Racism

Alabama And Mississippi Celebrate Robert E. Lee Day

Axios reports: Alabama and Mississippi celebrate MLK and Robert E. Lee, the losing Confederate general and slaveholder, on the same day. Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas all have at least one day commemorating the Confederacy on other days of the year, the Axios analysis found. Mississippi and Alabama each celebrate a total of three …

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School Official Halts Reading Of Dr. Suess “Race” Book

The Columbus Dispatch reports: Shale Meadows Elementary School third grade teacher Mandy Robek was reading “The Sneetches” to her class as part of NPR’s latest episode of “Planet Money” about the economic lessons in children’s books. During the podcast, which aired Friday, Amanda Beeman, the assistant director of communications for the school district, stopped the reading part way through the …

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REPORT: “Openly Racist” Teacher Pushes FL Books Ban

Popular Information reports: Vicki Baggett, an English teacher at Northview High School in Florida, is pushing for the Escambia County School District to remove nearly 150 books from school libraries. In an interview last month, Baggett told Popular Information that she is challenging books like When Wilma Rudolph Played Basketball — the story of a sprinter who overcame racial discrimination …

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CA Anti-Immigrant Arsonists Set Themselves On Fire

Vice News reports: Two men set themselves on fire after dumping an accelerant on a California immigration services building and setting it ablaze, video shows. On Monday night, a Ring surveillance camera captured two men dressed in black with masks covering their faces walking up to Servicio de Immigracion in Bakersfield, California. The two men proceed to dump the accelerant …

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Elaine Chao Acknowledges Trump’s “Racist Taunts”

The Louisville Courier-Journal reports: Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and her husband, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, generally have stayed mum when former President Donald Trump slams them online, but on Thursday she responded after her ex-boss repeated a racist nickname he has used for her before. When asked about it during a televised interview with CNN, Chao called …

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Confederate Banner Flies Again Over Florida NFL Game

Florida Politics reports: A neo-Confederate organization once again flew a flag over the Jacksonville Jaguars stadium during a Saturday home game. Save Southern Heritage announced a small plane would take flight over TIAA Bank Field during kickoff for a home game against the Dallas Cowboys. The plane flew a banner with the words “History Not Hate,” a common motto asserting …

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MO Turning Point Campus Leader Posts N-Word Slur

The Kansas City Star reports: Students are urging the University of Missouri to expel right-wing student club leader Meg Miller over her racist social media post that made light of the murder of Black people and used a racial slur. In a Snapchat post, Miller, who has now resigned as president of the MU chapter of Turning Point USA, wrote: …

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IA Youth Pastor Arrested On Multiple Child Sex Charges

Des Moines’ CBS affiliate reports: A former Des Moines metro area youth pastor is charged with giving alcohol to minors and sexually assaulting them. Caleb Toney faces five charges, including assault with intent to commit sexual abuse and supplying alcohol to someone underage. A criminal complaint says that while Toney was a youth pastor, he gave alcohol to minors on …

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MS Man Pleads Guilty To Hate Crime In Cross Burning

Law & Crime reports: A Mississippi man pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime after burning a cross in his front yard to intimidate his Black neighbors. Axel Charles Cox faces a maximum of 10 years in prison, up to a $250,000 fine, or both. Nearly two years ago on Dec. 3, 2020, Cox made threatening and racially derogatory remarks toward …

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Plane Tows Confederate Flag Over Florida NFL Game

Florida Politics reports: For the second time in 2022, a football game in Jacksonville was used as a platform for an offensive message. Ahead of the Jaguars’ Sunday afternoon tilt against the Baltimore Ravens, a plane funded by the Save Southern Heritage group flew a banner above TIAA Bank Field calling for the restoration of confederate statues in Jacksonville. “Put …

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Club Q Shooter Had Racist Meltdown On Flight [VIDEO]

Denver’s Fox affiliate reports: Cell phone video from a Frontier Airlines passenger showed club shooting suspect Anderson Aldrich and Aldrich’s mother, Laura Voepel, in a heated confrontation with fellow passengers on July 31. The video was taken by Maria Martinez after the Aurora woman said Aldrich referred to her by a racist slur used against Hispanics. After she was called …

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Teacher Fired After Telling Students Whites Are Superior

NBC News reports: A middle school teacher in Texas has been fired after a video posted on social media showed him telling students his race is “superior.” “Deep down in my heart, I’m ethnocentric, which means I think my race is the superior one,” the teacher was recorded telling students of various races last week inside a classroom at Bohls …

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Twitter Sees Wave Of Racist Slurs And Nazi Memes

The Washington Post reports: An emboldened cast of anonymous trolls spewed racist slurs and Nazi memes onto Twitter in the hours after billionaire industrialist Elon Musk took over the social network Thursday, raising fears of how his pledge of unrestricted free speech could fuel a new wave of online hate. “Elon now controls twitter. Unleash the racial slurs. K—S AND …

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Man Charged With Hate Crime: Cut Neighbors’ Internet

NBC News reports: On Sept. 22, a worker came to install internet in the Eau Claire apartment upstairs from Shannon Pearson. Pearson, 48, who admitted to drinking alcohol earlier that day, told officers he “was upset because the upstairs occupants were in the country illegally” and “should not be able to get cable.” The internet installer claimed Pearson “had come …

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LA City Council’s Racist Former President Finally Resigns

Los Angeles’s ABC affiliate reports: Following intense public pressure amid a growing controversy over racist remarks, Los Angeles City Councilwoman Nury Martinez announced Wednesday she is resigning her seat. Martinez had already resigned her position as president of the council. Now she is leaving the seat altogether. “It is with a broken heart that I resign my seat for Council …

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LA Times: Racist City Council Members Must Resign

From the Los Angeles Times editorial board: Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez should resign from the council. There is no way she can fairly represent her constituents after leaked audio captured her deplorable and racially divisive comments, her political machinations to maintain power at the expense of communities, and her use of racist, homophobic tropes to describe her …

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NAACP Blasts Tuberville’s “Flat-Out Racist Comments”

“Senator Tuberville’s comments are flat out racist, ignorant and utterly sickening. His words promote a centuries-old lie about Black people that throughout history has resulted in the most dangerous policies and violent attacks on our community. “We’ve seen this before from the far-right, and we’ve seen what they can do when they take power. Next time the Senator wants to …

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LA City Council Members Face Calls To Resign After Leaked Audio Shows Racist Attack On Member’s Son

The New York Times reports: The president of the Los Angeles City Council faced widespread calls to resign on Sunday after a leaked audio recording revealed racist and disparaging remarks about the Black child of a white council member and also about Indigenous immigrants in the city’s Koreatown neighborhood. In the profanity-laced recording, a copy of which was obtained by …

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LA Council Members Taped Making Racist Remarks

The Los Angeles Times reports: Three Latino members of the Los Angeles City Council and a top county labor official held a conversation last fall that included racist remarks, derisive statements about their colleagues and council President Nury Martinez saying a white councilman handled his young Black son as though he were an “accessory,” according to a recording of the …

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Tuberville Implies That All Blacks Are Criminals [VIDEO]

The Birmingham News reports: U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville on Saturday said Democrats are in favor of “reparations” because they are “pro-crime.” Tuberville, R-Ala., made the comments while at a rally held by former President Donald Trump in Nevada. “They want reparations because they think the people who do the crime are owed that,” Tuberville said as the crowd cheered behind …

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