by Katherine Fugate | August 2018
“…But [my friend] was telling me that, no matter how ‘woke’ or evolved I may think I am, I walk this world as a white woman, which means I’ll never truly understand what it is to walk this world as a black woman…. Very few describe themselves as racist, but all white people benefit from racism. White people benefit every time they rent an apartment, buy a car, apply for a job, apply for a loan, apply to college.”
TAGS:[White Privilege] [Bystander Intervention] [Racial Terrorism] [Individual Change] [Assumptions] [Tips-Dos/Don’ts] [Accountability] [2010’s] [White Culture]
by Dave Zirin | May 2017
Richard Collins III was about to graduate from Bowie State University Tuesday. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the US Army, airborne certified. He was a son, a friend, and active in his church. Richard Collins III was killed Saturday night because of the color of his skin. Make no mistake about it- this was a lynching; a lynching committed by a UMD student.
TAGS: [Racial Terrorism] [White Supremacy] [2010’s] [Systemic Racism] [-ing While Black]
by KTRK TV | August 2015
A Spring woman says she was sexually assaulted by a deputy during a traffic stop earlier this summer It happened around 10:30 pm on June 21 near Ella Blvd and Barren Springs Drive, according to Charnesia Corley. The 21-year-old says she was just going to the store to get something for her sick mother when she was pulled over by a Harris County Sheriff’s deputy. “I feel like they sexually assaulted me! I really do. I feel disgusted, downgraded, humiliated,” Corley said.
TAGS: [Racial Terrorism] [2010’s] [Policing]
*Paywall Alert
by David Krugler| Feb 2015
In 1919, after the end of World War I, Black sharecroppers in Arkansas began to unionize. This attempt to form unions, triggered white vigilantism and mass killings, that left 237 Blacks dead.
TAGS: [Racial Terrorism] [2010’s] [White Defensiveness] [White Supremacy] [History]
by Sam T. Levin | February 2019
The FBI opened a “domestic terrorism” investigation into a civil rights group in California, labeling the activists “extremists” after they protested against neo-Nazis in 2016, new documents reveal.
Federal authorities ran a surveillance operation on By Any Means Necessary (Bamn), spying on the leftist group’s movements in an inquiry that came after one of Bamn’s members was stabbed at the white supremacist rally, according to documents obtained by the Guardian. “The FBI considered the KKK as victims and the leftist protesters as potential terror threats…”
TAGS: [Racial Terrorism] [2010’s] [History] [Systemic Racism] [Policing]
by George Yancy | April 2018
Local morgue? Slammed shut permanently? These threatening words are taken from a letter sent to me by an anonymous white person. It was handwritten in black ink, covering both sides of a yellow sheet of paper torn from a legal pad. It is one of hundreds of letters, emails, postcards and voice messages I received — to say nothing of menacing discussions of me on white supremacist websites — after I wrote and published the essay “Dear White America” in December 2015 here at The Stone. What I had offered as a letter of love had unleashed the very opposite — a wave of white hatred and dehumanization.
TAGS: [Racial Terrorism] [White Supremacy] [2010’s] [Systemic Racism] [Silencing POC]
