“Michigan state Rep. Josh Schriver (R) lost his staff and his spot on a legislative committee as punishment for sharing a social media post amplifying a racist conspiracy theory,” the Detroit Free Press reports.
Republicans Work to Recruit Female, Minority Candidates
“House Republicans are critical of diversity and inclusion programs within the federal government and elsewhere, but they see recruiting women and minority candidates, along with veterans, as key to expanding their slim majority in November,” the AP reports.
GOP Lawmaker Says Everyone ‘Has Some Racist in Them’
Rep. Jerry Carl (R-AL) said that “everyone has some racist in them,” pushing back on GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s assertion that the United States has never been a racist country, NBC News reports.
Said Carl: “I used to work a lot with ministers, and I had some very private conversations. Everyone has some type of racist in them.”
He added: “My mother, who after Pearl Harbor — she couldn’t stand the Japanese. She couldn’t stand them. And it used to just eat her from the inside out. So it’s there.”
GOP Candidates Take Polarizing Stances on Race
Washington Post: “The Republican Party’s three leading presidential candidates are speaking about history and race in polarizing and provocative ways that sometimes diverge from or distort the facts, some political strategists, experts and civil rights leaders said. Their comments have stoked outrage among many Americans and risk alienating wide swaths of voters, including the independent and moderate voters whom Haley has been courting, according to strategists in both parties.”
“But their rhetoric is also appealing to many Americans who lean conservative, interviews with voters in Iowa and New Hampshire show, including some who reject the accusations that the statements are racially insensitive or worse. Many in the GOP are resentful of liberal leaders who they see as constantly pointing out or forcing the country to apologize for past atrocities, and some are angry about demographic and cultural shifts in America driven in part by immigration.”
How Racism Shadows the GOP Campaign
“Donald Trump is getting headlines for saying immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country.’ But for months the GOP race for president has been shadowed by xenophobia, as some candidates or those backing them have embraced racist and white nationalist themes,” Axios reports.
“It’s partly a reflection of how Trump has moved Republican politics toward the harder-edged, ‘us vs. them’ view that now dominates the GOP’s base and is reshaping its membership in Congress.”
“It’s not just Trump. Even as the GOP has recruited more minority prospects for public office — this year’s initial field for the presidential race was historically diverse — more Republicans are latching onto Trump’s racially divisive rhetoric.”
White House Blasts Elon Musk for Antisemitic Post
The White House on Friday lashed out at Elon Musk for promoting “Antisemitic and racist hate” after the Tesla CEO and X Corp. owner said he agreed with a social media post accusing “Jewish communities” of pushing “hatred against whites,” CNBC reports.
Antisemitism Is Different Between the Parties
Jonathan Chait: “It is certainly true that there is antisemitism on the left, frequently presenting itself as criticism of Israel. (The usual trick is to make an antisemitic statement and replace ‘Jews’ with ‘Zionists.’) But it is overwhelmingly directed in opposition to the Democratic party.”
“The most antisemitic activists on the right tend to be pro-Trump, which is why the ranks of J6ers were overrepresenting with white nationalists. The most antisemitic activists of the left despise Joe Biden and generally oppose the Democratic Party.”
Elon Musk Agrees with Anti-Semitic Post
Agreeing with an antisemitic post on his social media platform X, Elon Musk endorsed the claim that Jewish communities push “hatred against Whites,” CNN reports.
Antisemitism Reaching Historic Levels in the United States
FBI Director Christopher Wray warned that antisemitism in the United States is reaching “historic levels” in the wake of violence in Israel and Gaza, the BBC reports.
Said Wray: “The Jewish community is targeted by terrorists really across the spectrum.”
He added: “This is not a time for panic, but it is a time for vigilance. We shouldn’t stop conducting our daily lives — going to schools, houses of worship, and so forth — but we should be vigilant.”
Jacksonville Shooter Wore White Supremacist Patch
“The white gunman who killed three Black people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, over the weekend wore a Rhodesian army patch on his tactical vest, law enforcement sources say, a reference that has been used before during white supremacist attacks,” NBC News reports.
“The patch — representing Rhodesia, a former white minority-ruled territory in southern Africa in the 1960s and ’70s that would become Zimbabwe — is yet another symbol of how the shooter, Ryan Palmeter, was racist and was influenced by racist ideology, investigators say.”
Quote of the Day
“I’ve probably been called the N word more times in the last two-and-a-half years than most — a hundred people combined.”
— Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, quoted by WSB-TV.
Tommy Tuberville Relents
“Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), facing a barrage of criticism over a Monday night television interview in which he refused to say white nationalists are racists, relented Tuesday afternoon, acknowledging to reporters on Capitol Hill that they in fact are,” the Washington Post reports.
Said Tuberville: “White nationalists are racists.”
Tommy Tuberville Triples Down
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) on Tuesday told ABC News that white nationalists shouldn’t all be labeled as “racist” while also insisting he opposes racism — tripling-down on controversial comments that have drawn criticism from Democratic leaders and head-scratching from some of Tuberville’s Republican colleagues.
The Messenger reports Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) condemned white nationalism when asked about Tuberville’s comments: “White supremacy is simply unacceptable in the military and in our whole our country.”
Bonus Quote of the Day
“I’m not sure exactly what he was trying to say there. But I would just say there’s no place for white nationalism in our party.”
— Sen. John Thune (R-SD), quoted by Punchbowl News, responding to Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-AL) refusal to admit white nationalism was racist.
Exchange of the Day
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) was interviewed by Kaitlin Collins on CNN:
TUBERVILLE: My opinion of a white nationalist… it’s an American. If that white nationalist is a racist, I’m totally against them.
COLLINS: White nationalist is racist.
TUBERVILLE: That’s your opinion.
Quote of the Day
“With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces ‘colorblindness for all’ by legal fiat. But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.”
— Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in her dissent to today’s Supreme Court decision curtailing affirmative action.
Big Majority Say Racial Discrimination Is a Big Problem
A new Monmouth poll finds 80% of Americans believe racial and ethnic discrimination is a problem in the United States, including 61% who say it is a big problem.
Just 21% say it is not a problem.
The Post-Racial Republicans
Ron Brownstein: “Scott and Haley have leaned into the criticism from Obama, highlighting it to raise their profile in a Republican presidential race where each has attracted just single-digit support in national polls.”
“But in responding to Obama, they have demonstrated how difficult it has become for any GOP leader—especially one who is not white—to challenge the party consensus that the nation has transcended discrimination against minorities and women.”
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