RACISM/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Speaking to a racially mixed audience in August 2016, Corey Stewart, the far-right provocateur who won the Republican Senate nomination in Virginia last week, hailed the renaming of a middle school to honor a local black philanthropist instead of a former governor with segregationist roots…But six months later, he was singing a notably […]
Category: Racism
6/13/2018
ELECTION/GOP/RACISM/SENATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Corey Stewart, the bombastic conservative who built his public image on championing Confederate symbols, won the Republican Senate nomination in Virginia. Stewart, a member of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors, defeated state House member Nick Freitas and minister E.W. Jackson in Tuesday’s [6-12-18] primary. Freitas conceded the race Tuesday night, according […]
6/1/2018
BUSINESS/RACISM/TRUMP PEOPLE: “CVS Health said Friday [6-1-18] that it would no longer donate to America First Policies, a nonprofit group that works to promote President Donald Trump’s agenda, after CNN and other outlets reported racist comments made by staffers of the organization. MapLight, a nonpartisan research group that tracks the influence of money in politics, […]
6/1/2018
CIA/MUSLIMS/NATIONAL SECURITY/RACISM/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Jewish and Muslim groups are objecting to the appointment of a former Central Intelligence Agency analyst to a top White House post because of his controversial views of Islam. The Anti-Defamation League, Council on American-Islamic Relations and other groups said Fred Fleitz shouldn’t serve as chief of staff to national security adviser […]
5/30/2018
ENTERTAINMENT/MEDIA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump acknowledged on Wednesday [5-30-18] the furor over a racist Twitter post made by Roseanne Barr, but focused on an apology issued by ABC instead of the offensive content of the television star’s remarks…It was the first time the president, who previously had called Ms. Barr to congratulate her on the […]
5/30/2018
ENTERTAINMENT/MEDIA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s first public reaction to the cancellation of ‘Roseanne’ is a shot at Disney CEO Bob Iger. What he didn’t say is just as notable. He didn’t say anything critical of Roseanne Barr’s racist and conspiratorial tweets — the comments that got her fired on Tuesday [5-29-18]…Trump and Barr have been […]
5/24/2018
RACISM/SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Thursday [5-24-18] granted a rare posthumous pardon to boxing’s first black heavyweight champion, clearing Jack Johnson’s name more than 100 years after what many see as his racially-charged conviction. ‘It’s my honor to do it. It’s about time,’ Trump said during an Oval Office ceremony, where he was […]
5/24/2018
RACISM/SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump praised NFL team owners for doing the ‘right thing’ in requiring NFL players to stand during the National Anthem this season, and suggested those who don’t stand maybe ‘shouldn’t be in the country…’ NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced the new policy Wednesday [5-23-18], requiring players and personnel to stand […]
5/24/2018
POLICE/RACISM/SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said National Football League players who don’t want to stand for the national anthem perhaps ‘shouldn’t be in the country,’ and spoke approvingly of a new league rule aimed at curbing protests on the field, in an interview that aired Thursday [5-24-18] morning. Mr. Trump taped remarks for Fox […]
5/7/2018
ELECTION/GOP/PENNSYLVANIA/RACISM/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A Republican congressional candidate in Pennsylvania is trying to distance himself from his friend and former radio co-host Carl Higbie, who resigned from the Trump administration earlier this year after CNN’s KFile uncovered anti-gay, anti-Muslim, racist and sexist remarks he made on his radio program. Guy Reschenthaler was Higbie’s co-host on the radio […]
5/2/2018
HHS/MUSLIMS/RACISM/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A political appointee at the Department of Health and Human Services has apologized and is now back at work at the department after it came to light that she spread conspiracy theories and shared an image that said ‘our forefathers would have hung’ Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for treason on social media. […]
4/24/2018
RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Ever since Donald J. Trump began his improbable political rise, many pundits have credited his appeal among white, Christian and male voters to ‘economic anxiety.’ Hobbled by unemployment and locked out of the recovery, those voters turned out in force to send Mr. Trump, and a message, to Washington. Or so that […]
4/18/2018
IMMIGRATION/RACISM/SANCTUARY CITIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “What exactly did President Donald Trump mean by ‘breeding’ when he tweeted Wednesday [4-18-18] about cities that will not cooperate with the federal government to deport the undocumented… ‘There is a Revolution going on in California. Soooo many Sanctuary areas want OUT of this ridiculous, crime infested & breeding concept…’ Taken […]
4/3/2018
RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Is this America’s new face to the world? Ninety-one proud new White House interns face the camera, with their beaming new boss, President Donald Trump, in the center. These shining faces, shown in a photo the White House released Friday of the 2018 Spring cohort, are very much ‘his’ interns: Startlingly, it […]
2/27/2018
RACISM/RELIGION: “The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. last year surged by 57 percent, according to data released on Tuesday [2-27-18] by the Anti-Defamation League. It is the highest tally that the Jewish civil rights group has counted in more than two decades. The New York City-based organization found 1,986 anti-Semitic incidents last year, […]
2/5/2018
GOP/RACISM/RELIGION: “A long-shot candidate with a history of anti-Semitic statements and Holocaust denial is primed to represent the Republican Party in a congressional race in Illinois. The candidate, Arthur Jones, is running unopposed in the GOP primary for Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District, which occupies a portion of Chicago, as well as Western Springs and La […]
1/19/2018
RACISM/TERRORISM: “The number of killings carried out by white supremacists in the U.S. more than doubled from 2016 to 2017, according to a watchdog’s report. The Anti-Defamation League said this week that white supremacists were directly responsible for 18 of the 34 extremist-related killings in 2017. The group said Islamic extremists were linked to nine […]
1/19/2018
RACISM/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Trump administration appointee Carl Higbie resigned Thursday [1-18-18] as chief of external affairs for the federal government’s volunteer service organization after a CNN KFile review of racist, sexist, anti-Muslim and anti-LGBT comments he made on the radio. ‘Effective immediately, Carl Higbie has resigned as Chief of External Affairs at CNCS,’ Samantha Jo Warfield, […]
1/17/2018
RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/ERIC TRUMP: “Eric Trump is defending his father, President Donald Trump, against accusations that he’s racist after he reportedly called certain African nations ‘shithole countries.’ ‘My father sees one color, green,’ Trump said on ‘Fox and Friends’ Wednesday [1-17-18] morning. ‘That’s all he cares about. He cares about the economy.’ ‘He’s the […]
1/17/2018
AMBASSADOR/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former American ambassadors to 48 African nations have urged President Donald Trump to reassess his views on Africa and its citizens after he was reported to have referred to nations there as ‘shithole countries.’ In a letter to Mr. Trump on Tuesday, 78 former envoys said the U.S. is ‘safer, healthier, more […]
1/16/2018
POLITICAL FIGURES/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Sen. Cory Booker slammed the homeland security secretary in a speech Tuesday [1-16-18] morning for claiming ignorance to the President’s slander of African countries. The impassioned remarks came toward the end of an often testy oversight hearing in which Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen denied hearing President Donald Trump […]
1/15/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/IMMIGRATION/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “South Africa and Nigeria have joined a chorus of nations condemning President Trump’s inflammatory remarks on immigration, as Africa experts warned that the controversy threatened to set back American interests across the world’s fastest-growing continent. Since Thursday [1-11-18], when several participants in a meeting with Mr. Trump said he had asked […]
1/15/2018
RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY: “US President Donald Trump may occasionally say ‘silly’ things but he’s ‘definitely not racist,’ his first wife Ivana Trump said Monday [1-15-18]. Asked on the UK’s Good Morning Britain TV show about the President’s vulgar remarks about African nations last week Ivana Trump said she did not believe they showed he […]
1/14/2018
DONALD ON DONALD/IMMIGRATION/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After three days of denunciations from around the world, President Trump declared that he is ‘not a racist’ on Sunday [1-14-18], even as the uproar over his vulgar remarks on immigration overshadowed critical issues facing the capital, including efforts to protect young undocumented immigrants and avert a government shutdown. Mr. […]
1/9/2018
AMBASSADOR/NOMINATIONS/RACISM/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The new US ambassador to the Netherlands, who was confronted last month by a Dutch reporter with comments he made in 2015 about Islamic ‘no-go zones,’ repeatedly made unsubstantiated claims about the nature of Muslim communities in Europe and pushed a hardline view of Islam, a KFile review of his public appearances […]
11/29/2017
RACISM/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump shared videos supposedly portraying Muslims committing acts of violence on Twitter early Wednesday [11-29-17] morning, images that are likely to fuel anti-Islam sentiments popular among the president’s political base in the United States and prompted the office of Britain’s prime minister to issue a statement condemning the tweets. Mr. Trump […]
11/16/2017
DHS/RACISM: “The Department of Homeland Security’s head of outreach to religious and community organizations resigned on Thursday [11-16-17] after audio recordings revealed that he had previously made incendiary remarks about African-Americans and Muslims while speaking on radio shows. In a 2008 clip, the Rev. Jamie Johnson, who was appointed by the Trump administration to lead […]
11/13/2017
CRIME/FBI/LGBTQ/RACISM/RELIGION: “Hate crimes across the country rose about 5% in 2016, the second-consecutive year in which federal authorities tallied an increase in the number of offenses motivated by bias involving race, religion or sexual orientation, according to FBI statistics released Monday [11-13-17]. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, relying on reports provided by more than 15,000 […]
10/27/2017
POLICE/PROTESTS/RACISM: “Law-enforcement officials in Tennessee are gearing up for two white nationalist rallies this Saturday [10-28-17], preparing expansive security measures and calling for community members to avoid the events by groups that marched in Charlottesville earlier this summer. ‘White Lives Matter’ events will be held in Shelbyville, Tenn., a city of 21,000, and Murfreesboro, a […]
10/22/2017
POLICE/RACISM: “The appearance of white nationalist Richard Spencer on Thursday [10-19-17] at the University of Florida sparked a declaration of a state of emergency by Florida’s governor. The event ended up generating little more than shouting and a few arrests. There was no violence. Still, the massive preparations for potentially violent civil disobedience came with […]
10/19/2017
RACISM: “Hundreds of police officers wearing bulletproof vests were deployed at the University of Florida on Thursday [10-19-17] to guard against unrest over a speech by a white nationalist that was expected to draw thousands in protest. Richard Spencer’s event at the university in Gainesville, which prompted the governor to declare a state of emergency […]
10/17/2017
CRIME/RACISM: “When Hurricane Irma was bearing down on Florida last month, Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency. On Monday [10-16-17], he did the same thing in Alachua County, ahead of a speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer at the University of Florida in Gainesville… ‘I find that the threat of a potential emergency […]
9/29/2017
RACISM/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Dozens of evangelical Christian leaders have sent an open letter to President Donald Trump, asking him to more clearly denounce the ‘alt-right movement.’ Signed by an array of conservative Christian pastors, the letter acknowledges statements Mr. Trump has already made condemning white supremacy and the Ku Klux Klan. Still, it says the […]
9/29/2017
AIR FORCE/RACISM: “When someone left racist slurs on the message boards of five black cadet candidates at the Air Force Academy Preparatory School, the academy’s superintendent didn’t even try to suppress his outrage. In a video making the rounds on social media and posted to the Air Force Academy’s Facebook page, Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria […]
9/27/2017
CHRIS WRAY/CRIME/FBI/RACISM/RELIGION/TERRORISM: “The FBI has about 1,000 open investigations into potential domestic terrorists, including people who may be linked to extremist white supremacy, white nationalism and environmental movements, the agency’s new chief, Christopher Wray, told Congress today. During his first testimony as FBI director, Wray said domestic terrorism is ‘a very, very serious’ matter that […]
9/15/2017
MEDIA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The president said on Twitter on Friday [9-15-17] morning that ESPN ‘is paying a really big price for its politics (and bad programming). People are dumping it in RECORD numbers. Apologize for untruth.’ He was apparently referring to ESPN anchor Jemele Hill, who in a recent tweet said that ‘Donald Trump is […]
9/15/2017
MEDIA/RACISM: “ESPN is paying a really big price for its politics (and bad programming). People are dumping it in RECORD numbers. Apologize for untruth!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 15, 2017 06:20am […]
9/12/2017
POLITICS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Senate has approved a resolution condemning white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other hate groups following a white-nationalist rally in Virginia that descended into deadly violence. Democratic Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine of Virginia introduced the measure along with four colleagues from both parties. The resolution, approved unanimously Monday [9-11-17] night, recognizes […]
9/7/2017
PAUL RYAN/RACISM: “A coalition of House Democrats is urging Speaker Paul D. Ryan to establish a select committee on ‘the rise of white supremacy and domestic terrorism.’ The lawmakers, in a letter sent Wednesday [9-6-17] to Mr. Ryan, argued that Congress needed to study an ‘outbreak of hate’ brought on by last year’s presidential election, […]
8/29/2017
DHS/RACISM: “The Department of Homeland Security issued a confidential warning to law enforcement authorities three days before the deadly Aug. 12 Charlottesville protest rally, saying that an escalating series of clashes had created a powder keg that would likely make the event ‘among the most violent to date’ between white supremacists and anarchists… The Aug. […]
8/29/2017
LEGAL/RACISM: “New York City launched an investigation on Tuesday [8-29-17] into allegations of tenant harassment at a Queens property that has Nazi names and Confederate imagery in the building lobby. The probe is aimed at whether the rights of tenants were violated and if tenants were harassed by an alleged hostile environment at the 48-unit […]
8/28/2017
CRIME/LEGAL/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump offered a fiery defense on Monday [8-29-17] of his decision to pardon Joe Arpaio, the former Arizona sheriff, as Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas last week — and claimed he timed it to attract maximum attention as television viewers were glued to storm coverage. Mr. Trump, who said his […]
8/23/2017
POLITICAL FIGURES/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s seesawing response to the deadly racial violence in Charlottesville, Va., has been rebuked by countless politicians, business executives, community groups and religious leaders. The leaders of Britain and Germany spoke about the need to condemn such violence. Now the United Nations has weighed in, too. Without mentioning Mr. Trump […]
8/23/2017
RACISM/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A science envoy for the Department of State sent a resignation letter to President Donald Trump on Wednesday with a not-so-subtle secret message: ‘IMPEACH.’ Daniel Kammen, a professor of energy at the University of California, Berkeley, told Trump in a letter dated Wednesday [8-23-17] that his decision to quit his State Department […]
8/23/2017
FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/RACISM: “Last night in Phoenix I read the things from my statements on Charlottesville that the Fake News Media didn’t cover fairly. People got it!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 23, 2017 08:40am […]
8/23/2017
RACISM/SUPPORTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump, in his first rally after the violent white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Va., earlier this month, attacked the news media and his fellow Republicans who were critical of his response to the protest. In an address of more than an hour, Mr. Trump accused the news media of ‘fomenting […]
8/22/2017
BUSINESS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Last Wednesday [8-23-17], even as top executives were abandoning President Trump’s business advisory councils after his remarks on white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Va., other industry leaders were busy making their interests known to a business-friendly White House. Jerry Howard, chief executive of the National Association of Home Builders, a trade group, […]
8/21/2017
PROTESTS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump called Monday [8-21-17] for peace and an end to bigotry in the U.S., nearly a week after a combative news conference in which he said both sides were to blame for a violent confrontation in Charlottesville, Va., between white nationalists and counterprotesters. ‘The young men and women we send […]
8/21/2017
PROTESTS/RACISM: “J.P. Morgan Chase (JPM, +0.55%) announced Monday [8-21-7] that it will be giving $1 million to nonprofit groups fighting extremism following the deadly white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Va. ‘The events in Charlottesville have increased the urgency to confront hate, intolerance and discrimination wherever it exists,’ Peter Scher, head of corporate responsibility at J.P. […]
8/21/2017
LEGAL/RACISM/SUPREME COURT: “As North Carolina lawmakers rush to adopt new state legislative maps not based on race, they can’t escape the very issue they are trying to remove: race. Both the state Senate and the House of Representatives have proposed new maps to address a lower-court ruling—upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court—that found the existing […]
8/21/2017
RACISM: “The University of Texas removed four Confederate statues from its Austin campus early Monday [8-21-17] morning, amid growing pressure to take down such monuments in the wake of racist violence in Charlottesville. University president Gregory L. Fenves announced the decision late Sunday night, saying the ‘horrific displays of hatred’ in Virginia had made it […]
8/20/2017
RACISM/TRUMP BUSINESS: “With its ornate 20,000-square-foot ballroom and manicured lawns, President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., is often the site of elaborate fund-raisers, drawing big charities — and big dollars. But several organizations are having a change of heart since Mr. Trump blamed ‘both sides’ for the violence in Charlottesville, Va., after a […]
8/20/2017
PROTESTS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A group of alumni from one of the country’s most influential evangelical Christian universities is condemning their school’s president for his continued alignment with President Trump. A small but growing number of Liberty University graduates are preparing to return diplomas to their school. The graduates are protesting university President Jerry Falwell Jr.’s […]
8/19/2017
RACISM/STEVEN MNUCHIN: “Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin rejected calls for him to resign in protest of President Donald Trump’s response to violence at a white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend, and defended the president in a statement Saturday [8-19-17] evening. Mr. Mnuchin condemned the ‘actions of those filled with hate and with the intent to […]
8/19/2017
PROTESTS/RACISM: “I want to applaud the many protestors in Boston who are speaking out against bigotry and hate. Our country will soon come together as one!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 19, 2017 03:41pm […]
8/18/2017
PROTESTS/RACISM: “The mother of the woman who was run down by a car during violent clashes in Charlottesville, Va., said Friday [8-18-17] that after seeing President Trump’s comments equating white supremacist protesters with those demonstrating against them, she does not wish to speak with him… In an interview on ABC’s ‘Good Morning America,’ Ms. Bro […]
8/18/2017
BUSINESS/PROTESTS/RACISM: “A prominent Internet rights group has condemned Google and GoDaddy for refusing to manage the domain registration for the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a non-profit organization that defends digital civil liberties, issued a blistering statement on Thursday slamming the domain gatekeepers for using their power to silence speech. […]
8/18/2017
PROTESTS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Sixteen prominent artists, authors, performers and architects resigned on Friday [8-18-17] from the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, the latest group to protest Donald J. Trump’s defense of white nationalists after the violent demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va. In a letter addressed to Mr. Trump, the committee members blasted his […]
8/18/2017
POLITICAL FIGURES/RACISM: “Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney took to Facebook Friday [8-18-17] morning to again criticize how President Donald Trump handled the Charlottesville, Virginia attacks this past weekend. ‘Whether he intended to or not, what he communicated caused racists to rejoice, minorities to weep and the vast heart of America to mourn,’ Romney wrote. […]
8/17/2017
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday [8-17-17] called on President Donald Trump to send an ‘unequivocal message’ that he would not stand for the ‘hate and racism’ seen over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, rejecting the president’s notion that blame lay with ‘both sides’ taking part in the event. ‘There are not two […]
8/17/2017
RACISM/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Despite ongoing rebukes over his defense of white supremacists, President Trump defiantly returned to his campaign’s nativist themes on Thursday [8-17-17]. He lamented an assault on American ‘culture,’ revived a bogus, century-old story about killing Muslim extremists and attacked Republicans with a renewed vigor. Hours after a terrorist attack in Spain, Mr. […]
8/17/2017
BUSINESS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As corporate chieftains on a White House advisory panel debated on Wednesday [8-16-17] on whether to disband, a few spoke up in favor of sticking with President Trump. They made their case in terms of business self-interest, patriotism and pragmatism. Jack Welch, the retired leader of General Electric, said the business leaders […]
8/17/2017
PROTESTS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “James Murdoch, the chief executive of 21st Century Fox and the son of a frequent ally of President Trump’s, condemned the president’s performance after the violence in Charlottesville, Va., and pledged to donate $1 million to the Anti-Defamation League. In an email on Thursday [8-17-17], a copy of which was obtained by […]
8/17/2017
RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump defended the ‘beautiful’ statues commemorating Confederate leaders and lamented efforts to remove them, weighing in on an issue central to the weekend’s deadly violence in Charlottesville, Va… The debate over the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, a top commander of Confederate forces in the Civil War, […]
8/17/2017
RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House pulled the plug Thursday [8-17-17] on a planned council that was to advise President Donald Trump on rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure, acknowledging that the proposed members would come under pressure not to participate because of the controversy surrounding the president’s remarks amid the Charlottesville furor. ‘The President’s Advisory […]
8/17/2017
GOP/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Taking down statues of Confederate figures is ‘just like’ removing a monument to victims of the 9/11 attacks, Gov. Paul LePage said Thursday [8-17-17], adding that the white nationalist and far-left protesters in Charlottesville over the weekend were ‘equally as bad’ and ‘disgusting.’ The Republican governor made the comments during an appearance […]
8/17/2017
RACISM/RELIGION/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA/JARED KUSHNER: “Sequestered on a brief holiday with her husband Jared Kushner in Vermont, Ivanka Trump, President Donald Trump’s eldest daughter — one of his senior advisers and the closest member of his family who is Jewish — has yet to comment on the events of her father’s Tuesday [8-16-17] afternoon press conference. In […]
8/17/2017
FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The public is learning (even more so) how dishonest the Fake News is. They totally misrepresent what I say about hate, bigotry etc. Shame!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 17, 2017 05:32am […]
8/17/2017
RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Publicity seeking Lindsey Graham falsely stated that I said there is moral equivalency between the KKK, neo-Nazis & white supremacists… and people like Ms. Heyer. Such a disgusting lie. He just can’t forget his election trouncing.The people of South Carolina will remember!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 17, 2017 05:19am and 05:24am […]
8/16/2017
RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump’s personal lawyer on Wednesday [8-17-17] forwarded an email to conservative journalists, government officials and friends that echoed secessionist Civil War propaganda and declared that the group Black Lives Matter ‘has been totally infiltrated by terrorist groups.’ The email forwarded by John Dowd, who is leading the president’s legal team, […]
8/16/2017
RACISM/RELIGION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Jewish members of President Trump’s administration remained largely silent Wednesday [8-16-17] after Mr. Trump came to the defense of nationalist and right-wing protesters in Charlottesville, Va., who had chanted anti-Semitic slogans and demeaned the president’s Jewish son-in-law. Gary D. Cohn, the director of the president’s National Economic Council, who is Jewish, was described […]
8/16/2017
NATIONAL SECURITY/RACISM: “City officials across the country are nervously trying to figure out how to avoid becoming the next Charlottesville as alt-right leaders and white nationalist groups vow to stage more rallies in coming days. A group claiming it is advocating free speech has planned a rally for Saturday [8-12-17] on the historic Boston Common, […]
8/16/2017
RACISM/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA/JARED KUSHNER: “The rabbi who oversaw Ivanka Trump’s conversion to Judaism has released a letter to the congregation of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s longtime synagogue condemning President Trump’s widely criticized statements about the violent protests in Charlottesville. In a letter sent to members of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun this evening, Rabbi Emeritus […]
8/16/2017
MILITARY/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The nation’s top military officers issued public statements condemning racial bigotry and extremism, a rare foray into domestic politics that indicated deep unease Wednesday [8-16-17] in the Pentagon with President Trump’s views on race and underscored his growing isolation. The social media posts from the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff — the […]
8/16/2017
BUSH FAMILY/RACISM: “President Trump has faced criticism for not being strong enough in his condemnation of Ku Klux Klan members and neo-Nazis who staged a rally in Charlottesville last weekend — and for saying ‘all sides’ were responsible for the violence that ensued. The criticism intensified after the president’s impromptu news conference Tuesday [8-15-17] in […]
8/16/2017
NATIONAL SECURITY/RACISM: “Crews quietly removed Baltimore’s Confederate monuments early Wednesday [8-16-17], days after deadly unrest in Charlottesville as white nationalists rallied to defend a statue in that city. The sudden removal of four statues, without fanfare or advance notice, marks an attempt by Baltimore leaders to avoid a long, bruising conflict that has embroiled Charlottesville […]
8/16/2017
POLITICAL FIGURES/RACISM: “Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday [8-16-17] ‘there are no good neo-Nazis’ — a day after President Donald Trump said there ‘were very fine people on both sides’ of the violent white supremacist rally this weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia. McConnell’s office on Tuesday said the Kentucky Republican had no new response to […]
8/16/2017
RACISM/STEVE BANNON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Amid reports of disgust and dismay among White House officials in the wake of President Trump’s insistence that ‘both sides’ bear the blame for the violence that broke out in Charlottesville, Va.., Saturday, there appears to be one member of the administration who couldn’t be happier: White House Chief Strategist Steve […]
8/16/2017
BUSINESS/RACISM: “Technology companies’ recent moves to crack down on white supremacists thrust them into unusual territory for corporations that often take a more hands-off approach to who uses their services and how. In the wake of weekend violence at a white supremacists rally in Charlottesville, Va., Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL +0.58% Google and GoDaddy Inc. GDDY […]
8/15/2017
RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump reverted Tuesday [8-15-17] to blaming both sides for the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Va., and at one point questioned whether the movement to pull down Confederate statues would lead to the desecration of memorials to George Washington. Abandoning his precisely chosen and carefully delivered condemnations of the Ku Klux Klan […]
8/15/2017
DOJ/RACISM/TERRORISM: “Days after neo-Nazis and white nationalists led a deadly march through Charlottesville — and are beginning to organize again — Republican leaders in Congress appear to be in no hurry to tackle the issue beyond statements of condemnation. Many GOP lawmakers called Saturday’s [8-12-17] march and the killing of a 32-year-old woman an act […]
8/15/2017
DHS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RACISM/TERRORISM: “When an alleged white supremacist rammed a car into a crowd of people Saturday [8-12-17] in Charlottesville, Virginia, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and members of Congress from both parties were quick to call it an act of terrorism. But U.S. law enforcement officials, who enjoy sweeping powers to investigate and prosecute suspected foreign […]
8/15/2017
PROTESTS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Three chief executives resigned Monday [8-14-17] from a manufacturing-advisory council to the Trump administration in an apparent protest of the president’s failure to quickly condemn the white supremacists who marched and engaged in violence in Charlottesville, Va., this weekend. Drugmaker Merck MRK +0.29% & Co. issued a statement Monday morning on Twitter […]
8/14/2017
CRIME/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The white supremacists and right-wing extremists who came together over the weekend in Charlottesville, Va., are now headed home, many of them ready and energized, they said, to set their sights on bigger prizes. Some were making arrangements to appear at future marches. Some were planning to run for public office. Others, […]
8/14/2017
RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump is facing heated criticism over not publicly condemning white nationalists for inciting this weekend’s bloody confrontation in Charlottesville, Va., but on Monday [8-14-17] he criticized the head of Merck pharmaceuticals for quitting a federal panel in protest of Mr. Trump’s equivocal response to the violence. Merck’s chief executive, Kenneth C. […]
8/14/2017
RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump bowed to overwhelming pressure that he personally condemn white supremacists who incited bloody demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend — labeling their racists views ‘evil’ after two days of equivocal statements. ‘Racism is evil,’ Mr. Trump said. ‘And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and […]
8/14/2017
OBAMA/RACISM: “Former president Barack Obama still knows how to find the right words after a national tragedy. With more than 2.4 million likes and counting, Obama’s tweet Saturday [8-12-17] quoting Nelson Mandela in the wake of white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Va., is the third-most liked tweet since Twitter launched. One woman was killed and […]
8/14/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/CRIME/JEFF SESSIONS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday [8-14-17] morning he expects President Donald Trump to explicitly condemn white supremacists, in the wake of deadly violence at a weekend rally in Virginia and growing pressure on Mr. Trump to break decisively with nationalist groups that backed his campaign and presidency. ‘He will […]
8/13/2017
CRIME/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump, in the wake of deadly weekend violence at a white-supremacy rally in Virginia, is facing pressure to break decisively with such nationalist groups that largely backed his campaign and presidency, or risk a fraying of his fragile governing coalition. The rally erupted in violence in Charlottesville on Saturday [8-12-17], […]
8/12/2017
CRIME/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “What is vital now is a swift restoration of law and order and the protection of innocent lives. #Charlottesville https://t.co/DB22fgnu6L” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 12, 2017 03:23pm […]
8/12/2017
CRIME/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We ALL must be united & condemn all that hate stands for. There is no place for this kind of violence in America. Lets come together as one!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 12, 2017 12:19pm […]
8/2/2017
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RACISIM: “The Justice Department is seeking attorneys to investigate racial bias in college admissions as the agency prepares to review a 2015 complaint that claims Harvard University discriminates against Asian-American applicants. An internal job posting calls for employees to work on ‘investigations and possible litigation related to intentional race-based discrimination in college and university […]
3/22/2017
GOP/POLITICS/PROTESTS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A Hawaii lawmaker who says she was pressured to give up her leadership post at the statehouse after criticizing President Donald Trump resigned Wednesday [3-22-17] from the Republican Party. Rep. Beth Fukumoto said members of the GOP refused to oppose racism and sexism including a suggestion by Trump to create a Muslim […]
2/22/2017
ANTI-SEMITISM/RACISM/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA TRUMP: “On Monday [2-20-17] evening, as word spread of yet more anti-Semitic behavior around the nation, it wasn’t President Donald Trump who was the first to speak out against the threats to regional Jewish Community Centers — it was his daughter, Ivanka Trump. Like her dad, however, she used Twitter to remind her […]
2/21/2017
ANTI-SEMITISM/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s remarks on anti-Semitism Tuesday would be unremarkable if they had come weeks ago. But Trump has struggled when asked about the topic in the past, criticizing reporters, changing the subject and generally avoiding the routine denunciation of prejudice most Presidents would give. On Tuesday, that changed when Trump said that […]
2/21/2017
RACISM/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA: “First family member Ivanka Trump and others were quick to respond to a heightened level of threats against American Jewish community centers on Monday — calling for action and ‘religious tolerance.’ Jewish centers in states such as Alabama, Ohio, Illinois, Florida, New Mexico and Tennessee reportedly phoned-in threats on Monday, and federal authorities […]
2/15/2017
2016 ELECTION/ANTI-SEMITISM/RACISM: [Reporter: “Mr. President, since your election campaign and even after your victory, we’ve seen a sharp rise in anti-Semitic incidents across the United States. And I wonder what you say to those among the Jewish community in the States, and in Israel, and maybe around the world who believe and feel that your […]
7/1/2015
BUSINESS/RACISM: “Who is @Macys to pretend innocence when they ‘racial profile’ all over the place? Paid big fine!” – 7/1/2015, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, 7/1/2015 […]
7/1/2015
BUSINESS/RACISM: “Interesting that @Macys criticized me but just paid $650,000 in fines for racial profiling. Are they racists?” – 7/1/2015, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, 7/1/2015 […]
7/1/2015
DONALD ON DONALD/RACISM: “I don’t have a racist bone in my body.” Responded Trump. – “Entertainment Tonight,” July 1, 2015, Donald Trump, Transcript, 7/1/2015 […]