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'I am not a racist,' says lawyer behind racist New York cafe rant
It’s a dance as old as time. First comes the racist outburst filmed by a passerby and shared across the world, then comes the sheepish Twitter apology and the promise that a piece of unedited footage doesn’t reflect the “real me”. Aaron Schlossberg, who became the most villainous man in New York last week after he verbally abused workers for speaking Spanish in a midtown Manhattan restaurant, has finally commented on his outburst.
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White woman calls cops on black family who barbecued in Oakland Park's barbecue area
White woman calls cops on black family who barbecued in Oakland Park's barbecue area
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A black Yale graduate student was reported to police for napping in her dorm
A white person voices suspicions about an innocuous person of color. Police are summoned. And the encounter is posted on social media, sparking outrage about racial profiling. In what is becoming an all-too familiar episode, a black Yale University graduate student was interrogated by campus police officers early Tuesday morning after a white student found her sleeping in a common room of their dorm and called police.
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4chan Tried to Stop These High School Students From Winning a NASA Competition
Mayor awards $4,000 to black high school students who faced online racist backlash in NASA competition. The money will be used for the teens to further develop their water purification method.
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Toronto restaurant ordered to pay $10,000 after asking black customers to prepay for their meal
The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has ordered a Chinese restaurant in downtown Toronto to pay a black man $10,000 as compensation for a rights violation after it required him and three black companions to prepay for their meals. In May, 2014, Emile Wickham went to Hong Shing Chinese Restaurant, a popular establishment just east of Toronto’s Chinatown, for a late-night birthday dinner with friends.
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A black man was forced to pay upfront at a Chinese restaurant. He got his meal — and $10,000.
Emile Wickham said he and his dining companions were discriminated against at Hong Shing Chinese Restaurant in Toronto.
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Whole Foods is slammed over Yellow Fever restaurant. The owner says it’s not racist.
Some have criticized the store's name is an offensive sexual reference and the deadly disease that ravages the developing world.
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Black Loiterers, White Lingerers, and Starbucks Coffee
There is a well-known stereotype of a particular kind of coffee-shop patron — an aspiring screenwriter or freelancer, scrupulously cobbling together their pitches or book proposals, courtesy of their favorite local haunt’s free Wi-Fi, electrical outlets, and comfortable furniture, paying for their mobile home office with just a $2 cup of bottomless coffee. This patron, of course, is usually white. The trope has been both parodied and celebrated, and it’s easy to find lists ranking coffee places by how easily they can be transformed into work spaces. Since this lifehack only works by shifting costs from the patron to the coffee-shop owner...
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Amid the opioid epidemic, white means victim, black means addict
America’s social hierarchies rule everything – even the opioid epidemic. You don’t have to dig deep to find the hypocrisy and insult to people of color.
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Stop Talking About Race and IQ. Take It From Someone Who Did.
Framing genetic arguments in racial terms isn’t scientific.
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How I got 30 years on death row for someone else's crime
After nearly 30 years behind bars Anthony Ray Hinton was proved innocent – making him one of the longest-serving death row prisoners in America to be exonerated
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Beyond Starbucks: How Racism Shapes Customer Service
It will take more than one day of training to eliminate unfair treatment.
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'When you did nothing wrong, how do you react?': Men arrested at Starbucks feared for their lives
Robinson said he thought about his loved ones and how the afternoon had taken such a turn as he was taken to jail. Nelson wondered if he'd make it home alive.
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Black teen misses bus, gets shot at after asking for directions in Rochester Hills
A 14-year-old missed his bus and it nearly cost him his life. Things took a dangerous turn when Brennan Walker went looking for help at a Rochester Hills home Thursday morning and was confronted by a man with a gun. Walker was trying to walk the bus route to Rochester High School after he woke up late and missed his bus. His mom had taken his phone away, so he didn't have that with him to get directions. So he knocked on a stranger’s door for help -- and almost paid for it with his life.
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Chief Wahoo fans hurl insults at Native Americans during Cleveland Indians' home opener
As they have for 25 years, people gathered outside Progressive Field during opening day to protest the team's name and Chief Wahoo logo, which they say are racist and dishonor the heritage of indigenous people. By John Kuntz.
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Georgia politician declares Confederate History Month and uses the n-word
A former elected official used the N-word several times during a public meeting, offending a black member of a Georgia city's board of commissioners. The tense exchange between the two men happened on the same day that the Atlanta suburb of Griffin, Georgia, declared April as Confederate History Month. While speaking about the declaration during the public comments portion of the meeting, Larry Mr Johnson, a former member of the board who is white, immediately turned his attention to Rodney McCord, who appears to have been one of two black officials at the table.
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Only Black People Prosecuted Under Mississippi Gang Law Since 2010
In the lead-up to this year's legislative session in Mississippi, supporters of a tougher gang law in the state talked a lot about the need to arrest white people. But in an ironic twist, the Jackson Free Press has learned that everyone arrested under the existing gang law from 2010 through 2017 were African American. By Donna Ladd.
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Jesus wasn't white: he was a brown-skinned, Middle Eastern Jew. Here's why that matters
What would our church and society look like if we were confronted with the reality that the body hung on the cross was brown?
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Free speech row as Scots 'Nazi dog' film maker found guilty of being grossly offensive online
THE SCOT who trained his dog to response to his calls of "gas the Jews" has been found guilty of posting an offensive message online. Sheriff Derek O'Carroll found Mark Meechan guilty of communicating a video which was "grossly offensive".
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When the Irish Weren’t White
“[T]hey steal, they are cruel and bloody, full of revenge, and delighting in deadly execution, licentious, swearers and blasphemers, common ravishers of women, and murderers of children.” —Edmund Spencer _...We should remember when America passed laws against another group of immigrants. We should recall when this country tried to ban another group of people based on their religion._
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