Shouty train passenger gets his anti-immigrant rage on

"It's America. Welcome to America. Deodorant! What do you think?"



If you haven't heard, Donald Trump getting elected president appears to have given his supporters carte blanche to say and do whatever the fuck racist shit they want. And there's not much more to that. A recent subway altercation, caught on camera, basically sums up the heightened post-election tension.

As nation seethes, a charged clash on a Metro subway train

On Friday, a man riding on the Metro Green Line in Maryland was caught on cellphone video harassing another man on the crowded train. The unidentified white man demands to know whether the passenger -- who is out of frame but described by other passengers as Southeast Asian in appearance -- about wearing deodorant.

"It's America. Welcome to America," the man yells. "Deodorant! What do you think?"

Man to plead guilty in beating death of adopted son

3-year-old Hyunsu O'Callaghan was "beaten to death from head to toe."



Here's a guy who can rot in prison. A former division chief for the National Security Agency is expected to plead guilty this month to beating his adopted three-year-old son to death, according to court documents.

Onetime NSA division chief to plead guilty in young son's death, court files show

38-year-old Brian O'Callaghan, onetime chief of the NSA's Korea division, was arrested and charged last year in connection with the beating death of his son Hyunsu O'Callaghan, who had special needs, just months after Callaghan and his wife adopted him from South Korea.

Hyunsu was severely beaten while in the care of O'Callaghan in January 2014. The family claimed it was a tragic accident. Investigators say O'Callaghan repeatedly struck the child, hitting him so hard that the boy died two days later. According to the State's Attorney, "Basically this child was beaten to death from head to toe."

Sikh customer called "Osama" by Nathan's cashier

Parampal Singh Ghai is latest recipient of a racial receipt.



This again. Want to experience some dehumanizing, passive-aggressive racial and/or religious discrimination while just trying to live your damn life? Look no further than your fast food receipt. Over the weekend, a Sikh man examined his Nathan's receipt to discover the cashier had referred to him as "Osama."

Stand Up Against Dehumanizing Behavior

On Sunday, Parampal Singh Ghai and his father were driving up I-95 to New York when they pulled over at a rest stop in Aberdeen, Maryland. They ordered food at Nathan's Famous, when Parampal, who wears a turban in observance of his Sikh faith, realized that the cashier had written his name as "Osama" on the receipt.

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Volunteer as a poll monitor on Election Day

Do you want to help defend voting rights for Asian Americans?

The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund is looking for volunteers to help monitor upcoming midterm elections for bilingual ballots under the federal Voting Rights Act and to document instances of anti-Asian voter disenfranchisement.

Volunteers Needed On Election Day, Nov. 4, 2014

They're looking for volunteers in to work 3-hour shifts on Election Day at polls in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Michigan, Texas, Georgia, Louisiana, Virginia, Maryland, and Washington DC. There will be a 90-minute training session for all volunteers.

Here's schedule of AALDEF's poll monitoring trainings:

Job Opportunity: Policy Director, SAALT

SAALT seeks an experienced policy professional with a background in immigrant or civil rights.

South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) is a national nonpartisan non-profit organization whose mission is to elevate the voices and perspectives of South Asian individuals and organizations to build a more just and inclusive society in the United States. They recently announced a job opening for a Policy Director.

The Policy Director, based in SAALT's office in Takoma Park, Maryland, will develop, direct, and implement SAALT's legislative, administrative, and public policy agenda and activities.

Here are some more details about the position:

Man charged with murder of 3-year-old adopted son

Prosecutors say Madoc Hyunsu O'Callaghan was beaten to death

Disturbed by this terrible story out of the DC area... In Maryland, a veteran and high-ranking NSA agent is accused of brutally beating his adopted 3-year-old son from South Korea to death.

Montgomery County Man Charged With Murdering 3-Year-Old Adopted Son

36-year-old Brian Patrick O'Callaghan was charged with first-degree murder and child abuse resulting in the death of Madoc Hyunsu O'Callaghan, who was adopted months earlier from Korea. According to authorities, the child suffered a fracture at the base of his skull, bruises to the forehead, bleeding in the brain and other wounds.

O'Callaghan claims that the boy fell and was injured in the shower:

Teacher accused of abusing autistic boy flees to Hong Kong

Police say 25-year-old Yee Tak Sharon Kui had sex with her teenage student

Damn, what is wrong with people? In Maryland, an educator has fled the country after being accused of sexually assaulting a teenage boy with autism.

Teacher accused of abusing autistic child flees to Hong Kong, Montgomery police say

Police were investigating allegations that 25-year-old educational assistant Yee Tak Sharon Kui sexually abused one of her students, described as an autistic high functioning 15-year-old, at the Frost School, a private special education school that serves children with behavioral disabilities, autism and other special needs.

Kui is accused of sending salacious text messages and visiting the boy at his home twice -- on Sunday mornings, while his parents were at church -- to have sex with him.

When his parents and the school caught on, they alerted the authorities, which sent Kui packing. According to police, it looks like she flew out of New York to China.