Earl Sampson has been stopped and questioned by Miami Gardens police 258 times in four years During this racial profiling, he’s been searched more than 100 times, arrested and jailed 56 times.
Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts
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Saturday, November 23, 2013
Jailed 56 times for being Black
Earl Sampson, an employee of 207 Quickstop in Miami Gardens, exits the store to take out the garbage. After he walks back inside, he is arrested -- for trespassing.
Earl Sampson has been stopped and questioned by Miami Gardens police 258 times in four years During this racial profiling, he’s been searched more than 100 times, arrested and jailed 56 times.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/11/21/3769823/in-miami-gardens-store-video-catches.html#storylink=cpy
Earl Sampson has been stopped and questioned by Miami Gardens police 258 times in four years During this racial profiling, he’s been searched more than 100 times, arrested and jailed 56 times.
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Advocates push for retrial to clear name of 14-year-old ’killer’ executed in 1944
Advocates push for retrial to clear name of 14-year-old ’killer’ executed in 1944
Nearly 70 years after the execution of 14-year-old George Junius Stinney Jr. for the killing of two white girls, advocates have taken the unprecedented step of asking a South Carolina court to grant a new trial to clear his name.
The request for a new trial is the culmination of a lengthy investigation, started years ago by local historian George Frierson, whose work brought attention to what he calls the barbaric death of a child. They sat him on a book to prop him up high enough to take his life.
Nearly 70 years after the execution of 14-year-old George Junius Stinney Jr. for the killing of two white girls, advocates have taken the unprecedented step of asking a South Carolina court to grant a new trial to clear his name.
The request for a new trial is the culmination of a lengthy investigation, started years ago by local historian George Frierson, whose work brought attention to what he calls the barbaric death of a child. They sat him on a book to prop him up high enough to take his life.
Friday, August 9, 2013
Cracker does not = Ni**er Racism
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| :"A pair of Georgia crackers." King, Edward (1875) The Great South |
Florida cracker refers to original colonial-era English and American pioneer settlers of the state of Florida, and their descendants.
The term "cracker" was in use during the Elizabethan era to describe boaster. The original root of this is the Middle English word crack meaning "entertaining conversation" (One may be said to "crack" a joke); this term and the Gaelicized spelling "craic" are still in use in Northern England, Ireland and Scotland.
It is documented in William Shakespeare's King John (1595): "What cracker is this ... that deafes our ears / With this abundance of superfluous breath?"
Florida Memory
Bone Mizell: Cracker Cowboy of the Palmetto Prairies
Gallery: Florida Cracker Homestead
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| Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909. Title: A Cracker cowboy |
Well, let me tell you something, I'm a cracker, been one for 70 years. In Florida, a cracker means a -- a cracker to us means a person that was born here, were native to Florida.
There's very few of us Florida crackers, less than 30 percent of the population. Thank you very much. It has nothing to do with race."
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