Racism

ABC News reports: Los Angeles authorities are investigating a possible hate crime after a man recklessly drove through a red light into a crosswalk where protesters were marching in a “Stop Asian Hate” rally. The man yelled racial epithets as he rammed his car through the pedestrian route where the scheduled rally was taking place on Sunday, the Los Angeles …

The Guardian reports: “Whatever the motivation [for the shootings] we know this: too many Asian Americans have been walking up and down the streets and worrying. Waking up each morning the past year feeling their safety and the safety of their loved ones are stake. They’ve been attacked, blamed, scapegoated and harassed,” Biden said. Donald Trump and other Republican politicians …

Media Matters has the transcript: TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Unlike other disasters, mass illegal immigration is permanent. No one ever really gets sent home. Over the past 30 years, the population of the United States has exploded by nearly 100 million people, mostly due to immigration. Were you even aware that that happened? You’re not supposed to say a word about …

The Daily Beast reports: A Cherokee County, Georgia, Sheriff’s Office spokesperson came under fire Wednesday afternoon for pinning the deadly Tuesday shooting rampage that left eight dead—including six Asian women—on a 21-year-old white man’s “very bad day.” “Yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did,” Jay Baker said during the joint news conference with …

Madison’s ABC News affiliate reports: Wisconsin Senate Republicans voted 18-12 Tuesday to pass a resolution honoring Rush Limbaugh, the divisive conservative commentator and radio host who died February 17. Two Republicans, Sen. Dale Kooyenga and Eric Wimberger, did not vote. In the same Senate session, Republicans turned down Democratic efforts to include slavery and Black history in a bill requiring …

“The point isn’t to help the United States. In fact, the point is to punish the United States. Official Washington agrees with that. A surge of desperate, illegal immigrants is what you get when you vote for the other party. That’s the message. In fact, they’re telling us the last president is responsible for all you are seeing right now. …

The SFist reports: The woman who yelled at, insulted, coughed on, and assaulted an Uber driver on Sunday because he told her to put on a mask, as seen in widely publicized video of the incident, has been arrested in Las Vegas on suspicion of assault and battery, conspiracy, and violation of health and safety code, among other charges. The …

“We oppose hurting people on the basis of their race no matter who is doing it, no matter how they are justifying it. So, again, we’re always against racism. But five people out of 199 arrested? How is that a white supremacist insurrection? “If it is, then we have other questions, such as how many Black supremacists are there at …

“Now, it doesn’t take an economist to know that giving free quote ‘healthcare’ — which obviously will include gender transition, by the way — to 11 million new people could easily capsize the entire U.S. economy, very easily. As Milton Friedman once wisely noted, you can have a welfare state or you can have open borders, but you cannot have …

“It’s very important, especially for us as Republicans, to make clear that we aren’t the party of white supremacy. You certainly saw anti-Semitism, you saw the symbols of Holocaust denial, for example, at the Capitol that day. You saw a Confederate flag being carried through the Rotunda. “And I think we as Republicans in particular have a duty and an …

Law & Crime reports: Hard-right hoaxers Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman had wanted to pause a civil suit accusing them of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act through robocalls targeting Black voters until their criminal cases over the same conduct had ended. “It is also important to note that elections occur periodically,” U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero wrote in a …

Reuters reports: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Monday that white supremacy and neo-Nazi movements are becoming a “transnational threat” and have exploited the coronavirus pandemic to boost their support. Addressing the U.N. Human Rights Council, Guterres said the danger of hate-driven groups was growing daily. “White supremacy and neo-Nazi movements are more than domestic terror threats. They are …

ABC News reports: A Miami anesthesiologist is accused of attacking a Hispanic man at a grocery store, vandalizing his car and calling him a racial slur, authorities said. Jennifer Susan Wright, 58, of Miami Springs, was charged with criminal mischief, tampering with a victim and battery with prejudice, according to Miami-Dade County court records. The latter charge was classified a …

Fox News reports: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, R., plans to lower the state’s flags to half-mast in honor of radio icon Rush Limbaugh, who died Wednesday at age 70 and called the state home for decades. DeSantis, who had been pressed to honor the revered conservative figure, confirmed Friday he would do it once Limbaugh’s burial date was announced. Lowering …

ABC News reports: A man who bragged of tricking local Florida officials into letting him fly a massive Confederate flag at the corners of two busy interstates has died, authorities said. Police said officers found 73-year-old Marion Lambert dead on his small farm in Tampa on Wednesday. In 2017, Lambert told The Associated Press during an interview that he tricked …

The Arizona Republic reports: Rep. Debbie Lesko said Hispanics are “very good workers” but implied they are not Americans in comments she made during a congressional hearing on vaccine distribution plans. Lesko, R-Ariz., who represents a West Valley congressional district that includes Sun City, said she had compassion for Hispanics, but also equated them with illegal immigrants in a broad …

The New York Daily News reports: A Manhattan judge on Tuesday dismissed all charges against a white woman who called the cops on a Black bird watcher in Central Park for requesting she leash her dog. Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi said prosecutors were satisfied with Amy Cooper’s progress in a program designed to have her take responsibility for the …

CNN reports: Quaker Oats is releasing a new name and logo for its “Aunt Jemima” products, finally retiring the racist stereotype that has adorned its pancake mixes and syrups for decades. The name “Aunt Jemima,” long criticized as a racist caricature of a Black woman stemming from slavery, will be replaced with the Pearl Milling Company name and logo on …

Raw Story reports: Fox News on Monday cut the video feed of an interview after a Trump supporter repeatedly flashed what appeared to be a white supremacist hand signal. As correspondent Griff Jenkins was speaking to a man about the rally, a man positioned directly in front of the camera, who was wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, began …

The Independent reports: A disturbing video that went viral on TikTok shows a Trump supporter repeatedly using the n-word and refusing to wear a mask on a flight. She and another person wearing Trump caps were then removed from the flight. The video shows a woman wearing a MAGA hat with her mask down. She and at least one other …