News From A Colorful Perspective
A Democratic lawmaker stands behind his comments that Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III wants to “Make America Great Again” by sending the nation decades back to when people didn’t have basic civil rights. “Sessions, he’d just love for Black people to be in the back of the bus again….
In a room of among many of his peers — white, male conservatives — Seth Grossman pleaded his case that diversity threatens the “traditional ways that made America great” and is a “bunch of crap” supported by Democrats and communists. Grossman is a Republican running for New Jersey’s 2nd Congressional…
#JoggerJoe, an unidentified Oakland white man, grabbed a Black homeless man’s belongings and threw them in the lake and the trash, despite park goers’ attempts to stop him. The Black homeless man, identified as Drew and described as peaceful and always smiling, lived at Lake Merritt, the Bay Area park….
A flight attendant was harassed and insulted for being a Black woman while working. During a flight from Philadelphia to Fort Myers, Fla., last week, 82-year-old George Francis Alexander approached the American Airlines flight attendant, who remains unnamed, from behind as she was serving drinks. He poked her in the…
A Missouri waitress has been fired after a video of her after-work activities went viral. In a Snapchat video uploaded to Facebook, Tabitha “Tabbie” Duncan is riding in a pick-up truck with two men who talk about going “n***er hunting.” “You get them n***ers,” the 20-year-old tells the men. Duncan…
The mother of a mayor in a New Jersey town is blaming immigrants — who she believes are not Americans — for her son’s potential loss in the primary. Her racist rant reflects a fear among some white people of no longer being the majority race. “Go to hell PALISADES…
Bobby Paul Edwards, 53, who was charged with slavery, assault and battery, false imprisonment, Fair Labor violations and discriminations against John Christopher Smith, a Black employee with intellectual disabilities at J&J Cafeteria in Myrtle Beach, S.C., plead guilty on Monday. Edwards, Smith’s manager and brother of the business owner Edward…
Apparently a Black person’s money is not as valuable as any other customer’s. Video shows Carlotta Washington being subjected to assault, racial slurs and verbal abuse by an angry food truck owner, Islam Elmasry, after Washington tried to pay for her lunch with quarters. Washington recorded the incident. The recording…
An unidentified woman snapped a photo of 55-year-old Ike Iloputaife walking his dogs in Vista, Calif.; she claimed she went for the photo-op because he was “a stranger.” Hours after Iloputaife walked his dogs, a nearby home was burglarized. Among a group of surveillance photos released to the public was…
White hipsters continue to gentrify areas of Brooklyn, N.Y., and some bring with them retro racism. In Bushwick, Chris Giardina, a white real estate agent, was caught on cellphone video hurling racial insults at a bouncer, Jose Arturo Lopez, outside of the venue House of Yes on Friday. As a…
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