Above Photo: Senators Chris Murphy and John McCain in Kiev, Ukraine on December 15, 2013 with Oleh Tyahnybok, leader of the neo-Nazi Svoboda Party (AP) Two mass shootings in quick succession brought out the worst in Americans. The anger and grief were followed by the usual lies and pretense that violence here is somehow mysterious. Political leaders advocate state violence all the time, calling for new victims to be created here and around the world. A settler colonial state founded on indigenous genocide and African enslavement that is still addicted to the doctrine of racial domination will be violent. How could […]
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A Detroit leader of the Black Lives Matter movement is set to appear in court to challenge racist and retaliatory felony charges. For marching to demand the firing of a Chief of Police who called BLM protestors “subhuman” and said they belonged in “body bags”. Tristan Taylor, a co-founder of Detroit Will Breathe (DWB) and a Left Voice member, is defending himself in court on Monday, May 23, against felony charges for protesting the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in 2020. Taylor is one of the Shelby 5, a group of protestors facing felony charges for demanding that Robert Shellide, […]
Above photo: Buffalo area where racist gunmen killed ten people. Provided by author. Ten were gunned down in a supermarket in the heart of a historic African American community. A white racist gunman targeted and killed ten African Americans in a supermarket in an African American community in Buffalo, New York. The 18-year-old shooter, Payton Gendron, has been heavily influenced by the white supremacist ideology of replacement theory which encourages violent attacks against African Americans and other nationalities in the United States. According to reports, Gendron drove more than 200 miles in New York state to this location where on several […]
Denmark Apologizes For Racist Social Experiment On Greenlanders March 12, 2022 Denmark Apologizes For Racist Social Experiment On Greenlanders2022-03-122022-03-12https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220312-1.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen (R) with survivors from the failed Danish social experiment on Inuits. Aaja Chemnitz Larsen MP. As part of a social experiment program in 1951, the Danish government sent 22 Inuit children from Greenland to Denmark. Many of them remained separated from their families, lost their mother tongue and struggled with identity issues, facing severe trauma throughout their lives. On Wednesday, March 9, the government of Denmark paid an official apology to the Inuit children from […]
The detailed inner workings and operations of neo-Nazi organization Patriot Front have come to light after a massive leak from their chat servers. The exposed communications show coordination with their leader Thomas Rousseau to deface murals and monuments to Black lives across the United States, and intimate struggles to bolster morale through group activities like hiking and camping. This release includes more than 400 gigabytes of data published by Unicorn Riot. Ostensibly private, unedited videos and direct messages reveal a campaign to organize acts of racial hatred while indoctrinating teenagers into national socialism (Nazism). The information stands as a chilling reminder […]
Above Photo: John La Rose with schoolchildren at a supplementary school. (George Padmore Institute). A new archive tells the story of a radical community collective formed in the 1960s to challenge the treatment of Black pupils in UK schools. There are parallels with groups fighting inequalities in education today. The fight to end racial disparities that continue to blight the British education system has been energised by the Black Lives Matter movement, with a growing number of campaign groups joining the push to bring about real change in UK schools. Grassroots organizations such as No More Exclusions (NME) are aiming to end exclusions that […]
Perdue Farms has struggled to distance itself from Sen. David Perdue (R-Georgia) after he ‘mispronounced’ Kamala Harris’ name in a ‘racist’ way, triggering a wave of outraged calls for a boycott of a totally unrelated firm. Twitter users have scolded the Georgia senator for his remarks at a Friday Trump campaign rally where he appeared to mock Harris’ name, poor humor some are chalking up to racism. “The most insidious thing that Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden are trying to perpetrate, and Bernie and Elizabeth and Kamala — Kah-ma-la or Kah-mah-la or Kamalamalamala, I don’t know…” Perdue said. Perdue Farms, a […]
After Republican Senator John Kennedy declared “racist” one of the worst insults Americans might face during Supreme Court confirmation hearings, social media took up the challenge, deluging the Louisianan with alternatives. Kennedy uttered the offending phrase in defense of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, the conservative lawmaker President Donald Trump nominated to the Supreme Court last month to fill the vacancy left by the deceased Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “I know, for someone unaccustomed to it, that it hurts to be called a racist. I think it’s one of the worst things you can call an American,” Kennedy declared in his trademark southern […]
Books on Trump: the gifts that keep on giving. Illustration: Guardian DesignWade through the vast tomes of books written about the president over the last four years and a horrifying picture emerges Guardian/UK: Donald Trump is not a reader but to the publishing industry he is the gift that keeps on giving. His time in the White House has yielded an avalanche of books with titles like Fear, Rage, Unhinged and Fire and Fury. Together, they paint a withering portrait of the 45th president. Some crackle with the fury of scorned employees. Others are banquets of gossip by seasoned reporters, whether highbrow (Bob Woodward) […]
The review website will require a news article from a “credible media outlet” before adding an alert warning of alleged racist behavior. (Image credit: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Source link
A 100-year-old statue of a black king has been banned from the nativity display of a cathedral in southern Germany after some in the parish called it “racist and disgusting”. Others, though, say it shouldn’t be removed or hidden. The Evangelical Church District of Ulm in the south of the country announced on Sunday that it would remove the three Wise Men from Christmas displays at Ulm Cathedral this festive season. The statues include the figure of King Melchior, whose dark black skin, large red lips and hunched posture have been called “racist.” The move comes amid an on-going race debate […]
Racist Roots: Origins Of North Carolina’s Death Penalty By Henderson Hill, NC Policy Watch. October 6, 2020 Racist Roots: Origins Of North Carolina’s Death Penalty2020-10-062020-10-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/durhamstatue-e1602012728635.jpg200px200px Above photo: Durham, NC confederate statue. Rodney Dunning. Editor’s note: The following are excerpts from Racist Roots: Origins of North Carolina’s Death Penalty, a comprehensive project by the Center for Death Penalty Litigation. The project includes more than thirty pieces, including essays and opinion, interviews, poems and artworks. It also chronicles the death penalty’s evolution over time, and connects each piece to a broader historical framework. Please visit the website to see these essays in their original format and […]
Madison police found no evidence to corroborate Althea Bernstein’s claim four white men tried to set her on fire during a night of riots in the Wisconsin capital in June, but will not charge her with filing a false report. Bernstein, 18, had claimed that four white men sprayed her with lighter fluid through the open window of her car as she sat at a red light in downtown Madison, then threw a flaming lighter at her while yelling racial slurs. She suffered burns on her neck and face and had them treated at a local hospital. Her case had attracted […]
New law Surfaces South’s Racist Beginnings Of Felon Voter Disenfranchisement By Iliana Hagenah, Scalawag Magazine. September 30, 2020 New law Surfaces South’s Racist Beginnings Of Felon Voter Disenfranchisement2020-09-302020-09-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/untitled-35-scaled-e1601481733124.jpg200px200px Above photo: Tennessee Highway Patrol confiscates a sign local activists set up on the Tennessee Capitol grounds. Alex Kent. Tennessee – In June, large crowds of Black Lives Matter protesters occupied the plaza in front of Tennessee’s State Capitol, where inside, a 44-inch bust of the first Klu Klux Klan Grand Wizard, Nathan Bedford Forrest, has sat still in his bronze bearing for over 40 years. A line of state troopers stood silently on […]
Boston University professor and anti-racism activist Ibram Kendi has called to expunge the words “not racist” from the “human vocabulary,” arguing the term denies real racism. But not everyone was on board. “We should eliminate the term ‘not racist’ from the human vocabulary,” Kendi tweeted Sunday. “We are either being racist or antiracist. Is that clear for you? There is no such thing as ‘not racist.’” Actually what I’m saying is we should eliminate the term “not racist” from the human vocabulary. We are either being racist or antiracist. Is that clear for you? There’s no such thing as “not racist.” […]
The Spanish language sibling to the Miami Herald apologized after including an insert filled with anti-Semitic screeds. The publishers of both papers admitted the issue has been going on for months. Source link
The Former French President was appearing on a television show that focused on racial issues that have gained particular awareness recently, amid Black Lives Matter protests triggered in the US by the death of black man George Floyd that sent shock waves reverberating globally Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has sparked a race row in France, using the word “monkeys” before weighing in on a controversy over racist language in a TV interview on French television. The debate on “Quotidien” touched upon the belated decision to change the French translation of an Agatha Christie novel’s title to remove the N-word. “[There’s] […]
Already targeted in the recent past, the Winston Churchill statue has been defaced and dubbed ‘racist’ again, with the man suspected of doing this being literally removed from the scene in front of TV cameras. A young man was spotted spray-painting the words ‘is a racist’ on the base of the bronze Churchill statue just as the Extinction Rebellion rally gained pace on Thursday. The graffiti-savvy suspect – apparently caught red-handed – was arrested by Met Police on suspicion of vandalizing the statue. Footage by Ruptly video agency shows a cohort of London police officers making way for their colleagues carrying […]
As Scotland prepares to head to the polls at Holyrood elections next year, the question of how to oppose independence and a mandate to hold a second referendum because increasingly important for the unionist camp. A British Conservative politician was slammed online on Sunday for being “divisive” after she suggested that the Scottish Labour leader’s accent was the reason for the party’s poor performance. Dehenna Davison, MP for Bishop Auckland, near Durham, claimed that the Labour Party isn’t doing well in Scotland because their leader Richard Leonard has a “Lancashire accent” Richard Leonard quickly corrected the MP, pointing out that his […]
Here we go. It’s law and order week. And with the eyes of the nation fixed on Kenosha, Joe Biden is going to… southwestern Pennsylvania, to give a speech on why you aren’t safe in Donald Trump’s America. And Trump is going to Kenosha on Tuesday. So we confront one of the enduring questions of American presidential politics, which goes back to Richard Nixon’s time: Can the Republicans scare enough white people into thinking that their beautiful suburb is going to be taken over by Black criminals if the Democrat wins? Pretty much every liberal I know is terrified that the […]
President Trump spoke out against violence, looting and anarchy of the violent left during his RNC speech tonight. And immediately following his speech the left swarmed, harassed and attacked Trump supporters leaving the speech to their get to their cars. Advertisement – story continues below One elderly Trump supporter was swarmed and knocked down by the BLM, Biden mob outside the White House. Another man was cornered by the White House gate and swarmed by HUNDREDS of violent leftists following the president’s speech. TRENDING: You Knew This Was Coming… Nancy Pelosi: “I Don’t Think That There Should Be Any Debates… I […]
Bette Midler, the 74-year-old entertainer took aim at Melania Trump’s manner of speaking and accent during the first lady’s Rose Garden pre-election address, branding her “an illegal alien”, in a dig at President Trump’s well-known moniker for illegal migrants. Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan has resumed his old feud with Hollywood star Bette Midler by calling her “racist” for comments about US First Lady Melania Trump, just days after they traded jibes over Meghan Markle. He launched a rant in his iconic manner, attacking the 74-year-old comedienne for her “racism” because she found fault with Melania Trump who she noted […]
Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron, the first black Attorney General in Kentucky’s history, spoke at the RNC 2020 on Tuesday night. Daniel was a huge hit!He claimed his place as a rising star in the Republican Party! This was too much for the American left.Racist liberals immediately attacked Daniel online after his amazing speech. Democrat journalist Oliver Willis hurled a racist slur at the Kentucky Attorney General. TRENDING: Media Blackout: North Carolina Man Arrested For Shooting at Crowd of Trump Supporters, Which Included Children He’s a “sellout.” Uncle Remus. He is to busy dealing with his insecurities as a black man. […]
Earlier it was reported that British patriotic songs such as “Land of Hope and Glory” and “Rule Britannia” could be dropped from the setlist of the Last Night of the Proms amid Black Lives Matter protests and anti-colonial sentiment. The scandal over whether such popular patriotic songs as Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory should be scrapped from the setlist of Last Night of the Proms in three weeks’ time spiraled further, as the centuries-old anthems were pronounced ‘racist propaganda’ in a debate on ITV’s Good Morning Britain on Monday. The BBC is reportedly considering dropping the songs, which […]
Meet the GOP’s version of “The Squad”: Anti-Muslim bigot Laura Loomer; anti-LGBT, Christian sharia-law-loving Bob Good; QAnon supporter/anti-Muslim bigot Marjorie Taylor Greene; and Madison Cawthorn, who surrounds himself with white supremacist symbols and called visiting Hitler’s vacation home something on his “bucket list.” All four of these people recently won their respective GOP primaries for Congress, and it’s expected that three of the four (all but Loomer) will win in November. As I’ve written before, Trump is not an aberration, he’s a manifestation of everything the GOP has been working toward for years. And this new wave of Republicans is the true […]
Reckoning With Labor Law’s Racist Roots By Marina Multhaup, On Labor. August 22, 2020 Reckoning With Labor Law’s Racist Roots2020-08-222020-08-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2018/07/farm-fields-migrant-workers_usda.jpg200px200px The Washington Supreme Court is currently deliberating a case that could have major economic effects for our most vulnerable workers while beginning to unravel one long-standing piece of our nation’s white supremacist history. The case, Martinez-Cuevas v. Deruyter Brothers Dairy, has gone relatively uncovered by national media but speaks to the national moment that we’re in. A decision is due imminently. The plaintiffs are farmworkers Jose Martinez-Cuevas and Patricia Aguilar, who filed suit against the dairy industry for overtime wages. Agricultural workers are […]
The development comes amidst an increasingly polarised debate over police attitudes toward minority ethnic groups in the UK. A recent poll by the charity, Hope Not Hate, found that 65% of British BAME (Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic) individuals believe that the police are biased against them. Che Donald, the national vice-chair of the Police Federation. has written in an op-ed for the Telegraph that he does not believe the British police are “institutionally racist” despite an explosion of arguments saying that they are following the recent vehicle stop of black Labour MP, Dawn Butler. Ms. Butler, a shadow equalities minister under the […]
HAMTRAMCK, MI —Nakiya Wakes was pregnant with twins in 2014 when the water coming out of her home’s tap in Flint turned brown and began to stink. Within months, she had lost both babies. Soon after, she again became pregnant with twins. Once again, she lost them in a miscarriage. More recently, Wakes’ daughter miscarried, and the family fears she’s unable to have children. Meanwhile, her son started puberty at seven years old and developed dramatic cognitive and behavior problems that have steered his young life off course, she said. The health problems all trace back to Flint’s poisoned water, Wakes told […]
The slogan gained momentum late last week as radio host Rush Limbaugh brought up Kamala Harris’ short-lived relationship with San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown 25 years ago. Amazon has taken down t-shirts from their website featuring the slogan “Joe and the H*e” following an online blacklash from users referring to them as racist, and “totally unacceptable”. Amazon removed the “Joe and the h*e” items. Story updated. Waiting on confirmation on whether they are removing the “Kamala smelled the best” items or not. — Josh Rivera (@Josh1Rivera) August 19, 2020 The derogatory line alludes to a rumour that Harris, Joe Biden’s running […]
What is it about courtside at the Oakland Arena that really brings out the worst our country has to offer? You may recall, during the 2019 NBA Finals, when Golden State Warriors’ part-owner and venture-capitalist scumbag Mark Stevens took a second out of his night to shove Raptors guard Kyle Lowry and then call him a “piece of shit,” all for the crime of trying hard at his job. It was a moment of pure id from the billionaire class—a rank display of how they regard the people they lord over, even when those people are multi-millionaire future Hall of Famers. […]
On September 11, 2017, Jemele Hill tweeted, “Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounding himself w/ other white supremacists.” And, even though the 99-character pronouncement came a few weeks after Trump referred to a group of white nationalist protesters as “very fine people,” pearls were firmly clutched. A vocal faction of conservatives, including the president and his then-press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, called on ESPN to fire Hill. They publicly censured her instead, calling Hill’s actions “inappropriate” and strong-arming the SC6 co-host into issuing a half-hearted apology to the Worldwide Leader. Five months—and one tweet criticizing Cowboys’ owner […]
A holiday resort chain which sponsors Sean Hannity’s Fox News show has found itself in the crosshairs of cancel-happy Twitter users after the host convinced the platform to mark a critical video of him as “manipulated media.” The video which sparked the latest social media drama showed Hannity making comments critical of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, juxtaposed with footage of Donald Trump, which made it appear as though Hannity was targeting the president, whom he staunchly supports. After getting the footage flagged as “manipulated media” by Twitter, MeidasTouch, the liberal group who put the video together, released an updated version, […]
Amid accusations of not doing enough to prevent migrants from arriving in the UK, France earlier sought additional finances from the British authorities to guard the English Channel against the spike in illegal crossings, with the Royal Navy called in for the first time this summer to help tackle the crisis. UK Home Secretary Priti Patel unleashed a diplomatic row after reportedly claiming migrants attempting the often perilous journey across the English Channel sought to escape ‘racist’ France, reported the Daily Mail. The remarks were believed to have been made in a private zoom conference call with Tory MPs, where Patel […]
President Trump’s amplification of a false “birther” conspiracy against Sen. Kamala Harris has been criticized. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption toggle caption Patrick Semansky/AP President Trump’s amplification of a false “birther” conspiracy against Sen. Kamala Harris has been criticized. Patrick Semansky/AP Twenty-four hours after entertaining and amplifying a false and racist birther conspiracy aimed at Sen. Kamala Harris, President Trump had an opportunity to correct the record. He didn’t. Neither did his son-in-law and top adviser Jared Kushner. For Trump, this is a return to familiar territory. “Unfortunately, this might have been inevitable,” said Doug Heye, a former Republican National Committee communications […]
Since he was in elementary school summiting flagpoles, eating his lunch at the top of basketball hoops, and wriggling his way up the exposed seams of brick buildings, Kai Lightner has been a fearless climber. The 20-year-old professional from Fayetteville, North Carolina, has tackled some of the hardest routes in the world, ascending the formidable Era Vella in Margalef, Spain, when he was just 15. Still there are some spots he won’t go near—not due to any dangerous grade or slope, but because of the name. Across the U.S., Canada, and parts of Mexico, the so-called “First Ascensionists” who create routes […]
ROME—The crypt holding the remains of Benito Mussolini in his hometown of Predappio in northern Italy has for years drawn neofascists and other sympathizers who come to pay their ill-guided respects to Italy’s father of Fascism. And even while images from across the world have shown that old monuments to worse times are being torn down, in Italy things are very different. Just this month, Mussolini’s descendants applied to the town council to make his tomb into a national monument, citing the number of people it draws each year and the tourism dollars in the way of fascist souvenirs that are […]
It’s a peaceful protest. A security guard was shot in Chicago as widespread violent rioting and looting overwhelmed the city. The rioting began on Sunday evening in response to a black man who was shot by police after reportedly shooting at them first. The guard, who has not yet been identified, is said to be in stable condition. TRENDING: Black Lives Matter Pulls Gun on Truck Driver, Then Mob Hurls Bottles at Vehicles who Want to Get Through Their Roadblock — Update: Gunman Identified – Jonathan Howe Officers can’t get EMS in to get security guard that has been shot. BLM […]
“Keeping Up with the Kardashians” star Kylie Jenner has faced several criticisms in the past over her alleged appropriation of black culture with her braided hair shoots and too-tanned makeup. However, her recent appearance in Cardi B’s and Megan Thee Stallion’s music clip was slammed as never before. A petition to remove Kylie Jenner’s brief cameo from Cardi B’s WAP video has now received over 64,000 signatures, according to Change.org. The wild music clip, which also featured Megan Thee Stallion and other well-established female R&B musicians, premiered this week, and soon gathered the attention of Jenner’s haters, who said that her […]
LaShawn Ford, a Democrat in the Illinois General Assembly, has called for an immediate halt of history classes that he claims “lead to white privilege and a racist society,” sparking concerns over an Orwellian revision of history. “I’m calling on the state board of education to end the teaching of history and the local school districts to take immediate action by removing the current history books and curriculum practices that unfairly communicate our history,” Ford said Sunday at an event in Evanston, Illinois. His vague plan calls for temporarily replacing history classes by devoting greater attention to civics and ensuring that […]
Seattle lawmakers are attempting to completely defund the city’s police department and replace it with a new “civilian-led” public safety system in response to ongoing Black Lives Matter protests. The Seattle City Council has already come under fire this week for proposing a 50 percent cut to the police department’s budget — a proposal that prompted hundreds of citizens to express their concerns during a council meeting on Wednesday. Yet, newly revealed legislation now shows that the council may be doing a lot more than simply stripping police of half their funding. Lawmakers are moving to completely abolish the police department […]
In a primary debate Sunday night, 39-year-old Rep. Joe Kennedy III was asked again about his decision to join a famously racist, Robert E. Lee revering fraternity in the early 2000s and why he’d only recently made the decision to disaffiliate himself from it. Kennedy punted again, saying that “I wish I hadn’t joined” but that his Stanford chapter of Kappa Alpha “had almost no relation with the national organization, and had none of the behaviors or traditions of that national organization,” while suggesting that he knew nothing about those behaviors or traditions while he was an undergrad. Those were the […]
The radio host had Biden on his popular radio show The Breakfast Club in May, where the Democrat claimed that black people who vote for Donald Trump “ain’t black”. Charlamagne tha God has ripped Joe Biden for calling Donald Trump the first racist president in US history. “How the hell can Donald Trump be the first racist president in a country where 12 presidents before him owned slaves?” the radio host said on his show The Breakfast Club on Friday. “I really wish Joe Biden would shut the eff up forever and continue to act like he’s starring in the movie […]
The issue of race has become a centerpiece of the US presidential election after the death of George Floyd rekindled public debate about social justice and systemic racism. Joe Biden and Donald Trump have been accusing each other of doing too little, or doing wrong, on the sensitive subject. Democratic candidate Joe Biden has claimed that his rival Donald Trump is the first racist to win the presidency. “The way [Trump] deals with people based on the colour of their skin, their national origin, where they’re from, is absolutely sickening,” Biden told a virtual town hall hosted by the Service Employees […]
Senile Joe Biden made some headlines today after he smeared President Trump as the first racist president. Democrats hope if they call President Trump enough names they will win the White House with senile Joe. Trump Campaign Blasts Biden Over First ‘Racist’ President Smear Not only was Joe Biden’s remarks offensive they were inaccurate. There have been several racist Democrat Presidents throughout American history. TRENDING: Photo Appears to Show Black Lives Matter Supporters Holding Down and Kneeling on Neck of White Baby President Woodrow Wilson may have been the worst racist Democrat president in history — although there were others. A […]
De’Andre Arnold appearing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in January following his suspension from high school because of a grooming policy forbidding long hair in boys. Arnold refused to cut his dreadlocks and was barred from attending his high school graduation ceremony and senior prom. Courtesy Ellen Digital Ventures hide caption toggle caption Courtesy Ellen Digital Ventures De’Andre Arnold appearing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in January following his suspension from high school because of a grooming policy forbidding long hair in boys. Arnold refused to cut his dreadlocks and was barred from attending his high school graduation ceremony and senior […]
Logo in lower right is Qanon Daily Beast: Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and fixer, will allege in his forthcoming memoir that Trump has made “virulently racist” comments about Barack Obama and Nelson Mandela. The Washington Post reports the revelations are contained in Monday night’s court filings relating to Cohen being sent back to prison this month, weeks after he was released and told he would be allowed to serve the remainder of his sentence on home confinement because of the coronavirus pandemic. Michael Cohen Book Alleges Trump Made ‘Virulently Racist’ Comments About Obama and Mandela: Court Documents @MichaelCohen212 is apparently […]
Internet users have expressed bewilderment and amusement over a petition denouncing “racist” Trader Joe brands. The company has already admitted wrongdoing and claims it is in the process of discontinuing its “harmful” packaging. The Change.org petition calls on the popular grocery chain in the US to remove the labels used for some of its ethnic food, claiming that the “racist” practice “perpetuates harmful stereotypes.” The internet complaint listed “Trader Ming’s,” which is used to brand the chain’s Chinese food, and “Trader José,” the label used for Mexican foods, as examples of this purportedly inappropriate packaging policy. Trader Joe’s name is itself […]
Harvard University is again caught up in controversy over a name that some students and alumni have found to be racially offensive, as an activist group is pressing the Ivy League school to rename its Board of Overseers. The Coalition for a Diverse Harvard is taking issue with the word “overseers” because it harkens back to slavery. The men hired by plantation owners to supervise and violently control slaves were called overseers. The activist group has been urging individual members of Harvard’s second-highest governing body to get rid of the word “overseers” in its name since 2017, and with anti-racism protesters […]
Despite the efforts of Trump’s family to block the release of his niece’s bombshell memoire, the book still saw the light this week. Almost 1 million copies of “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man” have already been sold on the first day of its release, setting a new record for its publisher. Donald Trump, who calls himself “the least racist person” in the world, has used anti-Semitic expressions in the past and the N-word, his niece claimed during a Thursday interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, according to the show’s preview, aired on NBC […]
Daily Beast: In her new best-selling book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, and in subsequent interviews, Mary Trump has said it was “sort of normal” while growing up to hear her family use the “n-word” or anti-Semitic expressions. But in a new interview with Rachel Maddow set to air Thursday night on MSNBC, she went even further, confirming that she personally has heard her uncle, President Donald Trump, use that language. “Have you heard the president use the ’n-word?’’’ — Rachel @maddow “Yeah.” — @MaryLTrump “And anti-Semitic slurs specifically?” — @maddow “Yes.” — […]
Staying woke on what’s acceptable and what’s racist is an ongoing process of shifting standards, as a Rolling Stone writer proved with the latest addition to terms that have surprisingly been branded as bigotry: “pro-life.” Jamil Smith, a senior writer who covers “the intersection of politics and identity” for the magazine, opined on Twitter Wednesday that the term “pro-life” deserves to be banished along with other recently outlawed characters and words. A wave of racial sensitivity brought on by the Black Lives Matter protest movement has already brought down decades-old consumer products brands such as Uncle Ben’s rice, and forced the renaming […]
The Daily Show host Trevor Noah checked in on Tuesday with Tucker Carlson, “Fox News primetime star and mom haircut model.” The previous night, Carlson finally addressed the controversy surrounding his show’s top writer, Blake Neff, who was fired by Fox for a history of racist, misogynistic and homophobic online posts. “So Fox News got rid of the guy,” Noah said, “but it appears Tucker Carlson might have some mixed feelings about how it all went down.” After telling viewers that he does not “endorse” Neff’s comments, Carlson said, “we should also point out to the ghouls now beating their chests […]
Top rated Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson announced a “long planned” trout fishing vacation Monday night after a senior writer on his show Blake Neff resigned in disgrace after racist and sexist comments he posted anonymously online were exposed by CNN late last week. Carlson said Brian Kilmeade would be filling in the next four nights and that taped segments would be shown. Carlson held out the possibility of returning sooner “if something dramatic happens”. Carlson addressed the resignation of Neff and his own vacation plans in separate segments on Monday’s show. Here’s how @TuckerCarlson addressed his former top writer […]
Fox News host Tucker Carlson addressed Monday night the resignation of his former top writer Blake Neff, who resigned late last week after CNN reported on his lengthy past history of pseudonymously posting racist and bigoted remarks on an online forum that openly trafficked in racist content. Carlson then announced he was taking a “long-planned vacation.” It came across as a both-sides argument, in which he said that while what Neff wrote was wrong, those in the media should be careful with their “self-righteousness.” “First, what Blake wrote anonymously was wrong,” Carlson said. “We don’t endorse those words. They have no […]
West Midlands Police raised some eyebrows on social media after proudly announcing they had arrested a 12yo boy just hours after he sent racist threats and images of the Ku Klux Klan to footballer Wilfried Zaha. Prior to a Sunday match between Aston Villa and Crystal Palace, Zaha tweeted out the hateful messages he received overnight. “Woke up to this today,” Zaha wrote. Screenshots of the messages included a threat to come to the athlete’s house “dressed as a ghost” if he scored in his upcoming match. Zaha also added a screenshot of the account that had sent the messages his way. […]
The Racist Underpinnings Of The American Way Of War By Walden Bello, Foreign Policy in Focus. July 8, 2020 The Racist Underpinnings Of The American Way Of War2020-07-082020-07-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/shutterstock_144525842-e1594230109435.jpg200px200px Above photo: Shutterstock. The deadly interplay of racism, genocide, and denial at the heart of American white society has been reproduced in the country’s wars. The U.S. military command’s pushback against President Donald Trump’s attempt to use the military against people demanding racial justice has received a lot of good press. But let’s not overdo the praise. For most of their existence, the U.S. Armed Forces were racially segregated. It was only in […]
A video showing the head of a San Francisco tech firm verbally abusing an Asian family has caught the attention of ‘cancel’ crusaders, but it appears the witch hunt has already resulted in collateral damage. Michael Lofthouse, the CEO of IT company Solid8, was caught on camera making racist remarks to a family seated next to him at a restaurant. The video begins with one of the family members, Jordan Chan, daring Lofthouse to “say it again,” suggesting that the altercation had already started. Also on rt.com From everyday language to the worlds of Shakespeare and Austin, mainstream media looks for […]
Another day, another hate hoax…Umatilla County commissioner candidate Jonathan Lopez admitted this week he faked the hate mail he posted on his facebook page. Lopez posted the hateful letter filled with racist, homophobic and misogynist slurs.What a nut. And Lopez said he served in the US Coast Guard.It was another lie and violation of the Stolen Valor Act. KOMO News reported: TRENDING: Radical Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar Calls For “Dismantling” of US “Economy and Political Systems” (VIDEO) A man who claimed he received a hate-filled, racist letter from an anonymous person allegedly wrote the letter himself, Hermiston Police say. Chief Jason […]
When one of Bloomington, Indiana’s most prominent Black activists filmed a harrowing encounter by men who allegedly threatened to hang him, locals held a protest in his defense. But that same Monday night, the protest was met with a car plowing through demonstrators. Bloomington, like many American cities, is undergoing a public reckoning over racism. One Bloomington incident made national news this week, after activist Vauhxx Booker shared videos of a group of white men attacking him in the woods on July 4 and pinning him to a tree. Booker claimed the men had accused him and his friends of trespassing, […]
A midseason update for ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’ and ‘Warzone’ has one difference fans are pointing out: the removal of the ‘kay’ hand gesture, which has been deemed racist by politically correct activists on social media. When I tweeted about this, it was a joke, but you actually removed the “OK” hand gesture from the game? lol pic.twitter.com/Zc9rR8RvOu — 🇨🇺GG RELOADED🇨🇺 (@GOHGAMER) July 1, 2020 Producers behind the games have released no official word on the removal of the symbol from the game, leaving fans only to speculate as to the reason. Changes have been made to gameplay in the […]
Two women activists were hit by a car last night in downtown Seattle early in the morning on July 4th. The women activists were standing on the interstate at 1:30 AM. The protesters were wearing black on the highway at 1:30 AM. The car suffered front grill and windshield damage. TRENDING: Two Women Activists Hit by Car on I-5 Outside Seattle — Suffer Serious Injuries After Hitting Windshield and Front Grill …..Video The driver was in custody but was not impaired when he hit the women on the highway. Here are two pictures of the suspect vehicle that struck two protesters […]
Many brands have recently reconsidered their name and actions in light of anti-racist protests rocking the US and some European countries. Last week, the US country music trio Dixie Chicks changed its name to remove the reference to Confederate states, which, in the mid 19th century, fought to preserve the enslavement of Blacks in the US. One of the top American football teams, the Washington Redskins, has announced that it will carry out a “thorough review” of the team’s name in a bid to rid itself of its derogatory perception, but while preserving the team’s heritage. “This process allows the team […]
The debate over The Little Mermaid plot and the story’s key figure started last year after Disney tapped an African-American actress for the main role in a new remake, but now it has apparently received a new twist in the wake of the sweeping BLM protests. One of Copenhagen’s main landmarks, the statue of Hans Christian Andersen’s the Little Mermaid, has been vandalised, with citizens waking up on Friday to see two words – “racist fish” – written on its stone base in the Scandinavian city’s harbour. “We consider it vandalism and have started an investigation”, a Copenhagen police spokesman said […]
The President of the Czech Republic, Milos Zeman, told an audience this week that “Black Lives Matter” is racist. Zeman added, “The slogan Black Lives Matter is racist because all lives count.”Of course, he has a point. #Czech President Milos Zeman while visiting the US Ambassador’s residence in #Prague, said the slogan #BlackLivesMattters is racisthttps://t.co/16vppaL5HO pic.twitter.com/vuP3A550e9 — Prague Morning (@PragueMorning) July 1, 2020 TRENDING: BREAKING: Epstein Confidante Ghislaine Maxwell Arrested, Sources Say Die Presse reported (Translated) Milos Zeman based his statement on the fact that “all lives count”. You don’t need “new ideas leaders”. Czech President Milos Zeman has described the […]
Veiled by comfortably coded references to local control, curricular discretion, and choice, racial bias subsists throughout the educational status quo. The threads of racism are deeply woven into the fabric of American schooling. To start with the most obvious targets, school district lines and property taxes largely follow patterns of racial and income segregation, with wealthier, whiter districts often getting even wealthier by disproportionate access to rigged systems of state aid. The map of America’s over 10,000 school districts is the geography of institutional racism. Whatever other more neutral reasons are ascribed to this politically determined checkerboard: “neighborhood,” “community,” “self-determination,” it […]
Pro-Israel Racist Group ADL Moves To Co-Opt Black Lives Matter By Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada. July 1, 2020 Pro-Israel Racist Group ADL Moves To Co-Opt Black Lives Matter2020-07-012020-07-01https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/israeli-soldiers-with-blindfolded-palestinian-from-zuma-press.-e1593619684543.jpg200px200px Above photo: The Anti-Defamation League tries to portray itself as an ally of Black Lives Matter while shielding Israel from criticism for its abuses of Palestinian rights. Wisam Hashlamoun for ZUMA Press. For those who yearn for an end to systemic racism, these are exhilarating times as Black activists and organizations lead a global uprising against symbols and structures of white supremacy. But if you are a racist group masquerading as a civil rights organization, […]
When Brandon Sicilia was named the police chief of Price City last July, some residents of the small Utah town were “horrified.” While the 47-year-old law enforcement official had spent over two decades serving the Carbon County city of 8,715 residents, he also had a history of posting vile, racist comments on Facebook. “Ol’ Busta, once again demonstrated the prime example of a Typical coward N—er. BTW: I don’t use the term much… But, when I do, It’s equivalent to one satanic S.O.B,” Sicilia wrote in a 2016 post, obtained by The Daily Beast, that didn’t censor the N-word. In a […]
On Friday Former Formula One Boss Bernie Ecclestone came under fire after an appearance on CNN Sport, where he claimed that, in his opinion, in many cases “Black people are more racist than what white people are.” Former chief executive of Formula One Group Bernie Ecclestone has defended himself against a backlash for his earlier statements, which were deemed as“racist”, insisting he doesn’t care if someone is “yellow, green, brown or pink” in a Mail on Sunday interview. The ex-Formula 1 boss, 89, found himself in hot water after a TV interview for CNN Sport on 26 June. In a reference […]
By Christian K. Anderson, The Conversation When I toured the South Carolina Governor’s Mansion in 2019, I noticed the multi-volume papers of John C. Calhoun on display. It struck me as remarkable that Calhoun’s ideas would be featured so prominently given his vigorous defense of slavery and his role in laying the groundwork for the Civil War. But the reality is Calhoun’s legacy until now has been quite prominent in American society—and not just in the South. His statue stands between the two chambers of the House and Senate in the South Carolina Statehouse. However, a separate statue in Charleston has […]
The Board of Trustees says that naming a public policy school after a political leader implies they are considered a role model for students, which they no longer attribute to Wilson. Princeton University is removing the name of Woodrow Wilson, the 28th US president, from the public policy school and Wilson College, according to a statement posted on the school’s website. The college has decided that Wilson, despite his achievements as a leader of the country, is still a “racist who segregated the nation’s civil service after it had been integrated for decades”. “The trustees conclude that Woodrow Wilson’s racist thinking and […]
…by Jonas E. Alexis As Jim W. Dean would have put it, you can’t make this stuff up. We are living in an age where virtually everything can be construed as racism, including mathematics, which we all know is a universal language and which is based on logical and rational patterns. Rochelle Gutierrez is a math education instructor at the University of Illinois. Back in 2017, she promiscuously argued that mathematics “operates as whiteness” and is therefore racist. “Who gets credit for doing and developing mathematics, who is capable in mathematics, and who is seen as part of the mathematical community […]
Bernie Ecclestone, who stepped down from his top F1 post in 2017, said that the diversity issue wasn’t as pressing during his time as boss of the auto racing company as it is now. Former head of the Formula One Group Bernie Ecclestone has said that “in lots of cases, black people are more racist than what white people are”, while praising the drive for diversity demonstrated by current F1 chief and BLM supporter Lewis Hamilton, CNN quoted him as saying. “People ought to think a little bit and think: ‘Well, what the hell. Somebody’s not the same as white people and black […]
George Preston Marshall, the last NFL owner to accept the integration of black players into the league, is to have his name removed from Washington Redskins “Ring of Fame” and website, the team has announced. Marshall, who died more than fifty years ago, was a noted segregationist didn’t agree to the addition of black players on the Redskins roster until he was “forced to do so” in 1962. That move came an entire decade after the rest of the teams in the NFL had moved with the times – a fact which, given the current climate in US professional sports, has […]
Yahoo has published a column from their music editor Lyndsey Parker in which she argues that the Star Spangled Banner is “blatantly racist” and needs to go. In the column, Parker points out that Francis Scott Key, the author of the national anthem, had ties to anti-abolitionists and glorifies the criminal vandals who tore down a statue of him last week in San Francisco. “In an increasingly anti-racist era when problematic iconography — ranging from Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben to even the Dukes of Hazzard General Lee car and country band Lady Antebellum’s name — is being reassessed, revised or retired, America’s […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107970/96/1079709663_0:68:1280:788_1200x675_80_0_0_7de9ac7f2b7d8d8d175846d55897a117.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/society/202006241079709694-is-chess-racist-twitter-users-beg-mainstream-media-to-stop-mocking-racism/ A flood of social media comments ensued a debate encouraged by the Australian public broadcaster “about the racial context of whether white should go first.” ABC Sydney was hammered by criticism following a segment aired on Wednesday, where the question of a racial undertone in the game of chess was raised. Australian economist and chess player John Adams, who was asked to participate in the debate, accused the ABC of “broadcasting on irrelevant topics.” the rules of chess need to be altered! Trust the taxpayer funded national broadcaster to apply ideological Marxist frameworks to […]
The US president earlier shared viral footage mocking CNN compiled by a popular meme creator named Carpe Donktum. The edited video featured a black toddler running away from a white toddler and was later removed by Twitter and Facebook, following a copyright claim by one of the parents. Twitter has suspended the account of Carpe Donktum, whose memes have been shared by US President Donald Trump from time to time, for “repeated” violations of copyright complaints, the company’s spokesperson told Fox News. The user, whose identity remains unconfirmed, himself commented on the news, saying that his ban from the platform was […]
The president of the United States is facing a vexing problem: the racism he ran on is no longer in style. In fact, “76 percent of Americans—including 71 percent of white people—called racism and discrimination ‘a big problem’ in the United States.” This is an enormous shift in the America Donald Trump was elected to govern just three years ago. And while Trump’s base may be the same as it always was, the optics of the world have changed. This puts pressure on Trump to pretend to be less racist than he is. But even if the country is “theoretically” less […]
…by Jonas E. Alexis Muhammad Ali Jr., the son of the late boxing icon Muhammad Ali, has recently put a deathblow on the entire Black Lives Movement by saying that it is “racist.” Why? Because Black Lives Matter, said Ali Jr., is not concerned about all lives. “Ali Jr. said he believed his father would’ve supported the ‘all lives matter’ movement, and thought the legendary boxer would’ve believed current protestors were ‘nothing but devils’ after some demonstrations have turned destructive.”[1] Ali Jr. elaborated on his claim: “I think it’s racist. It’s not just Black lives matter, white lives matter, Chinese lives […]
As reported earlier—Irami Osei-Frimpong, a University of Georgia graduate student and teaching assistant recently wrote that some white people may have to die before black communities will be made whole. Note: His name is spelled Irami Osei-Frimpong on Twitter. Osei-Frimpong made the comments on Facebook and says he’s confused on why his words are so controversial. TRENDING: BREAKING: Ten People Shot in Minneapolis, Reports of ‘100 People Fighting With Various Weapons’ WSBTV reported: He speaks frequently about race and equality, but some critics believe he crossed the line when he made a post online that stated, “Some white people may have […]
Muhammad Ali’s only biological son says his father would have despised the “racist” Black Lives Matter movement and endorsed all races, never singling “anyone out.” ‘‘My father would have said, ‘They ain’t nothing but devils.’ My father said, ‘all lives matter,’” Muhammad Ali Jr. told the New York Post. The 47-year-old son of the legendary boxer, who is often noted as a cultural trailblazer for black Americans, did not stop at connecting his father to the “all lives matter” position. He also said Ali would have supported President Donald Trump — the late athlete endorsed both Democrat Jimmy Carter and Republican […]
Trump’s video caused waves on social media, as it showed an edited version of earlier viral footage of one black and one white toddler – known to be friends – running toward each other and hugging, with dark music and CNN-like captions and an end comment of “America isn’t the problem. Fake news is”. Facebook and Twitter have removed the so-called ‘racist baby’ video earlier posted by US President Donald Trump following a copyright claim by one of the parents of a toddler in the video. Before it was taken down, it had over 4 million views on Facebook and over […]
Ben & Jerry’s ice cream jumped on the Black Lives Matter bandwagon in 2016 and has lashed out at the Trump Administration over the years. In 2018, Ben & Jerry’s launched a “Pecan Resist” campaign and released a limited edition ice cream flavor to ‘resist oppression and fight injustice.’ “Ben & Jerry’s feels that it cannot be silent in the face of President Trump’s policies that attack and attempt to roll back decades of progress on racial and gender equity, climate change, LGBTQ rights, and refugee and immigrant rights – all issues that have been at the core of the company’s […]
Miko Peled (born 1961) is an Israeli-American activist, author, and karate instructor. He is author of the books The General’s Son: The Journey of an Israeli in Palestine and Injustice and Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five. He is also an international speaker. Miko Peled Born in Jerusalem in 1961, Peled grew up in Motza Illit to a prominent Zionist family; his grandfather, Avraham Katsnelson, signed Israel’s Declaration of Independence. His father, Mattityahu Peled, fought in 1947–1949 Palestine war, and served as a general in the Six-Day War of 1967; later, after the Israeli cabinet ignored […]
Pitchfork Union On Strike Over Racist Power Structures By Pitchfork Union, Popular Resistance. June 18, 2020 Pitchfork Union On Strike Over Racist Power Structures2020-06-182020-06-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/conde-nast-e1592489066983.jpg200px200px Above photo: Getty images. Today, the Pitchfork Union is engaging in a half-day work stoppage. From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST, union members will not publish or promote any new content on the website in protest of a blatant act of union-busting by Condé Nast and Pitchfork management. On May 13, Condé Nast engaged in company-wide layoffs. The only person in our union targeted was our Unit Chair and only Senior Editor of color, Stacey Anderson, […]
A Mexican-American man who was fired after being accused of flashing a “white power gesture” says he was merely cracking his knuckles, prompting demands that he be given his job back and a retraction from his accuser. Emmanuel Cafferty was recently terminated from his position at a San Diego utility company after an encounter with a stranger some two weeks ago. Stopped at an intersection, the stranger snapped a photo showing Cafferty in his truck with an arm hanging out of the window. The picture was promptly shared to Twitter, where it was alleged the man had flashed a symbol some […]
Calling out disinformation pushed by Fox News and other Trumpy outlets — you know, the guys who make up Black Lives Matter “mobs,” have “white power hours” and publish headlines like “Would you rather your daughter have cancer than feminism?” — is no easy feat. But in Episode 17 of The New Abnormal, Rick Wilson and Molly Jong-Fast talk to someone trying to do it, one screenshot at a time. Sleeping Giants’ Matt Rivitz talks about what it’s like to take on Brietbart, Bill O’Reilly, and Tucker Carlson — and win. He’s been pushing advertisers from Kellogg’s to Mars to drop […]
More cops for jail but this time they didn’t murder anyone…this time but they were, as predictable, Israeli trained: ***NEWS ALERT*** The Shenandoah County Sheriff’s Office staff and Sheriff Timothy Carter are proud to announce the graduation of Sgt Whitney Mauck and Sgt Chris James from the National Criminal Justice Command College. pic.twitter.com/kjP9f2ndz6 — SCSO (@ShenCoSheriffVA) September 20, 2019 Looks as though they are meth heads as well. Two supervisors of Sheriff Timothy Carter’s staff are on unpaid admin leave. The officers who arrested Pastor Leon McCray, probably knew the troublemakers/criminals yet still believed drug addled white people rather the pastor. […]
On Sunday night, John Oliver took some more shots at his new favorite target: Tucker Carlson, the white nationalist-adjacent Fox News anchor, former bow tie enthusiast, and heir to the Swanson TV dinner fortune. Two weeks ago, when Carlson claimed that the protests in Minneapolis were worse than “police brutality,” Oliver said, “OK, first: Fuck you, Tucker… people like Tucker love to venerate order at moments like this, and that’s easy to do when order in its current form is designed to benefit and protect you.” Carlson’s George Floyd protest rant (and all the dog-whistle-filled rants in its wake) cost the […]
Make up company L’Oréal Paris has conceded to the mob, and rehired their first transgender model who was fired in 2017 after going on a racist rant about whitey. Munroe Bergdorf, who is bi-racial, was hired by the make up giant in 2017, but would make headlines a short time later after she ranted about how all white people are racist and that whitey needs to “admit that their race is the most violent and oppressive force of nature on Earth.” After attempting to explain that she stands “for tolerance and acceptance” she was fired by L’Oréal. Leave it to hack […]
CNN anchor Jake Tapper lambasted President Donald Trump on Sunday morning for “standing firm” with Confederate generals as Washington begins moving forward with renaming several military bases named after Lost Cause leaders, noting that the president is openly backing “dead, racist losers.” Amid large nationwide protests over systemic racism and police brutality in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, there has been a renewed effort to remove Confederate monuments and rename government facilities christened with rebel leaders’ names. This includes the Armed Services Committee in the Senate voting to require the Pentagon to strip military bases and equipment of Confederate names, […]
The saying “Better late than never, I guess” has never felt so apt. After 18 years and 25 seasons, The Bachelor has finally announced the first black lead for its flagship series, Matt James. It’s a positive, if long overdue sign that the franchise is beginning to take its race problem seriously. But as longtime fans of the franchise well know, it’ll take more than one black lead to make amends for this franchise’s past failures on race. That The Bachelor is only now announcing its first Black lead, amid widespread Black Lives Matter protests in response to the murder of […]
Taylor Swift has no interest in preserving and protecting statues of racist leaders. In a lengthy Twitter thread posted Friday, the singer condemned several “racist” monuments in her home state of Tennessee. As protests have erupted across the country in support of Black Lives Matter, demanding justice for black Americans murdered by police, statues of various racist figures, most of them Confederate leaders, have toppled. As a result, a debate has begun to rage regarding these monuments’ historical significance as some states vow to repair and replace them—despite the violence and bigotry they represent. “Taking down statues isn’t going to fix […]
Lady Antebellum has a new name: Lady A. The country band announced its name change on Thursday in a statement, in which they wrote, “After much personal reflection, band discussion, prayer and many honest conversations with some of our closest black friends and colleagues, we have decided to drop the word ‘antebellum’ from our name and move forward as Lady A, the nickname our fans gave us almost from the start.” The move is a commendable one; the band’s name, referring to the period before the Civil War, connotes obvious ties to slavery. That association has shut down, among other things, […]
US law enforcement will be barred from using Amazon’s facial recognition software for one year, the company has announced, calling for stronger government regulations on the technology amid a broader push to reform policing. Amazon said it had placed a “one-year moratorium” on police use of its Rekognition software in a blog post on Wednesday, noting that organizations that “help rescue human trafficking victims and reunite missing children with their families” – which at times work with police – will be exempt from the ban. “We’ve advocated that governments should put in place stronger regulations to govern the ethical use of facial […]
One question was all it took for Cracker Barrel to begin trending on Twitter, with users slamming the restaurant as racist and others worrying it may be the next target for cancel culture. “Y’all ever walk in a place that just FEELS racist?” one user tweeted, before sharing a story of alleged discrimination at a “Southern-charm” store. After doing my research, I went back to buy it today. When I got to the counter, the cashier asked me if I was aware it was several hundred dollars… as if I would’ve come to checkout without knowing the price of the mattress […]
HBO Max has abruptly deleted ‘Gone With the Wind,’ widely considered a classic in American cinema, after screenwriter John Ridley called for its immediate removal, arguing the film “romanticizes” slavery. The 1939 film, set on a southern plantation in the aftermath of the Civil War, was removed from the HBO Max platform on Tuesday, with the company explaining that it depicts “ethnic and racial prejudices” which were “wrong then and are wrong today.” “We felt that to keep this title up without an explanation and a denouncement of those depictions would be irresponsible,” HBO said in a statement, adding the film would return to the platform, […]
At least three black Liberty University employees have resigned directly as a result of President Jerry Falwell Jr.’s tweet in which he declared he would only wear a COVID-19 mask if it were one depicting the 1984 photo of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam allegedly wearing blackface. Falwell, the long-time head of the evangelical Virginia school founded in 1971 by his father, tweeted the infamous photo of a person in Ku Klux Klan robe and another in blackface on May 27, attempting to mock the Democratic governor’s mask requirement amid the coronavirus pandemic. He apologized on Monday, but questions about his school’s […]
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear intends to ‘put dollars’ into ensuring all of the state’s African-American residents have healthcare, citing ‘inequalities’ in Covid-19 treatment – which was fully funded by the federal government. “I believe health care is a basic human right,” Beshear, a Democrat, said on Monday at a press conference in Frankfort. While he campaigned on providing it to everyone, “as I’ve been trying to hear from those who have been giving voice on in inequality …it’s time to give prioritization in black and African-American communities, so we are going to do that.” “We are gonna begin an effort to […]
Joe Biden Is A Racist Who Loves Police Brutality By Rebecca Margolies, Left Voice. June 8, 2020 Joe Biden Is A Racist Who Loves Police Brutality2020-06-082020-06-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/joe-biden-meets-with-connecticut-police-from-nbc-ct-e1591637620777.jpg200px200px Above photo: Joe Biden meets with Connecticut police from NBC CT. While liberals want us to believe that voting for Joe Biden is the solution to all the ills of the racist capitalist system, the fact remains that Biden is a dedicated, lifelong racist. He won’t save any of us, least of all the victims of police brutality. A wave of potentially revolutionary anti-police uprisings is sweeping across the United States, with Black America once again at […]
Republican Senator Mitt Romney has further distanced himself from the GOP by appearing at a Black Lives Matter protest – but while mainstream media celebrated the move, few on social media had forgotten his past transgressions. The anti-Trump Utah congressman was spotted at a protest march in Washington DC on Sunday. Romney later tweeted a protest selfie with the caption “Black Lives Matter.” An aide to the senator told the Washington Post Romney wasn’t intending to “publicize” his participation in the protest, having “spontaneously” joined the march after coming across a group of 1,000 to 1,500 evangelicals demonstrating near the Capitol. Romney […]