California’s Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom has approved the creation of a task force to examine paying reparations to the descendants of slaves, the first such proposal ever passed by a state government. Newsom signed AB 3121 into law on Wednesday, creating a nine-member task force to study possible reparations for black Americans. While the governor lamented that the legislation hadn’t been passed “decades ago,” he hailed the bill for establishing a “paradigm that we hope will be resonant all across the United States.” “This is not just about California, this is about making an impact, and a dent, across the rest […]
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Attorney General William Barr said in a speech Wednesday that lockdowns intended to slow the spread of the new coronavirus were “the greatest intrusion on civil liberties” in the history of the United States since slavery. “You know, putting a national lockdown, stay at home orders, is like house arrest. Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history,” he said, according to CNN. The crowd at Hillsdale College in Michigan reportedly burst into applause. One of the hosts of the event had asked him about “constitutional hurdles for […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/0f/1079887049_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_1949e0995d192e6cdee268a40829b406.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/viral/202009161080474991-kanye-west-says-slavery-is-a-choice-reveals-yeezy-christian-academys-pillars-in-a-twitter-rant/ The rapper’s mention of slavery appeared to echo a similar remark he delivered during an interview two years ago. Famous American rapper Kanye West has recently dazzled his social media audience with a fresh Twitter tirade, delivering it amid what the Daily Mail describes as a “feud with music labels Universal and Sony”. Musing about the “master ownership” being “everything” in the “streaming world”, as “that is the bulk of the income”, Ye then proceeded to drop a peculiar remark in a subsequent tweet. “Remember they cut our tongues when we were on the […]
The hosts of Fox & Friends waited until the final moments of their interview with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) to bring up the comments he made about slavery and The New York Times’ ‘1619 Project’ over the weekend. Cotton used the opportunity to accuse them of spreading “fake news.” “Senator Tom Cotton, you’re in the eye of the storm, you like to take on red-hot issues, including ‘The 1619 Project,’” Brian Kilmeade said as the senator smiled awkwardly. He then quoted directly at length from Cotton’s interview with the Arkansas Democrat Gazette. “We have to study the history of slavery and […]
The left is currently on a crusade to cancel aspects of American history that they don’t like. Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas wants the Democrats to put their money where their mouth is. He recently introduced a resolution to ban organizations which have had ties to slavery and other ugly aspects of the past such as the KKK. In other words, the Democratic party itself. The Hill reports: TRENDING: This Weekend: Please Send Us Photos of Leftist Mob Violence and Rioting from Your City — We Want to Expose the Democrat Destruction Next Week GOP’s Gohmert introduces resolution that would […]
If Congress is purging all things related to slavery and the Confederacy in the name of battling bigotry, the Democratic Party should be among them, says a resolution proposed in all seriousness by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas). Gohmert’s resolution, proposed on Thursday, would mandate that “any political organization or party that has ever held a public position that supported slavery or the Confederacy shall either change its name or be barred from participation in the House of Representatives.” That party, he noted, was the Democrats – and he provided long list of references showing that the party’s platform supported slavery starting […]
The City Council in Ashville, N.C., has apologized for its role in slavery and voted unanimously to provide reparations to black residents in the city. The reparations will not give black residents direct cash payments, but instead will offer investments in housing, health care and career growth in black neighborhoods. The resolution calls on the city to create a Community Reparations Commission to make concrete recommendations of where to funnel programs and resources, Fox News reported. “The resulting budgetary and programmatic priorities may include but not be limited to increasing minority home ownership and access to other affordable housing, increasing minority […]
The UK government has yet to tackle the modern slavery problem despite the adoption of the Modern Slavery Act five years ago, British law and human trafficking specialists warn. They claim the legislation does not work, and allows business owners to circumvent its provisions and benefit from sweatshop labour. “Modern slavery” is thriving in some parts of the UK, with workers in Leicester factories making clothes in unsafe conditions for as little as £3.50 ($4.38) an hour which is far below the UK minimum wage of £8.72 ($10.92), according to The Sunday Times’ 6 July report. Modern slavery is defined in the […]
Many voters will go to the polls in November ignorant of or baffled by the system which is used to choose the US President. In 2016 the Democrat, Hillary Clinton, won the popular vote – with 65.8 million to Donald Trump’s 62.9 million – but it was the Republican who entered the White House, with 304 electoral college votes to Clinton’s 227. Presidents in Russia, Argentina, Brazil, Indonesia, the Philippines are all elected by direct vote and France also introduced direct presidential elections in 1954, when Charles de Gaulle founded the Fifth Republic. © AP Photo / Evan Vucci Republican presidential […]
Would Slavery Have Ended Sooner If British Had Defeated Colonists’ Bid For Independence? By Keith Brooks, www.blackagendareport.com July 4, 2020 Would Slavery Have Ended Sooner If British Had Defeated Colonists’ Bid For Independence?2020-07-042020-07-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-07-at-8.58.15-AM-e1499432660389-150×98.png200px200px Above Photo: From blackagendareport.com Note: This article was first published on July 7, 2017.KZ By the evidence of their actions, most Blacks wanted the British to defeat their white settler masters. Most Native Americans, too. The British had prohibited settlement west of the Appalachian mountains, and showed some signs of moving towards abolition of slavery. “While 5000 mainly free black people from northern colonies joined with the colonists’ fight […]
As Independence Day celebrations draw near in the US, Americans are reminded about a history that Dr. Gerald Horne, a professor of history at the University of Houston, regards as a product of the malfeasance of historians. Horne, who authored numerous books such as “The Counterrevolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America,” asserted to Loud and Clear hosts Brian Becker and John Kiriakou on Thursday that Americans have been left “unable” and “unsuited” to understand the reason why the US continues to have a “pornography of violence” because they have yet to be taught […]
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 […]
Police have arrested a man who spray painted swastikas on gravestones on the Providence College Campus before attacking a security guard. Keveon Gomera, 26, has been charged with vandalism and assault with intent to commit a felony. Update: Picture from yesterday after a man was arrested for spray-painting swastikas on gravestones @ABC6 pic.twitter.com/v7oHDLwnMx — Brooke Taylor (@BTaylorABC6) June 23, 2020 TRENDING: WATCH: US Postal Worker Caught on Video Throwing Stack of GOP Congressional Candidate Campaign Mailers in Dumpster Gomera defaced the central cross and seven gravestones of Dominican friars who taught at Providence College before attempting to set a grassy area […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107970/97/1079709734_0:0:2760:1553_1200x675_80_0_0_2b56c07815c2581a1751eb04119bb5c1.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006241079709441-blm-movement-in-wisconsin-destroys-statue-of-col-hans-christian-heg/ Dozens of monuments of prominent historical figures associated with slavery have been defaced or demolished in the United States and Europe in recent weeks after the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement following the in-custody death of African-American man George Floyd. A statue of Col. Hans Christian Heg, an immigrant from Norway who died struggling for the Union against slavery, has been torn down in Madison, Wisconsin. According to photos that have been published on Twitter, the statue was decapitated and thrown into a nearby lake. The protesters also reportedly damaged a government building. […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107970/26/1079702676_0:242:2272:1520_1200x675_80_0_0_f8eb1573824138cc5dfdd7a70e7bd7c7.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006241079702555-rhode-island-may-shorten-its-full-name-due-to-slavery-connotations/ In the wake of anti-racism protests following the death of black Minneapolis resident George Floyd, the word “plantations” in the state’s name has come also under harsh criticism. Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo signed an executive order on Monday that will remove the second part of the state’s full name, “The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations”, in official communications. “This morning I signed an executive order removing the phrase Providence Plantations from gubernatorial orders and citations, all executive branch agency websites, all official correspondence, and state employee pay stubs and paychecks”, Raimondo announced on […]
The words “and Providence Plantations” will be removed from many Rhode Island state documents under an executive order by Gov. Gina Raimondo. The state legislature will consider an official name change. David Goldman/AP hide caption toggle caption David Goldman/AP The words “and Providence Plantations” will be removed from many Rhode Island state documents under an executive order by Gov. Gina Raimondo. The state legislature will consider an official name change. David Goldman/AP The official name of the smallest U.S. state is Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Some of its residents have been trying for the past three decades to drop the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107966/48/1079664866_0:131:2891:1757_1200x675_80_0_0_b81d2d9b877761b917a1b955c2784bc3.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006191079665155-new-york-celebrates-juneteenth-marking-155-years-since-abolition-of-slavery—video/ The event is being held amid nationwide protests and riots caused by the violent arrest and subsequent death of African American George Floyd in Minneapolis after white police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee to Floyd’s neck for over eight minutes. People gather in New York to celebrate Juneteenth, marching to city hall. The holiday has been celebrated since 19 June 1865, when Union Army general Gordon Granger marched into Galveston, Texas and announced the end of the war and the end of slavery. Texas was the most remote of the slave-holding states during […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Bank of England and the Church of England have issued apologies after an academic database uncovered that their former leaders and clergymen had links to the slave trade in the 19th century, The Telegraph reported, citing a fresh analysis of a database held by University College London. According to the data, nearly 100 clergymen, including a bishop, as well as at least six governors and four directors of the Bank of England were named as claimants or beneficiaries from slavery. The database provides details on about 47,000 people across the United Kingdom, who received some $3 billion, […]
The 19th-century African-American slave song that has become an unofficial anthem for English rugby fans has come under scrutiny by the Rugby Football Union, which is pushing to review its use due to its associations with slavery. Source link
English rugby’s governing body has been reviewing the national squad’s adopted anthem, penned by a freed slave, amid reports that fans could be banned from chanting the song due to its significance for racial justice issues. The Rugby Football Union (RFU) announced that it has been “reviewing… the Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” song, which has been an anthem of the British national side for over three decades, including at the 1991 Rugby World Cup. The song has been a permanent fixture on the British rugby scene since at least the late 1980s. Back then, it was adopted by the British fans […]
Five years ago today, a white neo-Confederate shot dead nine black parishioners at Mother Emanuel Baptist Church, located just up the street from where a statue honoring John C. Calhoun—who in an 1837 speech famously deemed the enslavement of black human beings “instead of an evil, a good—a positive good”—has stood for more than 130 years in the heart of Charleston, South Carolina. On Wednesday afternoon, Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg announced his plan to send a resolution to the City Council to remove the monument—a move long overdue. In the same speech cited above, Calhoun stated, “never before has the black […]
The logo had included curves on the handles of sabres meant to mimic the design of serpentine walls on campus. Those walls were originally built to hide enslaved people from public view. Source link
In the weeks since the Minneapolis police killed George Floyd—an unarmed, restrained Black man—in broad daylight, as he begged for his life, there has been a sort of cultural atonement for the myriad ways white power structures have routinely exploited people of color. Some white folks have resigned; other have joined book clubs; and Hollywood, never to be outdone in the performative allyship department, recorded a funereal PSA. A farrago of pained expressions, darting eyes, and black shirts, the ad featured a chorus of actors, some recognizable and some not, taking “responsibility” for turning a blind eye to racism, thereby facilitating […]
By: Andre Vltchek for VT More than two centuries of lies are now getting exposed. Bizarre tales about freedom and democracy are collapsing like houses of cards. One man’s death triggers an avalanche of rage in those who for years, decades and centuries, have been humiliated, ruined, and exterminated. It always happens just like this throughout the history of humankind – one single death, one single “last drop”, an occurrence that triggers an entire chain of events, and suddenly nothing is the same, anymore. Nothing can be the same. What seemed to be unimaginable just yesterday, becomes “the new normal” […]
Grant, a History Channel miniseries airing over three nights beginning on Memorial Day (May 25), is an overt—and timely—reclamation project. His reputation having faded over the past century because, as many here assert, the South’s “Lost Cause” rewriting of Civil War history invariably downplayed his accomplishments, Ulysses S. Grant is restored by this informative and entertaining TV documentary to the prototypical modern American hero. Based on Ron Chernow’s critically acclaimed 2017 biography of the same name, it’s a stirring tribute to an individual who embodied America’s finest ideals: hard work, determination, courage, resolve, and belief in democracy and equality for all, […]