“Race is a trigger for police brutality,” Jack Glaser, an associate professor at University of California-Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, told The Huffington Post last year. Much of this may be based on the history of policing in America and the fact that modern-day policing, at least in the South, grew out of slave patrols. (more…)
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Worse Discrimination/Racial Massacres in US History
What constitutes the worse case of a massacre in US History? Is it the number of precious lives lost? Is it the ages of our lost victims? Is it the weapon(s) that was(were) used? Is it the number of monsters who are taking our precious lives? Is it having roots in another country? What constitutes ‘the worse’? Click ‘more’ and examine a few incredible cases. (more…)
Why Did This 12-Year-Old Black Girl Come Back From a School Trip With Rope Burns on Her Neck?
According to the report, the girl, who is black, attended the mostly white Live Oak Classical School, a private institution in Waco, Texas. The unidentified girl and her mother reportedly believe that the April incident school officials are saying is an accident was, in fact, a racially motivated attack, the culmination of months of bullying at the hands of classmates. (more…)
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South side Latino businesses become targets of racism
Messages of hatred and racism are being sent to local businesses. Latino business owners say they are the target of the hate mail. They don’t know who is sending the disturbing postcards but, they are afraid of what the real message might be. (more…)