Racism

Conway Demands To Know Reporter’s Ethnicity [VIDEO]

NBC News reports: White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Tuesday responded to questions about President Donald Trump’s attacks on four congresswomen of color by asking a reporter about his heritage. Andrew Feinberg, a White House reporter for Breakfast Media, a website about politics and technology, asked Conway, “If the president was not telling these four congresswomen to return to their …

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Trump Rages: Congress Should Be Voting On “Filthy Language” By Dems, Not My Totally Not Racist Tweets

Raw Story reports: President Donald Trump begged House Republicans not to join Democrats in condemning him for racist tweets against four congresswomen — and stepped up his attacks on the first-year lawmakers. House Democrats plan to vote Tuesday on a formal condemnation of the president for repeatedly telling the quartet of lawmakers to go back to their home countries, although …

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George Conway: Yes, We Have A Racist President

From George Conway’s op-ed in the Washington Post: Naivete, resentment and outright racism, roiled in a toxic mix, have given us a racist president. Trump could have used vile slurs, including the vilest of them all, and the intent and effect would have been no less clear. Telling four non-white members of Congress — American citizens all, three natural-born — …

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Trump Demands Dems Apologize For “Foul Language”

Politico reports: President Trump early Monday ramped up his online attacks on a group of progressive Democratic congresswomen, asking when they will apologize to the U.S. Trump is facing a growing backlash over his tweets on Sunday telling a group of Democratic congresswomen that they should “go back” to the countries that they came from. Trump’s tweets were widely condemned …

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Trump Doubles Down After Racist Attack On Dems

Reuters reports: President Trump late on Sunday night doubled down amid a growing backlash over his earlier tweets telling a group of Democratic congresswomen that they should “go back” to the countries that they came from. Trump was responding to outrage over comments he made earlier on Sunday in which he targeted a group of unnamed progressive congresswomen “who originally …

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Pelosi Blasts Trump’s Racism: When He Says Make America Great Again, He Means Make Us White Again

The Washington Post reports: Trump’s tweets prompted a sharp response from Nancy Pelosi, who described them as racist and divisive. She also called on Trump to halt the planned ICE raids on Sunday and “work with us for humane immigration policy that reflects American values.” Other Democrats also responded with outrage, with some pointing out Trump’s history of birtherism as …

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Amash Condemns Trump’s “Racist” Attack On Dems

The Hill reports: Rep. Justin Amash (Mich.), who recently left the Republican Party to become an Independent, on Sunday lambasted President Trump for telling a group of progressive congresswomen to go back to where they came from, saying it was “racist and disgusting.” The comments from Amash came just hours after Trump targeted a group of female lawmakers, saying that …

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Trump Tells Immigrant Democrats: Go Back To The “Broken And Crime-Infested Places” You Came From

The Independent reports: US President Donald Trump has said that some Democrat congresswomen from countries “whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe” should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” Whilst it is not explicitly clear to whom he is referring, it comes after the president launched an extraordinary attack …

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GOP Tennessee Gov Honors Early KKK Grand Wizard

The Tennessean reports: Gov. Bill Lee has proclaimed Saturday as Nathan Bedford Forrest Day in Tennessee, a day of observation to honor the former Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader whose bust is on display in the state Capitol. Per state law, the Tennessee governor is tasked with issuing proclamations for six separate days of special observation, three …

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GOP Darkens Kaepernick’s Skin In Money Beg Email

Yahoo News reports: Former NFL star Colin Kaepernick did not look like himself in a fundraising email that was sent by the National Republican Congressional Committee on Wednesday. The message included a picture of Kaepernick that appeared noticeably altered to make his skin darker, an attack ad tactic that has been used before and is considered by many as racist. …

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Tucker Carlson Goes Full Racist Against Dem Rep

The Huffington Post reports: Fox News host Tucker Carlson ended his show on Tuesday with an attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), claiming that she hates America and is “living proof that the way we practice immigration has become dangerous to this country.” “Ilhan Omar has an awful lot to be grateful for, but she isn’t grateful, not at all. …

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BREAKING: Trump Administration Surrenders On Census Citizenship Question After Supreme Court Ruling

The Hill reports: The Trump administration said Tuesday that it was dropping a citizenship question from the 2020 census, days after the Supreme Court ruled against the question’s inclusion. Former Obama White House lawyer Daniel Jacobson made the revelation in a tweet Tuesday, sharing a screenshot of an email he received from a Justice Department lawyer confirming the decision. DOJ …

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Junior Promotes Racist Birther Attack On Kamala Harris

The Hill reports: Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) dominated buzz surrounding the first Democratic presidential debate Thursday night after battling rivals on stage, but as the debate played out, a series of Twitter bots worked to amplify a far-right conspiracy about her online. During the debate in Miami, apparent bots online amplified conspiracy theories on social media falsely claiming that the …

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Carlson: Democrats Want To Ban Speaking English

“You thought this was your country, just because, like your ancestors, you were born here, just because you pay half your income to the government to keep the whole thing going, you thought it was your country. Think again, racist. America belongs to the rest of the world. Your job is to shut up and pay for it. “Complain, and …

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Trump Calls For Delaying Census After SCOTUS Ruling

Reuters reports: U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will see if the 2020 census can be delayed following a Supreme Court ruling that blocked his administration’s addition of a citizenship question for now. “I have asked the lawyers if they can delay the Census, no matter how long, until the United States Supreme Court is given additional information …

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BREAKING: SCOTUS Swats Down Census Citizenship Question For Now, Remands Case To Lower Court

Raw Story reports: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Dept. of Commerce v. New York, where the state of New York sued over the question the Trump administration placed on the census asking about legal citizenship. The Court decided that they agreed with lower court decisions and that the reason for putting the question on the census was “invalid.” …

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Ingraham Mocks Reparations: We Won, No Do-Overs

The Daily Beast reports: Fox News star Laura Ingraham waded into the ongoing debate over reparations for descendants of slaves during her podcast on Thursday by proclaiming there are no “do-overs” after a “conquest.” “People would argue that the whole world, and I would, the whole world has been reshaped by people taking other people’s land,” Ingraham weighed in. “It’s …

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72 Philly Cops Probed For Racist Social Media Posts

CBS News reports: Philadelphia police confirm more than 70 officers have been taken off the streets and placed on desk duty while authorities investigate hundreds of officers’ alleged racist and violent social media posts, reports CBS Philly. The social media posts were unearthed by the Plain View Project, an initiative started in 2017 by a group of attorneys in Philadelphia. …

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Harvard Rescinds Acceptance Of Right-Wing Parkland Activist Kyle Kashuv After Revelation Of Using N-Word

Mediaite reports: On Monday, Harvard University rescinded their acceptance of Kyle Kashuv, a pro-Second Amendment activist who survived last year’s deadly shooting in Parkland, Florida, over racist comments he made in high school that emerged on social media in May. Last month, Kashuv issued an apology after being accused of racist comments — which include several instances of him using …

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VIRAL VIDEO: Hotel Clerk Tells Customer “The Best Western Is Next Door” After She Calls Him The N-Word

News One reports: An apparent hotel clerk who said he was called the N-word by a would-be guest was getting the last laugh after he tweeted a video of the exchange Sunday night that ended up going viral. The video shows the unidentified clerk, a Black man, rejecting each desperate attempt to stay at the hotel by the woman who …

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