The thinking tends to be that racists raise racists. Therefore, if you see yourself as a good person, raising your kids with inclusive morals, you would have no reason to worry that they’d grow up to the be the sort of person who would march with white nationalists in Charlottesville. But it happens. Read more… […]
The cold wind of fear is gripping Trump country and it’s pretty damn funny. Paul Waldman writes: In the endless search for the magic key that Democrats can use to unlock the hearts of white people who vote Republican, the hot new candidate is “respect.” If only they cast off their snooty liberal …Continue reading […]
I’m old enough to remember when John Kelly being hired as Trump’s Chief of Staff was supposed to be a good thing. He was going to be the adult in the room. He was going to quell the chaos. He was going to rein in Trump’s worst instincts. We were all so young and foolish […]
The state of Alabama continues to stain the nation as it shows us one of the many ways America’s racist legacy persists. Every fourth Monday in April, Alabama consciously chooses to honor hate and the myth of white supremacy by celebrating Confederate Memorial Day – a state holiday, meaning …Continue reading Continue Reading at https://thedailybanter.com
Right after the 2016 election, conventional wisdom dictated that the Democratic Party should kick all those pesky minority groups and their “identity politics” to the curb and chase after the (white) “working class” vote that allegedly won the election for Donald Trump. After all, economic anxiety …Continue reading Continue Reading at https://thedailybanter.com
Three years after her brother Dylann killed 9 black people in a church in Charleston for the crime of not being white, Morgan Roof made sure to let the world know that hate runs in the family: The younger sister of convicted mass murderer Dylann Roof — who gunned down nine parishioners at a …Continue […]
During a speech at the National Sheriff’s Association winter conference Monday morning, America’s first Confederate Attorney General Jeff Sessions accidentally (or maybe not so accidentally) admitted out loud what the black community has been saying for decades (centuries?): American law …Continue reading Continue Reading at https://thedailybanter.com
Yes, you read that right, former leader of the American Nazi Party Arthur Jones is about to become the Republican nominee for an Illinois congressional seat. Jones is a Holocaust denying rabid anti-Semite who believes the mass genocide of the Jewish people in 1940’s Germany is “an …Continue reading Continue Reading at https://thedailybanter.com
White Republican voters are in the middle of a slow motion Civil War redux and instead of simply lopping off part of the country and declaring themselves free from the United States and its annoying ban on slavery, the are walling themselves off in an alternate reality. There, they hope they can be …Continue reading […]
On this, the first MLK Day of the 21st Century with a full blown white nationalist in the Oval Office, let’s take a moment to reflect on why we are where we are. Yes, Corporate America has spent billions dumbing down the conservative movement. Yes, the Republican Party is filled with literal …Continue reading Continue […]
After the news broke that the Donald Trump said, out loud, “Why do we want all these people from ‘shithole countries’ coming here?”, Fox News took to the air to essentially celebrate it. This is the hate speech they live for and they couldn’t wait to baptize it as presidential. According to …Continue reading Continue Reading […]
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Welcome to WHAT NOW, a morning round-up of the news/fresh horrors that await you today.Read more… Continue Reading at http://jalopnik.com
Andrés Miguel Rondón is a Venezuelan economist trying to warn America about how not to deal with a populist dictator like Donald Trump: If you’re among the majority of Americans who oppose Trump, you can’t understand why. And it’s making you furious. I saw the same thing happen in my native …Continue reading Continue Reading […]
Bernie Sanders is out campaigning for 2020 and that has a lot of his followers excited. The problem is that his 2020 campaign sounds an awful lot like his 2016 campaign which means he’s not going to be the nominee again: He advocated for the policies that are familiar to anyone who followed the …Continue […]
Tuesday night, white men in Virginia voted overwhelmingly (63%) for Ed Gillespie (after he ran an incredibly racist campaign. White women voted for him by a slim (51%) but convincing margin as well despite Gillespie embracing Trumpism, the wholesale rolling back of women’s reproductive rights. Even …Continue reading Continue Reading at https://thedailybanter.com
Tuesday night, white men in Virginia voted overwhelmingly (63%) for Ed Gillespie (after he ran an incredibly racist campaign. White women voted for him by a slim (51%) but convincing margin as well despite Gillespie embracing Trumpism, the wholesale rolling back of women’s reproductive rights. Even …Continue reading Continue Reading at https://thedailybanter.com
On Monday, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly doubled down on his lies about Rep. Frederica Wilson by refusing to apologize and then finished off what little was left of his credibility by spouting “Lost Cause” Civil War nonsense:The comments, made on the debut night of conservative media host …Continue reading Continue Reading at […]
Republican House of Representative Steve Scalise was a disgusting racist prior to being shot on a baseball field in an incident that nearly claimed his life. His political career up until that point has been a predictable brand of right-wing conservatism that aimed to inflict as much damage on …Continue reading Continue Reading at https://thedailybanter.com
Contrary to popular belief, not every piece of correspondence received by writers at The Root begins with “You’re the racist” or “Not all white people … ” For every piece of hate mail received by black writers who discuss race and racism in America, there are as many from white people who contact us with […]
