黒人さんの受難はまだまだ続いている？

But she was stabbed to death in the Fairfield, Calif., Dollar Tree where she worked in March 2006, by a white man who reportedly attacked her simply because she was black.

Now, Talley's mother is fighting to get her daughter's workers compensation death benefits, which, according to the family's lawyer, have been denied because the killer's targeting her as a black person established a "personal connection" that the company says releases them from having to pay.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=6324068&page=1

アメリカ・黒人女性が職場でヘイトクライム、人種差別的犯罪により、殺害される。すると、職場は、人種差別的な犯罪なら、職場とは関係ないと、補償金支払いを拒否。

Racial disparities persist despite Obama election

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER

About a quarter of black Americans live in poverty - nearly three times the rate for whites - at a time when rising budget deficits and expensive corporate bailouts are going to leave little federal money for anti-poverty programs. The federal budget deficit is likely to hit a record $1 trillion next year.

Black adults are less likely than whites to have college degrees and more likely to be in prison. Blacks are less likely than whites to have health insurance and, on average, they don't live as long as whites. Homicide is the leading cause of death among black males ages 15 to 34 - and it has been for years.

The good news: Poverty and education levels for blacks have improved in the past two decades, and incarceration rates for blacks are dropping even as they increase for whites.

Still, the income gap has barely changed in 30 years, with a typical black household making only 62 percent of the income of a typical white household.

Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League, knows the numbers well. Each year, the civil rights group publishes a book called "The State of Black America," which has chapters of data on disparities between whites and blacks.

"A mere election does not change the abject conditions for African-Americans or the 230-plus years of racial injustice," Morial said.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/R/RACIAL_DISPARITIES?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US

アメリカ・オバマ氏が大統領になったものの、黒人と黒人でない人との格差は依然として大きい、と。

'I've been in this country for 35 years and know prejudice. I doubt it could happen in England'


"It is historic and a blow against racism," he said. "People don't talk about it much, but there is racism in many parts of Latin America, especially Brazil ... To see a black man in the White House is something to cheer."

In Paris, however, optimism was tempered by the widespread belief that it couldn't happen in France. "Don't get me wrong, I hope he'll do good things, go into fewer wars, that kind of thing," said Amir Baroui, a 28-year-old shopkeeper of Tunisian origin. "But it's not the same here. In France - well, you saw it with Ségolène [Royal, the defeated presidential candidate] last year: we don't want women and we don't want blacks or Arabs or anyone who isn't white."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/06/us-elections-2008-barack-obama-black-people-reaction

それでも、フランスやイギリスじゃ、黒人が首長になるのは、無理やろーーと。

The murders have also focused new attention on an area plagued by violence so chronic that the gunfire coming from the Hudson family home last Friday morning did not even warranted a phone call to police.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=6150152&page=1

黒人有名人の家族が殺害された地域では、銃声が聞こえるのは当然なので、事件の発覚が遅れ、

September 8, 2008 | 9:11 AM ET Comments36Recommend48
CBC News

The firing of eight Toronto women by the giant package delivery company UPS goes before a federal human rights tribunal on Monday.

The women, all of them of Somali origin, were working as temporary employees for the global delivery company. They claim UPS discriminated against them when it refused to hire them permanently.

Anisa Hagi is one of the complainants.

She flipped and scanned up to 50 parcels a minute for UPS at its sorting plant on Steeles Avenue West. She got the job through a temp agency in 2005.

Nadifo Yusuf did the same work for nearly two years, never missing a shift. "I liked my work. I was a good worker and a hard worker and they [UPS] were happy too," she said.

Hagi, Yusuf and the other Somali women always wore ankle-length skirts to work.

Hagi said UPS never mentioned their clothing posed a safety hazard during the time she worked as a temp. But when a new union contract forced UPS to hire the women away from the temp agency and give them permanent jobs with better pay and benefits, Hagi says, everything changed.

Yusuf said her supervisor gave her an ultimatum: "You have to pull up your skirt above the knee, otherwise go out."

The supervisor said the type of floor-length skirt the women had worn to work every day for nearly two years was a tripping hazard.

"They actually gave me two choices, which is either raise your skirt so you can work here, or don't show up to work," said Hagi.

The other temps of Somali origin got the same ultimatum from UPS. They too refused to shorten their skirts and all were laid off.

"Temporary workers face rampant human rights violations," said Jacqui Chic, the lawyer representing the women, as well as "employment standards violations and frankly every other possible statutory violation you can think of."

"You can't keep workers for ― in some cases ― as much as 27 months, never once raise a health and safety issue and then use health and safety as an excuse to turf people at the point in which you would have had to pay them more," said Chic.

UPS and its lawyer have refused comment.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2008/09/08/temp-workers.html

カナダでは、ソマリ出身の人が職場差別を受けているという。

Business as usual for police racists
Lack of progress since the Lawrence inquiry means black communities can have little faith in the police service

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/09/police.race

イギリスでは警察内部で黒人差別があり、だとすれば、黒人は警官を信用できない、といい、

The website at the centre of controversy over racist abuse of British formula one driver Lewis Hamilton is owned by a New York-based advertising agency, TWBA, which is part of the world's largest media services group, Omnicom, the Guardian can reveal.

The site belongs to the Spanish branch of the advertising firm. It was closed down last night after hundreds of abusive messages were posted, some of which referred to Hamilton as a "half-breed" and others which used the n-word. He hopes to become youngest ever world champion at the final race of the season tomorrow.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/01/hamilton-racism-formula-one-spain

黒人有名レーサーに対する人種差別的サイト（スペイン支部）がようやく閉鎖された。

因みに

The tragedy of Australia's past
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/28/australia-race
The story of black Australia

http://www.sbs.com.au/firstaustralians/

これはオーストラリアの黒人さんの歴史。