Black Lives Matter Utah on the Fourth of July called the American flag a symbol of hate on social media, setting off a robust response.
“When we Black Americans see this flag,” the post read, “we know the person flying it is not safe to be around. When we see this flag we know the person flying it is a racist.”
Just last week, the Austin American-Statesman refused to provide the description of a black man suspected of participating in a mass shooting in Texas because it “could be harmful in perpetuating stereotypes.”
Now, the Poynter Institute for Media Studies is calling for selective covering of crime in American communities — this coming amid a major crime surge in Democrat-run cities across the country, happening in the vacuum of the party’s “Defund the Police” campaign that not only demonized law enforcement, but has police officers back on their heels.
Cornell University has introduced their new course titled “Black Holes: Race and the Cosmos” which explores the connection between the decades-old term “black holes” and … racism.
Sports reporter and commentator Jason Whitlock said statues recently erected to memorialize George Floyd are “offensive” to black people and should be torn down.
Whitlock ripped into the “satanic cabal of cultural elites” promoting Floyd as a hero of social justice in a column published Tuesday at The Blaze. The narrative and meaning attached to Floyd’s life and death are part of a “Marxist overhaul” of American culture, Whitlock says.
However, younger people are more likely to see Canada as racist, a sign that neo-Com efforts to demoralize people regarding Canada’s history are having some impact.
h/t Marvin
A black yoga instructor says that what’s more important to know about the practice than the poses is the racism and cultural appropriation by whites behind it.
In discussing her new book, “Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance,” author and activist Jessamyn Stanley told People Magazine that it is filled with essays that reflect on everything from racism to the cultural appropriation of American yoga, from consumerism to cannabis,” the outlet notes.
Prosecutors say Officer Andrew Delke, 27, broke the law by shooting Daniel Hambrick, 25, in the back while he was running away in July 2018. A grand jury indicted the officer on one count of premeditated first-degree murder.
Actors from the hit Canadian sitcom Kim’s Convenience have spoken out about what they say is the show’s poor approach to depicting Korean Canadians.
Co-stars Simu Liu and Jean Yoon voiced their frustrations on social media with an “overwhelmingly white” production team and “overtly racist” storylines.
Garrison said in no uncertain terms in July 2019, prior to his appointment by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to lead the Pentagon’s countering extremism working group, that supporters of Trump support extremism and racism.
“Support for him, a racist, is support for ALL his beliefs,” Garrison, an Army veteran, tweeted in reference to Trump. “He’s dragging a lot of bad actors (misogynist, extremists, other racists) out into the light, normalizing their actions. If you support the President, you support that.”
Since the death OD of George Floyd in police custody one year ago, more than 127 episodes of various television shows have promoted “systemic racism,” Black Lives Matter or defunding the police.
Among them are CBS’ “FBI: Most Wanted and NCIS: Los Angeles,” NBC’s “Chicago PD” and “Superstore,” and CW’s “Black Lightning,” noted comedian and columnist Kevin Downey Jr. in a column for PJ Media.
Last week, Conservative MP Candice Bergen asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau why scientists at the Winnipeg infectious-diseases laboratory had been collaborating with Chinese military scientists. Two Canadian scientists have been fired from the lab, so Ms. Bergen’s question was reasonable. Mr. Trudeau’s response was not.
“The rise in anti-Asian racism we have been seeing over the past number of months should be of concern to everyone,” Mr. Trudeau replied, from left field. “I would recommend that the members of the Conservative Party, in their zeal to make personal attacks, not start to push too far into intolerance toward Canadians of diverse origins.”
North Carolina authorities have charged a woman with serious felonies after they say she hit two protesters demonstrating in the street this week,
Video of the incident, however, has provided additional insight into what happened.
h/t Marvin
Good intentions gone wrong. That is what Spain’s state postal service, Correos, is facing after the launch of “Equality Stamps.”
The stamps were part of a campaign ostensibly meant to combat racism, and they were to debut with different monetary values. The lighter the skin tone, the higher the price of the stamp.
h/t Mom
The next time you people over at The New York Times think about calling people racists, why don’t you say what you really mean?
Because what you really mean is “I’m scared of you, I cannot defeat your ideas with logic, so, uhhhh…you’re racist?”
