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White Cop Who Finds He Has African Ancestry Sues City, Chief Over Racism

Hastings police Sgt. Cleon Brown says he began to face racist comments and jokes after he told fellow officers about his Ancestry.com results.
The officer claims his colleagues began to make derogatory comments and jokes after he told them of his DNA results.
05/09/2017
Michigan police officer Cleon Brown is suing his chief and the city after a chain of events that began when he took a genetic test through Ancestry.com [ https://www.ancestry.com/ ] in December and was surprised to learn he could trace 18 percent of his DNA to regions in Africa.
Brown was also surprised by how his fellow officers in the Hastings Police Department reacted to the news.
He said the police chief called him “Kunte,” after the character in Alex Haley’s novel “Roots: The Saga of an American Family,” while other officers whispered “Black lives matter [ http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2017/05/white_cop_accuses_others_of_ra.html ]” when they walked past, according to MLive.com.
Even the mayor, who has since retired, made cracks, according to Brown’s attorney, Karie Boylan, who has filed a lawsuit on Brown’s behalf [ https://cbsdetroit.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/2017-04-11-brown-cleon-ecf-001-plaintiffs-complaint-and-jury-demand.pdf ].
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/michigan-white-officer-african-ancestry-lawuit_us_59121a90e4b05e1ca202840e [with embedded video]


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It’s Time For White Parents Of White Kids To Bring The Resistance Home

Conversations about race have to start much earlier than most white people think they do.
05/08/2017 Updated May 9, 2017
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/time-for-white-parents-of-white-kids-to-bring-the-resistance_us_5910a2f3e4b056aa2363d794


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Trump Administration Cites Segregation-Era Ruling To Defend Its Travel Ban

President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions at a White House discussion on March 29. Sessions’ Justice Department has cited a ruling in a swimming pool closure case in its defense of the travel ban.
In 1971, the Supreme Court decided that courts shouldn’t investigate the motivations of officials who closed public pools rather than integrate them.
05/08/2017 Updated May 9, 2017
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-administration-travel-ban-cites-segregation-ruling_us_5910da0ee4b0e7021e9a5cda


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