Category Archives: racism

The world knows what is happening to the Uighurs. Why has it been so slow to act? | World news | The Guardian – Because it’s all about money or looking good – aka: no one in power cares!

A reluctance to offend China and an information blackout has meant the persecution of the ethnic minority has gone under the radar. But pressure for change is building

Source: The world knows what is happening to the Uighurs. Why has it been so slow to act? | World news | The Guardian

“Race-Baiting” Trump tells black critic to clean up ‘disgusting, rat and rodent infested’ district – Reuters

President Donald Trump hit out at a prominent African-American critic on Saturday, calling him a “brutal bully” who should concentrate on cleaning up his “disgusting, rat and rodent infested” Baltimore district rather than criticizing the work of U.S. immigration officers on the Mexican border.

Source: Trump tells black critic to clean up ‘disgusting, rat and rodent infested’ district – Reuters

Jews for Ilhan: Who Will Stand Up Against the Presidential Targeting of a Congresswomen? – LA Progressive

Jews for Ihan — Rick Chertoff: Omar’s real crime was to break the taboo against criticizing the powerful Israel Lobby, comparable to the NRA in influence.

Source: Jews for Ilhan: Who Will Stand Up Against the Presidential Targeting of a Congresswomen? – LA Progressive

Germany′s India envoy visits ′Nazi-inspired′ Hindu group | News | DW | 21.07.2019

Ambassador Walter J Lindner’s visit to the headquarters of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has stirred a controversy in India. Experts say the Hindu extremist group glorifies Adolf Hitler and his “cultural nationalism.”

Source: Germany′s India envoy visits ′Nazi-inspired′ Hindu group | News | DW | 21.07.2019

Pentagon contractor charged with threatening to kill Rep. Frederica Wilson | 3CHICSPOLITICO

This is the United States of America, bitch. Get the fuck out,” the voicemail continued. “I’ll tell you what I’ll come down to Miami bitch. I’ll fuck you up. Like the Cubans don’t even know.”

Source: Pentagon contractor charged with threatening to kill Rep. Frederica Wilson | 3CHICSPOLITICO

New Hampshire State Rep. Says Slavery Was ‘Economic Reality’ “I suppose he could explain away genocide just as easily.” Hateful person.

The New Hampshire Union Leader reported on Wednesday on a local dimension of Racist Week, which, of course, happened on Facebook.

Source: New Hampshire State Rep. Says Slavery Was ‘Economic Reality’

“Slavery later on in the American South was not about the color of the skin of the slaves but their value as workers on the plantations,” Horn said.

“The U.S. had abolitionists since the start, people who felt slavery wasn’t moral but they weren’t enslaving black people because they were black. They were bringing in these folks because they were available.”

“What they were looking at was whether they were fit enough to do the demanding work that needed to be done. It was an economic reality.”

Bullies told me to ‘go home’. Now, Trump is making me relive those moments | Marie Myung-OK | Opinion | The Guardian – Racist and traitor says anyone who disagrees with him is attacking the America that he has laid open to Russian hacking!

I grew up in northern Minnesota, where our family was the only family of color in a small mining town. It was a town rich with immigration – its “ethnic days” boasted more than 100 nationalities (but always somehow forgot us) – all European. I still subscribe to our hometown paper and see that now, as then, a Finnish club continues to meet at the public library every week, the Sons of Norway (yes, still “sons”) club is so active it has won national awards from its main organization.

Source: Bullies told me to ‘go home’. Now, Trump is making me relive those moments | Marie Myung-OK | Opinion | The Guardian

Donald Trump’s grandfather wrote letter begging not to be deported. Here it is | The Independent

More than a 100 years later, his grandson, Donald Trump, imposed new immigration rules that would have kept his grandfather out of the US.  The Trump administration’s hardline immigration stance has also set precedent for the First Lady Melania Trump to be deported.  Meanwhile, deportation raids in the US which are part of a crackdown by the Trump administration on all undocumented immigrants have led to a increase in arrests of immigrants who do not have criminal records.  In the latest deportation sweep, immigration officers arrested 650 people in communities across the US over a four-day span in July. Among them, 520 had no criminal records.  In June, President Trump reversed on his campaign promise to deport immigrants’ children, known as “Dreamers”, but their parents could still be sent back to their home countries.

Source: Donald Trump’s grandfather wrote letter begging not to be deported. Here it is | The Independent