Tag Archives: racism

KY Man ID’d In Racist “Zoombombing” Of Public School

The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports: A Kentucky man is under federal investigation after he allegedly barged into a Jefferson Parish public school’s virtual classroom lesson, hurled violent and racist insults at fifth graders, and posted an online video of the intrusion last year. Fifth-grade students of Laureate Academy Charter School in Harvey were taking a virtual lesson via Zoom on …

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New Florida Park “Honors” Confederate War Veterans

First Coast News reports: A new park honoring the over 15,000 soldiers involved in the Confederate war effort is now open in North Florida. Kirby-Smith Confederate Park is located in Lincoln Villas in the Northeast Jacksonville area. The park is visible from the I-295 west beltway, and features Confederate flags, statuary and placards. The park’s website claims that the Confederate …

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California Cops Exposed For Racist And Anti-Gay Texts

The Los Angeles Times reports: The caption read “hanging with the homies.” The picture above it showed several Black men who had been lynched. Another photo asked what someone should do if their girlfriend was having an affair with a Black man. The answer, according to the caption, was to break “a tail light on his car so the police …

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Court Halts NC Election Filings Over Gerrymandering

Roll Call reports: A North Carolina state appeals court stopped the process for candidates to file for next year’s congressional and state legislative elections using new district lines, the state board of elections said Monday. According to state law, candidate filing was to begin Monday and run through Dec. 17 in advance of the state’s March 8 primary. After Texas …

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Justice Dept Sues Texas Over Racist Gerrymandering

The Texas Tribune reports: The U.S. Department of Justice is throwing its weight into the legal fight over Texas’ newly drawn maps for Congress and the state House. The Biden administration on Monday announced it has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Texas, joining what’s expected to be a protracted fight over the political boundaries the state will use …

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Christian Consumer Group Condemns Salvation Army

From the “Christian consumer” group 2nd Vote: Two years ago, 2ndVote was one of many organizations which stood behind The Salvation Army when Chick-fil-A dropped its donations over woke Twitter’s dislike of a conservative Christian non-profit getting funds from a Christian business. We were therefore disgusted and disappointed to see that The Salvation Army had taken it upon itself to …

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“Moms For Liberty” Seek To Ban Book About MLK Jr.

The Tennessean reports: The complaint, the first directed to the state under the new law passed this spring, was filed by Robin Steenman [photo], chair of the Moms for Liberty Williamson County chapter, a conservative parent group sweeping the nation. The 11-page complaint alleged that the literacy curriculum, Wit and Wisdom, used by Williamson County Schools and at least 30 …

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Omar: “Buffoon” Boebert Made Up Her Story About Me

The Huffington Post reports: Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Thursday called out Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) for sharing a “made up” exchange in which Boebert claimed to have made a vile, anti-Muslim joke while the two women shared an elevator at work. While campaigning in Colorado over the Thanksgiving break, Boebert boasted that she was recently in a Capitol elevator …

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BREAKING: All Guilty In GA Murder Of Ahmaud Arbery

NBC News reports: The jury has reached a verdict in the trial of Travis McMichael and his father, Gregory, and their neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan. The three men, who are white, each face charges of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, false imprisonment and criminal attempt to commit a felony in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, 25, who was …

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Carlson: Kamala Harris Is “Not From This Country”

The Huffington Post reports: Fox News’ Tucker Carlson went down a familiar path on Tuesday, questioning whether Vice President Kamala Harris is really “from” the U.S. because she went to high school in Canada. “The one thing we know for sure about Kamala Harris is we should all be very, very grateful to have her because she’s historic for reasons …

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43% Of GOP Voters Oppose Teaching History Of 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 …

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Judge In GA Vigilante Murder Trial Says Jury Selection Was “Intentional Discrimination,” Seats Jury Anyway

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 …

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Senate Republicans Again Block Voting Rights Act

The Guardian reports: Republicans in the US Senate again blocked a significant voting rights bill from advancing on Wednesday, a move many see as a breaking point in the push to get rid of the filibuster, the Senate rule that requires 60 votes to advance most legislation. The bill – the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act – is one …

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Hate Group Launches National Push For “Cameras In The Classroom” To Monitor For Social Justice Lessons

Via press release published by Christian Newswire: As education throughout the United States suffers the effects of an increasing ideological and cultural divide, more parents, students and educators are calling for a simple, technological fix: cameras in the classroom. Capitol Resource Institute (CRI) and Nevada Family Alliance (NFA) are leading a nationwide campaign calling for cameras in all K-12 public …

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Erick Erickson: Cancel Culture Took Down NFL Coach

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 …

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CT GOP Official: Helping Kids Of Color Feel Like They Belong Has A Negative Effect On White Christian Kids

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 …

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GA Man Charged With Murder Of Black Jogger Doesn’t Want Jury To Hear About His Confederate Vanity Plate

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 …

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NYPD Seeks Man Who Vandalized George Floyd Statue

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. …

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Newmax Host: Biden Wants To “Dilute” Your Suburb

“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 …

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STUDY: 17K Killings By Cops Not Tracked In Fed Data

USA Today reports: More than half of police killings in the U.S. are not reported in official government data, and Black Americans are most likely to experience fatal police violence, according to a new study released Thursday. An estimated 55% of deaths from police violence from 1980 to 2018 were misclassified or unreported in official vital statistics reports, according to …

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