzz word: overreach
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Posted: May 20, 2018 - 1:52pm

Look What You Made Them Do
From to neo-Nazism and white nationalism to Trump's election, conservative writers are blaming—who else?—liberals who call out racism.
Woof
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Posted: May 18, 2018 - 3:40pm

Call Them by Their Names
Why are corporate media protecting white people's identities in racial bias incidents?
Coaxial

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Posted: May 18, 2018 - 7:23am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
Gone Fishin': 1940

June 1940. "Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Daughter of mulatto family returning home after fishing in the Cane River." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.



 
I wonder how many fish she is holding.{#Stupid}
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Posted: May 18, 2018 - 6:54am

 cc_rider wrote:

I read that story the other day. Apparently the house had been abandoned, boarded up, and been used by squatters and druggies, so it was probably a big sore spot for her.

Which is all the more troubling: why would she want to keep such an eyesore intact? The guy is planning to fix it up!

She insisted it's not about race, but if Chip and Joanna were doing the same thing, she probably wouldn't have reacted that way.

c.

 





Though the plot thickens, seems the woman is Spanish with a black boyfriend and was upset he was taking down the boards off the windows because it had been used as a crack house. The media did report this after it was too late, but we gotta do better all around. "Journalist" are constantly fighting for their jobs and that is tough to combat. Let's face it racism is sexy as hell and exciting for us all when revealed and reported. There is more than an element of superiority when the bigots are highlighted and properly berated, cause there is the proof of how much better we are than them.




Cynicism? I haz it. lol Seriously there is more than a bit of truth in this.
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