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At the beginning of 2013, former AC Milan player Kevin-Prince Boateng made one of the biggest and defining moments against racism in professional football.
In a friendly match before the season resumed, the Ghana international was the subject of racist chants by the opposing team’s fans. Boateng became angry and frustrated with the chants, picked up the ball kicked it into the stands where the racist fans were seated and then walked off the pitch. After a moment of confusion, his AC Milan team mates decided to follow Boateng, leaving the pitch in support of the player against the racist fans. The match was then canceled. This marks the first time in football history that a match was abandoned due to racist abuse.
This challenged the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) policy that players must stay on the pitch regardless of abusive or racist chants.
Rather than disciplining the player and the team for leaving the pitch in the middle of a match, the Italian club, AC Milan, supported the players decision by making personalised “AC Milan against racism” jerseys for the players to wear before their next league match.
The Women’s World Cup got underway over the weekend and while
excitement was high after host country Canada’s thrilling win over China
in stoppage time, the start of play has renewed frustrations over the
controversial decision to force the women to play on artificial turf in
all six venues.
If you’re not sure what’s going on in the Dominican Republic, here’s the 411:
Background information:
In the Dominican Republic, there’s a huge difference in being ‘moreno’ (brown) and negro (black)
If you’re Haitian, you’re considered black and being black in the DR means you’re a second class citizen. Meaning, denial of job opportunities, public education, job accounts and health care. (sounds familiar doesn’t it?)
Dominican hatred of Haitians extends back to 1822, when Haiti invaded and conquered the Dominican Republic and promptly freed the slaves.
In 1912, the Dominican government passed a law limiting the number of black-skinned people who could enter the country.
In 1939, Dominican President Rafael Trujillo ordered the genocide of Haitians costing approximately 30 000 lives.
What’s happening today:
About a quarter of a million people will be made stateless. They will have no homes, no passports, and no civil rights. There are several reasons for this, but the primary reason is racism.
According to a ruling by Constitutional Court; Dominicans born after 1929 to parents who are not of Dominican ancestry are to have their citizenship revoked. The ruling affects an estimated 250,000 Dominican people of Haitian descent.
Many of the Dominican-born Haitians have never been, or even know anyone in Haiti.
The criteria the government will use in deciding who is to be deported out of the country is “dark-skinned Dominicans with Haitian facial features.”
In other words, Dominica has said: if you’re black, bye.
SPOKANE, Wash. — Controversy is swirling around one of the Spokane region’s most prominent civil rights activists, with family members saying the local leader of the NAACP has falsely portrayed herself as black for years. (X)
Her mother, Ruthanne Dolezal says:
“It’s very sad that Rachel has not just been herself,” Ruthanne Dolezal said. “Her effectiveness in the causes of the African-American community would have been so much more viable, and she would have been more effective if she had just been honest with everybody.
Ruthanne Dolezal said the family’s ancestry is Czech, Swedish and German. She said the family does have some “faint traces” of Native American heritage as well. She provided a copy of her daughter’s Montana birth certificate listing herself and Larry Dolezal as Rachel’s parents.
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The ally role wasn’t enough, now she wants to be one of us.
There was a point when I was in 7th grade where a boy called me a lesbian. And to be perfectly honest, I was definitely probably staring at girls in my classes. I know I definitely did this because I would think about what it would be like to hold their hands and kiss them and I probably stared a lot. I don’t know what compelled him to call me a lesbian exactly, but he did. At the time I didn’t know what that meant. I could just tell from his tone that it was said in a derogatory way. And so when I found out what the word lesbian means, I… my first reaction was, well, why is that a bad thing? That’s… me.
Reality TV star turned lifestyle guru and designer Lauren Conrad announced on Monday that in order to focus on health and not size her popular lifestyle website would undergo “a major change” and ban words like “skinny,” “slim,” and “thin” when talking about fitness. “Skinny” would be used under only one circumstance.
