🌎 Discussion: Civil Rights, Affirmative Action, Critical Race Theory, Systemic Inequality, and Racism - Part 4

[Teelie]

Republicans are gonna Republican.

 

[blueharvest]

Baltimore Mayor Turns the Tables on Racist ‘DEI’ Attacks

“We know what they want to say, but they don’t have the courage to say the n-word,” Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott told MSNBC’s Joy Reid.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Mayor Brandon Scott responds to racially-charged ‘DEI’ label

“We know what these folks really want to say when they say DEI mayor,” Scott told The Banner. "They really want to say the ‘n’ word."

www.thebaltimorebanner.com

 

[blueharvest]

Majority-White Tennessee Legislature Under Fire for Overhauling HBCU Board

One Democrat reportedly declared the “optics” were “horrendous.”

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[blueharvest]

Trump Allies Plan to Reinterpret Civil Rights Laws to Protect White People: Report

Donald Trump's allies plan to vastly reinterpret civil rights legislation in favor of white Americans, according to a report from Axios.

www.rollingstone.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Oklahoma official with white nationalist ties is ousted in recall vote

Judd Blevins, who marched alongside neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, lost his fight to remain on Enid’s City Council.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[blueharvest]

 

[squeekness]

Wow.... 2024 in America.

 

[Teelie]

I'd rather have the one who is competent and not inches from going to jail for crimes.

 

[blueharvest]

Map: The impact of anti-DEI legislation

Across the country, conservative legislators have begun to target diversity, equity and inclusion programs, or DEI, in state agencies, schools and private companies.

abcnews.go.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Black-owned children's bookstore in Raleigh moving after threats, owner says

Liberation Station Bookstore, North Carolina's first Black-owned children's bookstore, is moving out of downtown Raleigh less than a year after it opened.

www.wral.com

 

[Teelie]

Depressingly not a surprise.

 

[blueharvest]

Conservative operatives who targeted Black voters with robocalls could pay up to $1.25 million

Two conservative operatives who attempted to stop Black voters in New York from voting by mail in the 2020 election have been ordered to pay up to $1.25 million in restitution. Jacob Wohl and Jack …

thehill.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Colorado governor voids 1864 order to kill Native Americans

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has rescinded a 19th century proclamation that called for citizens to kill Native Americans and take their property.

apnews.com

 

[blueharvest]

Kristi Noem Is Now Banned From 10 Percent of Her Own State

The Standing Rock Sioux are the third Native American tribe to declare the pro-Trump governor persona non grata over insulting remarks she has made in recent months.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[blueharvest]

Seven organizations the far right is targeting for diversity efforts post-affirmative action

Conservatives are taking legal action against public and private organizations that aim to aid women and people of color

www.theguardian.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Reeves Proclaims Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves declared April 2024 as Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi, keeping alive a tradition that began in 1993.

www.mississippifreepress.org

 

[Teelie]

Reeves showing he has still learned nothing.

 

[blueharvest]

Reeves showing he has still learned nothing.

He was born and raised in Mississippi. What did you expect?

 

[blueharvest]

 

[blueharvest]

Ohio man charged with murder over shooting of Black ride-share driver

William Brock, 81, who is white, was arrested after he fatally shot Lo-Letha Hall, 61, outside his home in South Charleston, Ohio

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueharvest]

 

[squeekness]

He has no right to be a pastor with that attitude.

 

[blueharvest]

He has no right to be a pastor with that attitude.

Definitely not. Along with any other preacher who mixes politics and religion.

 

[blueharvest]

John Legend says Trump believes ‘to his core’ that ‘Black people are inferior’

Singer John Legend says former President Trump is a racist down “to his core.” Speaking to MSNBC’s Jen Psaki on Sunday, Legend spoke of Trump’s response to the Black Lives Matter protes…

thehill.com