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By Clare Foran, CNN
Washington (CNN)A Republican congressional candidate is facing a backlash after saying that Puerto Ricans who moved to Florida in the wake of Hurricane Maria last year should not be able to register to vote in the state.
In a video uploaded to YouTube by the campaign of a Republican rival, John Ward -- a candidate in the GOP primary for Florida's 6th Congressional District -- is asked by a voter how he would respond to Puerto Ricans who have "moved either temporarily or permanently to Florida" when "they say that they need more help and that the aid to Puerto Rico is not enough."
Ward replied by saying, "First of all, I don't think they should be allowed to register to vote. It's not lost on me that, I think, the Democrat party's really hoping that they can change the voting registers in a lot of counties and districts, and I don't think they should be allowed to do that."
The candidate went on to say that "we should be looking to put the Puerto Ricans back in their homes. The idea that they can come to the mainland United States, I don't necessarily have a problem with that, but I think we should be thinking about it in terms of getting them back home and providing the capital and resources to rebuild Puerto Rico, which is, I honestly think, is where they belong."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/22/politics/florida-republican-candidate-puerto-ricans-voting-registration/index.html
Robin DiAngelo, Ph.D
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MrScorpio
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Michael Harriot
If you have ever wondered what would happen if Tomi Lahren had a baby with Thanos, a Nevada man may have found the answer.
Facebook user James Ochoa, a Mexican American, claims to have encountered the queen of all Beckys while working at a Las Vegas home. Ochoa wrote that he had to use the bathroom while working on a driveway. I had went to go to a portable restroom & I found some but they were occupied, Ochoa explained in a Facebook post. So I made a u turn on this ladys street to go find other ones.
Ochoa alleges that he stopped his vehicle when Beckzillas dog ran in front of his car. He stopped to let the woman retrieve her dog, and thats when Ochoa says he encountered pure evil:
I didnt know what to do, so eventually the project manager seen everything going down so he asked me to leave & meet at his office. So I did we called the cops, she admitted to pulling the gun out & the cops took all her weapons from her home. So now we have a court date, I am fighting against her cause I had to leave work for 2 days & its not right what she did.
https://www.theroot.com/behold-beelzebecky-white-woman-tries-to-get-man-killed-1826150663?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=The_Root_twitter
MrScorpio
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I hate that anyone at all might possibly be afraid of me.
By Lee Moran
Tyler Merritt just wants you to get to know me better before you call the cops.
The Nashville, Tennessee, actor shines a light on the recent spate of incidents in which people have called the police on black people without valid reason in a moving monologue that NowThis shared online Tuesday.
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Merritt, in the clip, reveals tidbits about his life to show that hes a regular guy. He hates spiders and bananas, is a vegetarian, can recite every word from the musical Oklahoma! and NWAs Straight Outta Compton album, spends most Sunday mornings teaching kids, has never been to jail, never owned a gun, and hates that anyone at all might possibly be afraid of me.
Im a proud man, Merritt says. Im a proud black man.
But he then asks: Does any of this really matter?
No. I just wanted you to get to know me better before you call the cops.
The video struck a chord with people on Twitter, who called it excellent and powerful.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/before-you-call-the-cops-video_us_5b03f997e4b07309e05c1951?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004
salin
(48,955 posts)Thanks for this, for this edition, and for putting together and sharing these OPs.
MrScorpio
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'This is not paranoia on my end. This is literally self preservation.'
SAM FULWOOD III
On Monday morning, as news spread across the nation about the arrest of two black men sitting in a Philadelphia Starbucks coffee shop, Elon James White ventured from his home in search of a breakfast sandwich and cup of coffee.
But as White, a black man who lives in a predominately white neighborhood in another part of Philadelphia, walked up and down a nearby commercial strip, he felt a familiar unease one he says black people often share among themselves about their fears and concerns when theyre surrounded by white people.
You feel it in your chest, the hyper-awareness of everything around you, White told me during a phone interview. Ive had so many white people say that they have anxiety, but theyve never considered black people would feel the way I feel when Im in white spaces.
With the Starbucks issue dominating conversations about race and media, White tapped out a series of tweets which offered his followers a very intimate and revealing glimpse into how uncomfortable he felt that day. His narrative struck a viral nerve, prompting conversations across the Web and elsewhere.
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White a writer, performer and founder of This Week in Blackness, a multimedia digital platform dedicated to bringing diverse voices and perspectives within media spoke about the waves his threaded Twitter story made on social media in a column about the Starbucks situation for NBCNews.com:
Looking beyond Starbucks, the mistreatment and subsequent denials of our reality arent simply frustrating. They hurt the black community in diverse and measurable ways, both psychologically and physically.
https://thinkprogress.org/elon-james-white-black-anxiety-in-white-spaces/
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Other useless retorts used that he highlighted -
The That never happened to me (white person) so it can not be true so you are lying or imagined it
Also , I was not born rich, so I can't have privileges others do not have
irisblue
(33,019 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)White Puerto Ricans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Puerto_Ricans
treestar
(82,383 posts)Once they move to a state, they are a resident there, and can vote.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Ward says he doesn't necessarily have a problem with Puerto Ricans - citizens that they are - coming to the mainland, but maybe they could just, you know, not register to vote or participate in civil society.
Wotta guy!
treestar
(82,383 posts)White privilege oozing out - and failure to realize PR is 78% white. Ya know the hispanic sounds make someone seem not so white!
mountain grammy
(26,644 posts)oh wait, Republicans can do or say anything.