Tag: White Supremacy

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Opinion: Media’s Amnesic Biden-Blaming Abets Authoritarian Movement

This amnesia threatens to push Americans back to the authoritarianism we so narrowly escaped–by a hair!–in the 2020 election.

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Opinion: Rittenhouse Verdict Consistent with Right Wing’s Effort of Destroy Democracy

The Rittenhouse verdict is one piece of this larger campaign to destroy democracy and energize white supremacy.

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Opinion: Accepting Republican Frame about “Wokeness,” Conservative Democrats Play to White Supremacy

Elements of the Democratic Party have bought into this Republican framing, similarly deploying “wokeness” as a term of slander and dismissal, betraying key constituencies as they flee to the center, looking more and more like Republicans as they court “bi-partisanship.”

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Tucker Carlson Says Democrats Won’t Come On His Show Because They Think He’s a White Supremacist

The rules of cable news have been very clearly drawn. It is very rare to see a Conservative lawmaker appear on MSNBC. In turn, it is very rare to see a Democratic lawmaker who is willing to appear on Fox News. CNN will sometimes have a Republican appear on air. Those lawmakers, though, are very…

Derek Chauvin has been arrested and taken into police custody

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Opinion: Will Chauvin Verdict Change How We White Americans See Ourselves?

We must hold white supremacy accountable and, in doing so, take a hard look in the mirror as white Americans.

Don Lemon calls out Trump's obsession with Obama

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WATCH: Don Lemon Says Ron Johnson is Downplaying Insurrection to “Continue White Supremacy”

While the majority of Republicans refused to convict Donald Trump, most were at least willing to admit that he had done something wrong. That isn’t the case with Ron Johnson, though. The Wisconsin senator not only voted to acquit Trump, he has also been downplaying the seriousness of the January 6th Capitol attack. Johnson said…

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Opinion: As Impeachment Trial Begins, Let’s Remember The Republican History Of Big Lies

The “big lie” is not unique to Trump but rather constitutes a long-standing Republican tradition and political practice that, far from distinguishing itself from Trump’s governance, in fact enabled and even created it.

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Opinion: African Americans Continue To Lead Insurrections For Democracy In America

In the summer of 1800, Gabriel Prosser, an enslaved blacksmith, planned a slave insurrection in Richmond Virginia. Information about the rebellion was leaked, and it was thwarted. Prosser and 25 of his followers were taken captive and hanged. In 2007, in response to a 2006 request from the NAACP, then Virginia Governor Tim Kaine issued…

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Opinion: GOP Impeachment Strategy is a Policy of Appeasement, Inviting Nazism and Racism into Mainstream Politics

Senate Republicans are now gearing up to acquit Trump in an impeachment trial on the specious rationale that putting a former officeholder on trial is unconstitutional, even though legal scholars, including some from the conservative Federalist Society, have broadly affirmed the constitutionality of such a proceeding. While this argument is their most recent political tactic,…

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WATCH: Fox Hosts Are Unhappy That Biden Addressed White Supremacy in Inauguration Speech

It’s been said that the people who voted for Donald Trump did so for a variety of reasons. Some did so because they felt neither party was addressing their needs. Others did so because of “economic anxiety.” But plenty of people who voted for Donald Trump did so because of his appeals to nativism and…

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Opinion: Let’s Not Lose Sight Of The Revolution That Is By Focusing On The Coup That Wasn’t

Too many in America, caught in throes of misinformation and conspiracy theories, are busy slaying mythical dragons rather than engaging in the truly wise, loving, and heroic activities of the real revolution for democracy.

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Opinion: Calling Capitol Assault A Coup Or Insurrection Hobbles Our Ability To Address America’s Racism And History

Calling the events of January 6 a coup denies the historical character of U.S. governmental institutions and once again threatens to distort if not entirely disarm the understanding of racial injustice in America that needs to inform racial transformation to achieve a just America.

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H.R. McMaster Criticizes Trump for Not Condemning White Supremacy

H.R. McMaster, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, said the President’s refusal to condemn white supremacy during Tuesday night’s presidential debate was “a missed opportunity.” “To use a sports analogy, condemning white supremacists should be a layup for any leader,” McMaster said in an interview with The Atlantic. “What we’re undervaluing these days is the…

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Fox’s Brian Kilmeade Says Trump Should “Clarify” His Statement on White Supremacy

Brian Kilmeade, one of the hosts of “Fox and Friends,” says President Donald Trump should “clarify” his statement on white supremacy after refusing to condemn it outright during Tuesday’s presidential debate. “The President of the United States would do himself a solid and his party a solid to take some time today to clarify about…

Biden burns Trump to the ground for bungling the pandemic

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Joe Biden: Have You Ever Heard Trump Say “One Negative Thing” About White Supremacists?

Joe Biden has once again criticized Donald Trump for his failure to denounce white supremacists. The Democrat has often said that’s the reason he got into the presidential race. The former Vice President spoke to CNN’S Anderson Cooper on Thursday and appeared to link an alleged double murder in Kenosha, Wisconsin to white supremacy. “I…

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Opinion: Racist Contradictions in Defining Freedom in Trump’s America

Last May, the conservative group Michigan United for Liberty organized protests in the state capitol against Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home orders. While the group, composed of roughly 8,000 members, had already formalized its complaint against the orders in a law suit, the protest provided a forum for a defiant public expression against what the group…

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Opinion: Stephen Miller’s Racism Is Trumpier Than Trump

We continue on the journey of asking ourselves what kind of country we want to be, as impeachment hearings continue to build the strongest case imaginable against Donald Trump, and his administration continues to do horrible things to the extensive list of people it considers “other.” For the longest time, Trump’s draconian treatment of immigrants…

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Opinion: Inciting Hatred Ought to Be an Impeachable Offense

[Where indicated, this article includes opinion by Tobias J. Grant, legal analyst at PoliticusUSA] If a president incites one group of Americans to hate another group of Americans, it ought to be an impeachable offense. No matter what your views on the size of government may be, surely we can agree that a President must…

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It’s NOT the Economy, Stupid; it’s a Stupid White Supremacy Undermining the Economy

When Donald Trump tweets something patently racist, as when he tweeted the squad of four should go back where they came from or when he derided Baltimore as “rat and rodent infested mess,” media pundits can spend days debating whether or not Trump is racist. The idea seems to be that if Trump can be…

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Remembering Charlottesville: The Legacy of Heather Heyer Lives On In Our Resistance

Her name is Heather Heyer. Today is the one-year anniversary of her death. She died while peacefully protesting a hate rally in Charlottesville, Virginia after a car mowed her down. In the midst of vile and vitriolic hate and violence she stood amid a large crowd for compassion and kindness, inclusion and diversity, justice and peace.

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Three Billboards Provides Guidance for Addressing Hate in Trump’s America

In a political moment when the American president not only stokes the fires of sexism, racism, and the hate they represent but also seems to embody these values, Martin McDonagh’s 2017 film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, in its thoughtful, sympathetic, and loving approach to understanding hate, could not be more timely. Condemning the hate…

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The Transparent Phoniness Behind Trump-Fueled White Rage Over NFL Players Kneeling

Let me say it as clearly as I can: The anger being expressed by many (white) people over NFL players kneeling during the national anthem is transparently phony.

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Democrat Urges All NFL Athletes To Kneel During Anthem To Protest ‘White Supremacist’ Trump

In a stinging tweet, former Democratic Rep. Donna Edwards she hopes “every NFL player” will take the opportunity to stand up to “the white supremacist who squats in our White House.”

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California Passes Bill Urging Congress To Censure Trump For ‘Racist’ Charlottesville Response

“The leader of the free world can’t continue to use language that legitimizes the actions of extremists groups that promote hate.”

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GOP Rep Goes Full Crazy And Claims Charlottesville Nazis Were Actually Liberal Actors

This is the kind of unhinged and crackpot rhetoric that is common on Info Wars, but it has no place in American government.

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Only Black GOP Senator Brought To White House To ‘Educate’ Ignorant Trump About Racism

The meeting could have given Trump an opportunity to learn something about race relations in America, but he only made things worse.

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Charlottesville and Harvey Reveal the Best of Humanity

Disasters have a way of erasing all markers of division and bringing people together revealing the best of our shared humanity.

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Trump Looks To Distract With Afghanistan Speech As 56% Call Charlottesville Response A Failure

A plurality of Americans also believes he is “putting white supremacists on equal standing with their opponents.”

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Trump Attacks Peaceful Anti-Racism Boston Protesters As ‘Anti-Police Agitators’

If there was a moment for Trump to reverse the narrative that he is a white supremacist sympathizer, today would have been it. Instead, he attacked the protesters in Boston and praised Steve Bannon.

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Right-Wing ‘Free Speech’ Rally In Boston Forced To End Early Because Of Embarrassing Turnout

The right-wing demonstrators organizing Saturday’s rally in Boston forgot one important thing: People.

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‘Nazis Are Not Welcome Here’: 20,000 Gather In Boston To March Against White Supremacy

Thousands of Americans are in Boston to stand up to Trump and his white supremacist supporters to say in one voice: This is not what America stands for.

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GOP Senator Lights Up Trump For Emboldening Violent White Supremacists And Dividing America

“What will happen next? I doubt that Donald Trump will be able to calm and comfort the nation in that moment.”

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Trump To Skip Kennedy Center Honors Because Nobody Wants To Be Seen With Him

Even if Trump did decide to attend the ceremony, it’s unclear how many of the honorees would have shown up.

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Mother Of Charlottesville Victim Receiving Death Threats As Trump Emboldens White Supremacists

Since the attack, Susan Bro has spoken out loudly against the hatred put on display in Charlottesville and criticized Trump’s despicable response.

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‘The End Is Near’: Co-Author Of ‘Art Of The Deal’ Predicts That Trump Is About To Resign

The end may very well be near for Donald Trump’s presidency.

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Trump’s Agenda In Flames After Charlottesville As White House Abandons Another Advisory Council

Nobody wants to be seen within the same zip code as this president, particularly after he spent the past week defending white supremacists and Nazis.

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Rachel Maddow Blasts WH Officials For Standing By Trump As He Defends White Supremacists

“In terms of people actually working in the administration, apparently everybody is fine, nobody is leaving, they’re all okay with it.”

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Phoenix Mayor Tells Trump To Cancel Upcoming Rally And Clean Up His Charlottesville Mess

Within the span of about a week, the President of the United States will have endorsed white supremacists and announced that he’s pardoning a man who racially profiled Latinos.

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Ex-CIA Head Says Trump’s Response To Charlottesville Has Done ‘Lasting Harm To American Society’

“If allowed to continue along this senseless path, Mr. Trump will do lasting harm to American society and to our standing in the world.”

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GOP Congressman Calls Out Trump For ‘Failing’ To Strongly Condemn White Supremacists

“The president needs to be crystal clear that hatred has no place in our society, but he is currently failing at it.”

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Charlottesville Violence Is Exactly What America Is Under Donald Trump

Though the majority of Americans do not condone the racially driven terrorism we saw in Charlottesville this weekend, this is increasingly what America is becoming with Donald Trump in the White House.

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Obama Gives Trump A Lesson In Presidential Leadership With Powerful Charlottesville Response

Obama’s message of love and unity – and his clear suggestion that today’s violence was racially motivated – stood in stark contrast to Trump’s remarks.

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Trump Refuses To Call Charlottesville Attack On Counter-Protesters An Act Of Terrorism

Denouncing terrorism at the hands of white supremacists wouldn’t fit Trump’s narrative that America should fear only minority groups.

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Opinion: Workers Have To Wear Battle Armor To Safely Remove White Supremacist Monument

“Due to safety concerns, we believed it was very important to take all necessary precautions to protect the safety of all personnel involved in the operation.”

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Nazi Richard Spencer Tweets Nazi Song From ‘Cabaret’ – Only it Was Written by a Jew

“Hey buddy, that song you love was written by my uncle. He’s been married to my other uncle for 40 years. And he’s a Jew.”

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Steve King Says GOP Colleagues Have Been “Patting Me On The Back” Since His Racist Comment

This is the Republican Party under Donald Trump, and 2018 can’t come soon enough.

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Rejection of Steve King’s Endorsement of White Nationalism Slow in Coming from GOP

America is supposed to be a refuge for people who think a certain way about freedom, not a homeland for people who look a certain way.

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Fox News Loses it Over Nancy Pelosi Telling the Truth About Steve Bannon

“It shows the depths that they will go to try to disparage someone and the desperation, really, of the liberals,” whines Kimberly Guilfoyle

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Trump’s ‘Happy Hanukkah’ and Support for Israel Challenges ‘Alt-Right’ Supporters

When Trump said Happy Hanukkah one swastika-toting follower tweeted “WTF?!” while another seconded that sentiment and added, “I hate trump now.”

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PFAW Condemns White Nationalist FAIR’s Racist Immigration Proposals

“FAIR’s newly laid-out immigration priorities are directly from the xenophobic, far-right movemen…severely limiting legal immigration.”

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Bill O’Reilly Says ‘White Power Movement’ is a ‘Storyline That Simply Doesn’t Exist’

“Summing up, the press is trumping up…a white power movement storyline that simply doesn’t exist. It’s vile to suggest that it does.”

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Trump Surrogate Jeffrey Lord Tells CNN Black Lives Matter to Blame for Nazis

“The left, whether it’s Black Lives Matter or La Raza…Groups that identify themselves by race provoked this group to identify by race”

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United States Holocaust Museum Condemns Attacks on Jews and Other Minorities

“The Holocaust did not begin with killing; it began with words. The Museum calls on all American citizens…to confront racist thinking and divisive hateful speech.”

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New Video Shows White Supremacists Celebrating Trump Win With Nazi Salutes

This is Donald Trump’s America now – and he must own it.

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PFAW Calls on GOP Congress to Denounce White Supremacist Steve Bannon

Congressional Republicans need to stand up and call out Trump for choosing Bannon as a senior adviser and ‘equal partner’ to Trump’s Chief of Staff”

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Harry Reid Denounces Appointment of White Supremacist Steve Bannon to White House Post

“It is easy to see why the KKK views Trump as their champion when Trump appoints one of the foremost peddlers of White Supremacist themes and rhetoric as his top aide”

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KKK Legend David Duke Thanks A Foreigner For Helping Put a Racist in the White House

Racist David Duke reacted jubilantly to the electoral victory of Donald Trump and thanked foreign criminal Julian Assange for his assistance.

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Trump Face Palms as He Denies the KKK Represents His Followers

In the category of unintentionally funny today, we have a statement from the Trump campaign denouncing his “endorsement” by the KKK. The paper’s editor denied to The Washington Post it was an “official” endorsement but many took it as such. Trump camp statement on KKK's official newspaper endorsing Trump: pic.twitter.com/2TUaewGSWD — Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) November…

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Rachel Maddow Shines the Light on Trump’s White Supremacist Support

The KKK newspaper features the front page full page story “Make America Great Again” with a big featured center photo of Donald Trump

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Donald Trump Finally Wins a Newspaper Endorsement – From the KKK

“What made America great in the first place? America was founded as a White Christian Republic. And as a White Christian Republic it became great.”

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As Trump’s Collapse Continues, His Supporters Prove Hillary’s ‘Deplorable’ Comment

“Let’s talk about deplorables: They went after my CHILDREN on social media. Because I wrote some stories about their God. Sick, twisted ppl”

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Alt-Right Media Troll Milo Yiannopoulos Called ‘an Idiot’ by ABC’s Terry Moran

“You’re going to go after somebody’s body to denigrate their ideas? What grade are you in? Are you a 13-year-old boy? ,,, That’s revolting.”

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Donald Trump’s Minority Outreach – Tell Blacks Same Lies He Tells Whites

Republicans have gotten whites to vote against their self-interest for years and years. Trump’s plan is to somehow get blacks to do the same.

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Hillary Clinton Will Put Spotlight on Trump’s Ties to Racist Alt-Right in Reno Today

Sexist, Racist, and Anti-Semitic. Clinton has every reason to criticize Trump’s relationship with these people when she speaks in Reno, Nevada today.

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Fox News Launches Defense of the White Supremacist ‘Atl-Right’ Ideology

“The alt-right is using the same tactics that the left has used for generations now, basically fighting fire with fire.”

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White Supremacists Think Trump Will Save them From Fantasy Oppression

White supremacists, convinced they are somehow an oppressed group, think Donald Trump will lead them to a mysterious promised land

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PFAW Calls on Republican Presidential Candidates to Renounce Frank Gaffney

The GOP platform for 2016 has become about defending the indefensible and Gaffney praised the “wonderful” work of a leading white nationalist

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Lindsey Graham Complains That Trump Is Stealing All His “Angry White Guys”

Now that Lindsey Graham’s angry white guys have fallen in line behind Donald Trump, Graham turns to sour grapes and calls them the dark side

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America Is Seriously Sick And There Is No Healing

Everyone from President Obama to the mayor of Charleston has made a specific point of saying the aftermath of a racially-motivated gun massacre of nine innocent and unarmed African Americans is a time for healing. Although they said the right thing, everyone is certainly sincere and they mean well, and they truly hope to comfort the victims’ families, survivors, and distressed Americans suffering the same pain, disgust, outrage, and sadness they feel after every other senseless gun slaughter. However, there is no healing for this sick, violent, and racist nation, and everyone knows it.

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White Supremacist Group Places Racist Billboard Along Highway In Alabama

For the second time in less than two years, a billboard has gone up near Birmingham, Alabama, carrying a pro-white, anti-diversity message delivered by a loose-knit group calling itself the White Genocide Project.

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GOP House Leader Was Honored Guest Speaker At White Supremacist Conference

This week it was revealed that the third ranking Republican in the House of Representatives is guilty of pandering to a white supremacist extremist organization founded by former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke.

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The Real Threats To America’s Security Are Conservatives Within Our Borders

The biggest threat to America is not radical Islamists or a foreign power, but homegrown extremists intent on creating an Aryan nation founded on biblical principles.

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Conservative Says Obama Is a Racist Then Calls Him a “Spade”

Conservatives, and primarily Republicans, have noticed their racist tendencies are attracting a bit too much attention and for the second time in a month are attempting to distract Americans with accusations that President Obama is a racist who hates and is waging a war on white people.

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