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Archives: racism
Does Watching too much TV turn you into a Trump Voter?
By James Shanahan. | (The Conversation) | - - Many gallons of ink (and megabytes of electronic text) have been devoted to explaining the surprise victory of Donald Trump. Reasons range from…
In Trump’s DC, Noose Found in African American Museum
TeleSur | - - It's the second time this week a noose has been discovered on the grounds of a Smithsonian museum. A noose was found on Wednesday in an exhibition on…
Roger Ailes: The Man Who Destroyed the News
By Neal Gabler | ( Billmoyers.com) | - - The founder of the right-wing network inflicted harm on the body politic that may be impossible to heal. Fox News creator and former…
US Reputation under Trump Tanking, Costing Economy Billions
By Daniel Korschun, Boryana V Dimitrova, and Yoto V. Yotov | (The Conversation) | - - U.S. News and World Report recently published its annual “Best Countries” ranking, based on how thousands…
Supreme Court Strikes down N. Carolina’s Racial Gerrymander
TeleSur | - - Ultra-conservative Justice Clarence Thomas sided with four liberal justices in the 5-3 majority decision. Yesterday the Supreme Court struck down North Carolina's congressional map. The court found the…
Alabama Passes Bill to Protect Confederate Monuments even at cost of Economy
TeleSur | - - Some Southern cities are rethinking the appropriateness of keeping such emblems on public property. Not Alabama. Alabama lawmakers on Friday approved a bill that prohibits the removal of…
Bannon booted from US National Security Council, takes swipe at Susan Rice
TeleSur | - - "General McMaster has returned the NSC to its proper function,” Bannon said in a statement. U.S. President Donald Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, has been removed from the…
No, supremacists, the Vikings wouldn’t have put up with “Teuton” Donald Trump
By Keith Ruiter | (The Conversation) | - - It has been suggested that Donald Trump “may get his assertive rather than passive manner from his alleged Viking ancestors”. Or so says…
What the Civil Rights Movement can teach us about Resistance in Age of Trump
By Jon Else | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - On a glorious afternoon in August 1963, after the massive March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom wrapped up on the national mall,…
What’s Cuba *Really* Like?
H. Patricia Hynes | (Informed Comment) | - - What is Cuba like? Since visiting there recently, I have been asked this question hundreds of times and learned that every third person…
Africa Trade Summit in US Had Zero Africans After Visas Denied
TeleSur | - - "This year it was 100 percent. Every delegation,” organizer Mary Flowers told the media. An African trade summit organized by the University of Southern California ended up with…
Is White Supremacy Making A Comeback?
AJ+ | (Video Clip) "Former FBI undercover agent Mike German discusses the resurgence of the white supremacist movement now under President Trump." AJ+: "Is White Supremacy Making A Comeback?"
What everyone Needs to know about alt-NeoNazi President Steve Bannon
AJ+ | (Video Clip) | - - "President Trump is calling for an investigation into voter fraud, and media sources have discovered that his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, was actually registered in…
Dear Rep. King: Our Civilization isn’t White and American Babies aren’t Other
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Rep Steve King of Iowa (whose constituents should be ashamed to show their faces in public went full-on racist again, supporting hate-speech master…
Addicted to Racism: Why Populists Literally get off on Bigotry
By Anne-Ruth Wertheim | (Informed Comment) | - - Only recently did I realise that people with racist prejudices have something to lose: their short-term delight, the balm for their soul. This…
Zombie America: Is it too late to Fight Trump’s Real-Life Dystopia?
By John Feffer | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - Dystopias have recently achieved full-spectrum dominance. Kids are drawn to such stories -- The Giver, Hunger Games -- like Goths to piercings. TV shows…
Texas GOP tried Gerrymander away Latino, Austin Votes: Fed. Court
TeleSur | - - "Republicans in Texas have ensured that the dark days of discrimination in Texas continue to loom." Texas lawmakers drew up three U.S. congressional districts to undermine the influence…
We ignore the Violence of Radical White Populist Extremism at our Peril
By Sindre Bangstad | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | - - We ignore the terrorist threat from right-wing extremism at our peril. But the main threat to democracy in our time is even more…