THE MERCURY NEWS
A video allegedly posted by two UC Berkeley students in which one of them makes racist, homophobic and misogynist comments has sparked an outcry online and triggered swift condemnation from the university.
The video shows a male student sitting on a bed in what appears to be a dorm room while another male asks questions off-camera. Using racial slurs and profanity-laced comments, the student claims to hate African-Americans.
When the off-camera individual asks why the other student “thinks black people are so bad,” the student on the bed responds, “They’re f—–g black, do I need a reason?” The student on the bed then starts saying African-Americans, women and LGBTQ individuals shouldn’t have rights before the video abruptly ends.
THE GUARDIAN
Burnley Soccer Club in England have confirmed that a 13-year-old supporter was ejected from the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium following an alleged racist gesture towards Son Heung-min during a Premier League weekend blighted by a number of alleged racist and discriminatory incidents.
Burnley said in a statement that the alleged abuse by the supporter, who was accompanied by a guardian at Saturday’s game, is being investigated by the Metropolitan police, assisted by Lancashire police and the two clubs. In addition, two Wolves Soccer supporters arrested for homophobic abuse at a Brighton game.
CBS NEWS
RICHMOND, Va. — A commission Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam tasked with researching racist laws from the state’s past recommended that dozens be repealed in order to purge the state’s books of discriminatory language.
While most of the pieces of legislation are outdated and “have no legal effect,” they are still enshrined in law, the nine-member commission of attorneys, judges, scholars and community leaders wrote in an interim report.
“The Commission believes that such vestiges of Virginia’s segregationist past should no longer have official status,” said the report, which urged repeal of the laws in the legislative session that starts in January.
These racist laws include measures that helped enforce the state’s strategy of “Massive Resistance” to federally mandated school integration, instituted a poll tax intended to keep black Virginians from voting, mandated racially segregated transportation and prohibited interracial marriage.
THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE
The Council of Europe’s anti-racism body, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) co-organized a round table in Skopje on 14 November 2019 to discuss the follow-up given by the authorities to the recommendations of the ECRI 2016 report on North Macedonia, including the efforts to combat hate speech in the country in the framework of good practices and European standards.
The event was held in co-operation with the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy of North Macedonia and with the support of the European Union (EU) in the framework of the joint European Union and Council of Europe program “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey II”.
The event was opened by Ms Gjulten Mustafova, Head of the Equal Opportunity Department in the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, who stated that the concept of equal opportunities was part of the government program and that fighting discrimination was a priority for the government and all ministries. “There is a new law on preventing discrimination and in the future, we need to focus on developing further measures for implementing it”, she said.
CHANNEL NEWS ASIA
Australia’s airline, Qantas, said it stood ready to offer legal assistance to a member of its flight crew named in a racism accusation by Black Eyed Peas rapper will.i.am on social media.
The US singer had taken a flight to Sydney, from northeastern Brisbane to play at a concert on Saturday, but was met by Australian federal police at the arrival gate.
Black Eyed Peas star will.i.am says ‘racist’ Qantas flight attendant called the police on him
He said on Twitter he was racially targeted by an airline attendant, whom he identified by name, after failing to put away his laptop as the flight prepared to land, because he had put on noise-cancelling headphones to “make beats”.
Qantas, which called the incident a “misunderstanding”, has requested the rapper to retract his statement.
PLACES JOURNAL.ORG
Apartheid is often construed as a largely political construct, but architecture and planning were critical to implementing apartheid policies.
Design practices became cultural extensions of state power, and some professional designers validated the power of the white minority through the design of monumental structures such as the Union Buildings and Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria, and through the planning of new townships mandated under laws such as the Group Areas Act (1950). This specified where racial groups were allowed to live in urban areas.
Vibrant multiracial settlements were cleared and their residents separated by race and relocated into distant townships. Near downtown Cape Town, for instance, 60,000 residents were forcibly removed between 1968 and 1982;
Cape Technikon, a white-only university, was built on a portion of the land, while the rest sat vacant for decades and is only now being developed for post-apartheid housing and community facilities.
