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New Jersey town faces state lawsuit claiming mayor ordered police to “keep black people out”

A civil rights lawsuit claims that town leaders and police officials in Clark Township oversaw racially discriminatory traffic stops and harassment of Black and non-white motorists.

By Skyler SaundersPublished a day ago Updated a day ago 3 min read
New Jersey town faces state lawsuit claiming mayor ordered police to “keep black people out”
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Does a city in New Jersey want negroes? It has been found in a court filing that Clark Township does not want non-white motorists traveling through it. The mayor, Salvator “Sal” Bonaccorso has rejected the claims despite the data. They show blacks had been stopped 3.7 times more than white drivers. Hispanics had been pulled over about 2.2 times more than their lighter hued counterparts.

What is all this saying? A mayor, who resigned due to an unrelated scandal and a police chief named Pedro Matos, and police director Patrick Grady, allowed for such practices to continue. Now, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin and the state Division on Civil Rights have filed the case. When it comes to the idea of an entire town trying to keep out black folks, that’s actually okay if the town is completely privatized. This town is not.

In order for Clark Township to be a place free of darker-skinned people, it must seek to file something that may not even exist. What towns can actually claim to be totally black-free?

It strikes at the crux of the situation. It shows just how prevalent racism is allegedly. For Clark to be a place for all people and then show numbers like the ones above is beyond not being acceptable. It is a pernicious way of explaining aforementioned powers that be who oversee the New Jersey town. To not let people in based on their skin color is what Ayn Rand once said about racism as a “barnyard” form of collectivism. Racists feed off of misinformation and rumor and disgust. They thrive off of the idea that superiority comes with an array of higher concentrations of chemicals in the body.

What is made plain is the notion the racists never or hardly ever acknowledge: why? Why do you think because someone’s hair texture or eye color or skin color is different that you must consider them inferior? This barely ever comes up so few people check the racists, be they brown, red, yellow, black, or white. In this case it's the white vs black. The sad part about all of this is that it can’t be laughed out of court. The history of racism is so charged with horrific acts of the initiation of force that it is difficult to process the matter as being hilarious.

Racism creeps in like a virus and spreads through the system. It shuts down vital organs such as reason and individualism. If left unvaccinated, it can lead to further complications and ultimately death of the mind, the soul. It fosters in people the sense of superiority only considering non-essentials.

For towns like Clark, this has been an eye-opener. For those not already in the know, they now live in a world where their place of residence is racist hole in the ground. What makes it even worse is that the former mayor and suspended police chief have denied the claims…despite the data.

This brazen attempt to not look at facts and figures is exactly what racists feed off of in the first place. Their blatant disregard for actual numbers shows their weakness. Racism is puny, low, and false. For towns to continue on in a manner that flies in the face of rationality is the main problem. Simple traffic stops can display a distinct amount of racism that crops up in all of this. The inability for these subhuman trash, who relegate themselves to the level of an animal, to rise up against the tide of bigotry and cynicism confounds them. They know they’re wrong and most other people know, too.

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