Opinion: Media’s Amnesic Biden-Blaming Abets Authoritarian Movement
This amnesia threatens to push Americans back to the authoritarianism we so narrowly escaped–by a hair!–in the 2020 election.
This amnesia threatens to push Americans back to the authoritarianism we so narrowly escaped–by a hair!–in the 2020 election.
The Rittenhouse verdict is one piece of this larger campaign to destroy democracy and energize white supremacy.
Elements of the Democratic Party have bought into this Republican framing, similarly deploying “wokeness†as a term of slander and dismissal, betraying key constituencies as they flee to the center, looking more and more like Republicans as they court “bi-partisanship.â€
The rules of cable news have been very clearly drawn. It is very rare to see a Conservative lawmaker appear on MSNBC. In turn, it is very rare to see a Democratic lawmaker who is willing to appear on Fox News. CNN will sometimes have a Republican appear on air. Those lawmakers, though, are very…
We must hold white supremacy accountable and, in doing so, take a hard look in the mirror as white Americans.
While the majority of Republicans refused to convict Donald Trump, most were at least willing to admit that he had done something wrong. That isn’t the case with Ron Johnson, though. The Wisconsin senator not only voted to acquit Trump, he has also been downplaying the seriousness of the January 6th Capitol attack. Johnson said…
The “big lie†is not unique to Trump but rather constitutes a long-standing Republican tradition and political practice that, far from distinguishing itself from Trump’s governance, in fact enabled and even created it.
In the summer of 1800, Gabriel Prosser, an enslaved blacksmith, planned a slave insurrection in Richmond Virginia. Information about the rebellion was leaked, and it was thwarted. Prosser and 25 of his followers were taken captive and hanged. In 2007, in response to a 2006 request from the NAACP, then Virginia Governor  Tim Kaine issued…
Senate Republicans are now gearing up to acquit Trump in an impeachment trial on the specious rationale that putting a former officeholder on trial is unconstitutional, even though legal scholars, including some from the conservative Federalist Society, have broadly affirmed the constitutionality of such a proceeding. While this argument is their most recent political tactic,…
It’s been said that the people who voted for Donald Trump did so for a variety of reasons. Some did so because they felt neither party was addressing their needs. Others did so because of “economic anxiety.” But plenty of people who voted for Donald Trump did so because of his appeals to nativism and…
Too many in America, caught in throes of misinformation and conspiracy theories, are busy slaying mythical dragons rather than engaging in the truly wise, loving, and heroic activities of the real revolution for democracy.
Calling the events of January 6 a coup denies the historical character of U.S. governmental institutions and once again threatens to distort if not entirely disarm the understanding of racial injustice in America that needs to inform racial transformation to achieve a just America.
H.R. McMaster, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, said the President’s refusal to condemn white supremacy during Tuesday night’s presidential debate was “a missed opportunity.”  “To use a sports analogy, condemning white supremacists should be a layup for any leader,” McMaster said in an interview with The Atlantic. “What we’re undervaluing these days is the…
Brian Kilmeade, one of the hosts of “Fox and Friends,” says President Donald Trump should “clarify” his statement on white supremacy after refusing to condemn it outright during Tuesday’s presidential debate. “The President of the United States would do himself a solid and his party a solid to take some time today to clarify about…
Joe Biden has once again criticized Donald Trump for his failure to denounce white supremacists. The Democrat has often said that’s the reason he got into the presidential race. The former Vice President spoke to CNN’S Anderson Cooper on Thursday and appeared to link an alleged double murder in Kenosha, Wisconsin to white supremacy. “I…
Last May, the conservative group Michigan United for Liberty organized protests in the state capitol against Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home orders. While the group, composed of roughly 8,000 members, had already formalized its complaint against the orders in a law suit, the protest provided a forum for a defiant public expression against what the group…
We continue on the journey of asking ourselves what kind of country we want to be, as impeachment hearings continue to build the strongest case imaginable against Donald Trump, and his administration continues to do horrible things to the extensive list of people it considers “other.†For the longest time, Trump’s draconian treatment of immigrants…
[Where indicated, this article includes opinion by Tobias J. Grant, legal analyst at PoliticusUSA] If a president incites one group of Americans to hate another group of Americans, it ought to be an impeachable offense. No matter what your views on the size of government may be, surely we can agree that a President must…
When Donald Trump tweets something patently racist, as when he tweeted the squad of four should go back where they came from or when he derided Baltimore as “rat and rodent infested mess,†media pundits can spend days debating whether or not Trump is racist. The idea seems to be that if Trump can be…
Her name is Heather Heyer. Today is the one-year anniversary of her death. She died while peacefully protesting a hate rally in Charlottesville, Virginia after a car mowed her down. In the midst of vile and vitriolic hate and violence she stood amid a large crowd for compassion and kindness, inclusion and diversity, justice and peace.
In a political moment when the American president not only stokes the fires of sexism, racism, and the hate they represent but also seems to embody these values, Martin McDonagh’s 2017 film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, in its thoughtful, sympathetic, and loving approach to understanding hate, could not be more timely. Condemning the hate…
Let me say it as clearly as I can: The anger being expressed by many (white) people over NFL players kneeling during the national anthem is transparently phony.
In a stinging tweet, former Democratic Rep. Donna Edwards she hopes “every NFL player” will take the opportunity to stand up to “the white supremacist who squats in our White House.”Â
“The leader of the free world can’t continue to use language that legitimizes the actions of extremists groups that promote hate.”
This is the kind of unhinged and crackpot rhetoric that is common on Info Wars, but it has no place in American government.
The meeting could have given Trump an opportunity to learn something about race relations in America, but he only made things worse.Â
Disasters have a way of erasing all markers of division and bringing people together revealing the best of our shared humanity.
A plurality of Americans also believes he is “putting white supremacists on equal standing with their opponents.”
If there was a moment for Trump to reverse the narrative that he is a white supremacist sympathizer, today would have been it. Instead, he attacked the protesters in Boston and praised Steve Bannon.
The right-wing demonstrators organizing Saturday’s rally in Boston forgot one important thing: People.Â
Thousands of Americans are in Boston to stand up to Trump and his white supremacist supporters to say in one voice: This is not what America stands for.
“What will happen next? I doubt that Donald Trump will be able to calm and comfort the nation in that moment.”
Even if Trump did decide to attend the ceremony, it’s unclear how many of the honorees would have shown up.
Since the attack, Susan Bro has spoken out loudly against the hatred put on display in Charlottesville and criticized Trump’s despicable response.
The end may very well be near for Donald Trump’s presidency.Â
Nobody wants to be seen within the same zip code as this president, particularly after he spent the past week defending white supremacists and Nazis.
“In terms of people actually working in the administration, apparently everybody is fine, nobody is leaving, they’re all okay with it.”
Within the span of about a week, the President of the United States will have endorsed white supremacists and announced that he’s pardoning a man who racially profiled Latinos.Â
“If allowed to continue along this senseless path, Mr. Trump will do lasting harm to American society and to our standing in the world.”
“The president needs to be crystal clear that hatred has no place in our society, but he is currently failing at it.”
Though the majority of Americans do not condone the racially driven terrorism we saw in Charlottesville this weekend, this is increasingly what America is becoming with Donald Trump in the White House.
Obama’s message of love and unity – and his clear suggestion that today’s violence was racially motivated – stood in stark contrast to Trump’s remarks.
Denouncing terrorism at the hands of white supremacists wouldn’t fit Trump’s narrative that America should fear only minority groups.
“Due to safety concerns, we believed it was very important to take all necessary precautions to protect the safety of all personnel involved in the operation.â€
“Hey buddy, that song you love was written by my uncle. He’s been married to my other uncle for 40 years. And he’s a Jew.”
This is the Republican Party under Donald Trump, and 2018 can’t come soon enough.
America is supposed to be a refuge for people who think a certain way about freedom, not a homeland for people who look a certain way.
“It shows the depths that they will go to try to disparage someone and the desperation, really, of the liberals,” whines Kimberly Guilfoyle
When Trump said Happy Hanukkah one swastika-toting follower tweeted “WTF?!†while another seconded that sentiment and added, “I hate trump now.â€
“FAIR’s newly laid-out immigration priorities are directly from the xenophobic, far-right movemen…severely limiting legal immigration.”
“Summing up, the press is trumping up…a white power movement storyline that simply doesn’t exist. It’s vile to suggest that it does.”
“The left, whether it’s Black Lives Matter or La Raza…Groups that identify themselves by race provoked this group to identify by race”
“The Holocaust did not begin with killing; it began with words. The Museum calls on all American citizens…to confront racist thinking and divisive hateful speech.”
This is Donald Trump’s America now – and he must own it.
Congressional Republicans need to stand up and call out Trump for choosing Bannon as a senior adviser and ‘equal partner’ to Trump’s Chief of Staff”
“It is easy to see why the KKK views Trump as their champion when Trump appoints one of the foremost peddlers of White Supremacist themes and rhetoric as his top aide”
Racist David Duke reacted jubilantly to the electoral victory of Donald Trump and thanked foreign criminal Julian Assange for his assistance.
In the category of unintentionally funny today, we have a statement from the Trump campaign denouncing his “endorsement” by the KKK. The paper’s editor denied to The Washington Post it was an “official” endorsement but many took it as such. Trump camp statement on KKK's official newspaper endorsing Trump: pic.twitter.com/2TUaewGSWD — Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) November…
The KKK newspaper features the front page full page story “Make America Great Again” with a big featured center photo of Donald Trump
“What made America great in the first place? America was founded as a White Christian Republic. And as a White Christian Republic it became great.”
“Let’s talk about deplorables: They went after my CHILDREN on social media. Because I wrote some stories about their God. Sick, twisted ppl”
“You’re going to go after somebody’s body to denigrate their ideas? What grade are you in? Are you a 13-year-old boy? ,,, That’s revolting.â€
Republicans have gotten whites to vote against their self-interest for years and years. Trump’s plan is to somehow get blacks to do the same.
Sexist, Racist, and Anti-Semitic. Clinton has every reason to criticize Trump’s relationship with these people when she speaks in Reno, Nevada today.
“The alt-right is using the same tactics that the left has used for generations now, basically fighting fire with fire.”
White supremacists, convinced they are somehow an oppressed group, think Donald Trump will lead them to a mysterious promised land
The GOP platform for 2016 has become about defending the indefensible and Gaffney praised the “wonderful” work of a leading white nationalist
Now that Lindsey Graham’s angry white guys have fallen in line behind Donald Trump, Graham turns to sour grapes and calls them the dark side
Everyone from President Obama to the mayor of Charleston has made a specific point of saying the aftermath of a racially-motivated gun massacre of nine innocent and unarmed African Americans is a time for healing. Although they said the right thing, everyone is certainly sincere and they mean well, and they truly hope to comfort the victims’ families, survivors, and distressed Americans suffering the same pain, disgust, outrage, and sadness they feel after every other senseless gun slaughter. However, there is no healing for this sick, violent, and racist nation, and everyone knows it.
For the second time in less than two years, a billboard has gone up near Birmingham, Alabama, carrying a pro-white, anti-diversity message delivered by a loose-knit group calling itself the White Genocide Project.
This week it was revealed that the third ranking Republican in the House of Representatives is guilty of pandering to a white supremacist extremist organization founded by former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke.
The biggest threat to America is not radical Islamists or a foreign power, but homegrown extremists intent on creating an Aryan nation founded on biblical principles.
Conservatives, and primarily Republicans, have noticed their racist tendencies are attracting a bit too much attention and for the second time in a month are attempting to distract Americans with accusations that President Obama is a racist who hates and is waging a war on white people.
Instead of a public outcry against blatant racism, main stream media failed to report the story on every evening newscast across the country.
For the past two-and-a-half years since Republicans took power in states and Congress, there has been a sustained assault on people of color to deprive them of their constitutional rights.
It is time for Americans to call out white supremacy and racism in all its forms regardless the certain attacks by Republican Party faithful screaming those identifying dog-whistle racism are racists
The real issue is not Mrs. Obama’s body shape, it is her presence as First Lady that challenges the historic view of a black woman’s, or any African American’s, place in American culture.
The real travesty is the media’s failure to report and condemn the race-baiting throughout the Republican primary continuing with Romney’s blatant racial appeal to Americans .
Americans should be humiliated that in 2012 Republicans sport racist bumper stickers as campaign slogans.
Republicans have adopted the old definition that says an American is white, and have added the stipulation that one must also be a Christian