Tag Archives: racism

Harris: Trump Will Never Say “Black Lives Matter”

The Washington Post reports: Kamala D. Harris, sitting in a barbershop chair in the middle of a Detroit parking lot, told a socially distanced gathering of Black men that Trump “will never say Black lives matter.” “When we look at this election, there are some very clear differences. Donald Trump will never use the term ‘Black lives matter.’ He will …

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TX Cops Who Used Force Rewarded With Gift Cards

The Austin Statesman reports: Williamson County sheriff’s office leaders rewarded deputies who used force on the job with steakhouse gift cards, according to two former employees, one of whom made the admission to Texas Rangers investigating the agency’s aggressive tactics. Among the deputies who received gift cards to places such as Logan’s Roadhouse were J.J. Johnson and Zach Camden, the …

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Trump Announces “Patriotic Education” Program To Battle “Poisonous Left-Wing Indoctrination” In Schools

Forbes reports: President Trump on Thursday announced several measures aimed at promoting what he called “patriotic education” while blasting progressive efforts at re-examining American history through a race-critical lens as “toxic propaganda.” At the White House Conference on American History, Trump took aim at the 1619 Project, a series of essays in the New York Times re-examining America’s legacy of …

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Southern Baptists May Drop “Southern” From Name

The Washington Post reports: The 50,000 Baptist churches in the convention are autonomous and can still choose to refer to themselves as “Southern Baptist” or “SBC.” But in his first interview on the topic, convention president J.D. Greear said momentum has been building to adopt the name “Great Commission Baptists,” both because of the racial reckoning underway in the United …

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Black Church Demands Apology For “Racist” Trump Ad

Religion News Service reports: Leaders of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the pastor of an AME congregation in Wilmington, Delaware, are condemning a Trump-Pence campaign ad that uses footage of Joe Biden kneeling in the sanctuary of a Black church, describing it as racist and demanding an apology. The Rev. Silvester S. Beaman, pastor of Bethel AME church that …

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Mask Refuser Screams N-Word At NYC Verizon Worker

The New York Daily News reports: An irate woman called one worker in a Manhattan Verizon store a “fat ugly n—-r” and hurled a trash can at another — all because they asked her to wear a mask, shocking video shared on social media shows. Employees at the Upper East Side store on E. 69th St. store near Third Ave. …

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Trump Ad: “You Won’t Be Safe In Joe Biden’s America”

Religion News Service reports: President Donald Trump’s campaign released a digital advertisement late Wednesday (Sept. 9) extending its argument that Americans “won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America” with images of angry or violent protest. But the ad, titled “Meet Joe Biden’s Supporters,” ends not with an image of violence, but with slow-motion footage of former Vice President Biden kneeling …

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DHS Wants Biometric Data For Sponsors of Immigrants

The Hill reports: The Trump administration on Friday issued a proposal to expand its DNA and other biometric data collection of immigrants to include citizens sponsoring them. In a document published on the Federal Register, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposed that “any applicant, petitioner, sponsor, beneficiary, or individual filing or associated with an immigration benefit or request, including …

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NYPD Union Boss Under Investigation After Calling Gay US House Nominee Ritchie Torres A “First Class Whore”

Gothamist reports: The civilian agency that investigates NYPD misconduct has opened an investigation into the head of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, Ed Mullins, after Mullins called Bronx Councilmember Ritchie Torres a “first-class whore” last week in a tweet. Mullins, who has been the president of the SBA for 18 years, and has a history of making racist and offensive remarks, …

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Man Who Doesn’t Want You To Panic Says Looters From The “Low Income Projects” Will Overrun The Suburbs

Trump’s racist postings get more vivid every day: President Donald Trump raised the prospect of a dystopian future in the future if he fails to win reelection – hours after saying he held back warnings about the nature of the coronavirus to avoid sowing ‘panic.’ Trump made the claim as one of a barrage of tweets Thursday as he fended …

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Prager: BLM Are Biggest Racists “Outside Of The KKK”

“There’s no escape. Remember, the left is totalitarian. I’ve said it all my life, most people think I’ve engaged in hyperbole. Maybe now you realize that is literally accurate. “All leftists are totalitarian. Liberals are not, conservatives are not, leftists are. Total. Our control must be total. You cannot escape leftism. Not even on an American Airlines flight, that little …

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Trump: “Sleepy Joe” Will Destroy The American Dream By Letting Poor Black People Move Into The Suburbs

Eugene Robinson writes for the Washington Post: For more than five decades, the rule in U.S. politics has been that you’re supposed to whisper the racism, not shout it at the top of your lungs. But President Trump is running the most openly racist national campaign since that of George Wallace in 1968 — a repellent ploy that will do …

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WH To Feds: Cancel All Racial Sensitivity Training

The Washington Post reports: President Trump is moving to revamp federal agencies’ racial sensitivity trainings, casting some of them as “divisive” and “un-American,” according to a memo by the White House Office of Management and Budget. In the two-page memo, OMB Director Russell Vought says Trump has asked him to prevent federal agencies from spending millions in taxpayer dollars on …

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Knights Of Columbus To Fast And Pray Against Racism

From a press release published by Christian Newswire: The Knights of Columbus today announced it will participate in a National Day of Prayer and Fasting to End Racism on Sept. 9, the Feast of St. Peter Claver, a 16th century Catholic saint revered for his ministry to slaves. Bishop Shelton J. Fabre, the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic …

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Open Carry Advocate GOP Rep. Clay Higgins Threatens To Shoot Black Lives Matter Protesters Who Open Carry

The Huffington Post reports: Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) said he’d be more than willing to shoot any armed demonstrators in Louisiana in a Facebook post Tuesday that was accompanied by a picture of Black men with guns. “One way ticket fellas,” he wrote on his campaign account. “Have your affairs in order. Me?… I wouldn’t even spill my beer. I’d …

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Ad For GOP House Nominee Superimposes Photo Of Black Opponent Over Images Of Street Riots [VIDEO]

The Washington Post reports: Virginia Republican Bob Good dropped his first congressional campaign ad Monday, showing Cameron Webb, his Democratic opponent, against images of rioting in an unidentified location and trying to paint Webb as a “radical” who supports forced government health care and defunding the police. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee condemned the ad as a “racist dog whistle.” …

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NBC NEWS: Trump Cabinet Members Voted In 2018 Meeting To Separate Migrant Children From Parents

NBC News reports: In early May 2018, after weeks of phone calls and private meetings, 11 of the president’s most senior advisers were called to the White House Situation Room where they were asked, by a show-of-hands vote, to decide the fate of thousands of migrant parents and their children, according to two officials who were there. Trump’s senior adviser, …

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Racist Covidiot Goes On Tirade In SF Park [VIDEO]

The San Francisco Chronicle reports: An unidentified woman hurled racist, xenophobic remarks at a San Francisco Recreation and Parks employee Sunday, as she cut through ropes blocking off the children’s play area in Dolores Park that has been closed for weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic. Public outreach coordinator Andrés Patino captured the incident on video and posted the footage …

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Jared Kushner Won’t Say Trump’s Racist Birther Attack On Harris Is Wrong: “It’s Something That’s Out There”

CBS News reports: Pressed on whether he accepts that Kamala Harris is a qualified candidate, Jared Kushner said, “I personally have no reason to believe she’s not.” “She was born in Oakland, California,” said “CBS This Morning” co-host Anthony Mason. “Yeah,” Kushner replied. “Makes her a qualified candidate. Why didn’t the president take the opportunity to debunk that theory?” Mason …

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Newsweek Apologizes For Racist Birtherism Column

From the editors of Newsweek: This op-ed is being used by some as a tool to perpetuate racism and xenophobia. We apologize. The essay, by John Eastman, was intended to explore a minority legal argument about the definition of who is a “natural-born citizen” in the United States. But to many readers, the essay inevitably conveyed the ugly message that …

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