Rampant Racism in America

- The Washington Post

A prosecutor in San Bernadino County, CA, posted that Maxine Waters was a *c word*, and a ***** from the ghetto and should be shot. He's now on administrative leave, after his superiors ignored other racist postings about Michelle Obama, Mexicans, etc.
 
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It's an old one but I still love it. UB40's "Tyler" about the dodgy arrest and imprisonment of Gary Tyler for a murder it is doutful he could have committed.

Gary Tyler - Wikipedia

"In 1974 formerly all-white Destrehan High School in St. Charles Parish was filled with racial tensions among the students as the administration reluctantly integrated, 20 years after the ruling of Brown v. Board of Education (1954). The school board bussed black students to the school to achieve this. Because of fights breaking out and a violent protest being conducted by white students, officials closed the school early the day of the events.

Black students were sent home on their regular bus. On October 17, 1974, Tyler was 16 and on the bus. As they were leaving Destrehan High School, the bus was attacked by an angry mob of 100-200 whites, mostly students. The whites were angry about integration at the school.[2] Timothy Weber, a 13-year-old boy standing outside the bus with other classmates, was shot and fatally wounded. He later died. Police searched the bus more than once, but no gun was ever found. The bus driver said he believed the shot had come from outside. All the students from the bus were taken to the police station and interrogated under extreme pressure.

Tyler was arrested for disturbing the peace when he talked back to a police officer; he was soon charged with the murder of 13-year-old Weber. His mother Juanita Tyler and he said that he was beaten severely by the police in an attempt to make him confess, but he refused. Other witnesses later told of being intimidated and threatened by the police. As columnist Bob Herbert wrote in 2007, "A white boy had been killed and some black had to pay. Mr. Tyler, as good a black as any, was taken to a sheriff’s substation where he was beaten unmercifully amid shouted commands that he confess. He would not."[3]

The racially charged atmosphere had been heightened by the arrival of David Duke in Destrehan. He was emerging as a leader in the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi politics in Louisiana and the United States. He brought what he called 'security teams' to protect white residents."

 

Ya know, I still wear my safety pins... every day... right on top-center of my cap & right on top-center of my T-shirt. I started wearing them over a year ago because I wanted those disenfranchised people, my fellow earthlings, to know I was a safe person to be around, no matter what they look like, where they come from, who they are or who they love.

But now it's an extra badge just for me saying "I am NOT one of these ignorant c*nts! :argh:
 
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