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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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Wednesday
Mar092005

Ford car loans show racial bias, judge told

Auto financing companies have long used marked-up car loans to charge higher interest rates, but plaintiffs' lawyers in a federal discrimination trial say black customers have suffered from the practice even more than whites. In opening statements Tuesday, plaintiffs' lawyer Clint Watkins said economists from Yale and Vanderbilt universities "will explain how African-Americans and Hispanics are seen in the industry as a prime profit opportunity." He said the black customers of Primus Automotive Financial Services, an affiliate of Ford Motor Credit Corp., were more than twice as likely as whites to be charged higher rates on car loans. But a lawyer for Primus said the evidence will show that blacks and whites were equally as likely to receive markups. Marking up a loan is a practice in which dealers add percentage points of interest to a loan and, in agreement with the finance company, get to keep most of the extra interest money.  Since 1998, there have been several lawsuits filed against auto financing companies, alleging discrimination against blacks. Those suits have resulted in five out-of-court settlements. The class-action suit against Primus is the first to go to trial. Stephen Brobeck, executive director of the Consumer Federation of America, said the settlements have reduced the amount of interest all consumers in the United States will pay for vehicle purchases. "For instance, in the next year, it will amount to a savings of hundreds of millions of dollars," Brobeck said. The lawsuits have also alerted consumers - not just blacks - to the shady practice of auto loan markups, Brobeck said. Several other companies last month reached tentative settlements in similar lawsuits to have complaints against them dropped, including American Honda Finance Corp. General Motors Acceptance Corp. and Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp. have reached similar settlements within the past two years. The settlements have included the companies placing caps on the amounts loans can be marked up and establishing "affirmative lending," programs in which minority customers receive loans with no markups, Watkins said. [more] and [more]