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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website information and educational materials about the history of black and female service members.Some of the content unpublished from the site was on veterans who had received the nation's highest military recognition, the Medal of Honor, according to military news site Task &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.”
D. Earl StephensThose four words were spoken from an old colleague of mine who now works under constant threat inside the Department of Interior. They illustrate better than I can in 1,000 words what we are watching right now as a racist, America-attacking, convicted felon puffs out his blubbery chest and takes a sledgehammer to our government to appease the billionaire oligarchy who are leading him around by his stuffy nose.The tough guy from the yacht clubs of New York, is going full Mussolini while he saves America from all the pain he and his white collar gangs on Wall Street have inflicted on the working class for decades.Let’s not confuse what is really going on here, people …End of the day, this is nothing but a grotesque attack on the poor, and many of the programs that have been put in place to help, shelter, feed, and just give them a little hope that there is something better. Because if you can take a person’s hope and dignity away, you can hope they’ll just go away, too.That’s how losers win, and democracies crumble.
Story by Khaleda RahmanA Black boy who reported being called a racial slur on the playground was expelled from a Catholic school in Portland after his parents complained to the principal.Mike Phillips and Karis Stoudamire-Phillips told The Oregonian that Tresa Rast, the principal of the Madeleine School, summoned police to the school's campus in late March after they demanded to know what actions the school would take after their son said he was called the N-word by another student.Days later, the school expelled their fourth grader, saying the couple had violated the school's code of conduct for parents.Rast has been placed on leave, the school told families on Wednesday.Newsweek has contacted the school via email and Phillips and Stoudamire-Phillips, via an email to their attorney, for further comment.
Story by Kyra AlessandriniThe Department of Justice has lifted a decades-old school desegregation order in Louisiana this week. It overturned the 1966 legal agreement with Plaquemines Parish schools, which required them to integrate Black students. The agreement was put in place two years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which put an official end to segregation laws.Officials called the 1966 legal agreement a “historical wrong,” according to the Associated Press. It was lifted as part of the Trump administration’s focus on “getting America refocused on our bright future,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said.Why did the DOJ lift the school desegregation order?Such agreements were put in place for schools that resisted integration in the 1960s. School districts were able to then prove that they had ended segregation in order to lift the decree.In the case of the 1966 Plaquemines, the district in the Mississippi River Delta Basin in Louisiana was found to have integrated in 1975 but was put on watch by the court for another year. No changes had been made since.“Given that this case has been stayed for a half-century with zero action by the court, the parties or any third-party, the parties are satisfied that the United States’ claims have been fully resolved,” the DOJ and the office of Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said in a statement.
Story by Matt Laslo, Martin PengellyWASHINGTON – Veteran members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) say the Trump administration has moved from offensive to straight racist with its decision to welcome white South Africans as refugees.Amid continuing controversy over President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration by people of color, one senior Black House Democrat lamented “the most blatant show of white supremacy in America in the history of the world.”“It is a slap in the face to every African American and every person in this country who believes in the rule of law,” added Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL), ahead of Congress’ Memorial Day recess.Afrikaners are the descendants of Dutch colonists who underpinned South Africa’s racist apartheid regime until 1994, when the African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, who spent 27 years in prison, became his country’s first Black president.Now, the Trump administration claims Afrikaner farmers are the victims of government-sponsored genocide — claims Trump spewed live on TV last week in a widely decried Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.Trump’s conspiratorial claims were rejected by Ramaphosa — and easily debunked.A picture Trump claimed showed farmers being buried was from the Democratic Republic of Congo. An image Trump claimed showed “burial sites” of “over a thousand of white farmers” showed a memorial to one murdered couple.
Story by Rhian LubinFar-right groups are sharing violent messages ahead of the “No Kings” protests this weekend to coincide with President Donald Trump’s military birthday parade.Accounts associated with extremist groups are also sharing detailed information about protest organizers, including names and where they work, The Wall Street Journal reports.Protests in more than 2,000 cities are scheduled to take place Saturday.“Shoot a couple, the rest will go home,” one meme circulating on a Proud Boys Telegram channel said.Another meme posted in the channel depicted four armed men. “HANG THE TRAITORS, EXPEL THE INVADERS,” it said.The Northern Illinois Proud Boys shared a meme on their Telegram channel falsely claiming the LAPD was seeking support from vigilantes ahead of the protests this weekend.Other far-right groups are frequently sharing memes in support of the Trump administration’s efforts to increase raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.Experts on extremism in America are alarmed by the posts because they could inspire “lone-actor violence” or persuade someone to “get off the couch, pick up a gun and go out to one of these cities,” Jon Lewis, a research fellow at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, told The Journal.
Story by Taylor OdishoFlorida Sheriff Wayne Ivey, who threatened to kill anti-ICE protesters "graveyard dead," has a history of corruption, racial profiling and bribery in local campaigns, despite calling himself a "constitutional sheriff."Ivey issued the threat during a press conference on Thursday. His warning drew cheers from MAGA supporters and widespread condemnation from others. The viral moment also resurfaced his history of corruption, dating back to 2018.Lee Edward Anderson, a Black man, sued Sheriff Ivey and a former Brevard County deputy for false arrest and imprisonment following a late-night traffic stop in 2018, Click Orlando reported. Anderson alleged he was racially profiled and falsely charged with drug possession. The charges were later dropped after video evidence confirmed he had no drugs, prompting the deputy's resignation.
During a nomination hearing held by the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee yesterday, Senator Elizabeth Warren exposes the racist past of Craig Trainor, Trump nominee to be Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. As the position involves eliminating housing discrimination and promoting civil rights, his record is deeply concerning.
Story by Emilia RandallDonald Trump has removed Dr Martin Luther King’s bust from the oval office as the president continues to host a right wing “activist” who labelled the Civil Rights Act of 1964 a “huge mistake”.The tribute to the iconic “I have a dream” speech maker that sat front and centre during Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s presidencies has been re-shuffled to Trump’s private dining room, according to Black Press USA.It comes as Trump, just days after an embarrassing humiliation, undoes the efforts of Biden’s government and restore several more Army base names that originally honored Confederate military figures, undoing a renaming process ordered by Congress. Trump was also accused of 'fascism' after 'unacceptable' behavior.Images of the Oval Office showed that the bust was present during Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s visit in April but disappeared soon after, according to Meidas Touch News.The bust of the civil rights leader may have been sidelined as Trump continues to host Charlie Kirk, who claims the Civil Rights movement has contributed to erasure of white people claiming that viewing black people as equal to white people under the law has created a "permanent DEI-type bureaucracy" that is "diminishing and decreasing white demographics in America".
Story by Brad Reed, Common DreamsA Friday report from Reuters claims that a senior Trump administration official recently informed diplomats in South Africa that a refugee program set up by U.S. President Donald Trump earlier this year was explicitly intended for white people.According to Reuters, American diplomats in South Africa earlier this month asked the U.S. State Department whether it was allowed to process refugee claims from South African citizens who spoke the Afrikaans language but who were of mixed-race descent.The diplomats received a response from Spencer Chretien, the senior bureau official in the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, who informed them that "the program is intended for white people," writes Reuters.The State Department told Reuters that the scope of the program is actually broader than what was outlined in Chretien's message and that its policy is "to consider both Afrikaners and other racial minorities for resettlement," which lines up with guidance posted earlier this year stating that applicants for refugee status under the program "must be of Afrikaner ethnicity or be a member of a racial minority in South Africa."
Story by Justin RohrlichAn Ohio resident who nearly decapitated a woman during a confrontation last year is now facing federal charges over a post on X, the Elon Musk-owned social network formerly known as Twitter, where he vowed to “cleanse” an entire city of Black people, according to a newly unsealed FBI affidavit.Scott Hanna, 30, was arrested Friday morning on one count of making interstate communications with a threat to injure, after the Cincinnati Police Department sent screenshots of the July 31 post to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.“Organizing mobs to kill all the apes in Cincinnati Since @GovMikeDeWine and the @OSHP won’t do anything about this nonsense,” the post read. “We the people need to paint the town red and KILL THEM ALL. Fill the morgues and cleanse this city of blacks. By Sunday we are aiming to have killed 30k[.]”Cincinnati has a Black population of about 120,000. The affidavit doesn’t specify how Hanna allegedly planned to carry out his threat, or what it was that set him off, but video of an interracial brawl last Saturday in downtown Cincinnati went megaviral, and appears to be, based on the timeline, what may have inspired it.Hanna lives in Dayton with his grandfather, a retired judge, according to public records. In an initial appearance on Friday afternoon in Dayton federal court, prosecutors asked for Hanna to remain detained pending trial, arguing he was too dangerous to be released.
Opinion by DikshaMegyn Kelly, a former journalist who is now a podcaster, has come after Barack Obama, calling him a ‘slick snake’ and discussing how racist Americans became over a black president. On The Megyn Kelly Show, she blasted Obama, saying that he looks polished like a slick snake on the surface, but has divided the country.Kelly said, “We haven’t felt like ourselves since Barack Obama.” She accused the former president of never leaving a chance of bringing race into politics. She claimed that he never missed a chance to ‘twist the knife on the racial issue.’She added, “He was this affable guy who was wearing good suits, looking at the part, sounding the part, and dressing the part, but was so divisive in his messaging.” She even went on to blame Obama for letting Donald Trump rise up due to the divisiveness in the country.She called Trump an antidote instead of divisive. Her statement comes after Charlie Kirk, MAGA podcaster, was assassinated on September 10. Now Kelly is facing backlash online for bringing up Obama, who first became the president 17 years ago.
Trump and the GOP are Whitewashing the history of Black people from American historyThe Trump administration ordered certain signs and exhibits detailing slavery in America to be removed from multiple national parks.
Story by Sweta ChoudhuryRacial discrimination is not something new around the globe, and in a country like America. It’s rooted deep within the system, even today, after many, many years of protests, movements, and laws. Back on July 17, in South Carolina, a Black man who survived a hate-motivated shooting is calling on the state to pass a long-overdue hate crime law, following a shocking attack that left him heartbroken and shocked.Jarvis McKenzie was waiting for his early morning ride to work while jogging when he was suddenly targeted. Around 6 a.m., a white man, later identified as Jonathan Felkel, allegedly drove up, pointed a rifle at him, and fired all while shouting, “Keep running, boy!”As per Atlanta Black Star, footage captured Felkel parking near a gated community, spotting McKenzie, and firing a single shot. Felkel was arrested and charged with assault, hate intimidation, possession of a weapon during a violent crime, and assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature.According to police reports, Felkel confessed his intentions during questioning. “It was a Black man in a white shirt… I saw him there and he was by himself… I was going to shoot at him,” he reportedly told investigators. Meanwhile, for Jarvis McKenzie, the victim is reportedly suffering from the aftermath of the shocking event and is completely traumatized by it.“It’s heartbreaking. I feel like I’m being watched or followed every time I step outside,” he said. “That day changed everything.” McKenzie said. Consequently, he and Felkel lived in the same gated neighborhood. For over a year, McKenzie stood at the entrance each morning at 5:30 a.m. to wait for a carpool ride.
Story by Lesley AbravanelIn an exclusive story, Politico got access to thousands of private messages revealing young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers and slavery, among other "insensitive and inexcusable" topics.The chats took place on theTelegram app, Politico reports. In them, they "referred to Black people as monkeys and 'the watermelon people' and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers."Kansas Young Republicans vice chair William Hendrix, former vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans Bobby Walker and Chairman of the Association of New York State Young Republican Clubs Peter Giunta were among the Republican leaders named in the report.“Can we fix the showers?” Joe Maligno, who previously identified himself as the general counsel for the New York State Young Republicans, replied.“I’m ready to watch people burn now,” Annie Kaykaty, New York’s national committeewoman, said.
Story by Andrew FeinbergPresident Donald Trump on Wednesday said he’d have no problem with erecting a massive statue honoring Robert E. Lee, the Civil War general who led the South in rebellion against the United States to try and preserve the enslavement of Black people — within sight of the Lincoln Memorial.Trump made the remarks to a group of wealthy executives and donors who are contributing to the planned White House ballroom at a fundraising dinner in the State Dining Room as he also touted his plans for a grand Arc de Triomphe-style monument.He also suggested that the ballroom fund contributors would largely agree with him about the statue to honor the icon of the Confederacy.The president’s comments came during a long, meandering speech to the dinner attendees at a point when he was discussing his idea to erect a triumphal arch on a traffic circle in Virginia at the southern end of the Arlington Memorial Bridge.As he pointed to the bridge and the traffic circle, he noted it has a number of columns on it and suggested that a space left between the columns was left empty due to the Civil War — which had ended a full half-century before the bridge opened. He also said there’d been a plan for a statue of Lee on the circle as early as 1902.
Story by David McAfeeA Los Angeles "No Kings" protester told MSNBC on Saturday that she and her parents were discriminated against by Donald Trump's family when they tried to rent property in New York years ago.Trump was accused of bias in renting to Black people in connection with the rentals from his father, Fred Trump, in the 1960s, according to the New York Times. That old story got new life over the weekend, when a MSNBC reporter attended a "No Kings" protest in L.A.The subject was only identified as Jamie from Rancho Cucamonga, and, when asked why she was there, she said, "Because my daughter's future depends on me coming out here like my mother walked for Martin Luther King. She marched, she walked. And I'm here in honor of her. And in honor of my daughter."When asked about potential parallels to the past, Jamie said, "My parents and I came out of Jim Crow.""While I was at the end of it, we were the result of what happened in Jim Crow, because my parents, who came up from the south, they went into New York and we were discriminated against [by] Trump," she said. "He would not allow us as being Black people to live in his properties."
Story by Alex GalbraithBill Maher discussed the ongoing fallout around leaked Young Republican group chats on Friday, wondering whether or not the staffers caught praising Adolf Hitler represented the wider party.During the “Overtime” segment of his HBO series “Real Time,” Maher threw the question to guests Mark Cuban and Andrew Ross Sorkin after getting in a crack at the parameters of the Republican youth movement.“Young Republicans, they’re up to 40,” Maher said. “Obviously, we condemn [what they said]… how representative is it of Republicans as a whole?”“You can’t just dismiss the fact that it happens a lot,” Cuban said. “It doesn’t take everybody to be racist for an organization to be racist.”While Maher balked at painting the entire Republican Party with the same brush, he did admit that only one party seems to be welcoming of racist viewpoints.“To be a Republican, we certainly shouldn’t say they are all racist,” he said. “But if you’re racist, you probably are a Republican.”
Story by Scarlett O'TooleCNN descended into chaos as the hosts clashed when debating about whether Donald Trump is racist after the president shared a controversial AI video about Hakeem Jeffries.Political commentator Keith Boykin appeared on CNN alongside journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon as they spoke about the president. "Donald Trump has a history of racism himself," Keith fumed, prompting Batya to shoot back, "No, that's not true."Keith's eyes widened as he asked, "Are you kidding me?" Batya shook her head and Keith continued, "Donald Trump started his career with racism. In the 1970s, he was sued for housing discrimination. In 1989, he led a lynch mob against the Central Park Five. In the 1990s, he was sued by casino workers for racial discrimination."In 1973, a federal lawsuit was brought against Trump and his company for alleged racial discrimination at Trump housing developments in New York. The case was settled two years later.In regards to the Central Park Five, Trump famously took out a full-page advertisement in the New York Times calling for the death penalty to be brought back. The ad didn't mention the Central Park Five, but it ran while intense debates were taking place about the incident.In the 1990s, Trump's casinos faced numerous lawsuits, including one for unpaid debts. In 1990, a business analyst who made negative comments about the Trump Taj Mahal before it opened sued the now-president for defamation. Trump settled out of court.
Story by Lesley AbravanelBesides thousands of leaked chat messages left behind by a group of young Republicans, members of the New York State branch also left unpaid bills from "extravagant gatherings" before the group disbanded in disgrace, according to Syracuse.com.At two of those events, the NY State Young Republicans "ran up bills of more than $23,000 over a weekend at a Syracuse hotel – spending big on a three-course plated dinner with filet mignon and open bars — but then didn’t pay," according to records obtained by Syracuse.com.According to the report, The Embassy Suites Hotel at Destiny USA hosted the group’s Teddy Roosevelt awards dinner last year, and made a "rare exception to its rule for customers to pay in advance of using its banquet facilities.""But the hotel’s goodwill quickly evaporated as its managers spent four months trying to collect what it was owed," according to billing documents and 110 pages of internal emails reviewed by Syracuse.com.Peter Giunta, the club president who stepped down last month offered the hotel's "increasingly urgent emails" with a "series of excuses," reports the website. Shortly after his resignation, Politico reported that his group owed $14,000 for a 2023 holiday party in Manhattan.Giunta was publicly identified as having made antisemitic remarks, including jokes about gas chambers, in theleaked Telegram chats."The Young Republicans’ previously unreported debt in Syracuse followed on the heels of the Manhattan party and a trip by Giunta and club leaders to Nashville last year when he was campaigning for a position to lead the Young Republicans on a national level," reports Syracuse.com.
Brett WilkinsVermont state Sen. Sam Douglass is set to step down Monday after being exposed as a participant in a Young Republican group chat in which members—including at least one Trump administration official—exchanged hate-filled messages.Douglass, a Republican, said in a statement Friday: “I must resign. I know that this decision will upset many, and delight others, but in this political climate I must keep my family safe.”“If my governor asks me to do something, I will act, because I believe in what he’s trying to do,” the 27-year-old freshman lawmaker added, referring to Republican Vermont Gov. Phil Scott’s call for him to step down.“I love my state, my people, and I am deeply sorry for the offense this caused and that our state was dragged into this,” Douglass added.Douglass is the only known elected official involved in a leaked Telegram chat first reported by Politico on Tuesday in which members of Young Republican chapters in four states exchanged racist, anti-LGBTQ+, and misogynistic messages, including quips about an “epic” rape and killing people in Nazi gas chambers.
Tim Carpenter, Kansas ReflectorTOPEKA — The chairman and vice chairman of the Kansas Young Republicans took part in encrypted chats with political peers that were laced with violent, racist and antisemitic rhetoric and blended with references to white supremacy and suppression of the Jeffrey Epstein files.On Tuesday, the chairman of the Kansas Republican Party said the Politico article disclosing the commentary prompted immediate deactivation of the Kansas Young Republicans organization.Politico, a digital news company specializing in coverage of U.S. politics, reported Kansas Young Republicans chair Alex Dwyer and vice chair William Hendrix took part in the Telegram group chat.In 2,900 pages of chat text, Hendrix praised the Missouri Young Republicans because leaders in that state didn’t like LGBTQ+ people. He repeatedly used racial slurs to refer to Black people, including words such as “n------” and “n------.” In a July conversation in the thread about African-Americans, he said, “Bro is at a chicken restaurant ordering his food. Would he like some watermelon and Kool-Aid with that?”He was fired from a communications job in the office of Attorney General Kris Kobach as Politico prepared its report on Hendrix’s role in the chat.