By TeleSur | – – White-supremacists are upset because nearly all of the major characters on the new Star Wars film are people of color. Neo-Nazi groups on the Internet are calling to boycott the premiere of “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” as they feel offended about the themes of the upcoming film, calling […]
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racism
Trump Effect: 867 Hate Incidents in Just 10 Days After Election
TeleSur | – – Educators have reported an increase in students using racial slurs, verbally harassing their classmates and writing white nationalist graffiti. The “Trump effect” is already taking a heavy toll across the United States just weeks after the presidential election with a disturbing spike in racist incidents, including in the nation’s schools, according […]
Neofascist Roof will conduct own defense in Murder Trial
TeleSur | – – Roof allegedly shot and massacred nine African-American churchgoers. Dylann Roof, the white supremacist charged with shooting up a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine parishioners, was granted Monday the ability to represent himself in his upcoming trial. Facing 33 charges of hate crime murder, U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel […]
From Wanda Sykes to ACLU: How to Show Solidarity in the Age of Trump
TeleSur | – – Building a wall of support against Trump’s wall of rhetoric is the way forward. Wanda Sykes, a Black lesbian comedian, was booed because she dared to rant against the new U.S. president-elect just five minutes into her set. “I am certain this is not the first time we’ve elected a racist, […]
Racism in the US runs far deeper than Trump’s white supremacist fanbase
By Nicholas Guyatt | (The Conversation) | – – Donald Trump’s astonishing rise to the presidency has put racism at the heart of American politics. From the very start of his campaign, Trump called Mexicans “criminals” and “rapists” while pledging to build a wall between the US and its southern neighbour. He shocked the world […]
Israel’s sliding definition of anti-Semitism in the Trump era
By Heike Schotten | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – You would think that support for Israel is fundamentally at odds with anti-Semitism. If you thought that, however, you would be wrong. The past few days have witnessed a bizarre pile-up of prominent Israel-supporters going out of their way to defend or excuse what seem […]
CNN’s Chyron wonders if Jews are People, inspired by Trumpist Neofascism
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Richard Spencer is a rock star of the Neofascist movement that hides behind the euphemism “alt-right.” (Since they’re always going on about how manly white people are, why don’t they man up and admit their Nazism? Why hide behind weak tea like a keyboard pun?). Trump’s […]
Now Trump’s Targets: Many US Latinos fled chaos of Reagan’s anti-Left crusade
By Luis Gómez Romero | (The Conversation) | – – In an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes, United States president-elect Donald Trump highlighted some campaign promises that he actually plans to keep. Among others, he confirmed that he will build his promised wall on the Mexican border and deport up to three million undocumented migrants. […]
US: Trump’s Justice, CIA Picks Threaten Rights
Human Rights Watch | – – (Washington) – President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as United States attorney general reinforces fears that Trump’s administration will threaten human rights protections, Human Rights Watch said today. Sessions has said that he supports the use of torture and has expressed a range of views inimical […]