Wife of NAACP President to undergo sensitivity training

HARTFORD, Conn. --The state's human rights agency has proposed sensitivity training as part of a settlement of bias complaints against Greenwich town employees. The state Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities made the settlement offer to the town earlier this week. The CHRO proposal is in response to a complaint involving the wives of former New York Mets Bobby Bonilla and George Foster at a Greenwich beach in June.

Under the proposed settlement, Greenwich Affirmative Action Officer Kelly Houston and other employees in the town's Human Resources and Parks departments would be required to attend anti-discrimination training classes."It's something they ought to be able to live with," R. Hamisi Ingram, the state agency's executive director, said Wednesday. First Selectman Jim Lash said that town attorneys were reviewing the settlement offer.

Greenwich Official Acknowledges Beach Bias Towards "those people"

A group of hispanic and black female Greenwich residents, including two wives of NY Mets Bonnlla and Foster, claim they were denied entry to Greenwich beach because of their skin color. The women had organized a summer exercise program with other black and hispanic women complete with a white professional trainer.

This past June, the women and their trainer were denied entry to the beach. The trainer, Jason Hall, wrote a letter to the Greenwich town's affirmative action Officer Kelly Houston, who happens to be black. In his complaint he noted that other resident exercise groups he's led were never denied beach access and turned away. The other exercise groups were all white and accessed the accessed the beach under similar circumstances. He wanted to know why this hispanic/black resident group were denied access.

Officer Houston, investigated the matter and cleared Greenwich employees of wrongdoing. She concluded that they were simply enforcing the rules. This appeared to be the end of the case until the emails were found.

These newly discovered emails tell a completely different story. On June 8, one day after the trainers' initial compliant Officer Houston responded via email:

"I would love to tell you, you are wrong, but I am positive that you are not" "Understand this is not intentional. These men are just conditioned (sic) to see white people on the beach all the time. So yes, when there is a few (3-4) black people together they take notice."

Houston told the trainer a smaller group of minorities would be preferred.

"Seeing a group of Black people that they do not know is going to draw attention""I do think that you can use the facilities. However you will have to be discreet and if you are asked you are going to have to say you are just working out with friends. If you are doing a black group, you are going to need to cut your numbers down. Welcome to Greenwich!"

WOW. The town's affirmative action officer, Kelly Houston, whom after investigating and clearing the town of any wrong doing is then caught affirming the racial bias by beach employees.

The plot thickens when you realize that not only is Houston black and wanted to join the group, but that her husband is the NAACP Greenwich office president.

What's going on here? Certainly not the truth. Is there collusion between Houston and her NAACP husband to "expose" Greenwich or is Houston trying to set up Greenwich or is this a political patronage job given to Houston who is either incompetant or targeting someone/something in Greenwich or is Houston jealous and seeking revenge because they wouldn't let her join their group?

On thing is for sure: Greenwichs' beach access is designed to keep out non-residents whom Greenwich considers to be non-whites.

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China, Torture and Cadaver exhibit

China & Torture: The use of torture in China is widespread, and frequently carried out by police who exercised “wide discretion” to obtain confessions. Techniques such as beatings and sleep deprivation by police and other security authorities focused on “breaking the will” of individuals, thus creating a “general culture of fear”. Detainess were held under vaguely worded security laws and had poor legal protections. Furthermore, the majority of these detainees were ethnic minorities, political dissendents, religious activists and Falun Gong believers.

Cadaver Exhibit: According to the Institute for Plastination: "It is standard legal practice in both the United States and China that unclaimed or unidentified remains are made available for medical education, which is one of the key goals of our exhibition," he said. Thus the bodies in question are unclaimed or unidentified individuals from China and as such, neither the deceased nor their families consented to the use of the corpses in the exhibit.

Moral Outrage: China tortures & kills illegally held individuals. Their body is then plasticized and displaced in a for-profit exhibit currently touring the US.