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Abdelkrim Hassane, 41, worked as an analyst-programmer for the Quebec government. “He  had two young children who waited in vain for their father to return home,”

Azzeddine Soufiane, 57, was originally from Morocco and emigrated to Quebec City to attend  Laval University. He was known as a backbone for newly arrived Muslims. “He was almost like the president of the community. He helped and guided all the people who arrived here – students, families,” said a member of his Moroccan community group.

Khaled Belkacemi, 60, was from Algeria. He received a master’s in chemical engineer from Université de Sherbrooke and was a professor at Laval University.

Boubaker Thabti, 44, was a pharmacy worker from Tunisia who lived only 5 minutes away from the mosque. He had two children, ages 3 and 10.

Mamadou Tanou Barry, 42, and Ibrahima Barry, 39, were friends and civil-servants from Guinea that lived in the same apartment building, but were not related despite sharing the same last name. Ibrahima Barry worked for the health insurance board and had four young children, and Mamadou was an IT worker who left behind two sons.

Lee reported (In a lengthy post on Facebook (that has since been removed) that an old Korean lady was hit in the face by a Caucasian female who shouted “white power!” as she ran off. Her companion, identified as Chong Lee, followed the assailant, called the police, and waited until the attacker was arrested by LAPD officers of the Olympic division.

She walked by the korean grandma, yelled, ‘White power!’ and ran off. Thank goodness Chong followed the female for 6 blocks while calling the police and stayed with her until he saw her get arrested.

The elderly woman sustained a one-inch cut on her forehead but will survive. The original poster, Linda Lee, hit back at critics of the story who called it “fake news”

Officer Madison also made it clear that the case is currently not being investigated as a hate crime and any details surrounding the attacker yelling “white power” after hitting the victim are not included in the current official report and may still be subject to the ongoing investigation into the incident.

This is a pretty good characterization of the Conservative “Christian” American!

27-year-old Los Angeles woman attacked a 83-year-old Asian woman yelling “White power!”

The 27-year-old assailant, later identified as Patty Garcia, attacked an elderly Korean woman as she shouted “White power!” and yelled racial slurs.

Garcia is currently being held on $50,000 bond.

However, Los Angeles Police Department said that the incident is not being investigated as a hate crime and that detectives had not made mention of racial slurs.

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oregon had something called the Black Exclusion Law in the 1800′s oregon is just as and in some ways more racist than the south.

a black woman walking her dog im ashland oregon, one of the most liberal hippy towns in oregon was told and i quote:

‘It’s still an Oregon law, I could kill a black person and be out of jail in a day and a half. Look it up, The KKK is alive and well here.’

American redguard has put up flyers and now we have neo nazi groups doing the same this. 

this is the flyer 

this is their twitter page

they show pictures of tearing down pro feminism flyer, posting their flyers on protesting signs

they have targeted a local theatre known as the oregon cabaret with the tweet saying :

 your lights went out. Where is your safe space? What about the gaslight project? #Ghostlightproject

they are calling out antifa and activists in the area

this is real

this is scary

same town that the nazi (cascadian national resistance) group is back at it again

only this time it is this

that is right folks. a nazi truck parked downtown main street. this is a high traffic area. its a theatre town with a international known theatre and shakespearean festival. so TONS of out of towners coming in to see shows. they fucking see this! 

SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THE NAZI ISSUE IN SOUTHERN OREGON. THIS IS NOT A JOKE. THIS IS REAL. THEY HAVE THREATEN BUSINESS AND NOW THIS. PLEASE. 

(Via twitter) @Somaliadev, @lunarnomad, @hausofriya and @FatimaFarax have started this amazing hashtag: #theResistanceOf7 via twitter. The purpose of the H/T is to highlight the historical and modern cultural aspects of the 7 banned countries, in order to counter the negative narratives that have been associated with them (most especially in the recent weeks).

I would recommend for everyone to check it out and for those who are from or who have visited the 7 countries, to contribute their stories and experiences.

Cop forces disabled Black man to get off the cable car (run by SFMTA) because the driver is afraid of his pitbull service dog.

In a viral video shared by San Francisco resident and attorney Gina Tomaselli, a man with a pit bull is seen sitting in a cable car as he argues with a San Francisco Police Department Officer. The operator “refused to drive the cable car unless the disabled man got off the car — even after he presented written documentation of the dog’s status, and then issues him a citation.”

Trained service animals are allowed to ride free of charge on all Muni vehicles, and service dogs may travel without a muzzle but “must be under the control of their owners,” the policy reads, and service animals must ride on their owner’s lap, under the owners seat, or as “far out of the aisle as possible,” and animals may not occupy a seat.

We can clearly see that the dog is calmly sitting on its owner’s lap.

This behavior towards DISABLED Black man is totally unacceptable. In America this could only happen to a person of color. They wouldn’t dare to ask a white person with disabilities to disembark the cable car and nobody would call him asshole.

Please, share.

With Trump’s election and the threat of fascism, Twitter user Raphael Bob-Waksberg reminds us of Martin Niemöller’s words after WWII:

“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew.

This, also keep in mind that the “American cowboy” has been exaggerated greatly by Hollywood and popular myth - it was really only a twenty/thirty year period in the mid-19th century that essentially ended around the American civil war when barbed wire was introduced and eliminated the need for them.

If you’re ever in Denver, check out the Black American West Museum. Lots of photos, artifacts, etc.

John Wayne’s character in The Searchers was based on a black man named Britt Johnson.

Artist Daniel Rarela creates “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” memes to stop people from whitewashing MLK

It’s a breezy summer day and the rustling from the leaves outside sound like whispers from my small apartment. I’m sitting in front of my laptop, silently studying the 1.6 billion faces speaking simultaneously in front of me. It’s Monday, the day of the weekly conference call between all Muslims. We have been required to attend this Skype meeting from the the tender age of fetus, but I had never spoken in one of them before. 

That changes today. 

“Hey guys, what if…” I start to say. 

Nobody hears me, but I refuse to be silent. How could I show my face again on Tumblr if I couldn’t even save my mayonnaise friends from death? How could I expect to earn their respect? Anon was right; why hadn’t I done this before? Thousands of lives had paid the price for my ignorance, but not anymore.

“What if you guys….. stopped killing people.“ 

Suddenly, silence. 

1,643,398,023 pairs of eyes are on me. My heart is in my throat as the ISIS leader gives me a blank expression. 

A single tear rolls down my cheek. "Please.” I say with a broken voice. 

He is moved. 

My fingers are almost shaking as I carefully type in the ten digit phone number I have had memorized my entire life. The buttons on my home phone seem to glow a bit more dull, and even the ringing of the phone from the other end seems to be agonized, almost as if the world is telling me to hang up. But I refuse to give up; I can’t let my white lily friends down. Not again.

The phone rings once. Twice. Three times. Still no answer. Just as I am about to hang up, there is a click.

All I can hear is heavy breathing.

“Hello….” I say quietly, my voice shaking. “Is….. Is this Muslim?”

There was a long silence before I heard a voice answer “ya lol”.

“I was thinking………..” I begin cautiously. “Maybe murder is…………bad.”

“Habibi, I…..I don’t understand. What are you trying to say….?” The voice seems shaken.

“What if…….world peace is good and killing people is…………not good”

He lets out an audible gasp. “Are you saying ISIS is…….bad?”

“Maybe death is…….not good.” I continue. My heart is racing. I remind myself that I am saving thousands of lives, and inhale.

The silence from the other end of the line is almost deafening. He seemed to be thinking, as if he had never considered this idea before in his life. Truly I had opened his heart and his mind. This…. This could end terrorism.

“Muslim….Please.” I whisper.

I hear a tear roll down his cheek, with my Muslim Communication Hearing™ and hold my breath as he finally breathes out his next words.