Racism

The Raleigh News & Observer reports: U.S. Rep. Robert Pittenger says the violence in Charlotte stems from protesters who “hate white people because white people are successful and they’re not.” Pittenger is a Republican whose district includes parts of the city where protests have turned violent in the wake of a police shooting of a black man. Pittenger appeared on …

Mediaite reports: In a BBC report that aired Thursday, a white nationalist leader named Richard Spencer explained that Donald Trump is following in the footsteps of what the white nationalist movement has been doing for years. “Donald Trump came along and I feel like my movement and ideology, we can be a kind of vanguard for a presidential candidate,” Spencer …

How to win the African-American vote, part 57. ABC News reports: Less than a day after protests over the police killing of an African-American man turned violent in North Carolina, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump placed some of the blame for the turmoil on the impact of drugs. “If you’re not aware, drugs are a very, very big factor in …

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump’s campaign chair in a prominent Ohio county has claimed there was “no racism” during the 1960s and said black people who have not succeeded over the past half-century only have themselves to blame. Kathy Miller, who is white and chair of the Republican nominee’s campaign in Mahoning County, made the remarks during a taped interview …

The Huffington Post reports: Donald Trump said Wednesday he finally gave up pushing conspiracy theories about President Barack Obama’s birthplace because it was politically convenient to do so. Trump, in an interview with the ABC affiliate in Columbus, Ohio, was asked why he finally decided to acknowledge that Obama was born in the U.S. “After all the years where you’ve …

Politico reports: Donald Trump on Wednesday called for the controversial “stop-and-frisk” policing practice to be instituted nationwide as a means of combating violent crime in America’s inner cities. In a pre-taped interview on Fox News scheduled to air Wednesday night, Trump was asked by an audience member what he would do to address “violence in the black community” and “black-on-black …

The Twitterverse has reacted very negatively to a profile of homocon flamethrower Milo Yiannopoulos published today by Out Magazine. See some reactions below. Now added to the top of the article is this editor’s note: It should not need saying that the views expressed by the subject of this piece in no way represent the opinions of this magazine, but …

The Los Angeles Times reports: Donald Trump’s campaign is defending a tweet from the Republican candidate’s son, who offended many on Monday night by comparing Syrian refugees to poisoned Skittles. The comparison was rejected by Democrats and even the company that manufactures Skittles. “Skittles are candy. Refugees are people,” said a statement from Wrigley Americas. “We don’t feel it’s an …

Media Matters reports: A new advertisement from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign about hunting and the Second Amendment features National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent, who claims Hillary Clinton “will destroy the freedom that is uniquely American.” Earlier this year, Nugent called for Clinton to be hanged for treason. The eight-minute video features other conservative media figures including …

Raw Story reports: Donald Trump Jr. drew widespread condemnation for comparing Syrian refugees to poisoned candy — but his analogy isn’t a new one, and it’s based on two separate white supremacist memes with roots in Nazi propaganda. Trump — the Republican presidential candidate’s eldest son and a top campaign surrogate — tweeted the image Monday evening in an apparent …

HAH. Via Right Wing Watch: When Donald Trump, after years of fueling the racist birther conspiracy theory, finally said today that President Obama was “born in the United States, period,” we wondered how Trump’s former allies in the birther movement would react. It turns out that one leading birther is just refusing to talk about it, in an apparent effort …

The totally not racist level heads at Breitbart have decided that it’s totally not racist to illustrate a story about the black president of the United States with an image of Harambe, the gorilla recently put down at the Cincinnati Zoo. As you surely know, Breitbart is run by Stephen Bannon, who last month became the third and latest Trump …

The Week reports: Donald Trump was in large part responsible for spreading the conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama was born abroad (spoiler alert: Obama was born in Hawaii). After years of promoting the theory, Trump blurted Friday that he believes Obama was in fact born in the United States — and if Trump is true to his word, that …

Wow. This was great to watch. The Associated Press reports: Members of the Congressional Black Caucus on Friday called Donald Trump a “disgusting fraud” and demanded that he apologize to President Barack Obama for repeatedly challenging the first African-American president’s U.S. citizenship before retreating from the claim on Friday. One by one, outraged members of the CBC denounced the Republican …

The timing of Hillary’s last few ads has been flawless. Politico recaps: The 45-second spot plays a series of clips from Trump in recent years questioning Obama’s citizenship, including an interview with “The View” in which he said there is “something on that birth certificate that he doesn’t like.” The video also includes Trump speculating on whether Obama is a …

Politico reports: Donald Trump Jr. has no idea what Pepe the Frog is, the eldest son of the Republican presidential nominee remarked Friday, as he also defended himself after some accused him of referring to the Holocaust using the term “gas chamber” in a radio interview earlier this week. Rejecting that he was making a Holocaust reference, Trump Jr. faced …

Donald Trump is due to take the podium shortly at his garish Trump International Hotel in Washington DC, where the presidential suite will go for $100,000 per night (five night minimum stay) during the January inauguration celebrations for Hillary Clinton. Heh. Watch below. Trump is expected to finally address his racist birther claims, which his campaign last night said he no …

Fox News political analyst Chris Stirewalt better be prepared for a troll avalanche. “This is a tricky dismount for Donald Trump. He would not be the Republican nominee had he not been the leader of the birther movement in 2011. And if he had not had this set to President Obama about it, he wouldn’t be where he is today. …

Via Mediaite: A segment on The Kelly File went a little off the rails tonight when Megyn Kelly confronted Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson over whether he’s still a birther. In a new interview tonight, Trump refused to say whether he still holds that insane view about President Obama‘s birth, hinting he would do so “at the right time.” Kelly …

Politico reports: Donald Trump passed up yet another opportunity to say he accepts the fact that President Barack Obama was born in the United States, promising to make a “major statement” on Friday morning in front of his latest hotel project and telling CNBC’s Mario Bartiromo, “We have to keep the suspense going, OK? But he also blamed his opponent …