racism issues

It's official. Trump pardons former Sheriff Joe Arpaio Will wonders never cease?

Harris is a guy that I find incredibly disappointing. I really liked some of the points he made in debates around the peak of the 4 Horsemen Era, but egad, he has disgraced himself since. This seems to be the bottom, giving a fawning interview to Charles Murray. Here is a great article breaking...

"...Because Mexican is not a race" has been told more than once in this forum and others. I think this is not well reasoned. Firstly "racist" under its modern meaning is actually "xenophobia" which can indeed be the sole xenophobia against Mexican. But nobody or nearly use that word among lay...

Not trolling, but this is not the first time I have encountered racism by non-Whites. http://www.dw.com/en/attacks-on-africans-expose-indias-racist-inclinations/a-38207117

Paul LePage Tells John Lewis He Should 'Thank Lincoln For His Freedom' This is the same guy who said, “Let me tell you something: Black people come up the highway and they kill Mainers. He agreed with Maine Republican Party Chairman Charlie Webster, that there was evidence of voter fraud...

For the purpose of this discussion I am talking about the USA specifically. It seems there is an ongoing debate about how we define and view racism. I personally adhere to the standard dictionary definition of racism which simply requires the belief in racial superiority or inferiority. I...

I think I understand what the teacher in this instance was trying to say, I will highlight the key passage in the quote below: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2016/10/19/to-be-white-is-to-be-racist-period-a-high-school-teacher-told-his-class/?tid=a_inl But he has fallen into...

I have split this thread off from a thread in the US Election section, where a picture of some dummies hanging in the yard of a possible Trump supporter evolved into a discussion of the cultural significance of hanging effigies in trees in America and in other countries. As splitting threads...

This thread has been split from What if the "wrong" person wins in November? where the discussion about Western culture and values was woefully off topic. Not sure if you've all seen this image or not: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CvLxFW9UkAUkMr3.jpg It shows how the results would be if only...

This one is all on video too and the video was released almost immediately in contrast to The Milwaukee shooting where they say they won't release the body cam video until after the investigation. Video released in fatal police shooting of unarmed Oklahoma man Terence Crutcher Watching the...

Quality humor cannot survive unscathed in these days. I figure that racism really is gone when white lesbian comedians can ride on the backs of fast black men and nobody does anything but laugh...

Surely there must be a thread already? But I did not see one. Apologies if I missed it but I'm on my phone and searching is not optimal. The diverse denizens of Milwaukee are rioting on behalf of the latest cop-evading, arrest-resisting dindu thug with a long rap sheet. They sure know how to...

Here's why people get mad at the cops: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/baltimore-officials-justice-department-promises-sweeping-overhaul-of-city-police/2016/08/10/f022ded2-5e72-11e6-8e45-477372e89d78_story...

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/leader-of-american-nazi-party-trump-win-will-be-a-real-opportunity-for-us/ Donald Trump, number one with racists. Wonder why that might be.

Are race relations in the USA better today or worse than 16 years ago? Discuss: Opinions wanted on race relations currently in the USA. Are things getting better? Worse? Why?

Research by the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation in Maryland finds that the amount of times people are arrested determines how often the situation turns violent and the race which gets stopped the most is the most likely to encounter violence...

Hey Georgia it's 2016 not 1916.

Giuliani Says BLM Is Racist The Bureau Of Land Management have no overall bias against black people. Totally clueless... :confused:

One of Trumps delegates in California is William Johnson, also described as "one of the country's most prominent white nationalists". Johnson is the leader of the American Freedom Party, which "represents the political interests of White Americans". According to the Southern Poverty Law Center...

http://eagnews.org/video-harvard-stu...-to-privilege/ "When a white debater asked Feliciano whether he should commit suicide, Feliciano said “I don’t see why not, it’s ethical.” When the white debater suggested that it might be better to remain alive and fight the social forces that promote...

Obama said the only word that starts with N that is edited here. You know, ******. He was being interviewed by Marc Maron in what has to be the biggest coup the comedian ever got for his largely overlooked but usually funny podcast...

From the wait, what? C'mon! Files. Link

Michael Savage, a fixture of conservative radio, had this to say on a Friday night edition of his show. The white man is a quiet man and a peaceful man and right now the white man is very, very quiet, and very, very peaceful, and like many dictators before him, Barack Obama thinks the white...

To me, this is possibly the worst kind of all, as it disguises itself under a veneer of respectability by quoting statistics. An example would be black Americans incarceration and violence rates, using the criminal data to come to a conclusion that black Americans are a bad people who will not...

With limited approval by the PTB (see Questions thread in Forum Management), if it is limited to this thread and does not go meandering around the other threads and sub-forums like Shia LeBeouf at Cabaret (or in any interview he’s given on the topic), here is where we can discuss (hopefully...

For the third time, Wisconsin's Voter ID law has been found to be unconstitutional. Only this time, Scott and his GOPers got a real smack-down: My highlights.

This might be more appropo to Social or US politics but here goes: So in Florida there is a Civil War battlefield Olustee, not a major battlefield but not a minor one by any stretch of the imagination. On this field there are some 3 monuments to Confederate soldiers. The only Union monument...

About four hours ago, Sarah Palin posted a photo on Facebook celebrating MLK Day. Well, all except for the last line of the photo's caption, which reads, "Mr. President, in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. and all who commit to ending any racial divide, no more playing the race card." I don't...

Fabulous Article from March 1963 issue of Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/01/how-kids-dealt-with-the-stress-of-desegregation/283146/ Would the rest of the World work at least this well. :dio:

I notice this comes up a lot when people are doing a caricature of racist black people, or things like the 2008 Election when there were threats of Michelle Obama saying "whitey" on tape that never materialized. But I actually realized that amongst the thousands of black people I've known and...