Showing posts with label white Supremacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label white Supremacy. Show all posts
Thursday, February 22, 2024

For 150 years, Black journalists have known what Confederate monuments really stood for

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  In October 2023, nearly seven years after the deadly Unite the Right white supremacist rally, the statue of Confederate General Robert E....
Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Communities fight back against hate groups and far-right extremism

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  Over the last five decades, the Southern Poverty Law Center has researched, documented, and tracked far-right extremist groups that espous...
Monday, May 15, 2023

White nationalism is racism

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  White nationalism is racism.   Don’t take it from me. That’s the dictionary definition.   “The belief, theory, or doctrine that white peop...
Thursday, November 3, 2022

Georgia’s GOP overhauled the state’s election laws in 2021 – and critics argue the target was Black voter turnout, not election fraud

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  In the rash of election reform laws enacted after former President Donald Trump’s false claims of fraud during the 2020 presidential elec...
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

New survey of Americans’ views on Confederate monuments shows strong link to political and religious affiliations

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  When Lecia Brooks, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s chief of staff and culture, first moved from Los Angeles to Alabama in 2004 and was s...
Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Confederate Christmas ornaments are smaller than statues – but they send the same racist message

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  As Christmas approaches, many families undertake a familiar ritual: an annual sojourn to the attic, basement, or closet to pull out a box ...
Saturday, September 18, 2021

Remove white supremacy from state’s Jim Crow-era constitution

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  Like their counterparts in other Southern states, Alabama lawmakers adopted a new constitution during the early stages of the Jim Crow era...
Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Removing the propaganda

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  In the 1860s, Robert Mills Lusher served as a Confederate tax collector and then as Louisiana’s superintendent of education following the...
Saturday, August 14, 2021

New documentary tells truth about Confederacy, tracks root of ‘Lost Cause’ myth

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  Living in New Orleans in 2015, CJ Hunt was frustrated that Confederate symbols still occupied the city’s common spaces – or “neutral grou...
Saturday, January 30, 2021

White supremacists who stormed US Capitol are only the most visible product of racism

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  Among the Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 were members of right-wing groups , including the Proud Boys, Oath Keepe...
Monday, November 18, 2019

New FBI report shows increase in violent hate crime

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  Although the FBI report released last week shows a minuscule decline in all hate crimes in 2018 , it also shows a 12 percent rise in hate ...
Friday, October 18, 2019

Hank Sanders: Sketches #1687 - Forgiveness is powerful, but there is a strange sense of forgiveness in these United States of America

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  Forgive. Forgiving. Forgiveness. Sometimes forgiveness is strange. In whatever form, forgiveness is powerful. I believe strongly in forgiv...
Thursday, October 10, 2019

A Confederate statue graveyard could help bury the Old South

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  An estimated 114 Confederate symbols have been removed from public view since 2015. In many cases, these cast-iron Robert E. Lees and Jef...
Monday, June 11, 2018

Executed for committing war crimes — then honored with a Confederate monument

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  We’ve seen the monuments to Jefferson Davis. We’ve seen the ones to Robert E. Lee. But why is there a monument to a Confederate captain ex...
Friday, April 20, 2018

"The Civil War is over, the Confederacy lost and we are better for it."

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  In five Southern states, we’re in the middle of Confederate History Month, a dubious designation that’s at odds with the reckoning the reg...
Friday, August 25, 2017

Hank Sanders: Senate Sketches #1576: What President Trump did is so dangerous

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  What President Trump did is so dangerous. It’s dangerous for me. It’s dangerous for you. More importantly, it’s dangerous for this country...
Friday, August 18, 2017

Confederate monuments expert explains how we memorialized white supremacy

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  In the wake of the neo-Nazi attacks in Charlottesville, officials in several Southern states have renewed calls to remove Confederate monu...
Thursday, February 11, 2016

Hank Sanders: Senate Sketches #1496: Black history is critical for white Americans

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  Black history is critical for White Americans. Wait! Wait! Wait! Don’t dismiss this idea out of hand. I know Black history is supposed t...