Whitey Ford
06-18-2020, 05:33 PM
Wichita mayor asks civil rights board member to quit over Facebook posts; he refuses
A committee formed by Mayor Brandon Whipple to address racial injustice in Wichita is off to a rocky start with the mayor asking for, but not getting, the resignation of an appointee who has made dozens of racially insensitive posts on social media in recent days.
Since being appointed to the Council on Diversity, Inclusion and Civil Rights, appointee Allen Stoker has written or shared dozens of posts, memes and essays on Facebook assailing the Black Lives Matter movement, highlighting crimes committed by Black people, defending the confederate flag and downplaying slavery and racism in America.
In recent days, his own missives on race relations included: “400 + years of hurt... Ya might want to get out your calculator on that one.. 2020 - 1776= not 400+,” and “So, if people are so pissed off about being brought here against their will. .why aren’t they buying tickets back home? Must not be that big of a deal.”
He copied and pasted — at least twice — a lengthy unsigned essay labeling institutions including the United Negro College Fund, the NAACP, the Miss Black America pageant, Martin Luther King Day, Black History Month, historically black colleges and the Black Entertainment Network as examples of anti-white racism.
Part of that essay reads: “You rob us, car jack us, and shoot at us. But, when a white police officer shoots a black gang member or beats up a black drug dealer running from the law and posing a threat to society, you call him a racist. I am proud...... But you call me a racist. Why is it that only whites can be racists??”
And on Wednesday, Stoker shared a meme with the U.S. and confederate flags intertwined, reading: “I don’t have ‘white guilt,’ I suffer from ‘white shame.’” It expressed being ashamed of all the white people who have become wimps “and feel ‘guilty’ because they were born white.”
https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article243592377.html
Kansas civil rights committee member refuses to quit after Facebook posts show him dismissing impact of slavery, highlighting crimes by African-Americans and making argument for 'white pride'
Allen Stoker has refused to resign from the new Council on Diversity, Inclusion and Civil Rights in Wichita, Kansas
Stoker was appointed by Mayor Brandon Whipple, but has since been asked to resign over a series of offensive Facebook posts
His Facebook included posts that dismissed the impact of slavery, highlighted crimes by African-Americans and made an argument for 'white pride'
He also shared memes about George Floyd, an African-American man who died in police custody in May
Whipple admitted that applicants for the committee were not vetted beforehand and Stoker was added because of his homelessness advocacy
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8436297/Kansas-civil-rights-committee-member-refuses-quit-racially-insensitive-Facebook-posts.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
A committee formed by Mayor Brandon Whipple to address racial injustice in Wichita is off to a rocky start with the mayor asking for, but not getting, the resignation of an appointee who has made dozens of racially insensitive posts on social media in recent days.
Since being appointed to the Council on Diversity, Inclusion and Civil Rights, appointee Allen Stoker has written or shared dozens of posts, memes and essays on Facebook assailing the Black Lives Matter movement, highlighting crimes committed by Black people, defending the confederate flag and downplaying slavery and racism in America.
In recent days, his own missives on race relations included: “400 + years of hurt... Ya might want to get out your calculator on that one.. 2020 - 1776= not 400+,” and “So, if people are so pissed off about being brought here against their will. .why aren’t they buying tickets back home? Must not be that big of a deal.”
He copied and pasted — at least twice — a lengthy unsigned essay labeling institutions including the United Negro College Fund, the NAACP, the Miss Black America pageant, Martin Luther King Day, Black History Month, historically black colleges and the Black Entertainment Network as examples of anti-white racism.
Part of that essay reads: “You rob us, car jack us, and shoot at us. But, when a white police officer shoots a black gang member or beats up a black drug dealer running from the law and posing a threat to society, you call him a racist. I am proud...... But you call me a racist. Why is it that only whites can be racists??”
And on Wednesday, Stoker shared a meme with the U.S. and confederate flags intertwined, reading: “I don’t have ‘white guilt,’ I suffer from ‘white shame.’” It expressed being ashamed of all the white people who have become wimps “and feel ‘guilty’ because they were born white.”
https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article243592377.html
Kansas civil rights committee member refuses to quit after Facebook posts show him dismissing impact of slavery, highlighting crimes by African-Americans and making argument for 'white pride'
Allen Stoker has refused to resign from the new Council on Diversity, Inclusion and Civil Rights in Wichita, Kansas
Stoker was appointed by Mayor Brandon Whipple, but has since been asked to resign over a series of offensive Facebook posts
His Facebook included posts that dismissed the impact of slavery, highlighted crimes by African-Americans and made an argument for 'white pride'
He also shared memes about George Floyd, an African-American man who died in police custody in May
Whipple admitted that applicants for the committee were not vetted beforehand and Stoker was added because of his homelessness advocacy
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8436297/Kansas-civil-rights-committee-member-refuses-quit-racially-insensitive-Facebook-posts.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490