A Racist Government!

We all know this. We saw it in the promotions in the military. We saw it in his cabinet picks. We see it in his staffing picks suck as Stephen Miller.

Gary Franks: For Trump, it’s a color-blind man’s world

Recently the War Secretary found all qualified Black Americans and women eligible for a promotion to the rank of General “not fit” to receive the promotion

The Hartford Courant

By Gary Franks

June 17, 2026

President Donald Trump is definitely color blind, as he can only see white, and as far as gender, it is men in all key roles. Maybe it has something to do with how Trump amassed large vote totals. White men carried Trump into the White House.

Now, he’s still defending an Anti-Weaponization Fund of $1.776 billion that would have had nearly all, if not all, of their proposed reparations payout going to “white men.” (It should be noted that 400 years of Black slavery to get zero dollars in reparations, while a few hours of questionable and many illegal acts — i.e., attacking police officers — could have shared nearly $2 billion in reparations. Oh well).

Let us review the record of Trump 2.0 on race and gender.

Women and Black Americans have never fared well in Trump’s political orbit. The number of Black Republicans in the House of Representatives will go from the best ever to the worst since when I was the lone Black Republican in Congress — thanks, at least in part, to Trump. Leading Republican women voices in Congress will also be gone in January, thanks at least partially to Trump.

The Washington Post reported that Trump's cabinet current administration also is around 80–90% White overall.

Recently the War Secretary found all qualified Black Americans and women eligible for a promotion to the rank of General “not fit” to receive the promotion. Yet, all the white men eligible for a promotion to the rank of General were promoted.

This is the War Secretary (Pete Hegseth) that denied Black Engineers the opportunity to interview and compete for jobs in the Defense Department and followed by doubling down on his attack to deny opportunities to Black Americans. He “strongly suggested” that corporations doing business with the Pentagon also should not even interview Black engineering prospects at the job fair.

My concerns is that Hegseth is making the military into a White Christian male army. That he takes his crusader's persona to heart... Christian White males warriors.

Any objective political scientists, academics, sociologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, statisticians, or “seventh graders” would be able to figure out that our president has serious issues with strong women leaders and Black Americans who are not former athletes.

Then we have the Secretary of Defense, Hegseth... George Public Broadcasting reported that,

 Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth intervened to stop the promotions of several high-ranking service members including four Army officers, two Black men and two female soldiers, on track to become one-star generals, NPR has confirmed.

According to a U.S. official not authorized to speak publicly, Hegseth made the highly unusual move of interfering in the regular promotion process, as first reported in the New York Times. A second U.S. official also not authorized to speak publicly confirmed that Hegseth has been weeding out senior officers who are deemed ideologically incompatible.

NPR has also learned that a Black colonel and a female colonel from another branch of the military were taken off the promotion list, according to a U.S. official not authorized to speak publicly. This would bring the total to at least six promotions blocked by Hegseth.

They say that racism runs in families... Trump's father was arrested in Queens, New York in 1927 during a violent Memorial Day clash between the police and members of the Ku Klux Klan.

Standing The Law On It's Head

You see the White Christian Nationalist think they are being discriminated against because they can't discriminant. Hun? Yeah they are saying that they are being discriminated against because they are white.

Trump’s justice department is weaponizing civil rights laws against students of color

Claims of discrimination at UCLA and Yale show how laws meant to foster inclusion are being used for the opposite

The Guardian

ReNika Moore

Fri 5 Jun 2026

The Department of Justice’s civil rights division was once known as the crown jewel of the agency, but under Trump it has become just another tool of this administration’s politicized and racialized attacks targeting Black, Latino and other people of color. The latest examples are the sham findings of discrimination the division issued against the medical schools of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Yale University for admitting high-achieving Black and Hispanic students. The administration is cynically wielding its anti-discrimination authority to tear down civil rights advances at the cost of equal educational opportunity.

In its findings, the justice department claimed the grades and test scores of Black and Hispanic admitted applicants were less competitive than those of white and Asian admits and said the schools intentionally discriminated against white and Asian applicants. But the justice department’s conclusions overstate the difference in scores between applicants and ignore other applicant data completely, including student transcripts, letters of recommendations and essays. The differences among GPAs and test scores – one standard deviation or less – were too small to be legally or statistically significant and may be explained by random factors unrelated to race. Comparatively, two standard deviations is the commonly accepted threshold that federal courts and social scientists consider statistically significant in racial discrimination cases.

Now this is on top of the Department of Defense reportedly blocked promotions to Black and women officers!

Hegseth blocks promotion of several Navy officers to 1-star rank

Hegseth has now intervened in both the Army and Navy’s most recent promotions.

ABC News

By Luis Martinez and Steve Beynon

June 2, 2026,

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blocked the promotions to one-star admirals of several senior Navy officers who had already been selected for promotion by a board of senior Navy admirals, three sources familiar with the move told ABC News. 

Secretaries of Defense have the authority to intervene in promotion lists for reasons of cause, but it is unusual to see Hegseth now having intervened in both the Army and Navy’s most recent promotions to the one-star rank.

The Navy officers removed from the Navy’s promotion list included African Americans, women, and white males who were removed for a variety of reasons, including their participation or involvement in military Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, sources said.

You know it sure does kind of like they government is racist. They keep tiptoeing right on the boarder of racism.

"I've seen the Promised Land"

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You all should know who said that! Many people think that was about his summer working in Connecticut, specifically, when he went to a restaurant, looked for the "colored" section, and the waitress replied, "Anywhere you want."

Decades later, that spirit of quiet acceptance is still what makes New England special. I was just watching Yankee Magazine on public television and they visited Wiscasset, ME. I wanted to see if they would feature the famous lobster place, Red's Eats (they didn't); instead, what they showed were all the knick-knack stores in the town.

What I'm writing about is the owner of one of those stores... a gay couple.

The show made it a seamless segue from one business to another—from a store selling homemade candles to a store that sold old books and memorabilia. Period.

Many times I have written about lesbian and gay couples being run out of town. Yet, how beautiful it is that in the liberal Northeast, most people don't care if you're trans, if you're gay, or if you're Muslim... they care only if you are a good neighbor.

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Passed Down Through the Generations

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You hear a lot about family values, but sometimes those family values started with the enslavement of human beings, and they have been passed down through the generations.

The Supreme Court just stripped protections from the Voting Rights Act by allowing states to redistrict. The defendants in court claimed that the redistricting was not about race.

What was the first thing those states did?

They did away with Black districts… but (wink, wink) it supposedly was not about race.

So look at the states that redistricted.

They are the same states that opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. They are the same states that enforced Jim Crow laws. They are the same states that broke away from the Union. They are the same states that believed it was acceptable to own people.

Harvard Kennedy School in two book reviews about on how slavery still is affecting the states, the first article, Slavery, Politics, and Causality...

Abstract

How has slavery shaped the politics of the United States over the last century and a half since emancipation? Our book, Deep Roots (Acharya, Blackwell and Sen, 2018), tackled this question using a combination of quantitative, historical, and theoretical tools. Building on our earlier article published in The Journal of Politics (Acharya, Blackwell and Sen, 2016), our book shows a clear, persistent correlation between the proportion of enslaved people in a Southern county in 1860 and the political attitudes of whites living in those counties in the 20th and early 21st centuries, especially on issues related to race. The book employs various identification strategies and falsification tests to establish these relationships as plausibly causal. It presents evidence that these patterns cannot easily be explained by theories of racial threat or by antebellum attitudes on race, but, rather, that the political economy of the post-Civil War period generated incentives for whites of all social strata to adopt strongly anti-Black views, which have been passed down in local communities over time.

And the second article; The Political Legacy of American Slavery,

Abstract

We show that contemporary differences in political attitudes across counties in the American South trace their origins to slavery’s prevalence more than 150 years ago. Whites who currently live in Southern counties that had high shares of slaves in 1860 are more likely to identify as a Republican, oppose affirmative action policies, and express racial resentment and colder feelings toward blacks. These results cannot be explained by existing theories, including the theory of racial threat. To explain these results, we offer evidence for a new theory involving the historical persistence of racial attitudes. We argue that, following the Civil War, Southern whites faced political and economic incentives to reinforce racist norms and institutions. This produced racially conservative political attitudes, which in turn have been passed down locally across generations. Our results challenge the interpretation of a vast literature on racial attitudes in the American South.

They values of bigoty and discrimination are passed down through the generations! And they're not my family values.

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Updated: 5/16 @ 1PM

 

 

 

Racism? Sexism?

So what do you think?

Pete Hegseth removes two Black officers and two women from Army promotion list

The Independent

Ariana Baio

Friday 27 March 2026

• Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is reportedly attempting to block the promotion of four Army officers, two women and two Black men, to one-star general, according to a New York Times report.
• Hegseth allegedly removed their names from the promotion list himself after Army leaders, including Secretary Dan Driscoll, reportedly refused to do so, citing the officers' excellent records.
• Since becoming head of the Pentagon, Hegseth has sought to eliminate 'woke' policies such as diversity, equity, and inclusion, emphasizing that all promotions should be based solely on merit.
• Pentagon Spokesperson Sean Parnell denied the New York Times story, calling it 'fake news' and asserting that promotions under Hegseth are merit-based and unbiased.
• The report also details other instances of Hegseth's influence on military personnel, including the reassignment of several high-ranking female admirals and an alleged comment by his chief of staff regarding a Black woman officer's promotion.

Racist? Sexist?

This Is Disgusting!

This is what Trump posted on X

Tell me this this isn't racist?

Trump shares racist video depicting Obamas as apes
CBS News

By Melissa Quinn
Updated on: February 6, 2026

 

 

President Trump posted to social media late Thursday an election-conspiracy video that includes racist footage depicting former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes.

The video, which is just over a minute long, promotes false claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against Mr. Trump. Toward the end of the video is a roughly two-second clip that shows the Obamas' heads edited onto the bodies of primates, with the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" playing.

Mr. Trump shared the video to his Truth Social account at 11:44 p.m. Thursday. 

Obama was the nation's first Black president and Michelle Obama was the first Black first lady. Mr. Trump has a history of sharing disparaging and racist memes about the Obamas. The president also amplified for years a conspiracy theory that Obama was born in Kenya and therefore ineligible to serve as president. Amid pressure to disavow the so-called "birther" claim, Mr. Trump finally said during the 2016 presidential campaign that "President Obama was born in the United States. Period."

Trump true colors have come out! He follows in his father's KKK footsteps! 

 

The Guardian writes that,

By 8.30am ET Friday, the post had attracted about 4,000 likes but also garnered outrage from both sides of the aisle for the inclusion of such a blatant racist trope about the US’s first Black president and his wife, both Democrats.

That also says a lot about his loyal followers!

 “There’s no ‘misinterpretation’ and no excuse. This is who he is, who he’s always been, and why he should never be anywhere near power again. And there’s a reason the tapes from The Apprentice have never been released,” he said.

When the flack about the post, Trump does what he does best... TACO = “Trump Always Chickens Out.”

Trump removes video with racist clip depicting Obamas as apes

BBC News

Bernd Debusmann Jr

Feb 6, 2026

US President Donald Trump has removed a social media video which included a racist clip depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.

The clip - set to the song The Lion Sleeps Tonight - was at the end of a 62-second video containing claims about voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

Republican Senator Tim Scott - who is black - had called for the president to remove the post, describing it as "the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House".

The White House initially defended the clip as an "internet meme video" and told critics to "stop the fake outrage".

The clip - which is reminiscent of racist caricatures comparing black people to monkeys - appears to be taken from an X post shared by conservative meme creator Xerias in October.

That video also depicts several other high-profile Democrats as animals, including New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Trump's predecessor in the White House, Joe Biden, also is depicted as an ape eating a banana.

How the hell did he think that this was appropriate!

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Update: 5:40PM

This is what they are now saying, The Guardian writes;

Multiple outlets cite a senior White House official as saying:

A White House staffer erroneously made the post. It has been taken down.

The post was up for 12 hours.

You know this is actually worsen the incident. Think about what they are saying, that it implies that racist content is circulating casually enough inside the operation that a staffer had it ready to post.

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Update: 10:PM

This photo says it all about why the White House didn't think anything about the video...

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Update: 2/7 @ 5AM

More updates on Trump's racist post... he is not apologizing!

Trump says he didn't see full racist video before it was posted, says he won't apologize

Asked if he condemns the racist part of the video, Trump said, "Of course I do."

ABC News

By Justin Gomez , Isabella Murray, Hannah Demissie, Michelle Stoddart, Sarah Kolinovsky, and Nicholas Kerr

February 6, 2026

President Donald Trump told reporters he didn't see the entire video before it was shared on his social media platform late Thursday night that included a racist animation of former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama depicted with the bodies of apes and suggested he won't apologize for it.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday evening, Trump said he only saw the first part of the since-deleted video that focused on debunked claims about the 2020 election.

"I guess during the end of it, there was some kind of picture people don't like. I wouldn't like it either, but I didn't see it," Trump said. "I just, I looked at the first part, and it was really about voter fraud."

Okay this raises many, many more questions!

What he just said was, he doesn't review stuff that he signs that are is in his name! So he lets underling write and post stuff on social media with knowing what's being posted! That is scary!

Asked if he would apologize for the video, Trump said, "No, I didn't make a mistake. I mean ... I look at a lot of, thousands of, things, and I looked at the beginning of it. It was fine."

So he admits that he is doing a half-ass of running the White House!

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, when first asked for comment early Friday, had said, "This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King. Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public."

My dear, we are not faking it! And if you don't see it you are just as bad as your boss!

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Update: 2/7 @ 6AM

So You Don't Think Trump & Company Are Racists?

They are removing references to anything about Black people and slavery.
They are trying to rewrite history — to whitewash it.

US National Park Service removes slavery exhibit in Philadelphia

Reuters

By Kanishka Singh

January 23, 2026

U.S. National Park Service staff have removed a slavery exhibit from a Philadelphia historic site in line with President Donald Trump's claims, rejected by civil rights groups, of "anti-American ideology" at historical and cultural institutions.

The exhibit was at the President's House Site in Independence National Historical Park, where the first U.S. president, George Washington, lived when the Pennsylvania city was the nation's capital. It described the history of slavery and Washington's ownership of enslaved people.

The outdoor exhibit was dismantled and removed on Thursday, according to media footage and activists.

"The President has directed federal agencies to review interpretive materials to ensure accuracy, honesty, and alignment with shared national values," the Interior Department, which includes the park service, told Reuters in a statement responding to a query on the exhibit's removal.

I don’t know about you, but “alignment with shared national values” does not include racism — at least not my values. That may be true for Trump’s family values. (Did you know Trump's father got arrested at a KKK rally in New York City?)

The Republican president alarmed civil rights advocates last year with an executive order that said he was fighting against "a false revision of history.” He has complained about what he casts as excessive focus on "how bad Slavery was."

You see in Trump's minds, enslaved people loved being enslaved — getting food and shelter, sitting around the fire praising their masters and singing Kumbaya.

MS Now wrote back in September,

Trump admin reportedly removes slavery history from national parks

The administration's efforts to censor references to slavery and racist inequality appear to have ramped up with the reported removal of several signs and exhibits.

By Ja'han Jones

Donald Trump’s war on history appears to have widened, with The Washington Post reporting that his administration has ordered the removal of multiple signs and exhibits at national parks related to the history of slavery.

The Post reported that these moves are the result of a deranged executive order Trump signed in March, in which he ordered the Interior Department to whitewash materials at national parks and other federal sites that recount the factual story of American inequality — which the order called “corrosive ideology.” I’ve written previously about the disturbing parallels between Trump’s attacks on museums and those waged by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime.

According to the Post:

The Trump administration has ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at multiple national parks, according to four people familiar with the matter, including a historic photograph of a formerly enslaved man showing scars on his back.

That historic photo — known as “The Scourged Back” — shows Peter Gordon, an enslaved man who was whipped after attempting to escape. As the Metropolitan Museum of Art notes, it’s one of the most famous Civil War-era portraits ever taken. Such accurate depictions of the brutality of slavery evidently run afoul of Trump’s blissful ignorance, given his gripe that Smithsonian museums focus too much on “how bad Slavery was.”

“The Scourged Back” depicts the scarred back
 of escaped slave Peter Gordon in Louisiana in 1863.
McPherson & Oliver / National Gallery of Art

Trump’s Ministry of Truth is rewriting history — not just about slavery, but about us, the trans community.

Under Trump, references to the trans community were removed from Stonewall. Without trans people, there would have been no Stonewall.

Under Trump’s so-called “Restoring American History” policy, the Smithsonian and the National Park Service were ordered to review exhibits and materials that “inappropriately disparage Americans.” This policy has been used to justify removing or altering content about slavery, Indigenous history, civil rights struggles, transgender history, and other marginalized communities.

This isn’t about patriotism.

It’s about erasure and racism.

Mini-Post: When Narcissism Meets Racism

Trump ordered that the free days at National Parks for Martin Luther King Jr and Juneteenth be suspended and Trump's birthday be free instead!

 

If that isn't racism then I don't know what is racist! 

Bringing Back Jim Crow

Hey, so you don’t think that the Trump administration is racist? Well Trump & Company just did away with 50 year old civil rights policies!

DOJ rolls back anti-discrimination rules

Trump officials say the requirement to consider racial impacts was itself a form of discrimination.

Politico

By Alex Guillén and Hassan Ali Kanu

12/09/2025

The Justice Department on Tuesday moved to end long-standing civil rights policies that prohibit local governments and organizations that receive federal funding from maintaining policies that disproportionately harm people of color.

Repealing the government’s 50-year-old “disparate impact” standards will make it harder to challenge potential bias in housing, criminal law, employment, environmental regulations and other policy areas.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of “race, color, or national origin.” The Justice Department and the courts have historically interpreted the law as a ban on intentional discrimination as well as policies that, in practice, have a “disparate impact” on one group of people.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order in April that directed agencies to eliminate disparate-impact liability wherever possible.

Let’s see… he gutted the EPA, OSHA, they rolled back our protection in prisons, and now he is gutting the civil rights laws!

“The Trump administration cannot claim to value equality by undermining the very laws that keep people protected from discrimination,” said Amalea Smirniotopoulos, NAACP-LDF senior policy counsel. “Removing the Department of Justice’s regulations prohibiting unfair discriminatory policies takes away critical safeguards against the most insidious forms of exclusion” in policing, the court system, public jobs, and access to government services.

Harmeet Dhillon, DOJ’s civil rights chief, highlighted that the rule change will lead to fewer civil rights lawsuits — cases she characterized as frequently overreaching.

“The prior ‘disparate impact’ regulations encouraged people to file lawsuits challenging racially neutral policies, without evidence of intentional discrimination,” Dhillon said in a statement. “Our rejection of this theory will restore true equality under the law by requiring proof of actual discrimination, rather than enforcing race- or sex-based quotas or assumptions.”

Translated from Trump-speak… our billionaire friends can save millions from lawsuits!

So what exactly are we talking about? The Trump administration wants to make it legal for businesses to discriminate not through words or explicit actions, but through policies.

DOJ began requiring the recipients of federal funding to consider disparate impacts — for example, whether a new industrial facility would disproportionately harm a nearby majority Black community — in 1973.

The regulations also undergirded investigations of organizations, such as housing providers and police departments, accused of engaging in a “pattern or practice” of discrimination. Such investigations often lead to settlements or agreements requiring efforts to reverse the discriminatory practices.

Policies like “Stop and Frisk,” which courts have ruled to be discriminatory, have overwhelmingly targeted minorities.

Now, the Trump administration’s rule changes are making it even harder for people to bring disparate impact discrimination claims. This affects access to jobs as well. For example, some employers require a valid passport or driver’s license, yet many trans people cannot obtain IDs that reflect their true gender. If an employer hires only people whose gender presentation matches the gender marker on their ID, that can result in discrimination — even when it’s framed as a “neutral” requirement.

Slowly, the Trump administration has been chipping away at civil rights protections while normalizing racist practices — such as favoring immigration from predominantly white countries and restricting immigration from what Trump referred to as “shithole countries,” “hellholes,” and “filthy” nations.

During the campaign he also promoted harmful stereotypes, at one point blaming Haitians for eating pets. He has repeatedly targeted Somali immigrants as well, claiming they “contribute nothing,” that their home country “stinks,” and suggesting they are “completely taking over” parts of Minnesota.

There is no doubt that Trump has echoed some of the racist attitudes long associated with his father. In many ways, it appears to be a case of like father, like son.

A Deranged Racist?

You know he was going to talk about one of the most pressing issues that the voters are concerned about but his rank went off topic. Trumps turns a speech on the economy into a racist rant on immigrants,

Trump’s speech on combating inflation turns to grievances about immigrants from ‘filthy’ countries

AP News

By  MARC LEVY and JOSH BOAK

December 9, 2025

On the road in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, President Donald Trump tried to emphasize his focus on combating inflation, yet the issue that has damaged his popularity couldn’t quite command his full attention.

The president told the crowd gathered at a casino and resort in Mount Pocono that inflation was no longer a problem and that Democrats had used the term “affordability” as a “hoax” to hurt his reputation. But his remarks weaved wildly to include grievances he first raised behind closed doors in his first term in 2018 — and later denied saying — asking why the U.S. doesn’t have more immigrants from Scandinavia.

“Why is it we only take people from s—-hole countries, right?” Trump said onstage. “Why can’t we have some people from Norway, Sweden, just a few?”

Translated from Trumpspeak: "We don't want people from Black and Brown counties, only from white countries like  Norway and, Sweden."

Trump said he objected to taking immigrants from “hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia and many other countries.” He added for emphasis that those places “are a disaster, right? Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime.”

The people want to know about about inflation, not his racist rant!

Trump once denied using this slur about Haiti and African nations. Now he boasts about it

AP News

By  JONATHAN J. COOPER

December 9, 2025

President Donald Trump admitted Tuesday that he used the slur “shithole countries” to disparage Haiti and African nations during a 2018 meeting with lawmakers, bragging about a comment that sparked global outrage during his first term.

Back then, Trump had denied making the contemptuous statement during a closed-door meeting, but on Tuesday, he showed little compunction reliving it during a rally in Pennsylvania. He went on to further disparage Somalia as “filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime.”

Trump was boasting in his speech that he had last week “announced a permanent pause on Third World migration, including from hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia and many other countries,” when someone in the crowd yelled out the 2018 remark.

For Trump everything boils down to race. His tirades on immigration... immigration from White countries is okay but not from Third World countries (i.e. from Black and Brown countries,)

 “We had a meeting and I said, ‘Why is it we only take people from shithole countries,’ right? ‘Why can’t we have some people from Norway, Sweden?’” Trump told rallygoers.

“But we always take people from Somalia,” he continued. “Places that are a disaster. Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime.”

Simply put... Trump is a bigot and his loyal followers are also bigots. Congress is not finally also questioning his policies,

Lawmakers decry Trump’s immigration halt for 19 countries: ‘scapegoating entire nationalities’

Crackdown on applications from countries also under travel restrictions comes after shooting of two national guards

The Guardian

Maya Yang

Wed 3 Dec 2025

Immigration groups and lawmakers are sharply criticizing Donald Trump’s latest move to halt immigration applications from 19 countries already under US travel restrictions, a decision that comes amid reports that naturalization ceremonies for people on the travel ban list are also being canceled.

On Tuesday US Citizenship and Immigration Services posted a policy memo that announced an immediate “adjudicative hold” on all asylum applications “regardless of the alien’s country of nationality”, as well as a review of individuals from “high-risk countries” who entered the US following Joe Biden’s inauguration in 2021.

The 19 countries include Afghanistan, Burma, Burundi, Chad, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Laos, Libya, Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, Turkmenistan, Venezuela, and Yemen – all of which have either partial or full travel restrictions.

[...]

In a statement to the Guardian, Human Rights Watch’s US director, Tanya Greene, said: “Nothing meaningfully links these 19 countries except the administration’s opportunistic stigmatization and exclusion of people based on where they were born. This sweeping change is not about safety; it is about scapegoating entire nationalities for the actions of one individual. This policy will tear families apart, endanger people fleeing persecution and further damage US credibility on human rights.”

Similarly, the National Immigrant Justice Center said: “The Trump administration is using the tragic shooting of two national guard members to scapegoat and roll out yet another ban on Black and brown migrants. Where there is grief and heartbreak, the Trump administration sees opportunity – ie, the opportunity to unveil more racist and anti-immigrant policies.

Like father, like son.

I've Noticed Something

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You know what I noticed... all dictators are racists.

During WWII, Hitler was a racists. Imperial Japan was racists.

Authoritarian regimes use, ethno-nationalist and anti-immigrant rhetoric to solidify majority support.

Trumpism is racist. Trump uses ethno-nationalist and anti-immigrant rhetoric to energize his racist base.

Regime/Movement	Ideology of Exclusion	Racist
Hitler / Nazi Germany	Biological Racism (anti-Semitism, Aryan supremacy).	Strongest Example: Race was the fundamental and official organizing principle of the state's authoritarian power and violence.
Imperial Japan	Ethnic/Cultural Supremacy(ultranationalism).	Strong Example: Power justified by the superiority of the Yamato people and the divine nature of the Emperor, leading to the subjugation of other Asian ethnicities.
Trumpism	Nativism, Ethno-Nationalism, & Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric.	Contemporary Example: This movement is widely categorized as using a political variant of the far-right that employs rhetoric centered on national identity, fear of demographic change, and anti-immigrant policies, which mobilizes a base with high levels of racial resentment.

(Table is from Gemini)

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Racism? What Do You Think?

Trump is playing games with immigration... you can come because you are White. But you can't -- you're Black!

Tales of horror emerge from Darfur after rebels take control of key city

The IRC says Sudan is facing the world’s largest ever humanitarian crisis.

ABC News

By Guy Davies and Camilla Alcini

November 9, 2025

Hawa arrived at a refugee camp in Tawila, a town 35 miles from the city of El Fasher in Sudan's Darfur region, on Oct. 20 after being separated from her 16-year-old son. 

"We walked for days on rough terrain, our feet scorched," she said, in testimony shared with ABC News by U.S.-based nonprofit Avaaz, an online activist network. "When they carried out executions, that was the first time I saw someone slaughtered in front of me. It was traumatizing." 

Hawa is one of the thousands who have managed to flee El Fasher since a Sudanese paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), seized the city last month.

What has Trump offered in support... Zilch Meanwhile, German far-right activist seeks asylum in U.S.

Naomi Seibt, Activist Dubbed ‘Anti-Greta Thunberg’, Seeks US Asylum

Newsweek

By Marni Rose McFall

Oct 29, 2025

Naomi Seibt, the German political activist aligned with the far-right, is seeking asylum in the U.S., alleging she is being persecuted in Germany for her political views.

"We will not hesitate to expose the state media who have been defaming and lying about dissidents and the Trump administration at the cost of taxpayers,” Seibt told Newsweek in a statement. 

Hmm... she is White, female, right-wing agitator, she is after Trump's heart!

The AfD denies being an extremist party and has said its platform, which calls for mass deportations, criticizes Islam, and emphasizes nationalism and traditional Christian values, reflects the views of the German electorate.

You know who she sounds like the German "Charlie Kirk" with all of the same "ism"!

Then we have the White South Africans who Trump gave preferential treatment on immigration.

How Christian Nationalism Is Shaping Trump’s Foreign Policy Toward Africa 

Trump ended deportation protections for South Sudanese immigrants, prioritized asylum for white South Africans, and threatened to invade Nigeria. It’s all part of the Christian nationalist playbook.

The Intercept

By Jessica Washington

November 8 2025

After threatening last weekend to go “guns-a-blazing” into Nigeria in defense of Christian Nigerians, President Donald Trump has ended protection for another group facing violence and political instability. On Wednesday, the Trump administration terminated temporary protected status shielding immigrants from South Sudan from deportation, even though the African nation has faced escalating violence, political instability, and food insecurity in recent weeks. 

The announcement stands in stark contrast to another recent decision from the administration to give Afrikaners priority for asylum, even as the State Department moved to severely limit refugee admission to the United States. The president has justified prioritizing white South Africans by spreading misleading claims about the persecution and killings of white farmers.

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After Trump threatened to deploy military action in Nigeria over claims that Christians were being persecuted, and designated Nigeria as a “country of particular concern” for alleged violations of religious freedom, Nigerian officials and regional experts quickly fired back.

“We are not proud of the security situation that we are passing through, but to go with the narrative” of a Christian genocide, Kimiebi Imomotimi Ebienfa, a spokesperson for Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs told Al Jazeera, “no, it is not true. There is no Christian genocide in Nigeria.”

The two faces of Trump: If you are White you get open arms! If you are Black or Latinx, there is a big ICE agent with a club blocking your way! 

The Imagery Is Right Out Of The 1930s

The latest government push on undocumented immigrants is right out of the 1930s Nazi propaganda films.

It is American as apple pie. but...

Nazi-like’ ad campaign uses religious imagery

The Baptist News

By Mark Wingfield

October 23, 2025

Religious imagery plays a role in a controversial new ad campaign created by the Trump administration’s Department of Labor.

This follows similar trends seen already at the Department of Homeland Security under Secretary Kristi Noem. Both agencies are using Norman Rockwell-style posters that also remind viewers of a different kind of art.

Not only has the Labor Department’s ad campaign drawn comparisons to Nazi propaganda, it uses religious imagery to appeal to white Christian evangelicals, Trump’s most reliable political base.

One poster in the new series depicts a white Christian family appearing to be from the 1950s sitting on a pew together in church. The caption reads, “A Dream Worth Fighting For.” Another shows a white couple with two kids gazing at an idealized suburban home and a white-steepled church above, along with a school and a factory. The caption reads, “Our work on Project Firewall is critical in our mission to put Americans First and RESTORE THE AMERICAN DREAM.”

But people have noticed something, reminiscent from the past!

The poster campaign has been criticized for mirroring Nazi-era propaganda.

“The glossy, retro-styled posters feature white men in hard hats, lab coats and muscle shirts alongside slogans such as ‘America’s Future’ and ‘Your Nation Needs You!’ Critics note the deliberate absence of women and people of color, with only one poster including them — placed literally beneath a white man towering above,” says an article from The Voice. “Only one poster includes a woman and a person who may be a person of color — but neither are Black, Asian, etc. and both are literally positioned beneath a white man towering above them.”

The article continues: “The aesthetic centers white masculinity as the symbol of national strength, evoking imagery used by Nazi Germany to elevate Aryan men while erasing women and minorities from public life. In the 1930s, Joseph Goebbels’ Ministry of Propaganda popularized posters of blond, muscular men as the ‘ideal German worker.’ Women appeared only as mothers, while Jews, Roma and others were erased altogether. The Trump administration’s posters, Nehemiah D. Frank writes, follow a chillingly similar script: White men as the emblem of loyalty, patriotism and progress.”

It sure looks like they gave some AI a Nazis propaganda posters and said update these! This is signaling that the "American Dream" is for white families only, echoing 1930s Germany (where propaganda idealized Aryan purity) or 1950s U.S. ads that marginalized everyone else.

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Update: 11/8 @ 7AM

It seems that the Norman Rockwell’s family are not too keen on the government using his art without permission!

Norman Rockwell’s Family Hits Out at U.S. Homeland Security Over Social Media Posts

The artist's descendants decry the use of his work "for the cause of persecution toward immigrant communities and people of color."

Artnet

Alina Cohen

November 3, 2025

• Norman Rockwell’s family has condemned DHS for using his art to promote anti-immigrant rhetoric on social media platforms.
• In an op-ed, they emphasized Rockwell’s anti-racist legacy, citing works like The Problem We All Live With and his evolving social conscience.
• DHS has previously misused art by Thomas Kinkade and John Gast, prompting broader criticism of its whitewashed historical messaging.

Norman Rockwell’s descendants are condemning the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for misusing the artist’s work in its social media posts.

After DHS shared Rockwell reproductions across its X, Instagram, and Facebook accounts to promote its anti-immigrant rhetoric, Rockwell’s family published a November 2 op-ed at USA Today to highlight the artist’s anti-racist efforts. “If Norman Rockwell were alive today, he would be devastated to see… that his own work has been marshaled for the cause of persecution toward immigrant communities and people of color,” they wrote.

The Rockwell family’s op-ed targets three recent posts by DHS. The first, from August 20, features Rockwell’s Salute the Flag (1971) with the caption, “Protect our American way of life.” The image features a mostly white audience in the conservative garb of the early to mid-20th century and suggests a diversity-free American populace. Another depicts Rockwell’s Working on the Statue of Liberty (1946) accompanied by a link viewers can visit in order to “BECOME A HOMELAND DEFENDER TODAY.” A month ago, DHS posted Rockwell’s painting of a boy typing up a story about Daniel Boone with an invocation to “Manifest Heroism.”

It seems like the Republicans don't care about other's people property and using AI to make to twist his artwork in to racist propaganda.

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Updated: 11/9 @ 8:30AM

This meme hits the spot;

Mini-Post: Welcome To A Land Without DEI

You wan to get a sneak peek at a world without diversity, equality, and inclusion well don't have to look beyond Chick-Fil-A!

Chick-Fil-A In Georgia Gave White Officers A Free Meal But Told Their Black Co-Worker He Had To Pay

Blavity

By Jahaura Michelle

Oct 19, 2025

A Black police officer in Georgia opened up about his experience at a local Chick-fil-A location and said that he was racially discriminated against by the restaurant’s workers during a work trip with other officers.

“I was kind of humiliated and embarrassed, you know, at the whole situation. It seemed like it was a racial issue to me,” Clover Police Sgt. Tracey Reid told WSOC-TV 9.

Reid said the incident happened when he visited a Chick-fil-A location in Augusta a few weeks ago. He and three other CPD officers, who are white, had gone to the popular fast-food chain for breakfast.

“I was kind of humiliated and embarrassed, you know, at the whole situation. It seemed like it was a racial issue to me,” Clover Police Sgt. Tracey Reid told WSOC-TV 9.

What was Chick-A-Fil response?

Reid and the other officers weren’t pleased with the response from the Augusta location’s store manager, which included two cards for free meals.

“It said it was perceived that it was a racial incident, which I didn’t like, because it wasn’t perceived, it actually happened,” Reid said.

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“He’s not the only one that perceived it. We all did, and it’s not perception, it’s what happened. It was a racial issue,” Barnette said.

I have another issue with the free meals to police officers... that can be construed as bribery for special treatment by the police?

F**k The Courts

No that is not me saying that but a top federal DoJ official said that! That is what 60 Minutes reported that it was Emil Bove the #3 man at the Department of Justice!

DOJ whistleblower says he witnessed government officials undermining the rule of law

60-minutes

By Scott Pelley

October 19, 2025

Erez Reuveni was on his way up. He was an attorney in the Department of Justice who was so effective defending President Trump's first-term immigration policy, that he was promoted right away in Trump's second term. But Reuveni's 15-year Justice Department career ended suddenly after, he says, he witnessed government lawyers lying in court and evading orders of a judge. These last few months have been a time of upheaval in the Justice Department. Now, Reuveni's claims are raising concern in courtrooms across the country. The administration has called Reuveni a leaker seeking five minutes of fame. But in his first television interview, Erez Reuveni told us, he's paid a price: speaking up cost him his dream.

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But it was the very day of that promotion, Friday, March 14th, that he, and others, were called to a fateful meeting with Emil Bove, President Trump's newly appointed number three at the Justice Department, who was once Trump's criminal defense attorney.

Erez Reuveni: And we were told at this meeting that over the weekend, the president of the United States would be signing a proclamation invoking something called the Alien Enemies Act. This is a wartime law from 1798 invoked three times in the nation's history, during the War of 1812, World War I, and World War II.

The Alien Enemies Act allows rapid expulsion from the U.S. of the citizens of enemy nations during a war. But without a declared war, Trump used it against more than 100 Venezuelans that the government said were terrorists. They were to be denied their right to be heard by a judge. Reuveni says above expected a challenge.

Erez Reuveni: Bove emphasized, those planes need to take off, no matter what. And then after a pause, he also told all in attendance, and if some court should issue an order preventing that, we may have to consider telling that court, 'f*** you.'

This is one of the top officials in the DoJ that ignores the Constitution as he has sworn to up hold!

The next day, Saturday, lawyers for the prisoners sued. Judge James Boasberg called a hearing and asked government lawyer, Drew Ensign, whether the planes were leaving that weekend.  

Erez Reuveni: And Ensign says to Boasberg, I don't know. Now Ensign was at the same meeting that I was at the day before, where we were told in no uncertain terms that planes were taking off over the weekend, that those planes needed to take off no matter what. And he says, I don't know.

And the federal prosecutor perjured himself! He knowingly lied to the judge under orders from the top Department of Justice officials!

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For as long as there has been a border between us, crossing has been casual... but then came xenophobic Trump! 

A cross-border landmark faces a restrictive new future

CBS Sunday Morning

By Lee Cowan

October 19, 2025

There is still a place where you can walk freely across an international border, no questions asked. The only protest is the squeaking floorboards near the well-worn boundary line painted on the floor. This is the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, a Victorian palace to art, culture and education that actually has dual citizenship, because part of it sits in Stanstead, Quebec, while the other half stretches into Derby Line, Vermont.

It was the vision of Martha Stewart Haskell, a wealthy Canadian who married a wealthy American. She had it built in 1901 as a gift, and it was built straddling the border specifically so it could welcome both communities. "At that time, this was family, both sides," said American Kathy Converse, who has been volunteering here for 20 years.

But all of that is ending after 

Converse said, "And it's just sort of – I'm gonna stick with my one word that I use for the situation: Sad."

In January, the same day President Donald Trump was sworn into office, U.S. Border Patrol Agent David Maland was shot and killed during a traffic stop about 15 miles from the library. A Seattle woman has been indicted for his murder. Hundreds turned out on the streets of Burlington, Vt., in January to say goodbye. 

A week later, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem flew to Vermont to pay her respects. She also made a surprise visit to the library.

Asked how that visit went, Sylvie Boudreau, president of the library's board of trustees, replied, "I have to say she was very polite with me."

But...

But a few weeks after Noem's visit, Boudreau was notified the building's literary loophole was closing, ending Martha Stewart Haskell's century-old vision of cooperation. "I'm getting emotional," Boudreau said, "because [Haskell's] first mission was really to reunite people, not to divide."

Starting this month, Canadians are no longer allowed to use the U.S. sidewalk that leads to the library's grand front entrance. Instead, they have to report to a legal U.S. port of entry first. In the back of the library, on the Canadian side, was a rarely-used emergency exit. They turned that exit into an entrance, not as welcoming to Canadians as the front perhaps, but for now, it'll have to do.

Xenophobia runs rampant in Trump's administrations!

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Trump changes the immigration policy to favor White South Africans and other White racists!

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

The proposals would transform a program aimed at helping the most vulnerable people in the world into one that gives preference to mostly white people who say they are being persecuted.

The New York Times

By Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Hamed Aleaziz

Oct. 15, 2025

The Trump administration is considering a radical overhaul of the U.S. refugee system that would slash the program to its bare bones while giving preference to English speakers, white South Africans and Europeans who oppose migration, according to documents obtained by The New York Times.

The proposals, some of which already have gone into effect, would transform a decades-old program aimed at helping the world’s most desperate people into one that conforms to Mr. Trump’s vision of immigration — which is to help mostly white people who say they are being persecuted while keeping the vast majority of other people out.

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The proposed changes would put new emphasis on whether applicants would be able to assimilate into the United States, directing them to take classes on “American history and values” and “respect for cultural norms.”

The proposals also advise Mr. Trump to prioritize Europeans who have been “targeted for peaceful expression of views online such as opposition to mass migration or support for ‘populist’ political parties.”

That is so blatantly xenophobic! "Assimilate" translated from Trump speak... they are White English speakers... we don't want anyone who doesn't look like us!

Did you ever wonder where "The Donald" got his racist tendencies? From his father! His father was arrested at a KKK rally in New York City. Colorlines writes...

The Washington Post reports that Trump’s father, Fred, was arrested after a 1927 brawl lead by the Ku Klux Klan in Queens, New York. On Memorial Day, 1,000 Klansmen donned their robes and marched through the streets of the Jamaica neighborhood. The march turned into a riot, and Fred Trump and six others were arrested. The records don’t indicate if Trump was one of the hooded Klansman, but he shared an attorney with the other men who were taken into custody.

I wonder Daddy sat little "Donald" on his lap and told him about the "wonderful day we bashed heads"?

Your Moral Compass!

You know the groups that you associate with tells a lot about your moral character... the saying when you lie down with dogs you get up with flees, has some bearing in truth.

There are Republicans defending the Young Republicans and there are those who are denouncing them.

 NY's Young Republican chapter disbanded after racist messages exposed in group chat

WABC 7

ByStacey Sager

October 17, 2025

Fallout continues for New York's Young Republican chapter as a pivotal vote to disband the group has been approved.

The decision comes after a series of racist and antisemitic messages from a private group chat were made public.

Several former leaders have already lost their jobs, and Friday's vote is seen as a step toward a fresh start.

It's a blow to the Republican Party, and it has top GOP leaders emphatically distancing themselves from any of those involved.

A group chat on the Telegram messaging app including certain members of the Young Republican National Federation, was exposed in a Politico report detailing seven months of racist, anti-semitic, and violent texts that reportedly became part of their culture.

But JD Vance said according to the Guardian,

JD Vance sought to downplay the revelation that leaders of a group called the Young Republicans exchanged hundreds of racist and sexist text messages – including one in which rape was called “epic”, and another in which someone wrote “I love Hitler” – as youthful indiscretions.

Vance suggested that the participants in the leaked chats were much younger than they in fact were. Some of the participants were barely younger than the 41-year-old vice-president.

The other thing to think about is why did think it was okay for them to think it was all right to use that type of language? These were not "kids" like Vance said adults and one was a legislator!

Vermont Legislator Resigns Over Racist Texts in Republican Group Chat

The G.O.P. officials who participated in a group text chat have faced calls to step down. State Senator Samuel Douglass was the group’s only elected member.

The New York Times

By David W. Chen

Oct. 17, 2025

A Vermont Republican legislator who faced bipartisan condemnation after participating in a long-running group chat that was peppered with racist and antisemitic language announced on Friday that he would resign.

State Senator Samuel Douglass, 26, was one of a dozen young Republican Party activists from around the country who had participated in the texts, which were first reported on Tuesday by Politico. And while some participants worked for Republican lawmakers or held government posts, Mr. Douglass was the only elected official.

Did they really think it was okay to use that language if no one learned about it?

“Offense was taken and people were hurt, so I will mend bridges to the best of my ability. Since the story broke, I have reached out to the majority of my Jewish and BIPOC friends and colleagues to ensure that they can be honest and upfront with me, and I know that as a young person I have a duty to set a good example for others,” Mr. Douglass added, using an acronym for Black, Indigenous and people of color.

They used it so casually that it must be normal for them. And now they expect it to blow over... we cannot let it!

That point to the Republicans' moral compress.

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Update: 5:30PM

Politico:

GOP split over how to respond to racist texts

As the White House attempts to redirect focus to violent Democratic rhetoric, Republicans face the vexing choice of how to respond to a trove of hateful messages.

By Jason Beeferman

10/18/202

When POLITICO approached Rep. Elise Stefanik this month with hate-filled messages from the same Young Republicans she backed and bankrolled for years, her condemnation was swift and full-throated.

Hours after the story published — and just minutes after Vice President JD Vance derided criticisms of the chat as “pearl clutching” — Stefanik pivoted to attacking Democrats. She derided POLITICO’s story as a “hit piece” and those across the aisle raising alarm about it as “hyperventilating.”

For them racist speech is common, so they are surprised when others condemn it.

“These were not even candidates for elected office outside of internally in a young professional political organization,” Stefanik wrote on X, shortly after Vance’s post. “Meanwhile, the VA Democrat Attorney General candidate Jay Jones said he wanted to shoot his political opponent in the head and wanted their children to die in their mother’s arms. Democrats have refused to condemn this violent rhetoric and refused to call for him to exit the race.”

Stefanik’s shift reflects a broader dilemma Republicans across the country are now facing as they’re forced to confront a damaging situation: whether to denounce or deflect in their public messaging in response to a trove of private discussions Democrats say is proof of the GOP’s long-dismissed problem with white supremacy.

There is no doubt, the leadership of the Republican's are not only racist but also 

On the national level, Vance doubled down on his initial comments by attempting to draw more attention to texts from Democratic attorney general candidate Jay Jones, in which Jones talks about shooting his political opponent.

They are so used to it that they don't see it!

They Want To Win At Any Cost

• What party started the gerrymandering wars? The Republicans with a plea from Trump!
• What party is sitting on seating a duly elected Congresswoman from Arizona? The Republicans, Johnson is holding up the seating Adelita Grijalva, a Democrat from Arizona because she will break the tie vote to release the Epstein papers!
• What party is trying to strip the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

The Supreme Court has chipped away at the Voting Rights Act for years. Will this case be the final blow?

The case centers on Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the key provision of the law that broadly prohibits discrimination in voting practices on the basis of race or creed.

Politico

By Zach Montellaro and Andrew Howard

10/15/2025

The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear arguments in a case that could gut the Voting Rights Act by barring states from considering the racial makeup of voting populations when drawing district lines — an outcome that stands to change the course of next year’s midterm elections.

In adopting that approach, the justices could upend decades of court decisions holding that states may — and sometimes must — use race-conscious redistricting to protect the voting power of minorities.

Some conservatives argue that any consideration of race in drawing district lines is cynical, discriminatory and unconstitutional. Advocates for minority voters warn a “colorblind” interpretation of the Voting Rights Act would erode Black, brown and Asian representation in American politics and kick off another round of redistricting amid an already chaotic cycle of mid-decade redraws ahead of 2026.

Did you get that argument? Banning discriminations is itself discriminatory! Talk about circular reasoning!

Some conservatives argue that any consideration of race in drawing district lines is cynical, discriminatory and unconstitutional. Advocates for minority voters warn a “colorblind” interpretation of the Voting Rights Act would erode Black, brown and Asian representation in American politics and kick off another round of redistricting amid an already chaotic cycle of mid-decade redraws ahead of 2026.

So in other words it will make gerrymandering districts to break up black communities legal!

Will the Voting Rights Act Be Gutted? Supreme Court Could Decide Its Future.

If the justices decide that lawmakers cannot consider race in drafting maps, redistricting could result in congressional seats flipping from blue to red throughout the country.

The New York Times

By Abbie VanSickle

Oct. 15, 2025

The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear arguments in a challenge to Louisiana’s congressional map, a legal battle over whether states can use race as a factor in drawing electoral lines.

The dispute centers on whether Louisiana lawmakers ran afoul of the Constitution when they adopted a new electoral map in 2024, creating the state’s second majority-Black district.

But the case could have much broader implications for the law and for politics, potentially gutting the remaining pillar of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which the Supreme Court’s conservative majority has sharply curtailed in recent years. If the justices decide that lawmakers cannot consider race in drafting maps, redistricting could result in congressional seats flipping from blue to red throughout the country.

You see the racist Republicans are worried, they are becoming the minority so they want to break up the "Black vote." Thety have been chipping away at the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Back from day one the Republicans have fought it!

• 1965: South Carolina v. Katzenbach (Unconstitutional intrusions on states' rights)
• 2013: Shelby County v. Holder (Formula that determined which jurisdictions needed preclearance)
• 2021: Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee (Set limits plaintiffs challenging state or local rules under Section 2)
• 2023: Allen v. Milligan (The question was whether the state illegally diluted Black voting strength by having only one majority‐Black district even though Black voters could form a second fairly compact majority‐Black district.)

And now we have...

The legal battle can be traced back to the 2020 census, which showed an increase in Louisiana’s population of Black adults. While Black Louisianans made up about a third of the state’s population, there was only one majority-Black congressional district out of six districts.

Bring back, bring back, bring back my Jim Crow laws to me! (Yeah, yeah, I know. But what do you want at 6AM when I'm writing this!)

There is no doubt the Republican party is a party of racists! The Republican party is a party of fascists! The Republican party is a party for the party and not the people! 

They Are Blind!

[Editorial]

I was reading comments the other day on Yahoo, and it struck me... racists have no idea that they’re being racist. They’re just doing what comes naturally to them, thinking it’s “normal.”

The discussion was under an article about Bad Bunny and the idea of him holding an “English-only” concert. What stood out was how some people were outraged at the thought of hearing Spanish in a show, as if it were an offense.

What they don't seem to understand is that disliking music because of the language it's performed in is, by definition, racist—or at the very least, xenophobic. It’s one thing to dislike a genre (K-pop, Latin, hip-hop, whatever). That’s a personal taste. But when your problem is the language being spoken or sung, that moves beyond taste and into prejudice.

Personally, I don’t care for Latin music much, or K-pop, or even hip-hop. Give me some old-time rock and roll! But here’s the thing—I don’t hate those genres because of the people who perform them or the language they use. It’s just not my style.

Take Santana, for example. They crossed cultural lines with ease. They were one of the best bands of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, and their hit “Oye Como Va” made it to the top of the charts—in Spanish! Back then, nobody called it unpatriotic. Now, apparently, if you don’t speak English at the Super Bowl halftime show, it’s “un-American”?

Let me tell you what’s truly un-American: racism.

Yet these MAGA-types lose their minds when someone speaks Spanish during a halftime show, as if patriotism is tied to one language. 

If your idea of patriotism means silencing other cultures, then maybe you're not being patriotic—you’re just being a bigot.

[/Editorial]

Mini-Post: Public Funds... Private White Schools

When public funds are used to discriminate and avoid segregation that is wrong!

Nearly all state funding for Missouri school vouchers used for religious schools

In the first month of direct state aid for Missouri’s K-12 scholarship program, 98% of funds went to religious institutions

Missouri Indenpendent

By: Annelise Hanshaw

October 13, 2025

State funding of private-school vouchers is primarily being used for students attending religious institutions, with nearly 98% of funding going toward Catholic, Christian, Jewish and Islamic schools.

This year, state lawmakers passed a budget that included a request from Gov. Mike Kehoe to supply the state-run K-12 scholarship program, MOScholars, with $50 million of general revenue. Previously, the impact to the state’s bottom line was indirect, with 100% tax-deductible donations fueling the program.

Donations are still part of MOScholars’ funding, but the state appropriation has more than doubled the number of scholarships available.

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This number did not surprise Democratic lawmakers, who for years have warned that state revenue was going to be siphoned into religious schools.

“We are simply subsidizing, with tax dollars, parents who would already choose to send their kids to a private school,” state Sen. Maggie Nurrenbern, a Kansas City Democrat, told The Independent. “And now we are using public dollars to pay for schools that are not transparent whatsoever in choosing who to educate and who not.”

This is so wrong! Tax dollars going for discrimination! This is a way around the Jim Crow laws... if you don't think that this is Republican sponsor racism? Look at the facts! They voucher system part of a new racial caste system, even if cloaked in “choice.” Data shows the shows that about 75% of recipients are white!