Racial Issues

My #CrimingWhileWhite Story

My #CrimingWhileWhite Story

#CrimingWhileWhite  is a growing movement of white people sharing stories of how, when they were caught doing something illegal by police, they were treated with kid gloves compared to the way black people might be treated. As more and more white people publicly admit that they aren’t always held to the same harsher standards that black people are, it will become increasingly […]

Proof Republicans Are Racists When It Comes To President Obama

Proof Republicans Are Racists When It Comes To President Obama

There is no doubt that many Republicans are racist when it comes to President Obama. The president has been forced to endure racism, hatred and malicious lies and rumors like no other American president. As Timothy Egan of The New York Times reported last week in an Op/Ed piece, From the day he took office, […]

‘Why did you have to shoot him?’ Girl, 9, Writes To Cop Who Killed Her Unarmed Father

‘Why did you have to shoot him?’ Girl, 9, Writes To Cop Who Killed Her Unarmed Father

9-year-old girl writes letter to @PhoenixPolice officer who shot and killed her unarmed dad http://t.co/mn0HJmSs0r pic.twitter.com/T9K7gxLtUD — Billy Corben (@BillyCorben) December 5, 2014     The 9-year-old daughter of an unarmed black male who was shot and killed by a white police officer has written a letter to that Phoenix cop. As The Free Thought […]

Racism Not ‘Limited To The Klan, Birthers, The Tea Party Or Republicans’ According To Duke University Sociologist

Racism Not ‘Limited To The Klan, Birthers, The Tea Party Or Republicans’ According To Duke University Sociologist

CNN published an interesting article in December 2014 entitled The new threat: ‘Racism without racists.’ The rather lengthy article deals with the failure of any meaningful “national conversation on race,” noting that “such conversations rarely go anywhere: Whites and racial minorities speak a different language when they talk about racism, scholars and psychologists say.” The […]

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