Category Archives: racism

Ralph Northam’s Cruel Blackface Apology

If there’s anything remarkable about this moment, it’s not that these white men donned blackface, but how far they will go to avoid reckoning with what that says about them.

Source: Ralph Northam’s Cruel Blackface Apology

In rush to revamp Medicaid, Trump officials bend rules that protect patients – Los Angeles Times- Trump-“people on Medicaid are all losers and should have to work for their porridge and beg for some, please sir?” Oliver Twist workhouses!

The Trump administration is scaling back independent evaluation of its most controversial healthcare proposals, including moves to impose work requirements in Medicaid.

Source: In rush to revamp Medicaid, Trump officials bend rules that protect patients – Los Angeles Times

State of the Union Fact Check: What Trump Got Right and Wrong – The New York Times

“The border city of El Paso, Tex., used to have extremely high rates of violent crime — one of the highest in the entire country, and considered one of our nation’s most dangerous cities. Now, immediately upon its building, with a powerful barrier in place, El Paso is one of the safest cities in our country.” This is false. El Paso was never one of the most dangerous cities in the United States, and crime has been declining in cities across the country — not just El Paso — for reasons that have nothing to do with border fencing. In 2008, before border barriers had been completed in El Paso, the city had the second-lowest violent crime rate among more than 20 similarly sized cities. In 2010, after the fencing went up, it held that place. Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer A spotlight on the people reshaping our politics. A conversation with voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless news cycle, telling you what you really need to know. SIGN UP

Lawyer for 21 Savage Calls Arrest ‘a Civil Law Violation’ Based On ‘Incorrect Information’ – racism in action

An attorney for 21 Savage has released a statement regarding the rapper’s arrest by ICE on Sunday, saying that he was apprehended “based upon incorrect information about prior criminal charges.”

Source: Lawyer for 21 Savage Calls Arrest ‘a Civil Law Violation’ Based On ‘Incorrect Information’

ACLU Lawyer Responds to Trump Administration Child Welfare Comment Warning: WTF content ahead! Trump Administration Argument suitable for Nazi Camp Commander!

“The administration is acting as if these are children who are adopted, whose parents gave them up for adoption decades ago and now all of a sudden bringing a parent into their life would destabilize their life,” Lee Gelernt, Deputy Director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Immigrants Rights Project and its lead attorney on the case, told Jezebel. “We’re talking about children who were forcibly taken from their parents in the last year and the administration is trying to claim that it’s for the child’s own good not to reunite with their parents. That makes no sense and can’t be justified from a child welfare standpoint.”

Source: ACLU Lawyer Responds to Trump Administration Child Welfare Comment

Trump: release of Mueller report will be ‘totally up to’ attorney general | US news | The Guardian – so says the Chief liar, thief and traitor!

Democrats want nominee William Barr to release Russia report, which acting AG Whitaker has said is nearly finished

Source: Trump: release of Mueller report will be ‘totally up to’ attorney general | US news | The Guardian

Rapper 21 Savage arrested by US immigration – for being British | Music | The Guardian – just doing their best “racist” to do what #45 believes to be their job – be racist!

Atlanta rapper held early on Sunday in Super Bowl city, a week before Grammys for which he is nominated twice

Source: Rapper 21 Savage arrested by US immigration – for being British | Music | The Guardian

Trump Admin Says It’s Too Hard To Reunite Thousands Of Separated Families: Court Filing | HuffPost

On Friday, officials from the Trump administration said it would require too much effort to reunite the thousands of families it separated before implementing its “zero-tolerance” policy in April, according to a declaration filed as part of an ongoing lawsuit between the American Civil Liberties Union and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Last month, the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services released a report stating that “thousands” more immigrant families had been separated than the government had previously disclosed. In the declaration submitted Friday, HHS officials said they don’t know the exact number of children who were taken from their parents before “zero tolerance” and that finding them would be too much of a “burden” since there was no formal tracking system in place.

Source: Trump Admin Says It’s Too Hard To Reunite Thousands Of Separated Families: Court Filing | HuffPost

From Fake News to Enemy of the People: An Anatomy of Trump’s Tweets | Inter Press Service

The president’s tweets can have an impact and consequences for the press both at home and abroad. His rhetoric has given cover to autocratic regimes: world leaders from Cambodia to the Philippines have echoed terms like “fake news” in the midst of crackdowns on press freedom. And the rhetoric has sometimes resulted in harassment of individual journalists in the U.S., where CPJ is aware of several journalists who say they were harassed or threatened online after being singled out on Twitter by Trump. CPJ’s database of tweets can be viewed here and our methodology can be found here.

Source: From Fake News to Enemy of the People: An Anatomy of Trump’s Tweets | Inter Press Service

Matteo Salvini mocks move to tackle racism in Italian football | World news | The Guardian

Italian football hooligans, knowns as ultras, tend to be well-organised, extremely violent and racist. Last year Daniele De Santis, a notorious ultra, was jailed for 16 years for the murder of a Napoli fan, Ciro Esposito, before the 2014 Italian Cup final game against Fiorentina.

Source: Matteo Salvini mocks move to tackle racism in Italian football | World news | The Guardian