On Monday, 30 black students attending a Donald Trump rally at Valdosta State University in rural Georgia were forcefully ejected — simply for being black.
On Tuesday, in Louisville, Ky., what happened to young black protesters at another Trump rally wasn’t just racist — it appears to be outright criminal.
KING: Not long before someone gets killed at Trump rally - NY Daily News
Wednesday, March 02, 2016
St. Louis student can't return to school because he's black - NY Daily News
A third-grader from St. Louis was told he couldn’t return to his elementary school next year—because he’s black.
Edmund Lee’s family will be moving from inside St. Louis city limits to a new suburban school district and, when they asked if the boy could still attend his school after the move, they were refused due to a twisted application of a decades-old state desegregation law forbidding black students from going to city schools.
“It was surprising to me to have on a piece of paper that he couldn’t attend because he was an African American and if he was another race he could,” LaShieka White, Edmond’s mother, told the Daily News.
The 1980 U.S. Court of Appeals law that will prevent Edmond, 9, from returning to the city charter school, Gateway Science Academy, was created with good intentions.
The desegregation law was supposed to diversify both the city schools, which were in poor condition and predominantly black, as well as the suburban schools, in better condition and predominantly white.
But in the case of Edmond’s school, which is roughly 80 percent white, this particular application of the law will actually have the inverse effect by barring a black student.
St. Louis student can't return to school because he's black - NY Daily News
Tuesday, March 01, 2016
Monday, February 29, 2016
Is #MSNBCSoWhite? The departure of Melissa Harris-Perry raises the issue - The Washington Post
MSNBC spent about six years building itself into a different kind of cable-news network, with a diverse cast of hosts, anchors and contributors. It has taken a matter of months for people to call that image into question.
The network on Saturday dropped host Melissa Harris-Perry after she walked off her program to protest a series of preemptions because of campaign coverage. Harris-Perry, an African American intellectual, effectively sealed her fate by issuing an email to her colleagues that implied the network had mistreated her because of her race.
Is #MSNBCSoWhite? The departure of Melissa Harris-Perry raises the issue - The Washington Post
After Tense Weeks, Melissa Harris-Perry’s MSNBC Show Is Canceled - The New York Times
I am disgusted and I have had it with MSNBC. Once again the Sisyphean nature of racial progress and the dominance of white privilege manifests itself in America, "It all began to unravel for Melissa Harris-Perry four weeks ago.
It was a day before the Iowa caucuses, and despite being in Des Moines, she was not hosting the weekend show on MSNBC that bears her name. That privilege belonged to the network’s legal correspondent, Ari Melber, who quickly introduced her in a split-screen at the beginning of the show.
“It’s a very exciting day here in the ‘Place for Politics,’ ” he said, referring to MSNBC’s slogan. “We are going to get to Melissa, who everyone can see there live in Iowa, in just a second.”
Ms. Harris-Perry vanished from the screen and Mr. Melber added, “That’s what we call proof of life.”
Mr. Melber was joking but the phrasing turned out to be eerily prescient when it came to how Ms. Harris-Perry felt she was treated by the network in the following weeks.
Two days after an email became public in which Ms. Harris-Perry said she felt “worthless” to NBC News executives, and after two weeks of her show being pre-empted so that the network could cover other news, an MSNBC spokesman on Sunday confirmed that the network and Ms. Harris-Perry were “parting ways.”
After Tense Weeks, Melissa Harris-Perry’s MSNBC Show Is Canceled - The New York Times
It was a day before the Iowa caucuses, and despite being in Des Moines, she was not hosting the weekend show on MSNBC that bears her name. That privilege belonged to the network’s legal correspondent, Ari Melber, who quickly introduced her in a split-screen at the beginning of the show.
“It’s a very exciting day here in the ‘Place for Politics,’ ” he said, referring to MSNBC’s slogan. “We are going to get to Melissa, who everyone can see there live in Iowa, in just a second.”
Ms. Harris-Perry vanished from the screen and Mr. Melber added, “That’s what we call proof of life.”
Mr. Melber was joking but the phrasing turned out to be eerily prescient when it came to how Ms. Harris-Perry felt she was treated by the network in the following weeks.
Two days after an email became public in which Ms. Harris-Perry said she felt “worthless” to NBC News executives, and after two weeks of her show being pre-empted so that the network could cover other news, an MSNBC spokesman on Sunday confirmed that the network and Ms. Harris-Perry were “parting ways.”
After Tense Weeks, Melissa Harris-Perry’s MSNBC Show Is Canceled - The New York Times
Sunday, February 28, 2016
Florida students face criminal charges for putting pepper in teacher's drink | US news | The Guardian
Three 12-year-old girls in Florida are facing criminal charges after they allegedly poured red pepper into a middle school teacher’s soft drink.
The girls were arrested on Friday night, according to the Daytona Beach News-Journal, after their teacher at Deltona Middle School in central Florida complained to police.
Volusia County sheriff’s spokesman Gary Davidson says one of the girls was angry because their teacher, 52-year-old Jayne Morgan, had disciplined her Monday for dumping glue into another student’s backpack. The next day, the student brought crushed red pepper from her home and grabbed Morgan’s open can of soda off the teacher’s desk.
Davidson said that an investigation revealed two other girls were involved. One distracted Morgan while a second girl poured the pepper into the can, and then placed it back on the teacher’s desk.
When Morgan took a drink, she began choking and experienced shortness of breath, and later said she experienced a sore throat and stomach pains. She discovered the pepper flakes when she poured the soda into a clear cup.
According to local news station WPBF, the students will go to Volusia Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Daytona Beach. Two girls were charged with felony offenses of tampering with a consumer product and poisoning, and the third was charged with tampering with a product and being a principal to poisoning food or water.
The teacher also believes one of the girls may have stolen a laptop, WPBF reported. The teacher chose to press charges, a school spokesperson told the Orlando Sentinel.
“It should be noted this act was done in retaliation for the teacher upholding her duties and responsibilities as a teacher, maintaining control of her classroom and attempting to protect the other children from [the disciplined student’s] unacceptable behavior,” the sheriff’s department wrote in affidavits obtained by Florida Today.
Saturday, February 27, 2016
Clinton regrets 1996 remark on ‘super-predators’ after encounter with activist - The Washington Post
This is weak but we must confront all politicians about what they do and say about life. With politicians you often have to be "rude" or they will ignore you.
"In a written response to The Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart on the issue Thursday, Clinton said: “Looking back, I shouldn’t have used those words, and I wouldn’t use them today."
"My life’s work has been about lifting up children and young people who’ve been let down by the system or by society, kids who never got the chance they deserved," Clinton continued in the statement. "And unfortunately today, there are way too many of those kids, especially in African-American communities. We haven’t done right by them. We need to. We need to end the school to prison pipeline and replace it with a cradle-to-college pipeline."
Clinton regrets 1996 remark on ‘super-predators’ after encounter with activist - The Washington Post
"In a written response to The Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart on the issue Thursday, Clinton said: “Looking back, I shouldn’t have used those words, and I wouldn’t use them today."
"My life’s work has been about lifting up children and young people who’ve been let down by the system or by society, kids who never got the chance they deserved," Clinton continued in the statement. "And unfortunately today, there are way too many of those kids, especially in African-American communities. We haven’t done right by them. We need to. We need to end the school to prison pipeline and replace it with a cradle-to-college pipeline."
Clinton regrets 1996 remark on ‘super-predators’ after encounter with activist - The Washington Post
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Tim Cook says FBI order 'could expose people to incredible vulnerabilities' | The Verge
This is a serious legal issue and I believe Apple is on the right side of history. Fear creates the worst laws. Look at the Patriot Act under Bush, The 1994 Crime Bill under Clinton. In addition you are trying to force a company to create a technology. That raises issues under the 13th Amendment. This is only the beginning.
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Tim Cook says FBI order 'could expose people to incredible vulnerabilities' | The Verge
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Tim Cook says FBI order 'could expose people to incredible vulnerabilities' | The Verge
Black Lives Matter protesters confront Hillary Clinton at a fundraiser In South Carolina - Black Lives Matter activists confronts Clinton with a horribly racially tinged quote when she was defending her husband's 1994 crime bill. As Michelle Alexander wrote that she does not deserve our vote. Her refusal to apologizes show she still does not deserve Black votes. In the general election she may be the lesser of two evils, but no more than that.
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Meet the 24-year-old who could change how the US handles sexual assaults
Meet the 24-year-old who could change how the US handles sexual assaults
"In what they hope will become a bipartisan bright spot, Democrats in the Senate on Tuesday introduced a sweeping new bill to guarantee and standardize certain rights for people who have experienced sexual assault.
The bill is the latest attempt to fix a system for prosecuting sex crimes that many public figures agree is broken. But where many bills focus on expanding resources for law enforcement, this is the first national proposal to focus so directly on improving legal protections for those who are sexually assaulted."
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