Why do blacks ruin everything

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Now, Workers Are Walking Out. Sign up for our free newsletter Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily to have our top stories delivered directly to your inbox. Google, the world's biggest advertising platform, allows advertisers to specifically target ads to people typing racist and bigoted terms into its search bar, BuzzFeed News has discovered. Not only that, Google will suggest additional racist and bigoted terms once you type some into its ad-buying tool.

Type "White people ruin," as a potential advertising keyword into Google's ad platform, and Google will suggest you run ads next to searches including "black people ruin neighborhoods. BuzzFeed News ran an ad campaign targeted to all these keywords and others this week. The ads went live and were visible when we searched for the keywords we'd selected. Google's ad buying platform tracked the ad views.

The issue is not unique to Google. On Thursday, ProPublica reported a similar issue with Facebook's ad targeting system. Following our inquiry, Google disabled every keyword in this ad campaign save one — an exact match for "blacks destroy everything," is still eligible. Google told BuzzFeed News that just because a phrase is eligible does not guarantee an ad campaign will run against it. A total of 17 ad impressions were served before the keywords were disabled.

We have language that informs advertisers when their ads are offensive and therefore rejected. We've already turned off these suggestions, and any ads that made it through, and will work harder to stop this from happening again.

This revelation comes as Facebook is scrambling to adjust its advertising platform which allowed marketers to target "Jew haters. The company said these targeting criteria emerged when people listed the terms under their education and employer fields of their profiles. Facebook Thursday night said it would temporarily stop offering advertisers the option to target by these self-reported targeting fields. In our Google ad buy, BuzzFeed News used a news story as the destination URL that included relevant language that would be accepted by Google's advertising system.

There are major differences between Facebook's and Google's ad systems that make Google's system harder to police. On Facebook, you essentially pick targeting criteria from Facebook's catalogue of information about people — their gender, location, interests, and more.

On Google, you target ads to terms you anticipate will be typed in the search box. Patricia Ripley, the Florida mom, was charged with first-degree premeditated murder on May 23 after Miami, Florida, police said that in her initial report her son, who was non-verbal, was abducted by "two black men" during a carjacking was a farce.

During the manhunt for the two vaguely described alleged abductors, police say they found surveillance video that allegedly showed year-old Ripley attempting to drown her son in a canal. Police say neighbors heard screams and rescued the boy, but an hour later, Ripley allegedly drowned the child in another canal, police said.

Ripley is expected to be arraigned on June 12 and it was not clear if she had an attorney. The allegations surrounding Ripley were reminiscent of Susan Smith 's October story to South Carolina police that her two sons, aged 1 and 3, were kidnapped by an African American man during a carjacking.

Smith, now 48 and serving 30 years to life prison sentence, confessed that she actually let her car roll into a lake with the boys inside, drowning them. Smith, a white woman, and Ripley, who described herself in a police report as a "white Hispanic," were not charged with filing a false police report. In the second recent incident, Amy Cooper was seen on a now-viral cellphone video on May 26 frantically telling a operator that the African American man recording her, Christian Cooper, was threatening her life after asking her to put her dog on a leash she earlier told him, on camera that she would do exactly that.

Dogs are permitted off-leash during certain hours, but not in the section of Central Park they were in. Amy Cooper has since been fired from her investment firm job and apologized for her actions, saying "I am not a racist. Tim Wise, an anti-racism activist and author of the book "White Like Me: Reflection on Race from a Privileged Son," compared Amy Cooper's actions to "a white woman in the Antebellum South lying about a black man raping her and then maybe getting exposed.

Everybody's going to think I'm a liar. Instead, she should have been thinking about the potentially dire consequences of her claims, Wise said. Nearly 3, black people were lynched in the United States from , according to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Browne-Marshall maintained that white people jump to blaming African Americans, specifically African American men, for crimes in some cases because they don't want to believe they themselves are "the Boogeyman.

How many black people generally, and black men in particular, have been murdered on the lie of a white woman? In an infamous case from , year-old Emmett Till was beaten and lynched after a white woman falsely accused him of touching and whistling at her.

The woman admitted she lied about the incident in Six years prior to Till's murder, four African American men were falsely accused of raping a year-old white woman in Florida. Labeled the "Groveland Four," three were arrested and several beaten as the fourth escaped. The fourth man was later found by a mob, which shot him to death. The accuser maintained she was telling the truth, but the men were pardoned in