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Jacob Blake Sr., the father of Jacob Blake, the man who was shot by a Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer, is scheduled to meet with Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in Wisconsin. That visit has ignited scrutiny over Blake Sr.’s Facebook posts. Those posts show anti-Semitic comments (such as saying the Jews control the media), repeatedly refer to white people as “crackers” and “pinks” or “pink toes,” trash the Christian church, and refer to some women as “hoes.” In one post, he wrote, “Fresh out of Facebook penitentiary I say f*** the white man.” In 2019, he captioned a graphic that...

The residents of a Whitefish neighborhood surrounding a pleasant lake with a racist name filed documents in Flathead County District Court earlier this month to officially rename it Lost Loon Lake. The petition, submitted by the City of Whitefish on behalf of 12 of the 21 lakeshore property owners, is the latest development in a years-long effort to change the name of Lost Coon Lake, citing coon’s use as an offensive slur for African-Americans. And that name, according to court filings, was a “compromise” solution after an initiative began in the 1980s to rename what was then (N-Word) Lake. “Locals...

The term "racist" has been tossed around so often and so frivolously that it has lost its effect as a true statement about bigotry. If you're white and you haven't been called a racist, you're either afraid to disagree with blacks on any issue or you just have no contact with blacks in person or on social media — which, incidentally, probably means you're a racist. For the purposes of this column, I'm going only address only what occurs during dialogue on social media. Before I begin, I want to recall what Mike Tyson said, "Social media made y'all way...

A relief program in the state of Oregon is directing tens of millions of dollars in federal coronavirus stimulus funds exclusively to black residents of the state in an effort to redress "demonstrated health and economic disparities experienced by the Black community" there. The Oregon Cares Fund for Black Relief & Resiliency states that it is "a $62 million targeted cash investment from the CARES Act Coronavirus Relief Fund" intended to "provide economic relief for the Black community, who are among Oregon's most vulnerable groups due to systemic divestment and disparities widened and exacerbated by COVID-19." The fund "provides cash...

Associated Press has just revealed actor Chadwick Boseman has passed away from cancer at just 43 years old. Advertisement We’ve very sad to be sharing this news with you tonight. The AP says Boseman has died “after 4-year fight with colon cancer.” He had not spoken publicly about this diagnosis.Boseman is well known in our realm for playing T’Challa the Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe but famously also played Jackie Robinson in 42, along with roles in Draft Day, Gods of Egypt, Marshall, and more. This statement was just posted to his official Twitter: Advertisement “It is with...

In a British paper AN aspiring teacher and her stepfather were fatally shot on Monday by a man who moments earlier had rear-ended the stepfather's car. Laura Ashley Anderson, 21, and Charles Nicholas Wall, 45, were killed in Georgetown, South Carolina, outside of the home Anderson had recently purchased Wall had driven over to the house to drop off a spare set of keys with Anderson, who was almost finished moving in and had forgotten her set. Ty Sheem Ha Sheem Walters III, 23, has been arrested and charged with murder. Police said that he rear-ended Wall in Anderson's driveway,...

Billy Porter, the Broadway star, blasted President Trump and white people during an interview with Vanity Fair on social justice. “The reason why our country is in the mess we’re in is simply because of whiteness. White supremacy. White people choke-holding power and sucking the life out of humanity,” he told the leftist magazine. “Orangina 45, that cancer that is in our White House, has been handed the power, without consequence, to have his hate metastasize all over the people,” he hissed, referring to the president. “Why are we not talking about figuring out how to remove this monster from...

At the Democrat National Convention (DNC) on Monday evening, failed Democrat presidential primary candidate Beto O’Rourke suggested that President Trump is more racist than presidents who owned slaves. “You had the most destructive, hateful, racist president in the history of this country who is literally tearing apart the fabric of the United States of America,” O’Rourke said during a clip at the DNC.

The cancellation of a speech reflects an intense debate on the left: Is racism the primary problem in America today, or the outgrowth of a system that oppresses all poor people? Adolph Reed is a son of the segregated South, a native of New Orleans who organized poor Black people and antiwar soldiers in the late 1960s and became a leading Socialist scholar at a trio of top universities. Along the way, he acquired the conviction, controversial today, that the left is too focused on race and not enough on class. Lasting victories were achieved, he believed, when working class...

Most people who call themselves Marxists know very little of Karl Marx's life and have never read his three-volume "Das Kapital." Volume I was published in 1867, the only volume published before Marx's death in 1883. Volumes II and III were later edited and published in his name by his friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels. Most people who call themselves Marxist have only read his 1848 pamphlet "The Communist Manifesto," which was written with Engels. Marx is a hero to many labor union leaders and civil rights organizations, including leftist groups like Black Lives Matter, Antifa and some Democratic Party...

Have you heard the latest? Grammar has now been deemed racist, as has been math. And should you dare question these new insights, that makes you a racist too. Obviously!Fact checkers have challenged the claim that, last month, “Rutgers University declared grammar to be racist.” But such claims have been made before.As noted in a February 21, 2017 article, “The University of Washington produced an ‘antiracist’ poster which insists American grammar is ‘racist’ and an ‘unjust language structure,’ promising to prioritize rhetoric over ‘grammatical ‘correctness.’”As explained on the university’s Tacoma-based website, “Racism is the normal condition of things. Linguistic and...

A group of over 100 Black male leaders is declaring that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden “has” to name a Black woman as his running mate. In a letter made public on Monday, the signatories warned the former vice president that “failing to select a Black woman in 2020 means you will lose the election.” [cut] At the top of the list is rapper, record executive and entrepreneur Sean “Diddy” Combs, [cut] The letter also posed a series of questions. Some Democrats reportedly worry Biden's VP announcement could draw attention to his gaffesVideo “Was Joe Biden ever labeled 'too...

'There was a pandemic before this,' superintendent says. 'That was inequity and racism' A suburban Chicago school district has said students of color will get the first chance to return for in-person learning when schools reopen, citing "a pandemic" of "inequity and racism, and classism" that preceded COVID-19. Because District 65, which includes students from Evanston and Skokie, won't force teachers to work on-site, school buildings may not be able to accomodate all students who would like to come back to their classrooms. In that event, Superintendent Devon Horton reportedly said, the district would give priority to "Black and Brown...

In response to a video in which Oprah Winfrey encourages white people to admit they are racist, radio legend Rush Limbaugh pummeled the popular black author and former television host. "This country is defined by people who came from nothing, like she did," Limbaugh said on his national broadcast Wednesday. "How in the world did she do it with so much white privilege and so much racism? Who in the world screwed up and let The Oprah become a billionaire? Which one of you white people made that mistake? Was it one of the King brothers who was her first...

This takes the cake. In the latest edition of her AppleTV+ series, “The Oprah Conversation,” the billionaire media tycoon lectured poor white people on their “white privilege.” The New York Post reported: Twitter critics have a billion-dollar bone to pick with Oprah Winfrey. The 66-year-old media mogul has been labeled a hypocritical “fraud” following the latest installment of her AppleTV+ series, “The Oprah Conversation,” featuring former NFL star and race activist Emmanuel Acho. Acho, 29, who also hosts the web series “Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man,” joined Winfrey for a two-part episode, which included a segment inviting non-black viewers...

During an interview set to air Thursday, former Vice President Joe Biden said that he had not taken a cognitive test and attacked the question as unfair, likening it to being asked if he was a "junkie."

An irritated Joe Biden snapped at a reporter when pressed Wednesday on whether he had taken a cognitive test — defensively asking the interviewer if he was a junkie and tested for cocaine use.

After AOC decries statue, Hawaiian Catholic says St Damien of Molokai 'gave his life' serving lepers A Hawaiian Catholic catechist said that St. Damien of Molokai is a “hero” to the Hawaiian people, after a prominent congresswoman claimed the statue honoring him in the U.S. Capitol is part of colonialism and “patriarchy and white supremacist culture.”  St. Damien “gave his life” serving the isolated leper colony at Kalaupapa peninsula on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, said Dallas Carter, a native Hawaiian and a catechist for the diocese of Honolulu, in an interview with CNA.   “Any Hawaiian here who is...

The SCOTUS Justices who ended segregation qualify as liberals. Justices who require that states allow continued operation of Jane Crow health facilities don't qualify as liberals. . A Jane Crow facility provides health care to black women but doesn't have to meet the same high standards as facilities that treat white men. The 14th Amendment requires states to guarantee "the equal protection of the laws." Unfortunately ultraconservative Supreme Court justices such as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg don’t believe states should be allowed to protect women from unsafely operated abortion clinics. Yes, I said "ultraconservative". I know people such as Ginsburg...

‘Tis the season for tearing down statues. And renaming schools and buildings and bridges. And removing the names of virtually all our important forebearers from the public square.   Does any of this make sense?  To help us think less emotionally and more clearly, let’s traverse the Atlantic and consider the case of Isaac Newton.            There is a statue of him at Oxford University. Should the British tear it down? According to Stephen Hawking, who held the Newton chair, the man who was perhaps the greatest scientist in the history of the world, was devious,...