“Exclusively for white people” stickers appear on six East Austin business. http://t.co/tcE9p1Rwli #Racism #Texas pic.twitter.com/tEl3Xu8oH4 — J. David McSwane (@davidmcswane) March 18, 2015 Police and lawmakers in Texas were outraged on Tuesday after discovering “whites only” stickers were plastered over small business in the East Austin area. The stickers were posted overnight on bakery, bicycle, […]
A video clip of a California middle school vice principal telling a group of children he didn’t like the black students at the school is sparking outrage, the New York Daily News reports. The clip began circulating the web last Friday, after a group of African-American students from Fresno’s Scandinavian Middle School filmed vice principal Joe DiFilippo’s offensive comment. […]
The race relations topic brought a dark cloud over a 10-year-old’s birthday party in Tennessee last week, when a friend of another race wrote a letter explaining her parents wouldn’t allow her to attend the party because the birthday girl is black. According to the Daily Mail, Harmony Jones’ parents told reporters their daughter got the letter from a classmate […]
It appears the racist chant at the University of Oklahoma SAE chapter has inspired students on other campuses to come forward with their own tales involving the embattled fraternity. University of Washington students accused fraternity members of hurling slurs last month during a protest to raise awareness about racism, according to CNN. SAE, however, denies the charges, saying […]
UPDATED, 3:49 p.m. EST, 3-11-15 While discussing the fallout over an Oklahoma fraternity’s racist chant video on Wednesday, MSNBC Morning Joe hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough said the students may have learned the song from rap music, the New York Daily News reports. Reports the New York Daily News: The conversation started when co-host […]
UPDATED, 2:20 p.m. EST, 3-10-15: Howard Dixon, who worked for 15 years as a chef at the now-defunct Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house, says that while he considers the former chapter members to be family, he does not blame officials for taking action against them, Yahoo News reports. According to the news site: “I think […]
A Florida man is facing hate crime charges after hitting a black man with a bottle during a bar fight, the Daytona Beach News Journal reports. Deputies say Jason Cuellar of Ormond Beach approached the man at the Hideout Lounge on Friday and told him “this bar is not for blacks.” The victim, 24-year-old Kenneth Hodge, ignored […]
Everything seemed to be calm and cool on Twitter this morning – that is until conservative troll and activist Dinesh D’Souza slammed President Barack Obama over a photo from his interview with BuzzFeed. And yes, racism was involved. The political pundit posted a photo of Obama with a selfie stick from the BuzzFeed shoot alongside the following […]
A video of Chelsea fans spewing racist remarks to a black man in Paris has gone viral, leaving the British football team to investigate. The incident happened on Tuesday when the team visited France to play Paris Saint-Germain in a Champions League. Fans who were on the train before the game began can be heard chanting, “We’re […]
Yesterday was the first day of Black History Month, and a South Carolina high school unfortunately had to deal with racist vandalism on its property. According to RawStory.com, South Pointe High School was defaced as a large rock was spray painted, leaving graffiti that read, “Happy N*gger Month” on it. The vandalized rock was also signed […]
