Stand Up & Fight Back: The Urgent Lesson From Jada McPhersons' Brutal Assault By Non-Blacks in Queens N.Y.
- Karen Brittingham-Edmond
- Jul 15
- 5 min read
Updated: Aug 7
July 15, 2025
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Racism/Crime/Social Justice
The intersection of racial dynamics and systemic discrimination continues to manifest in various societal and workplace contexts, as evidenced by recent reports and scholarly analyses. A case reported by Crystal Cranmore of Eyewitness News on July 10, 2025, sheds light on an incident involving Jada McPherson, a 21-year-old Black woman, who faced racial hostility in her Ridgewood and Queens neighborhood. After a long day at work, McPherson spent over 30 minutes searching for a parking spot, only to find the sole available public space illegally obstructed by a garbage can placed by local residents. Upon attempting to remove the obstruction, McPherson was met with verbal abuse, including racial slurs such as "monkey" and "slave," from non-Black residents. The confrontation escalated when McPherson referred to the Romanian residents as "immigrants," prompting a physical attack by Andreea Dumitru, her transgender son, Sabrina Starman, and an additional male accomplice. This incident underscores the persistence of racial tensions and the vulnerability of Black citizens in public spaces. https://inmagazine.ca/2021/04/queer-crime-how-homophobia-helped-4-gay-serial-killers-continue-to-kill/
Click "Watch on YouTube" to witness the deplorable behavior of Andreea Dumitru, and her grown transgender son, Sabrina Starman and others violent and racist attack on Jada McPherson just because Jada parked in a public parking space while being Black in America. Exclusive: Woman describes violent brawl over parking spot in Queens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-Aslqa9w5Y
Similarly, workplace environments have also become arenas for racial conflict, as highlighted in Margot Roosevelt's report in the L.A. Times titled "Black Workers Accuse Latinos of Racism." The report details allegations of racial discrimination faced by Black employees in warehouses, particularly in California's Inland Empire, a central distribution hub. Black workers, such as Leon Simmons and Benjamin Watkins, recounted experiences of racial slurs and dehumanizing behavior, including being mocked with a banana and called a "monkey." These incidents reflect a troubling trend of anti-Black sentiment among some Latino co-workers and supervisors, who constitute approximately 75% of the workforce in these settings.
Jada McPherson's Attack: A Wake-Up Call to Confront Racism in America
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has brought to light systemic abuses in lawsuits against companies like Cardinal Health and Ryder Integrated Logistics. These cases revealed that Black employees were subjected to discriminatory practices, including being assigned the most arduous tasks without adequate training or opportunities for advancement. Despite the companies' denials, they settled the lawsuits after numerous Black employees came forward with their accounts of harassment and retaliation.
These incidents, when contextualized within broader historical and sociopolitical frameworks, align with findings from Calderon, Fouka, and Tabellini's (2020) study on racial diversity and Civil Rights. Their research highlights how demographic shifts and systemic policies have historically influenced racial dynamics and electoral preferences. The influx of immigrant populations, particularly in "sanctuary states," has, at times, exacerbated tensions, as some groups adopt discriminatory behaviors rooted in caste-like hierarchies and align with ideologies that marginalize Black communities such as the rhetoric of White Supremacy.
Since the 1970s, opportunities owed to Black citizens have been systematically diverted to immigrant communities, a premeditated act that can only be described as unearned privilege. This is particularly egregious given that the majority of those who fought and sacrificed during the Civil Rights Movement--from the 1940s until the assassination of Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.--were long-term Black citizens. These individuals were direct descendants of ancestors who endured the brutal and inhumane treatment of penal colonists, many of whom failed to embody the Christian values they claimed to uphold. To this day, their descendants often struggle to act with civility toward Black citizens, perpetuating systemic inequities and making harmful decisions that disproportionately affect Black citizens and now the world since insourced immigrants used their voting power to block the power of the Black vote premeditatively in order to place Donald Trump into office twice. On a side note Donald Trump supports additional White Racist such as Benjamin Netanyahu and others as they murder people of color in the Gaza stripe who also refer to Black Americans as slaves and monkeys while desperately needing Black Americans to advocate against Jewish violence in the Palestine Gaza Strip. Go figure.
A glaring example of this injustice is the way insourced immigrant populations have benefited from the labor, sacrifices, and deaths of Black citizens ancestors legacies and hardwork. These insourced communities, supported by entities like the Christian Coalition, The Union for Reform Judaisms, plus Bloombergs "New American Economy" organization plus the interference from foreign nations such as Mexico, El Salvador, Cuba, and even American territories like Puerto Rico and the former American territory the Philippines, have advanced at the expense of Black citizens. (Union for Reform Judiasims - https://urj.org/blog/learn-about-providing-sanctuary-immigrants-facing-deportation )
Their advancement is deplorable because the rights and enforcement mechanisms derived from the Civil Rights Movement were intended to uplift long-term oppressed Black citizens and their decendants, not to be co-opted by others who hold like minded racist ideology of Confederates and the KKK. The Civil Rights Movement's gains were unjustly redirected to White women, with whom many were racist, and insourced immigrants legal or illegal, while sidelining the very people whose ancestors fought tirelessly for justice and equality. Black Americans. This betrayal is compounded by the racist policies that shifted the NAACP's mission from focusing on the concerns of Black citizens to including insourced people of color, many of whom harbor prejudices against Black citizens, perpetuating false and dehumanizing narratives. These lies, such as the pseudoscientific claim that Black people are part monkey, are abhorrent, non-biblical and rooted in the same racist ideologies that justified the horrors of chattel slavery.
On a side note: (Can you imagine calling King David of Israel who was Black and Queen Sheba of Ethiopia son King Solomon a monkey because his skin tone was richly Black and not White or Brown as some folks wish? God forbid!) But thanks to Institutions like the Museum of Natural History, in New York which have historically perpetuated such falsehoods about Black citizens and North America's East Coast Native populations, should be held accountable for their role in spreading these damaging narratives concerning Black citizens and their first nation dark skin very tall relatives. The Museum of Natural History should have paid Black citizen reparation years ago for this atrocity if the NAACP would have never compromised their mission statement.
These accounts highlight the urgent need for systemic reforms and reparations for Black citizens. Advocacy is especially critical for Black women and their children, who must be protected from the treasonous plots orchestrated by White supremacists and their insourced allies--a scheme dating back to the 1960s, when long-term Black citizens gained the right to vote. Whether in public spaces or workplaces, the persistence of racial hostility underscores the importance of creating respectful environments where Black citizens can live, work, and thrive without fear. Perpetrators of racial injustice, regardless of their background, must be held accountable for their actions.
Addressing these issues is essential to advancing justice and equity in a society still grappling with the legacies of systemic racism--America's original sin. Only through meaningful reforms and unwavering community engagement can we begin to dismantle these deeply entrenched inequities and honor the sacrifices of those who came before us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-Aslqa9w5Y
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