Tag: racial tension

Chaos as coloureds refuse black school

Amid racial divisions between coloureds and blacks that resulted in government officials shutting down Roodepoort Primary school, one coloured community member was shot with a rubber bullet and was taken to hospital.

Before the pupils were transported to school, coloured parents shouted the “k” word at the black police telling them to bring back their children. The angry coloured community protested outside the school overpowering the police.

The police resorted to rubber bullets to try calm the situation. One man was injured in the process.

On Tuesday morning no teachers remained at the school as they were served with letters yesterday for continuing to teach while Gauteng Premier David Makhura had instructed the teachers to move to another school.

At least five people were injured on Tuesday morning during protests at the school. ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene and found a number of public on the scene as well as heavy SAPS presence.

On assessment, paramedics found that at least five people had sustained injuries due to what was reported to paramedics as rubber bullets.

Amid clashes between the community of Davidsonville and the Gauteng Education department to reopen Roodepoort Primary school, only about a hundred boarded the bus to go to Lufhereng Primary school.

On Wednesday morning, it looked like only few black learners were going to the school which the department had arranged for them to be taught at while the impasse between the community and the department is being resolved.

Economic Freedom Fighters provincial secretary Malesela Ledwaba addressed the community saying the party was in support of the call to reopen the school. Malesela also said the party had tried to contact the office of the MEC Panyaza Lesufi asking to be included in the mediation team to resolve the problems at the school.

The school houses over 1 300 learners but many coloured pupils were not at the school, but were seen among the community during the gathering. The community said they would not allow their children to go to a black school.

Source: The Citizen

School to re-open amid racial tension with heavy security

Roodepoort Primary School will reopen on Tuesday, albeit under heavy police guard. The school was indefinitely closed down by Gauteng MEC Panyaza Lesufi on Friday after one group of coloured parents had been protesting the appointment of a black principal.

The announcement of the school’s reopening was made a meeting held with another group of parents on Monday night. Lesufi says he was concerned about the children who were caught in the crossfire.

At Monday night’s meeting, it transpired that many parents had not known the details of the happenings at the school, although they were aware that something was amiss as their children had frequently been going home early from school.

This group of parents showed support for Lesufi and celebrated the announcement that the school would be reopened.

The dissenting coloured community members and parents who have been protesting held a separate meeting on Monday night and threatened that they would wreak havoc if the school was not reopened by Tuesday.

The protesting parents want the new principal’s appointment to be rescinded despite a KPMG report claiming that the appointment was legitimate.

Racial tension leads to street fight with dangerous weapons

Police on Long Island, New York are investigating after black high school students attacked a white teen using baseball bats and brass knuckles following a lunchroom dispute.

A family member of one of the students involved tells NBC 4 New York the brawl over the weekend was a manifestation of ongoing racial tensions between the students. Black teenage thugs had constantly been bullying the white teen.

The melee broke out Saturday afternoon in an industrial park following a dispute at Connetquot High School in Bohemia, police and family members of those involved say. Authorities say about 10 students were involved in the fight, with black students arriving with deadly metal baseball bats and brass knuckles.

Video obtained by NBC 4 New York shows several teens standing in a street arguing before the fight breaks out.

One person, who is black, accuses a white person of calling him a racial epithet. Then, one of the black participants can be seen pulling a metal bat out and handing it to another teen.

A black teen can then be heard saying, “Take the brass knuckles off, bro” to the teen who initially had the bat.

An African American, an 18 year old, holding the deadly weapon, starts yelling at his white victim: “Listen nigger, I’m from Queens, I’ll beat the shit out of you!”

The video shows another black teen run up and punch the white teen in the face with brass knuckles. At that point, all the students begin brawling in the street.

Another African-American can be heard saying “I brought a bat…but I didn’t use it.”

Police say the fight happened on Remington Boulevard in Ronkonkoma Saturday afternoon, in an industrial area about one mile from the school. A 15-year-old white student suffered a broken jaw and was rushed to Stony Brook Hospital for surgery.

No other students were seriously hurt.

The school district said earlier Tuesday that it tried to intervene following the lunchroom dispute Friday, the day before the brawl, and contacted the students’ parents.

#BlackLivesMatter storm Mall of America

On one of the busiest shopping days of the year, thousands of #BlackLivesMatter protesters packed the Mall of America outside Minneapolis on Saturday to call for police reform in the wake of the officer-involved deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.

“I’m getting my feelings out and I’m letting the world know that we’re not going to take this anymore,” Emma Eubanks, a 18-year-old protester told Fusion just before the event began.

Upon hearing the news that two police officers had been killed in New York by a fugitive gunman, Eubanks (who is the subject of the video above), said she “didn’t condone violence” and that her heart was with the families of the slain officers. She worried that the killings could “provoke a wave of anger and hate” against black activists and those pushing for police reforms.

The mall had sent a letter to organizers warning that anyone protesting in in the mall could be “removed, arrested and banned.” As demonstrators gathered near the rotunda, an electronic billboard flanked by large Christmas trees switched from holiday shopping themed messages to an ominous warning, written in all-caps.

Protesters ignored the sign, and chants of “hands up, don’t shoot” drowned out police calls to disperse.

They held “die-ins,” laying down in front of stores when police approached.

Later, the protests broke up into smaller groups and marched through the mall.

Police blocked off certain areas, but avoided mass arrests.

Michael McDowell, a 20-year-old protester from Minneapolis told Fusion the protesters selected the Mall of America because “if we’re spending our dollar…they should step up.”

He and other organizers want said they were pushing for more direct community control over police departments.

“We want to make sure that there’s some solid policy around community control over police,” he said, “so community deciding what cops get hired in their communities and essentially making sure that the cops that get hired are from the community.”

Organizers said 20 people were arrested and cited with trespassing. Fusion saw what appeared to be a couple of handcuffed protesters being walked out the building by police.

Minnesotans weren’t the only ones to stage protests on Saturday. Protesters staged a die-in in Park City, Utah, and Baltimore, as well.

Source: fusion.net

FBI warns about extremists as Ferguson awaits verdict

As the US waits to hear whether a Missouri police officer will face charges for killing unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., the FBI is warning law enforcement agencies across the country that the decision “will likely” lead some extremist protesters to threaten and even attack police officers or federal agents.

Peaceful protesters could be caught in the middle, and electrical facilities or water treatment plants could also become targets. In addition, so-called “hacktivists” like the group “Anonymous” could try to launch cyber-attacks against authorities.

“The announcement of the grand jury’s decision … will likely be exploited by some individuals to justify threats and attacks against law enforcement and critical infrastructure,” the FBI says in an intelligence bulletin issued in recent days. “This also poses a threat to those civilians engaged in lawful or otherwise constitutionally protected activities.”

The FBI bulletin expresses concern only over those who would exploit peaceful protests, not the masses of demonstrators who will want to legitimately, lawfully and collectively express their views on the grand jury’s decision.

The bulletin “stresses the importance of remaining aware of the protections afforded to all U.S. persons exercising their First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.”

Within hours of the FBI issuing its bulletin, some police departments across the country issued their own internal memos urging officers to review procedures and protocols for responding to mass demonstrations.

Still, the bulletin’s conclusions were blunt: “The FBI assesses those infiltrating and exploiting otherwise legitimate public demonstrations with the intent to incite and engage in violence could be armed with bladed weapons or firearms, equipped with tactical gear/gas masks, or bulletproof vests to mitigate law enforcement measures.”

In its new intelligence bulletin, obtained by ABC News, the FBI says “exploitation” of mass demonstrations “could occur both in the Ferguson area and nationwide.”

In a recent interview with ABC News, Philadelphia Police Chief Charles Ramsey said people in “communities of color” often “don’t view us as people who really have the right to enforce laws or tell them what to do,” and sometimes it’s because of “the way they’ve seen us conduct ourselves in the past.”

In particular, African-Americans are disproportionally represented in crime. According to the FBI, 4,379 blacks were arrested for murder last year, while 3,799 whites were arrested for murder – even though census numbers show there are six times more whites than blacks in the United States.

Source: ABC

Racial incidents flood Cape

The white man who allegedly attacked a gardener with a sjambok in Claremont may be a local dentist, according to threats he levelled at his victim early on Sunday.

Gardener Muhammed Makungwa claims to have been late for work in Rondebosch. He was running down Palmyra Road when the driver of a white BMW X5 got out of the vehicle and beat Makungwa with a sjambok.

“I kept on running and he then tried to drive his car into me,” Makungwa said on Monday. “I stopped and he got out and started whipping me with a sjambok. He just went crazy and didn’t give me a chance to explain myself.”

Makungwa described his attacker as a white man in his 50s. The two went together to Makungwa’s employer, Nadia Kamies.

On Monday night Kamies told the Cape Argus that Makungwa was out of hospital but had been booked off work until Thursday.

She said the police visited her house on Monday and she supplied them with CCTV footage that clearly showed the attacker’s face, car and registration number.

“According to Muhammed, he’s a dentist in Palmyra Road,” she said. “But he also said that he was a soldier. And he said to Muhammed: ‘If I was a policeman and you were running away I could have shot you’.”

Police spokesman Captain FC van Wyk said two men had chased Makungwa. They had accused him of breaking into their vehicle.

Van Wyk confirmed that no theft out of a motor vehicle had been reported by the BMW driver.

“An altercation between the men and the Malawian resulted in the Malawian being assaulted and sustaining injuries to the face and shoulder. A case of assault with intention to do grievous bodily harm was opened, but no arrests have been made as yet.”

A similar incident last month saw swimming instructor Tim Osrin attack domestic worker Cynthia Joni in Kenilworth, while she was on her way to work. He later tried to justify his actions by saying he thought she was a sex worker.

On Sunday, two men were banned from the Cape Quarter shopping centre after the k-word slur sparked a fistfight.

A YouTube video showing the brawl next to an ATM at the centre in Green Point went viral. The video shows two white men using the ATM, while a black man in the queue behind them asks them to hurry up.

One of the white men turns around and calls the black man a “kaffir”. They begin shouting at each other, which soon escalates into physical violence. At the end of the video, the white man is on the floor after he was punched and kicked by the black man.

The Cape Quarter Lifestyle Village posted on its Facebook page on Monday: “The Cape Quarter does not condone racism and violence… The safety of our shoppers is a priority… The individuals have been banned from the centre and we’d like to thank everyone for their concern.”

Source: IOL

Diversity month means slogans against whites

A race row has erupted at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University after a project to mark 20 years of democracy in South Africa backfired.

The Port Elizabeth university’s “talking walls” project, aimed at encouraging staff and students to speak about democracy, yielded a range of offensive statements.

According to Herald Online, the white boards that served as the talking walls saw responses ranging from the silly – one student suggested free alcohol in the canteen – to the more serious “F**k whites” which fanned racial tension. Also upsetting to some was a statement that suggested fewer whites should be at the university.

The boards have been pulled off the walls and are currently lying in a passage. The offensive messages have been wiped off.

Management student Tiffany Francis, 21, said: “The past is in the past and we must work together to make the future better. They should have a disciplinary hearing to prevent it happening again”.

Marketing student Sanela Genu, 20, thought the students responsible should be expelled. “They brought the school name into disrepute.”

University spokeswoman Roslyn Baatjies said the university was saddened by the offensive comments, especially as it is presently celebrating Diversity Month.

“This behaviour is not in keeping with our core values. We would like to believe this is an isolated incident and does not reflect the feelings of the majority of staff and students.”

The comments had been written anonymously, so the university did not know who was responsible.

Source: timeslive.co.za

Obama gets help from the Revolutionary Communist Party with Trayvon

The rcphas Revolutionary Communist Party coordinated Trayvon Martin protests throughout the United States.

Many of the Trayvon Martin protests that are still taking place in major cities across the United States were organized by the Revolutionary Communist Party which is chaired by a Marxist who praised mass killers Joseph Stalin and Chairman Mao.

In a lengthy exposé by the politically independent SF Weekly, columnist Rachel Swan documents how, “Members of the Berkeley-based Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) had, indeed, set the time and date for two consecutive Trayvon Martin rallies in Oakland, as well as the ones in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York.”

Explaining how many of the demonstrations were adorned with Communist red flags, Swan notes how the RCP sent out email blasts urging people to attend the rallies, made protest signs and also used “viral marketing” to give the message a “veneer of spontaneity”.

“It turns out that Revolutionary Communists have coordinated — or perhaps infiltrated — Trayvon Martin protests throughout the country, often with more aggressive sloganeering than in Oakland. In Florida, they didn’t shy away from connecting Martin to larger, more abstract causes,” writes Swan, noting that the group has used the marches to denounce capitalism.

The Founder and current chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party is Bob Avakian, “an acolyte of Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin — he praises both of them in his 2005 autobiography,” writes Swan.

Despite the fact that between them the two dictators killed at least 50 million people, Avakian has been a consistent and vehement supporter of both Chairman Mao and Joseph Stalin.

Avakian protested the efforts of reformer Deng Xiaoping to lead China towards a market economy after Mao’s death in 1976, having backed the cultural revolution, during which historical relics and artifacts were destroyed, cultural and religious sites were ransacked and Mao’s political opponents were tortured and executed.

When the RCP was criticized by some on the left for creating a Mao-like “cult of personality” around Avakian, he responded, “I certainly hope so — we’ve been working very hard to create one.”

It is unsurprising that the Revolutionary Communist Party has backed the Obama administration’s efforts to create a furore around the Trayvon Martin case. Recall that it was the Justice Department which organized and paid for many of the original Trayvon Martin protests last year. Given that Barack Obama’s political career was launched in the living room of Weathermen Communist and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, it makes perfect sense.

The RCP wasn’t similarly perturbed when Roderick Scott, a 42-year-old black man, shot and killed Christopher Cervini, a 17-year old white kid who broke into his car and tried to attack him, suggesting that their protests have little to do with justice for Trayvon Martin and everything to do with hijacking contrived racial tension in order to push their own warped political agenda. – prisonplanet.com