September 2010
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Feds sue racist Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio →
The U.S. Justice Department has sued Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio after the lawman refused for over a year to turn over records in an investigation into allegations about discrimination, unconstitutional searches and seizures, and jail policies that discriminate against people with limited English skills.
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Exploring the psychological motives of racism →
Psychology Today goes over a list of psychological motives that appear to contribute to racism, among them: boosting their own self-esteem, giving their own group self-importance, anxieties about a changing world, survival motives, and seeking status hierarchy.
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Seattle man attacked shopkeeper, called him a... →
35-year-old Seattle resident Brock Stainbrook is facing assault and hate crime charges following allegations that he accosted a clerk at a convenience store. A detective testified in court that Stainbrook threw change on the floor near the victim’s feet, punched him in the side of the head with his fist then said “You’re not even American, you’re Al-Qaeda. Go back to your...
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Outcries of racism as Texas considers subsidising... →
Some texan critics of the latest Robert Rodriguez’s feature “Machete” are calling for the cancelation of a state subsidy, suggesting it would be state-sponsored racism. Prison Planet’s Alex Jones slammed the film as ‘pro-immigration, anti-Texas’, while Fox News attached the movie for ‘blaming everything that’s gone wrong in Mexico on the...
August 2010
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Op Ed: Georgia University dormitory name a tribute... →
RedAndBlack.com, an independent student newspaper for the University of Georgia, calls for the renaming of a building that honors former senator Richard Russell Jr., a self-proclaimed white supremacist who frequently filibustered the civil rights act.
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New Jersey judge rules against parents who gave... →
Heath and Deborah Campbell, the New Jersey couple who came under public scrutiny for naming their three children after Nazis, has been denied custody of their kids.
The family first attracted the public’s attention when a local Shop-Rite supermarket refused to decorate a birthday cake for “Adolf Hitler Campbell”. NJ’s division of Youth and Family Services removed Adolf...
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Staten Island's Racial Tensions →
[via Gothamist | Staten Island Advance Chronicles]
With racially charged attacks on the rise in the Port Richmond section of Staten Island, both the Staten Island Advance Chronicles and Gothamist look at some of the increasing anti-immigrant sentiments of some of the residents in the area.
July 2010
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Love Thy Neighbor? Not If He’s Different. →
New research reveals that people connected to organized religion are more likely to harbor racial prejudice.
[via Miller-McCune | Cobourg Atheist ]
A study by researchers in the University of Southern California found that, although racism is officially against their teachings, religious people are in fact more racist than agnostics. This “religion-racism paradox,” as social psychologist Wendy...
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Ghetto Racism →
Writer Ying Ma shares an opinion article about violent attacks directed towards Asians by African-Americans all over the US and examines the media response.
June 2010
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“The Libertarian Party stands for Civil Rights. We are the party of civil rights....”
– Lex Green, Illinois gubernatorial candidate.
[HuffingtonPost.com | Springfield’s State Journal-Register]
Illinois gubernatorial candidate sided with Kentucky GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul’s views on the Civil Rights Act. Green told reporters on Monday that the Constitution provides...
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Neo-Nazi group gathered in Gettysburg, PA →
[CBS 21 News] Neo-Nazi Aryan Nations gathered at the Gettysburg National Military Park Saturday afternoon, where they were met by a group of protesters. In attendance was the National Director of the group, Paul Mullet, who at one point yelled at the opposing crowd: “We’re ready to risk everything to defend what’s right and what’s white in this world!”
Members of...
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New York pastor axes conversion of convent to... →
Midland Beach Community, in Staten Island, NYC, pressured pastor Keith Fennessy from selling an abandoned convent to be converted into a mosque. When the proposed sale was brought up at a community meeting hundreds denounced the deal, linking the Muslim American Society to terrorists groups.
Muslim American Society board member Ayman Hammous said “It is a sort of racism. The community in...
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Maryland town working to remove racial language... →
Cape St. Claire Improvement Association is working to remove racially discriminatory language from covenants that date back to the 1940s. The law in question reads: “At no time shall any lot or any part thereof be sold, leased, transferred to or permitted to be occupied by any Negro, Chinaman, Japanese, or person of Negro, Chinese, or Japanese descent. This restriction is not intended to...
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Watch2 Washington State high school seniors barred from graduation ceremony after racist prank
King5.com: News Article
Two students have been banned from their graduation ceremony at Auburn-Riverside High School in Washington State after a racially toned prank. Two students, Andrew Carel and Kyle [No surname specified], hanged bananas on a balcony above a stairwell students had nicknamed “The...
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Jason Vassell, ex-UMass student, acquitted of... →
On February 2, 2008, Jason Vassell, then a student in the University of Massachusetts, was attacked in his dorm room by two non-students, John Bowes and Jonathan Bosse, who broke his nose and yelled racial slurs at him. Vassell defended himself with a pocketknife and was charged with two counts of armed assault with intent to murder and two counts of aggravated assault and battery with a dangerous...
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Federal Border Patrol disrupted a wedding... →
Federal Border Patrol agents disrupted the wedding reception of a newly married interracial couple in St. Albarns asking attendees, including the African-born groom, for proof that they were in the country legally. Mark Henry, operations officer for the U.S. Border Patrol, confirmed there was a call about “suspicious people” on the street in St. Albans.
[via Burlington Free...
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In U.S., It’s Open Season For Racism Toward... →
Writer William K. Wolfrum published an opinion article about racism towards Muslims.
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Texas State Board of Education Approved Rewriting... →
On May 21, the Texas State Board of Education approved several changes to the state’s social studies curriculum.
During negotiations, numerous attempts to add the names or references to important Hispanics throughout history were denied, including one amendment that would had specified that Tejanos died at the Alamo. Another amendment deleted a requirement that sociology students...
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Georgia teacher suspended after pupils don Klan... →
From the articles: Catherine Ariemma, teacher of the Georgia-based Lumpkin County High School, has been suspended after allowing students to dress in mock Ku Klux Klan robes for a history project. Ariemma told the press she had asked the students to film scenes from American history for a course combining US history with film study, which included a scene where students were exploring American...
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South Carolina Senator Jake Knotts continues to... →
From the article: Knotts says he believed Haley has been set up by a network of Sikhs and was programmed to run for governor of South Carolina by outside influences in foreign countries. He claims she is hiding her religion and he wants the voters to know about it. […] he believes Haley’s father has been sending letters to India saying that Haley is the first Sikh running for high office in...
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University of Texas prepares to vote on changing... →
An University of Texas dorm currently honors a former law professor William Stewart Simkins, who has been uncovered as being a member of the Ku Klux Klan in an article published by a former UT law professor, Thomas D. Russell. The article describes Simkins as a Klansman who boasted to UT students about his activities and how he assaulted African-Americans.
The University is exploring the option...
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WatchUS Senate Candidate Rand Paul discusses his views on Government and Civil Rights
On May 19, winner of the Republican primary for Kentucky’s Senate seat, Rand Paul visited The Rachel Maddow show where they talked about his position on several “big government issues”. In a series of television and radio interviews, he had previously suggested that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was...
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Arizona Ethnic Studies Classes Banned, Teachers... →
From the article published on May 5, 2010: Under the ban, sent to Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer by the state legislature Thursday, schools will lose state funding if they offer any courses that “promote the overthrow of the U.S. government, promote resentment of a particular race or class of people, are designed primarily for students of a particular ethnic group or advocate ethnic solidarity...
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Study finds Racism still blights southern US... →
Published June 6, 2010.
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Steve Blair, Arizona City Councilman, fired from... →
The City Councilman who called for the removal of the Prescott, AZ school mural has been fired from his radio show by KYCA. He talked about the situation to PrescotteNews.com
Talking about the mural he said “it was defacing a historic building […] Too big. Too in your face. Wrong place at the wrong time.”
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“We already got one raghead in the White House, we don’t need a raghead in...”
– Jake Knotts, South Carolina State Senator, talked about fellow Republican Nikki Haley, who is running for governor in SC, and President Obama. Haley is of Indian-American descent and was raised Sikh. He later claimed it was “a joke”.
[via CNN Political Ticker / Gawker]
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Arizona Elementary School Whitens Faces of Black... →
Jeff Lane, principal of a Prescott, AZ elementary school, ordered the lightening of skin tones in a mural after a series of racial slurs were hurled at the painters, which included students.
City councilman Steve Blair said on his AM radio talk show that the mural should be painted over because “it’s pathetic […] [it] excite some kind of diversity power struggle that...