#FactsOnly Quiz: Did These Racist Moments Really Happen In America?
Still think we’re a post-racial nation? Guess which of these incredulous incidents really happened somewhere in America
1) Two parents filed a human rights complaint against a school system after their daughter was forced to partake in a slavery reenactment on a class trip.
2) An undercover 5-0 racially profiled a 19-year-old black student who’d just purchased a belt at Barneys.
3) A white male in a KKK hood was detained for crashing an NAACP meeting and hurling N-bombs.
4) A Red Lobster waitress scored a $10,000 payday after a patron left a racial slur as a tip.
5) For Halloween, three white men in Chicago dressed as the Asian passengers who died in the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 that crashed earlier this year.
6) A group of white teens in Minnesota spray-painted a caricature of President Obama as a monkey on the side of their school building.
7) A Georgia high school threw its first-ever racially integrated prom after years of hosting separate proms for black and white students.
8) Chick-fil-A was forced to apologize for tweeting a joke about black people flocking to their “yummy” chicken sandwiches.
9) A Starbucks customer filed a lawsuit against the coffee titans when a barista wrote “Nigger” on her cup.
10) After being involved in a car accident, a black woman in Detroit rang a nearby doorbell for help and was shot in the head.
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ANSWER KEY
1) TRUE: Instructors at the Nature’s Classroom experience in Hartford, Connecticut indeed made like “white masters” and conducted an exercise where they told a 12-year-old black girl to pretend to be on a slave ship and pick cotton. 2) TRUE: Trayon Christian couldn’t cop a Salvatore Ferragamo belt from Barneys without being cuffed and interrogated. He recalled, “The detectives were asking me, ‘How could you afford a belt like this? Where did you get this money from?’” 3) FALSE 4) TRUE: Toni Jenkins, of Franklin, Tenn., sparked social outcry after a diner wrote the N-word on his receipt. A California man posted it on Facebook and launched an e-fundraiser called “Tips for Toni” that collected $10,749. 5) TRUE: Angry Asian Man posted the offensive flicks, which circulated not too long after a man was spotted dressed as Trayvon Martin. 6) FALSE 7) TRUE: Wilcox County High School nixed its segregated proms after four seniors met with the NAACP President to abolish the ancient custom. 8) FALSE 9) FALSE 10) TRUE: Nineteen-year-old Renisha McBride was shot to death by a white homeowner who claims his shotgun accidentally went off.
