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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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Saturday
Jan292005

Judge: Houston mortgage company defrauded Hispanic homeowners

A Houston company has been slapped with a $3.5 million judgment for defrauding hundreds of Hispanic homeowners in Texas out of tens of thousands of dollars before the company's owners fled the country, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced Tuesday. District Judge Adolph Canales also issued a permanent injunction against City Mortgage Services Inc. and its owners, Gustavo Duarte and Alfredo Mendez, preventing the company from defrauding consumers through its debt-reduction service. Ruling in a case filed by Abbott, the judge found City Mortgage violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act and the Texas Home Solicitation Act, and ordered the defendants to pay $3.3 million in civil penalties and $210,000 in restitution for the affected consumers. According to the court, City Mortgage, which had offices in Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston, dispatched teams of door-to-door salespeople throughout Hispanic neighborhoods to tout the company's debt-reduction service. Allegedly, City Mortgage promised consumers it would save them thousands of dollars by withdrawing money from their accounts and then forwarding amounts to their mortgage holders that were larger than their regular mortgage payments, thus reducing the time it took to pay off the loans. The company, which the court says charged families $700 and $1,000 each to sign up for the service, failed to forward hundreds of payments and instead pocketed the money, according to Abbott. City Mortgage shut down abruptly in 2004, leaving consumers owing their mortgage companies substantial amounts of money in missed payments and late fees, according to Abbott. The owners fled the country and are being sought. The judge's order also found City Mortgage failed to inform consumers that its service was something the homeowners could do themselves by dealing directly with their mortgage companies. [more]