BERLIN (AP) — An American Jewish group is applauding German police for taking former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke into custody before he could address a far-right gathering. See also: Are These 5 White Politicians Racists (Or Just Bigots)? See also: It’s David Duke’s Turn To Get Presidential Speculation, Apparently Elan Steinberg, vice president of the […]
Pat Robertson never fails to deliver. More foolishness from America’s favorite crypto-Christian conservative crackpot. This via the Huffington Post: Pat Robertson appeared confused about macaroni and cheese while hosting “The 700 Club” Wednesday on the Christian Broadcasting Network following a clip of host Kristi Watts interviewing former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. In the clip, […]
On his radio show yesterday, right wing pundit Rush Limbaugh talked about the recent booing of First Lady Michelle Obama at a NASCAR event. Limbaugh defended the booers, claiming that they had a right to do so, considering her healthy eating initiatives and vacations, accusing her of “uppity-ism.” The term “uppity” has historically been used […]
Campus administrators and officials at an upstate New York university are investigating several racist signs that have popped up on campus this semester. SUNY New Paltz, one of the state of New York’s many universities, has recently been bombarded by racist signs most notably, one by a water fountain that harkens back to the Civil […]
A TSA agent at O’Hare airport in Chicago has been fired after he posted anti-Muslim and racist comments on his Facebook page. Roy Egan worked at the airport for close to a decade and was suspended in October after TSA found him to be in violation of employee conduct on and off the job. See […]
A Kansas City basketball coach has been placed on administrative leave after being caught making wildly insensitive remarks on a cell phone video, with the student involved subsequently filing a racial harassment complaint against the coach. As reported by the Kansas City Star and KCTV News, among other outlets, Marcus Williams Sr. and his son, Marcus […]
The connection between race and capital punishment has been a hot topic this year, and it’s likely to remain one after a new study found a shocking pattern in the way one Texas county sentences people to die. Of the last 13 men that have been sentenced to death in Harris County, 12 of them […]
An African American waitress in Towson, Maryland is claiming that her boss ordered her to serve only Black customers who entered their Applebees location. The waitress, 27-year-old Courtney Haywood, filed a discrimination lawsuit after being fired earlier this year. She started working at the Applebees location in 2007, and when new management took over earlier […]
LONDON — English soccer authorities and London police began investigations Tuesday into whether England captain John Terry racially abused a black opponent while playing for Chelsea. In the latest contentious episode of Terry’s career, video posted on the Internet appeared to show Terry directing a racial slur at Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand during […]
The election of Barack Obama to America’s highest office — while stirring political activism in a new multiracial generation — it has also galvanized those of the opposite ilk. Not only has the xenophobic and often racist Tea Party come to the fore, but Obama’s ascendance has also brought Neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and seemingly every wing […]
Several countries are known to carry products with labels that are insensitive and demeaning to people of African descent and China is one of them. These products are becoming more and more noticeable as more African Americans travel to China on business. Nivea Apologizes For Racist “Re-Civilize Yourself” Afro Ad Is This Summer’s Eve Ad […]
Mark Esterhuysen, a South African talk radio host, is out of a job days after he unleashed a F-word-laden diatribe against racism and police brutality, live on the air Tuesday morning. “F— racism, f— the pigs who killed Andries Tatane, f— the AWB,” Esterhuysen said in the audio. He ended his 41-second rant promoting his blog (markesterhuysen.blogspot.com), Twitter, […]
