Main Entry: rac-ism (Webster's Dictionary)
Pronunciation: 'rA-"si-z&m also -"shi-
Function: noun
Date: 1936
1 : a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race
"There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for ou are all one in Christ Jesus"-Galatians 3:28
All types of hate (racial/ethnic, sex, gender orientation, class (social/financial background), physical disability, and all types of disrciminatory acts)is what the Bible calls "sin".
16So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view.-2 Corinthians 6
(must look at one another through how God would see them; how?, what does He say in the Bible?)
We can hate the sin, but not the sinner! As human beings, we all...I mean all!...do this-no matter how liberal you are! The only "person" that was sinless (not even-Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatman Gandhi, Mother Theresa, or even Mr. Rodgers!) was Jesus, who came down on Earth to really show what it really is-how to love!
Growing up in St.Paul, I
(Sal) was exposed to so much racial diversity-not world diversity yet (it wasn't until Morris, where I acutally met people from different nations! I had neighbors from different ethnic backgrounds: Vietnamese, Hispanic, Native-American Indian, Caucasian, and African American.
Race was NOT an issue as a little kid as we were to young to notice the difference. Pretty much everybody was your height and we just wanted to play!
Race started to become an "issue" through my social surrounding as I got older. I remember we had a "mini race riot" in Battle Creek Middle/Junior High School. It was the "rockers" (predominately Caucasians into 80's heavy metal) and the "rappers" (predominately African Americans into 80's rap before hip-hop became really big). There was this place across our school called the "bridge" (now a beautiful paved remodeled park last time I went for a job-summer of 03'), where the "troublemakers" would like to hangout and do their own "thang" (drugs, smoke, sex, etc..). One school day, the "rockers" and "rappers" were supposed to have a "meeting" or a "fight". I was neutral, so I went straight home (only 2 blocks away or over the fence from Battle Creek Middle/Junior High School) and stay away from this. I remember sitting home and watched some folks running past my backyard (we live behind the schools' sports field-just 15 feet from the fence that's between our townhomes and the field)from the "fight". I think he was bleeding and the several or more cops cars had to come to the scene. To this day, I don't really know what really happened; but the racial tension was still present or grew!
During the 3 years of Junior High/Middle School, I couldn't ignore or avoid the racial incidents. It started to become my life! One time, I was entering the main part of the school where all the students meet before school began (they don't want students running around the halls before classes started). I was trying to get inside, but this "white boy" (Caucasian American) would not let me inside. I then suprisingly used whatever muscles (I didn't really start working out yet) I had and slammed the window door against this "white boy's" (Caucasian American)face. He swore at me as I went through the doors past him as I got inside. I was called "gook" again when I was delivering newspapers in my neighborhood, which is by Battle Creek Middle/Junior High School. Then another time during the Persian Gulf War in Iraq, a "friend" teased me on how I "look like the enemy" because of my dark hair and skin complexion of a Middle Eastern. One time I was Beginning to be a "tough guy" became to grow inside of me due to my surroundings.
I was focused on my studies, which my peers really knew. This "black guy" (African American) started to pick on me until I gave my homework to him, so he can copy my notes (thought I knew all the answers!). Being a "tough guy", I refused to do so and I let him pushed me around. My close Caucasian American friend helped defended me and stood by my side. As friends, we hanged out and started to share our racial hatred beliefs due to our similar circumstances. I went over to his house many times, and his brother would be repeatedly making racial jokes. Due to peer pressure, I started to believe it and would do the same-like a virus!
During the earlier years of high school, I encountered more racist experiences. I was playing tennis with my sister at a park located nearby in a "high-level crime" neighborhood. As I was serving the tennis ball and moved from my serving area, I heard a glass broke. I look over to my right and notice a 12" inch glass beer bottle smashed on the green tennis court on the exact serving spot! I look around and notice two "white guys" (Caucasian American w/ the 80's heavy metal long hair/partially sides shaved look) running away. I took off myself running after them and went to their front yard. I notice an "adult" painting" the side of the house, which I hesitated going over there "telling on them". I was full of rage and anger, which I was literaly going to beat them up if I did had a chance to get a hold of them.
During my Taco Bell years (5 +/- on and off years working their pt mostly between another summer job during high school and first 2 years of college), I encountered close to similar junior high racism level experiences. The staff was diverse: Hispanic, Caucasian 80's Heavy Metal long hair/partially shaved people, Asian, African American, Developmetally disabled, etc... However, we got a long as we worked together for a common goal-money and fast food work! We had one instance that almost divided us all as some Neo Nazis (7-10) came into the restaurant to "recruit". They sat in the back of the dinning room with no intention to eat as they didn't even buy any Taco Bell food. I was cleaning the dinning room when they stared me down as they came in. As being "sal da pal", I didn't get bothered! When I went back to the kitchen area, I told all the staff. One by one, they looked out of the back kitchen door window and reacted differently. One Hispanic-American staff, started pounding his fist as he wanted to rumble. My shift manager told us to cool down and ignore them. As we continued to work, the tension grew in our restaurant with the presence of the Neo-Nazis. We as a staff finally were able to do something about them when we told them to leave the dinning room area if they were not going to purchase any food as a fast food restaurant rule! We were all happy, but it didn't last long as they went outside and hanged out in the picnic tables in front. More different staff came in to work and the tension grew!
Finally, a customer complained of being harassed by them when one of the Neo Nazis grabbed one of their starter sport jackets, accusing them to be a "wanna be" (80's term of white person trying to be black). We called the cops after they refused to leave and several cop cars came rushing into the parking lot. The Neo Nazis eneded up walking down the commercialized busy street to McDonald, where they continued with their mission. I never heard from them again after that day, but would occasionally hear about Neo Nazis overall in the news.
Cultural "Shock" in Rural College Town
I tell many people about the cultural shock when I went to college in Morris. I now try to help others deal with it by sharing my experiences...(see more).
I've learned that we have to understand why people are the way they are. After living in Morris (9 years now-9/23/04), I've learned to approach people here in a more different way compared to my first time here. I used to get offended when they make a negative/racist comment, which many say it ignorantly (didn't know). I try to be in their shoes-living in a town with a little exposure to "minority" ethnic diversity, except what they see on television (mostly negative stereotype).
Racism was, is, and will be evident in our "sinful" world until Jesus comes back! Until then, we need to continue to live and obey what He commanded us to-"First love our Heavenly Father" (source of love, which we can all get after inviting him into your heart and grow in a personal relationship with Him. Second, "love your neighbor", which isn't easy to do until you get to know them too (not just reading books about them or live in fear of judgement by staying away from them by avoiding them). What helped me is getting involve in as much cultural activities (eg. UMM: RA for a diverse floor, Gateway Mentor to "mionority students", co-establisher of a multiculturally christian student organization-Alpha & Omega, etc..) to get directly exposed. For example, Jesus-He was a Jew who was traditionally known to not interact with Gentiles/Samartians; however, he did with the "Samaritan Women at the Well" story (read John 4).
In conclusion, I will be updating this website for more stories on my experiences with racism as it's going to be on-going in the world we live in today. Till then, keep reading your history of what they did during the Biblical times, so we won't make the same mistakes.
I wanted to share the issues of racism so far in my work experience. One can easily get frustrated with what you hear or see at work. God has given me peace to deal with a variety of episodes:
-A former co-worker admitted to me that he was a former "White-Supremacist" and was involved with the Neo-Nazis back in the days. He humbly told me that he has Hispanic-American relatives now after a sister married one, which his heart changed overtime. However, he would still jokingly make racist remarks, which I had to tell him up front not to do so. Yes, I could easily complain to my boss and file a suit. However, I try to educated him with love, so he can learn instead of continue to do this in life and hurt other people. I try to understand his background as he has shared some negative experiences with African Americans, which he needs to know NOT to generalize a whole race group because of several or less individual experiences. I have shared about God's love with him and to forgive, which is currently a timely process....
-One time a co-worker of mine remarked about an Asian American doctor in town. She was criticizing about how this particular doctor handled one of our consumer's health accident. Then she went on to say that "he's probably use to doing this in his country back home where it's very unsanitary". Oh, my blood heated up and I wanted to yell back! Being that quiet sometimes passive guy, I calmed down and just stayed quiet. I did wish I could've explained to her about cultural sensitivity. However, I use my actions and prayer to see God change her through love.
Be Understanding with Love
Being angry can take a lot of worthless energy out of you. What helps me is to understand this particular individual and many others that make ignorant comments like these. People in this rural predominately "white-Caucasian" community haven't been around people from different cultural backgrounds. In fact the only understanding the get is mostly from the media (t.v.), which majority portrays a negative stereotype. Jesus said "love your neighbors", which is the best counteract against racism.
"First of all, during the civil rights movement of the 1940's -70's, many
Bible belters and So. Baptists taught that all Blacks were ordained to
servitude and/or slavery by God because Noah cursed one of his descendants
to be "a servant of servants" to his brethren, the rest of us, since only
Noah and his descendants survived the flood. Gen. 9:22 makes it crystal
clear that Ham, Noah's son, erred seeing his father's/parents' genitals.
Gen. 9:24, 25 makes it equally clear that even though Ham is the one who
erred, it was Ham's son Canaan --- NOT HAM ---that was cursed to be
"servant of servants" to the rest of us. If you check Gen. 10 with 1
Chronicles 1 and any orthodox Bible atlas, you will see that Canaan settled
in Canaan (Surprise?!?!), aka the Promised Land, which is part of the Mid
East, not Africa. I think even the KKK admits that Africans/Blacks came
from Africa where THE REST of Ham's children settled and parented Africans.
So according to the Bible, it was Canaanites, NOT AFRICANS, who were
cursed to be "servant of servants" to the rest of us...."
What Color is Jesus Christ?
http://www.streetwizdom.com/commentaries/color.html
�May '98
Written by Ron T. aka Get Wizdom
Jesus Christ, the Son of God has been depicted in many different
cultures over the centuries. The host culture who shows a physical image
of him usually makes him out to look like themselves. But it seems like
the most prevailing image of Christ in the world these days is a blond
hair, blue-eyed European Jesus. This image of Christ is
rejected by most people of color.
What Jesus really wrote in the sand when he was dealing with the Pharisees in
John 8:3-11. (Comic courtesy of Reverend Fun.)
Skin color is a hot issue in the U.S. because of the
legacy of racism & misinformation that was put forth by powerful white
individuals who had influence in church & government. And it still lingers
today. During slavery some white churches propagated the Cursed Ham
Theory. This Theory is based on Genesis 9:20-25 where Noah condemns
Ham's son, Canaan into slavery (Jdg. 1:28, 1 Ki 9:20-21) because of
Hams failure to do right by his father. Africans are supoosedly
descendants of Ham, therefore, African Americans are supposedly
cursed. However, in-depth Biblical study shows that this curse was
fulfilled during the time of Joshua and his successors and ceased to be
applicable since the Canaanites assimilated into other peoples. Also If
this theory was true, Jesus would have never acted on the behalf of a
Canaanite in Matthew 15:21-28. So this theory IS false. And the irony of
it is that it is a theory. Theories are not facts (just like evolution) but
some people propagate them like it is the Gospel. Sadly, some
churches still believe in this theory today.
It is amazing what great lengths some
people will go to because of their insecurities
about skin color. None of us specifically knows what Christ's
skin color was because we were not alive during his lifetime. But the
Bible does gives us a clue: his genealogy.
First of all, His lineage specifically tells us he is Jewish. After all he is
called The King of the Jews.
"Meanwhile Jesus stood before the
governor, and the governor asked
him,2Are you the king of the Jews?2 3Yes,
it is as you say,2 Jesus replied. Matthew
27:11"
In Jewish culture, the genealogy is traced through the father. Even
though Joseph biologically was not Jesus1s father, he became his father
when he married Mary. It is Joseph's line that traces all the way back to
Abraham (Matt. 1:2).
Even before Abraham, the world1s ancestry is traced back to Noah's
three sons: Shem, Ham and Japeth.
1.Shemitic peoples generally represent Jewish and some
Mediterranean ethnic groups.
2.Hamitic peoples generally represent southwestern Asian and
northeast African ethnic groups.
3.Japethic peoples generally represent European ethnic groups.
These three groups do not represent specific ethnic groups today but
God sent them out to populate the world (Gen. 9:19). Throughout world
history, ethnic groups and/or individuals have intermarried & created
new ethnic groups.
Secondly, even though Jesus was Jewish, his genealogy has a mixture
of other ethnic groups in his background. Ruth, the great-grandmother
of King David was a Moabite. Israel & Moab were two nations who had a
bitter rivalry experiencing times of peace & times of war in the Old
Testament. Also Rahab the prostitute is in his lineage. She helped the
spies & became a convert to Israel (Jos. 2 :1-14). She is also spoken
well of in the Book of Hebrews because of her faith.
Examples of mixed ancestry in the New
Testament are the Samaritans. They are a mixture
of Jewish & Assyrian ancestry. Their nation was avoided and looked
down upon by other Jews who did not see them as pure Jewish stock
(John 4:9). In spite of this, Jesus, a Jew still went through Samaria.
What a testimony! Also Luke (writer of the 3rd Gospel) was a Gentile
who was well educated in Greek culture. Timothy was a hybrid of
Jewish/Greek ancestry and Apostle Paul still embraced him! What does
that tell you about the issue of skin color and culture?
There is no description in the Bible that says that Jesus was white with
blond hair & blue eyes. But there is also none that says he was dark
skin either. Some use Revelation 1:14 where it describes Jesus' hair as
being like wool to indicate his African roots. But what is overlooked is
the Book of Revelation's symbolic imagery in describing Jesus. A lot of
the metaphors go beyond human understanding. Most of the
descriptions of Jesus are symbolic of his glory, honor & power (Rev.
1:17-18).
I have read articles suggesting that Jesus is
Black using the one-drop rule as its
validation. Presently, the only nations in the world that use the
one-drop rule (unofficially) is the United States and South Africa. The
one-drop rule is racist in its assumption (Hitler used a similar ideology
to support his idea of an Aryan Race). It is meant to communicate a
disdain for anything not white. The result of this rule in the U.S. has
created a climate of indifference toward interracial couples and people of
color. Some Blacks and Whites see the one-drop rule as a conspiracy to
eliminate their particular group. Those who support this view see race
mixing as "selling out." "Passing" became a norm for some African
Americans who looked white in post-slavery America. But if the one-drop
rule is the standard, then the majority of the world would be Black. The
one-drop rule does not acknowledge boundaries that may have
developed through unique cultural, spiritual, geographical, economic,
political and/or social circumstances. It insists only in separating people
based on skin color. Sadly, some African Americans have embraced this
ideology believing that they are thinking outside of the box. In reality,
they are supporting a racist ideology. Separation of peoples because of
skin color is absent in the Bible. In the Old Testament, intermarriage is
avoided not solely based on ethnicity, but on religious grounds.
(Genesis 28:1; Deuteronomy 7:3-4; Ezra 9:1-2; Ezra 9:14). God called
Israel to be a separate and distinct people when he made the covenant
with Moses (Exodus 34:15-16). This should tell you that racism as an
ideology is a fairly recent invention.
Lastly, it is the location of Christ's genealogy (Middle East) that suggest
that humanly he could have been a person of color. His home was
Nazareth which is located in modern day Israel. If you watch T.V. reports
on the Middle east, you will see a diverse range of skin colors. Jewish
people can range from extreme white skin to dark skin just as African
Americans, Asians & Latinos do.
In conclusion, whether Jesus is black or white should not be an
issue. But Biblical history must be corrected if we are to move beyond
this dilemma. Some people worship the image of Christ but not Christ
himself. So for some, Jesus can only be white. For some he can only be
black. Jesus Christ1s ministry extended beyond ethnicity & culture. This
is such a simple and true statement yet we bypass it. To worship the
skin color of Christ is idolatry(Duet. 4:15-19). Yet that is what some
Christians do everyday. As a t-shirt designer this is exactly why I am
afraid to depict Jesus Christ on my t-shirts. Depicting Christ on t-shirts is
big business but at who's expense?
Some of you might say to me it is not an issue for you. Well my
response to you is, if you had a choice between a white Jesus & a black
Jesus on your t-shirt, which would you pick?
"You are sons of God through faith in Christ
Jesus, for all of you were baptized with
Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek,
slave nor free, male nor female, for you
are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to
Christ, then you are Abrahams seed, &
heirs according to the promise. Galatians
4:26-29"
This verse does not say you are sons of God through skin color. It says
through faith which is the hope we have in Christ Jesus. Christ came for
us all. AMEN!
A young teenager innocently-ignorantly calls an African American friend of mine the "n-word" after meeting him.
A UMM Asian-Hmong American student gets his tire slash
Two UMM Int'l-African students walking through a neighborhood. They see kids hiding in the corner as the 2 students walk by their toys. As they pass by the toys, the kids mention "she didn't take it!"
"Everytime I walk around town, people just stare at me as I've done something (e.g. stold something) or as they've never seen anyone that look like me (e.g. alien) before."
"Preacher Moss from the Allah Made Me Funny DVD"
*I went to see this earlier this evening and thought it was soo...funny! Here are some other stuff he talked about... What A Friend In JESUS, from youtube.com "A Very Meaning ful Song which i love to Sing"
Name:
End of Racism
Tagline:
Comedy about racism? can it be done? come and find out!
Host:
Black Student Union, Morris Chapter
Type:
Education - Lecture
Time and PlaceDate:
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Time:
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location:
Edson
Street:
600 E 4th Street "The objective of the "End of Racism" is to carefully put a smile in the hearts of all brothers and sisters. Thus developing a dialogue whereby we see the essentials need to put the "human" back in to Humanity.
This is not a lecture. This is a comedy act surrounding racism performed by Preacher Moss. So, if you're tired of the usual lectures come out and see a wonderful stand-up act!
This is a free event!"
"Stymied over six anti-Semitic drawings and racial graffiti that have appeared on the St. Cloud State University campus in recent weeks, St. Cloud police are putting more time and resources into finding who is to blame.
The case is moving from the patrol division to the criminal division.
"They will be able to dig deeper," St. Cloud Police Sgt. Jerry Edblad said Thursday. "But in these cases, it's very hard to track. We really are hoping for a tip."
During the fall semester, swastikas were found etched on bathroom doors, on the wall of the multicultural center, and in one case a drawing was slipped under a faculty member's office door. On Tuesday, a Ku Klux Klan hood and a drawing of a burning cross were found in the Student Center bathroom.
Students are frightened, University President Earl Potter said Thursday. "
Related Sites: Care Wall of History
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When reflecting on particularly horrendous expressions of racism in American history, relatively few people today think about the northern United States. Many people focus on the “Old South” — states like Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Although it is generally understood that racial unrest and conflict did exist elsewhere, this knowledge is usually general and abstract. Few people know that one of the most heinous instances of senseless, malicious brutality against blacks in American history actually happened in the North: Duluth, Minnesota to be exact.
Duluth Police StationOn June 14, 1920, a traveling circus brought Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, Isaac McGhie, and other young black men to Duluth for a one-night performance. All three men were in their early twenties and worked with the circus as hired help. That same night Irene Tusken, 19, and James Sullivan, 18, went to the circus. The actual events that night are sketchy, but the next day it was claimed that six black circus workers had threatened the couple at gunpoint and raped Tusken. Though little to no evidence was garnered, Clayton, Jackson, McGhie, and three other black workers were rounded up and arrested by the Duluth Police and held in the city jail.
Word of the alleged rape spread quickly, and on the night of June 15, a mob of thousands of Duluth townspeople formed. The police had been ordered not to use force against them, so in true lynch mob form they forced their way into the jail. In a mock trial travesty, Clayton, Jackson, and McGhie were declared guilty and taken one block to the corner of First Street and Second Avenue East. Though a few people tried to dissuade the mob, the three men were severely beaten and finally hanged to death from a light pole. After a rather tardy show of force, the Duluth Police were able to intervene and save the lives of the other three prisoners.
Postcard image of the lynchingThe Minnesota National Guard came the next day to restore order and protect the three surviving black prisoners, but irreparable damage had been done. Black residents of Duluth felt unsafe in their hometown. Over time, a significant number chose to leave the city for good. Newspapers all over the country were appalled that such a horrible thing had happened in a Northern state. Justice for the atrocity appeared nonexistent in the following weeks, as only three people involved in the lynching received any type of incarceration – and that for rioting, not murder. Duluth stood as a city plagued by shame and marked by injustice.
The lights in this dark section of Minnesota’s history are twofold. First, a local Duluth chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was formed in 1920 as a result of the ordeal. Second, after much work by the black community including Nellie Francis, a social activist from St. Paul, an anti-lynching bill was created and signed into Minnesota law in 1921.
It is important for us to ponder this event, not only for awareness of this blight on American history. We should also reflect on our general unawareness of this historical event and what that may imply. Could there be a reason that one of the most atrocious hate crimes in the United States that involved thousands would be relatively unknown today, even by many Minnesotans? Perhaps remembering the past can help us understand our present – and the future.
If you would like more information about the Duluth lynchings, please visit the Minnesota Historical Society website on the Duluth lynching. You may also read the book “The Lynchings in Duluth,” by Michael Fedo (2000).
"But, Minnesota state Sen. Mee Moua rejected the idea that cultural differences played any role in the shooting.
"We're all just speculating that may have been a trigger for him," said Moua, who is Hmong. "We're all searching for answers."
Moua added that Hmong-Americans feel racism on a daily basis, but "that doesn't mean you kill people."
"Vang told the police that he had opened fire after the hunters had cursed him with racial epithets and that one of them had shot at him.
According to the statement, Vang said several of the hunters surrounded him, swore at him and threatened him after he climbed down from the platform. He said that after he had walked about 60 feet from the hunters, he turned and saw one of them point a rifle at him.
"Vang immediately dropped to a crouch position, and the subject shot at Vang," the report said, summarizing his account. "The bullet hit the ground 30 to 40 feet behind Vang."
"Vang shot two times at the man with the rifle, and the man dropped to the ground," the report said. It did not give any explanation for why the other victims, some of whom who had raced to the scene in an all-terrain vehicle to help their friends, were shot.
The police statement said that as Vang looked down the trail and saw that one of the hunters was still standing he yelled, "You're not dead yet?" and shot again."
Why Black People Shouldn't Believe In The Evolution Theory Part 1/6
"Creationists Kent Hovind explains the terrible actions that took place as a result of people believing in Evolution. "
Related Sites: Evolution and racism, and other facts you are not taught in school, from youtube.com "Darwins false claim of common origins FORMED THE MAIN BASIS FOR RACISM, and became THE SOURCE OF INSPIRATION FOR FASCISTS, who used racism as a supposed justification for massacres. Darwinism maintained that human beings were evolved from primitive life forms, and even claimed that some races had progressed further than others in the course of that fictitious evolution, thus providing a scientific mask for racism. To put it another way, Darwin wanted society to regard human beings as a species of animal and to believe in the existence of supposed "superior races" and "inferior races" within that species on the basis of false science and a false philosophy. What the Nazis and all other fascists did was simply to put Darwins theory into practice..."
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- "The Boise State running back who scored the winning points in the Fiesta Bowl, then proposed to his cheerleader girlfriend on national television, says he has hired security for their wedding because of racial threats.
Ian Johnson, who is black, and Chrissy Popadics, who is white, are due to be married Saturday in Boise.
Since his Jan. 1 proposal, Johnson said, he has received phone calls, letters and some personal threats from people who object to their marriage plans.
"You take it for what it is -- the less educated, the less willing to change," Johnson, 21, of San Dimas, Calif., told the Idaho Statesman for its Tuesday editions. "But we're not acting like we're naive to all the stuff that's going on. We know what's been said. We're going to make sure we're safe at all times. It's an amazing day for us, and we'd hate to have it ruined by someone."
"It's really sad because a lot of people that are probably doing it are the same people who were cheering me on," Johnson said.
A Boise State football spokesman, Todd Miles, said Tuesday that Johnson hoped to put the matter behind him and did not want to discuss it further. Popadics' family said she was not available.
At the Fiesta Bowl, Johnson used a "Statue of Liberty" play to score the winning two-point conversion as underdog Boise State beat the Oklahoma Sooners 43-42 in overtime. The Broncos ended their season 13-0."
"A video posted on TMZ.com shows that the tirade apparently began after two black audience members started shouting at him that he wasn't funny.
Richards retorted: "Shut up! Fifty years ago we'd have you upside down with a f------ fork up your a--."
He then paced across the stage taunting the men for interrupting his show, peppering his speech with racial slurs and profanities.
"You can talk, you can talk, you're brave now mother------. Throw his a-- out. He's a n-----!" Richards shouts before repeating the racial epithet over and over again.
While there is some chuckling in the audience throughout the outburst, someone can be heard gasping "Oh my God" and various people "ooh" after Richard uses the n-word.
"The Warning Signs
A longtime Lockheed employee, Williams fumed when blacks at the plant complained about his racial slurs or received better-paying jobs, according to several co-workers. He once wore the bootie of a white protective suit on his head in the shape of what black workers said looked like a Ku Klux Klan hood. Given the choice by management to remove it or go home, Williams left. Lockheed took no disciplinary action against him for the incident, according to Lockheed documents."
"But in the South, it goes further: White-controlled Grand Lodges in 12 Southern states do not even officially recognize black Masons as their brothers � the Masonic term is "mutual recognition" � and in some cases, black lodges have taken similar stands."
"...Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe star in this well-intentioned and largely successful civil rights-era thriller. Mississippi Burning, using the real-life 1964 disappearance of three civil rights workers as its inspiration, tells the story of two FBI men (Hackman and Dafoe, entertainingly called "Hoover Boys" by the locals) who come in to try to solve the crime. Hackman is a former small-town Mississippi sheriff himself, while Dafoe is a by-the-numbers young hotshot. Yes, there is some tension between the two. The movie has an interesting fatalism, as all the FBI's best efforts incite more and more violence, which becomes disturbing--the film's message, perhaps inadvertently, seems to be that vigilantism is the only real way to get things done. The brilliant Frances McDormand, here early in her career, is not given enough to do but still does it well enough to have racked up an Oscar� nomination for Best Supporting Actress. (Hackman also received a nomination for Best Actor, and the film won an Academy Award for Cinematography). The story line of Mississippi Burning is ultimately unsatisfying--it is, after all, the story of white men coming in to rescue poor blacks--but it is beautifully shot and very watchable and features a terrific cast playing at the top of their games. --Ali Davis.."
KKK IN MISSISSIPPI
" Klansmen boast of terrorist history, promises more of the same " Wikipedia
*see deceiver "...is the name of organizations in the United States that have advocated white supremacy, racism, anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, homophobia, anti-Communism and nativism. These organizations have used terrorism, violence, and acts of intimidation, such as cross burning and lynching, to oppress African Americans and other social or ethnic groups."
Related News: Jury awards $2.5 million to teen beaten by Klan members,
updated 5:46 p.m. EST, Wed November 12, 2008 (CNN.com) By Ann O'Neill
CNN " (CNN) -- A jury awarded $2.5 million in damages on Friday to a Kentucky teenager who was severely beaten by members of a Ku Klux Klan group because they mistakenly thought he was an illegal Latino immigrant, the Southern Poverty Law Center said.
Jordan Gruver, then 16, was targeted and beaten by Klan members, his lawsuit alleged.
The jury found that the Imperial Klans of America and its founder wrongfully targeted 16-year-old Jordan Gruver, an American citizen of Panamanian and Native-American descent.
The verdict included $1.5 million in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages against "Imperial Wizard" Ron Edwards.
The law center said before the verdict that a large damage award could break the Klan group, allowing the teen and the law center to seize the group's assets, including its headquarters, a 15-acre compound in Dawson Springs, Kentucky.
"We look forward to collecting every dime that we can for our client and to putting the Imperial Klans of America out of business," said SPLC founder and chief trial attorney Morris Dees, who tried the case.
Gruver, backed by the Southern Poverty Law Center, filed the personal injury lawsuit last year seeking up to $6 million in damages from the Imperial Klans of America and two of its leaders -- Edwards and "Grant Titan" Jarred R. Hensley.
An all-white jury of seven men and seven women deliberated for five hours after three days of testimony. The suit alleged that Edwards, Hensley, and the Imperial Klans of America as a whole incited its members to use violence against minorities.
"The people of Meade County, Kentucky, have spoken loudly and clearly. And what they've said is that ethnic violence has no place in our society, that those who promote hate and violence will be held accountable and made to pay a steep price," Dees said.
According to testimony, three members of the Klan group confronted Gruver in July 2006 during a recruiting mission at the Meade County Fair in Brandenberg, Kentucky. They taunted him with ethnic slurs -- inaccurate ones -- spat on him and doused him with alcohol .Two of the men, including Hensley, knocked Gruver to the ground and repeatedly struck and kicked him.
Ku Klux Klan
* Founded as violent white supremacist movement by Confederate officers after the Civil War, lasted until the 1870s
* Klan began again in 1915, still active today
* Most recent surge of activity came during civil rights movement of 1960s
* Membership exceeded 4 million in 1920s; now a few thousand members in splinter groups
"All I could see was a bunch of feet," Gruver, now 19, told the jury. "As they were kicking me, I prayed to myself. I said, 'God, just please let me go. Please let me make it home.' "
When the blows stopped, Gruver had a broken jaw, broken left forearm, two cracked ribs and cuts and bruises.
He testified that he has suffered permanent nerve damage and psychological trauma. He doesn't leave his house and rarely sleeps more than two hours at a time because he has nightmares, CNN affiliate WLKY reported.
Among the evidence the jury saw was a pair of red-laced, steel-toed boots. A police witness testified that Hensley wore the boots the night he and another Klansman attacked Gruver.
Edwards acknowledged from the witness stand that the boots were the "weapon of choice" for skinheads and that the red laces carried special significance -- that "someone should shed blood for their race."
Also revealed during testimony: An alleged Klan plot to kill the Southern Poverty Law Center's attorney, Morris Dees.
Former Klansman Kale Kelly, once a member of Edwards' inner circle, testified he was told to kill Dees because of the center's lawsuit in Idaho against the Aryan Nations, a neo-Nazi supremacist organization.
The plot was thwarted by the FBI in 1999, according to testimony.
Kelly, who since has left the group, cried on the witness stand during his testimony.
Other former Klansmen also testified that they were encouraged to use violence. One said he was conditioned to kill. Video Watch the former Klansmen testify »
Gruver's assailants already have gone through the criminal courts, striking plea bargains and serving time in the Kentucky state prison system, according to court documents. The case was not treated as a hate crime.
Dees alleged that on the night in question -- July 29 and 30, 2006 -- Edwards "sent his agents out on a mission." During that mission, which included recruiting and distributing Klan literature at the fair, Gruver was beaten because the men mistakenly believed he was an illegal immigrant.
Edwards, who represented himself, told the jury he had nothing to do with the attack. "I stay within the law. I don't break the law," he said.
At an earlier court deposition, Edwards demonstrated his contempt for the center and its lawsuit by tattooing a profane reference to it on his freshly shaved head.
On its Web site, the Imperial Klans of America refers to itself as a Christian organization exercising its rights of free speech and assembly under the U.S. Constitution.
The site carries this proviso: "If you are not of the White race, this Web site is not for the likes of YOU!" It then goes on to name the races and ethnicities it "hates," adding, "This is our God-given right."
The Web site disavows violence or any kind of criminal activity.
Edwards lives in a trailer on the Klan group's heavily guarded, gated compound in rural Dawson Springs. The compound is the site of the Klan's annual white power rally and music festival, know as "Nordic Fest," according to the suit.
It was at the compound, the suit alleges, that the Klan group incited its members to use violence against minorities.
The Klan seems to thrive during times of political and financial turmoil, according to organizations that monitor its activities.
The first incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan was founded by a group of Confederate generals at the end of the Civil War to promote a white supremacist agenda. The Klan was driven underground, but re-formed after World War I. Klan activity increased during the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and has surged again since 2006 as a result of opposition to gay marriage and immigration.
There is no single, centralized Ku Klux Klan. The Southern Poverty Law Center says the Imperial Klans of America is the second largest KKK group after the Brotherhood of Klans Knights, based in Marion, Ohio.
Booth Gunter, the center's spokesman, said there are 34 named Klan organizations across the country, with 155 separate chapters.
The Anti-Defamation League estimates there are more than 40 different Klan groups, with as many as 5,000 members in more than 100 chapters, or "klaverns," across the country.
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It is not the first time the Southern Poverty Law Center has taken a supremacist group to court and won.
In 2000, for example, the center won a $6.3 million jury verdict that forced Aryan Nations leader Richard Butler to give up the group's Idaho compound. In 1987, a $7 million verdict in Mobile, Alabama, targeted the United Klans of America."
Assassination plot targeting Obama disrupted
By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer Lara Jakes Jordan, Associated Press Writer – 10 mins ago (Monday, October 27th of 2008 @5pm CDT-news.yahoo.com)
"WASHINGTON – Law enforcement agents have broken up a plot by two neo-Nazi skinheads to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 88 black people, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives said Monday.
In court records unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court in Jackson, Tenn., federal agents said they disrupted plans to rob a gun store and target a predominantly African-American high school in a murder spree that was to begin in Tennessee. Agents said the skinheads did not identify the school by name.
Jim Cavanaugh, special agent in charge of ATF's Nashville field office, said the two men planned to kill 88 people, including 14 African-Americans by beheading. The numbers 88 and 14 are symbolic in the white supremacist community.
The men also sought to go on a national killing spree after the Tennessee murders, with Obama as its final target, Cavanaugh told The Associated Press.
"They said that would be their last, final act — that they would attempt to kill Sen. Obama," Cavanaugh said. "They didn't believe they would be able to do it, but that they would get killed trying."..."
-Protestantism
Ku Klux Klan- A Secret History [1/9]
"Since the days following the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan has preached a gospel of hate, intolerance and exclusion. But while it has attracted members who number in the millions at times, it has also repeatedly been battered into near-submission by activists, the government and changing public opinion. "
"..This is part one of a series of interviews with TJ Leyden, a former racist skinhead leader who has since redeemed himself. In this interview, he exposes links between Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam with the KKK and NEO-Nazi's back in the 60's and how they worked together and even spoke at each other's events.
This is a must see if you don't believe ALL racist groups have links with one another, regardless of the fact that they publicly proclaim each other as enemies. ..
"second part about EUGENICS in history and presence an excerpt from "ENDGAME - Blueprint for Global Enslavement", a documentary by ALEX JONES! watch whole movie here: "
"Federal Apology (feb. 13, 2007) issued by Prime Minister Rudd of Australia:
"Today we honour the Indigenous peoples of this land, the oldest continuing cultures in human history.
We reflect on their past mistreatment.
We reflect in particular on the mistreatment of those who were Stolen Generations - this blemished chapter in our nation's history.
The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and so moving forward with confidence to the future.
We apologise for the laws and policies of successive Parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians...
Religions
*teaches racism/hatred in some or all form (you decided!!)
hindusaim is nearly dead in india because of the racist cast system
"Oppression. Slavery. Apartheid. Yesterday's vocabulary? Think again. Learn more about the Dalits of India and the Dalit Freedom Network that is working on their behalf. For the last two months, the dalits in Bapcha village in Shajapur district of Madhya Pradesh are living in fear. The pressure from the powerful is so strong that the dalits' plight is not reported by the media and the administration too remains a mute spectator. An introduction of a documentary on the caste system in India. Stories of people fighting to make a change.Dir Nirmala Nair Producer Drishti THIS IS THE TRUTH ABOUT HINDUISM
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