white supremacy
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Your Conditioning Has Been Conditioned: Why Sexual ‘Preference’ Is Political
Though not straightforward, there is a connection between who we think is desirable and whose life has value within a white supremacist country like the United States. This question of value came to a head in the candidacy and unfortunate election of Donald Trump. What has become even truer now is that the status quo…
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Judge Is Deliberating Over Accused SC Church Shooter’s Competency to Stand Trial
A judge has begun deliberating whether Dylann Roof, the accused shooter at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C.,, is competent to stand trial following a second day of a closed-door hearing, the Greenville News reports. The hearing on Roof’s competency started Monday afternoon and extended into Tuesday afternoon, with the federal court then…
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Ohio Men Plead Guilty to Beating of Black Man in Hate Crime
An Ohio man pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal hate crime after beating up a black man he did not know in the street earlier this year, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. On May 18 in Toledo, Ohio, Robert Paschalis and co-defendant Charles Butler drove past the victim in a GMC truck decorated with a small…
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Ala. Cop Fired After Facebook Posts Reference Slavery, Michelle Obama
A Talladega, Ala., police officer was fired after racist posts, apparently from his Facebook page, surfaced on social media earlier this week, Talladega City Manager Patrick Bryant confirmed earlier this week, the Daily Home reports. Another one bites the dust. Officer Joel Husk reportedly shared posts from the Last American Patriots and from Donald Trump,…
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Students Walk Out of Mo. High School Following Racist Incidents
Editors note: This post contains social media images that some may find offensive. Students at Ladue Horton Watkins High School in Ladue, Mo., walked out of class Wednesday to protest recent racist incidents that they say school administrators are not taking seriously, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. The students assembled outside the school after noon,…
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Fliers Promoting 'UCLA White Students Group' Removed
Fliers posted around UCLA promoting a “white students” group have been removed, officials confirmed Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times reports. According to the report, UCLA maintenance workers found three or four of the fliers taped to buildings on Monday. “Recent rhetoric and ongoing riots have highlighted a danger to white Americans,” the fliers declared in…
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W.Va. Officials Under Fire After Referring to Michelle Obama as an 'Ape in Heels'
Two West Virginia officials are facing a backlash after exchanging messages mocking Michelle Obama and referring to the first lady as “an ape in heels,” WSAZ reports. According to the report, following the results of last Tuesday’s presidential election, Pamela Taylor—a director at the Clay County Development Corp., a nonprofit funded by state and federal…
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Trial of Dylann Roof, Accused SC Church Shooter, Delayed Over Competency Issue
On Tuesday a federal judge said that he has ordered an evaluation into whether accused mass killer Dylann Roof was competent to stand trial for the shooting deaths of nine parishioners at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C., last year, Reuters reports. According to the newswire, U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel also postponed jury…
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KKK's Official Newspaper Backs Trump; Trump Campaign Rejects Support
The Crusader, the official newspaper of the Ku Klux Klan, has announced its support for the candidacy of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump in its current issue, the Washington Post reports. The newspaper’s entire front page is used for a lengthy defense of Trump’s run for the White House under the banner, “Make America Great…