Can you be racist against white people? A recent New York Times hire has ignited a polarizing debate around this topic. Last week, The Times announced it had hired Sarah Jeong, a tech writer for the Verge, to join its Editorial Board. The internet very quickly unearthed tweets Jeong had written in 2014 that seemed…
Roseanne Barr released a video on her personal YouTube page on Thursday night that shows her confused, semi-incoherent, and screaming charged racial comments. None of this is new. Still, there’s something chilling about the video — Barr is disoriented, but the people behind the camera seem to know exactly what they’re doing. The profanity-laced video…
CNN Tonight with Don Lemon took an emotional turn Thursday evening, under the topic of “bigots on the ballot.” During a discussion about racism in the Republican party, panelist and Democratic strategist Angela Rye thanked David Jolly, former Republican Congressman from Florida, after he said he believes President Trump has racist tendencies and acknowledged white…
The National Republican Campaign Committee pulled its support from New Jersey Republican congressional nominee Seth Grossman after Media Matters revealed that he had shared articles on social media from well-known white nationalist websites, The Weekly Standard reported Monday. “Bigotry has no place in society—let alone the U.S. House of Representatives. The NRCC withdraws our support…
(JTA) — A day after Roseanne Barr announced that she would be interviewed on television, she tweeted that she will film her own interview and post it on-line. Barr’s tweet promised her 891,000 Twitter followers “the entire explanation of what happened and why.” After a lot of thought, I decided that I won’t be doing…
One of the founders of the NACCP, Walter Francis White, was a “white-passing” African-American. He was the 4th of seven children born to George White and Madeline Harrison White, who were both born into slavery in 1857 and 1863, respectively. Because Walter was very fair-skinned and had straight-hair, starting in 1918, he used his ability…
Several Jewish Facebook groups erupted with racist and derogatory comments after the Forward published an opinion article Monday by an African-American Jewish woman arguing that American Jews with light-colored skin are “functionally white.” The response led three Jews of color and frequent posters in those groups to rescind their membership. In solidarity, the administrators of…
Former Texas congressman Ron Paul tweeted an anti-Semitic and racist cartoon before being swiftly and quietly deleted. The cartoon features four stereotypically drawn men — Jewish, Asian, Hispanic and black — shouting “Cultural Marxism!” as they punch Uncle Sam. Paul’s comment above it reads: “Are you stunned by what has become of American culture? Well,…
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