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Throwback to 1960s as “Bleach Bombing” of Black Students Rock University of Texas at Austin

October 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Trouble at the University of Texas at Austin as black students and community leaders gathered to march over a series of ‘bleach bombing’ attacks, which have been characterized as racially motivated. “Bleach bombing” reportedly occurs when white students allegedly single-out blacks by throwing bleach-filled balloons at them, sometimes from up high in apartment balconies.

Sophomore protester Taylor Carr, an anthropology student at UT, claims to have first-hand knowledge of the attacks and said, “It is people of color they are attacking in West Campus. Until we put pressure on the university to [protect] us, these events are going to keep happening.”

Former UT student, now a community activist, Chas Moore said:

“This is not 1960,” Moore said. “We are not going to be afraid to walk anywhere. We are not going back in time.”

Moore encouraged any “bleach-bombed” student to report the attack to UTPD as well as APD. He also told students to report any incidents of prejudice that they experience to the Campus Climate Response Team.

This is disturbing on so many levels. There are some in our society who want to see us go back to the dark days in America’s history, where blacks had no rights. This isn’t the way to a post-racial America.

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UPS Race Discrimination Scandal with Clive Henry in The European Court of Human Rights

May 9, 2012 by 2 Comments

Clive Henry, a former UPS Courier Service worker is appealing a race discrimination tribunal decision claiming that the judge deliberately dismissed key evidence in his case.

Mr. Henry says he was forced to resign following excessive work demands from UPS Ltd, after working for the company for 11 years, with 100% attendance for seven years. “I had never received any disciplinary action before,” he says.

Mr. Henry took UPS to tribunal in 2009 after claiming that he was singled out by a particular manager, who was the director of the company that UPS merged with in 2008 and put him on a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) in the sales department.
Mr. Henry supervised the merge in the department from January to July, 2008.

“In October 2008 I was placed on a (PIP) which was never authorised by HR, “Mr. Henry says. “I hit the £3000 department monthly target. This was raised to £4000 the next month. I was shouted at and given a written warning on failing this target. I was also given a smudged warning letter. I was signed off with occupational stress because of these events.”

Mr. Henry says the warning was revoked after he appealed but he was advised in writing that he would be placed back on the PIP.

“I was the only black male and the only person ever to be placed on a PIP”, he says.

Mr. Henry who resigned from UPS on March 11, 2010, says he represented himself as he thought with the documented evidence it was an open and closed case.

Mr. Henry, who is convinced the judge dismissed the case in a perverse way, is appealing against the ruling “The biased and perverse judgment has allowed me to become a victim of blatant race discrimination,” he says, adding that “the judge failed to consider key facts and gave biased reasons for UPS’s actions to justify their wrong doing.”

Mr. Henry also sent the complaint to the European Commission for Human Rights in Brussels, Belgium, and on March 15, 2011, the Commission accepted to consider his complaint in the light of the applicable European Union law.

Please Google search: Clive Henry The Vibe and Vegas Show podcast and blog. This is a radio interview including other newspaper links with the full story.

Also you can follow on Twitter @clivehenry1

UPS Race Discrimination Scandal with Clive Henry in The European Court of Human Rights
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National Review Fires Columnist John Derbyshire for Racist Screed About Blacks

April 7, 2012 by 1 Comment
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National Review Fires Columnist John Derbyshire for Racist Screed About Blacks (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The National Review fires columnist John Derbyshire because of his racist screed about blacks that appeared on Taki’s Magazine. Well, I guess Roger Ailes will find a spot for him on Fox Nation. It’s pretty disturbing that Rich Lowry could associate with someone who has written racist and homophobic articles in the past. In fact, John Derbyshire has a long history of racially provocative comments and writings, and once said during an interview, “I am a homophobe.” I’m pretty sure Rich Lowry was well aware of his past. Here’s Lowry’s post on John Derbyshire firing:

Anyone who has read Derb in our pages knows he’s a deeply literate, funny, and incisive writer. I direct anyone who doubts his talents to his delightful first novel, “Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream,” or any one of his “Straggler” columns in the books section of NR. Derb is also maddening, outrageous, cranky, and provocative. His latest provocation, in a webzine, lurches from the politically incorrect to the nasty and indefensible. We never would have published it, but the main reason that people noticed it is that it is by a National Review writer. Derb is effectively using our name to get more oxygen for views with which we’d never associate ourselves otherwise. So there has to be a parting of the ways. Derb has long danced around the line on these issues, but this column is so outlandish it constitutes a kind of letter of resignation. It’s a free country, and Derb can write whatever he wants, wherever he wants. Just not in the pages of NR or NRO, or as someone associated with NR any longer.

The problem for me is why it took Rich Lowry an entire news cycle for him to fire John Derbyshire for his despicable rant on Taki’s Magazine, considering he wasted no time lambasting former Washington D.C. mayor Marion Barry for his anti-Asian comment about “dirty shops” in his Ward 8 district. You can’t have it both ways.

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Rush Limbaugh Says Trayvon Martin Murder Outrage, Racism Aren’t Real

March 30, 2012 by 2 Comments

Rush Limbaugh is spewing some bullsh*t again, saying the Trayvon Martin murder outrage isn’t real. Yeah, just like the fake outrage about his slut comments towards Sandra Fluke. Yeah, Trayvon Martin’s murder and racism in general are a figment of our imagination. Isn’t that just what conservatives want us to think that there is no racism in America? Here’s an excerpt from his show’s transcript:

[T]he next time the media and the Democrat Party get all exercised about something happening in our country or in our culture or in our media, and when they’re all in unity on it, the reaction ought to be they’re lying.  They’re making it up.  There’s a political agenda here.  There is no real outrage, for example.

All these people supposedly calling advertisers of this program.  There was no angry consumer outrage.  It was all trumped up.  The same thing was attempted with the Trayvon Martin case.  To create a false reality, to make it look like the country is as agitated as the left is, but it never is.  The country is never as roiled and as agitated as the left is.  They can succeed in upsetting people.  But the object lesson here is to, from this point forward, just don’t believe them. Source: Rush Limbaugh

Really Rush? So, the racism in America in the 1900s didn’t exist. You mean to tell me Jim Crow was a figment of our imagination too? Racial profiling is just some bullsh*t? What a dumbass. Um, there’s one slight problem to his “analysis,” several surveys contradict his position.  A Pew Research Center poll  released Tuesday shows 25 percent of Americans are following the Martin story more closely than any other story,  making it the top news Americans were interested in last week. A CNN poll this week showed 73 percent of Americans think Zimmerman should be arrested. So, in the minds of most sane Americans, this wasn’t fake.

The bottom line is simply this, when you can walk in the shoes of someone who has been discriminated against, then you have the right to offer an opinion on the subject. In closing, Rush Limbaugh is forgetting one important detail, the Democratic Party didn’t start the Trayvon Martin backlash. His parents did because the Sanford police didn’t do it’s job for whatever reason, could be covering for the son of retired judge. Who knows, but it didn’t start with the Democratic Party.

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French Elle Nathalie Dolivo Praises President Obama, Michelle Obama for “Teaching Blacks How to Dress”

January 25, 2012 by 2 Comments

French Elle magazine’s Nathalie Dolivo ‘praises’ President Obama and First Lady for showing African-Americans how to dress. Unbelievable. Here’s what Dolivo said:

In this America led for the first time a black president, the chic has become a plausible option for a community so far pegged to its codes [of] streetwear … But if in 2012 the “black-geoisie” has integrated all the white codes, it does not [do so] literally. [There] is always a classic twist, with a bourgeois ethnic reference (a batik-printed turban/robe, a shell necklace, a ‘créole de rappeur’) that recalls the roots.

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“There is always a classic twist, with a bourgeois ethnic reference (a batik-printed turban/robe, a shell necklace, a ‘créole de rappeur’) that recalls the roots,” she said.

Really? Wow. How incredibly racist. Thank God Almighty that the Obamas have taught blacks to dress like white people. Exactly why does Nathalie Dolivo feel the need to coin a new phrase, black-geosie? Why am I not surprised at the racist rhetoric being spewed by French Elle? This is the same magazine that dissed Rihanna, calling her  “a nigga bitch” a month ago. Well, we all know that racism is quite prevalent in the fashion industry. How else can you explain the scant numbers of black and Latino models on the runways?

What a dumbass! How many black and biracial blacks live in France, that surely she should realize this is a load of crap. This is journalism at its worst.

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Drummonds TN Black Family Finds “KKK” Graffiti on Driveway & Mailbox on MLK Day

January 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Dorothy Campbell, who is black, returned home from a grocery store run yesterday, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, to find “KKK” graffiti on her driveway and mailbox in Drummonds, TN. Ms. Campbell told WREG-TV, she was gone for about three hours and found the graffiti when she returned home just before 1:00p.m.

Campbell’s family has lived on Tate Road in Drummonds for almost 30 years. They were one of the first families to move there and remain the only African-American family on the street. She said they know their neighbors well and have never had problems with anyone. Source: WREG-TV

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Ethiopian-Israelis Stage Anti-Racism Protests in Kiryat Malachi Over Discrimination in Housing and Society

January 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I came across an interesting article in the Jerusalem Post against the racial discrimination Ethiopian-Israelis are experiencing and how they are fighting back by staging protests, particularly after the comment, “the only good Ethiopian is a dead Ethiopian” heard on national television. “Jukim” or cockroaches is how one tenant in an apartment block in the southern town of Kiryat Malachi referred to Ethiopian-Israelis as he bragged he would never sell his home to an Ethiopian family because “it brings down the value of the neighborhood,” the Jerusalem Post reports. He went on to state that “120 other families spanning four residential buildings had signed an agreement with the neighborhood council not to rent or sell their apartments to families of Ethiopian descent.” One problem for these bigots, the Ethiopian-Israelis aren’t taking this racist behavior lightly. They are fighting back.

“Even though we are talking about something specific that happened in Kiryat Malachi, this kind of racism against Ethiopians happens everywhere in Israeli society,” observes Efrat Yerday, spokeswoman of the Israel Association of Ethiopian Jews (IAEJ), who also joined in Tuesday’s protest.

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In September, attempts to close down a Petah Tikva public school with a student body comprising almost exclusively Ethiopian pupils put the spotlight on what the community calls “ghettos” – neighborhoods where new Ethiopian immigrants are forced to live due to limited financial means.

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Another example of this problem was discovered last month in Beit Shemesh, where it was revealed that the municipality had forced the majority of Ethiopian children in the town to attend one of three kindergartens. The story was further exacerbated when Mayor Moshe Abutbul explained the policy by likening the Ethiopian immigrant community to small fish in a dangerous aquarium. Source: Jerusalem Post

Racism against people of African descent is Israel’s dirty little secret. It’s a sad commentary that this modern-day apartheid is flourishing in parts of such a religious country.

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Pat Buchanan Blames “People of Color,” “Militant Gay Rights Groups” for Pending MSNBC Termination

January 11, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Pat Buchanan blames “militant gay rights groups” and “people of color” for pending termination from MSNBC. Really Pat? Could your continued association with white supremacist groups be the straw that broke the camel’s back? Well, Pat Buchanan attacked gay rights and civil rights groups for pressuring MSNBC network president Phil Griffin to fire him after the release of his latest book, Suicide of a Superpower.  His appearance on racist The Political Cesspool radio show may have played a role in their decision as well. We reviewed the book, ” Suicide of a Superpower,” which we found to be racist and just plain disgusting, particularly the chapters entitled “The End of White America” and “The Death of Christian America.” Why any one published this book is beyond me, but people will do crazy things in the name of profit.

Pat Buchanan told Sean Hannity, “Look, for a long period of time the hard left, militant gay rights groups, militant — they call themselves civil rights groups, but I’m not sure they’re concerned about civil rights — people of color, Van Jones, these folks and others have been out to get Pat Buchanan off T.V., deny him speeches, get his column canceled.”

“This has been done for years and years and years and it’s the usual suspects doing the same thing again. But my view is, you write what you believe to be the truth.” Buchanan said he has not received a “formal notification” of his termination from the network, although executives have hinted that he will not return to the airwaves. Source: Think Progress

Not to worry, Fox News would probably welcome Pat Buchanan with open arms. I have been blogging about Pat Buchanan’s vile racist rhetoric for years. The chickens have come home to roost.

Listen to Pat Buchanan being interviewed by Sean Hannity:

Pat Buchanan Blames People of Color, Militant Gay Rights Groups for Pending MSNBC Termination
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Tea Party Darling Jules Manson Calls for Assassination of President Obama and ‘Monkey Children’

December 19, 2011 by 2 Comments

Ron Paul supporter and Tea Party darling Jules Manson calls for assassination of President Obama and his ‘monkey children’ on Facebook post.

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Tea Party Darling Jules Manson Calls for Assassination of President Obama and 'Monkey Children'

Jules Manson, a Tea Party darling and Ron Paul supporter, made some racist comments about President Obama and his kids on Facebook. Shouldn’t Ron Paul’s campaign issue a repudiation of this racist rhetoric? On his wall, Manson said the following:

“Assassinate the fucken nigger and his monkey children.”

Um, who really looks like a monkey? An albino monkey at that? Jules Manson. Jules Manson is a former Carson CA council candidate represents exactly what’s wrong with America — racist hatred of President Obama.

Below is a screenshot of the post that was taken by some of his Facebook friends before it was removed:

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Tea Party Darling Jules Manson Calls for Assassination of President Obama and 'Monkey Children'

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Miss France, Laury Thilleman, Trashes Newly Crowned Miss Universe, Leila Lopes, Saying Being in Brazil Helped her to Win

September 15, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Miss France, Laury Thilleman, shows her true colors by being a sore loser and trashing the newly crowned black Miss Universe Leila Lopes, saying she won partly because competition held in Brazil.

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Miss France Laury Thilleman trashes newly crowned Miss Universe

There are sore losers and then there are back-stabbing, low-down, stink losers like Miss Universe contestant, Miss France, Laury Thilleman. She made some horrible comments about the newly crowned Miss Universe, Miss Angola, Leila Lopes, who is an absolutely stunning young lady. She just can’t get over the fact that a black woman won Miss Universe. Talk about hateration! Here’s the article excerpted from the Washington Post:

The French magazine Premiere.fr reports that Miss France, a top 10 finalist in the competition, made the comments during a telephone interview with the magazine. She said the win surprised her (actually she said all the contestants were surprised) and noted that Miss Angola hardly ever wore makeup and she often wore jeans. And she was reserved and lacking in personality. Oh, and the fact that the contest was held in Brazil played a role — the implication being that Angola is a former Portuguese colony like Brazil. (If that’s the case then why didn’t they just elect Miss Brazil!? )

Here are Miss France’s quotes, as translated. Judge for yourself.

“She was the only girl I didn’t know very well. We didn’t see her much; she was very discreet. She was often in jeans and not wearing makeup. We were all surprised by her win. Many girls made efforts that were not rewarded. I don’t know, something is missing in her temperament. The fact that the competition was held in Brazil surely played a role.”

Um, childish and just plain wrong. What’s wrong with wearing jeans and going without make-up? Obviously Leila Lopes is confident and comfortable with herself. Sounds a little racist to me, don’t you think? We have the white supremacists calling her a monkey in this country and we have a Miss Universe contestant basically taking offense to Lopes being chosen to wear the crown. The world should be glad Laury Thilleman didn’t win the crown. Her objection and denigration of Leila Lopes is no different from the white supremacists in this country, from websites such as Stormfront.

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