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, and he compared this step to the interment of the Japanese Americans during WW II: “It is legal. They say it’ll hold constitutional […]
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racism
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 Donald’s presidential win. African-Americans have also been targeted, as with students at the University of Pennsylvania. As have Latinas/ Latinos. * In Wisconsin, […]
America’s Dark Underbelly is now its Face
By Peter Certo | (Otherwords.org) | – –
Dear Ann Coulter: Ben Franklin didn’t think you or Trump are White, Either
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Many of the anxieties that have roiled this year’s election have had an underlying theme, of the decline of white America. Now, as the word “white” is used in common American parlance, it is certainly true that that demographic is declining rapidly as a proportion of […]
The Hatred that Trump’s Lies will Leave Behind
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Whether Trump wins or loses (and in my view there isn’t much chance he can win), he will leave behind a toxic legacy of increased racial and religious hatred, which he has deliberatedly stirred up in order to take the focus off his policies– policies that […]
Black Mississippi Church Burned, Vandalized with ‘Vote Trump’
TeleSur | – – Hopewell Baptist Church is damaged by fire and graffiti in Greenville, Mississippi, U.S., Nov. 2, 2016. An online fundraising campaign was also set up to help the church rebuild and repair the damages and donations have reached almost $60,000 within hours. A Black church in Mississippi was burned and spray-painted with […]
Facebook Ad Option allows Discrimination Against Blacks, Latinos
By Julia Angwin and Terry Parris Jr. | (ProPublica) | – – Imagine if, during the Jim Crow era, a newspaper offered advertisers the option of placing ads only in copies that went to white readers. That’s basically what Facebook is doing nowadays. The ubiquitous social network not only allows advertisers to target users by […]
Trump’s voter intimidation revives tactics of Jim Crow white supremacists
By Donald Nieman | (The Conversation) | – – Donald Trump has a lot in common with former Confederates – white southerners who “redeemed” the South by bringing an end to Reconstruction 140 years ago. Like the “Redeemers,” Trump fears that electoral fraud threatens the republic. And like them, Trump equates electoral fraud with black […]
Partial Police? Uniformed Texas Officers Wear Trump Hats
By TeleSur | – – A dozen police officers face “benign” discipline after they appeared with Donald Trump while sporting his “Make America Great Again” caps in uniform. More than a dozen San Antonio police officers in uniform wore U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” hats during his stop in Texas […]
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