Dance coach tells black student that her skin color clashes with the uniforms. Also, she doesn’t get picked for the best performances. Also, the coach had text messages that said “I hate that she’s black”.
That sucks. What’s far, far worse is that the rest of the team, and parents, stood by the coach, even when the racism was undeniable.
Just imagine how often this happens, and has happened, and it’s not reported, or it’s reported and ignored, etc.
This is whiteness. I have no words. If you doubt the monstrous nature of white folks, watch that video in full. There is no humanity there, just a soulless husk in human form.
Standing around a Native American (Vietnam veteran) chanting “Build that wall.” Their school is really doing a good job of teaching. But then, I guess the school sending all of these upstanding young men to participate in an anti-abortion march shows where their priorities lie.
The school has shut down their Twitter account and their phone number.
Black gay actor assaulted in possible hate crime. I guess money doesn’t necessarily protect you if you don’t use it to have bodyguards around.
To be fair, the assailants haven’t been apprehended yet so their motivation is not definitely known. However, at some point they wrapped a rope around his neck (as he reports).
Hate to say it, but this looks like a Tawana Brawley.
Based on what?
Lol who carries a noose around for just such occasions?
Lol who said anything about a noose fuck off.
Hey it’s ok pull the anal beads out of your ass there buddy. 
Is that a whoosh? The victim said that the assailants put a rope around his neck and threw bleach at him. He still had the rope around his neck when the police arrived at his apartment.
So who walks around Chicago at 1:00AM with a pice of rope and bleach looking for someone to attack? My bet is there was some kind of scuffle about something embarrassing, and then the cover story got out of hand.
I hope I’m wrong.
Exactly that was my point, noose, length of rope whatever, seems like an odd thing to be carrying around on your person.
You seem to have made up your mind. Batano has left a sliver of daylight to escape through. Neither of you has any evidence for your assertions except “seems odd.” On the basis of that (i.e. completely nothing at all), you seem to think that this actor doused himself with bleach and wrapped a rope around his own neck. That doesn’t seem odd to you at all.
You’re just reinforcing the point of this thread.
Or you could wait for the results of the investigation. Plenty of time then, if you’re right, to jump up and down with glee.
Less personal than most examples here, but talking about a persistent issue in criminal justice: stenographers who struggle to understand AAVE or even just accents comment in black communities.
What makes you think it’s limited to black communities? I defy you to transcribe Weegie or Doric.
The former is the Glaswegian accent / dialect; the latter Aberdonian
Racist assholes do.
Acid and bleach attacks are certainly a thing- they’re rare, but they’re not imaginary. Carrying a noose when one is looking for someone to use it on is hardly an implausible scenario.
Whether what happened to Smollett was real or faked (and I’ve not seen any reason to assume fakery thus far) is a separate issue to whether some people will attack random strangers for reasons of racism or homophobia. They will, and they sometimes do.
Sick burn bruh. I mean, it doesn’t make the slightest bit of sense, but sick burns don’t have to. I got told, and am abashed. Abashed!
So now that I’ve been mocked and ridiculed within an inch of my pathetic life, you can go back to mocking and ridiculing the more important targets: gay Black guys!
Interesting. So the existence of strong regional Scottish dialects means we shouldn’t bother to have the American legal system understand black folks? I admit that I’m not seeing the causal link.
I wasn’t claiming the story was fake I’ve only glossed over the vague details in the story, I’m sure he was attacked, I was more thinking out loud about whether it was premeditated or not. Did they have any relation to the guy, did they just happen to see him, or did they set out to attack a black guy and left the house with rope and acid and he was the unlucky first guy they came across. Any other reading of what I said is just your own biases coming through.
I apologize; I had inadvertently conflated Batano’s “Tawana Brawley” comment with your comment.
And there are so many of those folks in US courts, it’s a real problem!
In fact, most immigrants whose English is not good (or is non-existent) can get translation help in court and with the police. People who are “supposed” to speak “regular” English don’t, and also (as in the second case cited in the original quote) can be willfully misunderstood.
You’ve taken a lot of trouble to make a bogus point.