August 17, 2019
Air Force member called ‘distasteful for speaking Spanish in uniform
In a Facebook post that has been shared more than 50,000 times, Mercado, an Air Force airman, describes how she was accosted by a woman at outside a Starbucks in Hawaii, where Mercado is stationed, on July 17 who took offense to her speaking Spanish during a private phone call.
“You speaking another language that does not represent America and that uniform you are wearing, that’s distasteful,” Mercado described the unidentified woman as saying.
She wrote that she responded to the woman by saying, “I’m sorry ma’am the only distasteful thing here is that you are clueless to your discrimination, please educate your self. Have a nice day “
“I don’t know how you are allowed to wear that uniform,” the woman said, according to Mercado’s post.
There was the time she was told to “speak American” by a patron in a restaurant, and there was another time when a police officer questioned the authenticity of her driver’s license because it was from Puerto Rico (the island is a U.S. territory and people born there are U.S. citizens).
Recently, Latinos in the United States have faced a heightened level of threats and discrimination. Nearly 40 percent of Latinos surveyed in the U.S. reported being called offensive names, told to go back to their home country, criticized for speaking Spanish in public, or treated unfairly because of their background, according to a 2018 report by the Pew Research Center.
This is why we do not need more guns in schools. Do not arm teachers
Officials horrified after first graders get a hold of gun meant to protect school against mass shootings
Officials at an Ohio elementary school were shocked to learn that a gun stored on campus was found by two first-grade students who picked it up and removed it from its case, The Columbus Dispatch reports.
According to reports, transportation director Vicky Nelson, who was trained as part of the district’s concealed carry program and allowed to have a gun on school grounds, left her firearm in an unlocked case as she went to the restroom. Also in the office was her grandson and the daughter of a co-worker, who were both first graders. When she returned from the restroom, she saw that the gun had been taken out of its case and left on the desk.
“I’m assuming that the child picked up the gun from behind the desk and had been holding it,” Superintendent Dan Freund said.
Conservatives have opted for backing the worst people so they can avoid having a conscience.
Conservatives have opted for backing the worst people so they can avoid having a conscience.
To be shitty is to be conservative.
August 16, 2019
Another bigotry move by hating tRump people. Trump Administration Petitions Supreme Court To Legalize Firing People Merely For Being Transgender
Trump Administration Petitions Supreme Court To Legalize Firing People Merely For Being Transgender
Dominic Holden reports at Buzzfeed News:
The Trump administration on Friday took one of its most aggressive steps yet to legalize anti-transgender discrimination by telling the Supreme Court that federal law allows firing workers solely for being transgender, arguing a Michigan funeral home could fire a transgender woman because she wanted to wear women’s clothing on the job.
Although the administration was expected to take the stance — and had previously said firing workers on the basis of gender identity is legal under federal law — the latest court filing asks the nation’s top court to establish federal case law in a potentially sweeping setback for LGBTQ rights nationwide.
Read Holden’s full report.
Tennessee priest bans black housekeeper from his property — then blames his ‘racist dog’
Well if the dog is racist I bet the owner is also! Has he never heard of leashing, restraining, crating the dog while the people work. What does he do if a needed repair person is black? It seems clear he is a racist bigot and feels he needs to use the dog for an excuse. Hugs
Tennessee priest bans black housekeeper from his property — then blames his ‘racist dog’
In an interview with housekeeper LaShundra Allen, who asked that her face not be shown, she explained that she was told not to enter the home of Rev. Jacek Kowal, a pastor at the Catholic Church of the Incarnation while she was being trained to replace the current housekeeper.
“I was just supposed to clean the church and I was supposed to go to the pastor’s house and clean as well,” Allen explained. “They were just like, ‘Well, I’m not really sure how to say this,’ kind of like in a joking way, ‘But Father Jacek doesn’t want black people cleaning the house because his dog is racist.’”
“Two church office employees then reiterated that Father Jacek ‘did not want (Ms. Allen) there’ and that they needed to leave. Both Ms. Allen and Ms. Weaver were shocked, humiliated, and felt severely disrespected by this treatment and the statements,” the letter added.
This is what tRump / Republicans are causing. Hate and bigotry causing harm
‘Go back’: Man faces hate crime charges after ice pick attack on Hispanic biker waving Mexican flag
‘Go back’: Man faces hate crime charges after ice pick attack on Hispanic biker waving Mexican flag
ABC News Radio reported that 67-year-old Joseph Zens is accused of abruptly changing lanes in his 2009 Hyundai SUV to force a 57-year-old Latino biker off the road.
According to a statement from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, Zens yelled racial slurs and expletives at the victim. The statement said that Zens told the man to “go back to his country.”
Zens reportedly struck the victim with an ice pick as he got on his motorcycle and tried to move away. The victim was eventually able to call 911.
August 15, 2019
Revealed: Republican lawmaker aided group training young men for ‘biblical warfare’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/13/matt-shea-biblical-war-washington-team-rugged
The Republican politician Matt Shea connected close allies with a group offering training to young men in “biblical warfare” that includes how to use knives, pistols and rifles, with lessons based in part on the teachings of a Georgia-based neo-Confederate pastor, emails obtained by the Guardian reveal.
Shea, who is an elected Washington state representative, later made videos in support of the group, and appeared alongside them at a gathering at a religious community in remote eastern Washington. He also paid the founder of the group money from his campaign fund in 2018.
In his email to Shea, however, Caughran offers a different description, saying that the group exists “to provide patriotic and biblical training on war for young men”.
Caughran also wrote: “There will be scenarios where every participant will have to fight against one of the most barbaric enemies that are invading our country, Muslims terrorists (sic)”.
In his email to Shea, Caughran goes on to list weapons training as part of the event for attendees. The training will “show them how to work better as a team, both in achieving physically demanding tasks and on the battlefield. Those who attend will learn combatives, the use of a knife in defense, close quarters shooting with rifle and pistol and how to work effectively in teams of 2, 3 and 4.”
In 2018, representative Shea was revealed to have distributed a document entitled “Biblical Basis for War”, which appeared to lay out a plan for a theocratic takeover, including the instruction to “kill all males”. Shea denied this interpretation of the document, saying instead that the material was notes for a sermon.
Last May, the Guardian revealed that at the 2018 God and Country event, Shea warned of civil unrest while Robertson urged the audience to prepare for civil war.
Arkansas jailer’s wife pulls gun and detains four black children going door-to-door for school fundraiser
A jail administrator’s wife in Arkansas was arrested this week after she allegedly pulled a gun and detained four black students who were going door-to-door for a school fundraiser.
Wynne Police Chief Jackie Clark issued a media statement saying that officers responded to a “suspicious persons” report and found 46-year old Jerri Kelly holding a gun on four juveniles who were lying on the ground, WMC reported.
After the officer let the children stand up, they explained that they were selling discounted cards for school football games.
The goal of Republican policies is to make caring for a child almost impossible.
The fetus controls the mother, but the baby has no right to health care, food, or daycare.
Republican policies are killing the birth rate for white people. The goal of Republican policies is to make caring for a child almost impossible.
August 14, 2019
tRump admin gets rid of civil rights protections
Trump Administration Proposes Rule Allowing Federal Contractors To Discriminate Against LGBTs And Others
Dominic Holden reports at Buzzfeed News:
The Trump administration on Wednesday formally proposed a new rule to let businesses with federal contracts cite religious objections as a valid reason to discriminate against their workers on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, LGBTQ status, and other characteristics — thereby skirting worker protections created by past presidents.
But the Trump administration makes clear in the draft rule that a corporation needn’t focus entirely on religion to qualify, saying, “The contractor must be organized for a religious purpose, meaning that it was conceived with a self-identified religious purpose. This need not be the contractor’s only purpose.”
