Racism Watch - 6/14/12

The White State. Israeli immigration officer's check documents of a South Sudanese migrant as they look for illegal migrants in southern Israeli city of Eilat. Israeli immigration police, in their fourth day of nationwide raids to round up African illegal immigrants, say they have already arrested at total of 270 people, mostly from South Sudan. Africans make up less than 1% of Israel's population.[MORE] 

White High School Students Suspended After Drawing Racist Picture Involving Obama & Noose Students at a Baltimore County high school drew a racially offensive picture on a classroom board last week and then sent it out on Twitter, prompting the principal to call police and suspend several students. The picture, drawn during class at Eastern Technical High School, shows three nooses hanging from the rafters of a building, according to Baltimore County police spokesman Cathy Batton. Beside the ropes are a burning cross with three stick figures in pointed hats, suggesting the Ku Klux Klan. To the right is a grave marker with the name Barack Obama at the top; under the president's name are two racial epithets. [MORE] The students have been suspended. [MORE]

Steel Company to Pay Black Man $25 Million for Racist Mistreatment. A jury has awarded $25 million in damages to an employee of Luxembourg-based steel company ArcelorMittal (IW 1000/40) who says for years he endured racial harassment at his workplace, his lawyer confirmed Wednesday. Elijah Turley, an African-American, had testified in a three-week trial that racial slurs and other incidents from 2005 to 2008 at a Lackawanna, New York, steel plant left him a broken man. He described the graffiti that adorned the walls of his work place. He vividly remembers “KKK” and “King Kong” spray painted across the walls of the plant, and a stuffed monkey with a noose around its neck hanging from his driver’s side mirror. "It's absolutely shocking that a case like this is in court in 2012," his lawyer, Ryan Mills, said in his closing argument. "It should be viewed as atrocious and intolerable in a civilized society." [MORE] 

As you can see from this picture of Obama and several advisers in the Oval Office, white people just can't get a break in Obama's America [MORE] 

Romney Advisor says Republicans are Rooting Against the Economy! A media strategist who was a senior adviser to Mitt Romney when he ran for governor in 2003 said that he thinks Republican lawmakers are “rooting against the economy” to ensure that President Obama doesn’t win re-election. Rob Gray, a senior adviser on Romney’s gubernatorial campaign, is a Republican media strategist who owns Gray Media, which lists an assortment of Republican officials among its past clients. 

HOST: Plenty of pundits, Rob, are suggesting that GOP lawmakers might be dragging their heels when it comes to trying to turn it around in fears that it might actually help the president. Are you buying that?

GRAY: Well, I’m not buying that they’re dragging their heels. I am buying that they’re rooting against the economy somewhat because they think that the short-term pain of, you know, the next four months is much better than having additional four years of pain under Obama. They believe the government should spend less and that they have better economic ideas than the president does. So, you know, if we have to suffer between now and November to get a better president for four years, they’re all for it. [MORE]