Tag: Racism

Tom Cotton Goes Full Racist, Badgers TikTok CEO on Whether He’s Chinese

But in his statement Tuesday, Schwerin said Biden had not been involved, either as a public official or a private citizen, in Hunter’s business dealings, nor had he ever been asked to take action on Hunter’s behalf. Schwerin said that in his role as Hunter’s business partner, he never asked Biden to get involved with […]

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Check Out This Republican’s Insanely Racist Rant About Cori Bush

Multiple legal experts brushed off Habba’s attempt to overturn the Carroll verdict. “This is a bogus motion by the Trump team. There’s nothing here,” CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said Monday night. “Every judge in that courthouse knows, socializes with, has worked with, sometimes maybe mentored, dozens, hundreds of attorneys in this city.” “I used […]

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Republican Congressman Goes on Insanely Racist Rant About Cori Bush

Multiple legal experts brushed off Habba’s attempt to overturn the Carroll verdict. “This is a bogus motion by the Trump team. There’s nothing here,” CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said Monday night. “Every judge in that courthouse knows, socializes with, has worked with, sometimes maybe mentored, dozens, hundreds of attorneys in this city.” “I used […]

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Nikki Haley Wants the White Vote So Bad That She Forgot These Racist Things Happened to Her Parents

GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley may have claimed that America has “never been a racist country,” but her 2012 memoir tells a much different story. “Can’t Is Not An Option: My American Story” details how Haley’s parents, The Randhawas, were Indians who entered the U.S. via Canada, and the book has all the proof you […]

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Nikki Haley Wants the White Vote So Bad That She Forgot She Is Indian

GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley may have claimed that America has “never been a racist country,” but her 2012 memoir tells a much different story. “Can’t Is Not An Option: My American Story” details how Haley’s parents, The Randhawas, were Indians who entered the U.S. via Canada, and the book has all the proof you […]

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Nikki Haley Wants the White Vote So Bad That She Forgot She Is Indian. Let’s Explain …

GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley may have claimed that America has “never been a racist country,” but her 2012 memoir tells a much different story. “Can’t Is Not An Option: My American Story” details how Haley’s parents, The Randhawas, were Indians who entered the U.S. via Canada, and the book has all the proof you […]

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Far-Right Congressman Whines That the Army Needs More White People

A spokesperson for Murphy’s campaign told the outlet that the comments and calls were made by a “young person with no connection to our campaign, one who seemed eager to help, albeit in a misguided manner.” Magee, for her part, said she was in regular communication with Murphy’s campaign consultant Dave Parano. Murphy has not […]

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Paul Gosar Whines There Aren’t Enough White People in the Military

A spokesperson for Murphy’s campaign told the outlet that the comments and calls were made by a “young person with no connection to our campaign, one who seemed eager to help, albeit in a misguided manner.” Magee, for her part, said she was in regular communication with Murphy’s campaign consultant Dave Parano. Murphy has not […]

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Oklahoma Republican Introduces Shortest, Most Racist Bill You’ve Ever Read

Netanyahu: “In the future, Israel has to control the entire area from the river to the sea” pic.twitter.com/Jc1lO6GL06 — Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) January 18, 2024 The use of the phrase “from the river to the sea” has come under particular scrutiny in the last three months. When Palestinians, or anyone on the left, has […]

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Nikki Haley “Clarifies” U.S. Racism History Position: It Was, but It Wasn’t

Netanyahu: “In the future, Israel has to control the entire area from the river to the sea” pic.twitter.com/Jc1lO6GL06 — Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) January 18, 2024 The use of the phrase “from the river to the sea” has come under particular scrutiny in the last three months. When Palestinians, or anyone on the left, has […]

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Nikki Haley Somehow Makes Her Stupid Racism Comments Even Worse

Netanyahu: “In the future, Israel has to control the entire area from the river to the sea” pic.twitter.com/Jc1lO6GL06 — Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) January 18, 2024 The use of the phrase “from the river to the sea” has come under particular scrutiny in the last three months. When Palestinians, or anyone on the left, has […]

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Nikki Haley Still Says America’s Not Racist, as Trump Goes Full Birther

Netanyahu: “In the future, Israel has to control the entire area from the river to the sea” pic.twitter.com/Jc1lO6GL06 — Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) January 18, 2024 The use of the phrase “from the river to the sea” has come under particular scrutiny in the last three months. When Palestinians, or anyone on the left, has […]

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Why Black Women Are Showing Up And Showing Out For Claudine Gay

Photo: Kevin Dietsch (Getty Images) Black women in Washington are standing by Dr. Claudine Gay after her resignation as Harvard University’s first Black woman president. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, they delivered a letter in an act of solidarity. Her six month stint as the school was sadly the shortest in their history. AME […]

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Now Florida Is Banning Flags—and You Can Probably Guess Which Ones

It’s clear what Smith’s aim is with his purchase of Maryland’s largest daily newspaper. His TV empire’s local Baltimore station has been keen on a series of coverage blaming the city’s Black, Democratic mayor, Brandon Scott, for a flurry of local issues, including ongoing gun violence and education-related issues. And Smith’s tax records, obtained by […]

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Now Florida Wants to Ban Flags—and You Can Probably Guess Which Ones

It’s clear what Smith’s aim is with his purchase of Maryland’s largest daily newspaper. His TV empire’s local Baltimore station has been keen on a series of coverage blaming the city’s Black, Democratic mayor, Brandon Scott, for a flurry of local issues, including ongoing gun violence and education-related issues. And Smith’s tax records, obtained by […]

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Florida Republicans Want to Ban More Than Just the Pride Flag

It’s clear what Smith’s aim is with his purchase of Maryland’s largest daily newspaper. His TV empire’s local Baltimore station has been keen on a series of coverage blaming the city’s Black, Democratic mayor, Brandon Scott, for a flurry of local issues, including ongoing gun violence and education-related issues. And Smith’s tax records, obtained by […]

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Nikki Haley Tries Weighing in on Racism Again—and It’s a Disaster

“I think all of us know what this country was built on. And [racism] still exists,” Tony Duncan, a Black business owner in Bamberg who went to school with Haley’s older siblings, told NPR last year. “It exists. As people here in America, we have to deal with these things.” A 2023 Washington Post poll […]

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What I Felt When I Saw an Artefact Stolen From My People

Onias Landveld with the staff. Still from Jongsma en O’Neill’s documentary, courtesy of the interviewees. This article originally appeared on VICE Netherlands. In January 2022, the Mauritiushuis museum in The Hague had a unique wooden staff on show. Topped by a carved figure of a woman with a small smiling mouth, the staff was likely […]

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ADL Abandons All Pretense of Tracking Antisemitism Honestly

Just a month later, accounts for people including Dean Baker, the senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and Andrew Lawrence, deputy director of rapid response at the left-wing watchdog Media Matters, were temporarily suspended. Both men have been critical of Musk. Also that month, the accounts for several high-profile journalists including […]

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ADL Officially Admits It Counts Pro-Palestine Activism As Antisemitic

Just a month later, accounts for people including Dean Baker, the senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and Andrew Lawrence, deputy director of rapid response at the left-wing watchdog Media Matters, were temporarily suspended. Both men have been critical of Musk. Also that month, the accounts for several high-profile journalists including […]

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You Could Soon Be Fined For Defamation for Calling Someone Racist in Florida

As the situation grew worse, Scavino said he printed out potential tweets Trump could post to urge the rioters not to get violent. At 2:38 p.m., after many protesters had already breached the Capitol, Trump finally let Scavino post a message on Trump’s Twitter (now called X) account telling the mob to “stay peaceful.” Minutes […]

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Wild New Trump Ad Borrows Nazi Language to Attack Haley

As the situation grew worse, Scavino said he printed out potential tweets Trump could post to urge the rioters not to get violent. At 2:38 p.m., after many protesters had already breached the Capitol, Trump finally let Scavino post a message on Trump’s Twitter (now called X) account telling the mob to “stay peaceful.” Minutes […]

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The Racist Legacy Of January 6th

NewsOne Featured Video A noose is seen on makeshift gallows as supporters of US President Donald Trump gather on the West side of the US Capitol in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021. | Source: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / Getty UPDATED: 8:00 a.m. ET, Jan. 6, 2024 Three years after the violent insurrection at the U.S. […]

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Nikki Haley Really Just Used the “I Had Black Friends Growing Up” Line

The biggest spenders included China, which gave Trump the largest sum out of all the nations—$5.5 million from entities including China’s Embassy in the United States, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and the Hainan Airlines Holding Company—as well as Saudi Arabia, which gave Trump $615,000. Other nations on the list include the Democratic […]

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Nikki Haley Really Just Used the “Black Friends” Line to Defend Herself

The biggest spenders included China, which gave Trump the largest sum out of all the nations—$5.5 million from entities including China’s Embassy in the United States, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and the Hainan Airlines Holding Company—as well as Saudi Arabia, which gave Trump $615,000. Other nations on the list include the Democratic […]

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Nikki Haley Really Just Used the “Black Friends” Line to Defend Herself

The biggest spenders included China, which gave Trump the largest sum out of all the nations—$5.5 million from entities including China’s Embassy in the United States, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and the Hainan Airlines Holding Company—as well as Saudi Arabia, which gave Trump $615,000. Other nations on the list include the Democratic […]

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Nikki Haley Really Just Used the “Black Friends” Card to Defend Herself

The biggest spenders included China, which gave Trump the largest sum out of all the nations—$5.5 million from entities including China’s Embassy in the United States, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and the Hainan Airlines Holding Company—as well as Saudi Arabia, which gave Trump $615,000. Other nations on the list include the Democratic […]

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Inclusive research for social change

Pair a decades-old program dedicated to creating research opportunities for underrepresented minorities and populations with a growing initiative committed to tackling the very issues at the heart of such disparities, and you’ll get a transformative partnership that only MIT can deliver.  Since 1986, the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP) has led an institutional effort to […]

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Bro, STFU: Billionaire Bill Ackman Says Harvard’s DEI Is ‘Racist’ And ‘Root Cause Of Antisemitism’ At School

Photo: Jeenah Moon (Getty Images) The resignation of Harvard’s first Black president Claudine Gay on Tuesday continues to have commentary from the conservative peanut gallery. This time, billionaire and Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackman has shared his opinion—and of course it’s wrong and offensive as hell. The Roots’ Black Thought On Befriending Questlove & Classmates […]

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DeSantis Turns Next-Level Extremist, Promises to Bring Back Operation Wetback

“I will say this, if it turns out Trump ever went to Epstein Island, I will remove any support from him,” Jones said. “But I know Roger Stone very well, and I know people that know Trump well, a lot of people, I’ll leave it at that. I know women that have dated Trump, prominent […]

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