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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A white South Carolina man offered $500 to a supposed hit man to kill his black neighbor, hang his body from a tree and burn a cross on his lawn — but the hit man was really an undercover officer, federal prosecutors say. <a href="https://t.co/s8bECfTYmr">https://t.co/s8bECfTYmr</a></p>— NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/994727048185860097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2018</a></blockquote>
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I posted this in the other thread, but while we're talking South Carolina and racism these kinds of things don't help -- South Carolina woman's claims of being harassed by 'white cop' are questioned as new footage emerges | Fox News

I first saw this posted about on Tiger Droppings, but the short of it is that this woman's video went viral -- Shaun King, et. al. promoting her story -- and then the body camera footage was released and she was proven to be a total fraud. Never trust someone who is a professional "advocate" by trade. Social media is certainly helping to stroke racial animus with fake news, Russian trolls, and actually-racist people given a way to spread their views to the masses.
 
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New Jersey school board member apologizes to police chief she called 'skinhead' | Fox News
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Hard to know what the answer is here. Is she racist and this was just an example of that, or is she a decent person who had a bad moment? She seemed sincere in her apology to the police chief, but it's hard to know if she was genuinely sincere or just saying what she needed to say. Seems most of the locals, including the Black Parents Group, think she should resign. If this is who she really is, then yeah, she's gotta go, but if not, I hate to see a decent person pay a heavy price for one moment of emotionally charged stupidity.
 
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Hard to know what the answer is here. Is she racist and this was just an example of that, or is she a decent person who had a bad moment? She seemed sincere in her apology to the police chief, but it's hard to know if she was genuinely sincere or just saying what she needed to say. Seems most of the locals, including the Black Parents Group, think she should resign. If this is who she really is, then yeah, she's gotta go, but if not, I hate to see a decent person pay a heavy price for one moment of emotionally charged stupidity.
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I'm with you. Everyone should get a second chance if they are sincere. I'm good with forgiveness, however true sincerity from politicians (school board included) is a very rare thing. If the locals are asking for her to resign though, it's likely because she has a history.
 
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An example of forgiveness under an extreme circumstance in S.C.

A year later, families of the Charleston shooting victims still wrestle with forgiveness.

Nadine Collier became famous a year ago for three words she said to Dylann Roof, the young white man who a few days earlier had gunned down her mother and eight other African-Americans during a Bible study at their Charleston church: “I forgive you.”

With those words about the June 17, 2015 killings, Collier set off a global debate about forgiveness.

A year later, her grief is heavy. Collier misses the sound of her mother’s voice, the smile on her face she greeted worshipers as an usher at Emanuel AME Church, the spring in her step when she led the procession for Communion.
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He declined comment after being caught in a lie. I wonder if he'll fess up in his Sunday sermon?
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There are bad cops, and there are bad people. Guys like this make it hard on the good cops doing their jobs, and also take away from the efforts to expose the bad cops.

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An example of forgiveness under an extreme circumstance in S.C.

A year later, families of the Charleston shooting victims still wrestle with forgiveness.
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We need more folks like this. And less of the above.
 
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"Welcome to Starbucks, you fucking bourgeois pig." To be fair, I say that to people too
 
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Candace Owens challenges ESPN star Jemele Hill to racism debate, says Dems use her to 'paralyze blacks with undue fear' | Fox News

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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"

Bombingham: Decades of racist bombings captured in chilling photos (al.com)

When Portland banned blacks: Oregon’s shameful history as an ‘all-white’ state (Wash Post)

BOSTON. RACISM. IMAGE. REALITY. (Boston Globe)

Chicago Isn’t Just Segregated, It
Basically Invented Modern Segregation (Chicago Mag)

Unsolved and overlooked murders: Investigating cold cases of the civil rights era
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New details in book about Emmett Till’s death prompted officials to reopen investigation (Wash Post)

Did jury makeup decide Curtis Flowers' fate and send him to death row? (Clarion Ledger)

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Insane story of faked racism -- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ceipt-restaurant-says/?utm_term=.00fa9fa45637

The Texas restaurant company that banned a customer after an employee’s story of a receipt scrawled with a racial epithet went viral said Monday that it had parted ways with the employee and learned that the story was spurious.

“After further investigation, we have learned that our employee fabricated the entire story,” Terry Turney, the chief operating officer of Saltgrass steakhouses, said in a statement. “Racism of any form is intolerable, and we will always act swiftly should it occur in any of our establishments. Falsely accusing someone of racism is equaling disturbing.”

The incident unfolded earlier this month when Khalil Cavil, 20, a waiter at a Saltgrass outpost in Odessa, Tex., posted an image to Facebook that showed a $108 bill with zero on the tip line, and “We don’t tip terrorist,” written in ink at the top. Cavil, who is African American and Caucasian, said the note was left on one of his tables, and that it left him “sick to my stomach.”

“I share this because I want people to understand that this racism, and this hatred still exists,” Cavil wrote. “Although, this is nothing new, it is still something that will test your faith.”

The incident came amid increased attention given to incidents of racist behavior in the public sphere, particularly as they are shared in social media posts that generate thousands of views and strong emotions. But the ease with which fake information can spread on the Internet before it is ever verified remains a persistent concern.

Cavil’s post was shared thousands of times, generating about 8,000 comments on Facebook. The decision by Saltgrass, which is owned by the company Landry’s, to ban the customer for the incident drew coverage in USA Today, CBS and The Washington Post.

“Racism of any form is unacceptable,” Turney said at the time.

On Monday, the company declined to explain what had caused it to issue the striking about-face or whether Cavil had been fired.

“All I can say is he’s no longer with the company,” spokeswoman Colleen Wagner said. It is not clear what information on the receipt was authentic.

The customer, whose name had been redacted on the receipt, has not been identified, but the company said that the person has been invited back to the restaurant to dine free.

Cavil was not immediately available to comment. A voice-mail message left with his mother, Jamie Swindle, was not returned. The Odessa American reported he had apologized in an interview with a reporter.

After his story went viral, Cavil thanked supporters on Facebook who sent him money. But Cavil’s Facebook posts about the incident have since been deleted and it is not clear whether his profile still exists.

At the time, Cavil gave an interview to an ABC affiliate in Texas in which he spoke about what he said was the history of his name and about how his faith was guiding him through the experience of supposedly being called a terrorist.

“It was not about the money,” Cavil said. “It’s about shedding a light on an issue I feel very passionately about.”
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Milking the fake racism for money while grandstanding is pretty nuts, but the craziest part is the interview given on ABC before it came to light he faked the whole thing. Total sociopath. Links to photos an the interview are in the article.
 
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So I was doing project management and site observation on a paving project on a public road near a fancy winery. The paving contractors crew was running traffic control and using walkie talkies. Apparently they were on the same channel as the winery staff and had some less than flattering things to say about various ethnic groups. Whoopsie.
 
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So I was doing project management and site observation on a paving project on a public road near a fancy winery. The paving contractors crew was running traffic control and using walkie talkies. Apparently they were on the same channel as the winery staff and had some less than flattering things to say about various ethnic groups. Whoopsie.
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Fake news.

We all know racists only exist here in the south, so this couldn't have happened in california.
 
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Fake news.

We all know racists only exist here in the south, so this couldn't have happened in california.
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California has a long tradition of racist bullshit and some “progressives” rank amongst the most closeted bigots I’ve ever met. Anyhow, it was a pretty funny conversation with the owner of the construction company. Basically just told him to tell his employees if they’re gonna be dickheads they might want to do a radio check before letting it all hangout. Lol.
 
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So I was doing project management and site observation on a paving project on a public road near a fancy winery. The paving contractors crew was running traffic control and using walkie talkies. Apparently they were on the same channel as the winery staff and had some less than flattering things to say about various ethnic groups. Whoopsie.
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Lmaooo. Very awkward situation.
 
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California has a long tradition of racist bullshit and some “progressives” rank amongst the most closeted bigots I’ve ever met. Anyhow, it was a pretty funny conversation with the owner of the construction company. Basically just told him to tell his employees if they’re gonna be dickheads they might want to do a radio check before letting it all hangout. Lol.
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Was it the winery staff that were saying racist shit, or the construction folks?
 
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Just curious, for those of you on/near campus, if this is getting much attention:

https://sports.yahoo.com/notre-dame-students-knelt-national-anthem-005158597.html

Durrell Jackson has been protesting racial inequality at Notre Dame football games for two years.

The junior started right after Colin Kaepernick began his protest of police brutality in 2016. He remembers the reactions of other fans when he first sat during the national anthem. “I got this look from the people standing up next to me, like ‘What are you doing?!’ ” Jackson said by phone Monday. “I gave them a look, ‘Yeah, I’m doing it.’ ”

This past Saturday, at the last Notre Dame home game of the season, Jackson had plenty of company.

Dozens of students kneeled on the benches of Notre Dame Stadium, in part as a call to fellow students to pay attention to racial issues, in part because of a recent episode of police brutality in Indiana, and in part because of their faith.

“It’s a political issue and a faith issue,” Jackson said. “I’m a black Christian. I love life. I love my brother. I follow what Jesus had done and what he died for. Last time I checked, he died for others. [Racial inequality] is a problem that hit my faith and my politics. I have to go out there. I have to do this.”

Saturday’s protest made some waves, though, because of its size. Shawn Wu, a 20-year-old junior like Jackson, saw his schoolmate sitting during the anthem at the start of the season, during the Michigan game. “When the anthem started, I was on the edge,” Wu said. “I was not sure I was committed to this form of protest. I was undecided. I ended up not having the courage.”

More recently, though, he got a bit of a challenge from a teacher. Wu is in a “Realities of Race” seminar and the instructor sent out a poll on a group chat about whether they would ever kneel. “A lot of us said no,” Wu recalled. “We thought a lot about it.”

Wu ended up texting Jackson, wondering about a larger protest at the last home Irish game. Jackson, happy to have more than a few friends along for his usual demonstration, welcomed it. And on Saturday, something regular became something different.

“We went in there, we all sat together as a group,” Jackson said. “We knew something big was happening, but we still did normal Notre Dame game stuff. We still were hype to see the players come out. We knew we were going to do something we felt in our heart was important. We all kneeled. We stood back up and we all looked at each other.”

“We knew we were going to do something we felt in our heart was important.” — Notre Dame junior Durrell Jackson

Nearly all of the coverage of protests during the national anthem has been about the NFL players and the backlash. We hear from enraged dissenters, from the president, from owners. We even heard from legendary Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz, who accused kneeling athletes of “hurting the sport.”

We don’t hear as much about regular, nameless people who express solidarity without a lot of attention.

And we don’t hear much about the faith-based reasons for those protests.

“Our goal for this protest was to reframe it,” said Wu, who has a minor in theology. “It’s not just a liberal act because we’re snowflakes or whatever, but it’s because of a deep reverence for the flag and also Notre Dame’s tradition of standing up for what is right. This isn’t to limit it to Catholics, but part of it is our faith. I think people forget how much Catholic theology calls for us to stand with the marginalized to face injustice.”

Notre Dame has a special and celebrated tie to civil rights, as personified by Father Theodore Hesburgh, the former president who stood hand-in-hand with Martin Luther King, Jr. at a rally at Soldier Field in 1964. Hesburgh was awarded the Medal of Freedom “for his visionary work against elements of apartheid in America,” according to a page on the Notre Dame website.

“From the exhausting fact-finding missions to the final deliberations over wording, Father Hesburgh was acknowledged as the principal architect of the Civil Rights Act and served on the Civil Rights Commission from its inception in 1957 until 1972,” the site says.

There is timing in the religious aspect of the protest, as according to the Religious News Service, Catholic leaders are expected to issue their first major letter on racism since the civil rights era in the days ahead.

But it goes beyond faith. Just recently, ProPublica reported on a video of Elkhart, Indiana, police beating a handcuffed man in a police station. The mayor of the town reportedly only sent the case to prosecutors after the South Bend Tribune requested a copy of the video, which shows the handcuffed man bleeding for six minutes after being repeatedly struck. (The man in custody was eventually sentenced to a year in jail for battery.)

Jackson said that growing up in Louisiana, the police were a force to fear. He remembers a time when a fight broke out at a local roller rink and he says a cousin was struck with a baton for trying to retrieve his skates.

“This affects me, my future kids, my brothers, my father, the men I know and the men I don’t know, that look just like me,” Jackson said. “That’s a problem I have to stand up and fight for.”

He said he would protest on his own, regardless of any reaction, and he will continue to protest even if others don’t join him next season.

When asked the early reaction to their protest, Wu and Jackson allowed a laugh. They mentioned a comment on a Religious News Service story which decried the demonstration. “I HAVE NOT MET ONE SINGLE RACIST IN MY LIFE,” the commenter wrote, before posting a link to a site about white genocide.

Wu, Jackson and several other organizers are asking for more constructive dialogue in the weeks to come.

“The hope is that as the 4th ranked Irish play the last home football game of the season, our collective action might spark campus-wide dialogues and conversations around issues that don’t ever cross the minds of many,” a Facebook post said. “That we might push back against this campus’ long standing culture of refusing to talk about sensitive yet important injustices.”
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