(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,…
A Republican state legislature candidate in North Carolina wrote on his website that God is a racist white supremacist and that Jews descended from Satan, The Charlotte Observer reported. Russell Walker is running for state House District 48, which includes Scotland and Hoke counties. The North Carolina Republican Party withdrew its support for him on…
(JTA) (JTA) — When Italy’s interior minister recommended creating a “registry” of Roma, his remark was merely the latest addition to a long list of anti-Roma statements by senior European leaders. In March, Janos Lazar, the right-hand man for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, said: “Once we let them in, they will take over.” In…
(JTA) — A lawmaker for a populist right-wing party in Sweden has been accused of racism after writing on Facebook that Jews and members of the Sami minority are not Swedes. Bjorn Soder, who represents the Sweden Democrats party at the Riksdag, the Swedish parliament, maintains that in his post Sunday he never questioned minorities’ rights as…
Sarah Silverman, the woman who once wrote jokes about rape and AIDS, has taken to making television about love and extending radical empathy to bullies and bigots. But the famously offensive comedian, (who points out that, for what it’s worth, her most recent comedy special jokes about the etiquette of having sex with God,) still…
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