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White youth ‘kill and try to dismember’ two black males in a trap at their residence and are arrested as they play video games near the dead bodies
In Joliet, Illinois, the bodies of two black males were found in the residence of a Racist Suspect, while three of the accused murderers play video games near the crime scene. The victims were strangled to death and their bodies showed signs of attempted dismemberment. Enforcement officials say the brutal crime was at the hands of four white youth. They also have reported that the Victims may have been lured to the residence of Alisa Massaro, Racist/murder Suspect, and then “robbed and killed”. The Victims were missing for two days before they were found.
Suspected Racist enforcement officials attempt to dismiss the role Racism (White Supremacy) may have played in the heinous crime. Charles Pelkie, spokesman for the Will county State’s Attorney office said there was “…no information at this point that indicates race was a factor in the killings of Glover and Rankins.”
Racism (White Supremacy) is the dominant social order on the planet. Therefore, Race always has something to do with the experiences of people who are classified as black/non-white, particularly if that experience involves mistreatment inflicted upon them by people who classify themselves as “white” who in all likelihood may very well be Racists (White Supremacists).
i will fear all white girls and white boys
there are no differences to me
Source: Daily Mail
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FBI surrounds house of Saudi student following sightings of him with pressure cooker pot, only to find he was cooking rice →
Saudi student Talal al Rouki (pictured) was questioned by FBI agents after neighbours saw him carrying a pressure cooker. FBI are vigilant after Boston bombers used a pressure cooker to make an explosive.“An FBI agent said: ‘You need to be more careful moving around with such things, Sir’ ”
#cooking while arab
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I’m scrolling through The Talk’s webpage looking for a clip and of course I see this. Whites ladies can GTFO.
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Albany police: SWAT used poor black neighborhood for training because it’s ‘realistic’ →
The chief of police in Albany, New York says that his department just wanted a “realistic” setting when it frightened residents in a poor, predominately African-American neighborhood with SWAT training exercises that included firing blank ammunition and exploding flash grenades.
On Thursday, Albany’s SWAT team shocked nearby residents when it stormed a public housing complex that was scheduled to be demolished, according to the Times Union. Photos circulated on Facebook over the weekend showed police in tactical gear, spent shell casings and fake blood.
In a statement on Monday, Police Chief Steven Krokoff called the training “insensitive.”
“In light of the ever-increasing threats to communities across the nation, I have directed our department to provide the most up-to-date training in a manner that is as realistic as possible,” the police chief said. “I certainly did not mean to offend the very people that we are training to protect.”
“In retrospect, it was insensitive to conduct this type of training in the vicinity of occupied residences. We will review how we conduct our neighborhood-based training in the future and include the community in evaluating its appropriateness.”
Albany NAACP President Bernie Bryan wondered why police had chosen the housing project so close to a poor neighborhood.
“The folks in this neighborhood might not have the financial means, but are entitled to the same respect,” Bryan observed. “Whoever made the decision to do this was asleep at the switch.”
One resident who asked not to be named recalled the ordeal to the Times Union.
“We wake up to the sound the next morning of literally small bombs,” she said. “All you could hear was ‘pop, pop, pop’ of an assault rifle, police screaming ‘clear!’ I really thought I was in the middle of a war zone — and I have a four-year-old.”
The vacant apartments are scheduled to be demolished as part of a $11.8 million project to replace them with more efficient units, which is being paid for by New York’s Low-Income Housing Trust Fund.
Documentary film maker Ira McKinley was organizing a demonstration for Monday at 6 p.m. to protest the training exercise.
“You can’t just take poor people and say ‘You’re going to do this and do that with them,’” McKinley told the Times Union. “We’re organizing to formulate our own citizen action group. We’re going to educate our communities.”
The Arbor Hill Neighborhood Association is also meeting at 6 p.m. on Monday to give residents a chance to speak out. Chief Krokoff and Albany Housing Authority Executive Director Steve Longo had been invited but it was not known if they would attend.
Yep Albany PD. They might be the least corrupt public entity in that city and that’s pretty fucking sad.
Pfft, Oh no they want to train so they can better protect you, oh no!
If anything the surprise is good and prepares them for times when it may actually happen.“when it may actually happen”, like when the police storm into the wrong apartment, light a 7 year old girl on fire with a flashbang grenade and fatally shoot her in the neck?
Or practicing breaking down the door of a 68 year old veteran whose medicalert bracelet went off by mistake, start screaming racial slurs and stun him to death while he begs for his life?
Maybe practice shooting handcuffed men and claim it was suicide?
“oh, but that didn’t happen HERE” you might say (although Kenneth Chamberlain WAS shot in White Plains for fucks sakes) but HEY it’s not like
these high school students decided to dress up in blackface and pretend to be Chris Brown physically assaulting Rihanna in Waverly, NY
THE NEW YORK STATE COURT DECIDED THAT HUMAN RIGHTS LAWS DON’T APPLY TO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO ARE ON THE RECEIVING END OF CONSTANT OVERT RACIST HARASSMENT[TW LINK FOR SLURS]
FUCK YOUR SHITTY TOWN
FUCK YOUR SHITTY STATE
Most of my family (black and white) lives in upstate NY and I can tell you it is NOT a friendly place for Black folks. I feel bad that my dad had to grow up there. When I heard about the incident in Waverly, which is near where my family lives, I wasn’t even that shocked, honestly. I’ve noticed that especially since my sister and I started going up to visit our family as adults, we’ve experienced so much passive-aggressive hostility from people! Sometimes it’s so obvious even my white nana notices something’s happening (and she’s kinda racist herself). Upstate NY is no fucking joke and when non-Southerners talk about the South being bad, they clearly haven’t experienced Northern racism.
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Tell CNN: Dropping Soledad O'Brien is Crazy →
Send CNN President Jeff Zucker a message, and tell him that dropping Soledad O’Brien is crazy.
Soledad O’Brien has made quite a splash lately by doing something that has become all too rare —practicing actual journalism.
She has been unafraid to hit back hard against the lies and talking points of elected officials, responding quickly with facts, logic, and the truth. It’s no surprise that several of these interviews have gone viral, given how refreshing her approach has been. And it’s no surprise that she is widely viewed as perhaps CNN’s best journalist.
And now CNN has decided to drop her. She will no longer host her morning show. It’s mind-boggling, but it’s true.
Throughout the whole process, O’Brien has shown grace and class, and declined to criticize Zucker and CNN. And she already has projects planned, so we’re sure she will do fine.
But this move is crazy. And CNN needs to hear that from us.
Send CNN President Jeff Zucker a message, and tell him that dropping Soledad O’Brien is crazy.
I’m the first to admit CNN sucks, but I find it not coincidental that Soledad O’Brien is the second major female news journalist in the last year to be fired from a major news corporation. Ann Curry, anyone? And both women are multiracial women of color. I smell some sexism and racism up in here. Hence the reason I chose to sign this petition.
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wow it’s like I can’t go anywhere without being reminded that I’m really quite ugly to certain people. that even with light skin my features are weird.
yay
thanks pink boy but I know what I look like. thanks for your opinion. really. but my brown bf thinks I’m hot so. bye. have fun, don’t get sunburned out there.
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Today is the anniversary…of one chapter in American History…that we should NEVER FORGET…!!!
On July 25, 1972, the notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment came to light as The Associated Press reported that for the previous four decades, the U.S. Public Health Service, in conjunction with the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, had been allowing poor, rural black male patients with syphilis to go without treatment, even allowing them to die, as a way of studying the disease.
Yeah, this is a big fucking deal. The ramifications of this experiment (and others like it) won’t ever go away. They’re still being felt and will continue to forever.
The government intentionally infected PoC with a disease — and I cannot emphasize this enough — for which there is no cure.
That means it will affect these people and their descendants (who by the way have NEVER BEEN COMPENSATED for being treated like guinea pig test subjects) forever.
This is why you can’t say racism is over.
This is why no one can say we’re post racial.
Until we make things right and go for true equality, starting with things like this.
Now now, let’s make sure we’re getting our facts right.
Actually, the government intentionally infected PoC with a disease — and I cannot emphasize this enough — for which there WAS no cure. Very strong emphasis on WAS. That’s important because when they found the cure in 1947 (15 years after the experiment began), they went to great lengths to ensure that the men in the experiment were not treated and that the men did not find out that treatment existed — for 25 more years.
I will say it again: For 25 years they knew they could help these men and deliberately chose not to do so.
On top of that, they also ensured that the men were not educated about any part of the “experiment,” and sometimes even told the men they actually were being treated while injecting them with placebos. They told them they were helping them, while purposely doing absolutely nothing. And to keep this ruse going they did not allow the subjects to see other doctors. They also did not educate them about how to keep from spreading syphillis to their partners.
They deliberately chose rural, uneducated, Black men so they could keep them in the dark about the study, and because they knew no one would care.
Let’s not sugar coat this shit.
I’m gonna go look at puppies now. Fuck.
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This video was taken an hour ago (10:45) at the Brooklyn protests against the police killing of Kimani Gray. Police are seen arrested a young black woman, bending her arms behind her back and pressing her head against the concrete with their knees as she screams. I saw police do much worse earlier today. Please spread this video so the world can know how the NYPD is treating the people who are protesting the police murder of a black 16 year old boy.
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Oh yeah! I’ve been remiss not to talk about the fact that Suraj Sharma was NEVER EVEN NOMINATED for his acting in Life of Pi.
So:
Jamie Foxx
Kerry Washington
Suraj Sharma
all were overlooked in movies that were nominated in categories other than best actor and best actress.
What a shitshow.
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