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She beat 16 other women to be crowned Miss Algeria, but Khadija Ben Hamou’s win has been subjected to a torrent of racist abuse. When other social media users began to call out those spouting racist abuse, some Twitter users maintained it had nothing to do with race. “She just wasn’t that pretty,” one person wrote. Plenty of other users were quick to praise the diversity of this year’s competition and jump to Khadija's defence. One Facebook user wrote: “If I understand correctly, you want a Miss Algeria that looks like a Swedish!? It's one of the charms of our diversity, a Saharan charm, I'm glad to finally see a miss who comes from the south Algerian [sic].” Another wrote: “Y’all can’t be making fun of her nose, hair and skin complexion and say it’s not racist.” Khadija, who comes from Adrar in the south of the country, took part in 20 rounds of the competition before being crowned Miss Algeria 2019. She will...

A Tottenham Fan has been fined and banned from football for four years after throwing a banana skin at Arsenal forward Aubameyang. 57-year-old Averof Panteli, admitted throwing the banana skin but denied there was a racial element to his action. MySportDab report the banana skin was thrown from the away section after Aubameyang scored for Arsenal in the 4-2 win. Magistrate Mervyn Mandell said: "We find it was a targeted gesture to throw a banana skin after a goal was scored by a black player. "We have in the circumstances found the racial element was there." The father of three was also fined £500, which includes a £100 uplift for the racial element, and told to pay £135 in costs. Panteli was identified on CCTV and the court heard that, after being detained by a steward, he said: "It wasn't a racial thing it just happened." He added: “If there’s anyone I need to apologise to I will. Ian Wright, Aubameyang, Arsenal players, Tottenham play...

Footage of a police officer using excessive force on a suspect and swearing at witnesses who accused him of police brutality has emerged and people are criticizing the police officer, saying he went too far. The incident occurred on Friday afternoon at a gas station in Vallejo, California when the officer responded to a 911 call that there was a man acting crazy around there. The officer arrived the scene and chased the unarmed suspect for several minutes, before the suspect gave up and sat on the floor, in the middle of the road. The policeman proceeded to push the unarmed man to the ground then punched him repeatedly as he tried to arrest him, while the suspect kept repeating loudly "I am God, I am God". People around can be heard screaming at the policeman. One man screamed "police brutality", prompting the policeman to wave the gun at them and at the same time shouting, "get the f*** back." The video had been viewed over one million ti...

US Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, was harassed by an Indian-American woman, Shree Chauhan as he shopped in an Apple store on Saturday. The 33-year-old woman, who lives in Washington DC and works for a non-profit organization, walked up to Spicer and began asking him how it feels to work with a fascist, referring to Trump. Spicer replied her, saying, "We have a great country" and continued shopping, but Shree was not giving up and she shot back at him: "We have a great country? Have you helped  with the Russia stuff? Are you a criminal as well? Have you committed treason too? Just like the president. Have you committed treason too? What can you tell me about Russia?" Spicer answered with a smile, "It's such a great country that allows you to be here," before he walked out of the store. The woman videotaped and posted the conversation on Twitter with the caption; "Asking @PressSec questions in Apple Store since he doesn't...

Mark Zuckerberg Forced To Explain #BlackLivesMatter To Employees The #BlackLivesMatter vs. #AllLivesMatter struggle has reached the Facebook headquarters, and staffers are silently facing off on company chalkboards. Apparently some people on the Facebook staff have been writing the term “Black Lives Matter” on the community chalkboards in the office…and some either clueless or downright hateful person has been coming behind them and crossing it out, replacing it with the term “All Lives Matter” instead.  After having several talks with the staff about how inappropriate and dismissive it is of fellow staff members’ feelings, and seeing that there has been no change in the activity, he was forced to pen an open letter not only explaining what Black Lives Matter TRULY means , but threatening disciplinary action on whoever keeps it up: source; bossip.com