Racial Issues

Think Institutional Racism Isn’t Real? Watch This! (Video)

Think Institutional Racism Isn’t Real? Watch This! (Video)

“Whites Smoke Pot, but Blacks Are Arrested:” Data Analysis Casts the War on Drugs in a Whole New Light1 “Institutional Racism” is defined as “racism perpetrated by government entities such as schools, the courts or the military. Unlike the racism perpetrated by individuals, institutional racism has the power to negatively affect the bulk of people […]

Texas Community Leader Issues Call To Attack Anti-Police Activists, Tells Cops ‘Step Aside’ – VIDEO

Texas Community Leader Issues Call To Attack Anti-Police Activists, Tells Cops ‘Step Aside’ – VIDEO

A known white supremacist and former correctional officer posted a six-minute video rant on Tuesday calling for violence against black anti-police activists. Nathan Ener, who worked as a Texas Department of Criminal Justice officer until 1999, encouraged viewers to attack black protesters with firearms, rocks and slingshots and promised to hunt them down to their […]

Beaten By Cops, Charged For Bleeding On Their Uniforms – Ferguson Man Wins Appeal

Beaten By Cops, Charged For Bleeding On Their Uniforms – Ferguson Man Wins Appeal

Controversy raged from coast to coast in the wake of the killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black man who was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, 28, a white Ferguson police officer. The circumstances of the shooting, the resultant protests and civil unrest, and the failure of a grand jury to hand down an […]

‘Totally Outrageous,’ Bernie Sanders Says of Texas Police Video

‘Totally Outrageous,’ Bernie Sanders Says of Texas Police Video

Sen. Bernie Sanders issued the following statement Tuesday night after a police dashboard video [below] was released showing the arrest of the late Sandra Bland: This video of the arrest of Sandra Bland shows totally outrageous police behavior. No one should be yanked from her car, thrown to the ground, assaulted and arrested for a […]

9th Circuit Court Judge Asks Arizona If The State Is Racist

9th Circuit Court Judge Asks Arizona If The State Is Racist

A federal judge asked lawyers representing the state of Arizona whether the state’s motivation in refusing to give driver’s licenses and ID cards to young undocumented immigrants was due to racism. In 2012 the Obama administration initiated the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an  immigration policy allowing certain undocumented immigrants (DREAMers) who entered the country […]