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The Inauguration of White Supremacy

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump's cabinet has no Latinos, the first time that minority, which comprises 18 percent of Americans, is absent for twenty-five years. Trump famously…

In the Age of Trumpian Reaction, is MLK’s Legacy to the 99% being Reversed?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Reaction has two main meanings in English. One is to respond to some new situation (not specifying the nature of the reaction). The…

5 Images that refute Trump’s attack on Hero John Lewis

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - It began when Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) announced that he would not attend the inaugural of Donald J. Trump because he did not…

Yes, Whites are victims of Hate Crimes, too, but most Victims are Minorities

By Joe Sexton | ProPublica | - - The meaning and enforcement of the Illinois hate-crimes statute seems destined for intense scrutiny with the arrest this week of four young black adults…

Top Five ways Jesus was not White

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Given the alarming rise of white nationalism in the United States and the ways in which it is often entangled with Christian nationalism,…

Trump’s Normalization of White Supremacy: Will Richard Spencer Sit in Congress?

The white supremacist revealed this week he is considering running for the Montana Congressional seat. With an incoming presidency that was embroiled in charges of using white supremacist rhetoric during the campaign…

In Aftermath of Trump’s Win, More Than 1,000 Hate Crimes in a Month

TeleSur | - - Over one-third of the incidents made mention of President-elect Donald Trump. Over 1,000 hate crimes have been reported since Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election, the rate…

The Reich Strikes Back? Neo-Nazis Call for a Boycott of New Star Wars Movie

By TeleSur | - - White-supremacists are upset because nearly all of the major characters on the new Star Wars film are people of color. Neo-Nazi groups on the Internet are calling…

Trump Effect: 867 Hate Incidents in Just 10 Days After Election

TeleSur | - - Educators have reported an increase in students using racial slurs, verbally harassing their classmates and writing white nationalist graffiti. The “Trump effect” is already taking a heavy toll…

Neofascist Roof will conduct own defense in Murder Trial

TeleSur | - - Roof allegedly shot and massacred nine African-American churchgoers. Dylann Roof, the white supremacist charged with shooting up a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine parishioners, was…

From Wanda Sykes to ACLU: How to Show Solidarity in the Age of Trump

TeleSur | - - Building a wall of support against Trump’s wall of rhetoric is the way forward. Wanda Sykes, a Black lesbian comedian, was booed because she dared to rant against…

Racism in the US runs far deeper than Trump’s white supremacist fanbase

By Nicholas Guyatt | (The Conversation) | - - Donald Trump’s astonishing rise to the presidency has put racism at the heart of American politics. From the very start of his campaign,…

Israel’s sliding definition of anti-Semitism in the Trump era

By Heike Schotten | (Ma'an News Agency) | - - You would think that support for Israel is fundamentally at odds with anti-Semitism. If you thought that, however, you would be wrong.The…

CNN’s Chyron wonders if Jews are People, inspired by Trumpist Neofascism

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Richard Spencer is a rock star of the Neofascist movement that hides behind the euphemism "alt-right." (Since they're always going on about how…

Now Trump’s Targets: Many US Latinos fled chaos of Reagan’s anti-Left crusade

By Luis Gómez Romero | (The Conversation) | - - In an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes, United States president-elect Donald Trump highlighted some campaign promises that he actually plans to keep.…

US: Trump’s Justice, CIA Picks Threaten Rights

Human Rights Watch | - - (Washington) – President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as United States attorney general reinforces fears that Trump’s administration will threaten human rights protections,…

Which of Trump’s Cabinet picks is most Racist and Islamophobic?

TeleSur | - - The attorney general nominee has made racist statements in the past while his new national security adviser is an Islamophobe. Donald Trump has disclosed more names to to…

Woman on SF Train Verbally Abuses Christian Assyrian-American as ‘Terrorist’ for Speaking Jesus’ Language

Woman demeans Christian Assyrian-American as ‘Terrorist’ for Speaking Jesus’ Language

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Aramaic was the language spoken by Jesus. Although the New Testament survives in koine Greek, likely it had an Aramaic substrate. The Gospels…

Why Internment of Japanese Americans is an outrageous Model for registering Muslim-Americans

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump adviser Carl Higbie told Megyn Kelly on Fox "News" that the new administration wanted to create a registration list of US Muslims,…

As Der Donald-inspired Hate Crimes grow, US Universities at Risk

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - A tsunami of reports about hate crimes directed at minorities are coming in from all over the country in the wake of Der…