Shocking Incidents That Show Racism Isn't Dead
We still have a long way to go before racial harmony is won.
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N-Word Is Main Attraction at Mississippi Movie Theater - An appalling take on the success of the recently released film Men in Black 3, on May 29, a movie theater marquee in Natchez, Mississippi, was reordered on to incorrectly spell the N-word, as the country of Niger: N---- 3D: Dark, Black Men. It’s unclear if the movie theater knew when the sign was tampered with. Authorities in the city are treating it as an act of vandalism, according to reports. —Britt Middleton (Photo: Courtesy of Newsone.com)
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Black Soldier Claims Death Threats and a Noose Hung in Room - While serving with the New Mexico National Guard in Afghanistan in 2009, Specialist Adam Jarrell said he experienced hatred not only from enemy forces in the foreign country, but also from within his own team. Jarrell, the only Black member of his platoon, told BET.com in June 2011 that he was constantly called “mayate,” the Mexican-American derogatory equivalent of “n-----,” and even found a noose hanging outside of his barrack. (Photo: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)
Photo By Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
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James Anderson Murdered in Vicious Hate Crime - A surveillance video that surfaced in August 2011 showed the gruesome murder of Jackson, Mississippi, man James Craig Anderson, a Black man, being beaten by a gang of white teens. The mob then ran the 49-year-old over with a pick-up truck. (Photo: AP Photo/The Clarion-Ledger, Joe Ellis)
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Comcast Tangled in Discrimination Suit - In November 2011, several Black employees of Comcast on Chicago’s South Side said they were required to install roach-infested and broken cable TV equipment in the homes of the predominately Black customers who lived in the area, allegedly because managers told them the customers were less likely to pay their bills and would be "evicted in a few months.” (Photo: Fred Prouser/Reuters)
Photo By Fred Prouser/Reuters
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White Supremacist Tries to Detonate Bomb at MLK Day Parade - In December 2011, Kevin Harpham, who had ties to white supremacist groups, was sentenced to 32 years in prison for planning to detonate a rat poison-laced pipe bomb at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Spokane, Washington last January. (Photo: AP/File)
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Papa John’s Racist Receipt - Did someone order a side of racism with that pizza? An Asian-American woman tweeted a photo on Jan. 6, 2012 commemorating her appalling experience at a New York City Papa John’s, where a disgruntled store employee typed in her order as “lady chinky eyes” on her receipt.(Photo: Courtesy gawker.com)