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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
Jan152005

Haitian Couple agree to dismiss excessive force lawsuit Against Collier County Police 

Two Immokalee residents have agreed to dismiss a federal lawsuit that accused deputies of using excessive force and violating their civil rights in a traffic stop, federal records show. Raphael Jolis, 65, and Jeanne Jean, 48, had said in the nine-count civil complaint that they were roughed up, held for a long period of time and then either released without any reason given for the traffic stop or, in the case of Jolis, given a traffic citation that was later dismissed. According to federal court records, the parties have agreed to dismiss the lawsuit to work out an anticipated settlement to the case. Sam Gold, an attorney representing the plaintiffs, refused to say whether a settlement had been reached, the Naples Daily News reported Thursday. The lawsuit originally named the Lee County Sheriff Rodney Shoap and Collier County Sheriff Don Hunter, but Collier County had been dropped from the suit Dec. 21. The suit alleged false imprisonment, excessive force, intentional infliction of emotional distress, civil rights violations and negligence on the part of the deputies. Lee sheriff's officials had argued there was no evidence of any wrongdoing by deputies. Collier sheriff's had said they were helping Lee deputies search for burglary suspects. According to the suit, the two plaintiffs are of Haitian descent and speak little or no English. The suit claimed Jolis and Jean were riding in a van in far northeastern Collier on Aug. 30, 2000, when deputies blocked the road and forced them to exit the van. Deputies grabbed Jean, who was pregnant at the time, threw her to the ground and handcuffed her, then detained her without cause before releasing her, the suit alleged. Jolis, the driver, was grabbed and choked, forced out of the vehicle, thrown to the ground and handcuffed, the suit said. [more]