Tag Archives: racism

I don’t even know how to properly set this clip up, so maybe you should just watch it. The host totally slams Christine Quinn at the end of the call. More about this at New York Magazine.

As some of you know, Britain’s vile English Defense League is a violent group of racist neo-Nazi skinheads who riot semi-regularly. Enter the English Disco Lovers: The English Disco Lovers (EDL) movement aims to reclaim the hated EDL acronym from The English Defence League and make it stand for something positive. Currently we are attempting to Google bomb them for …

“My prayers are with the Martin family and with every family who loves someone who is lost to violence. No mother, no father, should ever have to fear for their child walking down a street in the United States of America. Yesterday I know you heard from the attorney general about the next steps from the Justice Department and the …

1.3M views in three days. Watch this.

A coalition of 35 national LGBT rights groups have issued a joint denouncement of the Zimmerman verdict. Via press release: An Open Letter: Trayvon Deserves Justice We cannot begin to imagine the continued pain and suffering endured by Trayvon Martin’s family and friends. We stand in solidarity with them as they continue to fight for justice, civil rights and closure. …

Via David Badash.

Above are tonight’s headlines on Breitbart, Daily Caller, and World Net Daily.

The New York Times reports: George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, igniting a national debate on racial profiling and civil rights, was found not guilty late Saturday night of second-degree murder. He was also acquitted of manslaughter, a lesser charge. After three weeks of testimony, the six-woman jury rejected the prosecution’s …

As about a million local Asian-Americans likely watched, the midday anchor for San Francisco’s Fox affiliate today claimed that the crashed Asiana Airlines pilots were named Ho Lee Fuk, Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, and Bang Ding Ow. Gawker reports that KTVU later apologized, claiming that the those racist names were given to them by the National Transportation Safety Board.  …

From today’s frothing editorial on Daily Caller: John Boehner says House Republicans will come up with their own bill. He must be stopped. Think of the Senate immigration bill as a syphilitic, two-headed, fire-breathing she-monster. And whatever the House comes up with will be a pig-faced cyclops with flipper-hands. And those two hell-beasts will be married in an unholy ceremony …

It figures that Barber would cite crackpot conspiracy whackjob Alex Jones.

“There will no longer be a special category for these 15 states — many of which are now at the forefront of elected minorities! From now on, these regions will have the same equal opportunity to define their voting laws as anyone else. For too long, states like Alabama, which brought the lawsuit, have been prisoners of history. Instead of …

What that uniform he’s wearing?

LGBT Rights Coalition We, America’s leading LGBT advocacy organizations, join civil rights organizations – and indeed, all Americans whom this law has served to protect – in expressing acute dismay at today’s ruling. Not only had Congress repeatedly reaffirmed the need for this bedrock civil rights protection, but authoritative voices from across America had filed amicus briefs urging the court …

UPDATE: Interestingly, the video was made private moments ago after receiving hundreds of comments at YouTube. I’ll repost if it goes live again.  The clip had already been posted on Huffington Post and dozens of other sites.  The New York Times has posted a lengthy recap. UPDATE II: Raw Story has mirrored the clip. UPDATE III: Deen has posted a …

General Mills had to disable YouTube comments a couple of weeks ago after racists descended on their Cheerios ad which features an interracial family. Here’s an amusing response (not from General Mills). Wait for the ending. (Tipped by JMG reader Daniel)

The Postal Service has suspended mail service to the University of Chicago’s Phi Delta Theta fraternity after a racist and homophobic “prank” was pulled on a mailman. Postal carrier Iran Becton said about a week after Memorial Day he had an order to deliver dozens of postal supply boxes to the Phi Delta Theta fraternity at 56th Street and University …