Racism

The Hill reports: Forty-three percent of Republican respondents in a new poll say that they oppose schools teaching about the “history of racism.” The Monmouth University poll released Wednesday found that 43 percent of survey takers that identified as Republicans said that they are against the teaching of historical racism in public schools, as opposed to only 5 percent of …

CNN reports: After a long and contentious jury selection process in a coastal Georgia county in preparation for the trial for Ahmaud Arbery’s killing, a panel of 12 people was chosen Wednesday — consisting of one Black member and 11 White members. The jury was selected after a two-and-a-half-week selection process that ended with prosecutors for the state accusing defense …

The Des Moines Register reports: Iowa Democratic Party Chair Ross Wilburn received multiple threats, including one of lynching, after he penned an opinion piece critical of former President Donald Trump, he told the Des Moines Register. Wilburn, a state representative from Ames, is the first Black chair of the Iowa Democratic Party. Wilburn authored an opinion piece titled “Iowa Republicans …

Via email from right wing commentator Erick Erickson: Regardless of what Gruden said, they were in private emails to friends. They were uncovered because they went not to personal email accounts, but to corporate accounts or personal accounts subject to search. Gruden said in private what other people might say, including referring to Joe Biden in 2012 as a “nervous …

Hartford’s CBS News affiliate reports: Mary Beeman, the campaign manager for the Guilford Republican school board candidates, commented, “helping kids of color to feel they belong has a negative effect on white, Christian, or conservative kids,” during a UConn. virtual education forum. When questioned about her comment, Beeman said, “The statement I made was poorly worded and shown out of …

Atlanta’s Fox News affiliate reports: One of the men accused of chasing and murdering Ahmaud Arbery is fighting to ban certain photo evidence from his upcoming trial. Travis McMichael and his attorneys have requested that the court ban a photo of his old Georgia flag-theme vanity license plate, which includes a Confederate emblem. In response, the state asked the court …

The New York Daily News reports: A skateboarding vandal was caught on video released Monday tossing paint on the George Floyd statue in Union Square. The incident happened 10:15 a.m. Sunday, with the suspect riding up to the statue, slinging paint from a can, then casually skateboarding away, the video shows. It was the second time the memorial was vandalized. …

“The left longs for total chaos and society’s total reliance on big government. Cops get in the way, but they want that reliance, right, on big government. “It’s why Joe Biden is waging war on the suburbs – suburbs that are literally being invaded. It is an invasion of poverty – low-skilled, uneducated future Democrat voters. That invasion originates on …

Mediaite reports: Tucker Carlson said the quiet part out loud on Wednesday night, calling the influx of immigrants into the United States via the southern border “the great replacement.” This idea was first floated as a conspiracy theory by a far-right French author who claimed Europe’s White population was being replaced by non-Whites as part of a plot by elites. …

“They know that there are hundreds and hundreds of Haitians who have run away from under the Del Rio bridge, right? And have just disappeared into the countryside. “They know also that everywhere that there’s been a mass migration of illegal immigrants, there’s been a spike in Covid cases in this country. “And you know, bioweapons specialists and intel agents …

The Texas Tribune reports: The Texas State Senate kicked off the decennial redistricting process on Saturday when it released the first draft of its own members’ district maps. State Sen. Beverly Powell, D-Burleson, immediately called foul on the initial draft of the map, which was authored by Sen. Joan Huffman, R-Houston, who chairs the Senate Redistricting Committee. Powell’s district is …

The Raleigh News & Observer reports: Republican lawmakers in North Carolina wrote the state’s voter ID law with the intent, at least in part, to make it harder for Black residents to vote, a panel of state judges ruled on Friday. There’s no evidence that legislators who supported the law were motivated by racism, the judges wrote. But it’s still …

The Kansas Reflector reports: The Kansas Attorney General’s Office has agreed to pay the American Civil Liberties Union and other attorneys $1.9 million in fees and expenses for a five-year legal battle over an unconstitutional restriction on voter registrations. The high-profile lawsuit was filed 2016 in response to former Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s signature law, which required residents to …

The Birmingham News reports: An advisory panel for a voter-approved effort to make changes to the 120-year-old Alabama Constitution is studying three sections that had racist language or racist intent. The Committee on the Recompilation of the Constitution held a public hearing at the State House on Friday. The committee did not make recommendations because it is still receiving public …

Houston’s ABC News affiliate reports: Outbursts and questions about racism along with claims of voter suppression filled the Texas House chamber Thursday as lawmakers debated the controversial election integrity bill. While debating SB-1, the word “racism” came into play. That sparked a reaction by House Speaker Dade Phelan who told lawmakers the word was banned from the chamber. “We can …

Fort Myers’ ABC News affiliate reports: The woman caught on camera yelling racist insults at a mother and kids is no longer employed by the Collier County School District. According to CCPS’ staff email directory, Patricia Schmidt was an Exceptional Student Education (ESE) Specialist at Lely Elementary School, but she has since been fired, a spokesperson for CCPS confirmed. “Are …

The Associated Press reports: A white Iowa woman who said she drove her SUV into two children in 2019 to try to kill them because of their race was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison on federal hate crimes charges. Nicole Poole Franklin had already been sentenced to up to 25 years, including a mandatory minimum of 17 1/2, …

Fort Myers’ NBC News affiliate reports: The woman caught on camera yelling racist insults at a mother and kids was placed on administrative leave by the Collier County School District. According to CCPS’ staff email directory, Patricia Schmidt is employed as an Exceptional Student Education (ESE) Specialist at Lely Elementary School. The video shows Schmidt mocking the child behind the …

Mediaite reports: Fox News’ Tucker Carlson doubled down on Friday after being called out for pushing “replacement theory” earlier this week. On Fox & Friends, Carlson said the Biden administration is “bringing felons, violent criminals into our country on purpose” because they want “to change the demographics of the country.” Carlson continued on Friday night, insisting he’s “pointing out the …

Salon reports: Tucker Carlson’s trip to Hungary culminated Friday with an unhinged segment advocating for America to adopt stringent immigration laws similar to that of Viktor Orbán’s “illiberal democracy,” slamming recent arrivals to the United States as “chaos and filth and crime growing all around us.” The Biden administration did this on purpose, and they’re still doing it. And that …