Tag Archives: racism

North Dakota GOP Rep Faces Calls To Resign After Spewing Racist And Anti-Gay Slurs During DUI Arrest

ABC News reports:  Republican leaders have called on a North Dakota lawmaker to resign after he lashed out at police with homophobic and anti-migrant remarks during a traffic stop earlier this month in which he was arrested for drunken driving. Republican House Majority Leader Mike Lefor said Tuesday he called on Republican state Rep. Nico Rios, of Williston, to resign …

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Missouri School Board Drops Black History Course

The Associated Press reports: A conservative-led Missouri school board has voted to drop elective courses on Black history and literature, five months after the same board rescinded an anti-discrimination policy adopted in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd. The Francis Howell School Board voted 5-2 Thursday night to stop offering Black History and Black Literature. In July, the …

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NYT: Inside Trump’s Vulgar And Racist Trolling Army

The New York Times reports: Bryan Heestand doesn’t work for Mr. Trump, but he belongs to a small circle of video meme-makers who have effectively served as a shadow online ad agency for his presidential campaign. Led by a little-known podcaster and life coach, this meme team has spent much of the year flooding social media with content that lionizes …

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Christie’s Niece Charged In Drunken 2022 Flight Fight

The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports: Just over a year after former New Jersey governor and presidential candidate Chris Christie’s niece, Shannon Epstein, was kicked off a flight at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport and accused of drunkenly biting, kicking and spitting on deputies who tried to arrest her, the Jefferson Parish District Attorney Office formally filed charges against her …

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GOP Uses AI To Show Natl Parks Overrun By Migrants

The Washington Examiner reports: The National Republican Congressional Committee released an AI-generated ad targeting House Democrats wanting to build temporary tent shelters to house the influx of immigrants in national parks. “National Parks overrun with illegal immigrants,” the text reads, using a vintage film overlay, followed by “this is the future extreme House Democrats support.” “More crime. Less tourism. No …

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Florida Ballot Measure Would Ban Slavery Reparations

Florida Politics reports: Sen. Blaise Ingoglia wants to end the debate in Florida over whether reparations should be paid to descendants of slaves — by banning it in the state constitution. On Monday, he filed a resolution (SJR 582) that would place a question on the 2024 ballot asking voters to approve a constitutional amendment prohibiting any government in Florida …

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North Carolina Sued Over Racist State Senate Map

Democracy Docket reports: Black voters today filed a federal lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s new state Senate districts that were enacted last month by the Republican-controlled Legislature. The North Carolina Legislature’s redrawing of the state Senate districts — along with the state House and congressional districts — ensued after the North Carolina Supreme Court’s newly constituted Republican majority overturned its prior …

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Fox Host: Bowman Will Get Off, “He’s The Right Race”

“By the way, he is a former principal, so they know a lot about fire alarms, cause they do this stuff all the time. You can’t make this stuff up. You know. And so he says he didn’t know. Look, why he would do this and think he could get away with it tells you he feels like he’s part …

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SCOTUS Smacks Down Alabama On US House Map

The Associated Press reports: The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the drawing of a new Alabama congressional map with greater representation for Black voters to proceed, rejecting the state’s plea to retain Republican-drawn lines that were struck down by a lower court. In refusing to intervene, the justices, without any noted dissent, allowed a court-appointed special master’s work to continue. …

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Right Wingers Sue West Point On Affirmative Action

Reuters reports: The U.S. Military Academy, known as West Point, was sued on Tuesday by an anti-affirmative action group challenging the school’s use of race as a factor in student admissions as a violation of the constitutional principle of equal protection. The lawsuit was brought by the same organization that successfully pursued litigation that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court …

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Florida Principal Resigns After Segregated Assembly

Jacksonville’s NBC affiliate reports: Donelle Evensen, principal at Bunnell Elementary School, informed Superintendent LaShakia Moore that she is resigning from her post, the Flagler County School District said in a news release Thursday morning. Evensen and a teacher were placed on leave following the assembly that was held for “African American students that scored below a three on testing.” Furious …

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Iowa Appeals Ruling Allowing Voting Forms In Spanish

First, a reminder about June’s court ruling: On June 29, 2023 an Iowa court ruled that Iowa’s English-only law does not apply to voting materials and dissolved the previous injunction that prohibited the Iowa secretary of state from providing non-English voter registration forms. As a result of this ruling, counties will now be permitted to provide voting materials— including voter …

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Cultist Ex-SEAL Used N-Word In Drunken Bar Incident

The New York Post reports: Former Navy SEAL Robert O’Neill, who claims he fired the shots that killed Osama bin Laden, beat up a security guard and called him the N-word during an alcohol-fueled incident that resulted in his arrest after he passed out at a hotel bar in Texas last week, police sources said. The onetime hero hurled the …

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DeSantis: Leftists Turned Big Cities Into “Crime Slums”

Florida Politics reports: In a new email entitled “Hi, I’m Ron DeSantis. This is who I am,” the Governor’s campaign juxtaposes biographical triumphs with various dog whistles designed to remind potential donors that he hasn’t forgotten about the war on “woke.” “Failing leftist policies across the country are shoving a radical ideology down your throat,” DeSantis wrote. The leftists want …

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Arkansas: Turn In All Black History Material For Review

Little Rock’s NPR affiliate reports: Arkansas Education Secretary Jacob Oliva wrote to leaders of six Arkansas schools on Monday with the most specific concerns yet about the AP African American Studies course. The letter — sent to the handful of schools that plan to continue offering the pilot course — also asks the schools to submit course materials to the …

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Aunt Lydia: Black History Course Is Leftist Propaganda

“We’ve got to get back to the basics of teaching math, of teaching, reading, writing and American history. And we cannot perpetuate a lie to our students and push this propaganda leftist agenda, teaching our kids to hate America and hate one another. It’s one of the reasons that we put into law banning things like indoctrination and CRT [critical …

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FL Student Group Has To Remove “Black” From Name

Tampa’s NPR affiliate reports: A student organization that serves African-American men who attend Tallahassee Community College might have to change its name or risk losing funding under a new Florida law. Tyler Soto, a student at TCC, is a member of Black Male Achievers. He says they’re working out possible new names, such as “Male Achievers” or “Scholar Male Achievers.” …

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TX Woman Charged With Racist Threat To Kill J6 Judge

CBS News reports: A Texas woman is facing federal charges after threatening a United States District Judge overseeing one of Donald Trump’s cases and a Democratic Congresswoman. “Hey, you stupid slave,” the voicemail began, followed by a racial slur. According to documents from the Southern District of Texas court, Abigail Jo Shry, of Alvin, allegedly left a voicemail for Judge …

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Hundreds March On Miami School Board In Protest Of Florida’s New Racist Black History Education Standards

Miami’s ABC affiliate reports: A group of “teachers, students, community members and Teamsters” marched to the Miami-Dade school board headquarters Wednesday in protest of Florida’s controversial Black history standards. The protest is being organized by the Miami Center for Racial Justice. At issue in particular is a state curriculum standard to teach middle school students “how slaves developed skills which, …

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Arkansas Ends Credit For AP Black History Course

The Arkansas Times reports: Word came Friday from distraught educators that a new Advanced Placement course on African American history was suddenly on the chopping block, just two days before the first bell of the school year was set to ring in Arkansas high schools planning to offer the class. An official from the Arkansas Department of Education reportedly alerted …

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