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Critical race theorist Ibram X. Kendi declared this week that the expression “legal vote” used to describe votes cast in conformity with U.S. laws is “functionally racist.” “The term ‘legal vote’ is as fictionally fraught and functionally racist as the terms ‘illegal alien’ and ‘race neutral’ and ‘welfare queen’ and ‘handouts’ and ‘super predator’ and ‘crackbaby’ and ‘personal responsibility’ and ‘post racial,’” Kendi wrote on Twitter. When Kendi added in a follow-up tweet, “There are so many more terms like this. What did I leave out?” his woke followers jumped on the bandwagon, insisting that any terms questioning the Left’s...

She famously called Trump a 'white supremacist' in 2017Ex-ESPN host Jemele Hill declared Tuesday that only White people are to blame if President Trump defeats Democratic nominee Joe Biden. “If Trump wins re-election, it’s on white people. No one else,” Hill, an outspoken advocate for African Americans, wrote. The tweet came as Tucker Carlson condemned the mainstream media for painting Trump as a racist who would struggle to attract non-White voters, after the president delivered a strong showing in the largely Hispanic Miami-Dade County in Florida. Hill, now a writer for The Atlantic and a podcast host, famously called President...

If Trump wins re-election, it’s on white people. No one else.

Cuomo, Phil Murphy, Dr. Rachel Levine and other Democrat governors are saying to not have large or even small Thanksgiving this year as Coronavirus cases continue to soar. But during the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic they saw things differently and you were allowed to enjoy the holiday season. Sleepy Joe having Thanksgiving with 15 strangers during H1N1 after Brack called for a national emergency. Sleepy Joe giving the blessing. From: DR. JILL BIDEN NOVEMBER 24, 2009 AT 11:50 AM ET On October 24, and the CDC said more than 1,000 had died from the flu. President Obama declared a...

Washington D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory was among 13 new cardinals named by Pope Francis on Sunday and will become the first Black U.S. prelate to earn the coveted red hat. Gregory was picked by Francis to lead the prestigious diocese in the U.S. capital last year. He served three times as the head of the U.S. Conference of Bishops. The newly elected cardinal was part of a select group of Catholic leaders that criticized President Donald Trump for staging a picture in front of St. John's Episcopal Church near the White House, amid protests about the death of George Floyd....

Chelsea Handler explained why she took ex-boyfriend 50 Cent to task over his Trump endorsement during an interview Friday. 50 Cent has backed Trump Monday after seeing supposed Biden tax numbers. Handler then tweeted at him that 'black lives matter. That's you! Remember?' Handler said Friday that if 50 Cent changed his position on Trump, she might be willing to 'go for another spin' with him. 'So he doesn't want to pay 62 percent in taxes because he doesn't want to go from "50 Cent" to "20 Cent" and I had to remind him that he was a black person,...

Turner Sports’ The Match 3 is officially set. The popular celebrity golf outing will feature Phil Mickelson, Charles Barkley, Stephen Curry and Peyton Manning and air on WarnerMedia’s TNT network on Nov. 27 at 3 p.m. ET. The outing, titled “The Match: Champions for Change” will “uniquely contribute toward and highlight diversity, equality and inclusion through donations to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), while raising awareness and spotlighting opportunities for diversity and equality in sports,” the network said in its release.

Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez are endorsing Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, with the singer saying she doesn't want her kids to learn that it's "OK to be racist" from President Trump's administration. "For me, it's unifying the nation again, getting rid of this hate," Lopez said in a chat with the former vice president and his wife, Jill Biden, tweeted Friday by the Democratic presidential nominee. "Thinking about my kids walking around in a world where you know it's OK to be racist or prejudiced because our administration says it's OK," the actress and "Ain't Your Mama" singer added....

Some of us have been warning for some time that there is something unsavoury about the new ‘anti-racism’ – sometimes referred to as critical race theory or racial identity politics. Something, well, a bit racist. It was therefore not remotely surprising that the infamous ‘white nationalist’ Richard Spencer was able to find common ground with one of America’s most celebrated anti-racist activists, Ibram X Kendi. Kendi, born John Edwards, is the author of How To Be An Antiracist, which rocketed back up the bestseller list during the summer of Black Lives Matter. His basic thesis is that everything can be...

For your edification, I would like to present you with a partial list of things that have been deemed racist and/or white supremacist (the two terms are often interchangeable) in the last few years. The list is growing daily, so this column can only be incomplete. This list is only presented as a public service, so it's up to you – as a proper woke American – to avoid all the things, terms, people, subjects, foods, books, pets, diseases, locations, beverages, fashions and activities that might offend someone because of your white supremacy and privilege (even if you're not white)....

In this video, Joe Biden explaining why he wrote a law that treated crack cocaine as significantly worse than powder cocaine. Biden’s law ended up disproportionately imprisoning African Americans. He concludes that someone doing crack was fundamentally different than someone sniffing cocaine in a neighborhood as beautiful as this... WATCH...

Oprah Winfrey has compared the "caste system" of systemic racism in America, saying it served as a "template" for Nazi Germany. (snip) Winfrey herself has penned a piece about the upcoming election, urging Americans to choose "civility, decency, humanity" at the polls. Published in eponymous publication, O Magazine, Winfrey wrote: "Beyond all the policy issues that will matter most in the future—the economy, climate change, healthcare, Social Security, education—what's really at stake are civility, decency, humanity. The hatred that's been unleashed will take some reckoning to overcome." She added in am Instagram video: "Voting is a giant step in the...

A co-founder of the Black Lies Matter chapter in Los Angeles said that she would not support Democratic nominee Joe Biden's presidential campaign because he's a part of the "violent white supremacist" system. Dr. Melina Abdullah made the comments to ABC News in a report about how the Black Lives Matter movement might affect the election. "People are feeling dismayed that the choices are between, you know, a violent white supremacist and another person who represents that same system," she said.

Now he’s trying to compliment all of the essential workers who made it possible for him to hole up in his basement for the majority of the campaign, and he thanks not the person stocking the grocery shelves, but “some black woman” who was able to stock the shelf.

<p>NEW ORLEANS (AP) — At a time of intense scrutiny in America over who is commemorated in public parks or in front of courthouses, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundationannounced Monday it is spending $250 million over five years to build new monuments or memorials, add context to already existing ones and relocate others.</p>

The NBA took another L Friday. Game 2 of the NBA Finals between the Lakers and Heat utterly collapsed with just 4.5 million viewers. The embarrassing average is down — wait for it — 68% from last year’s Game 2, which featured a team in Canada. How bad is the number? It’s the least-watched NBA Finals game on record. Dropping even below Game 1’s 7.41, the lowest-viewed Finals opener in history. There is no way for the media to spin this positively. Declines of this magnitude are unheard of. Then, factor in the tank-job occurring with the league’s biggest individual...

The Mathematical Association of America released a statement Friday claiming both that mathematicians should engage in “uncomfortable conversations” about race, and that policies of from the Trump administration, like the lack of a mask mandate in the United States, are somehow an affront to mathematics. The group concludes with a call for a “pursuit of justice” within math.

Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said she resented anyone claiming President Donald Trump was not a racist on Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Live.” In a video clip from lastnight’s Minnesota rally, Trump said, “What is going on with Omar? I have been reading the reports for two years about how corrupt and crooked she is. Then she tells us how to run our country. Can you believe it? How the hell did Minnesota elect her?”

New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel made the front page on Thursday by warning about a “Trump ‘Bubble’ In the Suburbs Of Milwaukee,” painted a picture of the "segregated" suburbs heeding the president’s "racist messaging" by refusing against all sense of decency to support Joe Biden. Gabriel lamented that Biden supporters were being oppressed by local Trumpers. In their neighborhoods, they're losing their signs and having their chalk messages rubbed out. (Has the Times ever run a story on urban liberals harassing MAGA hat wearers?)

In unguarded moments with senior aides, President Trump has maintained that Black Americans have mainly themselves to blame in their struggle for equality, hindered more by lack of initiative than societal impediments, according to current and former U.S. officials. After phone calls with Jewish lawmakers, Trump has muttered that Jews “are only in it for themselves” and “stick together” in an ethnic allegiance that exceeds other loyalties, officials said. Trump’s private musings about Hispanics match the vitriol he has displayed in public, and his antipathy to Africa is so ingrained that when first lady Melania Trump planned a 2018 trip...