Officer Shooting

I remember hearing about Amber Guyger who was involved in a shooting of an innocent black man who she thought was a burglar in her home but it ended up that she walked into the wrong apartment and shot Botham Jean two times in his own living room. Currently she is on trial for murder which makes sense and they have uncovered many unsettling racist texts that were sent by Guyger.  She went on the stand saying that the reason she shot was because she was scared and it had nothing to do with his race but these texts assume other wise. Some texts include Guyger jokes about Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, mocks her black colleagues and discusses a dog that her friend warns “may be racist.”“It’s okay.. I’m the same,” Guyger wrote back about the dog". She also texted one of her coworkers about her other black coworkers saying that "she was with five black officers right now and I'm not being racist but damn they just have different way of working and it shows". This is really disturbing to me because this women is just one of example a blatantly racist people on the police force that already have negative views on African Americans making it dangerous for them.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/02/amber-guyger-offensive-texts-botham-jean-murder/

Racist group chat

Kind of similar to the story I found last week but with this incident I was much more uncomfortable and frightened.  This story took place in North Carolina at East Wake High School and it was about a group chat made by some white students that was only for white students. A freshman Cenayia Edwards who is African American discovered that kids were in this group chat called "Black Slayer". And when she heard about it she pretended to be a white student and she joined the chat and the messages were horrifying. Some of the messages included #BringSlaveryBack, Pulling triggers and shooting n------, Killin n----- babies, were going to kill black kids, and if it aint white it aint right. After reading Cenayia and her family are very frightened because they dont know what these kids are capable of. This goes to show the prejudice that we see daily in the US and its quite frightening.


https://abc11.com/education/wcpss-investigating-after-student-uncovers-classmates-racist-group-chat/5593320/

Racist Vandalism

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/09/30/racist-slurs-vandalism-left-black-owned-mississippi-restaurant/3826507002/

After reading this it really scares me that this still goes on in 2019, its really distrubing that you see this in the new when this was a constnt many years back. The owner of the restaurant is an African American women and she says she has dealt with things with customers for many years but someone actually going into the bathrooms and vandalising it with racials slurs and threats is just horrifying.  Ever since Terrel moved her restuarant over a year ago people have been constantly racist to her.  She was sayin that she should have to move because of people being hateful and her feeling unsafe, it shouldnt be like that in 2019. This goes to show that this country still has alot of things to overcome and even though people say "oh but we have come such a long way"this is still happening, maybe you dont witness it but it happens.