With ‘Juneteenth’ now a federal holiday, US retailers have used the opportunity to hawk products marking black freedom. However, activists say that some of these products miss the mark, while others are racially offensive. President Joe Biden officially recognized June 19 – Juneteenth – as a federal holiday last year. …
Read More »NYC mayor apologizes for racial slur
New York City Mayor Eric Adams apologized on Friday for comments he made in 2019 in which he referred to his white colleagues in the city’s police department as “crackers.” An old clip showing Adams using the racial slur when speaking at a private gathering has recently surfaced. In the …
Read More »US lawmaker accused of ‘racial violence’ over Halloween costume
The photo in question, which surfaced online earlier this week, shows Malden, Massachusetts City Councilor Jadeane Sica wearing a bamboo hat and an “Orchids of Asia” T-shirt while holding a bottle of lotion. Her husband is shown with her in the picture, wearing New England Patriots garb and holding a …
Read More »Multi-racial Britain now resembles Neapolitan ice cream, with brown at the top and gammon pink firmly at the bottom
Britain’s on-screen portrayals of race have always been loaded. Be it the abject brown-faced cretinism of Spike Milligan or the creepy sexualised coonery of Little Britain, representations of minorities on film and TV have typically reflected the nation’s eternal neuroses and mediocrity. But while in the past such depictions were …
Read More »‘Stop singing that word’: Ex-Man United ace Park tells fans to drop dog meat chant because of its ‘racial insult to Korean people’
United supporters sang the song towards Hee-Chan Hwang, the South Korea international who plays for Premier League side Wolves, when they traveled to Molineux for a match in August, according to the former Old Trafford favorite. The Seoul-born midfielder says that he believes the chant will have made Hwang feel …
Read More »‘You owe an apology!’ Demands to probe DoJ ‘racial profiling’ pour in after acquittal of Chinese professor smeared as spy by FBI
The Department of Justice (DoJ) “should apologize to Professor Anming Hu” and “stop discriminating against Asians,” the California Democrat tweeted, reacting to the outcome of a court case involving a former researcher of the University of Tennessee (UT). “If Hu’s last name was Smith, you would not have brought this case,” …
Read More »Oppressed become oppressors, as the US march to racial & social equality has turned into nothing more than revenge
As the US progresses into the final third of 2021, we find ourselves farther away from the eternal dream of equality and tolerance between races, creeds, ethnicities and genders than we’ve been since the civil rights struggles of the early 1960s. At least that’s what much of the activist media …
Read More »Germany Olympic footballers walk off in final warm-up after ace suffers racial abuse in game behind closed doors against Honduras
As confirmed by the German FA, the incident occured after Felix Udokhai equalized for the 2016 finalists. With the score tied at 1-1, Stefan Kuntz’s men then exited five minutes before full-time in solidarity with their team-mate. Thrust in Group D with their Rio conquerers Brazil, the Ivory Coast and Saudi …
Read More »Man charged with racial abuse after aiming ‘monkey chant’ at ex-Manchester United star Rio Ferdinand
Ferdinand was working for a UK broadcaster in the game between Wolves and Manchester United at Molineux on May 23, a game which saw the attendance of 10,000 home supporters as authorities began to relax Covid-19 restrictions which had been in place for much of the English season. Things soon …
Read More »Some racial awareness in the classroom could actually be a good thing – but arguing ‘maths is racist’ isn’t going to get us there
Back in the dark days of 1970s British state education, the bedrock of my primary school instruction was known, alliteratively, as “the three R’s”, aka “reading, writing and arithmetic”. The concept taught oiks like me the basics, namely barely enough language and mathematical skills to stumble into a world of …
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