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Figure Rises to 74 Percent With Black Voters
Station Says ‘White Supremacy,’ Not ‘Alt-Right’
Editor Out After Publishing Supremacist’s Address
International Journalists Alarmed by Trump
Some Focus on Standing Rock This Thanksgiving
5 of Color Named Fellows in Investigative Reporting
Most Teens Don’t Know When News Is Fake
Rob Parker Leaving Detroit for Fox Sports’ FS1
Advocates for people of color met with the Donald J. Trump transition team on Nov. 16, Sabella Scalise reported for the Cronkite News at Arizona State University. (Video by Sabella Scalise/Cronkite News)
Figure Rises to 74 Percent With Black Voters
“Nearly half of U.S. voters (46%) expect [Donald J.] Trump’s election to lead to worse race relations, while just 25% say they will improve (26% say there will be no difference),” Shiva Maniam reported Monday for Pew Research Center. “By contrast, after [Barack] Obama’s election eight years ago, 52% of voters expected race relations to improve, while just 9% said they would be worse; roughly a third (36%) said there would be little change.
“A Pew Research Center survey of voters after Election Day finds that roughly three-quarters of blacks (74%) expect race relations to worsen following Trump’s election as president, while just 5% expect them to improve (17% expect little change). In 2008, these views were almost the reverse: 75% of black voters said Obama’s election would lead to better race relations, while about a quarter (24%) expected no difference in relations (less than 1% said race relations would worsen).
“Whites also are less optimistic about progress in race relations under Trump than under Obama, though the shift has been less dramatic than among blacks. Today, 43% of whites expect race relations to get worse; just 10% said this in November 2008, after Obama’s victory. . . .”
- Todd Steven Burroughs, The Root: Revolutionary Fire Fuels State of Black World Convention as Activists Prepare for Trump
- Tyler Cowen, San Diego Union-Tribune: State of race relations: Why pessimism is justified
- Mary C. Curtis, Roll Call: Nikki Haley, Once a Trump Foe, Moves to the Front of the Line
- Lurie Daniel Favors, The Root: The Black Middle Class Is About to Get Trumped
- Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News Latino: MALDEF’s Thomas Saenz Talks Latino Civil Rights and Trump’s Presidency
- Jessica Suerth, Cronkite News, Arizona State University: Minority advocates, Trump transition team hold closed-door meeting (Nov. 16)
- Tanzina Vega, CNN Money: What about the black working class?
- Paul Waldman, Washington Post: How long before the white working class realizes Trump was just scamming them?
- Damon Young, GQ: I’m Tired of Good White People (Nov. 11)
Station Says ‘White Supremacy,’ Not ‘Alt-Right’
“Seattle’s KUOW is avoiding using the term ‘alt-right’ in its reporting, opting instead for ‘white nationalism’ and ‘white supremacy,’ ” Tyler Falk reported Tuesday for current.org.
“A post on KUOW’s website Monday quoted a memo to programming staff by Cathy Duchamp, KUOW’s managing editor. ‘… ‘[A]lt-right’ doesn’t mean anything, and normalizes something that is far from normal,’ Duchamp wrote. ‘So we need to plain speak it.’
“In the post, Online Editor Isolde Raftery said the station would reconsider using the term if it becomes ‘better defined and understood by the general public.’ But in the meantime, she said, ‘we will avoid vague words that neutralize anti-social and abnormal ways of thinking.’
“Duchamp also told staff that ‘if you’re in a situation where you must use “alt-right,” please use the phrase “so-called alt-right, a white nationalist movement.” ‘
“The term alt-right is relatively new in mainstream usage and was a runner-up as Oxford Dictionaries’ word of the year. Oxford defines the term as an ‘ideological grouping associated with extreme conservative or reactionary viewpoints.’ It does not use ‘white nationalism’ or ‘white supremacy’ to describe the term. . . .”
- Gene Demby, NPR “Code Switch”: Is It Racist To Call Someone ‘Racist’?
Twitter has suspended the accounts of some people associated with the alt-right movement who advocate white nationalism and who supported President-elect Donald Trump. CNN’s Brian Stelter looks at how Twitter is trying to battle the mainstreaming of fringe opinions. (video)
Editor Out After Publishing Supremacist’s Address
“Michael Hirsh, an editor with Politico, has resigned from the company after publishing the home addresses of a white supremacist leader and encouraging people to go to his home,” Dylan Byers reported Tuesday for CNN Money.
“Hirsh, who had been national editor of Politico Magazine, wrote a Facebook post on Tuesday that read, ‘Stop whining about Richard B. Spencer, Nazi, and exercise your rights as decent Americans. Here are his two addresses. …’
“Spencer is a leader of the white nationalist movement and president of the National Policy Institute, a white nationalist think-tank. He organized a conference of white supremacists last weekend in Washington, D.C., that drew national attention after a video showed people in attendance celebrating President-elect Donald Trump with Nazi salutes.
“In a statement, Politico editor-in-chief John Harris and editor Carrie Budoff Brown called Hirsh’s post indefensible. . . .”
- Zeba Blay, Huffington Post: Toni Morrison: Fear Of Losing White Privilege Led To Trump’s Election
- Walter Einenkel, Daily Kos: Roland Martin just ended white supremacist Richard Spencer’s 15 minutes of fame (video)
- Oliver Gettell, Entertainment Weekly: CNN’s Brooke Baldwin chastises Trump critic for using N-word on air
- Hadas Gold, Politico: Breitbart may need to reveal business structure to secure Capitol Hill press credentials
- Adam Johnson, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting: Hey Media, We Don’t Need Another Glossy Profile on That Nazi Dork
- Eric Lichtblau, New York Times: George Soros Pledges $10 Million to Fight Hate Crimes
- Gianluca Mezzofiore, Mashable: First-ever Republican Chief Technology Officer calls out white supremacy
- Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post: D.C. restaurant apologizes after hosting alt-right dinner with ‘Sieg Heil salute’
International Journalists Alarmed by Trump
“CNN’s Christiane Amanpour has been to many fundraising dinners for the Committee to Protect Journalists, but none like Tuesday night’s gala,” Michael Calderone reported Wednesday for the Huffington Post.
“ ‘I never thought in a million years that I would be standing up here, after all the times I’ve participated in this ceremony, appealing, really, for the freedom and the safety of American journalists at home,’ she said at the event.
“Others echoed her sentiment during a dinner honoring the brave work of journalists from Egypt (Mahmoud “Shawkan” Abou Zeid), India (Malini Subramaniam), El Salvador (Óscar Martínez) and Turkey (Can Dündar).
“Journalists in the U.S. don’t face nearly the intimidation and repression of those working in countries where freedom of the press isn’t enshrined in the Constitution. But President-elect Donald Trump’s attacks and restrictions on the press during the 2016 campaign, and his refusal to provide traditional levels of access during his presidential transition, have alarmed journalists who have identified potential threats at home. . . . ”
At the gala, Amanpour received the Burton Benjamin Memorial Award for “extraordinary and sustained achievement in the cause of press freedom.”
- Reporters Without Borders: Peru- Radio presenter shot dead in mid-broadcast
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Some Focus on Standing Rock This Thanksgiving
“Whether or not you plan to celebrate Thanksgiving, now is the perfect time to offer thanks and support for all Native people on the Standing Rock Reservation and their allies on the #NoDAPL frontlines who are working tirelessly to protect everyone’s access to clean drinking water and the wellbeing of the Earth,” the Indian Country Today Media Network wrote on Wednesday.
“If you can’t make it to Standing Rock to help protect the water in person, the best thing you can do is to pray for the water protectors and to donate money to one of the many groups and organizations that are helping the effort in various capacities.
“The following is a list of reliable, trustworthy sources you can donate to with confidence. . . .”
- Alleen Brown, the Intercept: Medics Describe How Police Sprayed Standing Rock Demonstrators With Tear Gas and Water Cannons
- Leah Donnella, NPR “Code Switch”: The Standing Rock Resistance Is Unprecedented (It’s Also Centuries Old)
- Leah Donnella, NPR “Code Switch”: On Columbus Day, A Look At The Myth That ‘All The Real Indians Died Off’ (Oct. 10)
- Editorial, New York Times: Power Imbalance at the Pipeline Protest
- Caroline Grueskin, Bismarck (N.D.) Tribune: Protesters, police take stock after night-long conflict
- Alli Joseph, Salon: Thanksgiving, a day of mourning for Native Americans
- Julie M. Rodriguez, care2.com: This Native American Tribe Wants to Block Trump’s Wall
- s.e. smith, care2.com: How to Discuss Racism at the Holiday Table
5 of Color Named Fellows in Investigative Reporting
“Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, a national nonprofit newsroom in the San Francisco Bay Area, today announced the recipients of the organization’s first-ever fellowship for journalists of color,” the center said on Monday.
“The yearlong fellowship, made possible with generous support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, stands to strengthen a field in which diversity of background and perspective is more crucial than in any other corner of media, and produce vital investigations on a wide variety of topics for the journalists’ home outlets and for Reveal.
“Following are the five Reveal Investigative Fellows, their news outlets and the questions their projects will seek to answer:
“Yoohyun Jung, Arizona Daily Star, Tucson, Arizona — How did a small Tucson charter school rapidly become one of the biggest, most renowned school networks in the U.S.?
“Sierra Mannie, The Hechinger Report, Jackson, Mississippi — How is the Civil Rights Movement being taught in Mississippi schools? Is it part of mandatory curriculum?
“Collier Meyerson, Fusion, Brooklyn, New York — How do New York City social services agencies decide which children to remove from their families?
“Laura Morel, Tampa Bay Times, Tampa, Florida — What are the unknown repercussions of the proliferation of gun sales in Florida?
“Alain Stephens, KUT 90.5, Austin, Texas — Why do Texas police departments sell their used guns? Who ends up with that equipment? . . .” [Profiles of the fellows]
Meanwhile, the Boston Globe’s investigative team, portrayed in the Academy Award-winning movie “Spotlight,” is at peak size, Benjamin Mullin reported Wednesday for the Poynter Institute.
“Once, the team was down to three journalists. Now, after its merger with the metro investigative team, there are six full-time reporters, two ‘guest’ reporters from other areas in the newsroom and a full-time editor. After ‘Spotlight’ went on to commercial and critical success, production company Open Road Films put up money for a fellowship program that’s brought two additional journalists into the fold. That brings the total team up to 10 reporters and an editor. . . .”
Globe Editor Brian McGrory did not respond to an emailed inquiry from Journal-isms about whether the team now includes journalists of color.
- Amanda Ghazale Aziz, J-Source, Canadian Journalism Project: The effects of a less-than-diverse media workforce
- Christina Beck, Christian Science Monitor: Microsoft ties executive bonuses to meeting diversity goals. Will it help?
- Jillian D’Amours, Middle East Eye, Canada: Toronto reporter becomes Canada’s first hijab-wearing news anchor
- Brooke A. Lewis, Houston Chronicle: Why it matters that newsrooms are so white
- Katie Peterson, Daily Princetonian, Princeton University: Q&A: Sandra Clark, Vice President for News and Civic Dialogue at WHYY
- Will the “Spotlights” Shine in Many Colors? (Jan. 9)
Most Teens Don’t Know When News Is Fake
“Preteens and teens may appear dazzlingly fluent, flitting among social-media sites, uploading selfies and texting friends. But they’re often clueless about evaluating the accuracy and trustworthiness of what they find,” Sue Shellenbarger reported Monday for the Wall Street Journal.
“Some 82% of middle-schoolers couldn’t distinguish between an ad labeled ‘sponsored content’ and a real news story on a website, according to a Stanford University study of 7,804 students from middle school through college.
“The study, set for release Tuesday, is the biggest so far on how teens evaluate information they find online. Many students judged the credibility of newsy tweets based on how much detail they contained or whether a large photo was attached, rather than on the source. . . .”
- Michael Calderone, Nieman Reports: Journalists Need to Better Explain What Journalists Do … Including Me
- Camila Domonoske, NPR: Students Have ‘Dismaying’ Inability To Tell Fake News From Real, Study Finds
- Petula Dvorak, Washington Post: Fake-news writers need to meet the real reporters who die trying to do their jobs
Rob Parker Leaving Detroit for Fox Sports’ FS1
“Longtime journalist Rob Parker joins FS1 as a contributor to SKIP AND SHANNON: UNDISPUTED, bringing decades of sports media experience and an inimitable perspective to America’s fastest-growing daily studio show,” Fox Sports announced on Tuesday.
The announcement also said, “Early in his career, Parker became the first African-American sports columnist at the Detroit Free Press in 1993 and New York’s Newsday in 1995. Parker has since written for a number of publications, including nearly a decade as a columnist at the Detroit News (2000-2008), and currently writes for The Shadow League.
“Parker has been a mainstay on Detroit sports television since 1994, when he became a contributor to WDIV’s ‘Sports Final Edition.’ He held that position until earlier this year, when he transitioned to his current role as the sports anchor for WXYZ/WMYD’s nightly ‘Action News.’ . . .”
Parker told Journal-isms that he is moving from Detroit to Los Angeles.
Short Takes
- “A publicist connected with the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, which last week held the 17th Latin Grammy Awards in Las Vegas, asked journalists at the awards ceremony not to ask questions about politics — leading one reporter to speak out publicly against the request,” Carolina A. Miranda reported Monday for the Los Angeles Times. “Gaby Natale, who was covering the show for the Dallas-based television program ‘Super Latina,’ which airs on the Vme network, says the request came as ‘a shocker.’ . . .” Earlier: Yara Simón on remezcla.com.
- “The emergence of Jeffrey A. Eisenach, a long-time Washington telecom policy insider and economist who favors free markets, as head of Donald Trump’s FCC transition team — and as a leading candidate for the agency’s chairmanship — has raised broadcast industry hopes that the agency will shift onto a more deregulatory course,” Doug Halonen reported Monday for TVNewsCheck.
- As the late Gwen Ifill “did throughout her career, reporters of color understand and embrace their unique role,” Renée Graham wrote Sunday for the Boston Globe. “Faced with an incoming administration led by man who loves nothing more than threatening press freedoms and tweet-storming newspapers and individual reporters, racial stagnation in newsrooms not only hurts the media, but the citizens the media is designed to inform. Journalists of color may no longer be unicorns, but they are still too rare at a time when their voices will be needed most.” Dorothy Gilliam appreciation
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Shiba Russell “Atlanta NBC affiliate WXIA is moving morning anchor Shiba Russell to evenings to replace Brenda Woods, who is retiring in February,” Kevin Eck reported Tuesday for TVSpy.
- “The name Very Smart Brothas probably doesn’t register with readers of mainstream newspapers and magazines,” Lavanya Ramanathan wrote Monday for the Washington Post. “In a good month, the site may draw 2 million unique visitors. Compare that with BuzzFeed’s 71 million. She also wrote, “Since the 2012 death of Trayvon Martin, amid growing tension over race and the rise of Black Lives Matter, over cries of ‘reverse racism’ and ‘All Lives Matter,’ Very Smart Brothas has emerged as a stream-of-consciousness sounding board, an expletive-laden fuse and an absurdist inside joke. . . .”
- “Criminal recidivism is a big problem for most major cities in the U.S., but Philadelphia may have it worse than most,” Ricardo Bilton wrote Friday for NiemanLab. He also wrote, “It’s a significant problem, but not one large enough that it can’t be alleviated — or so the Philadelphia Reentry Reporting Collaborative hopes. Launched earlier this month, the 15-organization group is taking a close look at all the factors related to prison recidivism in Philadelphia — mental illness, housing, unemployment — albeit with a twist: It also wants to cover potential fixes well. . . .” Sabrina Vourvoulias is project editor of the collaborative.
- Activist and CNN commentator Van Jones has a new web series for CNN, “The Messy Truth,” Jacob Bernstein reported Fridday for the New York Times in a profile headlined, “How Van Jones Became a Star of the 2016 Campaign.” “It debuted in late October, and the first episodes featured Mr. Jones going to Gettysburg, Pa., where he spoke with empathy and open-mindedness to Trump supporters, who discuss their economic concerns and heartbreak over being branded as racists simply because they support Mr. Trump. Several thanked Mr. Jones at the end for really listening to them and asked him to pose for pictures. The symbolism of this black man surrounded by a phalanx of star-struck white Trump supporters was hard to miss. (A televised special of ‘The Messy Truth’ will air on CNN Dec. 6) . . .”
- “The Citizen newspaper treats black journalists like disposable nappies, a protest in support of its suspended editor heard on Wednesday,” Iavan Pijoos reported for South Africa’s News24. “‘They feel that black journalist should be treated like disposable nappies, nannies and garden boys,’ Forum of Journalists for Transformation president and former Sunday Times journalist, Piet Rampedi, said. A handful of people representing the forum, the Communication Workers’ Union, Patriotic Alliance, Black First Land First, Cosatu and other unions protested at the Citizen newspaper in support of the paper’s suspended editor Steve Motale. . . .”
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2 comments
Comments from The Root:
Jack White · University of Louisville
Mr Hamilton thank you.
Darius Hill · University of Memphis
Who cares to improve anything? America will fall, there has never been unity outside of the white world.
Richard Hamilton
Race relations will get better when everyone of us starts treating each other with kindness and respect. It doesn’t matter or depend on who our alleged leaders are — it depends fully on each one of us — no one can stop racism like we can
Regina Alexander · College of Staten Island
We need to start by being honest. White people are and have always been the MAJOR problem. And until they can face this the problems will never go away!!
Richard Hamilton
Regina Alexander — well if you want honesty then you going to have to accept that all races are part of the problem and your closed mindedness isn’t going to help change anything
Le’Charles MrSophisticated Sigler · Part time proctor at ProctorU
Richard Hamilton How are all races part of the problem when white people invented racism and differentiation of people by terms of skin color. Some of your scientists did that not any black people or other people. Stop trying to normalize your behavior and own up to it and focus on fixing it. Also the only people in America with the social, economic, and policatal power to oppress on the basis of race is white white. Unless one has those powers thay cannot be racist. You are obviously a history denier trying to tell villian-less lies. Einstein himself said that racism is a sickness of the white man.
Richard Hamilton
Le’Charles MrSophisticated Sigler
If you are a student of history as you claim then you are aware that racism and slavery was started thousands of years ago, i.e. Since the beginning of man back in the Middle East. So you can sit around denying or you can say it’s time to be part of the solution and treat everyone you meet with kindness and respect. Yes we must all be part of the solution.
I for one don’t care what race/color you are and I am teaching my children to be the same. Hope you join me
Le’Charles MrSophisticated Sigler · Part time proctor at ProctorU
Richard Hamilton Can you please explain the difference in slavery in Middle East, Africa, and Europeans? White people only existed 6,000 year according to anthropolgy. So what part in history would you like to cover in which we understand when the form of oppress i am discussing began? Perpetual slavery was a invention of the European sir. Also Please do not try to the class system arguement in that it only applies to those of your own people. So again normalizing behavior does not exempt a person for participation in said behavior. You are delusional if you feel you are working on changing something when you do not focus on the systems that perpetuate the activity in human behavior. For example you and the rest of the color-blind crew try focusing on attitudinal issues by saying i do not see color or it does not matter the color which has nothing to do with the way you society is set up. Also attitudinal issues is no where near the biggest problem with racism. Political correctness would have ended racism years ago if it were. If you are not focusing on helping to increase the socio economic and political equality of people, then your children will still be the same racist as the old days. They will simply speak politically correct and still benefit from white supremacy.
Regina Alexander · College of Staten Island
Richard Hamilton I rest my case.
Mary Ann Smith · St. Louis Community College at Forest Park
Sad but true!
Peter McIntyre · University of Common Sense
Can someone please define for me what “race relations” is supposed to mean?
Carl L Lane · Works at Minding My Own Business
Well, that’s what you get when you elect a racist as president.
Todd A Barber · Long Beach, California
62 million bigots sold me out! Or…are you worried the KKK will burn down your house? Thought not…..but trust the ones you sold out..WILL NEVER FORGET! And after Obama did right by you all………really!!!!!!!!!!! This is the thanks he and Michelle get!! Wow
Whitey Wood
Please provide proof Obama did right by anyone other than illegal felonious immigrants. Black poverty and unemployment went up under Obama. Black on black genocide went up as well. Looks like you were sold out by your own…
Todd A Barber · Long Beach, California
Too late…….
Whitey Wood
The picture says it all. Black bigots putting a kkk sign on the back of a white man without having a clue what that mans views and beliefs are. Every day you hear about a white person losing their job and career because their opinion is declared racist. Yet blacks make bigoted comments without consequence. Just one of many black privileges.
Lisa Jackson · Westland, Michigan
Please have several Rosa Parks ‘in the back of the bus’ seats.
Lydia Brunner · Pediatric Registered Nurse at Self-Employed
Lisa Jackson Donald Trump stood beside Rosa Parks and Mohammad Ali while accepting The Ellis Island award for patriotism, tolerance, brotherhood, and diversity.
Trump was not called racist until he went up against Hillary Clinton.
You know all white people don’t hate black people.
The same way I know all black people don’t hate white people. We have a new President Elect. Let’s at least give him a chance to unite the country. Can’t we try to come together as Americans, instead of black against white?
Le’Charles MrSophisticated Sigler · Part time proctor at ProctorU
Lydia Brunner I am not sure what does Donald Trump standing by someone has to do with anything. It’s called public relations. Not sure why racist now try to save face and give people rewards for standing up to them and try to tell this villian-less whitewashed history. I am not sure what you are talking about and who you are watching, but then I am sure storm front and some of the other white nationalist group were running a different spin on him for years. People have known Donald Trump to be a racist for year. It is also obvious that you do not know what racism is if you cannot see when raciracism is presented. I suspect that being because you are practicing racism/white supremacy as well. For you to discuss hate it implies racism is only attitudinal, which it is not. If it were political correctness would have destroyed racism years ago. Black people do not care about white people’s attitudes. We care about their socioeconomic and political power used to oppress other people. So this is not a matter of like or hate. It is not completely about like or hate. Though completely trusting the same group of people that did most horrible things throughout history is not a good idea any way you slice it.
Whitey Wood
Lisa Jackson why? Because the truth hurts your ears??
Whitey Wood
Le’Charles MrSophisticated Sigler how do I as an average everyday hard working white person hold any socioeconomic and political power that oppresses black people?? Btw that group of people that did horrible things throughout history are dead. So you must mean trusting people who are the same color as those horrible people. Well that’s about as bigoted as it gets any way you slice it. You should really change your name. Calling yourself sophisticated doesn’t convince anyone when you constantly make ignorant comments.
Le’Charles MrSophisticated Sigler · Part time proctor at ProctorU
Whitey Wood I know you are an idiot but dang. One, you are from a racist group who holds said power, hence you can practice racism as your thought, speech, and action, tends to and does promote the mindset of white supremacy/racism. Btw they may be dead but you perpetuate their mindset and you benefit from the system they created stupid. You must not understand how your society is setup. You also show this idea of trying to other yourself from other white people. Shannon sullivan did a great job covering your form of racism in her book “The Good White People” and she is a white woman. You can call me bigoted but you again have yet to prove me wrong or provide anything to support your beliefs. it is funny how you can be mentioning trusting you when you cannot even own up to your own history past and present. So who is the real bigot when you cannot even tell the truth which is very similar to your ancestors.
Sunny Levien
Oh well. I’m not interested in trying to improve race reanymore. It will have to be shown that they care about improving them, with them doing the work not black folks begging for it.
Victor Jones
That’s what they voted for
Cathy Smith · Yes
The fact that a lot of white folk voted for trump tells me all I need to know
Whitey Wood
A lot of white folk voted for Obama.
Whitey Wood
A lot of black people voted for Trump.
Le’Charles MrSophisticated Sigler · Part time proctor at ProctorU
Whitey Woods a lot of black people did not vote for Trump and the ones that did were Coons. So we do not consider them blacks but people trying to be white. The whites who voted for obama were again trying prove they were not racist but did a lot of racist actions once he was elected. Basically we saw liberal racism and white fragility during obama’s campaign. It’s very similar as we see with a lot of white people today. They do not like being called racist, they simply like being racist.
Whitey Wood
Le’Charles MrSophisticated Sigler you seem to have a cut and dry definition of what it means to be black or white without allowing any variations. A black person must conform to you way of thinking to truly be black otherwise he is a coon. Whites must be in total agreement with your racism accusations or they are white supremacist. You don’t like being called a black bigot, you just simply support the ideology of black bigots. Btw calling yourself sophisticated doesn’t make it truth, it just makes you egotistical and arrogant.
Le’Charles MrSophisticated Sigler · Part time proctor at ProctorU
Whitey Wood You are simply a person who does not understand the mindset of your people or my people. It’s funny how you consider my view narrow when you like many white supremacist tend to look for a black person to consign your racist behavior. I have never stated all white people agree with racism. There are some white who hate racism as much as black people do. However, those are very few. Many those few realise their group is the issue because they are the only ones with enough social, political, and economic power to oppress. Lets just says I do not expect to find many John Browns among you. I really do not care what you call me. Blacks have never oppressed you in America nor have we tried to, so you are the racist no matter how you want to normalize your behavior.
Junior Crooks · High Point High School
White people always say ever since OBAMA became president the black and white race are divided, BUT HOW’S DOING THE KILLING and getting away with it! It not black people.
Whitey Wood
Last time I looked blacks were responsible for over 50% of all murders yet make up 14% of the population. This makes blacks over 5 times more likely to commit murder.
Le’Charles MrSophisticated Sigler · Part time proctor at ProctorU
Whitey Wood Really? Are you going to present your source for that statistic. The biggest rate of killing and violent crimes are done by white people so stop lying. https://ucr.fbi.gov/…/crime-in-the-u.s…/tables/table-43 Even if black did commit the most crime we are not getting away with it like most of these white people in the most recent cases. Whites have been the biggest people killing policeman also. So please be credible when you comment and present credible sources.
Whitey Wood
Le’Charles MrSophisticated Sigler you just posted my proof. Read the overview at the bottom that shows 50.9% of murder arrest were black while whites were 46%. So you committed over half of all murders and make up less than 14% of the population. Actually its worse than that because most are by black men who make up about 7%. And many black murder cases go unsolved due to lack of witness testimony needed to prosecute. Yes there is more white crime because there are more white people. There is no lack of white criminals for sure. Your name will never convince anyone you are sophisticated if you keep making these comments.
Le’Charles MrSophisticated Sigler · Part time proctor at ProctorU
Whitey Wood First off what kind of statistic course have you taken? Is there a statically significant difference between a 50.9% and a 46%. You read the table incorrect as the table shows in terms of murder and non negligent manslaughter that 41.2%were white and 57% were black. Also raw score show the biggest differences in population in terms of murder. Percentage is skewed when comparing unequal samples. This is emphasized in the legend on the FBI site i posted. Percentage is also only a inferential static, it is not a descriptive statistic. So before you comment on percent then please look at the raw data which shows that whites actually did have more accounts of murder. You seem to be very dumb in that you lack education enough to read and intepret statistics. Also if you want to use percent scores than you white people account for 69.4% of all crimes according to these stats while blacks only account for 27.8%. However, because of the rule I have stated, I will only use raw scores which still show a consistant trend that white people lead in murder and all crimes. Also if you posit that the white crime issue is what it is due to population size, it further destroys your argument for the the validation of percentage scores. The funny thing is that white people lead in rape, robbery, aggravated assault, theft, arson, property crime and etc in statically significant amounts above blacks while just using percentage scores alone. In terms of violent crimes blacks and whites commit crime roughly the same rate (45.6% 19,101 cases white and 52.4% 21,952 cases blacks) So please think about your arguement before commenting.
Whitey Wood
Le’Charles MrSophisticated Sigler you’ve done nothing but show more ignorance on your part. The fact is you are a much smaller group of people killing about the same amount of people. Thank God you are a minority or the murder rate would be much higher. I guess if you want to be called sophisticated you’ll have to do it yourself because you’ll never hear it from anyone else.LMFAO
Le’Charles MrSophisticated Sigler · Part time proctor at ProctorU
Whitey Wood What about control for population size did you not get idiot? I guess i have to speak slowly for the wwhite supremcist. Have you even been to anyones college? You are obvious too dumb to realise once controlled your group still commits more crimes. It’s actually a shame you are part of the racist majority in that you are an idiot, but then i guess you represent your people well. You white racist never have facts. You tend to respond with idealism instead of realism. I am curious as to why would I need validation from an idiot who can’t understand undergrad level stats. You may want to enroll in someones college before you comment.
Karen Lawhorn · Hillhouse High School
The Dysfunctionals.
Comments from The Root (con’t)
Robert T. Phillips · Works at Retired school administrator
Isn’t that what they wanted by voting for the trumpster?
Barbara Barnes
UNTIL TRUMP STARTED ACTING n TALKING LIKE A FOOL, THEN EVERYBODY ELSE STARTED SHOWING THEIR TRUE COLORS.
Whitey Wood
Trump is for putting Americans first. The media turned this into racism. He spoke for our vets when no one else would. He’s for LEGAL IMMIGRATION. He’s for keeping our jobs here. He took no money from special interest and owes them no favors. The media owns your mind.
Le’Charles MrSophisticated Sigler · Part time proctor at ProctorU
Sounds like your mind is owned by Trump. How is bringing jobs back to America if he uses the same loopholes to ship his brand and company overseas? You seem to be a really stupid white racist.
Whitey Wood
Le’Charles MrSophisticated Sigler I won’t take the time to explain these things to an idiot that doesn’t have the cognitive ability to understand. I only seem to be a stupid racist to you because you are a black bigot with the brain capacity of a retarded cockroach.
Barbara Combs Fenton
This is true because I believe that republican politicians are the biggest racists and elites of all time. They are creating a division because they don’t care about anyone but the wealthy regardless of your race, color, creed, national, origin, sexual orientation. They want to slow down the advancements of blacks and Latino not because they are concerned about making America white, or creating more jobs for white people, it is because they need to create a larger lower income work force. They are now forced to accept foreigner and illegals for service jobs because one group of blacks and and Latinos are two educated for those positions and many of the others would rather not work or only work part-time on two jobs than to do service jobs. So how do they do this? Cut out laws against discrimination, cut out overtime, create mostly low paying part-time jobs, cut food stamps and welfare, social security, etc., cut educational grants, financial aid, student loans, pit the lower and middle class against each other, and then sit back and count their money while we fight with each other. To them we are just collateral damage!
Regina Alexander · College of Staten Island
Because half of Americans are racist. Doesn’t matter to me unless you bring that crap in my face, then you will have a major problem,end of story!
Whitey Wood
Really half?? How do you get a 2 term black president with this many racist?? How could you possibly know how many people are racist? Did you get to meet and know all these people?? You complain about racism with a prejudice bigoted comment. Would you like to be judged unfairly because a part of your race is evil?? Do you think spreading your bigoted hate helps in fighting racism??
Le’Charles MrSophisticated Sigler · Part time proctor at ProctorU
Whitey Wood you get them two term presidency because you have people with white fragility trying to prove their not racist in speech but being racist in action. I’d say more than half of white america is racist. Donald trump is proof of that. Also the only people capable of social, economic, and politcal power necessary to practice racism is white. So some silly name calling does not oppress you. It just shows you have white fragility and trying normalize your bad bahavior.
Regina Alexander · College of Staten Island
Whitey Wood Electoral college.
Karen Jones · Works at Retired
Under dt things are not going to get any better. There are a lot of fools out there that forget this is 2016 and we can roll just as deep. This country is not split on racial lines it is split between those that want to work within a diverse society and those that don’t. Hillary did not win but what she wanted is still raising. We are #STRONGER #TOGETHER that is what we of the #DIVERSE #SOCIETY believe in.
Henry Diaz · Works at A Hospital
True what you state people should be rewarded in what they put in to work. Nothing I dislike more than people expecting something that was not earned by hard work !!!
Le’Charles MrSophisticated Sigler · Part time proctor at ProctorU
Henry Diaz then you admit white people should not be in America then. You can talk about hard work when your people stole everything they got.
Karen Jones · Works at Retired
Henry Diaz I’m sorry but I believe you may have gotten the wrong meaning from my comment. I was not speaking of “working hard” but of the fact people who voted for dt don’t accept that our sociey is diverse. They still feel white’s rule.
Whitey Wood
Karen Jones you seem to think all Trump supporters are white supremacist. What could be more bigoted than that?? The constitution states that immigrants coming to our country should conform to our form of government. Its not about white rule, its about America’s rules. That’s what Trump supporters want.
Le’Charles MrSophisticated Sigler · Part time proctor at ProctorU
Whitey Wood You are all white racist. Trump is proof of this. His rhetoric and facts around him and his compaign focussed on the bashing of blacks, muslims, women, mexicans, and etc. He spoke to the racist mindset of people like you.
Whitey Wood
Le’Charles MrSophisticated Sigler you are a black bigot that calls himself sophisticated yet can’t write in complete sentences or spell on a device that will do it for you. Le’ Stupid… LMFAO
Karen Jones · Works at Retired
Whitey Wood if I thought that I would have so stated. Please don’t put anying into my comment that is not there. I would say since you brought it up that must be how you see them. I would also say your thougts about immigrants is also a bit narrow minded. May born Americans don’t confrom. Trump supporters want their idea of the rules confromed to. Your very comments seem to support that train of thought.
Le’Charles MrSophisticated Sigler · Part time proctor at ProctorU
Whitey Wood You are an idiot who has a problem with every comment that goes against support of trump. You are the racist. Not once have you commented bringing fact to support your claims or beliefs. You simply do not like how other people are seeing through white America. I do not care if you call me a bigot as I am not bound by the morals of the group of people that has commited the worst atrocities in the world. If you do not like being called a racist stop being one and focus on correcting the wrongs your people started.
Can Au Francois
Sour or soar
Isabelle Jones · Works at Retired
SAD
Roberto Alvarado Olivares · Corsicana, Texas
Trump supporters be like ” make ameriKKKa great again”!!!
Henry Diaz · Works at A Hospital
Try learning how to use spell check pendejo you make Raza look dumb !!!????
Kellie Gehring
Wait? How can that be?! I’ve been told the division was created by Obama. Obama goes, we’re good. Right?
Whitey Wood
Obama goes and his divisive legacy continues. And of course the root will keep spreading hate and bigotry….
Le’Charles MrSophisticated Sigler · Part time proctor at ProctorU
Whitey Wood He can’t spread something that has never been corrected.
Brandon Foster · Assistant Program Director at Samaritan Ministry of Greater Washington
Surprise.
Lynda Thomas · South Plantation High School ,Plantaion Fla
This is what white supremacist want. Don’t give it to them. Now more then ever we need to work on our race relationships. Before it was just Co -existing side by side and tolerance. We need to do better then that we all need to start lifting each other up.
Sata Young · Works at Self employed
This is stupid because when was there a time where race relations were good? These people been evil forever.
Rochelle Young · University of Georgia
Webb Farrar · UNC Charlotte
That statement is based in lies and a misunderstanding of what most White people have been like through the past 200+ years in America.
Webb Farrar · UNC Charlotte
Most White people disliked slavery existing. Did you know that? White people protested with your grandparents to end Segregation. Did you know that?
You would still have Segregation and no President Obama ever if White people didn’t care.
We have to stop the hype and hate, people.
Lyndia Pitts
Webb Farrar
True, to a certain extent. ONLY TO A CERTAIN EXTENT. There are not many John Browns around now.
Sata Young · Works at Self employed
Webb Farrar No, “we” don’t have to do anything. Black cops and civilians are not murdering WHITE children with no consequence. Racism and imperialism is something that yall created and benefit from that is deadly to black people. Do the work in dismantling it.
Katherine Campbell Kirkeminde-Harris
I’m going to ask, one White woman to another, that instead of getting defensive, we need to 1) recognize that if you are doing the work, and engaging other White people in dialogue, this probably doesn’t apply to you, 2) lean into the uncomfortable feelings that are resurfacing over this election, and just in general as an ally….own them, examine them, let them help you be a better ally, 3) engage with other White people, POC have been screaming this from the roof tops for hundreds of years, a lot of White people are obviously not willing to hear, and 4) understand that *this* platform is for POC…and if we are here, it is to *listen* and *learn*.
Whitey Wood
Sata Young cops are killing just as many whites. I agree there is a need for police reform but condemning all cops is wrong. Your attitude toward whites is bigoted making you just as bad as a racist white person. Spreading hate is never the answer.
Le’Charles MrSophisticated Sigler · Part time proctor at ProctorU
Webb Farrar you must not know your people’s history. Why is it that white people hate to tell the truth. If you were actually trying to fix the issues own up to it and try to help those of us fighting to change things. Your statements of segregation shows that you do not even know why sevregation was bad. If whites had destroy the black wallstreet and our competing economy that threatend to surpass that white one in america there would have never been a need for integration. Segregation was bad because we didn’t get the federal or state funding like whites. So we caught hell from the government and the common white. So please do explain a time in history of America and present in which race relations was good. White people got every benefit to help them be the most powerful in America.
Whitey Wood
Katherine Campbell Kirkeminde-Harris if this were a white page with white writers printing these race baiting stories and creating all this bigoted hate it would be declared racist and shut down. Most of these blacks don’t want white allies because they hate all whites. I will speak up on all platforms that incite hate and bigotry like the root. I’m not gonna just sit back and listen to their bigotry and learn anything.
Darius Hill · University of Memphis
Whitey Wood.. we don’t hate all white people. My father is white and so are some of my siblings. ..we just don’t like you and whites like you. As I said before, you get back what you put in and will rightfully get what you deserve. Thank you for coming to the root. .. we welcome all whites. And since you don’t want to learn anything, Mr. Supremacy. ..I don’t know what more we can do for you.
Michael Lazarou · American Film Institute
Webb Farrar, with respect to segregation, we are now over 60 years since Brown vs. Board of Education and still, we have thousands of segregated schools and the majority of these schools are poorly funded and in many instances are literally falling apart. Simply because we use the same water fountains and toilets does not mean the playing field has been leveled and hearts and minds of white America have done a 180 degree about face. And now we have a president-elect who was endorsed by the KKK and every white supremacist organization in America and he still has yet to truly distance himself from that element. If you’re a person of color, LGBTQ, Muslim or Jewish, your world just became appreciably more dangerous. That’s not hyperbole, that’s a fact. With all due respect to your grandparents, what are you doing now, today, to help put a stop to the race hatred that is spiking in ways not seen in our lifetime? Or are you really trying to say your grandparents and those like them nipped all of this in the bud?
Whitey Wood
Darius Hill the root is nothing but a hate page against all whites. If you can’t see that then you must be an illiterate moron. But I don’t think that’s the case. I think its more along the lines of you feeling justified in putting all whites on blast for the actions of some. When whites do that to blacks its called racism and white supremacy. Please show me what part of my comments promotes white supremacy. You mentioned your dad is white. Do you think that excludes you from being bigoted?? So you don’t like my kind of whites?? You mean the kind that point out your prejudiced bigotry and show you the truth, that you’re no better than a white supreme racist. Actually I’ve learned a lot from the root. I see that blacks can be just as bigoted as any other race without facing the same consequences. Don’t pretend like you want to do anything for me, I know better.
Brumfield Tee · South Pike Senior High School
Webb Farrar DENIAL IS SOMETHING,HUH!!!
Petra Gerstle-Cogdell
I see a lot of finger pointing instead of listening.. On all sides… But I do agree that white America still has a long way to go in acknowledge g and understanding. Still….. Listen…
Le’Charles MrSophisticated Sigler · Part time proctor at ProctorU
Whitey Wood If this is a hate page against whites why are you commenting then. Black people do not go to storm front, the KKK, or any other white supemacist site and say anything to them because know they are beyond the idea of change. So why are you here if you are not an ally?
Whitey Wood
Le’Charles MrSophisticated Sigler first of all Facebook won’t allow whites to post these pages that incite racial tension and bash blacks on this level. This crap showed up on my fb, I didn’t seek this crap. But after reading how blacks are allowed to be bigots like this I’ve been here speaking out against this bigoted page and its race baiting agenda. I also have invited many others to come here to speak against this bigotry. In some cases we can shut down threads by simply showing that your bigotry will be met with resistance. Never will I be an ally to people with such prejudiced attitudes. Its time to stop with your nonsense and stop letting these idiot writers of the root incite your hate for white people.
Nicole Muñoz
Duh.
Tracey Brooks
yes
Chase Ross · Maintenance Worker at The 500 Club
That part…