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Trump Will Investigate Affirmative Action in Colleges

August 1, 2017 · 8:16 pm ET · Leave a Comment

“The Trump administration is preparing to redirect resources of the Justice Department’s civil rights division toward investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants,” according to a document obtained by the New York Times.

The document seeks current lawyers interested in working for a new project on “investigations and possible litigation related to intentional race-based discrimination in college and university admissions.”

Education, Race

Black Voters Will Be Democratic Kingmakers in 2020

June 14, 2017 · 7:08 am ET · Leave a Comment

Josh Kraushaar: “For all the talk about the power of pro­gress­ives in the Demo­crat­ic Party, one sig­ni­fic­ant part of the Demo­crat­ic co­ali­tion has been over­looked in the run-up to the next pres­id­en­tial elec­tion: Afric­an-Amer­ic­ans. Black voters made up at least 20 per­cent of the Demo­crat­ic vote in at least 15 states dur­ing the 2016 pres­id­en­tial primar­ies (and com­prise that share in three oth­er states without exit polling: Louisi­ana, New Jer­sey, and Delaware). Without Afric­an-Amer­ic­ans, who gave 76 per­cent of their vote in the primar­ies to Hil­lary Clin­ton, Bernie Sanders eas­ily could have been the Demo­crat­ic nom­in­ee. Sanders won 49.1 per­cent of the Demo­crat­ic white vote to Clin­ton’s 48.9 per­cent.”

“Black voters have his­tor­ic­ally ral­lied be­hind one Demo­crat­ic can­did­ate… Since 1976, the can­did­ate backed by black voters be­came the Demo­crat­ic nom­in­ee in sev­en of the nine con­tested nom­in­a­tion battles.”

2020 Campaign, Race

Cummings Calls Bannon a White Supremacist

April 4, 2017 · 10:40 am ET · Leave a Comment

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) said morning that Martin Luther King, Jr. “would be very disappointed” by the political realities of 2017 and especially by the presence of Steve Bannon — who he described as a “white supremacist-type” — in the White House, Politico reports.

Said Cummings: “In a way he would be pleased to have seen the first African-American elected president, to have seen many doors opened for people like me and others who now have opportunities that would not have had them back then. But at the same time, when we see a guy like Bannon, who is, as far as I’m concerned, a white supremacist-type person, sitting in the White House — sitting in the White House — and I’m paying his salary, I think he would be very disappointed.”

Race

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How Republicans View Work Ethic, Intelligence of Blacks

March 31, 2017 · 6:51 pm ET · Leave a Comment

Washington Post: “The biggest yawning gap between Democrats and Republicans is on the issue of motivation and will power. The survey asks whether African Americans are worse off economically ‘because most just don’t have the motivation or will power to pull themselves up out of poverty?'”

“A majority — 55 percent — of white Republicans agreed with this statement, compared to 26 percent of white Democrats. That’s the biggest gap since the question was first asked in 1977 — though the gap was similar (60-32) in 2010.”

“The survey also asks people to rate the races on how hard-working or lazy they are, which allows us to compare whether people rate some higher than others. In this case, 42 percent of white Republicans rated African Americans as being lazier than whites, versus 24 percent of white Democrats. That 18-point gap is the second-biggest on-record, behind 2010 (19 points).”

Race

Dual U.S.-Israeli Citizen Behind Bomb Threats

March 23, 2017 · 9:43 am ET · Leave a Comment

An 19-year-old dual US-Israeli citizen has been arrested on suspicion of standing behind most of a series of bomb and other threats to Jewish communities ranging from the US, Europe, Australia and New Zealand over the past six months, the Jerusalem Post reports.

Race

Nazi Group Claims Top Trump Aide as Member

March 17, 2017 · 9:02 am ET · Leave a Comment

Sebastian Gorka, President Trump’s top counter-terrorism adviser, is a formal member of a Hungarian far-right group that is listed by the U.S. State Department as having been “under the direction of the Nazi Government of Germany” during World War II, leaders of the organization have told the Forward.

Race, White House Sebastian Gorka

King Predicts Blacks and Hispanics Will Fight Each Other

March 14, 2017 · 8:37 pm ET · Leave a Comment

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) told an Iowa radio station that blacks and Hispanics “will be fighting each other” before overtaking whites in the U.S. population.

Said King: “When you start accentuating the differences, then you start ending up with people that are at each other’s throats. And he’s adding up Hispanics and blacks into what he predicts will be in greater number than whites in America. I will predict that Hispanics and the blacks will be fighting each other before that happens.”

Race Steve King

Carson Has Called Slaves ‘Immigrants’ for Decades

March 7, 2017 · 2:27 pm ET · Leave a Comment

HUD Secretary Ben Carson, under fire for referring to American slaves as “immigrants,” insisted his remarks were misinterpreted, calling the two experiences “entirely different.” Politico reports.

“But his words to HUD employees on Monday were nearly identical to those he has used over the past two decades.”

Race Ben Carson

Trump Suggests Anti-Semitic Threats Coming from Jews

February 28, 2017 · 4:39 pm ET · Leave a Comment

President Trump appeared to suggest that the wave of bomb threats against Jewish community centers across the U.S. could be coming from within the Jewish community itself, BuzzFeed reports.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, who was part of a group of state attorneys general meeting with Trump, said that the commander-in-chief seemed to indicate he felt some of the threats were being made from the inside, as part of a potential effort “to make others look bad.”

Race

Wave of Threats Made to Jewish Centers

February 20, 2017 · 8:33 pm ET · Leave a Comment

“In the wake of 11 new threats today against Jewish centers, from New York to New Mexico, the FBI said it is investigating, along with the Department of Justice, bomb threats to the centers across the country,” ABC News reports.

“Federal authorities are looking into threats communicated to at least 60 Jewish centers around the country this year. The threats started in January and the FBI began investigating later that same month. The threats have come in ‘different waves,’ with more threats phoned in to centers today, according to one source familiar with the matter.”

Race, Religion

Miller Got His Start Pestering Hispanic Students

February 13, 2017 · 1:17 pm ET · Leave a Comment

Univision spoke to high school classmates of Trump policy adviser Stephen Miller and found he “had few friends, none of them non-white. They said he used to make fun of the children of Latino and Asian immigrants who did not speak English well.”

“Early on, Miller began to write opinion columns in conservative blogs, the local press and the high school’s own newspaper, The Samohi. He also contributed at times to the national radio show of Larry Elder, a conservative African American, and once invited him to speak at the school. Displaying his hostility toward minorities, Miller complained to school administrators about announcements in Spanish and festivals that celebrated diversity.”

Race, White House

Giuliani Says Trump Wanted a ‘Legal’ Muslim Ban

January 29, 2017 · 8:08 am ET · Leave a Comment

Rudy Giuliani told Fox News that Donald Trump came to him for guidance on implementing a so-called “Muslim ban” and from that, he helped construct the controversial order crippling international travel from predominantly Muslim countries, the New York Daily News reports.

“The ex-NYC mayor said he pitched the ban, not as a religious prohibition, but one focused on danger.

Said Giuliani: “I’ll tell you the whole history of it. When he first announced it, he said ‘Muslim ban.’ He called me up, he said ‘put a commission together, show me the right way to do it, legally.'”

Immigration, Race Rudy Giuliani

Alt-Right Activist Punched in the Face

January 21, 2017 · 9:09 am ET · Leave a Comment

Alt-right activist Richard Spencer was punched in the face while being interviewed by ABC News.

DCist: “Not that we condone violence against hateful people who really deserve the awful things that happen to them, but we will grudgingly watch remixes of Spencer getting punched multiple times.

Race Richard Spencer

LePage Says Lewis Should Thank White Presidents

January 17, 2017 · 3:47 pm ET · Leave a Comment

Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) said “that the NAACP should apologize to white America, making the comment just hours after he weighed in on the president-elect’s Twitter beef with a civil rights icon, saying U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) should be grateful,” the Portland Press Herald reports.

Said LePage: “I will just say this: John Lewis ought to look at history. It was Abraham Lincoln who freed the slaves, it was Rutherford B. Hayes and Ulysses S. Grant who fought against Jim Crow laws. A simple thank you would suffice.”

Race John Lewis, Paul LePage

John Lewis, Donald Trump and the Meaning of Legitimacy

January 16, 2017 · 8:23 am ET · Leave a Comment

David Remnick: “John Lewis represents Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District, one vote of four hundred and thirty-five. He is also the singular conscience of Capitol Hill. Lewis is a dismal institution’s griot, a historical actor and hero capable of telling the most complex and painful of American stories—the story of race. That is his job, his mission. With Dr. King and Malcolm X, Fannie Lou Hamer and Ella Baker long gone, Lewis remains nearly alone in his capacity to tell the story of that era as a direct witness and, because of all that he has seen and endured, to issue credible moral judgment.”

“Only a heedless few would reject that judgment out of hand, no matter how wounding. Who would think to call John Lewis ‘all talk, talk, talk—no action or results’? Who would have the impoverished language to dismiss the whole of John Lewis as ‘sad’? As it happens, the President-elect of the United States.”

Meanwhile, the AP reports that two of John Lewis’ books — his graphic novel trilogy, March and his 2015 memoir, Walking With the Wind — have sold out on Amazon.

Race Donald Trump, John Lewis

Trump Cancels Visit to African American Museum

January 15, 2017 · 1:00 pm ET · Leave a Comment

President-elect Donald Trump no longer plans to visit the National African American Museum on Martin Luther King Day “due to scheduling issues,” transition officials tell ABC News.

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How Racism and Sexism Were Central to Trump’s Success

December 28, 2016 · 10:19 am ET · Leave a Comment

A new presentation by political scientist Brian Schaffner sheds light on how racism and sexism predicted support for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.

Schaffner conducted a poll which rated respondents on a scale of racism and sexism based on their answers to a series of questions. He found that the gap between college and non-college whites was the largest since at least 1980 and that attitudes on racism and sexism account for most of that gap.

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Trump Voters Think Blacks Deserve Much Less

December 20, 2016 · 9:32 pm ET · Leave a Comment

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An interesting experiment was embedded in the latest HuffPost/YouGov survey. Half of the respondents were asked if they agreed or disagreed with the following statement: “Over the past few years, blacks have gotten less than they deserve.” The other half was provided with the exact same statement, except the word “blacks” was switched to “average Americans.”

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