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92-year-old man viciously beaten with brick on 4th of July; suspects sought
WNYW•
92-year-old man viciously beaten with brick on 4th of July; suspects sought
LOS
ANGELES - An elderly grandfather walking in his Willowbrook
neighborhood was viciously attacked by a woman with a brick leaving him
with severe injuries. A witness intervened and snapped a photo of the
woman who was making racial comments during the attack. These photos of a
bloodied 92-year-old grandfather just moments after his family says he
was attacked by this woman armed with a brick used to hit him in the
face and several other men who later jumped in. His family tells FOX 11
that he was visiting LA from Mexico and on the 4th of July. He was the
victim of an unprovoked attack beaten in the face by a woman with a
brick and several other assailants who jumped in all while telling him
Suspect Arrested In Alleged Racist Attack On Elderly Mexican Man
Michelle Lou,HuffPost1 hour 57 minutes ago
A woman was arrested Tuesday night in the case of a 91-year-old Mexican man
A woman was arrested Tuesday night in the case of a 91-year-old
Mexican man who was brutally beaten with a concrete brick in an
allegedly racist attack in Willowbrook, California, according to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department.
The reported incident occurred on July 4,
and a witness told The Washington Post that he saw a woman push the
man, Rodolfo Rodriguez, to the ground and hit him. She reportedly yelled
at the man, “Go back to your country.”
Several other people were also reportedly involved in the assault,
according to the witness, Misbel Borjas, who was driving by when she saw
the incident.
Los Angeles resident Laquisha Jones, 30, was arrested after being
identified from a picture that Borjas took, the Los Angeles County
Sheriff’s Department said. She was charged with assault with a deadly
weapon and is being held in lieu of a $200,000 bail.
Police have not located the weapon, and investigators are still
determining if there were other suspects involved, according to the
police department.
Rodriguez was hospitalized for his injuries and is currently
recovering at home. He suffered a broken jaw and cheekbone, two broken
ribs and severe bruising, according to his family.
The elderly man was born in Mexico but is a permanent resident of the
United States. He was out for his daily walk when the woman attacked
him for no reason, Rodriguez told CNN.
The woman then recruited a group of men to join the beating by telling
them that Rodriguez was trying to steal her daughter, who was with her
during the attack, Rodriguez said.
A GoFundMe campaign started by Rodiguez’s family to pay for his
medical expenses had raised $248,307 — far exceeding the $15,000 goal —
as of Wednesday morning. This is a developing story. Check back for more updates.
New York teen stabs sleeping grandmother, steals $23, cops say
Fox News•
New York teen stabs sleeping grandmother, steals $23, cops say
A
teen in upstate New York stabbed and choked his grandmother in her home
Sunday night before stealing $23 and a cell phone, The Democrat and
Chronicle reported, citing police. Brandon Foster, 17, of Albion, N.Y.,
was charged with attempted murder on Monday, the paper reported. Foster
pried open a locked window to his grandmother’s bedroom late Sunday
night where she slept, police said. Foster allegedly stabbed his
grandmother with a knife and choked her. Foster’s grandmother managed to
get away from Foster's grip, the report said. He then allegedly grabbed
$23 and a cell phone before escaping through the bedroom window.
Despite "bleeding profusely," Foster’s grandmother drove herself to a
local
Published:
08:18 EDT, 9 July 2018
| Updated:
19:15 EDT, 9 July 2018
Two parents are under arrest after their four-year-old son shot himself with his mother's gun in a South Carolina hotel.
Myrtle
Beach police have charged Heather Lynn Odom and Jeremy Barrett with
child neglect after the boy shot himself in the head around 7 p.m.
Saturday.
The mother called it a tragic accident during her bond hearing on Sunday.
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Myrtle
Beach police have charged Heather Lynn Odom and Jeremy Barrett with
child neglect after their son shot himself in the head
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Heather Lyn Odom and Jeremy
Barrett were released but will be in court in September when they face
the prospect of being jailed for ten years on charges of unlawful
neglect of a child
'I just want
to say this was just a tragic accident and it's something that shouldn't
have happened, but it did,' said Heather Lynn Odom.
Investigators
said the boy found the .38-caliber handgun in Odom's purse while she
and Barrett were in another room in the hotel suite at at the Oceans One
Resort in Myrtle Beach.
Police said the boy was in critical condition at Grand Strand Regional Medical Center.
'This is a very tragic incident, your honor,' Myrtle Beach Police Detective A. Walker said.
LeSean McCoy's ex claims he changed security before she was attacked
Daily Mail•
LeSean McCoy's ex claims he changed security before she was attacked
The
victim of a home invasion at the home of Buffalo Bills running back
LeSean McCoy has hired a lawyer, and her representation has strongly
implied the NFL player played a role in the brutal attack. Delicia
Cordon, McCoy’s ex-girlfriend, was pistol whipped, robbed, hit in the
head and locked in a bathroom early on Tuesday morning when a man broke
into the Georgia home as she slept. Her lawyer, Tanya Mitchell Graham,
told DailyMail.com McCoy had suggested to Cordon she would be robbed of
pieces of jewelry he had given her in the past, and had changed the
security system to the home, but refused to share access to it with his
ex. McCoy has denied allegations he was involved in any way in the
attack.
The suspect was picked up at 11 p.m. Sunday and was being held at the
Manhattan Robbery Squad on 12th Street in Greenwich Village, cops said.
He was arrested by cops in Brooklyn after a crime-stoppers tip led
police to the shelter he was staying at on Rogers Avenue in Crown
Heights, police sources told The Post.
The suspect allegedly got into a fight with a 59-year-old man while
panhandling aboard a No. 2 train in Manhattan about 11:15 p.m. Saturday.
As the two men got into an argument, the suspect pulled a metal pipe
out and whacked the victim in the face, fracturing his skull and
breaking his eye socket, police said.
It was not clear what the two men were arguing about, police said.
The victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition, authorities said.
Charges against the suspect are pending, police said.
Published:
20:24 EDT, 7 July 2018
| Updated:
22:48 EDT, 7 July 2018
This is
the shocking moment a man walked into a restaurant kitchen and punched a
woman chef in the face before being chased out by her gun-toting female
co-worker.
The thug, dressed all in
white, was caught on surveillance camera footage striding towards the
staff member at the George Webb restaurant in Milwaukee and aiming a
full-body punch at the victim's head, nearly knocking her over onto the
stove.
He then moves towards the woman
again before her co-worker pulls a gun and points it in his direction.
At this point, he slowly backs away and leaves the kitchen, giving the
camera a glimpse of his face.
The thug, dressed all in white,
was caught on surveillance camera footage walking into the kitchen at
the George Webb restaurant in Milwaukee
The
footage was obtained by Milwaukee Alderman Bob Donovan, who released it
to the public on Friday in an attempt to identify the suspect.
'It
is sickening to see this unsuspecting worker assaulted so brutally by
this individual,' he said, adding that the victim now faced thousands of
dollars worth of medical bills.
The co-worker had a permit to carry a concealed weapon, according to Donovan.
'One can only imagine what might
have occurred if that employee had not pulled out her weapon. Sadly, she
quit her job shortly afterward,' he added.
'This
is just sickening and I am tired of this c*** happening in my district
and in too many other neighborhoods across Milwaukee.'
The attacker then aims a full-body punch at the victim's head, nearly knocking her over onto the stove
At this point, he slowly backs away and leaves the kitchen, before giving the camera a glimpse of his face
George
Webb said: 'We were alerted to an incident that took place at our
Mitchell Street location on June 29 and are working directly with the
injured employee, store manager and franchise owner to review the
events.
'The safety and security of our employees and patrons is our top priority.
'We are working with our team, and local law enforcement to assess current security measures and determine next steps.'
Police
are reportedly pursuing a 'known person' over the incident but urge
anyone with information to contact them on (414) 935-7360.
Police urge anyone with information about the suspect (pictured) to contact them on (414) 935-7360
A waitress with a concealed carry
permit defended her co-worker after an irate customer went behind the
counter and punched her, newly released video reveals.
The attack at George Webb restaurant
in Milwaukee on June 28 could have been much worse, according to
Alderman Bob Donovan, who made the footage public.“I thank God the other waitress had a concealed carry weapon,
has a permit... I shudder to think, had she not been there and had she
not had this weapon, what this guy might have done," Donovan told Fox 6.
The suspect, who is a regular at the restaurant and
reportedly had been cursing at his server throughout the night for
taking too long with his order, came behind the counter and punched her
in the face.
Within seconds, the woman’s colleague pulled out a handgun from her waistband and pointed at him until he backed off.
A customer at a George Webb in Milwaukee, seen above, punched
an employee and only backed off when another server pulled out a
handgun.
(Google Earth)
Although the suspect has not been arrested, Fox 6 reports that Milwaukee police know who they are looking for and that the man isallegedly a drug dealer.
According to local media, the victim is back at work
and she said the restaurant’s owner allows employees to carry a
concealed weapon as long as they have a permit.
"It is sickening to see this unsuspecting worker
assaulted so brutally by this individual," Donovan said. "For a man to
do that to some innocent woman, it's just beyond me."
The Milwaukee alderman urged anyone with information on the suspect to call police at 414-935-7360.
JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi man and his 1-year-old daughter died Thursday after officials say he kidnapped her, fled from police, and then shot the girl and himself on a Mississippi Delta highway.
Holmes County Sheriff Willie March told The Associated Press that it
was the third day this week that 23-year-old Lavonta Lloyd had sought to
take the girl from her mother.
“It’s a terrible situation,” March said.
March said Lloyd first took his daughter Kamaya Lloyd from a day care
on Monday, but Kamaya was returned to her mother later that evening.
Then, on Tuesday, deputies were called when Lloyd resurfaced at the
mother’s home in the 400-person town of Cruger, about 70 miles north of
Jackson.
Deputies chased Lloyd down some railroad tracks but lost his
trail after he escaped into a cornfield.
March said deputies were called
off the search because someone escaped from the county’s jail.
March confirmed that the mother is Kimberly Outlaw, who filed a
domestic violence petition Monday against Lloyd in Holmes County
Chancery Court. A judge didn’t hear the case before Lloyd’s death. March
said he didn’t know if Lloyd knew Outlaw was pursuing charges.
On Thursday, Outlaw’s mother called March early in the morning to say
Lloyd was holding Outlaw at gunpoint. March said Lloyd fled Cruger
before deputies arrived, but after he reportedly fired shots
. No one was
injured.
That set off a 30-mile chase, as deputies pursued Lloyd across three
counties in the flatlands of the Mississippi Delta. Before reaching a
roadblock, Lloyd’s truck veered off the road and into a deep ditch near
Moorhead, in Sunflower County.
March said deputies couldn’t see the truck because of the ditch and
the truck’s tinted windows. A shield was brought to the scene to protect
deputies, March said, but when they broke open the driver’s side
window, they found Lloyd and the girl dead.
“The baby was on top of him and had been shot,” Leflore County Sheriff Ricky Banks, whose deputies also took part in the chase, told The Greenwood Commonwealth.
Police records show Lloyd was arrested twice in Jackson on domestic
violence charges in 2016 and 2017, but a preliminary search of court
records there turned up no convictions.
Why are grown ass people whining about EVERYTHING?
I mean whining to the point of almost crying?
The world is filled with cry babies. How the hell can they raise children to be adults? Nope, they won't be able to. Their children will have to live with them forever so MOMMY or DADDY can do EVERYTHING FOR THEM. LOL Good luck with that LOL.
(Parents don't have time to raise their own kids, they are having "mommy" or relative or friend watch the kid while they are out Clubing or hooking up. Lets be REAL about the reason)
Ready for kindergarten? Florida's new test found many youngsters were not
The percentage of Florida youngsters deemed
ready for kindergarten plummeted last year, thanks to a new test that
tripped up many 5-year-olds.
About 54 percent of the
students who started kindergarten in public schools in August 2017 were
ready for school, according to the test results recently released by the
Florida Department of Education.
Four years earlier, 72 percent of new kindergartners were ready, based on another test used to determine literacy skills.
The
low passing rate on the new test upset early-childhood educators across
Central Florida and the state. They doubt its accuracy. They fear
students struggled in part because it was an online test and they were
unfamiliar with working on a computer with a mouse. And they are angry
because their state-funded pre-kindergarten programs are judged on how
former students did on the new kindergarten-readiness test.
“I was shocked. I was beyond shocked,” said Cindy Seda, who owns A Tot’s World III in Winter Springs.
“We
have always been very, very proud of our quality,” said Seda, whose
Seminole County center has had the same pre-K teacher for 21 years. “I
was never concerned the children leaving our center were ready for
kindergarten.”
But the percentage of her former students who
passed the kindergarten test was 60 percent this past year — down from
nearly 90 percent in prior years
Seda’s center just met Florida’s
new pre-K requirements, which were adopted this spring and require a 60
percent “readiness rate.”
Across Florida, however, 43 percent of the more than
6,000 schools and daycare centers that offer Florida Voluntary
Pre-Kindergarten Program, or VPK,, failed to meet the new standard. This
year, the state imposed no consequences on pre-k providers whose
students fell short on the new test, but in coming years they could face
probation and then removal from the state program.
Florida’s
pre-K program is publicly funded but mostly contracted out to private
preschools and childcare centers, though some public schools take part,
too. The program is free to all 4-year-olds, with more than 163,000
students enrolled this past year.
Florida had not given a literacy
test to new kindergarten students since 2013 because of problems with
its previous exam, which was also given on computer. The state also
didn’t rate its pre-K providers during those four years.
It gave
its new kindergarten test — Star Early Literacy — for the first time in
August. In late May, it published the rates on a website parents can use
to search for pre-K programs.
“The public will judge you on that, whether it is fair or not,” Seda said.
The
state’s Office of Early Learning, which oversees the pre-K program,
called the new test a “starting point from which we can set higher
expectations” and said lower scores with a new test are not surprising.
It noted that youngsters who took part in the state pre-K program had a
64 percent passing rate — about 10 percentage points better than that of
all new kindergartners.
The state’s education department also
defended the 27-question test, saying it is meant for young children and
does not require them to have prior computer skills, assessing their
ability to navigate through the questions before allowing them to begin.
But many remain skeptical, questioning why the results this year would be so much worse than from several years ago.
“I
keep asking the question, What does it mean to be ready for school?”
said Karen Willis, chief executive officer of the Early Learning
Coalition of Orange County, one of the local groups that helps oversee
state-funded pre-K programs. “That shouldn’t waver from test to test.”
An
online petition started by a preschool principal in Broward County asks
Gov. Rick Scott to remove the new results from the state website. “Our
programs and schools do prepare children for kindergarten and the world
JUST not your assessment,” reads the petition on change.org that has 427
signatures.
“The readiness rate was really not done fairly this
year,” agreed Carol Foo, executive director of Conway Learning Center in
Orange County.
Her school had an 87 percent readiness rate four years ago. It fell to 63 percent this year.
Like
many preschools, the Conway center does not have children spend time
working at a computer and manipulating a mouse. Young students who do
use technology, she and others said, are more familiar with tablets and
smartphones, which they can touch and swipe.
The Orange County
school district, which offers the state’s pre-K program at about 80
elementary schools, was upset by the low scores this year, too, said Meg
Bowen, director of elementary curriculum and instruction.
State
law requires the readiness test to be given within the first 30 days of
school, and many kindergarten teachers administer it almost as soon as
classes start. In the coming year, Bowen said, they’ll first spend time
making sure their new students are comfortable working with a computer
and a mouse. That will help administrators see if the problem was the
technology — or the test itself.
Since its inception in 2005,
educators have questioned the Florida law that required pre-K providers
to be judged on how their graduates do on a kindergarten readiness test.
They
argue such a system doesn’t take into account what skills children had
when they started pre-K, making it hard to gauge whether preschools
helped their students. They don’t like that it is given at the start
kindergarten, months after pre-K programs end, so some student skills
are lost over the summer. Finally, they note that Florida’s academic
standards for pre-K describe play-based learning, where students gain
early reading and math skills but also grow socially, express their
creativity and explore.
The readiness test, however, focuses solely on literacy skills.
“What
we taught them is not being captured,” said Lesha Buchbinder, executive
director of the Early Learning Coalition of Lake County.
Pictured,
San Antonio, Texas, man, Kino Jimenez who assaulted Whataburger teen,
Hunter Richard on account of him wearing a Make America Great Again
(MAGA) hat. Image via social media.
Kino
Jimenez a San Antonio man is fired from his bartending job after video
shows him assaulting a teen wearing a Make America Great Again hat at a
local Whataburger joint.
Going viral is video of an incident which took place at San Antonio, Texas fast food outlet, Whataburger– which saw a teen being verbally attacked and assaulted on account of him wearing the infamous President Trump campaign hat, Make America Great Again (MAGA).
In the video (see below), a man is seen throwing a drinkat
a 16 year old teen wearing the red MAGA cap’s face, after having
verbally accosted him. From there the individual, since identified as 30
year old man, Kino Ahuitzotl Jimenez by social media
users, grabs the MAGA wearing boy’s hair before walking out of the fast
food outlet with the hat, mouthing off, ‘this is gonna go great in my fucking fireplace, bixch’.
Told the violated teen, Hunter Richard via news4santonio, ‘I
support my President and if you don’t let’s have a conversation about
it instead of ripping my hat off. I just think a conversation about
politics is more productive for the entire whole rather than taking my
hat and yelling subjective words to me’.
Which is a backhand way of saying, if
society wants to propagate the notion that it lives in a civil
democratic society (if only…) then it ought to also be prepared to
accept views, sensibilities and actions that it might also disagree
with, even be offended by.
According to the victim, the incident happened while the 16 year old teen was with friends at the fast food outlet off Nacogdoches and Thousand Oaks, Tuesday night when he was suddenly approached by Kino Jimenez. Howard insisted the attack was unprovoked.
‘I didn’t think it was going to
generate the amount like what people are doing, I was looking at the
comments by some people and “ they are like this is uncalled for” and
other people are like mixed opinions but I didn’t think it would blow up
to what it is now,’ the roughed up boy said.
But it gets better.
Pictured, Kino JimenezNo love lost for Kino Jimenez….
Kino Jimenez employer responds to viral video:
Following the cellphone video going viral, and the assaulter being
identified as Kino Jimenez, a local San Antonio bartender, the man’s
employer, Rumble San Antonio, last night posteda Facebook post telling of the man being fired.
Wrote Rumble: ‘It came to our attention earlier this evening that
a part-time employee was captured on cell phone video assaulting
another person at a local eatery. The assault took place, presumably,
because this employee did not agree with the other individuals political
stance.’ ‘We have since terminated this employee, as his actions go against everything that this establishment stands for.’ ‘Rumble has, and always will be, a bar that is as inclusive as
any establishment could possibly be. THIS BAR IS A SAFE SPACE FOR
EVERYONE! No matter your race, creed, ethnicity, sexual identity, and
political stance, you are welcomed here!’ ‘We do not condone the actions or behavior that were displayed in the cell phone video, and we never will.’ ‘If you have any questions or concerns please message us privately. We support and appreciate your business.’
But it may not just end there, with news of a police report having been filed….
Principal refuses to allow first black valedictorian to give speech, so Rochester mayor intervenes
Jaissaan Lovett says he was denied a chance to give
his speech as his high school's first black valedictorian, so his city's
mayor invited him to give it at City Hall.
Youtube/City of Rochester, N.Y. Mayor's Office
When
Jaissaan Lovett graduated last month as his high school's first black
valedictorian, he prepared a speech — but he says his principal wouldn't
let him give it. So someone else stepped in who wanted to hear what he
had to say: the mayor of Rochester, New York, Lovely Warren. Not only
that, she gave him a much wider audience for his message.
Lovett
said he was never asked to give a graduation speech, though past
valedictorians had gotten to, according to the newspaper. When he asked
to speak anyway, he said the principal, Joseph Munno, said no.
"He
didn't want to see the speech or what it said, nothing," Lovett told
the Democrat and Chronicle. "He just said no." The paper said Munno
declined to comment.
Mayor Warren invited Lovett, who works in her
office as an intern, to deliver the speech at City Hall. She then
posted it on her YouTube channel and Facebook page.
Jaisaan Lovett's Valedictorian Speech by
City of Rochester, NY .Mayor's Office on
YouTube"Unfortunately, Jaisaan's school did not
allow him to give his valedictorian speech," Warren said in the video.
"For some reason, his school – in a country where freedom of speech is a
constitution right, and the city of Frederick Douglass – turned his
moment of triumph into a time of sorrow and pain.
"Jaisaan will
never graduate from high school again. He will never get that moment
back. This is not the time to punish a child because you may not like
what he has to say."
Lovett had his own message for his principal, too.
"I'm
here as the UPrep 2018 valedictorian to tell you that you couldn't
break me. I'm still here, and I'm still here strong," Lovett said in the
video. "And after all these years, all this anger I've had toward you
and UPrep as a whole, I realized I had to let that go in order to better
myself."
The school's board of trustees responded to the
controversy in a Facebook post, saying they're "aware of the concern"
and will be "reviewing the circumstances regarding what happened." They
wished Lovett "much success as he continues his education at Clark
Atlanta University, which he will attend on full scholarship, according
to the Democrat and Chronicle.
UPrep, an all-male school serving grades 7-12, is one of
Rochester's best regarded charter schools, according to the Democrat and
Chronicle, with annual graduation rates well above 90 percent.
On her Netflix show The Break this week, Wolf, 33, said she agreed with Rep. Maxine Waters’ recent
suggestion that Trump officials should be publicly confronted. And the
comedian shared some very specific ideas for critics who may come
face-to-face with President Trump‘s elder daughter and adviser.
“You can’t just casually harass these people, you have to insult them
specifically,” Wolf said. “ ‘You’re a c–t’ doesn’t hurt them. It’s on
their vision board.”
Pretending to address Ivanka, 36, Wolf said: “Is your nickname
herpes? Because you’re not necessarily the most dangerous person in the
administration but you’re very unpleasant, totally incurable and you
always show up when we’re about to get f–ked.”
Wolf also compared Ivanka to the birth control pill Yaz, saying, “At
first it seemed like it’d be really cool and helpful, but you need to be
immediately recalled.”
The comedian then suggested calling Ivanka “Tiffany,” the name of her younger and less publicly visible half-sister.
“If you see Ivanka on the street, first call her Tiffany. This will
devastate her,” Wolf said. “Then, talk to her in terms she will
understand. Say, ‘Ivanka, you’re like vaginal mesh. You were supposed to
support women, but now you have blood all over you and you’re the
center of a thousand lawsuits.’ ”
In an article on Monday, Fox News condemned Wolf’s comments as a “vulgar attack” against the first daughter.
Some people on Twitter agreed that Wolf’s remarks were out of line, while others applauded the comedian for “not backing down.
Wolf’s comments come amid an internal debate among Democrats about
how aggressively to confront the president and members of his
administration.
After White House press secretary Sarah Sanders was recently asked to leave
the Lexington, Virginia, restaurant the Red Hen because she works for
Trump, Rep. Waters urged attendees at a rally to keep “push[ing] back”
against members of the Trump administration with similar confrontations.
“If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a
department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a
crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they’re not welcome
anymore, anywhere,” she said.
Some Democrats reacted by seeking to distance themselves from Waters’
remarks, while Trump and other conservatives strongly condemned her
comments and made calls for “civility.” But those calls were quickly
criticized as hypocritical in light of the president’s own habit of
verbally attacking his enemies.
Wolf faced some backlash in April after she mocked Sanders at the
White House Correspondents’ dinner, saying “she burns facts, and then
she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye.” New York Times
White House correspondent Maggie Haberman, MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski
and others faulted Wolf for what they perceived to be cracks about
Sanders’ appearance.
But Wolf refused to apologize, and insisted her remarks had nothing to do with Sanders’ looks.
“All these jokes were about her despicable behavior,” Wolf said at the time.
In 1979, the legendary writer James Baldwin began work on a manuscript examining his relationships with Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and
Martin Luther King Jr. He never finished it. In 2017, filmmaker Raoul
Peck used Baldwin’s words as the foundation for his riveting masterpiece
“I Am Not Your Negro.”
Peck’s
entire film is captivating, but one segment in particular ceaselessly
haunts me. The meditative voice of narrator Samuel L. Jackson
deliberately carries us through one of Baldwin’s most damning
reflections on a good percentage of white Americans, “I’m terrified at
the moral apathy – the death of the heart which is happening in my
country. These people have deluded themselves for so long that they
really don’t think I’m human. I base this on their conduct, not on what
they say. And this means that they have become, in themselves, moral
monsters.”
As
he did throughout his life, Baldwin raises difficult but necessary
questions with which we must wrestle. Why are so many white Americans so
brutally mean and inhumane? Why do so many others feel comfortable
justifying or excusing it? Why do others still, who claim “not to think
that way,” find it acceptable to say little and do even less? Make no
mistake, there are certainly whites who stand in the tradition of
William Lloyd Garrison, John Brown and others. However, reasonable
people must admit they are the exceptions, not the rules.
To
be sure, no matter how sensibly and dispassionately one approaches the
subject, many whites immediately paint them as angry black people,
[reverse] racists, or maniacs. Despite that, while far too many cower
and equivocate, other brave Americans continue to raise the issue in the
public sphere. A small sample of important work over the last few years
includes Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “The First White President” in the Atlantic,
Charles Blow’s “The Lowest White Man” in the New York Times, Rose Marie
Berger’s rumination “Why are white people so mean?” and Michael
Harriot’s recent sledgehammer piece, “White people are cowards” in The
Root.
All
of these writers along with stalwart academics like Duke University’s
William “Sandy” Darrity, Emory University’s Carol Anderson and others
contextualize the subject and push back against the emerging narrative
that white American mean-spiritedness appeared and apexed with the
ascension of Donald Trump.
That is a lie. The truth is none of this is new. Its genesis is
actually rooted in times long before America’s current anti-black and
brown immigrant president’s family immigrated to the country.
Voter
fraud is a canard. Voter suppression, however, is real and is not new.
It has been around since the limiting of the franchise to
property-holding white men at the beginning of the country’s political
story. Forcing the extension of it to others has always been a
struggle.
Traumatizing families and children of
color is not new. White Americans enslaved blacks, raped black women,
demonized black men, ripped black children from their parents, sold them
all when profitable, visited any number of other inexcusable atrocities
upon them ... and justified it all. Those who resisted were threatened,
punished or killed. Once slavery ended, whites continued to glorify
slavery and the Confederacy with flags, statues, monuments and political
candidates who reaffirmed all the nastiness and death. They still do.
The
Supreme Court’s support of such indecency is not new. Remember Dred
Scott and many other legal blows to decency and democracy.
That
only scratches the surface. Native American genocide, black codes,
grandfather clauses, poll taxes, intimidation, disproportionate
incarceration, convict leasing, Jim Crow, Japanese American internment,
police murder of black men, women and children often without
consequence. None of it is new. It is the continuation of a
long-standing pattern and, as Congresswoman Maxine Waters advised,
resistance needs to be fomented.
Medgar Evers was
slain in 1963, Malcolm X in 1965, and Martin Luther King in 1968. James
Baldwin passed in 1987. None of them ever experienced Donald Trump, but
all witnessed omnipresent American white supremacy and meanness. Maybe
Baldwin was right when he said we are dealing with “moral monsters.” It
is hard to say at this point. If that is the case, we need to be clear
about it. Such an acknowledgment would lower the expectation that many
of our white brothers and sisters will be inclined to make decisions
based on human decency rather than economic and political calculations
or privilege maintenance. At least that honesty would eradicate the lies
and pretense.
If
America continues on this path (and there is no historical or
contemporary evidence that it will not), maybe Emma Lazarus’ words
famously associated with the Statue of Liberty, “Give me your tired,
your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” should be
replaced with a paraphrasing of Dante, “Abandon hope, all ye who enter
here ... unless ye be white.”
."Ask me, 'Should we be reuniting 2,000 kids with their families?' Ask me
that," he shot back. "Yes, we should. I don't care about fucking Sarah
Sanders. Reunite the fucking kids with their families, and then we'll
talk about Sarah Sanders and her fucking dinners."
This is NOT the way to get your point across. Why can't you speak like a man with manors? We were all embarrassed FOR YOU. No class at all. Wow, just wow.
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'Boys will be boys' sweatshirt pulled from stores after being accused of sending a 'sexist' message
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Australian sleepwear brand Peter Alexander has pulled a “boys
will be boys” children’s sweatshirt from its stores following backlash
from parents saying the slogan had sexist connotations.
Melbourne mother Bridie Harris noticed the boys’ gray pajama top
while out shopping last week and took to social media to complain.
“Boy won’t be boys,” she wrote on the
Peter Alexander Sleepwear Facebook page. “Boys will be held accountable for their actions.
“I
hate to see an Australian store, who makes such great PJs, put such a
sexist statement on a T-shirt intended for young boys. Excusing boys of
their behavior is not a step in the right direction. It’s 2018.”
Peter Alexander’s “boys will be boys” sweatshirt was met with criticism. (Photo: Bridie Harris via Facebook)
She said the slogan promoted a culture that allows men “to get away with stuff” because of their gender.
“It gives them an excuse for inappropriate behavior,” Harris said in an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper. “If a girl hurts someone or does something, you never hear someone that says girls will be girls.
“As kids, I get it’s little tiny things, like rough play, but it
sets [them] up for a culture where they can get way with anything. I
thought it was a long-resolved discussion.”
Harris’s views were echoed by many other people on social media who
agreed the children’s sweatshirt also struck them as offensive.
One woman called the top “cringe
worthy,” while another said she was “so disappointed that this is something that [the brand] would promote for children.”
A Melbourne mother complained about the top, saying the slogan was sexist. (Photo: via Facebook)
However, many accused Harris of being overly sensitive and did not see a problem with the top.
“Omg why get rid of it!” one commenter wrote. “There is nothing wrong with a old saying. If you don’t like it, don’t buy it.”
Another mother said she was disappointed she could not buy the top for her boys.
“I would like to buy the ‘boys will be boys’ PJs,” she wrote. “I have
two boys and would like them to know that’s it’s OK to be boys.”
“The
pajamas don’t say, ‘I’m a boy, I’ll go punch another boy or harass
someone and that is okay because I am a boy,’” read another comment.
The tops have been removed from Peter Alexander Sleepwear stores. (Photo: Courtesy Peter Alexander Sleepwear)
“Boys WILL be boys!” one man wrote.
“Making boys feel like they can’t be boys anymore because apparently
it’s part of rape culture and they all turn into murderers and rapists
anyway.”
A Peter Alexander Sleepwear spokesperson responded to
the thread, confirming the brand’s decision to remove the item from its
stores.
“Hi Bridie. I just wanted to update you and
again thank you for taking the time to get in touch with us and
bringing this to our attention,” the post began. “We do
not tolerate the behavior that is being associated with this slogan. In
light of your feedback, we have decided to withdraw this item from
sale.”
Peter Alexander Sleepwear has been contacted for comment.
Yep....NOTHING bad happened to ANYONE. There, I did it...... it is all gone !!! Now everyone shut the hell up and start over. Sick and tired of whining but people who don't even know the facts. History is gone.... now act like an adult.
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