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Declaring independence from #BLM as group shuts down gay pride parade
The “we are more important than you” demands of Black Lives Matter has gone global as activists shut down Canada’s largest gay pride parade on Sunday. Demands of the BLM group including more funding to the group (see item 3 below), the hiring of BLM members to the Toronto Pride organization and the exclusion of Toronto police, which is openly accepting of gay police offers, from future events.
The group was invited to march in the annual gay-rights parade, but still felt they needed to “shut it down”, starting the chant about two-thirds into the route, lighting several flares and presenting their demands.
The parade didn’t re-start until Mathieu Chantelois, organizer of the parade and executive director of Pride Toronto, signed off on BLM’s demands that included excluding police floats in future parades despite police support for the parade and allowing a more prominent representation of LBGQT people of color.
Declaring independence from #BLM
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Woke lesson segregates kids by hair color then brands blond children stupid
The dark-haired students were deemed privileged, and told they were superior, with youngsters who had blond or red hair deemed less intelligent and inferior.
Both sets of students were given a puzzle to complete, but the light-haired students had a piece missing.
Woke lesson segregates kids by hair color
School test scores plummet
How U.C. Berkeley tried to buoy enrollment of Black students
Now children's home bosses are told not to call residents boys or girls
...woman 'bullies lesbian' for having bumper sticker that doesn't include transgenders
Now woke schools teach pupils that Stonehenge was built by black people
‘Have You Considered Changing?’
Hooray! America is finally heading toward race and gender fairness
Goodbye to DEI, crushed by the weight of its own hypocrisies
EVEN GAY INFLUENCERS SAY HOLLYWOOD SHOULDN’T INDOCTRINATE TODDLERS
Mexican singer says he was trafficked and abused as a teenager
Luis Armando Campos says singing is his life. At 23, he's already had a very impressive singing career that started when he was just a child in his native Tampico, a port city in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.
"I was about 11, almost 12, when I first appeared on a local TV show in Tampico," Campos said.
In 2014, he was a semi-finalist in "The Voice Mexico." The international reality singing competition franchise took his career to new levels. Even though he didn't win, Campos has since toured Mexico with his music. But what his increasing number of fans didn't know, Campos says, is that while his career was taking off, he was forced to live a double life -- as a sex slave.
Mexican singer says he was trafficked and abused as a teenager
Monsters kidnap toddler in India before raping, beheading her
The TRUTH of 'Maryland dad' Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Two Muslim 13-year-olds are jailed for raping girl, 12, because she was Jewish
UK ‘shied away’ from ethnicity of grooming gangs in child sex abuse inquiries
Fat Joe denies sex acts with minors after former hype man’s $20 million lawsuit
Soccer coach admits drugging and raping young boys
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Man to serve 25 years in prison after using Snapchat to meet teens
Kid Who Went Viral for Wanting to Be Mexican Meets Mexico National Soccer Team
The original video of Zavion was also taken by his mom, where we seem him pouting in his car seat because he’s not Mexican.
When she asks what’s wrong, he says he’s mad because he wants to be Mexican.
"You're Ethiopian. You're African, you're black," she tells him. When she asks why he wants to be Mexican, he yells, "Because I eat quesadillas!"
Kid Who Went Viral for Wanting to Be Mexican
People who think they can change their race
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While Europeans did engage in some slave raiding, the majority of people who were transported to the Americas were enslaved by other Africans
The overwhelming majority of slaves sold to Europeans had not been slaves in Africa. They were free people who were captured in war or were victims of banditry or were enslaved as punishment for certain crimes.
Most professional slave traders, however, set up bases along the west African coast where they purchased slaves from Africans in exchange for firearms and other goods. Before the end of the seventeenth century, England, France, Denmark, Holland, and Portugal had all established slave trading posts on the west African coast.
Americas were enslaved by other Africans
Black Lives Matter mutiny
'My Nigerian great-grandfather sold slaves'
9-year-old being sold for marriage to 55-year-old man
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Child migrants racially abused and threatened with violence
'People are starving'
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Ethnic cleansing documented in western Tigray
A 23-year-old Tigrayan trader told investigators how he was beaten up and left for dead in Rawyan by a patrol of Amhara Special Forces, who said: "We will erase you from this land. This land is ours. This is the last time a Tigrayan will live in the area."
At this time Jamila told how some Amhara militiamen came into her hair salon in the town of Dansha early one morning as she was working. The 27-year-old was raped in front of her children, aged seven and two: "They said: 'You Tigrayans should disappear from the land west of Tekeze.'"
This refers to the River Tekeze, which splits the western zone of Tigray from the rest of the region.
Once in control of western Tigray, interviewees said the new authorities banned the speaking of Tigrinya and put in place policies to push Tigrayans out, distributing leaflets with a 24-hour or 72-hour ultimatum to leave or be killed.
Ethnic cleansing documented in western Tigray
Ukraine war will push up to 47 million people into acute hunger
Elderly Ukrainian woman says she was raped
Ukrainian woman 'is raped by Chechen soldier who slit victim's throat
Pastor Found Guilty Of Treason, Racist Plot
At Least 15 Killed In South Africa Bar Shooting
A toxic chemical found in 21 teens who died in a South Africa tavern
South Africa Islamic condemns homosexuality
Nigerian Activists Denounce Homosexual Death Sentences
70-year-attacked in broad daylight
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot: I'm only granting one-on-one interviews to journalists of color
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Wednesday that she will grant one-on-one interviews to mark the two-year anniversary of her inauguration solely to journalists of color, saying she has been struck by the “overwhelmingly” white press corps in Chicago.
“I ran to break up the status quo that was failing so many,” Lightfoot, who is Black, tweeted, also issuing a detailed letter to City Hall reporters on her decision. “That isn’t just in City Hall. It’s a shame that in 2021, the City Hall press corps is overwhelmingly White in a city where more than half of the city identifies as Black, Latino, AAPI or Native American.”
While the move isn’t unprecedented in recent years, it drew fierce scrutiny among the city’s press corps and beyond with members of the media quickly taking Lightfoot to task for her decision.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot
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Black Lives Matter Utah chapter president steps down
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I have the biggest dick in Chicago'
Lori Lightfoot's book banning tweet lampooned
Dismantling the Myth of the “Black Confederate”
Spend any amount of time talking about slavery on the internet, and you’ll eventually encounter the claim that there were “black Confederates” that fought for the South. “Over the past few decades, claims to the existence of anywhere between 500 and 100,000 black Confederate soldiers, fighting in racially integrated units, have become increasingly common,” writes historian Kevin Levin in his new book, Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth.
“Proponents assert that entire companies and regiments served under Robert E. Lee’s command, as well as in other theaters of war.” Look, believers say (directly or subtextually): The Confederacy can’t have been so bad for black people. Otherwise, why would they have defended it?
Levin’s book explains how this myth came about—while neatly dismantling it. We spoke recently about actual Confederates’ perspectives on black soldiers; why former “body servants” attended Confederate reunions during Jim Crow; and how the World Wide Web gave this story legs.
Slate
Orlando Massacre: ‘Ashamed’ Father Reportedly Refused to Claim Gay Son’s Body
Nearly 90 percent of the people killed in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history were of Hispanic descent.
The Puerto Rican community was hit especially hard: almost half of all Pulse casualties — 23 of them — were from the island.
But for one young latin man, the sad reality of homophobia reportedly made the circumstances surrounding his death even more appalling.
Local news blog The Orlando Latino reported that a father refused to claim his son’s body because the son was gay, and the father was ashamed. “The tale is part of the untold stories of the Latino victims of the Pulse nightclub massacre,” the blog wrote.
As heartbreaking as it sounds, the episode illustrates how the stigma of being gay is still very alive in the socially conservative island. Among Puerto Rican residents ages 35 and older, only 26 percent of the population favored the legalization of same-sex marriage, according to a 2014 Pew Research Center poll.
‘Ashamed’ Father Reportedly Refused to Claim Gay Son’s Body