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Cress Welsing: The Definition of Racism White Supremacy

Dr. Blynd: The Definition of Racism

Anon: What is Racism/White Supremacy?

Dr. Bobby Wright: The Psychopathic Racial Personality

The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism (White Supremacy)

What is the First Step in Counter Racism?

Genocide: a system of white survival

The Creation of the Negro

The Mysteries of Melanin

'Racism is a behavioral system for survival'

Fear of annihilation drives white racism

Dr. Blynd: The Definition of Caucasian

Where are all the Black Jurors? 

The War Against Black Males: Black on Black Violence Caused by White Supremacy/Racism

Brazen Police Officers and the Forfeiture of Freedom

White Domination, Black Criminality

Fear of a Colored Planet Fuels Racism: Global White Population Shrinking, Less than 10%

Race is Not Real but Racism is

The True Size of Africa

What is a Nigger? 

MLK and Imaginary Freedom: Chains, Plantations, Segregation, No Longer Necessary ['Our Condition is Getting Worse']

Chomsky on "Reserving the Right to Bomb Niggers." 

A Goal of the Media is to Make White Dominance and Control Over Everything Seem Natural

"TV is reversing the evolution of the human brain." Propaganda: How You Are Being Mind Controlled And Don't Know It.

Spike Lee's Mike Tyson and Don King

"Zapsters" - Keeping what real? "Non-white People are Actors. The Most Unrealistic People on the Planet"

Black Power in a White Supremacy System

Neely Fuller Jr.: "If you don't understand racism/white supremacy, everything else that you think you understand will only confuse you"

The Image and the Christian Concept of God as a White Man

'In order for this system to work, We have to feel most free and independent when we are most enslaved, in fact we have to take our enslavement as the ultimate sign of freedom'

Why do White Americans need to criminalize significant segments of the African American population?

Who Told You that you were Black or Latino or Hispanic or Asian? White People Did

Malcolm X: "We Have a Common Enemy"

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Friday
Feb252005

Fake Drug Cases Settled in Dallas - $5.6 Million to Hispanics Wrongly Arrested &Targeted 

Dallas has agreed to pay about $5.6 million to settle most of the federal lawsuits stemming from the police fake-drug scandal, said several people familiar with the deals. The settlement includes 16 of the 24 plaintiffs who have filed lawsuits alleging that narcotics officers and their supervisors violated their civil rights in the series of 2001 arrests in which paid police informants planted bogus drugs on innocent people. City Attorney Madeleine Johnson, who has supervised the settlement talks and is expected to announce the settlements today, could not be reached for comment. The cost to dispose of the cases before trial would be one of the largest legal payments by the city in recent memory. The city agreed several years ago to pay $5.5 million after several police supervisors sued after demotions by former Chief Terrell Bolton. The cost of the fake-drug cases could grow if the remaining plaintiffs settle or win claims before juries. "This is a great start to closing the chapter and putting the litigation behind everyone," said plaintiffs attorney Don Tittle, who got agreements for 12 of his 19 clients but declined to disclose the amounts. "But it's not over until the city decides to address the remaining cases of the other victims," he said. "Until those cases are resolved, the city still faces some tremendous financial exposure." The settlements, which were partially revealed last month, are no surprise. Two lawyers hired by the city to investigate the scandal released a scathing report stating that poor police supervision and shoddy detective work in the department's narcotics division led to the false arrests. Those arrests fit a pattern in which a cadre of corrupt informants hired by narcotics officers planted bundles of a white powder, sometimes billiards chalk, on immigrants, most of whom were Hispanic. That led detectives to make false felony arrests. Three informants went to federal prison for the scheme. They and others also face related criminal charges in state court. Several former narcotics officers are accused of evidence tampering related to police reports. The detective at the center of the arrests, former Senior Cpl. Mark Delapaz, is scheduled to go on trial Feb. 28. No official has alleged that officers knowingly jailed innocent people. Sources said the settlement payouts to specific plaintiffs varied greatly, from about $100,000 to nearly $500,000. [more]