Alabama – Melanoid Nation Foundation https://www.melanoidnation.org Fri, 15 Apr 2016 03:09:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 White Supremacist Male Harasses Black Woman At Bank ATM in Alabama https://www.melanoidnation.org/white-supremacist-male-harasses-black-woman-at-bank-atm-in-alabama/ https://www.melanoidnation.org/white-supremacist-male-harasses-black-woman-at-bank-atm-in-alabama/#comments Fri, 15 Apr 2016 03:09:46 +0000 http://melanoidnation.org/?p=3377 In a very disturbing video that was taken today in Montgomery Alabama, an open white supremacist male is seen violently harassing a Black woman as she is using the ATM outside of Regions Bank location.  The white supremacist male can be heard calling the Black woman a “whore” and a “nigger”.

The victim calls for another person in a car waiting for her to get the white supremacist’s license plate number.  The white supremacist male is so comfortable with his racism, he can be heard saying: “get the law..They aren’t gonna do nothing”.

Here is the video below:

 

There are many white feminist organizations that have put a lot of resources into promoting and combating street harassment. The white supremacist thug in the above video not only made a racial epithet to the victim , he also made a gender epithet by calling the woman in the video a “whore”.

Are these white feminists organizations going to speak up for this Black woman, or are they going to save their outrage for Black men who “harass” women by saying “hello” to them on the street?

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7-Year-Old Black Child Threatened To Be Suspended Because Of Haircut https://www.melanoidnation.org/7-year-old-black-child-threatened-to-be-suspended-because-of-haircut/ https://www.melanoidnation.org/7-year-old-black-child-threatened-to-be-suspended-because-of-haircut/#comments Fri, 11 Mar 2016 18:25:28 +0000 http://melanoidnation.org/?p=3325 BESSEMER, AL — There was a 7-year-old Melanoid child who was considered a threat to his school…simply because of the way his hair was styled.

Little Rashad Hunter, an honor roll student at Greenwood Elementary School in Bessemer, Alabama, was facing suspension from his school because of a part in his hair.

Keisha Rembert, Rashad’s mother, told Birmingham’s WBRC FOX 6 NEWS that her son called her to tell her that he was being suspended from school. His mother had the following to say:

He was walking with his head down, when I saw him he was like teary-eyed at first because he doesn’t want to be suspended for no part in his head. I told him, ‘Don’t hold your head down…continue to make these A’s and B’s because that part is nothing.

Although the school has opted not to suspend the child, this marks another example of the many demoralizing tactics that schools will use against Black children, particularly Black boys.

B. Clark

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White Cop In Alabama Harasses Black Man As He Walks Home From Work https://www.melanoidnation.org/white-cop-in-alabama-harasses-black-man-as-he-walks-home-from-work/ https://www.melanoidnation.org/white-cop-in-alabama-harasses-black-man-as-he-walks-home-from-work/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2015 20:54:21 +0000 http://melanoidnation.org/?p=2867 PLEASANT GROVE, AL — Like most productive citizens of American society, Deonte Lynn holds an occupation. Like many productive members of American society, Deonte Lynn has to get to and from work in any way that he can, even if it means he has to walk home from work. Unlike the vast majority of the dominant American society, Deonte is a Melanoid man who’s walking from his job…which was what he was presumably guilty of as a white cop stops and interrogates him about his whereabouts and if he has any weapons in his possession.

Once the story brokea video was included along with the story. It appears that the video was recorded by Mr. Lynn himself, and was uploaded to his YouTube account. You can see footage of the incident in the video below.

 

According to Mr. Lynn, he was eventually let go by the cop while being searched for weapons.

B. Clark

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And So It Begins: Suspected White Supremacists Gear Up For Halloween In “Blackface” Costumes https://www.melanoidnation.org/and-so-it-begins-suspected-white-supremacists-gear-up-for-halloween-in-blackface-costumes/ https://www.melanoidnation.org/and-so-it-begins-suspected-white-supremacists-gear-up-for-halloween-in-blackface-costumes/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2015 09:10:06 +0000 http://melanoidnation.org/?p=2792 DECATUR, AL — On certain occasions, people will celebrate the culture(s) of others by donning the clothing worn in that particular culture. For instance, whether celebrating other cultures involve dressing in a kilt or a kimono, the people wearing the traditional garb of these two (Scottish and Japanese respectively) generally do so as a sign of respect to these cultures. This same thing cannot be applied when members of the dominant society attempt to “dress like Black people” during the Halloween season, which is now upon us.

One white man–and a school district employee at that–made the decision to celebrate his Halloween this year by dressing like music superstar Kanye West (as shown in this story’s featured photo). As harmless as the concept of dressing like West may seem on the surface, the teacher took his costume idea one step further by painting his face in the traditional “Blackface” style indicative of the old racist stage performers of years past.

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White couple dressing in “Blackface” as Black NFL player Ray Rice and his wife, Halloween 2014.

A white trick-or-treater who dressed himself as the unjustly murdered Trayvon Martin.

White trick-or-treater who dressed himself as the unjustly murdered Trayvon Martin.

 

The school official, named Heath Morrow, was accompanied by his wife Shannon, who shared the photo of them via social media and other online platforms. Shannon Morrow was dressed as Kanye’s wife, Kim Kardashian. In typcial “slumming” fashion, she added prosthetics to her backside to make it appear larger, a la Kardashian.

This behavior isn’t new, as it has now become a Halloween tradition. Many white supremacists and suspected white supremacists alike use this celebratory day practice overt racism without the concern of being reprimanded for doing so. It is a day that emboldens them to act upon deep-seeded insecurities and malice that may be harbored as it pertains to Melanoid people…under the guise of fun, games, and humor…except no self-respecting person in Black Society received the memo to laugh along with these bigoted provocateurs.

Here is a link to the story.

B. Clark

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So Much For Black Symbolism… https://www.melanoidnation.org/so-much-for-black-symbolism/ https://www.melanoidnation.org/so-much-for-black-symbolism/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2015 20:38:57 +0000 http://melanoidnation.org/?p=2163

The strong move silent, and the weak cause riots.

You’ve heard the old saying above, right? Of course, this isn’t indicative of ALL members of Black Society, because the occasional uprising is merely the voice of the unheard and downtrodden Melanoid people who seek outlets to vent their pent up frustrations with the injustices served by systematic white supremacy. What’s disappointing, however, are the Melanoid people who choose to participate in movements with ulterior objectives such as the Black Lives Matter movement, and “Hands up, don’t shoot”.

Over the course of our colorful history, symbolism HAS been used, yet it was used strategically. One prime example of this was when the Honorable Marcus Garvey’s UNIA opted to design a flag that would serve as a biting rebuttal to the dehumanizing song released in 1900, titled: Every Race Has A Flag But The CoonOn another occasion, Montgomery, Alabama’s bus boycotts in the mid 1950’s (in response to the Rosa Parks arrest) were a symbolic, yet action-based gesture that eventually crippled the local economy in the state’s capital city.

In 2015, many (not all) of our movements have been reduced to the level of empty promises and hot air-powered rhetoric. In spite of this, there is no one particular group in Black Society to blame, because this issue isn’t limited to just one group. For future reference, let us as Melanoid people be mindful about co-signing movements that may appear to be Black on paper, yet anti-Black in its truest essence. Movements with catchy slogans come and go, yet codes of conduct have true staying power.

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