From [NPR] The number of hate crimes reported last year rose by 4.6 percent compared to the previous year, according to data released Monday by the FBI.
The total tally of hate crimes in 2016 was 6,121, compared to 5,850 in 2015. More than half of those incidents were motivated by the victim's race.
The FBI statistics are based on voluntary reporting by nearly 16,000 local law-enforcement agencies. Civil-rights groups, however, say the figures are deeply flawed because of what they say is systemic under-reporting.
The Anti-Defamation League, for example, noted that nearly 90 cities with populations of more than 100,000 either reported zero hate crimes or did not report data for 2016.
"There's a dangerous disconnect between the rising problem of hate crimes and the lack of credible data being reported," said ADL CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt. He called for an "all-hands-on-deck" approach to get better nation-wide figures on the problem.
Sim Singh, the national advocacy manager of the Sikh Coalition, agreed. He noted that the FBI statistics count seven anti-Sikh hate crimes in 2016, which he said "represents the tip of the iceberg."
"If law-enforcement agencies fail to document the true extent of hate crimes against our communities," Singh said, "our nation will have a hard time mobilizing the political will and resources necessary to prevent and combat the problem."
The only way to fix the data problem, he added, is for law enforcement to adopt mandatory hate crime reporting.
Still, the FBI data provides an overview of hate crimes across the country.
There were 7,509 victims of single-bias hate crime incidents, according to the reported numbers for 2016. A victim can be a person, a business, a government entity or a religious organization.
Nearly 59 percent of the victims were targeted because of their race. A further 21.1 percent were targeted because of religion, and 16.7 percent because of sexual-orientation.
Of the race-related incidents, more than half were anti-black, while some 20 percent were anti-white. More than half of the religious-related crimes, the statistics show, were anti-Jewish, while a quarter were anti-Muslim.
In cases where law enforcement was able to identify the perpetrator, 46.3 percent were white and 26.1 percent were black.
From [EFF] The “PreCheck” program is billed as a convenient service to allow U.S. travelers to “speed through security” at airports. However, the latest proposal released by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) reveals the Department of Homeland Security’s greater underlying plan to collect face images and iris scans on a nationwide scale. DHS’s programs will become a massive violation of privacy that could serve as a gateway to the collection of biometric data to identify and track every traveler at every airport and border crossing in the country.
Currently TSA collects fingerprints as part of its application process for people who want to apply for PreCheck. So far, TSA hasn’t used those prints for anything besides the mandatory background check that’s part of the process. But this summer, TSA ran a pilot program at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport and at Denver International Airport that used those prints and a contactless fingerprint reader to verify the identity of PreCheck-approved travelers at security checkpoints at both airports. Now TSA wants to roll out this program to airports across the country and expand it to encompass face recognition, iris scans, and other biometrics as well.
FROM PILOT PROGRAM TO NATIONAL POLICY
While this latest plan is limited to the more than 5-million Americans who have chosen to apply for PreCheck, it appears to be part of a broader push within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to expand its collection and use of biometrics throughout its sub-agencies. For example, in pilot programs in Georgia and Arizona last year, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) used face recognition to capture pictures of travelers boarding a flight out of the country and walking across a U.S. land border and compared those pictures to previous recorded photos from passports, visas, and “other DHS encounters.” In the Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) for those pilot programs, CBP said that, although it would collect face recognition images of all travelers, it would delete any data associated with U.S. citizens. But what began as DHS’s biometric travel screening of foreign citizens morphed, without congressional authorization, into screening of U.S. citizens, too. Now the agency plans to roll out the program to other border crossings, and it says it will retain photos of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents for two weeks and information about their travel for 15 years. It retains data on “non-immigrant aliens” for 75 years.
From [Rewire] In case a military-style takeover wasn’t enough to deter pipeline protesters at Standing Rock, some congressional lawmakers are pushing to treat environmental activists like terrorists.
A group of 80 congressional Republicans and four Texas Democrats in October submitted a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking him to look into the possibility of prosecuting pipeline protesters under the domestic terrorism statute. All the Ho-Reps are white except Vicente Gonzalez, Henry Cuellar and Filemon Vela Jr.
They cited attempts to shut off valves and damage pipelines but seem to include the larger nonviolent resistance in their push to use the terrorism statute against activists. The bipartisan group claims that “maintaining safe and reliable energy infrastructure is a matter of national security.”
“These attacks on our fundamental constitutional rights, spearheaded by Donald Trump and parroted by congressional shills of Big Oil, should deeply concern all citizens who value our right to speak freely and demonstrate,” said Standing Rock Sioux member and attorney-activist Chase Iron Eyes in a press release.
A prominent activist and lawyer with the Lakota People’s Law Project, Iron Eyes is the only one of the 843 Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) protesters arrested who faces two serious charges: inciting a riot and criminal trespass. He faces possible disbarment and at least five years of prison time and has called on the North Dakota State’s Attorney to #DropDAPLCharges.
More than 400 cases were dismissed or some plead out. Nearly 400 are awaiting trial in their state cases. Of these, more than 100 are still waiting for representation, said Jesse Phelps, press director at the Lakota People’s Law Project.
But for all the optimism, the elections in Virginia last week vividly reflected why the reality might be a good deal harsher. While Democrats won the governorship by nearly nine percentage points and won a similar margin in total votes in legislative races, it appears likely, unless recounts reverse seats, that they will fall just short of taking control of the state’s heavily gerrymandered House of Delegates.
And around the country, gerrymandering, refined to a high art, and increasingly restrictive voting laws have left many experts wary of assuming that the intensity of Democratic voters will translate into equally robust electoral gains.
For some, the lesson of Virginia is that grass-roots organizing and voters eager to turn out can pull off big wins in unlikely places. But for others, the gap between votes and legislative seats is a cautionary reminder that Democrats face daunting structural obstacles in turning around Republican majorities in Congress and in state legislatures.
“If Democrats win 52, 53, 54 percent of the national House vote, we’re likely to see Republicans hold onto control,” Nicholas Stephanopoulos, a University of Chicago law professor and an expert on gerrymanders, said in an interview. “Unless there’s a true wave, I think Democrats will be disappointed in 2018.”
Republicans scoff at the notion that political gerrymandering, a bipartisan sport nearly as old as the Republic, presents a meaningful barrier to Democrats’ chances.
From [Jurist] The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania [official website] issued a per curiam order [text, PDF] Thursday vacating a decision by the Commonwealth Court to stay a hearing in a gerrymandering case, League of Women Voters v. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania [docket]. The outcome of the case is virtually guaranteed to have a substantial impact on the results of the upcoming 2018 elections.
Last month, the Commonwealth Court granted [order, PDF] a request by Respondents in the case -- Republican members of the General Assembly including House Speaker Michael Turzai and Senate President Pro Tempore Joseph Scarnati -- apparently agreeing with their argument that the case should only proceed after the US Supreme Court has reached a decision in Gill v. Whitford [SCOTUSblog backgrounder], a case involving gerrymandering in Wisconsin. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court's order yesterday makes clear they disagree, stating "the present case involves issues of immediate public importance requiring this Court’s assumption of plenary jurisdiction."
The Petitioners in this case include the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania, as well as residents of all 18 congressional districts. Noting that 13 of those 18 districts have gone to Republican candidates in recent elections, "even when Democratic candidates win a majority of votes statewide," the Petitioners application [text, PDF] to the Supreme Court for extraordinary relief called the congressional districts "rigged."
Following the 2010 census, the Republican-controlled General Assembly employed sophisticated technology to gerrymander the Commonwealth’s congressional districts more egregiously and effectively than ever before, manipulating district boundaries to discriminate against Petitioners and other Democratic voters on the basis of their political views, their votes, and the party with which they choose to associate. The gerrymander of Pennsylvania congressional districts has been ranked as one of the most “extreme” in the nation, and by some measures, it is the “worst offender” in the country.
From [LAWeekly] On Tuesday, Nov. 7, Election Protection, the nation’s largest nonpartisan voter-protection coalition, led by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, provided live assistance to more than 1,000 voters through its 866-OUR-VOTE hotline.
Voters reported complaints, some of which impacted systemic problems, or sought assistance with voting. Since 2001, Election Protection has been the go-to source for voters seeking assistance with navigating the voting process. The volume of calls into the hotline suggested increases in voter turnout relative to comparable election periods from years prior and expanded interest in local electoral contests such as district attorney races.
The Lawyers’ Committee led-effort identified a number of problems including robo calls imparting false information to voters; poll workers providing false information regarding voter eligibility; police presence outside of polling sites, the proliferation of false information regarding the voting process on social media, and other deceptive and suppressive tactics as reported by voters around the country. Specific examples include:
• Voter Intimidation in the form of police officers at polling places throughout St. Louis, Missouri, where a ballot measure concerning funding for law enforcement was on the ballot. Specifically, Proposition P would raise the sale tax in order to produce about $20 million in tax revenue, with most funds being allocated for raises and hiring for the St. Louis Police Department. The presence of officers at polling sites was reported throughout the day and comes on the heels of tensions between the minority and law enforcement community.
• Poll workers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania provided false information to Independent voters, instructing them they had to be affiliated with a party to vote in the municipal election. This information was false. Election Protection staff members intervened and the local elections supervisor corrected the misconduct of poll workers.
• Polling places in Hudson County, New Jersey did not have the required voter books for a number of districts. Voters were turned away and told to return at a later time. Other polling sites in New Jersey opened late or turned voters away because there were no provisional ballots on site.
• 866-OUR-VOTE was the first to receive reports at the outset of the Virginia election regarding robo calls targeting voters in the Prince William area. The calls provided false information indicating that voters’ polling sites had been changed. The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is examining these robo calls to determine if they violate state or federal laws, and encouraging the FCC to investigate.
• Throughout the day, false information regarding the voting process was circulated over social media platforms such as Twitter. Accounts spread false information indicating that voters could text their votes or otherwise indicated that the day for voting had changed. These messages remained online for hours before being removed and filtered by Twitter. The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law continued to identify these messages on social media throughout Election night.
Shrinking White Votary Must Rig Elections to Survive. Racism is a behavioral system of survival [Already, California, Illinois and New York are lost.The GOP has not carried any of the four in seven presidential elections. When Texas – where whites are a minority and a declining share of the population – tips, how does the GOP put together an electoral majority? MORE] Answer is theft.
From [UTNews] Texas has a shameful and ongoing history of suppressing black and Latino votes.
Though a lower court’s 2013 ruling found Texas’ district map was “discriminatory at its heart” against voters of color, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton recently asked the Supreme Court to take up an appeal of the decision. The ruling invalidated two of Texas’ congressional districts, Districts 27 and 35, as well as nine state House districts on the basis of racial discrimination. The attorney general’s action is the newest in a long battle over Texas’ voting districts that has taken place during the past six years.
It’s time the state stepped up to ensure that every eligible voter has an opportunity to be heard.
Spanning back to 1970, Texas has engaged in a pattern of racial discrimination in every 10-year redistricting cycle. This fact has historically earned the state federal oversight until 2013, when the Supreme Court case Shelby County v. Holder gutted the Voting Rights Act and freed several states and local governments from federal preclearance requirements. A day after the Shelby ruling, then-Gov. Rick Perry seized upon the opportunity to make the state’s gerrymandered district maps permanent.
Gerrymandering isn’t the only way Texas suppresses the voices of black and Latino voters. In 2016 alone, the state spent more than $3.5 million defending a set of restrictive voter ID laws that hindered black and Latino voters. The law, Senate Bill 5, has been to court four times since 2014 and each time was struck down as racially discriminatory.
Studies show voter ID laws, such as the one in Texas, keep people from the polls. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin and Rice University have found that in states with voter ID restrictions, even those who actually have the accepted forms of ID often don’t turn out to vote due to a misunderstanding of the law.
In Texas, the NAACP estimates that more than half a million voters of color are restricted from voting by the state’s voter ID restrictions. In Texas, where Democrats are targeting four House seats, Stephen Ansolabehere, a political scientist at Harvard University, analyzed the state’s voter rolls for plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit and concluded that 608,000 of the 13.5 million registrants lacked any of the seven IDs accepted at polling places. Black voters were two to three times as likely as whites to have none of the identifications; Hispanics one and a half to two times as likely.
In the past, Texans could count on the federal government to intervene on behalf of voting rights. But in late September, the Supreme Court rejected a request to speed up their review of Texas’ district maps. Earlier this year, the Department of Justice dropped their prior federal opposition to Texas’ voter ID law.
From [StarTrib] President Donald Trump is nominating white men to America's federal courts at a rate not seen in nearly 30 years, threatening to reverse a slow transformation toward a judiciary that reflects the nation's diversity.
So far, 91 percent of Trump's nominees are white, and 81 percent are male, an Associated Press analysis has found. Three of every four are white men, with few African-Americans and Hispanics in the mix. The last president to nominate a similarly homogenous group was George H.W. Bush.
The shift could prove to be one of Trump's most enduring legacies. These are lifetime appointments, and Trump has inherited both an unusually high number of vacancies and an aging population of judges. That puts him in position to significantly reshape the courts that decide thousands of civil rights, environmental, criminal justice and other disputes across the country. The White House has been upfront about its plans to quickly fill the seats with conservatives, and has made clear that judicial philosophy tops any concerns about shrinking racial or gender diversity.
Trump is anything but shy about his plans, calling his imprint on the courts an "untold story" of his presidency.
"Nobody wants to talk about it," he says. "But when you think of it ... that has consequences 40 years out." He predicted at a recent Cabinet meeting, "A big percentage of the court will be changed by this administration over a very short period of time."
Advocates for putting more women and racial minorities on the bench argue that courts that more closely reflect the demographics of the population ensure a broader range of viewpoints and inspire greater confidence in judicial rulings.
One court that has become a focus in the debate is the Eastern District of North Carolina, a region that, despite its sizeable black population, has never had a black judge. A seat on that court has been open for more than a decade. George W. Bush named a white man, and Barack Obama at different points nominated two black women, but none of those nominees ever came to a vote in the Senate.
From [Reuters] U.S. automaker Tesla Inc on Monday was hit with a class-action lawsuit claiming its California production plant is a “hotbed for racist behavior.”
The lawsuit filed in California state court in Oakland is at least the third filed this year by black workers who say they were addressed using racial slurs and that the company ignored their complaints.
But Monday’s lawsuit, filed by former Tesla employee Marcus Vaughn, is the first to bring those claims on behalf of a large class of black workers at the automaker’s Fremont, California factory.
Tesla did not respond to a request for comment.
The company is also facing lawsuits accusing it of discrimination against gay and older workers. It has denied those claims.
Vaughn in the lawsuit says he was routinely called the “n-word” by supervisors and coworkers after he began working at the factory in April. He says he complained in writing to human resources officials, but the company never investigated his claims.
Vaughn says he was fired in October for “not having a positive attitude.” He is seeking unspecified damages under a California anti-discrimination law.
The growing number of discrimination lawsuits against Tesla come as the company is also facing a unionization campaign from the United Auto Workers.
In February, Tesla chief executive Elon Musk told the website Gizmodo that an employee who wrote a blog post criticizing the company was “paid by the UAW to join Tesla and agitate for a union.”
The union and the worker denied that he had been paid by UAW. Last month, the union filed a complaint with a federal labor board on behalf of scores of workers who it says were laid off because they support the union.
The company denied the claims and said the decision was based on employee performance reviews.
Wrong Skin Color Nigger. Here, a Neuropeon store owner would rather not make money than sell a to a gun to Black customer.[Nigger means "a non-white person who is subject to the system of White Supremacy."]
Also neuropeons would rather vote for a child molestor [Roy Moore] or a blithering idiot [Trump] than vote for a perceived "nigger loving liberal" and 3) neuropoens would rather lose games and blow an entire NFL season instead of hiring Kaepernick [see Cleveland Browns & SF 49ers]. Neuropeons are stupid, uncounscious zombies. As explained in FUNKTIONARY
Neuropeons - neurotic, stupid and self deluded poor white trash. 2) skin heads 3) Nazis, neo-Nazis and Theo-nazis (See KKK, WOTAN, Weitko Disease, Fasxism, Racism White Supremacy, Stupidity, Ku Klux Klan & Yurungu).
Above is a Facebook video of a racist suspect Virginia gun-shop owner refusing to sell a gun to black customer that has gone viral after the owner of the business called police on a paying customer who tried to legally purchase a firearm.
According to Chris Mason’s Facebook video, he walked into Hopkins Gun and Tackle, located in Arlington, Va., prepared to purchase a gun. The store owner, Vance Hopkins, refused to sell Mason a gun. Mason said that the owner declined to sell him a firearm for a pre-textual reason that he had “reason to believe” Mason would sell it to someone else. [MORE]
Public Servants & Public Rulers at the Same Time? From [CBS12] A federal jury returned mixed verdicts Thursday evening, for three white Boynton Beach police officers, who were charged with an excessive beating of an unarmed restrained Black man and cover-up.
Officer Michael Brown showed no emotion as the verdicts were read. Jurors found Brown guilty of depriving the rights of a suspect in a beating, and using a firearm in a crime of violence. The 12-member panel acquitted Brown of falsifying records.
The jury completely absolved former officers Justin Harris and Ronald Ryan, finding both not guilty of a charge connected to the beating, and another related to the paperwork.
The case stemmed from Sheriff’s helicopter video of a pursuit by Boynton police. White Officers claimed they "feared" the car they chased had hit and killed a fellow officer. Fortunately the officer survived.
Police also claimed to see someone throwing what appeared to be drugs from the vehicle - never found after an exhaustive search will police dogs and all the works.
But those factors, said prosecutors, did not justify the beating of the car’s front passenger, Jeffrey Braswell, while seat-belted, with hands up, and again on the ground in cuffs.
Prosecutors told the jury the trio was unaware that a PBSO helicopter was flying overhead and recording after they forced a car off the road the morning of August 20, 2014. The Government claimed all the cops lied in their police reports because they were unaware they were being videotaped by a helicopter hovering above.
Prosecutors said the video showed the officers using excessive force to beat Jeffrey Braswell, and said there is evidence that all 3 officers lied on their reports as to what happened during the incident.
Brown was the only officer they could prove who used a gun to strike Braswell - as the video is grainy and unclear.
Officer Brown declined comment as he left court Thursday night. He’s looking at up to 15 years in prison.
Ryan, who was acquitted, said he’s glad to get his life back, but feels for his former brother officer, Brown.
“Mike Brown is one of the best police officers I’ve ever worked for,” said Ryan. “Heart of gold. He served his community honorably.”
Judge Robin Rosenberg allowed Officer Brown to remain free on bond until his sentencing. Brown’s attorney, Bruce Reinhart, told the judge his client suddenly lost his wife a year ago, and now is the sole parent of an eight-year old child.
There’s no sentencing date yet for Officer Brown.
Also on Thursday, a jury was seated for the trial of the officers’ supervisor, Sgt. Philip Antico. He’s accused of the alleged cover-up. He was their supervisor and he is accused of arranging for the officers to falsify reports about the beating and lying about it to the FBI, according to federal documents. That is, he arranged for three officers to rewrite their police reports to justify the use of force, authorities allege Antico also faces an obstruction of justice charge. [MORE]
Fear of Replacement or Genetic Annihilation [See Any Non-Whites in the Photos?]. From [WSJ] and [ThinkProgress] An estimated 60,000 Poles marched across downtown Warsaw on Saturday, in an independence-day procession organized by a nationalist youth movement that seeks an ethnically pure Poland with fewer Jews, non-white Muslims and any other non-whites.
The largely young crowd shot off roman candles and many chanted “fatherland,” carrying banners that read “White Europe,” “Europe Will Be White” and “Clean Blood.” Some of the marchers flew in from Hungary, Slovakia and Spain and waved flags and symbols that those countries used during their wartime collaboration. White demonstrators marched through Warsaw throwing red-smoke bombs and carrying banners with slogans such as “white Europe of brotherly nations”.
Demonstrators with faces covered chanted “Pure Poland, white Poland!” and “Refugees get out!”. A banner hung over a bridge that read: “Pray for Islamic Holocaust.”
“A number of people in the crowd said they didn’t belong to any neo-fascist or racist organization but didn’t see a problem with the overall tone of what has become Poland’s biggest independence day event,” the Wall Street Journal noted.
Some participants marched under the slogan “We Want God!”, words from an old Polish religious song that the US president, Donald Trump, quoted during a visit to Warsaw earlier this year. Speakers encouraged attendants to stand against liberals and defending Christian values. [Apparently by "God" and "Christian" they are referring to a white God and white son of God - a religion in their own image. Independence from what?]
Many carried the national white-and-red flag while others held banners depicting a falanga, a far-right symbol dating to the 1930s. A demonstrator interviewed by state television TVP said he was on the march to “remove Jewry from power”. [MORE] and [MORE]
Behavior System of Survival Based on Color. Non-whites must try to somehow awaken themselves from their dream. Black people especially must understand that racism is not primarily about bigotry - minor inconveniences such as trouble catching a cab, standing in a long line to vote, or name calling, disrespect, stereotypes or other mean conduct & words by white people. Rather racism/white supremacy is about the superior, dominate position of whites and vast unequal power and maintaining the imbalance of power through cooperative control and oppression" [MORE] and MORE] and [MORE]. Believing that racism is bigotry is a vital part of your dream or false programming- sold to you for your cooperation and submission to your own oppression. This wrong view or nonsense is sold everywhere by elite whites - publishers, professionals and government representatives and also promoted by showcase Blacks who parrot such programming in various styles. Importantly, wrong view leads to apathetic or wrong solutions and conduct that does not fight the power of white supremacy.
Dr. Amos Wilson explains,
when we define racism in terms of attitude you'll find yourself then solving the wrong problems. White people will stop expressing those negative attitudes, they will smile more readily at you, they will even marry you and go to bed with you but you will notice that the effects of racism, like poverty and all these other things caused by racism will continue. In fact the problems will increase. [MORE]
As stated by Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, white people practice racism to survive, it is a strategy for white genetic survival. Most white people consciously or subconsciously understand the following;
White plus Black equals Colored.
White plus Brown equals Colored.
White plus Yellow equals Colored.
It is scientific fact that Black is a genetically dominant trait. Whenever Black mixes with White, which is a recessive genetic trait, Black will dominate. In general, this means persons with white skin cannot reproduce a white child when they have sexual relations with non-whites. So, the white "race" can be replaced or "genetically annihilated" through such assimilation or social intermingling with non-whites. This scares racists to death.
The above formula is the meaning of what "you will not replace us" and "‘Europe Will Be White." It also is what ‘Clean Blood’ is referring to - clean white blood. During Nazi Germany, Jews were not considered white people or aryans. As "Semites" they were considered to have their genetic roots amongst Africans - Black people on the continent of Africa. Indeed, the word Semite is derived from the Latin prefix "semi," which means half. Semites were the products of the genetic mixture produced when white Greek and Roman soldiers invaded Africa and raped African women, who of course were Black. Semite means the same as mulatto. Thus they were considered to be half Black and half white, or colored people." According to Hitler, Jews were semi or not pure or half-white, therefore they had to be destroyed.[MORE] and [MORE]
The terms "not pure", anti-Semite and anti-Semitism most fundamentally refer to a destructive ideological, psychological and behavioral state of "anti-color" waged by people who classify themselves as white against those who are classified as non-white, even when those non-whites have lost much of their skin coloration in some instances.
As far as racists are concerned "replacement" is in fact what is ocurring in the US & abroad. Persons who classify themselves as White make up less than 10% of the world's population and their numbers are shrinking fast, while non-white populations are surging. That is, 90% of the world population of 7 billion people are non-white. In fact, according to the Census Bureau, whites remain the only segment of the U.S. population where deaths outpace births.
White people are vastly outnumbered throughout the world and this scares racists, fueling racism. A recent Reuters poll reflects white people fear of replacement as 31% of participants agreed "America must protect and preserve its White European heritage” and 39 percent agreed with the statement that “White people are currently under attack in this country.” [MORE]
Dr. Welsing explained that [among other things] numerical inadequacy drives white folks to practice racism - to survive and to maintain control of non-whites. [MORE]. Her color confrontation theory explained that the more the white population shrinks the worse its conduct toward non-whites will get.
Racism/white supremacy is accurately defined by Dr. Welsing and Dr. Blynd as follows;
Racism White Supremacy- psychopathic degeneracy. 2) "The local and global power system and dynamic, structured and maintained by persons who classify themselves as white, whether consciously or subconsciously determined, which consists of patterns of perception, logic, symbol formation, thought, speech, action and emotional response, as conducted simultaneously in all areas of people activity (economics, education, entertainment, labour, law, politics, religion, sex and war); for the ultimate purpose of white genetic survival and to prevent white genetic annihilation on planet earth—a planet upon which the vast majority of people are classified as non-white (Black, Brown, Red and Yellow) by white skinned people, and all of the nonwhite people are genetically dominant (in terms of skin coloration) compared to the genetic recessive white skin people." [MORE]
Neely Fuller explains racism/white supremacy is a universal operating "system" of domination in which the majority of the world's white people participate. Welsing explains "there is no known code of White Supremacy that can be formally recognized as such in a single set of words or pictures. The basic code of white supremacy is the total pattern of everyday thought, speech and action of the individual white persons who practice it. All things that help to promote it are apart of the white code." [more]
According to Dr. Welsing, "genetic annihilation [fear of replacement] is the fundamental motivation of people who classify themselves as White, whether it is conscious and/or subconsciously determined. In other words: what the White Collective is doing on the planet is engaging in racist behaviors—in economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex and more—in order for them to survive. The operating system of white supremacy functions to keep them alive. As stated by Dr. Welsing, "indeed, if white people had not created such a global system in which they established power over the world's non-white majority, the white collective would have been genetically extinct a long time ago." [MORE].
“The NAACP for several months now has been monitoring a pattern of disturbing incidents reported by African-American passengers, specific to American Airlines,” said Derrick Johnson, President and CEO of the NAACP in a strongly worded statement Wednesday.
Still, shares of American Airlines(AAL, +0.31%) appeared unaffected by the news, sliding about 2% by late trading Wednesday. The sell off has largely been thanks to Alaska Air Group earnings that missed expectations in the third quarter, fanning worries that air travel in general was weaker than previously though during the period. Alaska Air Group lost about 12% on the news, while the S&P 500 Airlines Index fell by about 3%.
Perhaps its comes as a surprise considering a potential boycott from the U.S.’s second-largest ethnic group, or perhaps it comes as no surprise to those who followed the April United Airlines saga in which the giant became known for dragging a bloodied passenger off an overbooked plane. Shares of United barely wavered on the news. One month later, it breached an all-time high. The reason?
“Even if consumers wanted to boycott those airlines, their hands are tied,” said Jonah Berger, a marketing professor at the the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School Wednesday.
Though the airlines industry has become one of America’s most beloved customer service punching bags, it’s also highly resilient to such boycotts due to heavy consolidation over the past decade. American is among four airlines that command roughly 70% of the U.S. market — giving consumers little choice over who flies them where.
What also potentially gives African American fliers even less flexibility in their choices surrounding the industry: fliers tend to be price conscious. The wage gap for African Americans is growing compared to their white counterparts, recent research from the San Francisco Federal Reserve revealed. While the average African American man earned 80 cents on each dollar earned by their white counterparts in 1979,they were earning 70 cents on the dollar in 2016. In other words, African Americans tend to have less buying power.
Perhaps coincidentally, African Americans also make up a disproportionately small percentage of fliers: 8% in 2015, according to research from Ipsos Public Affairs and Airlines for America, which surveyed over 3,000 Americans over the age of 18. African-Americans make up 13.3% of the general population, according to Census Bureau data. Similar data from Gallup in 2015 also found that non-white fliers also tend to travel less. While the average white traveler took about 2.5 air trips a year, non-whites took less than half that figure. [MORE]
Just hold a press conference and issue a press release and like that - the boycott is on? Clearly the above factors were never considered by the NAACP [national association for the advancement of confused people]. Their ineffective "travel ban" is another example of leadership as performance with no substance by "other directed" so-called Black leaders. Boycotts are not child's play. Such strategic activity requres skilled planning and organization by serious persons desiring to neutralize the system of white supremacy.
African Americans' collective purchasing power is an estimated 1.3 trillion dollars. [MORE]. Black dollars matter. Rather than begging or trying to persuade racists to change a particular course of conduct a successful boycott can force change.
However, boycotts cannot be random or individual. Personal boycotts or symbolic boycotts are not boycotts. They are simply an individual consumer choice and have only a minimal, symbolic effect. This is more "protest" actually in cooperation with and submission to white supremacy/racism.
Rather, a boycott is a collective, group effort to inflict some economic loss to compel the target to change its conduct. A boycott must be an actual organized campaign that directly communicates to Black consumers to mobilize their participation via social media & grassroots organizing in Black & Brown communities/organizations and then targets specific businesses. Recently for example, Bill O'Reilly was fired [not over racism] for his foul treatment of women after corporate sponsors began to pullout from FoxNews when advocates began to apply pressure to them [MORE] and [MORE]. After O'Reilly was fired, the financial markets responded positively to the decision by Fox News, and its parent company 21st Century Fox rose over two percent in the stock market the next day.[MORE] Other examples include the gay and lesbian boycott of advertisers of the "Dr. Laura" talk show, gun owners' similar boycott of advertisers of Rosie O'Donnell's talk show and (later) magazine, and gun owners' boycott of Smith & Wesson following that company's March 2000 settlement with the Clinton administration. They may be initiated very easily using either Web sites (the Dr. Laura boycott), newsgroups (the Rosie O'Donnell boycotts), or mailing lists, twitter etc. Internet-initiated boycotts can "snowball" very quickly compared to other forms of organization [MORE] -by individuals who are serious about changing something.
Trash Meets Psychopath. From [NYTimes] On Saturday, Mr. Trump and Mr. Duterte met for the first time on the sidelines of an economic summit meeting in Vietnam. The two shook hands and spoke warmly about having a longer discussion over the next two days, Philippines officials said.
“These two are talking as friends,” said Ramon Casiple, the executive director of the Institute for Political and Electoral Reform, a nonprofit promoting democracy in the Philippines. “I don’t see any reasons when they meet face-to-face that there will be any big problems.”
Mr. Trump set the stage for improved relations when he called Mr. Duterte in April and congratulated him for doing an “unbelievable job on the drug problem.” The United States also provided valuable military assistance — including drones and intelligence — that proved instrumental in defeating Islamic extremists during a five-month siege of Marawi City, which ended last month. [MORE]
To the NY Times and other elite white media it is all good in the hood when US President chills with a dogmatic murderer? Since taking office on June 30, 2016, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has carried out a “war on drugs” resulting in the deaths of over 7,000 suspected drug dealers and users by January 2017. The government has attributed nearly half the killings to the Philippine National Police, and the remainder to “unidentified gunmen.” Cases investigated by the media and rights groups invariably found unlawful executions by police or agents of the police typically acting as “death squads.” Duterte has been outspoken in support of the anti-drug campaign and has sought to silence its critics, notably Senator Leila de Lima. No meaningful investigation into the killings has been undertaken. [MORE]
We just use Blacks to Sing & Dance in our Commercials. From [UsaToday] and [MORE] Apple's leadership remains mostly white and male despite growing pressure on technology companies to diversify their workforces from the board room to the rank-and-file.
Some 81% of the company's senior officials are men and 82% of them are white, according to a 2016 government filing Apple released Thursday.
Of 107 leaders in the Silicon Valley company, 10 are Asian men, four are Asian women, two are black men, one is a black woman and two are Hispanic men. There are no Hispanic women in the Apple leadership, according to the EEO-1, an annual report that Apple makes to the federal government.
Apple is the world's largest information technology company by revenue and the world's second-largest mobile phone manufacturer after Samsung. In February 2015, Apple became the first U.S. company to be valued at over US$700 billion. The company employs 123,000 full-time employees as of September 2017 and maintains 498 retail stores in 22 countries as of July 2017. It operates the iTunes Store, which is the world's largest music retailer. As of January 2016, more than one billion Apple products are actively in use worldwide.
Less than a third — 33% — of its global workforce and 23% of its technical staffers are women, according to Apple's estimates. It says 9% of its technical staffers are African American and 13% of them are Hispanic. [MORE]
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