Now, Trump’s lack of knowledge or experience or solutions would be bad enough. But what he’s doing here is more sinister. Trump is reinforcing harmful stereotypes and offering a dog whistle to his most hateful supporters. It’s a disturbing preview of what kind of President he’d be. ...
“innocent” – like me. The teenagers who became known as the “Central Park Five” were never seen as good or innocent – they were seen as guilty, as criminal, simply because of their skin color. And this is after the civil rights movement, after racism was supposed to have ended. ...
The torch carrying, swastika waving, black-shirted, Nazi saluting supporters of the Alt Right, who openly voice their disdain and hatred for Blacks and others, are not the choice for expressions of White Supremacy today. Their look and their tactics are outmoded, draw too much attention and d...
Klan membership dropped dramatically, however, during the Great Depression of the 1930s and the national organization was virtually disbanded in 1944. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s ignited interest in the Klan in the South. Klan members terrorized Civil Rights workers, with many ...
about the dignity of Black lives, so that by the summer of 2014, when Lokteff started to use her platform to go hard in a white nationalist direction, she was citing as all these cultural trends that would not have existed without the rise of a new kind of civil rights movement. ...
It’s sickening that these groups on the so-called “alt-right” want to align themselves with the Trump presidency or any part of American politics. Their march was called “Unite the Right,” but they have no place near the conservative movement and never have. ...
The president delivered hisfirst campaign speech of the yearoutside Valley Forget last Friday, Jan. 5, nearly three years to the date after Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol in an effort to prevent Mr. Biden's ascent to the White House. ...
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also some blue states.Polls are revealing that a majority of men of color see Trump as a leader of America and Kamala as a destroyer of America.Those who control the Democrat party, most certainly not the people, are also disturbed by reports of the heavy early voting by Trump supporters....
As you explain, White support for government programs that built up the White middle class actually fell as the civil rights movement blossomed because of a zero-sum approach to politics – whatever helps Black people must hurt Whites. When President Reagan said in his first inaugural address tha...