Tag Archives: racism

Tory Rep: “All White Men Should Have Black Slaves”

The BBC reports: A councilor accused of saying white men should have black slaves has been suspended by the Conservative Party. Political opponents identified the voice of Andrew Edwards on a recording of someone making racist remarks. Mr Edwards, who represents the Haverfordwest Prendergast ward on Pembrokeshire council, said he could not comment as the case had been referred to …

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TX Killer Of BLM Protester Posted “White Power” Meme

The Austin American-Statesman reports: A Travis County judge Thursday unsealed court records that revealed more anti-protester social media posts and messages that a jury did not see or hear while deciding whether to convict Daniel Perry on a murder charge in the death of Garrett Foster. The posts included messages such as “Black Lives Matter is racist to white people. …

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MS Gov Proclaims April As Confederate Heritage Month

The Mississippi Free Press reports: For the fourth year in a row, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a proclamation declaring April as Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi, keeping alive a 30-year-old tradition that former Republican Gov. Kirk Fordice first began. Black people make up 38% of Mississippi’s population, which is the highest for any state. A branch of the …

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Manhattan DA Deluged With Racist Death Threats

The New York Daily News reports: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has been inundated with racist death threats amid his office’s historic indictment of former President Donald Trump, the Daily News has learned. Included in a litany of profane, typo-laden emails sent to Bragg on the heels of Trump’s Thursday indictment were overtly racist and anti-Semitic insults and threats on …

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Florida School Pulls PG Disney Film About Segregation

The Root reports: Even though the Disney film “Ruby Bridges” has been shown during Black History Month in Florida’s Pinellas County for years, it was recently pulled because a parent was worried that it would teach white children about the racism that Black children faced. Emily Conklin, whose child attends North Shore Elementary parent, refused to let the student see …

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Nail/Coffin: “Dilbert” Distributor Cuts Ties With Adams

Axios reports: Andrews McMeel Universal, the distributor of the long-running “Dilbert” comic strip, announced late Sunday that it was “severing” ties with creator Scott Adams. A slew of newspapers around the country announced that they would no longer publish “Dilbert” after Adams went on a racist rant during a livestream of his YouTube show. He called Black Americans a “hate …

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GOP Rep Doubles Down On Dem Rep’s “Loyalty”

Huddle reports: Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Texas) is doubling down on his attacks on Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) based on her Chinese heritage. After being called out by colleagues on both sides of the aisle for previous comments against Chu, Gooden tweeted Sunday night that “It’s not ‘xenophobic’ to question where her loyalty lies.” Speaking last week on Fox News, Gooden …

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Hundreds Of Newspapers Have Now Dropped “Dilbert”

The Washington Post reports: Newspapers across the United States have pulled Scott Adams’s long-running “Dilbert” comic strip after the cartoonist called Black Americans a “hate group” and said White people should “get the hell away from” them. The Washington Post, the USA Today network of hundreds of newspapers, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Los Angeles Times and other publications announced …

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Outlets Ditch “Dilbert” After Author’s Latest Racist Rant

The New York Daily News reports: Cleveland’s Plain Dealer newspaper will no longer deal with “Dilbert” cartoonist Scott Adams, who went on a racially charged rant telling fans to “stay the hell away from Black people.” The Plain Dealer, founded in 1842, said “it was not a difficult decision” to cut the office-culture cartoon from its pages. And it said …

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GOP Rep Questions “Loyalty” Of Chinese-American Dem

Yahoo News reports: House Democrats are demanding an apology from Rep. Lance Gooden (R, TX-5) over his “racist” remarks that questioned the loyalty of Rep. Judy Chu (D, CA-27) to the U.S. In an appearance on Fox News’ Jesse Watters Primetime, Gooden said that Chu, the first Chinese American woman elected to Congress, “needs to be called out.” “I question …

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Annual Diversity Art Exhibit Pulled By Florida College

Axios Tampa Bay reports: Embracing Our Differences — the nonprofit behind the outdoor show that has been displayed annually in Sarasota for two decades — pulled the exhibit at the State College of Florida Manatee-Sarasota campus this week after school leaders requested that three pieces of art be removed. The school found one piece, titled “Being Different Gives the World …

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Coulter To Nikki Haley: “Go Back To Your Own Country”

From Ann Coulter’s radio appearance this afternoon: She’s an absolutely ridiculous character and the only people who say they support her are people who probably, genuinely are sexist. And, “Oh I support the girl. Good for you. You like girls!” No, she’s utterly, completely, preposterously ridiculous. I don’t think she will get more than 2% of the vote. And you …

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College Board Denounces FL On Black History Course

The Tampa Bay Times reports: Taken aback by Florida’s attacks against its new AP African American studies course, the College Board late Saturday denounced the state Department of Education, saying it used the course to advance a politically motivated agenda. The organization’s letter, published at 8 p.m. Saturday, came just two days after it released another statement that did not …

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FL Pressured College Board On Black History Course

The Washington Post reports: Florida’s education department had been privately complaining to the College Board for months about a new Advanced Placement African American Studies course before the board released revisions that critics saw as caving to political pressure, according to a timeline released by the state. The complaints, outlined in a letter this week to the College Board, feed …

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Publisher Offers Free Downloads Of Black History Books

Via press release from Haymarket Books: The racist governor of Florida continues to escalate his attacks on the freedom to learn and teach history. We at Haymarket stand in solidarity with all those in Florida and across the country who are organizing to resist. We know that books can be dangerous to those in power, especially when they are in …

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POLL: Confidence In Police Practices At All-Time Low

ABC News reports: Americans’ confidence in how police are trained and their treatment of Black people both have fallen to new lows in an ABC News/Washington Post poll. Following the death of Tyre Nichols after he was beaten by Memphis police on Jan. 7, just 39 percent of adults in the national survey are confident that the police in this …

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College Board Caves To DeSantis On Black Studies

The Hill reports: The College Board is facing heated criticism for its revisions to an Advanced Placement (AP) African American studies program after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said the course “lacked educational value” and would not go forward in his state’s schools. A new framework released Wednesday noticeably removed Black queer studies from its coursework, along with Black writers …

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Cultist Moderator Calls Latino Candidate “Jose Cuervo”

Florida Politics reports: The moderator for a House District 24 forum referenced candidate Jose Juarez by the name of a tequila, Jose Cuervo. Annie Marie Delgado, founder of Conservative Watch USA said it was a slip, and not intended as any kind of slight on the candidate. “Jose Cuervo— I mean Jose Juarez,” she said, eliciting a mix of laughs …

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Carlson Compares Tyre Nichols To Ashli Babbitt [VIDEO]

“So, of course, the very same people who are weeping on television about police brutality applauded when one of Nancy Pelosi’s officers murdered an unarmed woman called Ashli Babbitt. Yes, murder. That’s exactly what that was. Far more clearly than anything you just saw in the videotape we played. So, of course, the point of this is to federalize local …

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Students To Sue FL Over Banned Black History Course

Miami’s NBC affiliate reports: Famed civil rights attorney Ben Crump is planning to file a lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over the rejection of an Advanced Placement African American Studies pilot program. Crump announced the planned lawsuit during a Wednesday news conference at the Florida Capitol, where he was joined by leaders from the American Federation of Teachers, politicians …

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