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15 black employees were fired for, "Not fitting the profile". After the 15 black people were fire, a ton of new white people were hired.

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McDonald's is under fire for the alleged racial harassment of employees at three stores in Virginia.

Ten ex-workers filed a civil rights lawsuit Thursday morning, claiming they were fired after supervisors said there were "too many black people in the store."

The complaint alleges that about 15 African-American employees were fired on the same day in May last year after a large number of white employees were hired in March.

When they asked why they were losing their jobs, the franchise owner Michael Simon allegedly told them they "didn't fit the profile."

Simon, the owner of three franchise locations in Virginia, declined to comment for this story. But when allegations first surfaced in local media outlets in May, he issued a statement that said he has a "strict policy of prohibiting any form of discrimination or harassment in hiring, termination, or any other aspect of employment."

Ex-worker and plaintiff Katrina Stanfield said she was regularly harassed and remembers a supervisor saying "it's too dark in here."

After Stanfield was fired, she called McDonald's corporate to report what she felt was discrimination. "But I never heard back," she said on a phone call with reporters.

"McDonald's closely monitors everything we do, from the speed of the drive-through line, to the way we smile and fold customers' bags -- but when we try to tell the company that we're facing discrimination, they ignore us and say that it's not their problem," said Pamela Marable, in a prepared statement.

Related: Faces of the fast food strikes

A McDonald's spokeswoman said Thursday that the company had not yet seen the lawsuit, but that "discrimination is completely inconsistent with out values."

The company's CEO, Don Thompson, is one of a handful of African-American CEOs at Fortune 500 companies.

Most McDonald's locations are owned and operated by independent franchise owners, like Simon. But in the complaint, plaintiff lawyers argue that the corporation still has control over a great deal of the franchise owner's business. They can only make contracts with pre-approved suppliers and must send employees to training either provided by the corporation or approved by it.

Experts say the case could add to mounting pressure on the company to accept more responsibility for what goes on at its franchise locations.

Related: Iraq vet protests for more than $8.50 an hour

The National Labor Relations Board decided in December to consider McDonald's corporation as a joint employer, along with the franchise owner, in unrelated cases it's hearing regarding workers' rights.

It's becoming a hot button issue as fast-food workers stage union-backed protests demanding higher wages, often a minimum of $15 an hour.

"This is likely part of a larger campaign by the [union] and related units that are putting pressure on the franchisor," said Samuel Estreicher, a professor of labor and employment law at NYU.

Still, he said it's highly unlikely that McDonald's has anything to do with hiring and firing decisions at the franchisee level.

Attorney Paul Smith, who represents the plaintiffs, said McDonald's could have done more to prevent what happened.

"They want all the control and profit, but none of the responsibility," Smith said.

CNNMoney (New York) First published January 22, 2015: 2:06 PM ET

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Ten ex-workers filed a civil rights lawsuit Thursday morning, claiming they were fired after supervisors said there were "too many black people in the store." The complaint alleges that about 15 African-American employees were fired on the same day in May last year after a large number of white employees were hired in March.

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The man in this article was sentenced to death after he murdered a white woman. His lawyers pleaded that the jurors were biased and came up with that opinion based on the all-white jury.

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(Newser) - In a ruling Vox says "could have a big impact on racism in the justice system," the Supreme Court on Tuesday tossed a death sentence rendered almost 30 years ago against a Georgia black man, voting 7-1 that state prosecutors kept African-Americans off the jury that convicted him, the AP reports. Timothy Foster, 48, had been sent to death row for the 1986 death of Queen White, a 79-year-old white woman, by an all-white jury, Reuters notes. But two decades after his sentence, Foster's lawyers finally accessed prosecutors' jury-selection notes, and what they found was a game changer: the names of a handful of black jury candidates marked with a "B" and highlighted, and the word "black" clearly circled on juror questionnaires where race is requested, among other evidence. "The focus on race in the prosecution's file plainly demonstrates a concerted effort to keep black prospective jurors off the jury," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the court's ruling, which could set the stage for a possible retrial and counted only Justice Clarence Thomas as its lone dissenter, per CNN.

The Supreme Court looked back to Batson v. Kentucky, a 1986 case that found removing a juror based on race violates the 14th Amendment. The state tried to argue the prosecutors' decision at the time to strike those specific jurors was based on other factors besides race, but the court remained unswayed-mainly because of the notes brought forward by Foster's attorneys. "We have an arsenal of smoking guns in this case," Stephen Bright, Foster's lead lawyer, told the justices. Thomas argued that the Georgia court's decision that prosecutors weren't engaging in racial discrimination should have been respected. "I cannot go along with that 'sort of sandbagging of state courts,'" he wrote in his dissent. "New evidence should not justify the relitigation of Batson claims." A law professor tells CNN that Thomas' stance is "flabbergasting" and "alarmingly deferential view for a Supreme Court justice to take." (How would Trump's Supreme Court picks have voted?)

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The Supreme Court Just Threw Out the Death Sentence a Black Man Got 30 Years Ago

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In a ruling Vox says "could have a big impact on racism in the justice system," the Supreme Court on Tuesday tossed a death sentence rendered almost 30 years ago against a Georgia black man,... US News Summaries. | Newser

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Black drivers of Ferguson say that they are stopped more frequently than white drivers. These findings are a big piece of discriminatory evidence towards African Americans.

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(Newser) - Black drivers in Ferguson, Mo., are pulled over much more for traffic stops than white drivers-and this imbalance is the crux of a forthcoming and damning Justice Department report, the New York Times reports. The nearly finished findings, according to law enforcement officials who say they've been briefed on it, are expected to show how systematic discriminatory actions helped stoke tensions in the period before Michael Brown's shooting death last summer by officer Darren Wilson. The report is also said to suggest that ticket fines are used to keep the city's budget in line, the Times notes. If those issued a ticket can't pay it, they can keep going to jail for the unpaid fees, which has proven lucrative for the city: "Fines and public safety" are Ferguson's second-largest revenue source (sales tax is the first), per the Times.

Although blacks in Ferguson only make up 63% of the population, they were involved in 86% of the city's 2013 traffic stops, per Missouri AG info cited by the Times. And the search rate for blacks after a stop was twice that of whites during that time period, though whites were significantly more likely to have "contraband." Mayor James Knowles III has already taken umbrage with the alleged findings and for recent statements by AG Eric Holder, who said in October that "wholesale change" was needed in the Ferguson PD. "How come they haven't told us there is something that needs to be changed as they found it?" Knowles told the Times last week. "Why have they allowed whatever they think is happening to continue to happen for six months if that's the case?" Also said to be included in the report: a racist joke believed to have been emailed among city officials, law enforcement officials tell the Times.

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Ferguson Traffic Stops Target Blacks: DoJ Report

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(Newser) - Black drivers in Ferguson, Mo., are pulled over much more for traffic stops than white drivers-and this imbalance is the crux of a forthcoming and damning Justice Department report, the New York Times reports.

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This article is narrated by a black man who speaks about another black man who had gotten shot by a police officer.  He also summed up what it feels like to be black man walking in the streets.

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Watching the dastardly shooting of Walter Scott by Officer Slager sent cold chills down my spine. It could have been me! I am filled with a deep sense of anger and outrage at what has become a pattern of white police officers hunting down black men and killing them in cold blood as if to say that their lives are expendable and disposable. Every time these terrible, racially inspired crimes are committed against a black man on our streets here in the United States, I am reminded that this society is failing black men for many reasons. What is happening to black men in the United States is a continuation of the racial violence of the past going back to the time of slavery. The only difference is that in the past, our ancestors knew that they were victims of a destructive racial system and fought to break the yoke of slavery, racism and segregation. Today we are told that every American has civil liberties but those who are meant to protect these rights for citizens like Walter Scott are the ones who are denying them to black men in the full glare of the public. At the heart of this unmitigated violence and killings of black men by police officers is a total abnegation of the dignity and value of the life of black men. In the eyes of many white police officers, being black and male in America makes you a potential criminal, a suspect, a trouble maker, and a dangerous person. Being a black male means that white police officers should "fear" you and "protect" themselves and society from you in a most violent manner.

True, Officer Slager has been arrested and will face justice. He might well be convicted or he might be acquitted, no one is sure. However, something is broken about a society where being a black man means that you are a target of police racial profiling. Something is patently wrong in a society where being a black man means that you are most likely to face an untimely death by a police officer's gun than from natural causes. When I moved from Toronto, Canada to Chicago last year, a white Canadian colleague of mine teaching in one of the premier universities in the U.S. expressed fear about my safety this way: "you are a big black guy with an imposing frame and a potential suspect in the eyes of U.S. police officers. I really worry about your safety in the U.S." Indeed, I received some informal instructions on the appropriate conduct required of me in the presence of police officers. I have learned that failing to follow those instructions as a black male could be the difference between life and death for me. I decided few years ago never to buy a new car, though the one I currently have is 13 years old and has clocked over 200,000 miles. Many people might think that being a Catholic priest, I am trying to live a simple life of poverty following the example of Pope Francis. However, the truth is that I do not wish to attract the attention of police officers by driving a brand new car. A friend of mine, a black professor at a Chicago university who drives an SUV told me that he is constantly being hounded by police officers who are apparently unable to believe that a black man could possess such a "big car" and wonder whether he stole the car. The question then is: if males of African descent here in the United States cannot feel free and safe in this great country, where should they go? How can this great nation justify the senseless destruction of black males in the United States--through police violence, through state sanctioned and disproportionate imposition of the death penalty? How can America, the shining beacon of democracy in the world, justify the fact that black people make up 44 percent of youth prison inmates in the United States whereas black people make up about 13 percent of the population?

Whenever I walk to work, drive to church, or visit the soup kitchen here in Chicago I wonder how a country as prosperous as the U.S. could leave so many Black males on the bottom rungs of its economic, social and political systems. The iniquitous social reproduction that is alive and flourishing in the United States emanates from the slavery era and shameful Jim Crow laws, practices and attitudes. Unfortunately, it has shaped the narrative of what being black and male means in the consciousness of non-Blacks and it has given rise to the inexcusable killings of black men like one would kill an animal. Many people will counter by saying that 94 percent of all black people murdered were killed by fellow black people from 1976 to 2005, and that a black male is seven times more likely to commit murder in the United States than a white man and six times more likely to be murdered. But the contention here is that those who protect people should not become threats to the lives of those they are meant to be protecting.

The problem is not so much about policing culture in the United States. There are many decent police officers in this country who deserve our respect and highest esteem. The problem is the attitude and racist norms which shape the way being black and male is framed in the United States by whites. The white police officers who are hunting down defenseless black males have been socialized in this racist narrative about black males and blacks in general in this country. The other day I was standing in front of the elevator. When the door opened, a white female emerged and terrified by my presence, immediately turned red and descended into a panic mode. I said nothing but wondered how the sight of me could produce such torrents of anxiety in this lady. How many times have I observed white women awkwardly step aside when they see me walking towards them on a sidewalk. I wonder what is wrong with this society or rather self-deprecatingly what is wrong with me as a black male. Sadly, the vast majority of black males have similar experiences.

Racism is a learned behavior; just like terrorism or hatred and other inhuman vices which hold the world in perpetual bondage. No one is born with a terrorism or racist attitude or disposition in their human genome. Racism, especially against blacks or any other racial group for that matter is a learned behavior. It has festered in the U.S. and the rest of the world for a long time. It is even made worse by the veneer of civil rights and liberties in the American constitution which give a false ideal of liberty and pursuit of happiness for all Americans. Unfortunately, many blacks in the U.S. suffer a painful cultural and existential alienation which have left them in a ghettoized world of pain and on the marginal sidelines of the so called American dream. Racism in America is also the result of the white social construction of identity and the jaundiced narrative of the "otherness" of the Black man which emerges from this narrative. The so called manifest destiny which America claims for herself has remained for many black males only an unflappable peripheral destiny in the throes of police brutality, violence, incarceration, joblessness, and constant surveillance.

When Trayvon Martin was killed by George Zimmermam, who was later acquitted by a jury, President Obama said that Trayvon could have been his son. White males can rarely, if ever, claim kinship or identity with a victim of police brutality or heightened insecurities. If Walter Scott were a white male, he would not have been killed this way by Officer Slager. America can hardly claim to be a post-racial society just because it elected a black man to the presidency. America will not be a post-racial society until injustice is no longer color-coded. Race relations have seemingly gotten worse since the election of President Obama because widespread instances of deep-seated prejudice, profiling, stereotypes against blacks in America remain unaddressed. The Obama presidency has created the false impression that America has evolved beyond her racial divide and the negation and inferiorization of people of color. But this is not true! Rather what is emerging are hidden forms of racism against black people which are no longer written in the legal codes of the land but in the hearts and attitudes of many non-blacks in the U.S. and many parts of the world. America is diminished when evils and racist structures of injustice are allowed to persist. The myth of American exceptionalism will ring hollow throughout the world if she continues to tolerate the vilification and attitude of fear of the black male. What nation will turn a blind eye to this vicious cycle of police violence against a particular racial group and the sweltering poverty of majority of black males? It is high time we revive the Civil Rights Movement, and move beyond occasional protests and rallies. It is high time we truly overcome through a new strategy and new course of action to reverse this shameful trajectory of history and this stench on America's social conscience.

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Being a Black Male in America: Racism and the Police

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Watching the dastardly shooting of Walter Scott by Officer Slager sent cold chills down my spine. It could have been me! I am filled with a deep sense of anger and outrage at what has become a pattern of white police officers hunting down black men and killing them in cold blood as if to say that their lives are expendable and disposable.

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A young black doctor was turned away as she tried tending to a sick elderly white woman. The woman assumed that the colored doctor was not a licensed or certified physician because of her race.

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7 Female Doctors Speak Out on In-Flight Racism and Sexism

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After the viral story of Tamika Cross, 7 female physicians share their stories of being barred from providing medical care on an airplane

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John Oliver talks about how schools are still segregated regardless of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He gives great statistics that involve the amount of schools that have racial indifferences.

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John Oliver Looks at School Segregation on 'Last Week Tonight'

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On 'Last Week Tonight,' John Oliver turned his gimlet eye on racism, or as he called it, "the problem that 'Crash' failed to solve."

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This article talks compares the amount of deaths to blacks by white as well as whites by blacks. The numbers are astonishing and shows clearly that racism is very much so still alive.

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In Missouri, a couple pleaded guilty on Wednesday to violating their African-American neighbors’ civil rights by setting their home on fire with Molotov cocktails  and writing Nazi swastikas and other racist signs on their driveway.

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Over the past week many people have spent their time celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of an America where we're no longer divided by race, but old prejudices linger.

In Missouri, a couple pleaded guilty on Wednesday to violating their African-American neighbors' civil rights by setting their home on fire with Molotov cocktails and writing Nazi swastikas and other racist signs on their driveway.

Logan J. Smith, 25, and Victoria A. Cheek-Herrera, 34, pleaded guilty to concocting and carrying out the racially motivated crime.

"By pleading guilty, Smith and Cheek-Herrera admitted that on June 26, 2008, they conspired to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate an African-American couple and their minor children in the free exercise of their constitutional rights to occupy and rent their home in Independence, because of their race and color," the Kansas City division of the FBI said in a statement.

Smith told the court that he drew swastikas and wrote "White Power" on the driveway before pouring gasoline into a glass, inserting a rag, setting it on fire, and tossing it at their African-American neighbors' home.

"You're pleading guilty because you are guilty, is that correct?" U.S. District Judge Brian Wimes asked the defendant.

"Yes, sir," Smith answered.

Smith and Cheek-Herrera could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison each and could be fined up to $250,000.

The case was investigated by the FBI. An attorney from the Department of Justice assisted with the prosecution of this case.

h/t: CBS St. Louis

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Couple Pleads Guilty to Setting African-American Neighbors' Home Ablaze - Your Black World

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Over the past week many people have spent their time celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of an America where we're no longer divided by race, but old prejudices linger. In Missouri, a couple pleaded guilty on Wednesday to violating their African-American neighbors' civil rights by setting their home on fire with Molotov cocktails ...

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This article is talking about how black lives matter. It also talks about the history of slavery and what the black population had to go through and still has to go through today which is, discrimination.

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The mainstream media (MSM) are right. There is a political party today that has racism as a core value and is working incessantly to keep blacks down. It's the Democratic Party. Of course, since Democrat politicians never say what they really believe, most Democrat voters aren't aware they're supporting racism.

Like their predecessors who fought a war to keep slavery legal, who founded the KKK, who passed the Jim Crow laws, who fought for school segregation, and who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, modern Democrat politicians are constantly working to ensure that blacks be poor, ignorant, and totally dependent on the government.

Slave-owning Democrats believed that blacks were not really smart enough to run their own lives.

Modern Democrat talking heads constantly declare that in a country where Japanese Americans could go from Democrat-mandated prison camps to having one of the highest per household incomes in America, without Democrat help, blacks somehow can't manage to do anything. It's the same paternalistic attitude that earlier Democrats used to justify slavery.

Of course, the new slavery is different from the old: instead of picking cotton for hours in the blazing sun, modern blacks only have to vote Democrat, settle for unsafe neighborhoods, and be willing to live with the fact that their children will never get a decent education.

Charter schools and private schools have proven that they can educate black inner-city children. Black parents go to extreme lengths to get their kids in those schools because blacks love their kids, too. Yet Democrat politicians are constantly opposing those schools, and the idea of school choice, because they apparently care more about the millions the teacher unions pour into Democrat coffers than they do about black children getting a decent education.

What better recipe for securing the black vote than ensuring that blacks depend on government for life itself while using the compliant MSM to convince them that their problems are all due to Republicans - who, of course, have no power in the cities those blacks live in? This is another reason why it's necessary to make sure blacks can't get a decent education. Ignorant, uneducated people of any race are more likely to fall for propaganda, after all.

Democrat politicians have even figured out how to use taxpayer dollars to pay for keeping blacks around to vote. Their slave-owning predecessors had to at least pay to feed and house their slaves.

If you're saying, "No, this can't be so," then ponder a few "inconvenient truths."

In America, thousands of blacks are shot each year in Democrat-run cities, yet Democrats who run those cities with an iron fist do nothing that works to fix the problem. While one could believe that a non-racist might think for a few years that gun control actually protects law-abiding blacks, only someone who doesn't have black interests at heart could continue to believe so after decades of failure.

If Democrat politicians really aren't racists, it's odd that there are no Democrats saying abortion should be legal but that we should do something about the fact that a black woman is five times more likely to have an abortion than a white woman.

Then there's welfare. The entire supposed pivot of Democrats on racism is based on their support for welfare, which "rescued" blacks from poverty.

That hasn't worked too well, given that black poverty is still twice that of white poverty.

More importantly, welfare has contributed to the destruction of the black family and the resulting culture that makes it very hard for even very dedicated blacks to escape the ghetto. With 70% of blacks born to single mothers and with being in a single-parent family being the strongest correlation with drug use, criminality, teen pregnancy, and poverty, people who care about blacks, like the Republicans who pushed for welfare reform, would demand change.

If Democrats cared about blacks, they'd have noticed the problem by the 1970s and tried to fix it. Instead, they doubled down on the same failed approaches. But if their objective is to keep blacks dependent and scared, maybe those policies weren't failures after all.

Finally, one has only to look at how Democrats treat blacks who wander off the Democrats' thought plantation to see that love of blacks is not at the core of the Democratic Party. If any Republican had talked about Obama the way Democrats talk about Ben Carson, Justice Clarence Thomas, and any number of other black conservative intellectuals, he'd have been tarred and feathered by the MSM.

It's a crime that 52 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, blacks are still being oppressed by the same Democratic Party that fought so hard for slavery 153 years ago.

Stop letting Democrat politicians get away with claiming to care when their actions show that their only concern is about votes. They helicopter into the black community every election cycle, explain how it's all the Republicans' fault, and then helicopter back to their tony neighborhoods, where their kids go to great schools and it's safe to walk at night.

Don't let Democrats get away with pretending to care about blacks while they fight tooth and nail against any policy that would give blacks a chance to earn their share of the American Dream.

It's time that America threw off the Democrat legacy of preventing blacks from reaching their true potential. It's time to end the nearly 200-year-long Democrat war on blacks and bring down the last vestiges of racism in America.

You can read more of Tom's rants at his blog, Conversations about the obvious, and feel free to follow him on Twitter.

The mainstream media (MSM) are right. There is a political party today that has racism as a core value and is working incessantly to keep blacks down. It's the Democratic Party. Of course, since Democrat politicians never say what they really believe, most Democrat voters aren't aware they're supporting racism.

Like their predecessors who fought a war to keep slavery legal, who founded the KKK, who passed the Jim Crow laws, who fought for school segregation, and who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, modern Democrat politicians are constantly working to ensure that blacks be poor, ignorant, and totally dependent on the government.

Slave-owning Democrats believed that blacks were not really smart enough to run their own lives.

Modern Democrat talking heads constantly declare that in a country where Japanese Americans could go from Democrat-mandated prison camps to having one of the highest per household incomes in America, without Democrat help, blacks somehow can't manage to do anything. It's the same paternalistic attitude that earlier Democrats used to justify slavery.

Of course, the new slavery is different from the old: instead of picking cotton for hours in the blazing sun, modern blacks only have to vote Democrat, settle for unsafe neighborhoods, and be willing to live with the fact that their children will never get a decent education.

Charter schools and private schools have proven that they can educate black inner-city children. Black parents go to extreme lengths to get their kids in those schools because blacks love their kids, too. Yet Democrat politicians are constantly opposing those schools, and the idea of school choice, because they apparently care more about the millions the teacher unions pour into Democrat coffers than they do about black children getting a decent education.

What better recipe for securing the black vote than ensuring that blacks depend on government for life itself while using the compliant MSM to convince them that their problems are all due to Republicans - who, of course, have no power in the cities those blacks live in? This is another reason why it's necessary to make sure blacks can't get a decent education. Ignorant, uneducated people of any race are more likely to fall for propaganda, after all.

Democrat politicians have even figured out how to use taxpayer dollars to pay for keeping blacks around to vote. Their slave-owning predecessors had to at least pay to feed and house their slaves.

If you're saying, "No, this can't be so," then ponder a few "inconvenient truths."

In America, thousands of blacks are shot each year in Democrat-run cities, yet Democrats who run those cities with an iron fist do nothing that works to fix the problem. While one could believe that a non-racist might think for a few years that gun control actually protects law-abiding blacks, only someone who doesn't have black interests at heart could continue to believe so after decades of failure.

If Democrat politicians really aren't racists, it's odd that there are no Democrats saying abortion should be legal but that we should do something about the fact that a black woman is five times more likely to have an abortion than a white woman.

Then there's welfare. The entire supposed pivot of Democrats on racism is based on their support for welfare, which "rescued" blacks from poverty.

That hasn't worked too well, given that black poverty is still twice that of white poverty.

More importantly, welfare has contributed to the destruction of the black family and the resulting culture that makes it very hard for even very dedicated blacks to escape the ghetto. With 70% of blacks born to single mothers and with being in a single-parent family being the strongest correlation with drug use, criminality, teen pregnancy, and poverty, people who care about blacks, like the Republicans who pushed for welfare reform, would demand change.

If Democrats cared about blacks, they'd have noticed the problem by the 1970s and tried to fix it. Instead, they doubled down on the same failed approaches. But if their objective is to keep blacks dependent and scared, maybe those policies weren't failures after all.

Finally, one has only to look at how Democrats treat blacks who wander off the Democrats' thought plantation to see that love of blacks is not at the core of the Democratic Party. If any Republican had talked about Obama the way Democrats talk about Ben Carson, Justice Clarence Thomas, and any number of other black conservative intellectuals, he'd have been tarred and feathered by the MSM.

It's a crime that 52 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, blacks are still being oppressed by the same Democratic Party that fought so hard for slavery 153 years ago.

Stop letting Democrat politicians get away with claiming to care when their actions show that their only concern is about votes. They helicopter into the black community every election cycle, explain how it's all the Republicans' fault, and then helicopter back to their tony neighborhoods, where their kids go to great schools and it's safe to walk at night.

Don't let Democrats get away with pretending to care about blacks while they fight tooth and nail against any policy that would give blacks a chance to earn their share of the American Dream.

It's time that America threw off the Democrat legacy of preventing blacks from reaching their true potential. It's time to end the nearly 200-year-long Democrat war on blacks and bring down the last vestiges of racism in America.

You can read more of Tom's rants at his blog, Conversations about the obvious, and feel free to follow him on Twitter.

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The MSM Is Right: There Is a Racist Party in America

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The mainstream media (MSM) are right. There is a political party today that has racism as a core value and is working incessantly to keep blacks down. It's the Democratic Party. Of course, since Democrat politicians never say what they really believe, most Democrat voters aren't aware they're supporting racism.

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The mainstream media (MSM) are right. There is a political party today that has racism as a core value and is working incessantly to keep blacks down. It's the Democratic Party. Of course, since Democrat politicians never say what they really believe, most Democrat voters aren't aware they're supporting racism.

Like their predecessors who fought a war to keep slavery legal, who founded the KKK, who passed the Jim Crow laws, who fought for school segregation, and who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, modern Democrat politicians are constantly working to ensure that blacks be poor, ignorant, and totally dependent on the government.

Slave-owning Democrats believed that blacks were not really smart enough to run their own lives.

Modern Democrat talking heads constantly declare that in a country where Japanese Americans could go from Democrat-mandated prison camps to having one of the highest per household incomes in America, without Democrat help, blacks somehow can't manage to do anything. It's the same paternalistic attitude that earlier Democrats used to justify slavery.

Of course, the new slavery is different from the old: instead of picking cotton for hours in the blazing sun, modern blacks only have to vote Democrat, settle for unsafe neighborhoods, and be willing to live with the fact that their children will never get a decent education.

Charter schools and private schools have proven that they can educate black inner-city children. Black parents go to extreme lengths to get their kids in those schools because blacks love their kids, too. Yet Democrat politicians are constantly opposing those schools, and the idea of school choice, because they apparently care more about the millions the teacher unions pour into Democrat coffers than they do about black children getting a decent education.

What better recipe for securing the black vote than ensuring that blacks depend on government for life itself while using the compliant MSM to convince them that their problems are all due to Republicans - who, of course, have no power in the cities those blacks live in? This is another reason why it's necessary to make sure blacks can't get a decent education. Ignorant, uneducated people of any race are more likely to fall for propaganda, after all.

Democrat politicians have even figured out how to use taxpayer dollars to pay for keeping blacks around to vote. Their slave-owning predecessors had to at least pay to feed and house their slaves.

If you're saying, "No, this can't be so," then ponder a few "inconvenient truths."

In America, thousands of blacks are shot each year in Democrat-run cities, yet Democrats who run those cities with an iron fist do nothing that works to fix the problem. While one could believe that a non-racist might think for a few years that gun control actually protects law-abiding blacks, only someone who doesn't have black interests at heart could continue to believe so after decades of failure.

If Democrat politicians really aren't racists, it's odd that there are no Democrats saying abortion should be legal but that we should do something about the fact that a black woman is five times more likely to have an abortion than a white woman.

Then there's welfare. The entire supposed pivot of Democrats on racism is based on their support for welfare, which "rescued" blacks from poverty.

That hasn't worked too well, given that black poverty is still twice that of white poverty.

More importantly, welfare has contributed to the destruction of the black family and the resulting culture that makes it very hard for even very dedicated blacks to escape the ghetto. With 70% of blacks born to single mothers and with being in a single-parent family being the strongest correlation with drug use, criminality, teen pregnancy, and poverty, people who care about blacks, like the Republicans who pushed for welfare reform, would demand change.

If Democrats cared about blacks, they'd have noticed the problem by the 1970s and tried to fix it. Instead, they doubled down on the same failed approaches. But if their objective is to keep blacks dependent and scared, maybe those policies weren't failures after all.

Finally, one has only to look at how Democrats treat blacks who wander off the Democrats' thought plantation to see that love of blacks is not at the core of the Democratic Party. If any Republican had talked about Obama the way Democrats talk about Ben Carson, Justice Clarence Thomas, and any number of other black conservative intellectuals, he'd have been tarred and feathered by the MSM.

It's a crime that 52 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, blacks are still being oppressed by the same Democratic Party that fought so hard for slavery 153 years ago.

Stop letting Democrat politicians get away with claiming to care when their actions show that their only concern is about votes. They helicopter into the black community every election cycle, explain how it's all the Republicans' fault, and then helicopter back to their tony neighborhoods, where their kids go to great schools and it's safe to walk at night.

Don't let Democrats get away with pretending to care about blacks while they fight tooth and nail against any policy that would give blacks a chance to earn their share of the American Dream.

It's time that America threw off the Democrat legacy of preventing blacks from reaching their true potential. It's time to end the nearly 200-year-long Democrat war on blacks and bring down the last vestiges of racism in America.

You can read more of Tom's rants at his blog, Conversations about the obvious, and feel free to follow him on Twitter.

The mainstream media (MSM) are right. There is a political party today that has racism as a core value and is working incessantly to keep blacks down. It's the Democratic Party. Of course, since Democrat politicians never say what they really believe, most Democrat voters aren't aware they're supporting racism.

Like their predecessors who fought a war to keep slavery legal, who founded the KKK, who passed the Jim Crow laws, who fought for school segregation, and who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, modern Democrat politicians are constantly working to ensure that blacks be poor, ignorant, and totally dependent on the government.

Slave-owning Democrats believed that blacks were not really smart enough to run their own lives.

Modern Democrat talking heads constantly declare that in a country where Japanese Americans could go from Democrat-mandated prison camps to having one of the highest per household incomes in America, without Democrat help, blacks somehow can't manage to do anything. It's the same paternalistic attitude that earlier Democrats used to justify slavery.

Of course, the new slavery is different from the old: instead of picking cotton for hours in the blazing sun, modern blacks only have to vote Democrat, settle for unsafe neighborhoods, and be willing to live with the fact that their children will never get a decent education.

Charter schools and private schools have proven that they can educate black inner-city children. Black parents go to extreme lengths to get their kids in those schools because blacks love their kids, too. Yet Democrat politicians are constantly opposing those schools, and the idea of school choice, because they apparently care more about the millions the teacher unions pour into Democrat coffers than they do about black children getting a decent education.

What better recipe for securing the black vote than ensuring that blacks depend on government for life itself while using the compliant MSM to convince them that their problems are all due to Republicans - who, of course, have no power in the cities those blacks live in? This is another reason why it's necessary to make sure blacks can't get a decent education. Ignorant, uneducated people of any race are more likely to fall for propaganda, after all.

Democrat politicians have even figured out how to use taxpayer dollars to pay for keeping blacks around to vote. Their slave-owning predecessors had to at least pay to feed and house their slaves.

If you're saying, "No, this can't be so," then ponder a few "inconvenient truths."

In America, thousands of blacks are shot each year in Democrat-run cities, yet Democrats who run those cities with an iron fist do nothing that works to fix the problem. While one could believe that a non-racist might think for a few years that gun control actually protects law-abiding blacks, only someone who doesn't have black interests at heart could continue to believe so after decades of failure.

If Democrat politicians really aren't racists, it's odd that there are no Democrats saying abortion should be legal but that we should do something about the fact that a black woman is five times more likely to have an abortion than a white woman.

Then there's welfare. The entire supposed pivot of Democrats on racism is based on their support for welfare, which "rescued" blacks from poverty.

That hasn't worked too well, given that black poverty is still twice that of white poverty.

More importantly, welfare has contributed to the destruction of the black family and the resulting culture that makes it very hard for even very dedicated blacks to escape the ghetto. With 70% of blacks born to single mothers and with being in a single-parent family being the strongest correlation with drug use, criminality, teen pregnancy, and poverty, people who care about blacks, like the Republicans who pushed for welfare reform, would demand change.

If Democrats cared about blacks, they'd have noticed the problem by the 1970s and tried to fix it. Instead, they doubled down on the same failed approaches. But if their objective is to keep blacks dependent and scared, maybe those policies weren't failures after all.

Finally, one has only to look at how Democrats treat blacks who wander off the Democrats' thought plantation to see that love of blacks is not at the core of the Democratic Party. If any Republican had talked about Obama the way Democrats talk about Ben Carson, Justice Clarence Thomas, and any number of other black conservative intellectuals, he'd have been tarred and feathered by the MSM.

It's a crime that 52 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, blacks are still being oppressed by the same Democratic Party that fought so hard for slavery 153 years ago.

Stop letting Democrat politicians get away with claiming to care when their actions show that their only concern is about votes. They helicopter into the black community every election cycle, explain how it's all the Republicans' fault, and then helicopter back to their tony neighborhoods, where their kids go to great schools and it's safe to walk at night.

Don't let Democrats get away with pretending to care about blacks while they fight tooth and nail against any policy that would give blacks a chance to earn their share of the American Dream.

It's time that America threw off the Democrat legacy of preventing blacks from reaching their true potential. It's time to end the nearly 200-year-long Democrat war on blacks and bring down the last vestiges of racism in America.

You can read more of Tom's rants at his blog, Conversations about the obvious, and feel free to follow him on Twitter.

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The MSM Is Right: There Is a Racist Party in America

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The mainstream media (MSM) are right. There is a political party today that has racism as a core value and is working incessantly to keep blacks down. It's the Democratic Party. Of course, since Democrat politicians never say what they really believe, most Democrat voters aren't aware they're supporting racism.

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In this article it give clear description of liberals views on racial discrimination towards blacks vs. conservatives. It can be assumed by the information provided that liberals don't necessarily believe that black lives matter.

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Just over half of voters think the U.S. has a serious problem with racial discrimination. Voters are more concerned about violence against police than violence by police. And a majority of residents in many European countries view immigrants as a threat. This is HuffPollster for Tuesday, July 12, 2016.
VOTERS ARE SPLIT BY PARTY ON RACIAL DISCRIMINATION - Hannah Hartig, John Lapinski and Stephanie Psyllos: "In the wake of several shooting incidents, a majority of American voters (52 percent) agree that racial discrimination against blacks in this country is an extremely or very serious problem....J ust over half of registered voters think racial discrimination against blacks in this country is an extremely or very serious problem. A quarter think racial discrimination is a somewhat serious problem, and 22 percent do not think it is a serious problem. The results vary by party, however. Among Republicans, 42 percent think racial discrimination against blacks is a not so serious or not at all serious problem in this country. Just under eight in 10 - 77 percent - of Democrats think racial discrimination is an extremely or very serious problem. Half of Independents think it is an extremely or very serious problem." [ ]

VOTERS ARE MORE CONCERNED ABOUT VIOLENCE AGAINST POLICE THAN ABOUT POLICE BRUTALITY - Eli Yokley: "In the days since the mass shooting in Dallas, Texas - the deadliest day for law enforcement since 9/11 - more voters said violence against the police is a more serious concern than police violence against the American public.... More than half of voters, 56 percent, said they had very serious concerns about violence against police, concerns that were expressed by 57 percent of white voters, 53 percent of Hispanic voters and 52 percent of African American voters. But only 45 percent of voters said they view police violence against the public as a very serious fear, a view shared by 78 percent of African American voters but just 39 percent of white voters." [ Morning Consult ]

HILLARY CLINTON IS STRUGGLING TO WIN OVER SOME MILLENNIALS - Julie Pace and Emily Swanson: " Hillary Clinton is struggling to make inroads among young Americans who overwhelmingly supported Bernie Sanders during the Democratic presidential primary, a worrisome sign as she tries to reassemble the coalition that twice propelled Barack Obama into the White House . Opinions of Clinton among young Americans vary by race and ethnicity, according to a new GenForward poll of adults ages 18 to 30. The majority of the nation's younger blacks and Asian-Americans have a favorable impression of Clinton, but the presumptive Democratic nominee struggles with whites and Hispanics. Just 26 percent of young whites and 49 percent of Hispanics have a positive opinion of the former secretary of state. Both groups overwhelmingly say she is not trustworthy....The GenForward poll found that among those who preferred Sanders in the primaries, only half are prepared to say they'll back Clinton in her general election face-off with presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump. About a quarter say they won't support Clinton, and nearly a quarter say they're not sure." [ ]

But she's doing well among college-educated white voters - John McCormick: "Hillary Clinton is crushing Donald Trump among college-educated white voters, a group Mitt Romney easily won in 2012 and one his Republican Party has carried in presidential contests . White voters with at least a college degree-a group that represented more than a third of the 2012 electorate-back Clinton over Trump 48 percent to 37 percent, the latest Purple Slice online poll for Bloomberg Politics shows. Romney won that group by 14 percentage points , according to exit polls....Since 1952, no Democratic presidential candidate has won college-educated whites, according to American National Election Studies data and exit polls reported by the " [ ]

EUROPEANS EXPRESS FEARS OF TERRORISM, NATIONALIST SENTIMENTS - Samantha Neal:The resurgence of nationalist sentiment that catalyzed the Brexit vote is prevalent in other European countries, according to a Pew Research report released on Monday . The sentiment is linked overwhelmingly to fears of increasing refugee populations, terrorism, and resistance to cultural diversity. An overwhelming number of Europeans perceive a powerful link between the recent surge of refugees and the threat of terrorism ― majorities of respondents in eight of the ten European nations surveyed believe that incoming refugees increase the likelihood of terrorism in their country. The negative perception of refugees extends beyond security considerations ― many Europeans believe them to be a cause for economic concern. Fifty percent or more of respondents in half of the nations polled believe refugees will take away jobs and social benefits. When it comes to crime, the link to refugees is far less salient. However, almost half of respondents in Italy and Sweden say that "refugees are more to blame for crime than other groups." [ ]

UNINSURED RATE AMONG AMERICANS STANDS AT A RECORD LOW OF 11 PERCENT - Stephanie Marken: "In the second quarter of 2016, the uninsured rate among all U.S. adults remains at the trend low of 11.0% reached in the first quarter of this year. This is down from 11.9% in the fourth quarter of 2015, which was prior to when health plans purchased through government exchanges during the most recent open enrollment period took effect in early 2016.... Across income groups, the uninsured rate has declined the most among those living in households making less than $36,000 annually. In the fourth quarter of 2013, 30.7% of these individuals were uninsured, compared with 20.4% of in the second quarter of 2016....The uninsured rate has also declined precipitously among Hispanics and blacks since the fourth quarter of 2013." [ ]
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HUFFPOLLSTER: Most Voters Call Discrimination Against Blacks A Very Serious Problem

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Just over half of voters think the U.S. has a serious problem with racial discrimination. Voters are more concerned about violence against police than violence by police. And a majority of residents in many European countries view immigrants as a threat. This is HuffPollster for Tuesday, July 12, 2016.

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Man arrested for allegedly walking in the middle of the road in a construction zone. The man was arrested for walking in the road.

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Cell phone video of a black man's arrest is drawing outrage with footage showing the man being handcuffed after allegedly walking in the street where a sidewalk was under construction.

In the seven-minute video, posted to YouTube Wednesday, the man is first seen arguing with a white Edina, Minnesota officer who tightly holds the back of his jacket in an apparent attempt to prevent him from running away.

"You're walking down the middle of the street," the officer says in the video, as he appears to forcefully pull the man toward the center lane and around a parked car.

"I'm on the damn white line!" answers the man. "You can't just put your hands on me like that!"

The woman filming the incident is repeatedly heard suggesting to the police officer that, instead of arresting the man, he show him where to walk.

"He's scared, sir. It's scary," the woman calls out during the heated scene."It's because he's black," she adds, in a lower voice. The Minnesota NAACP identified the woman as Janet Rowles.

The city, responding to the video in a statement Friday, confirmed that one of two surrounding sidewalks were closed because of construction but said that the video only captured a portion of the incident.

The statement said that the man had been walking in the roadway shortly before the recording started. When the officer turned on his lights and an audible signal, the pedestrian, who was wearing headphones, turned and acknowledged the officer but repeatedly ignored his order to move out of the road, the statement said.

The city said the officer responded by driving ahead and stopping his car, as a means to "block him from continuing in the southbound land of traffic."

"The man continued to defy the officer's directives and was belligerent," the statement read.

The man tested positive for alcohol and was cited for disorderly conduct and failure to obey a traffic signal. He was released 45 minutes later, city officials said.

Minnesota's NAACP, in its own statement Saturday, called the officer's behavior "dehumanizing and degrading."

"Watching that video and seeing a black man being manhandled and emasculated by Edina Police was not only painful and humiliating, it was a vivid reminder that blacks are still too-often seen as second class citizens in the State of Minnesota and in this nation," stated Nekima Levy-Pounds, a civil rights attorney and president of the Minneapolis NAACP. "It is sad to say, but that man in the video could easily have been the next Philando Castile or Jamar Clark, two unarmed black men who were killed by police within the last year."

Rowles, the woman who filmed the scene, also spoke out against the man's treatment, which she called "overzealous."

"There was absolutely no reason for the officer to stop him from walking. I easily passed him in my vehicle because he was hugging the right side next to the construction, literally walking on the white line that marks the shoulder," she said in the NAACP's release. "I have no interest in vilifying the police, but obviously I got out of my car in the first place because I perceive the pedestrian might not get treated fairly because of his ethnicity."

In addition to asking for an apology, the NAACP has asked that an outside investigation be conducted into the incident and that the officer be suspended without pay.

The police department could not immediately be reached for comment Sunday; nor could the man whom the NAACP identified as the person arrested.

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Black Man Arrested On Video For Apparently Walking In Street

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Cell phone video of a black man's arrest is drawing outrage with footage showing the man being handcuffed after allegedly walking in the street where a sidewalk was under construction. In the seven-minute video, posted to YouTube Wednesday, the man is first seen arguing with a white Edina, Minnesota officer who tightly holds the back of his jacket in an apparent attempt to prevent him from running away.

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This article is referring to outstanding debt differences between the colored and the non-colored of Miami and New Orleans. It also talks about how many people of color are below the poverty line after Katrina.

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Co-written by Kylie Patterson, Racial Wealth Divide Initiative Sr. Program Manager

New Orleans and Miami, two cities long touted as tourists' paradises, share another similarity - racial wealth inequality.

Racial wealth inequality is a major issue in the United States. It's origin dates back to the transatlantic slave trade, followed by the ratification of the 13th amendment, Jim Crow era, civil rights movement to now - the country has a painful history of white supremacy and racial prejudice with economic repercussions.

The tale of race and economics resonates strongly in New Orleans where, following Hurricane Katrina, the failure of the levies and massive flooding, more than 950 people lost their lives and hundreds of thousands more were displaced.

The racial wealth inequality in post-Katrina New Orleans reflects the inequality from pre-Katrina and explains why the African American community in particular was so vulnerable to a natural disaster and devastated by its impact.

In CFED's recent report, The Racial Wealth Divide in New Orleans, the ramifications of this displacement and the current racial wealth divide in the city are explored.

Today, some 69% of families of color are liquid asset poor, meaning they do not have savings to stay above the poverty line in the event of an emergency or job loss, compared to 29.4% of white families. Additionally more than 30% of black households are under the poverty line ($23,850 or less for a family of four), compared to just 4.9% of white households.

These disparities have also led to much racialized internal displacement or gentrification, where former black communities are disappearing and/or moving further and further out from the city center. (See map)

Yet, it should be noted that while the size of the black community decreased post-Katrina, there has been growth in the Latino community, and the Vietnamese community growth is relatively flat. Still Latinos and Vietnamese in New Orleans face similar economic and political challenges to that of African Americans.

In Village de L'Est, for example, the Vietnamese community had to fight to open a local school and close a landfill, after one was created in the rush to rid the city of debris, following the storm.

Gentrification and its affects are not unique to New Orleans. In the second report released by CFED this month, The Racial Wealth Divide in Miami, they found that more than 65% of Miamians of color are cost-burdened renters and less than 30% are homeowners, compared to 43% of whites.

Miami's wealth inequality, unlike New Orleans is further nuanced by its long history of immigration. Even today, 3 out 5 Miamians are foreign-born. Miami has been home to numerous immigrant groups. Most recently, there has been an influx of Central and South Americans.

Unfortunately there are great disparities among and even within racial and ethnic groups. The homeownership rate among Cubans is 36.9% compared to just 16.7% of Central Americans. Still, neither ethnic group compares to Whites that have a homeownership rate of 42.9%. In education, we see even greater disparities. Just 3.6% of Haitians have a bachelor's degree or higher compared to 7.3% for African Americans, which is then compared to 31.3% for Whites.

Although similar challenges face these cities, they differ by their magnitude and how they manifest within families and communities - it is these differences that require targeted and local interventions.

With the release of these profiles, CFED also announced their project Building High Impact Nonprofits of Color. The project's interventions rest upon this belief - those working in communities are best equipped and positioned to affect the racial wealth divide.

CFED's Racial Wealth Divide Initiative has selected ten organizations, five in New Orleans and five in Miami. In New Orleans, the selected nonprofits are: Ashe Cultural Arts Center, Jericho Road Episcopal Housing Initiative, MQVN Community Development Corporation, Puentes LatiNola and VAYLA New Orleans. In Miami the selected nonprofits are: ConnectFamilias, Hispanic Unity of Florida, Miami Children's Initiative, Partners for Self-Employment and Sant La Haitian Neighborhood Center. With the selection of these organizations and their investment, CFED's Racial Wealth Divide Initiative, in partnership with JPMorgan Chase, is making the case that to address the racial wealth divide, investments must be made in communities to organizations of color with high impact asset-building services.

There is hope. With these investments, the work of organizations, and significant policy reform we may be able to address the racial wealth divide and find ourselves in paradises that serve both tourists and their local communities of color.

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A Tale of Two Cities: Racial Economic Inequality in New Orleans and Miami

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Co-written by Kylie Patterson, Racial Wealth Divide Initiative Sr. Program Manager New Orleans and Miami, two cities long touted as tourists' paradises, share another similarity - racial wealth inequality. Racial wealth inequality is a major issue in the United States.

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African-American Uber riders are said to be getting the worst Uber drivers and having to deal with a longer wait than white riders. It was said that African-American riders waited approximately 30% longer to be picked up than white riders.

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The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.

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Intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself.

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A person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.

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Preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.