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“WHITES ONLY” SIGN POSTER IN NIAGARA FALLS RECEIVES PROBATION

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	The incident drew national attention when Curtis originally faced a much more serious felony hate crime charge, but last October, the Niagara County district attorney’s office agreed to reduce the charges against him after interviewing his fellow public works employees.

Falls police say woman put up racist sign

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	NIAGARA FALLS—Two days after a man was sentenced to probation and community service for putting up a sign as a “joke” in a public works garage that said “whites only” on a drinking fountain, city police were called to a home in the 600 block of 25th Street on Sunday to investigate another racially charged sign. This one was clearly no joke. No charges were filed Sunday, but police told the woman she must take down the handwritten sign on a fence on her property saying, “I rent three bedrooms [at her address to] white people Niagara Falls.”

California Mayor’s Racist Email

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	Dean Grose, the mayor of Los Alamitos, sent an email with this photo of the White House lawn covered with watermelons, under the title: “No Easter egg hunt this year.” It get’s better… he sent it to Keyanus Price, a local businesswoman and city volunteer… who is Black! It get’s even better… Grose stated he wasn’t aware of the racial stereotype that black people like watermelons, so he had no idea this “joke” would offend her!

Racism in California

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	Two events happened in California at approximately the same time. One was the recall of Governor Gray Davis and the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger as Governor. This was nationally covered by the news media. The other was the failure of a jury, composed mostly of white suburbanites and no African Americans, to convict the “Riders," a trio of Oakland policemen charged with conspiracy to falsely arrest, file false police reports, plant evidence, assault and kidnap African Americans.

Because there is no racism anywhere but in the South.