Can we all agree that comparing a black person to an ape is racist?

By George L. Cook III African American Reports

I can't believe that in 2018 people are actually questioning whether comparing a black person to an ape is racist. Are people that ignorant? Listen to more below.

President Obama use N-word when discussing race

In a podcast interview with Marc Maron, Obama weighs in on the debate over race and guns, using the N-word following the racially-motivated shooting deaths of nine black church members in Charleston, South Carolina.

White Americans Draw Distinctions Between African-Americans and Blacks

This was a very surprising study to see. I was surprised because online you read post by some whites about the divisiveness of the term African American while at the same time, maybe even unbeknownst to them they have a different perspective of African Americans vs "Blacks". George L. Cook III AfricanAmericanReports.com.

White Americans are fine with African-Americans. Blacks, however, are a different story.

That’s the disturbing implication of a new study, which finds the way a person of color is labeled can impact how he or she is perceived.

In the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, a research team led by Emory University’s Erika Hall argues that “the racial label ‘black’ evokes a mental representation of a person with lower socioeconomic status than the racial label ‘African-American.’”

“The content embedded in the black stereotype is generally more negative, and less warm and competent, than that in the African-American stereotype,” the researchers write. “These different associations carry consequences for how whites perceive Americans of African descent who are labeled with either term.”

Read more: http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/white-americans-draw-distinctions-african-americans-blacks-94554/

Racist clown fired from fair for calling woman a nappy head.

I swear I'm not making this up. A clown in a dunk tank at a fair in Memphis decided that it would be okay to call a black woman a nappy head and make other insensitive comments. He was of course fired but for a country where conservatives believe that there is no racism what does it say when even clowns feel it's alright to publicly vent their racist feelings?