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Boy, 6, Baptizes Himself After Pastor Took Too Long..Amen
Airbnb Company Finally Changes Policies After
University Of Oregon To Take Name Of KKK Member Off Of Building
Dunn Hall on UO Campus.
The pastor and congregation became hysterical with laughter after the boy dunked himself.
EUGENE, OR --- As has been the case at Georgetown, Yale and Vanderbilt, the Uni- versity of Oregon has re- branded a dorm named after a man whose life was anti-black. In the case of Oregon, it was a Ku Klux Klan leader.
After a unanimous board vote on last Thursday, Univer- sity President Michael Schill announced that having a building named after classics professor Frederic Dunn was not consistent with the school’s values.
Frederic Dunn was a clas- sics professor at the school in the 1920s and 1930s. The uni- versity’s Black Student Task Force demanded Dunn’s name be stripped from the building last November.
The student body president thought the move was espe- cially pressing given that 19- year-old Larnell Bruce was deliberately run over by a
KENTUCKY --- This Ken- tuckian made a gesture that has gone viral. Six- year-0ld, Jordan Warrick was bap- tized recently at West End Baptist Church in Louisville, but decided to coat himself in the holy water himself.
According to ABC News, Jordan grew impatient with the pastor’s opening remarks, and belted out, “I’ll do it!” be- fore dunking himself into the water. Those in attendance be- came hysterical as Jordan was all smiles exiting the mini pool.
The video was posted to Facebook by Jordan’s father, Terrence Warrick, who
JORDAN WARRICK
said the moment “was special to me and my family.” His mother, Inda Swift, said the moment caught her off guard. “I was excited. I was shocked. I wasn’t expecting it.”
SAN FRANCISCO, CA ---- Companies like Airbnb and Uber, that operate as platforms that bring people together for the purpose of sharing re- sources like housing and trans- portation, are bound to run into problems of inequality and discrimination.
In the case of Airbnb, a com- munity marketplace that al- lows homeowners and apartment dwellers the oppor- tunity to post their pads for renters to temporarily live in, Black guests were more likely to find their housing requests denied by hosts.
After a study confirmed what many Black users of the site al- ready knew to be true (Airbnb hosts were rejecting Black users’ requests for temporary housing based on their race/ethnicity) they took to Twitter to vent their frustra- tions using the hashtag #AirbnbWhileBlack.
Months of criticism obvi- ously had an effect on the San Francisco based company, who announced last Thursday a new plan to deal with host dis- crimination.
The company unveiled a new proactive approach that in- cludes decreasing the empha- sis on profile photos and ramping up the availability of Instant Book, which allows guests to book available list- ings without the prior approval of the host.
Since the controversy sur- rounding Airbnb, black-owned companies Innclusive and Noirbnb emerged as alterna- tives for those wanting to use a different service, without the risk of discrimination.
Frederic Dunn was a profes- sor at Univsersit of Oregon.
white supremacist in Gre- sham, Ore., on Aug. 10.
The school is also consider- ing renaming Deady Hall, named after Matthew Deady, who was pro-slavery. In the meantime, Schiller said, the university will invest in a $3 million Black Cultural Center, reports the New York Daily News.
Accused Of Racism
Congress Votes In Favor Of Sexual Assault Survivors Bill Of Rights Act
Broward County Police Kill Man In His Backyard After Disturbance Call
WASHINGTON -- The House of Representatives voted unan- imously on Tuesday in favor of The Survivors’ Bill of Rights Act which guarantees sexual assault survivors access to gather and preserve physical evidence, like rape kits.
According to The Hill, “Sur- vivors would further have the ability to request preservation of the kits for the duration of the maximum statute of limita- tions, and to be informed of any test results from the kits. The bill would also ensure that survivors don’t have to pay for the evidence collection.”
This bill ensures that sur- vivors no longer have to fight, or sometimes pay, to have their rape kits preserved as evidence, or to be informed of any results for the maximum duration of the statue of limitations in their state.
The Survivor’s Bill of Rights
Act also sets universal federal guidelines for protecting the rights of sexual assault sur- vivors.
California legislators Mimi Walters (R) and Zoe Lof- gren (D), who introduced the bill, agree that federal guide- lines helps survivors navigate the system.
The bill is headed to Presi- dent Obama’s for approval once it is reconciled with an al- most identical bill that passed unanimously in the Senate in May.
POMPANO BEACH, FL --- In the last year, there has been a hashtag directed towards law enforcement all over the na- tion: #DeEscalateDontKill.
But the police in Broward County, Fla., must have missed the memo.
The Broward Palm Beach New Times reports that police responded to a domestic dis- turbance call on Friday night and shot and killed a man who was holding a pocket knife—a “rusty pocket knife”—in his own backyard.
The tragedy was set in mo- tion after Gregory Frazier’s sister called 911 because he was arguing with his niece.
By the time police arrived, Frazier, 56, was planted in the backyard of his Pompano Beach home eating chicken wings and fries with a small Swiss Army-style pocket knife in his hand.
The outlet reports that Fra- zier’s nephew, Quartaze Woodard, says three deputies showed up and told Frazier to get down on the ground. Fra- zier responded, “Leave me alone.” The deputies repeated the order. Again, Frazier asked them to leave him alone.
Moments later—not one, but two—deputies from the Broward County Sheriff’s Of- fice opened fire. The New
GREGORY FRAZIER
Times reports that neighbors say Frazier was hit between five and six times in the back.
Then, after handcuffing him, and removing the handcuffs once they realized he was non- responsive, police attempted to perform CPR. But it was too late.
As per departmental policy, the deputies were placed on paid administrative leave.
“Yes, he had a pocket knife. A rusty pocket knife,” said sis- ter Deborah Frazier to the Miami Herald. “I believe those three cops could have sat down, talked to him, used Tasers, anything, to constrain him.”
She added, “I never would have called the cops if I’d known this was going to hap- pen. They just came in and started shooting right away.”
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