Days after sending an offensive tweet that compared slain teenager Trayvon Martin with De’Marquise Elkins, Robert Zimmerman is now backtracking. Robert, the brother of Martin’s killer George Zimmerman, went on CNN to talk to Piers Morgan and apologize for the tweet. Elkins is a 17-year-old who was one of two teens who shot and killed […]
When Volkswagen released their Super Bowl commercial on-line for an early preview they probably were not expecting the amount of backlash they have received for a commercial many have deemed “racist.” In the commercial, a white male is expressing happiness for his new Volkswagen while talking with a thick Jamaican accent and dialect. Volkswagen claims […]
A KKK group in Atlanta applied to adopt a highway on the one-mile stretch of Route 515 in the Appalachian Mountains. They claim they want the…
What is up with Republicans and welfare? SEE ALSO: Crazy Celebrity Gifts GOP Candidates Go To NH First, it was Rick Santorum who said he didn’t want to help blacks with welfare. Now it’s Newt Gingrich‘s turn to alienate African Americans, TheGrio reports. Slate journalist Dave Weigel tweeted that Gingrich told an audience in New […]
Dover, Delaware– UPDATE: The Delaware Supreme Court ruled on February 17th 2011 that the white movie theater manager, David Stewart, did not discriminate against a theater mostly full of black patrons when he gave an announcement prior to a showing of “Why Did I Get Married” in 2007. We originally reported that the Human Relations […]
Detroit Lakes, Minn– A 25 year old woman who was turned away as a tenant because she was African-American will be receiving $25,500 as part of a settlement filed Thursday in federal court in Minneapolis. When Ranesha Halliburton arrived to see the property with her boyfriend and his father, landlord Pearl Beck said it was […]
Baltimore — Police are investigating an attack on a 15-year-old African-American youth by a group of men associated with a Jewish community patrol group, which occurred on Nov. 19 in the Upper Park Heights Community of Baltimore.
NEW PORT RICHEY — John Ditullio admitted he hated black people and cops. He admitted he lived with a group of neo-Nazis, men he admired like they were his brothers, who believed in the supremacy of the white race. He admitted they abused prescription drugs and drank whiskey and kept illegal guns. He admitted harassing […]
JONESBORO, Ga. – A white man who was sentenced to six months in a Georgia jail for beating a black Army Reservist in front of her daughter and yelling racial slurs has been released early.
VIA: NEWSONE.COM A black former United States postal worker who says he was fired after being attacked in Hingham, Massachusetts by a white woman during a profane and ethnic slur-filled rant has now posted video of the incident on YouTube. The viral video has taken the Internet by storm leading to dozens of comments on […]
VIA: WRAL.COM Students have vowed to protest or block North Carolina State University’s Free Expression Tunnel until the university’s chancellor gives guarantees that no hate speech will be allowed there. About 40 students painted the tunnel black overnight to protest racist and homophobic graffiti involving President Barack Obama painted there earlier this week. Slurs and […]
Since the Emmy ceremony, I have been going back and forth about whether or not I should compose this letter. I try hard in my daily life not to engage in uncomfortable situations regarding race. But sometimes it’s very difficult to find other reasons that better explain why certain events play out the way they […]
