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American Chronicles
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When W. E. B. Du Bois Made a Laughingstock of a White Supremacist
Why the Jim Crow-era debate between the African-American leader and a ridiculous, Nazi-loving racist isn’t as famous as Lincoln-Douglas.
By Ian Frazier
August 19, 2019
When W. E. B. Du Bois Made a Laughingstock of a White Supremacist | The New Yorker
August 26, 2019 Issue
When W. E. B. Du Bois Made a Laughingstock of a White Supremacist
Why the Jim Crow-era debate between the African-American leader and a ridiculous, Nazi-loving racist isn’t as famous as Lincoln-Douglas.
By Ian Frazier
August 19, 2019
When W. E. B. Du Bois Made a Laughingstock of a White Supremacist | The New Yorker
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I personally find this to be terrible.
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This genre should have died with Bubba Sparxx.
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Black homeowner launches legal fight after property value doubled when she used white man as a stand in for estimate
Jamie Johnson
Wed, May 19, 2021, 10:56 AM·2 min read
A black homeowner in Indianapolis was so dismayed after her house was twice valued at just over $100,000, that she removed family photographs, African American artwork and got the white husband of a friend to stand in for her when a third appraiser came round.
After the house was valued at $259,000, Carlette Duffy filed a housing discrimination complaint alleging that the low appraisals were offered because of her race.
Ms Duffy was attempting to take advantage of lower interest rates last year and refinance the mortgage loan for her home in a historically black neighborhood just outside downtown Indianapolis, The Indianapolis Star reported.
She purchased the house for $100,000 in 2017 and expected it to be valued similarly to her sister's home in the same area, which was given an estimate of $198,000 in 2019.
But the first valuation came back at $125,000, while a second, conducted by a different mortgage broker and appraiser, said it was worth $110,000.
A third appraisal, conducted after Ms Duffy did not declare her race in her application and went to great lengths to conceal her identity, came back at $259,000.
"I had a lot of pushback from family, from friends, from friends in real estate who were like 'Maybe that's just the value of your home, you know, maybe you're wrong, that there's nothing nefarious occurring. This is just how things are,'" she told The Indianapolis Star.
"I just felt like, no. Something else is happening here that we're just not seeing."
In the first two appraisals, comparable sales were pulled from Black neighborhoods more than a mile from Duffy's home, rather than those nearby that were closer to the specifics of her house, said Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana Executive Director Amy Nelson.
In their complaints, Ms Duffy and FHCCI asked the US Department of Housing and Urban Development to investigate.
"I'm excited, vindicated, relieved, angry, extremely peeved since I can't say the other expletives that were running through me at that point in time, destroyed that I had to go through all of that," Ms Duffy said.
"This is real. just being able to prove it is the hard part."
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Jamie Johnson
Wed, May 19, 2021, 10:56 AM·2 min read
A black homeowner in Indianapolis was so dismayed after her house was twice valued at just over $100,000, that she removed family photographs, African American artwork and got the white husband of a friend to stand in for her when a third appraiser came round.
After the house was valued at $259,000, Carlette Duffy filed a housing discrimination complaint alleging that the low appraisals were offered because of her race.
Ms Duffy was attempting to take advantage of lower interest rates last year and refinance the mortgage loan for her home in a historically black neighborhood just outside downtown Indianapolis, The Indianapolis Star reported.
She purchased the house for $100,000 in 2017 and expected it to be valued similarly to her sister's home in the same area, which was given an estimate of $198,000 in 2019.
But the first valuation came back at $125,000, while a second, conducted by a different mortgage broker and appraiser, said it was worth $110,000.
A third appraisal, conducted after Ms Duffy did not declare her race in her application and went to great lengths to conceal her identity, came back at $259,000.
"I had a lot of pushback from family, from friends, from friends in real estate who were like 'Maybe that's just the value of your home, you know, maybe you're wrong, that there's nothing nefarious occurring. This is just how things are,'" she told The Indianapolis Star.
"I just felt like, no. Something else is happening here that we're just not seeing."
In the first two appraisals, comparable sales were pulled from Black neighborhoods more than a mile from Duffy's home, rather than those nearby that were closer to the specifics of her house, said Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana Executive Director Amy Nelson.
In their complaints, Ms Duffy and FHCCI asked the US Department of Housing and Urban Development to investigate.
"I'm excited, vindicated, relieved, angry, extremely peeved since I can't say the other expletives that were running through me at that point in time, destroyed that I had to go through all of that," Ms Duffy said.
"This is real. just being able to prove it is the hard part."
Black homeowner launches legal fight after property value doubled when she used white man as a stand in for estimate
A black homeowner in Indianapolis was so dismayed after her house was twice valued at just over $100,000, that she removed family photographs, African American artwork and got the white husband of a f...
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I hate bonnets. They're terrible. They are just cotton shower caps.
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This is very ffunny:
Accurate Or Nah? Homie Came At The Whole Hood With This...
Accurate Or Nah? Homie Came At The Whole Hood With This...
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So I pressed play while working so the video doesnt have my full attention. She introduces the guest, I see it's a white man. Im good on more lies.
Like, theres not a single black person who can tell us our history? What in all the **** man.
Like, theres not a single black person who can tell us our history? What in all the **** man.
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White mom charged with ‘medical abuse’ for allegedly faking Black daughter’s disease
Biba Adams
Fri, May 28, 2021, 2:27 PM
Sophie Hartman allegedly subjected her child to more than 500 appointments and surgeries to treat a disease she didn’t have.
A Washington woman has been charged with “medical child abuse” for inflicting unnecessary medical treatment on her adopted Black daughter.
Sophie Hartman is facing charges of second-degree assault of a child and second-degree attempted assault of a child after subjecting her unidentified daughter, who’s now six, to more than 500 medical appointments to treat AHC, a disease she didn’t have, for four years.
Court documents say doctors in Washington have discovered the now-six-year-old adopted daughter of Sophie Hartman (above) has been given unnecessary medical treatment at the urging of her mother for four years. (Make-A-Wish Foundation)More
The investigation into the woman was initiated by a doctor who told child services investigators he believed the girl was being given unnecessary medical treatment to treat the uncommon neurodevelopmental disorder AHC — for alternating hemiplegia of childhood — since she was two years old. At Hartman’s urging, the child had been subjected to significant surgeries, including a surgically implanted feeding tube, as well as a cecostomy tube, to flush her intestines, for no cause. She was also fitted with leg braces and a wheelchair despite the fact that she was able to walk, with the objection of several medical officials.
A local news station claims an investigation into the Hartman girl’s case found that “a report co-authored by four medical professionals on the child’s care team, reviewed and signed by the medical director for Seattle Children’s Hospital, calls the risk to her child ‘profound.'” The state of Washington’s Department of Children, Youth and Families received the medical team’s report in February, and the Renton Police probe got underway.
Hartman’s daughter, taken from her care in March, was placed under observation at an area hospital for 16 days. “At no point during her admission were there any findings or reported symptoms to support any of her prior diagnoses,” court documents state. “All the available evidence obtained during the course of her admission suggests” the girl “is a healthy young 6-year-old.”
According to Q13 Fox, the doctors maintain “This situation is a case of medical child abuse … It is not necessary to know the possible motivation of a caregiver, only the outcome of the behavior. It is my concern that this pattern has resulted in unnecessary medical testing, medication, procedures, surgeries and debility of this child.”
Search warrants claim the girl’s AHC diagnosis was rooted solely in information Hartman gave them, including seizures that only she’d observed. Entries from Hartman’s diary reportedly mention previous times she’s been dishonest about being ill, even allegedly including one in which the 31-year-old writes about being “a compulsive liar/exaggerator.”
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Biba Adams
Fri, May 28, 2021, 2:27 PM
Sophie Hartman allegedly subjected her child to more than 500 appointments and surgeries to treat a disease she didn’t have.
A Washington woman has been charged with “medical child abuse” for inflicting unnecessary medical treatment on her adopted Black daughter.
Sophie Hartman is facing charges of second-degree assault of a child and second-degree attempted assault of a child after subjecting her unidentified daughter, who’s now six, to more than 500 medical appointments to treat AHC, a disease she didn’t have, for four years.
Court documents say doctors in Washington have discovered the now-six-year-old adopted daughter of Sophie Hartman (above) has been given unnecessary medical treatment at the urging of her mother for four years. (Make-A-Wish Foundation)More
The investigation into the woman was initiated by a doctor who told child services investigators he believed the girl was being given unnecessary medical treatment to treat the uncommon neurodevelopmental disorder AHC — for alternating hemiplegia of childhood — since she was two years old. At Hartman’s urging, the child had been subjected to significant surgeries, including a surgically implanted feeding tube, as well as a cecostomy tube, to flush her intestines, for no cause. She was also fitted with leg braces and a wheelchair despite the fact that she was able to walk, with the objection of several medical officials.
A local news station claims an investigation into the Hartman girl’s case found that “a report co-authored by four medical professionals on the child’s care team, reviewed and signed by the medical director for Seattle Children’s Hospital, calls the risk to her child ‘profound.'” The state of Washington’s Department of Children, Youth and Families received the medical team’s report in February, and the Renton Police probe got underway.
Hartman’s daughter, taken from her care in March, was placed under observation at an area hospital for 16 days. “At no point during her admission were there any findings or reported symptoms to support any of her prior diagnoses,” court documents state. “All the available evidence obtained during the course of her admission suggests” the girl “is a healthy young 6-year-old.”
According to Q13 Fox, the doctors maintain “This situation is a case of medical child abuse … It is not necessary to know the possible motivation of a caregiver, only the outcome of the behavior. It is my concern that this pattern has resulted in unnecessary medical testing, medication, procedures, surgeries and debility of this child.”
Search warrants claim the girl’s AHC diagnosis was rooted solely in information Hartman gave them, including seizures that only she’d observed. Entries from Hartman’s diary reportedly mention previous times she’s been dishonest about being ill, even allegedly including one in which the 31-year-old writes about being “a compulsive liar/exaggerator.”
White mom charged with ‘medical abuse’ for allegedly faking Black daughter’s disease
A Washington woman has been charged with “medical child abuse” for inflicting unnecessary medical treatment on her adopted Black daughter. The investigation into the woman was initiated by a doctor w...
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I thought this was an interesting video on Nubian history:
