It’s also possible that I never said a thing about Sharpton. Oh look, I didn’t!
(Here’s a helpful hint, though: When decrying someone you don’t like (Sharpton) for assuming someone’s innocence for their own gain, it can quite easily look like racist hypocrisy to assume that same person’s guilt.)
That’s absolutely ridiculous. I hope the asshole cop is fired and sued.
One question though: Had the woman previously been warned about the expired tags? In civilized states this would be a “fix it” ticket. There might be a fine, even a large fine, but the car would not be towed.
I’d understand what he said as meaning that there’s some kind of fundamental difference between an immigrant/non-native speaker not understanding standard English, versus someone just speaking the language poorly.
Whether or not it’s actually spoken poorly or a linguistic division of some kind is debatable.
How exactly do you advertise for stenographers who can translate, without sounding racist or mocking?
You do know that two people have been arrested in the case, right?
So, two Nigerian brothers shouted racial slurs and told him it was “MAGA country”?
I mean…stranger things have happened. Not many.
Now I’m picturing a boiler room operation where Nigerian guys wearing MAGA hats crank out e-mails announcing that we’re eligible to split $10 million, if we send them our personal info.
Yes, you are right. Two black people he knew that he somehow mistook for two white people he didn’t. I guess I was wrong about it being a hoax :dubious:
Though he doesn’t have much truck with truth or honesty, he’s good at saying what some people want to hear. Which is enough for MSNBC and others.
Again: just like Ollie North and FoxNews.
…Charged with resisting arrest. He’s 11! What the ever-loving fuck?!
Not just forgot. The more blatant racists tend to think that other people in general are more racist than they actually are. People don’t tend to think they themselves are all that bad of people.
They posted them to Snapchat. I don’t know exactly how that medium works with how long videos and photos stay up and privacy settings as I’ve never gained access, except it does all seem to be ephemeral. Therefore Snapchat doesn’t save any of it.
I’m surprised because I thought Snapchat was mostly used by teenagers. The only adults I know of who use it are amateur models.
I know snaps are ephemeral, but not exactly how long. But I do know you can send them to someone else. So, even if he only sent it to some people, they could easily send it to others.
You can also use external software to take a screenshot, which is why you are told repeatedly never to actually trust that a snap will be deleted.
Alabama newspaper publisher says KKK should clean out Washington DC, and bring their hemp ropes and hang “all of them.” Note that thi publisher was too cowardly to put the thing online, but folks have posted photos of the newspaper page that you can look at.
The trigger for this, apparently, is the fear that the Democrats and RINOs in Washington are fixin’ to raise Alabama’s taxes (not sure how that would work, exactly, but I guess he’s afraid that federal taxes will go up and only cares about himself and his friends in Alabama).
What makes this item appropriate for this thread, notwithstanding that the target doesn’t seem to be black people, is that he defends the KKK as “only violent when they needed to be,” claims that some early Klan members were recently freed slaves, and compares it with the NAACP. If his readers didn’t immediately cancel their subscriptions and boycott his advertisers, who then immediately withdrew their advertising from the paper, then we have to assume that the attitude expressed in this editorial is not disagreeable to its readers. Is this representative still of the deep south? Is this what black folks in that area live with every day?
NPR has studied tens of thousands of FEMA records to come to this conclusion:
Here is the embedded link regarding the racial wealth gap (long PDF).
Cost-benefit calculations will always favor the haves vs. the have-nots. There must be a more equitable way of doing this.
Basically, modern Redlining.
Or at very least, perpetuating the old redlining.
Colorado cops detain black man at gunpoint for picking up trash: ‘This is my house — I live here’
Has there been a Colorado crime wave of people breaking into other people’s homes and picking up their trash? Is “tidying up the patio” normal burglar behavior? Because otherwise this is incredibly fucking stupid.