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Donald Trump Featured Jews Racism

Jews Concerned about Surge in Anti-Semitism In Trump Era

PETAH TIKVA, ISRAEL - MARCH 5: (ISRAEL OUT) A Jewish man looks at anti-semitic graffiti which was sprayed on the gate of a synagogue March 5, 2006 in Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv, in central Israel. Police are investigating the incident after inscriptions, in Hebrew, "death to Jews" and swastika drawings were found with the signature "white power." (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)

If you’re not a white male between the ages of 65 and 85, then you have something to worried about in this Trump era.

At a national meeting of the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish civil rights group, about 1,000 people listened to talks expressing shock at the hatred expressed during the presidential campaign and questioned what they thought was a high-level of acceptance by other Americans.

“I’m struggling right now in this American moment,” said Yehuda Kurtzer, president of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, an education and research organization, in his talk at the event. “I wonder whether I have been — and I think the answer is probably yes — a little bit naive.”

During this past year, anti-Semitic imagery proliferated on social media, Jewish journalists were targeted and longstanding anti-Jewish conspiracy theories got a fresh airing. Much of the bias originated with the alt-right, or alternative right, a loose group espousing a provocative and reactionary strain of conservatism. It’s often associated with far right efforts to preserve “white identity,” oppose multiculturalism and defend “Western values.”
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Elected Official Resigns After Agreeing that Michelle Obama an “Ape in Heels”

Of course, she issued this statement, something she called an apology.

“I would like to apologize for any unintentional harm caused by my comment. My comment was not intended to be racist at all. I was referring to my day being made for the change in the White House! I am truly sorry for any hard feeling this may have caused! Those who know me, know that I am not in any way racist! Again, I would like to apologize for this getting out of hand!”

I laugh every time I hear a racist say, “those who know me know that I’m not a in any way racist!” The very fact that you find yourself apologizing for making racist statements, mean you’re racist. You don’t have to cover your head with a white sheet while taking part in a lynching to be considered racist!

But I digress.

That apology was issued by Clay Mayor, Beverly Whaling. Whaling was pressured to give up her job by a petition that received over 154,000 signatures, a petition brought her racism nationwide.

So what did Whaling say about the First Lady of the United States? Well, she didn’t actually say anything, but she agreed with the racist statement about Michelle Obama and that was enough.

On a Facebook post, Pamela Ramsey Taylor, an apparent associate of Whaling, said; “It will be refreshing to have a classy, beautiful, dignified first lady in the White House,” probably referring to Donald Trump’s wife, Melania. Pamela continued, “I’m tired of seeing a ape in heels.”

Mayor Beverly Whaling replied, “Just made my day Pam.”

Her apology and declaration that she is not a racist, came some time after.

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Donald Trump Featured Racism

Report – Hate Crimes Skyrocket After Trump’s Win

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there have been over 200 hate crimes in the week since Donald Trump was elected.

I guess you can say his election emboldened hate and racism.

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Featured Jews Racism

Swastikas and “Trump Rules” Painted on Shops in Philadelphia

Reporting from The Daily Beast show Swastikas, racist graffiti, and allusions to Nazi Germany appeared on storefronts and other locations in Philadelphia overnight, following Donald Trump’s victory. An SUV was painted with “Trump Rules” and “Black Bitch.”

Another shop had “Sieg Heil 2016” painted on its window with a swastika. Others had “Trump,” where the “T” was replaced with a swastika. Many of the incidents were reported to police overnight for cleanup and investigation, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Wednesday is also the 78th anniversary of Kristallnacht, “The Night of Broken Glass,” when Nazi Germany encouraged pogroms against Jewish sites across Berlin in 1938.

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Donald Trump Featured Racism

The KKK Plans a Rally in North Carolina to Celebrate Trump’s Election

Like Harry Reid said, Donald Trump has “embolden the forces of hate and bigotry” in this country.

A Ku Klux Klan group will hold a rally in North Carolina celebrating Donald Trump‘s election to the White House.

The group will hold the parade on Dec. 3 but has not yet specified a time or location.

The Loyal White Knights of the KKK refers to the parade as a “Victory Klavalkade Klan Parade” and says on its website that “Trump’s race united my people.”

A photo of Trump is also displayed prominently on the website’s home page.

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Donald Trump Racism

Harry Reid on Trump – Trump has “Emboldened the forces of hate and Bigotry”

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., talks to reporters as Congress returns from a two week recess, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, April 29, 2014. A long-shot Senate Democratic effort to raise the federal minimum wage seems doomed without needed votes to overcome a procedural blockade by most Republican senators, who say the measure would be too costly for employers. (AP Photo)

Finally, a Democrat who speaks it like it is. Nevada Senator and Senate Minority Leader, Harry Reid, shared some of his feelings on the election of Donald Trump. In a statement on his website, Reid credited Trump for giving a voice to “the forces of hate and bigotry in America.”

“I have personally been on the ballot in Nevada for 26 elections and I have never seen anything like the reaction to the election completed last Tuesday. The election of Donald Trump has emboldened the forces of hate and bigotry in America.

“White nationalists, Vladimir Putin and ISIS are celebrating Donald Trump’s victory, while innocent, law-abiding Americans are wracked with fear – especially African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Muslim Americans, LGBT Americans and Asian Americans. Watching white nationalists celebrate while innocent Americans cry tears of fear does not feel like America.

“I have heard more stories in the past 48 hours of Americans living in fear of their own government and their fellow Americans than I can remember hearing in five decades in politics. Hispanic Americans who fear their families will be torn apart, African Americans being heckled on the street, Muslim Americans afraid to wear a headscarf, gay and lesbian couples having slurs hurled at them and feeling afraid to walk down the street holding hands. American children waking up in the middle of the night crying, terrified that Trump will take their parents away. Young girls unable to understand why a man who brags about sexually assaulting women has been elected president.

“I have a large family. I have one daughter and twelve granddaughters. The texts, emails and phone calls I have received from them have been filled with fear – fear for themselves, fear for their Hispanic and African American friends, for their Muslim and Jewish friends, for their LBGT friends, for their Asian friends. I’ve felt their tears and I’ve felt their fear.

“We as a nation must find a way to move forward without consigning those who Trump has threatened to the shadows. Their fear is entirely rational, because Donald Trump has talked openly about doing terrible things to them. Every news piece that breathlessly obsesses over inauguration preparations compounds their fear by normalizing a man who has threatened to tear families apart, who has bragged about sexually assaulting women and who has directed crowds of thousands to intimidate reporters and assault African Americans. Their fear is legitimate and we must refuse to let it fall through the cracks between the fluff pieces.

“If this is going to be a time of healing, we must first put the responsibility for healing where it belongs: at the feet of Donald Trump, a sexual predator who lost the popular vote and fueled his campaign with bigotry and hate. Winning the electoral college does not absolve Trump of the grave sins he committed against millions of Americans. Donald Trump may not possess the capacity to assuage those fears, but he owes it to this nation to try.

“If Trump wants to roll back the tide of hate he unleashed, he has a tremendous amount of work to do and he must begin immediately.”

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Halloween Racism

UCA Student’s Halloween Costume – Bill Cosby in Blackface – PIC

They apparently thought it would be fun. But the fact that these students paid no attention to the insensitive nature of their racist display speaks to the level of ignorance allowed in our society.

There they are, posing proudly in their Halloween costume, one of them supposedly dressed as Bill Cosby and sporting a ‘blackface.’ After the picture starting making its way around social media, the president of the school at University of Central Arkansas (UCA), Tom Courtway, was forced to issue an apology and acknowledged a call for justice.

“A short time ago we were made aware of a picture on social media showing what is purported to be a UCA student wearing blackface.

This picture is highly offensive and repugnant, and this representation goes against all we, at UCA believe in and stand for. This institution embraces all races, cultures and nationalities. We strice each day to be welcoming, inclusive and diverse, and will always continue to do so.

The matter will be investigated by the appropriate university offices, and we can assure the UCA family and all others that it will [be] dealt with accordingly.

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BLM Boston Racism

Cops Wife Blames Black Lives Matter for Crime that Never Happened – Video

Have you ever wondered why Black Lives Matter even exists? It is because of crooked cops who use their badge and gun to murder innocent people, And it’s also because of people like Maria Daly, who filed a false report claiming her home was burglarized, and that Black Lives Matter did the crime.

In this case, the wife of a Massachusetts police officer blamed Black Lives Matter for what turned out to be a bogus invasion of her home. Maria Daly faces charges for filing the false report.

Daly, who is married to an officer on the Millbury police force, claimed in an Oct. 17 police report that robbers busted into her home and stole jewelry and cash in the middle of the night.

The burglars spray-painted “BLM,” shorthand for Black Lives Matter, on the side of the house before dashing off with about $10,000 worth of loot, she told police.

“We woke up to not only our house being robbed while we were sleeping but to see this hatred for no reason,” she wrote on Facebook after she reported the “crime” to cops.

The cop’s wife continued: “If you would have asked me yesterday about this blue lives and black lives matter issue my response would have been very positive. Today on the other hand I have so much anger and hate that I don’t like myself.”

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Donald Trump Racism

Revealed – How Trump’s Father Denied Housing to Black Applicants – Video

Oh, so that’s why the Republican presidential nominee say the things he say. Apparently the apple really doesn’t fall too far from the tree.

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BLM Colin Kaepernick Racism

Singer Protests – Performs The National Anthem on One Knee – Video

Showing her support for Rams’s Quarterback, Colin Kaepernick – who has been on a personal protest against racism among police officers against the black community by kneeling on one knee during the national anthem – singer, Denasia Lawrence, followed in Kaepernick’s footsteps and took a knee during her rendition of the National Anthem.

The singer sang the anthem before an NBA preseason game between the Miami Heat and the Philadelphia 76ers.

“We’re being unjustly killed and overly criminalized,” Lawrence wrote. “I took the opportunity to sing and kneel to show that we belong in this country and that we have the right to respectfully protest injustices against us.”

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Racism

Emmett Till’s Historical Marker Riddled with Bullets

Their hate is real and it knows no boundaries.

The historical sign marking where Emmett Till’s body was found in the Tallahatchie River in 1955 has been riddled with bullets.

Since the Emmett Till Memorial Commission put up eight markers in Tallahatchie County in 2008, the sign near the river has been a repeated target of vandals.

It’s one of a number of civil rights markers and symbols that have been vandalized in Mississippi over the past decade.

“These are easy targets, a low-risk outlet for racism,” said Dave Tell, an associate professor at the University of Kansas who is part of the Emmett Till Memory Project.

Some people mistakenly see “civil rights monuments as a form of reverse discrimination, a threat to their own well-being,” he said.

On Sept. 23, 1955, an all-white, all-male jury acquitted half-brothers Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam of Till’s murder.

Months later, the two men confessed to Look magazine they had indeed killed Till.

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White Cop Arrest Black Man for Walking in the Street – Video

So the black guy in the video was walking in the street. According to the woman filming the video, the sidewalk was under construction, so that was possibly the reason for the man using the road… trying to get around the construction.

That is when he was grabbed by a plain clothes police officer who told the man that he was being arrested because he was walking in the street.

Larnie B. Thomas, 34, of Minneapolis, began screaming to the officer, telling him to “get your hands off me.” He also told the officer, “I didn’t do anything,” to which the officer replied, “you were walking in the street.” A visibly aggravated Thomas screamed, “So you’re gonna arrest me for that?”

Janet Rowles, the women who filmed the video, said she is not against the police, but added the cop could have handled the situation better instead of grabbing Thomas by the jacket.

“I’m not against the police,” she said in an interview Friday. “I was against what he was doing.”

The video has since gone viral since being posted on October 12th.

Thomas was arrested and cited for pedestrian failure to obey a traffic signal and disorderly conduct. He was later released.

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