Racism

Republicans scream about 'crack pipes' in a weird, racist throwback to the 1980s

The current hot Republican talking point feels like a retread from past decades: crack pipes, with the racial panic that the crack discourse always included. Sens. Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Tom …

Wed Feb 9, 2022

White grievance was always part of Republican identity, but now it's the very core

The Republican conviction that schools are teaching white kids to feel guilty and self-hating merely by teaching the history of the United States isn’t an isolated belief. It’s part of a broader …

Tue Feb 8, 2022

Arbery's mom dubs plea deal 'last chance to spit' in face; potential juror feels sorry for killer

Jury selection started on Monday in the federal hate crimes case against three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery when they cornered him for jogging on the site of a home under …

Tue Feb 8, 2022

School board tried to ban these Black authors in schools but board forgot it is here for students

Christina and Renee Ellis both attend a predominantly white high school in Pennsylvania, and they both were affected when the school joined a wave of others in banning books written by Black authors. …

Mon Feb 7, 2022

'I’m gonna die from all the germs': Couple goes viral for racist anti-Asian remarks posted to TikTok

Social media continues to expose bigots and racists for who they really are. Multiple people across the country have been exposed and fired after posting videos of racist acts they committed on social …

Sun Feb 6, 2022

It's not just 'Maus.' Here are some more targets of the rising tide of book-banning

Maus landed back on bestseller lists in the wake of its banning from the eighth-grade curriculum by a Tennessee school board. But it’s just one very prominent book among the hundreds or thousands that …

Sat Feb 5, 2022

Alabama superintendent says parents want to cancel Black History Month because they think it's CRT

On Wednesday, Alabama state legislators are set to begin discussing the amorphous and still-never-before-taught-below-the-college-level Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the Yellowhammer State’s schools. …

Thu Feb 3, 2022

McConnell fighting losing battle to keep Republican racism in check on Biden's Supreme Court nominee

The Senate was rocked Tuesday afternoon by the announcement from the chief of staff to New Mexico Democrat Sen. Ben Ray Luján that the senator had suffered a stroke last Thursday, which required …

Wed Feb 2, 2022

In textbook example of white fragility, mom wants biography of Michelle Obama pulled from schools

If you feel like you’re reading a lot more about book bans in the United States, you’re not wrong. According to data from Pew, for example, the latest Republican effort to ban (if not burn) books from …

Tue Feb 1, 2022

FBI is investigating dozens of bomb threats to historically Black colleges

Recent weeks have seen a wave of bomb threats against historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). As Black History Month begins, they’re a reminder that violent racism isn’t just a part of …

Tue Feb 1, 2022

Ted Cruz offers up a reverse racism Supreme Court hot take and gets battered in the responses

Sen. Ted Cruz has a YouTube channel called The Verdict with Ted Cruz. Without doing much research, one can imagine what kinds of “verdicts” Cruz pontificates on during his show. The essence of …

Mon Jan 31, 2022

Neo-Nazis rally in Florida; Atlanta DA calls FBI over Trump threats; six HBCUs receive bomb threats

After about 20 members of a neo-Nazi organization gathered in Orlando, Florida, on Saturday, the news broke Monday that six Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) received bomb threats. …

Mon Jan 31, 2022

Texas attorney general's latest lawsuit shows how Republicans don't want any immigrants here, period

Ken Paxton, the very corrupt Republican attorney general of Texas, doesn’t want any immigrants here, period. We know this because he has filed a lawsuit seeking to block an immigration program that …

Mon Jan 31, 2022

Republicans' obsession with policing teachers, schools is a losing issue

As Republicans focus on ginning up outrage over the supposed teaching of critical race theory, the overwhelming majority of Americans believe that their local classrooms and libraries should include …

Fri Jan 28, 2022

Republican 'critical race theory' bans are actually bans on the teaching of U.S. history

A whopping 71 bills trying to limit what schools can teach, in particular about race and U.S. history, have been introduced in state legislatures over the last three weeks alone, according to a new …

Wed Jan 26, 2022

Virginia’s racist Gov. Youngkin sets up email hotline to expose teachers—it’s not going as planned

On Tuesday, pretend not-Trumper Gov. Glenn Youngkin set up a “tip line” for Virginia conservatives to use to drop dimes on educators who dare bring up the whiff of our country’s collective history of …

Wed Jan 26, 2022

Youngkin asks Virginia parents to turn in teachers for teaching 'divisive' concepts

“Report your kid’s teacher for admitting racism exists” is apparently going to be to 2022 as “report your coworker for communism” was to the early 1950s. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has a freakin’ …

Tue Jan 25, 2022

Judge Donna Scott Davenport announces retirement after lawmakers issue resolution to remove her

After lawmakers across the country announced they would like to unseat a Tennessee county judge, the Rutherford County juvenile court judge herself announced her retirement Tuesday. Known as the first …

Fri Jan 21, 2022

Nikole Hannah-Jones: 'If we do nothing, they will co-opt our history and use it against us'

Count on Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones to pull white supremacists in hiding right into the light. Author of “The 1619 Project,” which asserts that “no aspect of the country” …

Tue Jan 18, 2022

Trump surfaces with a new racist hoax—and a new attack on our elections

It has been refreshing, this past year, to not have to listen to the crap-filled ramblings of Republicanism’s treasonous Dear Leader, but Donald Trump has begun to resume his rallies and …

Tue Jan 18, 2022