white supremacy
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Leaked Chats Show That White Supremacists ‘Joked’ About Plowing Cars Into Crowds of Counterprotesters Prior to Violence in Charlottesville, Va.
Remember all the white supremacists who swore they went to Charlottesville, Va., to conduct a “peaceful” protest and stand up for their First Amendment rights, or whatever the hell they were saying to excuse their mess? It appears that they have been caught in a bit of a lie (surprise, surprise) after a stream of…
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White Nationalist Opened Fire at Crowd During Charlottesville, Va., Rally; Police ‘Never Moved’
A white nationalist pulled his gun out on anti-racism protesters and opened fire into a crowd and in the direction of a black man who had an improvised flamethrower, all while appearing to yell a racial slur for good measure. While all of this happened, police did nothing. In the video, posted by the ACLU…
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‘You Need a Bullet in the Head’: Police Believe Black Miss. Judge Is Being Threatened for Removing Controversial State Flag From Courtroom
A Clarksdale, Miss., judge has been the target of a slew of violent, threatening social media posts, and police believe it is possible that the threats stem from Judge Carlos Moore’s decision to remove the controversial Mississippi state flag from his courtroom earlier this summer. “Your [sic] not untouchable you can’t hide behind the court…
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For White People Who Compare Black Lives Matter to White Supremacy
On Tuesday, Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-N.C.) appeared on a Fayetteville, N.C., radio show to talk about whatever Republicans talk about when they are asked to discuss the pile of lies in their nonsensical political agendas. The topic of conversation eventually reached Donald Trump’s public head nod to the white supremacist movement. According to the Charlotte…
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Why Aren’t White Supremacists on the Terror Watch List?
On Feb. 11, 2016, federal agents escorted 38-year-old Safya Roe Yassin out of her Buffalo, Mo., home and charged her with multiple terror-related crimes that could ultimately result in five years’ imprisonment, three years’ supervised release and $250,000 in fines. Yassin’s charging documents (pdf) reveal how she operated multiple social media accounts that sympathized with…
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Hillary Is Not Your White Savior
This weekend I had the misfortune to read Roxane Gay’s recent New York Times op-ed, in which she reflects on Charlottesville, Va., and waxes poetic about how much she wishes Hillary Clinton had won. She writes: I keep thinking about how different things would be if Hillary Clinton had been elected president. I was, like…
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KKK Leader Called Univision Reporter the N-Word, Threatened to ‘Burn’ Her as She Conducted Interview
A Univision news anchor, who has the patience of a saint and a will of steel, somehow managed to get through an interview with the leader of a Ku Klux Klan chapter who called her a nigger and threatened to burn her, all while she was doing her job. The incident started when Christian Barker,…
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Va. Catholic Priest Temporarily Steps Down After Revealing That He Was Once a Member of the KKK
An Arlington, Va., Catholic priest has decided to temporarily step down after revealing that before becoming a member of the clergy, he used to burn crosses as a member of the Ku Klux Klan. The Rev. William Aitcheson revealed his dark past in an editorial published Monday in the Arlington Catholic Herald, speaking candidly about…
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What White Men Fear Most Is Coming to Pass … They’re Being Erased. Isn’t That Ironic?
Every day, since Heather Heyer lost her life at the hands of white supremacists, and our president abdicated his moral authority by not thoroughly condemning them, America and its politicians seem to have grown a conscience (or a pair). Since the carnage of Charlottesville, Va., politicians, especially those who once sought to drill down on…