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Racism in the United States has been widespread since the colonial era. Legally or socially sanctioned privileges and rights were given to white Americans but denied to all other races. The KKK, white mobs and other white supremacist groups have killed more Americans than terrorist have. The KKK may have given up their sheets for suites and changed their name to the alt-right or other names to hide who they are, but at their core, they are white people who hate black people, people whose skin is not white and Jews. White Racist Have Been Killing and Terrorizing Black People for Over 150 Years; if black lives mattered in America, the KKK and other white supremacist groups would be branded as the domestic terrorist groups they are and government resources would be devoted to combating them. #WhiteSupremacist, #WhiteNationalist, #RightWingExtremists, #KKK,#Racism, #Hate
Trump and the GOP are Whitewashing the history of Black, Hispanic and female veterans from American historyStory by Brandon Drenon - BBC News, Washington DCArlington National Cemetery has scrubbed from its website information and educational materials about the history of black and female service members.Some of the content unpublished from the site was on veterans who had received the nation's highest military recognition, the Medal of Honor, according to military news site Task & Purpose.The content removal is part of a larger effort by the President Donald Trump to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices in the military and throughout the federal government.Approximately 400,000 veterans are buried in the Army-run cemetery, which was established after the US Civil War at the home of the South's general, Robert E. Lee.On the cemetery's website, internal links that directed users to webpages with information about the "Notable Graves" of dozens of black, Hispanic and female veterans were gone on Friday.The pages contained short biographies about veterans such as Gen Colin L Powell, the first black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which is the highest rank in the military after the president.They also told the life stories of members of the Tuskegee Airmen , the country's first black military airmen.
The president and his allies accuse South Africa of discriminating against and killing white people, and warn that it could happen in America if attempts to promote diversity aren’t stopped.By John EligonTo hear President Trump and some of his closest supporters tell it, South Africa is a terrible place for white people. They face discrimination, are sidelined from jobs and live under the constant threat of violence or having their land stolen by a corrupt, Black-led government that has left the country in disarray.The data tell a different story. Although white people make up 7 percent of the country’s population, they own at least half of South Africa’s land. Police statistics do not show that they are any more vulnerable to violent crime than other people. And white South Africans are far better off than Black people on virtually every marker of the economic scale.Yet Mr. Trump and his allies have pushed their own narrative of South Africa to press an argument at home: If the United States doesn’t clamp down on attempts to promote diversity, America will become a hotbed of dysfunction and anti-white discrimination.“It plays into the fears of white people in America and elsewhere: ‘We whites are threatened,’” Max du Preez, a white South African writer and historian, said of Mr. Trump’s description of his country.
Opinion by Thom HartmannToday, March 13th, through April 7th next month, commemorate the anniversary of what could only be called the start of an intentional, racially-based plan for the mass death of American citizens, put together by Donald Trump and Jared Kushner for purely political purposes, and virtually ignored by the American mainstream media.If that sounds extreme, read on: all details are hotlinked to credible, mainstream sources. And, as these anniversaries over the next 3 weeks are noted in the press, hopefully some in the media will report on this now-well-documented history.By March 13th, 2020 Covid had begun to rapidly spread across the United States, despite Trump’s earlier promise that the virus would be “contained” and was “no big deal.”Back in February of that year, as it was hitting China hard, he’d told Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward that the disease was far more dangerous than the flu, while he repeatedly lied about it to the American people.But that was just the beginning.“This is deadly stuff,” Trump told Woodward on a Feb. 7 phone call. “You know, the touch — you don’t have to touch things, right? But the air, you just breathe the air. That’s how it’s passed. And so that's a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It’s also more deadly than your — you know, your — even your strenuous flus.”A total of 1,645 people from 47 States had been infected with the virus that causes Covid by March 13th, the day Trump issued an emergency declaration that began the process of shutting down America.And it’s the “why” that Trump intentionally pushed a half-million Americans to die unnecessarily where our media, and the Democrats, have missed the shocking and horrifying story of Trump’s and Kushner’s soulless cruelty.
The whitewashing of history has begunStory by BINThe Trump administration has reportedly banned nearly 200 words, including "Black," "racial justice," and "anti-racism," amid its war on woke and attacks against DEI.According to the New York Times, 199 words and phrases have been prohibited from use in the Trump administration as the president works to reverse efforts made by Former President Joe Biden.The censured words include “Black,” “anti-racism,” “discrimination,” “racial justice,” “diversity,” “trauma,” “at-risk,” “minorities,” “underprivileged,” “biased,” “climate science,” “women,” “female,” “socioeconomic,” “climate change,” “cultural heritage," and more.
Antonio Pequeño IV Forbes StaffTesla chief and presidential adviser Elon Musk shared a post Thursday that said public sector workers, not Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, murdered millions of people, marking the billionaire’s latest Nazi-related post as he and his electric vehicle company face continued backlash and boycotts as critics say his embrace of right-wing politics is veering more extreme.Musk, who has over 219 million followers on X, formerly known as Twitter, retweeted a post saying Soviet revolutionary Joseph Stalin, former Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong and Hitler—whose regime under his direction orchestrated the Holocaust—did not murder millions of people, “Their public sector workers did.”The post had 1 million views and 14,000 likes as of Thursday evening.Musk’s repost comes as Tesla is facing boycotts around the world that has resulted in calls for Tesla owners to sell their vehicles and posters in the Bay Area urging owners to “sell your swasticar.”The repost also follows Nazi puns made by Musk in January, when he evoked the names of infamous Nazi party members like Rudolf Hess and Joseph Goebbels after coming under fire for a gesture he made at a Trump inaugural event that was likened to a Nazi salute by foreign leaders and Democrats.
Jesse talks about reporting from Military.com about Trump’s direction to the Pentagon to stop recruiting highly skilled and capable candidates because they’re Black.
Story by Joey Garrison, USA TODAYWASHINGTON – Elon Musk said Friday that a Department of Government Efficiency staffer who resigned this week after social media posts surfaced of him advocating for racism and eugenics was reinstated. The move came after Vice President JD Vance led an outcry for his return."He will be brought back. To err is human, to forgive divine," Musk wrote on X in response to a post by Vance calling for Marko Elez, a 25-year-old software engineer, to rejoin DOGE.Elez resigned from DOGE after the Wall Street Journal inquired about racist comments made on a deleted social account linked to him. Vance spoke out Friday in favor of Elez, and President Donald Trump later said he was "with" Vance in calling for his reinstatement."Here’s my view: I obviously disagree with some of Elez’s posts, but I don’t think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid’s life," Vance said in a Friday post on X. "We shouldn’t reward journalists who try to destroy people. Ever. So I say bring him back. If he’s a bad dude or a terrible member of the team, fire him for that."
Opinion by Atlanta Black Star NewsA news article from more than three decades ago resurfaced on social media this week, igniting a firestorm due to incendiary comments by Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.At the heart of the controversy are Ginni Thomas’s comments to The Washington Post in 1991 concerning hot-button issues such as abortion and affirmative action, which critics argued at the time would likely come to influence Clarence Thomas’ judicial opinions over time.The 33-year-old article, with the headline “The Nominee’s Soul Mate,” reveals Ginni Thomas discussing her staunch conservative views at length, prompting renewed scrutiny many decades later, with growing calls for transparency regarding her ongoing involvement in her husband’s work.But that’s not all.Fresh allegations of racism also resurfaced from the era, with many social media users voicing outrage over insensitive remarks in the same article by Ginni Thomas’ relatives, who said they were shocked in 1987 when Ginni told them she was planning to marry a Black man.“I can guarantee you I was surprised when I found out she was going with a Black man,” Ginni Thomas’s uncle Ralph Knop said from his Iowa farm house, according to the Post. “It was unusual for us.”
Christian Dedmon described by one victim as ‘the sickest’ of six former officers who pleaded guilty to torturing two Black menAssociated PressA fourth former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced for his part in the racist torture of two Black men by a group of white officers who called themselves “the Goon Squad”. Christian Dedmon was sentenced on Wednesday to 40 years in federal prison, hours after Daniel Opdyke was sentenced to 17.5 years.Dedmon, 29, did not look at the victims as he apologized and said he would never forgive himself for the pain he caused.All six of the white former officers charged in the torture pleaded guilty, admitting that they subjected Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker to numerous acts of racist torture in January 2023 after a neighbor complained that the men were staying in a home with a white woman.
Story by Ny MaGee*A Texas attorney sent a “threatening and harassing letter” to a Black federally appointed judge, and he was subsequently fired from his law firm.According to the Houston Chronicle, Ben Aderholt, a Houston-based attorney, called Judge Erica Hudges a “political animal" in the letter.“Who do you think you are? Running against a Democrat, a highest rated judge,” Aderbolt wrote, the Black Information Network reports. “Political animals who treat our judiciary as political games should be soundly defeated.”Hudges, who is running for Houston's 151st Judicial District, told FOX 26 she was "shocked and surprised to receive that letter."
Ingraham and contributor Raymond Arroyo incited "racial stereotypes" about the congresswoman during a Fox News segment, one expert said.By Kimberley RichardsFox News host Laura Ingraham recently referred to Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) as “street” while criticizing the congresswoman’s remarks about Attorney General Pam Bondi.During a Wednesday segment of “The Ingraham Angle,” Ingraham and Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo each took jabs at the representative as they discussed her comments at a House Judiciary Committee hearing earlier that day, in which Crockett accused Bondi of attacking her right to free speech. (Bondi had previously told Crockett to “tread very carefully” when it comes to her criticisms of Elon Musk — and Crockett wasn’t having it.)Arroyo unabashedly labeled Crockett, who is Black, the “Madea of Capitol Hill” — seemingly a reference to filmmaker Tyler Perry’s famous boisterous Southern character, who is also Black. He also referred to Crockett as a “Desperate Housewife.”Ingraham then said that the congresswoman had communicated in a “very different” way with her during a past interview.“And now she’s going very ... street,” Ingraham said as she swayed her head side-to-side. “I’ma do this, and I’ma do — it all seems like just a TikTok challenge or something. It’s very odd.”