"Old White Male Racist Tells Black Woman To Move To The Back Of A Bus In New York" by Niki2

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"Old White Male Racist Tells Black Woman To Move To The Back Of A Bus In New York"

POSTED BY: NIKI2
UPDATED: Thursday, May 8, 2014 18:41
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Wednesday, May 7, 2014 10:20 PM

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

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Caught on audio and video, an old white man demanded an African-American woman to surrender her seat and move to the back of the bus. She asks him why and then it gets uglier from there as he targets her hairstyle and invokes Donald Sterling.
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BLACK PASSENGER: Why?

WHITE PASSENGER: “Because the back of the bus is over there… I mean the black of the bus is over there.”

BLACK PASSENGER: “…Excuse me?

WHITE PASSENGER: “Yes, I want that seat.”

BLACK PASSENGER: “Why do I have to go to the back of the bus?”

WHITE PASSENGER: “I want that seat.”

BLACK PAASENGER: “No, I’m not getting up cause you’re being..no..you’re being racist.”

Other passengers then get involve and ask the man why he doesn’t go sit at the back of the bus, to which the old white racist responds: “See, this is why we need Donald Sterling.”

At that point, the black female passenger tries to explain equality to him and then he attacks her hair, calling it “nappy.” Multiple passengers get involved and nearly toss him off the bus. The only reason he isn’t is because the woman intervenes and pleads for them to be the better people in the situation.

This is what 2014 America looks like right now. In the eyes of the world, our nation is re-fighting the Civil Rights movement and the Civil War. Racists like Cliven Bundy and Donald Sterling are high profile examples of racism that have occurred this year. But other examples of shocking racism happen all the time despite GOP claims that racism is in America’s past. http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/05/07/back-of-the-bus/

(youtube.com/watch?v=mUPfyvI4W3k preceded by https://www. , if it doesn't come out)

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Wednesday, May 7, 2014 11:07 PM

MIKER

Once I found Serenity

There is no excuse for that. None, but if we cry foul and use a few examples to paint with a broad brush we then in turn exacerbate the situation nationally. Maybe as in the case of Sterling and what was the ranchers name Bundy, it is ignorance and because of their age the way they were raised. Sometimes people do have mental health issues and need to be ignored. I mean by the rest of us. Everyone one on that bus should certainly come to the woman's aid of course, but yelling fire in a theater does more harm than good.

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Thursday, May 8, 2014 8:03 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

I disagree. As long as we ignore such things, some people will go right on claiming racism is dead, some actually believe it. Also, the right has encouraged racism (conscious AND unconscious) for years now; it has empowered racists in government, made negative changes in our country and harmed people. I think we need to go right on pointing out racism.

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Thursday, May 8, 2014 6:05 PM

MIKER

Once I found Serenity

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Originally posted by Niki2:
I disagree. As long as we ignore such things, some people will go right on claiming racism is dead, some actually believe it. Also, the right has encouraged racism (conscious AND unconscious) for years now; it has empowered racists in government, made negative changes in our country and harmed people. I think we need to go right on pointing out racism.

No, no not ignore just keep it in context. The guy had to be a nut. My friend finds housing for schizophrenics and others with similar problems. They go off in this fashion all the time. It makes sense this guy was off his meds.

Forgot to mention your link does not work.

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Thursday, May 8, 2014 6:41 PM

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America loves a winner!

North Korean screed against Obama illustrates ‘race-based’ worldview

By Chico Harlan, Thursday, May 8, 8:25 AM

SEOUL — In a recently published and lengthy racist screed, North Korea calls President Obama a “clown,” a “dirty fellow” and somebody who “does not even have the basic appearances of a human being.”

Propriety has never been a part of North Korean rhetoric, but rarely has Pyongyang so ferociously — and personally — attacked a U.S. leader, in this case pulling language right out of the American 1850s. The attack seems unabashed, except for one thing: Unlike most articles published by the North’s state-run news agency, this one wasn’t translated into English.

“He is a crossbreed with unclear blood,” the North says.

And later: Obama “still has the figure of monkey while the human race has evolved through millions of years.”

“It would be perfect for Obama to live with a group of monkeys in the world’s largest African natural zoo and lick the bread crumbs thrown by spectators.”

The diatribe, published May 2 by the Korean Central News Agency, almost escaped foreign attention. But Josh Stanton, who blogs regularly about the North’s viciousness and rights violations, uncovered the Korean-only piece, as well as a separate, milder article that was translated into English and in which Obama was called a “wicked black monkey.”

The Korean-only piece (headlined, “Divine retribution for the juvenile delinquent Obama!”) featured four lengthy passages, each attributed to a regular citizen. In the North, quotations of citizens are state-sanctioned and often spoon-fed by the government’s propaganda department, analysts say.

In some instances, North Korea’s verbal attacks can be milked for amusement, their outrage directed at “imperialist lackeys” and “thrice-cursed stooges.” But when North Korea talks about race, it’s almost always important — and telling about the state ideology.

Some academics — most notably B.R. Myers — argue that North Koreans fundamentally have a “race-based” worldview, showing more similarity to fascist Japan during World War II than Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union. Myers condenses North Korean’s state orthodoxy into a sentence: “The Korean people are too pure blooded, and therefore too virtuous, to survive in this evil world without a great parental leader.”

That notion, of course, has been contorted to allow the most non-parental kind of leadership, but North Korea still goes to alarming lengths to maintain its racial purity. North Korean women often cross into China looking for work or an escape; if those women are impregnated and forcibly repatriated to the North, they are subject to either forced abortions or infanticide.

The United Nations said in a recent human rights report that this practice points “to an underlying belief in a ‘pure Korean race’ in the DPRK to which mixed race children (of ethnic Koreans) are considered a contamination of its ‘pureness.’ ” The report referred to North Korea by its official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

North Korea has proven its willingness to advertise all forms of contempt, racial or otherwise. Last month, its state news agency lashed out against the openly gay leading author of the U.N. human rights report, calling him a “ disgusting old lecher.” And last week, the North called South Korean President Park Geun-hye an “old prostitute.”

Obama walked into North Korea’s crosshairs after his recent visit to Asia, which included stops in Tokyo and Seoul. Washington and Pyongyang have gone more than two years without dialogue, and the North faces little risk of direct backlash for its comments.

But there are some clear contradictions in North Korea’s stereotyping. The North maintains active ties with several African countries and just signed a new cooperation agreement with Nigeria. Meanwhile, North Korea earlier this year welcomed a team of former NBA basketball players — most of them African American — for an exhibition game attended by leader Kim Jong Un.

Youmi Kim contributed to this report.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...2777_story.html

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