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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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.’” […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]