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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/tr...deo-taken-drinking-michelob-ultra-top-pickup/

Trump-loving waitress fired for ‘n****r hunting’ video taken while drinking Michelob Ultra on top of a pickup

Following what is described as “one of the most racist, redneck Missourah scenes imaginable,” a Missouri woman was “immediately terminated” from her job, the Riverfront Times reported Monday.

Tabitha Duncan, 20, of Jefferson County had been employed at the Social Bar and Grill until the video was posted on Snapchat, then shared on Facebook.

The video showed the woman, who is not old enough to consume alcohol, with a Michelob Ultra — riding on top of a pickup truck driving down a dark country road.

“So we going n****r hunting today or what?” an off-camera male says.

“We’re going n****r hunting,” answers another man — who may be the driver, hanging outside the vehicle.

“We’re fucking n****r hunting right now, uh?” the off-camera male replies.

“You get them n****s,” Duncan then says with a smile, as the narrator tells her how pretty she is.

After a social media backlash, Social Bar and Grill posted a public statementabout Duncan’s “incendiary comments” in the video.

“Social Bar and Grill and it’s owners have recently become aware of a vile, disgusting, and offensive video made by one of its employees,” the statement read. “Upon learning of this, Social Bar and Grill immediately terminated this employee as soon as they could reach her!”

The Riverfront Times reported that Duncan’s personal Facebook page included memes supporting Donald Trump and a meme bashing NFL players protesting police brutality by kneeling during the National Anthem.

“Social Bar and Grill and it’s owners continue to encourage and seek diversity in its restaurant,” the company claimed.
 
https://mississippitoday.org/2018/0...-sons-of-confederate-veterans-heritage-award/

Gov. Phil Bryant receives Sons of Confederate Veterans heritage award

Echoes of “Dixie” rang through the conference room at Beauvior on Saturday as the Mississippi Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans opened their annual reunion with a booming a capella rendition of the Confederate battle song.

A while later, the banquet began and featured a high-profile award recipient: Gov. Phil Bryant.

Though Bryant, a dues-paying member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, did not attend the event, he was honored on Saturday with the group’s annual Gov. John J. Pettus Heritage Award.


“We’re an organization trying to promote the true Southern history, and we wanted to honor Gov. Bryant for his role in doing that,” said Jeff Barnes, leader of the Mississippi Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. “Really, it’s for the proclamations of Confederate Heritage Month. That’s why we honored him.”

Bryant has signed state proclamations declaring April as “Confederate Heritage Month” each year since he became governor in 2012. Those proclamations have carried on a tradition started by former Gov. Kirk Fordice in 1993 – the same year Mississippi began recognizing Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Fordice was also a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.


The group’s activities in Mississippi range from maintaining Civil War cemeteries and Confederate monuments to helping people trace their genealogical history. In recent weeks, the group has put their weight behind a ballot initiative aiming to cement the current state flag – which is the last in the nation containing the Confederate battle emblem – in the state’s constitution.

Bryant is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans’ Rankin County’s Lowry Rifles Camp #1740. That membership makes him the most prominent sitting public official in the United States who is a known member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks the SCV and similar Confederate-affiliated groups.

Bryant has never commented on his membership in the group, and his office did not comment on the recent award when asked by Mississippi Today.

“He doesn’t attend regular meetings, but his dues are paid and his membership status is current,” Marc Allen, Mississippi SCV public affairs officer and a member of the same chapter as Bryant, said last year. “Gov. Bryant has Confederate ancestors like many people in Mississippi do.
This is one way we can honor and pay respect to American veterans.”

As violent events like the 2015 Charleston church shooting and the 2017 Charlottesville protests have reignited conversations about changing the Mississippi state flag, Bryant, whose state-issued SUV has a state flag license tag on the front, has pointed back to the 2001 referendum in which the state’s voters decided nearly 2-to-1 to keep the current state flag.

“Whatever the state flag is or is not should be decided by Mississippi voters,” Bryant said in 2017.

The June 9 event in which Bryant was held at Beauvior, the Biloxi home of Confederate States of America President Jefferson Davis, and honored several of the group’s members through various awards, including the Gen. Nathaniel Bedford Forrest Compatriot of the Year Award and the Col. William H. Moore Recruiter of the Year Award.

The award Bryant received is named after Mississippi Gov. John J. Pettus, who served as governor between 1859-1863. A staunch secessionist, Pettus is the governor who led Mississippi out of the United States of America and into the Confederacy.

Mississippi historian David Sansing, who wrote a book in 2016 titled “Mississippi Governors: Soldiers Statesmen Scholars Scoundrels,” wrote of Pettus: “After General Robert E. Lee’s surrendered at Appomattox, Governor Pettus refused to surrender and settled in Arkansas where he continued to resist federal military authorities until his death on January 28, 1867.”

Before the Sons of Confederate Veterans’ banquet on June 9, the group hosted their annual business meeting, complete with an old-timey Confederate color guard, dressed in red shirts, white pants and straw hats. A couple color guard members carried rifles.

“It’s an honor he (Gov. Bryant) would be part of our group, and we were happy to honor him last weekend,” Barnes said.
 
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/nj-gop-candidate-doubles-down-anti-diversity-remark

GOP Candidate Doubles Down On Anti-Diversity Remark: Diversity Laws Are Dangerous

In the week since New Jersey Republican House candidate Seth Grossman called diversity “a bunch of crap” and “un-American,” the National Republican Congressional Committee-endorsed candidate has doubled down on his anti-diversity rhetoric.

In a statement released earlier this week, Grossman announced his opposition to a new set of diversity initiatives the New Jersey Department of Law and Safety plans to enact, calling them a “mockery of the law” that will “put the public in great danger” because it could spark civil war.


“Our nation was founded in 1776 with the idea that we are all created equal and endowed by our creator with equal and unalienable rights,” he said. “If you want to know where this evil and un-American perversion of ‘diversity’ will take us, go to Afghanistan, Lebanon, or Syria. Those countries are divided into dozens of diverse groups with different languages, different religions, and different ethnic groups who hate each other, are afraid of each other and who kill each other.”

He then accused New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy of wanting to “turn New Jersey into Afghanistan” and suggested Murphy should slap the New Jersey Rutgers University basketball team — which has a predominantly African American roster of players — with similar “diversity quotas” and “see if it helps them win more games.”

“The greatness of America is not ‘diversity’ as virtue or end result. The greatness of America is overcoming diversity to create one united nation with single language, Constitution, and culture of liberty,” he said. “In our American culture of liberty and equal opportunity, we must judge, hire, promote, and reward everyone by his or her own talent, character, work, and achievement– not by checking off diversity boxes.”

By Wednesday, Grossman went as far as to claim that “diversity has a special dog whistle meaning” for Democrats like former President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In an op-ed in the Ocean City Sentinel, he bashed Affirmative Action as “un-American” and suggested allowing women to vote didn’t impact voter turnout.

“Until the Civil War, most adult men and women were married and considered themselves a single economic and social unit who made most decisions together,” he wrote. “’Progressives’ who expected radical change were surprised to see little or no change in election outcomes when women started voting.”


While maintaining his disdain for diversity in an interview with WHYY Radio, he did admit that he enjoys multiculturalism in one area of American life— his food choices.

“Of course, I love diversity,” he told WHYY on June 15. “I like to go to Chinese restaurants, Italian restaurants, Mexican restaurants, Vietnamese. I grew up in Atlantic City, probably the most multiracial, multicultural, multi-sexual-preference city in America, even back in the 1950s when I was growing up.”

Earlier this month, Grossman won a four-way primary to face Democrat Jeff Van Drew in November— a race seen as key to national Democrats’ plans to win back the House of Representatives. On June 6 — before a video of him calling diversity “a bunch of crap” in April was recorded and surfaced by American Bridge to the 21st Century — the NRCC announced its endorsement of the candidate.

Since then, the New Jersey GOP, a former adviser to Gov. Chris Christie and the NAACP have all condemned Grossman for his comments.

The NRCC did not respond to TPM’s request for comment on whether it still supports the candidate.
 
http://www.newsweek.com/racial-profiling-sorority-restaurant-bahama-breeze-ohio-990032

Restaurant Manager Accused of Racially Profiling Black Sorority Fired
By Maria Perez On 6/21/18 at 5:05 PM

The manager of a restaurant in Ohio has been fired after black sorority members accused the restaurant of racial profiling for calling the police on the group at the end of an event.

Chante Spencer told Cleveland.com that 40 members of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority had reserved a table at Bahama Breeze in Cleveland, Ohio, on Tuesday. Spencer said the group was celebrating sorority sister’s book deal. The party was meant for only 25 people, but it unexpectedly doubled in size, which led to poor service from the restaurant, according to Spencer.

She said the problem began to escalate when a woman, who was celebrating with the sorority but not a member of the group, said she was going to leave after waiting 25 minutes for her bill. The police were called to make sure everyone had paid their tabs.

“Police were standing there to make sure everyone paid, which we felt was racial profiling,” Spencer said, telling the publication that she was not speaking for the whole sorority.

A police report obtained by Cleveland.com stated that officers showed up to the restaurant around 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday and stayed for an hour. The police stated that all the bills were paid and that one person offered to make sure all tabs were paid off.

"I am hoping that Bahama Breeze looks at this very carefully and alters policies and does some more training," Spencer told the publication. "You cannot make assumptions that people are going to commit a crime based on how they look."

Bahama Breeze is owned by Darden Restaurants, which also owns chain establishments like Longhorn Steakhouse and Olive Garden. Rich Jeffers, Darden Restaurant’s senior director of communications, told Newsweek in a statement that the manager had been fired and the restaurant apologized to the guests.

“We clearly fell short of delivering great service to our guests," he said. "The manager involved no longer works for us because they mistreated a guest, which is inconsistent with our values. We have spoken with several members of the party to personally apologize and invite them back in order to provide an exceptional Bahama Breeze experience."

The incident came just a few months after Starbucks was the subject of intense backlash for the arrest of in a Philadelphia store. The men were arrested for waiting for their friend inside two black menof the cafe before ordering anything.The company has since apologized and had all employees undergo racial bias training.
 
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/wa...k-doctor-entering-gated-community-calls-cops/

Racist blocks black doctor from entering her gated community -- then calls the cops on her

In a video posted online, a black doctor in Atlanta who attempted to enter the gated community where she has a home was blocked from entering by a man who called the police to have her arrested, reports 11 Alive.

According to Dr. Nnenna Aguocha, she had just come off a night shift and was attempting to pull into the Buckhead Townhome complex where she has lived for eight years when the man blocked her with his SUV in a confrontation that lasted 30 minutes.

In the video you can see the man’s white car blocking the only way into the complex, with Aguocha approaching the man and pointing out where she lived as he muttered at her with his window rolled up.

“He got out of the car and threatened to call the police on me because I was trespassing,” she said in the video, adding. “This is racial profiling at its finest.”

According to the doctor, her antagonist called the police — as did she, explaining: “He called the police, so I called the police as well.”

Aguocha added that man said he didn’t believe she lived in the complex and called her a trespasser — saying it was an obvious case of racism.

“I absolutely think it was racially motivated,” Aguocha explained. “When this altercation was going on, what went through my mind was this guy could do absolutely anything to me. He could shoot me dead on the spot because he was trying to protect the neighborhood and the property and people would make up stories later.”

Police state that the man, who was not identified, blocked her because there had been a series of air conditioner thefts in the community – which the homeowners association denied.
 
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