racism in America
Mad Maskless White Woman Caught On Video Calling Bakery Worker N-Word
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Screencap / IG While everyone across the nation and much of the world is almost certainly up to their limit in wearing masks, nothing should excuse the behavior of a Manhattan bakery patron. A woman, presumably white, called a clerk at the store the “n-word” while employing the “er” version after she was refused service for not donning a mask. As reported by CBS News New York, the woman was at the Davidovich Bakery inside the Essex Market on the Lower East Side of Manhattan over the weekend. A bystander captured the incident on their smartphone in where the woman, pushing a stroller and seemingly walking with other children, was refused service after security left the decision to serve the patron up to the clerk behind a partition. When the clerk decided ...
White Headmaster Made Black Boy Kneel & Apologize, Said “It’s The African Way”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Theodore Parisienne / T.P. A catholic school in Long Island, N.Y. found itself the center of controversy after an incident involving a white headmaster and a Black student. Headmaster John Holian of St. Martin de Porres Marianist school told the boy to kneel and apologize, saying to him that it was the Nigerian way to do so. The New York Daily News broke the story last weekend involving the 11-year-old boy and the headmaster, after the boy’s mother, Trisha Paul, explained the situation to the outlet. The student was reportedly observed doing an incorrect assignment in English class and was then sent to the headmaster for discipline. Holian claims he learned of the kneeling apology from a Nigerian father, but that didn’t sit right with the boy’s mother. “O...
Black Detroit Suburb Resident Threatened With KKK Flag By White Neighbor
Source: JeDonna Matthews Dinges / J.D. The Metro Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe finds itself under media scrutiny after a Black resident there was reportedly assaulted with a visual hate crime. JeDonna Matthews Dinges, a Black woman, says that a neighbor at a house adjacent to hers displayed a Ku Klux Klan flag, but she’s not taking the threat lightly and has challenged the issue head on. Deadline Detroit columnist Greg Bowens penned a new piece this week detailing Dinges’ ongoing saga with her white neighbor and the KKK flag. Dinges, who is a longtime resident of the coastal Michigan area and raised her child there, is a successful business owner in the region. In Bowens’ piece, Dinges shared that this past Tuesday (Feb. 16), she opened the side window of her home and saw the KKK flag em...
Black Detroit Suburb Resident Threatened With KKK Flag By White Neighbor
Source: JeDonna Matthews Dinges / J.D. The Metro Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe finds itself under media scrutiny after a Black resident there was reportedly assaulted with a visual hate crime. JeDonna Matthews Dinges, a Black woman, says that a neighbor at a house adjacent to hers displayed a Ku Klux Klan flag, but she’s not taking the threat lightly and has challenged the issue head on. Deadline Detroit columnist Greg Bowens penned a new piece this week detailing Dinges’ ongoing saga with her white neighbor and the KKK flag. Dinges, who is a longtime resident of the coastal Michigan area and raised her child there, is a successful business owner in the region. In Bowens’ piece, Dinges shared that this past Tuesday (Feb. 16), she opened the side window of her home and saw the KKK flag em...
No Surprise: Case Against Amy Cooper aka “Central Park Karen” Has Been Dismissed
Source: New York Daily News / Getty This news sadly comes as no surprise to many. The criminal case against Amy Cooper, aka “Central Park Karen,” who called the police on a Black bird-watcher falsely claiming he threatened her, has been dismissed. The New York Times reports that on Tuesday (Feb.16) that a senior prosecutor, Joan Illuzzi-Orbon, asked a judge during a hearing in a Manhattan Criminal Court to dismiss the single misdemeanor charge against Cooper and the judge agreed. According to the New York Times, Cooper was facing up to a year in jail if she was convicted but avoided that after completing a therapeutic program that included instruction about racial biases. Cooper’s therapist revealed she underwent five sessions and that they were “a moving experience” and that “Ms. Cooper l...
Georgia Police Chief & Officer Caught On Bodycam Saying Disgusting Racist Remarks At BLM Rally
Source: picture alliance / Getty Here is one instance when police bodycam footage actually worked in getting racist cops fired. A police chief and an officer from the small Georgia town of Hamilton are now out of a job after being caught saying racist and misogynistic remarks on footage recovered from a bodycam one of the officers was wearing. The disgusting comments were made as the two law enforcement officials were preparing to patrol a Black Lives Matter protest last year. On the video, both officers can be heard having a conversation. Brooks can be heard using the N-word and made lewd comments about Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams asking which one they would rather sleep with? Complaining about the protests, Allmond also made...
‘Star Wars’ Uses Its Force To Defend Web Series Host Krystina Arielle Following Racist Attacks
Source: Pacific Press / Getty Yes, Star Wars fans can be ridiculously racist too. Krystina Arielle should have been celebrating after being announced as the new host of The High Republic Show web series, but instead, she was the target of racial attacks. Star Wars swiftly stepped up to defend its new web series host. Yahoo News reported that immediately following the announcement of Arielle becoming the host of the new Star Wars subseries; she was met with racist criticism in response to resurfaced tweets she shared back in June speaking out about the role white people played in racist America at the height of protests that broke out worldwide following the unjust killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery. “White People: You do not get to absolve people of racism. Yo...
Birkenstocks Karen Who Falsely Accused A Black Teen of Stealing Her iPhone Claims She’s The Victim
Source: eclipse_images / Getty Birkenstocks in the winter wearing Karen is not going away. This past weekend, a 22-year-old white woman accused Jazz musician Keyon Harrold’s 14-year-old son of swiping her iPhone at the Arlo SoHo Hotel in New York. Harrold filmed the incident and shared it on his Instagram page, showing the still-unnamed Karen throwing a hissy fit even lunging at his son. Like every other Karen, she is now claiming that she was the victim in the incident and not Harrold’s son. On Tuesday (Dec.29), she reached out to CNN to tell her side of the story. In the 20-minute phone interview in which CNN described her as rambling, she claimed she first approached Arlo Hotel security to find out who took her iPhone. Before setting her attention on Harrold’s son, she demanded another ...
Birkenstocks In The Winter Wearing Karen Falsely Accuses Black Teen of Stealing Her iPhone
Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz Of course, another Karen couldn’t let the year come to an end without making an absolute scene drenched in racism. The latest Karen incident took place over the weekend involving a “distressed” white woman getting her, according to Apple Care, on running to an NYC hotel manager accusing a Black teen of stealing her iPhone. The teen’s father, Grammy Award-winning Jazz trumpeter Keyon Harrold shared a video of irate Becky going absolute nuts accusing his son of jacking her iPhone. In the video, she is vehemently trying to convince the hotel manager without a shred of evidence that the phone in the teen’s possession is hers. Harrold can be heard in the video saying she should turn on the “find my iPhone” feature, and she replies, again with no evidence ...
Leonard Roberts Details Toxic Environment, Lack Of Diversity On ‘Heroes’ Show
Source: Mark Mainz/TV / Getty Back in 2006, NBC had a hit on its hands with Heroes, a series that examined the lives of ordinary human beings who become superpowered over time. Leonard Roberts, one of the few Black cast members, says that his time on the program was made worse due to clashes with a fellow cast member and the lack of diversity overall left him feeling frustrated. In an op-ed piece for Variety, Roberts, 48, detailed his time on the set of Heroes and thought this was his big break. It was Roberts’ first full-time cast member role and he delivered as a man who had the ability to phase through objects. Roberts wrote that Ali Larter, who played the wife of Roberts’ character on the show, carried their onscreen troubles as a couple into a series of icy real-life confrontations an...
Disney+ Will Now Display A New Warning Label For Content Featuring Racist Tropes
Source: Anadolu Agency / Getty Disney was well aware that some of its iconic content it is offering on Disney+ was insanely problematic, and at first, announced it would address with a vague warning. Now, the house of the mouse is cleaning that message up with a new warning label. Right around the time Disney+ was set to launch back in November 2019, Disney announced it would warn viewers with a label about the racist content in some of its older movies so it wouldn’t have to remove it. The message was met with some criticism because some felt the company’s wording about the content in question was hazy at best. “This program is presented as originally created. It may contain outdated cultural depictions.” It would seem that Disney has gotten the message and is now issuing a new unskippabl...
Twitter Supports Kamala Harris With #MyNameIs After GOP Sen. David Perdue’s Racist Jab
Source: ROBYN BECK / Getty GOP Sen. David Purdue put his racism on full display when he decided to mispronounce Democratic Vice President candidate Kamala Harris‘ name. Twitter banded together to counter Purdue’s ignorance. The Georgia Senator, who is currently in danger of losing his seat, didn’t make his life any easier. On Friday (Oct.16), during one of Donald Trump’s latest COVID-19 super-spreader events disguised as a campaign rally, Purdue played to the racist masses and intentionally mispronounced the California Senator’s name. Perdue should be censured by the full Senate for this BEFORE he loses his seat and is no longer subject to their discipline. Either way, Purdue will forever be marked by history as a racist. https://t.co/d1C6tCzDoP — Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) October 16, 20...
