Halloween has come and gone, but racism last forever. The mother of a 7-year-old boy is defending her son’s choice to dress as a klansman for Halloween. Jessica Black of Virginia says the attire is a family tradition.
A Nevada lawmaker who said that he would vote to reinstate slavery if the public wanted it has retracted his statement.
A Fargo, ND. woman has vowed to combat childhood obesity this Halloween by handing out “fat letters” in place of candy to trick or treaters. Each child who she feels is “moderately obese” will receive a letter to take home to their parents in hopes of getting them on the right track.
The internet has erupted with a new hashtag “dedicated” the black girls and women. The problem is that it is incredibly racist and offensive to some. #StopBlackGirls2013 polluted Twitter this week with various photos of Black women compared to anything from gorillas to farm animals.
Last week, a North Carolina GOP official resigned after calling blacks lazy during an interview on The Daily Show. Not to be outdone, Nevada Republican Jim Wheeler said that he’d vote to re-institute slavery if that’s what his constituents wanted him to do.
Art Palmer is the fourth man to come forward and say that he was unfairly racially profiled while shopping at a New York Macy’s. Both Macy’s & Barney’s have been under fire since last week after 19-year-old Trayon Christian announced his lawsuit against Barney’s after being arrested for making a purchase at the chain.
In 2000, Diallo Shabazz sued the University of Wisconsin-Madison for photo-shopping him into their marketing materials. In his suit, Shabazz did not ask for money, but for “budgetary money” to actually make the campus more diverse.
The Dallas police officer who shot a mentally ill man has been fired. Officer Cardan Spencer wrote that he shot Bobby Gerald Bennett last week after he lunged at him and another officer with a knife. A video captured by a neighbor’s surveillance camera shows that Bennett did not lung or move in the direction of the officers at all.
Police are investigating a potential rape after a video surfaced on the popular social media site Vine. A user by the name of “Jonathan Jno” posted a Vine video of what appears to be a barely conscious woman getting sexually assaulted in a park on Chicago’s South Side.
Legendary baseball player Sammy Sosa is looking light these days.We’re not referring to the star’s weight either. A recent picture of Sosa surfaced when he appeared on television in Panama the other day. Viewers immediately took to social media noting the athlete’s lighter complexion.
Parents of the Coatesville Area School District are demanding that two top administrators be fired after racist texts have surfaced. In a series of texts messages, Superintendent Richard Como and high school athletic director Jim Donato referred to students and faculty with the n-word. The two officials also used demeaning language to describe Jewish people, women and other minorities in the exchange of more than a dozen messages.
In light of the recent stupid controversy surrounding Miss America 2014’s Nina Davuluri, I decided to ponder race relations in the context of beauty pageants and American society.
