All things Racist...USA edition (1 Viewer)

[Farb]

I was looking for a place to put this so we could discuss but didn't really find a place that worked so I created this thread so we can all place articles, experiences, videos and examples of racism in the USA.

This is one that happened this week. The lady even called and filed a complaint on the officer. This officer also chose to wear the body cam (apparently, LA doesn't require this yet). This exchange wasn't necessarily racist IMO until she started with the "mexican racist...you will never be white, like you want" garbage. That is when it turned racist IMO

All the murderer and other insults, I think are just a by product of CRT and ACAB rhetoric that is very common on the radical left and sadly is being brought to mainstream in this country.

Another point that I think is worth mentioning is she is a teacher and the sense of entitlement she feels is mind blowing.

https://news.yahoo.com/black-teacher-berates-latino-la-221235341.html

 

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fter nearly half a decade, Vinnie Bagwell, a self-taught sculptor-artist, is still waiting for the million dollars that the New York City department of cultural affairs promised for her to work on monument Victory Beyond Sims, after winning the artist competition to replace the monument of Dr J Marion Sims in 2020.

“It just requires a lot of diligence and perseverance,” she said to the Guardian. “A lot of times, people don’t realize how important and impactful art in public places is until they see it.”

Sims was a 19th-century gynecologist known for experimenting on 12 enslaved and poor immigrant women without consent. City officials removed his monument in April 2018 after a unanimous vote by the Public Design Commission.

Bagwell will be the first Black woman to have a memorial on Fifth Avenue. Bagwell began sculpting in 1993 and created the First Lady of Jazz in Yonkers, the first public artwork made by a contemporary African American woman commissioned by a municipality in the United States.


Her 9ft (2.7-meter) monument is of a Black woman with 14ft wings, only the second Black Angel statue to be visible publicly in the US.

The shape of Africa cut away from the woman’s heart symbolizes the enslavement of 12 million people over hundreds of years. On her right side the braille will read “My Soul looks back and wonders how I got over!” and on the left it will read “Primum non nocere!” (First do no harm).

To honor the suffering of Sims’s victims, whose anguish brought advancement to the field of gynecology, there will be 12 women silhouetted on her back. A slave ship is also depicted on the back to illustrate the inhumanity of slavery. The names of the survivors we know will be emblazoned into the helm of the garment.

Bagwell hopes that the monument, which will be across the street from the New York Academy of Medicine, will function as a vehicle of change for the community. “Women are more under fire now than we were before. So many of us women have lost a lot of the right to control our bodies. New York is still safe, but [women in] Arkansas aren’t,” she says. “When you look at some of the things that this particular administration is talking about, they’re talking about going backward; that is still something to be concerned about.”

Bagwell’s situation is not unique, with many other cities also stalling progress to replace Confederate statues and symbols. However, Vinnie has encountered many obstacles.


First, a committee chose artist Simone Leigh as the winner, even though community members had voted for Bagwell. After a heated debate, the city ultimately reversed its decision. Then, the city attempted to cut $250,000 from its budget but failed. Bagwell has been waiting longer than the typical 90 days after signing her contract to receive the money.……..

The ongoing fight to replace racist monuments in the US: ‘requires a lot of perseverance’

Since a reckoning brought awareness to problematic statues across the country, the road to replacing them has been slow and arduous

www.theguardian.com

 

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Zohran Mamdani’s stunning win in New York’s mayoral primary has been a tale of two cities, and two Americas.

In one, a young man with hopeful, progressive politics went up against the decaying gods of the establishment, with their giant funding and networks and endorsements from Democratic scions, and won.

In another, in an appalling paroxysm of racism and Islamophobia, a Muslim antisemite has taken over the most important city in the US, with an aim to impose some socialist/Islamist regime.

Like effluent, pungent and smearing, anti-Muslim hate spread unchecked and unchallenged after Mamdani’s win.

It takes a lot from the US to shock these days, but Mamdani has managed to stir, or expose, an obscene degree of mainstreamed prejudice.

Politicians, public figures, members of Donald Trump’s administration and the cesspit of social media clout-chasers all combined to produce what can only be described as a collective self-induced hallucination;

an image of a burqa swathed over the Statue of Liberty; the White House deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, stating that Mamdani’s win is what happens when a country fails to control immigration.

Republican congressman Andy Ogles has decided to call Mamdani “little muhammad” and is petitioning to have him denaturalised and deported. He has been called a “Hamas terrorist sympathiser”, and a “jihadist terrorist”.

It is a measure of how racist the reaction has been that Donald Trump calling Mamdani a “communist lunatic” seems restrained in comparison.

Some of the responses have been so hysterical that I often couldn’t tell what was real and what was parody.

Because the idea that Mamdani, whose style is, above anything else, wide-grinned earnestness, was some sinister Islamist sleeper agent is so clearly a joke.

But it’s not a joke, and if it is then it’s on me for still, after all these years, underestimating what Muslims in the public sphere do to people’s brains.

And how utterly comfortable many are with anti-Muslim hate. And why shouldn’t they be?

To date, the most senior figures in Mamdani’s own party, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, have not called out this onslaught, and those politicians and public figures who made them will suffer no censure or consequence.

Because, fundamentally, anti-Muslim hate, like all racism when it becomes normalised, thrives when there is a systemic blessing of it through not even registering its offensiveness.………

Zohran Mamdani won by being himself – and his victory has revealed the Islamophobic ugliness of others | Nesrine Malik

The vicious reaction to his New York mayoral success tells us this: the establishment will not countenance mainstream voters making common cause with Muslims, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

 

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Zohran Mamdani’s stunning win in New York’s mayoral primary has been a tale of two cities, and two Americas.

In one, a young man with hopeful, progressive politics went up against the decaying gods of the establishment, with their giant funding and networks and endorsements from Democratic scions, and won.

In another, in an appalling paroxysm of racism and Islamophobia, a Muslim antisemite has taken over the most important city in the US, with an aim to impose some socialist/Islamist regime.

Like effluent, pungent and smearing, anti-Muslim hate spread unchecked and unchallenged after Mamdani’s win.

It takes a lot from the US to shock these days, but Mamdani has managed to stir, or expose, an obscene degree of mainstreamed prejudice.

Politicians, public figures, members of Donald Trump’s administration and the cesspit of social media clout-chasers all combined to produce what can only be described as a collective self-induced hallucination;

an image of a burqa swathed over the Statue of Liberty; the White House deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, stating that Mamdani’s win is what happens when a country fails to control immigration.

Republican congressman Andy Ogles has decided to call Mamdani “little muhammad” and is petitioning to have him denaturalised and deported. He has been called a “Hamas terrorist sympathiser”, and a “jihadist terrorist”.

It is a measure of how racist the reaction has been that Donald Trump calling Mamdani a “communist lunatic” seems restrained in comparison.

Some of the responses have been so hysterical that I often couldn’t tell what was real and what was parody.

Because the idea that Mamdani, whose style is, above anything else, wide-grinned earnestness, was some sinister Islamist sleeper agent is so clearly a joke.

But it’s not a joke, and if it is then it’s on me for still, after all these years, underestimating what Muslims in the public sphere do to people’s brains.

And how utterly comfortable many are with anti-Muslim hate. And why shouldn’t they be?

To date, the most senior figures in Mamdani’s own party, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, have not called out this onslaught, and those politicians and public figures who made them will suffer no censure or consequence.

Because, fundamentally, anti-Muslim hate, like all racism when it becomes normalised, thrives when there is a systemic blessing of it through not even registering its offensiveness.………

Zohran Mamdani won by being himself – and his victory has revealed the Islamophobic ugliness of others | Nesrine Malik

The vicious reaction to his New York mayoral success tells us this: the establishment will not countenance mainstream voters making common cause with Muslims, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

This is going to get a lot worse

 

[Huntn]

Zohran Mamdani’s stunning win in New York’s mayoral primary has been a tale of two cities, and two Americas.

In one, a young man with hopeful, progressive politics went up against the decaying gods of the establishment, with their giant funding and networks and endorsements from Democratic scions, and won.

In another, in an appalling paroxysm of racism and Islamophobia, a Muslim antisemite has taken over the most important city in the US, with an aim to impose some socialist/Islamist regime.

Like effluent, pungent and smearing, anti-Muslim hate spread unchecked and unchallenged after Mamdani’s win.

It takes a lot from the US to shock these days, but Mamdani has managed to stir, or expose, an obscene degree of mainstreamed prejudice.

Politicians, public figures, members of Donald Trump’s administration and the cesspit of social media clout-chasers all combined to produce what can only be described as a collective self-induced hallucination;

an image of a burqa swathed over the Statue of Liberty; the White House deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, stating that Mamdani’s win is what happens when a country fails to control immigration.

Republican congressman Andy Ogles has decided to call Mamdani “little muhammad” and is petitioning to have him denaturalised and deported. He has been called a “Hamas terrorist sympathiser”, and a “jihadist terrorist”.

It is a measure of how racist the reaction has been that Donald Trump calling Mamdani a “communist lunatic” seems restrained in comparison.

Some of the responses have been so hysterical that I often couldn’t tell what was real and what was parody.

Because the idea that Mamdani, whose style is, above anything else, wide-grinned earnestness, was some sinister Islamist sleeper agent is so clearly a joke.

But it’s not a joke, and if it is then it’s on me for still, after all these years, underestimating what Muslims in the public sphere do to people’s brains.

And how utterly comfortable many are with anti-Muslim hate. And why shouldn’t they be?

To date, the most senior figures in Mamdani’s own party, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, have not called out this onslaught, and those politicians and public figures who made them will suffer no censure or consequence.

Because, fundamentally, anti-Muslim hate, like all racism when it becomes normalised, thrives when there is a systemic blessing of it through not even registering its offensiveness.………

Zohran Mamdani won by being himself – and his victory has revealed the Islamophobic ugliness of others | Nesrine Malik

The vicious reaction to his New York mayoral success tells us this: the establishment will not countenance mainstream voters making common cause with Muslims, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

How worthy or unworthy should we consider our culture, our species, our intelligence, our ability to succeed? I’ve never really thought this or said this about my country, but it really seems like this could be the end times when common sense is overruled by nonsense, when sound policy and ideas are ridiculed by an intolerance and prejudice. I’m really feeling like we’re a bunch of losers who can’t get her act together and we deserve the bad times on the near horizon.

 

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WASHINGTON – A White Texan says he was targeted by classmates and teachers at his predominantly Hispanic school district because of his race, including being called “Whitey” by a math aide and being asked by a principal if he was listening to Dixie music.

In middle school band class in 2018, two students brought up “the evils of the white race in American history,” Brooks Warden said in his years-long lawsuit.

The Supreme Court on June 30 declined to decide if Warden can sue for racial harassment under the Civil Rights Act.

The Austin Independent School District said Warden failed to show the alleged hostility was based on race, rather than his political views.

“This case has devolved into a publicity stunt fueled by partisan rhetoric and political opportunism,” lawyers for the school district told the Supreme Court. “Austin ISD does not condone harassment or bullying of any kind, and it regrets that Brooks had negative experiences with its students and staff members, but this is not a Title VI case.”

A federal judge dismissed the complaint. But the Louisiana-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals evenly divided over the issue.

One of the appeals judges who sided with Warden said the culture increasingly accepts – it not celebrates – racism against White people.

“Racism is now edgy and exciting—so long as it’s against whites,” Circuit Judge James Ho wrote.

Warden said the bullying began after he wore a MAGA hat on a middle school field trip in 2017. His lawyers said he should not have to prove that race was the main reason he was targeted instead of just one of the reasons................

Supreme Court declines appeal from White Texan claiming racial harassment at school

A White Texan said he was targeted at his Hispanic school district, including being called 'Whitey' by an aide and asked if he listens to Dixie music.

www.usatoday.com

 

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Nearly 60 years after the United States outlawed racial and religious discrimination in housing, one group in Arkansas is openly reviving it.

“Return to the Land,” a white supremacist group co-founded by Eric Orwoll and Peter Csere in 2023, owns 160 acres in northeast Arkansas, according to the group’s website. Jews and non-whites are explicitly banned. Prospective residents must verify their “ancestral heritage” in a written application and interview before becoming paying members and residing in the off-grid settlement, according to the group’s Substack.

The organization hopes to replicate its whites-only settlements across the country, with the stated aim of “trying to put land back under the control of Europeans.” Experts warn the group’s practices likely run afoul of anti-discrimination laws and express doubt about its long-term viability.

Still, the group’s financial and legal infrastructure makes it one of the most established white supremacist residential communities in the United States today, according to Morgan Moon, an investigative researcher with the Anti-Defamation League’s Center for Extremism.

Return to the Land is part of a long tradition of white supremacist groups that have sought to create isolated living communities, according to Moon. In the 1970s and ‘80s, white supremacists urged like-minded racists to move to the Pacific Northwest with the goal of transforming the area into a white ethnostate. In recent years, similar attempts at forming remote enclaves have cropped up in Kentucky, North Dakota, and Maine............

No Jews allowed: White supremacists are building a segregated community in Arkansas, but is it legal?

Return to the Land is creating whites-only housing communities, with the aim of putting land “back under the control of Europeans.”

forward.com

 

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EDENTON, N.C. — Confederate supporters arrived first, establishing a Saturday morning base near the town waterfront with “Save our history” signs and Civil War information sheets. Some sported red MAGA hats and shirts that proclaimed “America First,” or, in one case, “If you don’t like Trump then you probably won’t like me and I’m OK with that.”

The opposition showed up about two hours later carrying stark white signs with black letters: “Remove this statue.”

For the next two hours, as they’ve done nearly every Saturday for the past three years, the groups mingled with confused tourists in a seemingly unending fight over a Confederate monument at the heart of this historic town, which is nearly 60 percent Black.

What started as an effort to promote racial unity in Edenton by reconsidering its most prominent downtown symbol has done the opposite. A chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, long extinct locally, sprang to life. The forgotten Confederate Memorial Day was resurrected and commemorated again last month with a wreath-laying and roll call of the rebel dead.

And the town council, which had formed a Human Relations Commission in 2020 to consider steps for racial reconciliation, last fall came up with a novel way to handle the statue of a generic Confederate soldier:

Take it down from the waterfront. Add it to the courthouse.

Facing north, the green-patina figure of the soldier — one of many that were once found throughout the South — stands atop a stone column on a grassy traffic median where the town market once stood. Enslaved people were bought, sold or offered for hire on that spot.

The Civil War is a small part of the long heritage of Edenton, a town of about 4,500 located in Chowan County near the western end of Albemarle Sound. Today the town thrives on tourism, its streets an Americana confection of pre-Revolution Colonial homes next to Victorian fantasies next to 1920s cottages. Broad Street is lined with shops and restaurants, a promenade of quaintness leading straight down to the water and the Confederate monument.

Now mired in legal challenges, moving the monument would be the first time in a decade that any locality in the United States has added a Confederate statue on courthouse grounds, according to a study published last month by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation.

At a moment when the Trump administration is scrubbing prominent Black historic figures from U.S. government websites and condemning Smithsonian exhibits on race as “divisive ideology,” the Edenton statue drama — community activism, followed by a resurgence of the old order — seems to embody the nation’s pivot from the reckonings of 2020 that were prompted by the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.

States and localities removed or renamed 169 Confederate memorials in 2020, according to the recent SPLC study, the fourth update of a survey originally conducted in 2016. Removals have declined every year since, plummeting last year to two, the study found through an analysis of federal, state and local data.

Head researcher Rivka Maizlish said the slowdown is at least partly attributable to the revival of Lost Cause sentiment by President Donald Trump, who has called for reinstating Confederate names on military bases and has issued an executive order that could restore Confederate monuments to federal property.................

A town tried to heal racial divides. It energized Confederate supporters instead​

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2025/06/17/confederate-monument-courthouse-north-carolina/

 

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How worthy or unworthy should we consider our culture, our species, our intelligence, our ability to succeed? I’ve never really thought this or said this about my country, but it really seems like this could be the end times when common sense is overruled by nonsense, when sound policy and ideas are ridiculed by an intolerance and prejudice. I’m really feeling like we’re a bunch of losers who can’t get her act together and we deserve the bad times on the near horizon.

This is not our first go around. We've gone through this level of ignorant bigotry with Native Americans, Africans, Irish, Italians, Japanese, Chinese, south and central Americans, women, non-heterosexuals, and I'm sure many others which I'm not recalling at the moment. My point is that we will move past this rise. I don't know when and I don't know how things will be when we do, but this too shall be made to pass.

 

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WASHINGTON – A White Texan says he was targeted by classmates and teachers at his predominantly Hispanic school district because of his race, including being called “Whitey” by a math aide and being asked by a principal if he was listening to Dixie music.

In middle school band class in 2018, two students brought up “the evils of the white race in American history,” Brooks Warden said in his years-long lawsuit.

The Supreme Court on June 30 declined to decide if Warden can sue for racial harassment under the Civil Rights Act.

The Austin Independent School District said Warden failed to show the alleged hostility was based on race, rather than his political views.

“This case has devolved into a publicity stunt fueled by partisan rhetoric and political opportunism,” lawyers for the school district told the Supreme Court. “Austin ISD does not condone harassment or bullying of any kind, and it regrets that Brooks had negative experiences with its students and staff members, but this is not a Title VI case.”

A federal judge dismissed the complaint. But the Louisiana-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals evenly divided over the issue.

One of the appeals judges who sided with Warden said the culture increasingly accepts – it not celebrates – racism against White people.

“Racism is now edgy and exciting—so long as it’s against whites,” Circuit Judge James Ho wrote.

Warden said the bullying began after he wore a MAGA hat on a middle school field trip in 2017. His lawyers said he should not have to prove that race was the main reason he was targeted instead of just one of the reasons................

Supreme Court declines appeal from White Texan claiming racial harassment at school

A White Texan said he was targeted at his Hispanic school district, including being called 'Whitey' by an aide and asked if he listens to Dixie music.

www.usatoday.com

Is there any chance that the kid will be abducted and disappeared without due process by unidentified masked gunmen? I rest my case.

 

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Nearly 60 years after the United States outlawed racial and religious discrimination in housing, one group in Arkansas is openly reviving it.

“Return to the Land,”...

Do these idiots not know what this phrase commonly means when it stands alone? I don't wish them ill, but their natural "return to the land" can't come too soon.

 

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Black SpaceX tech says he was fired for being late but white colleagues weren’t: suit

Exclusive: L’Tavious Rice, 38, says the decision to terminate him while his young daughter recuperated from a heart transplant was ‘deliberate, cold, callous, cruel and intentional.’

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Huntn]

This is not our first go around. We've gone through this level of ignorant bigotry with Native Americans, Africans, Irish, Italians, Japanese, Chinese, south and central Americans, women, non-heterosexuals, and I'm sure many others which I'm not recalling at the moment. My point is that we will move past this rise. I don't know when and I don't know how things will be when we do, but this too shall be made to pass.

I’ll agree it going to pass, can’t say what will remain, maybe a limp desecrated carcass.

 

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Despite its proximity to a busy highway, Lincoln Heights’ rolling hills, parks and well-kept lawns are pictures of calm suburban life north of Cincinnati.

Today it’s home to about 3,000 mostly African American people a few miles from Kentucky and the Ohio River, which divided free northern states from the slave-owning south.

In the 1920s, Lincoln Heights became one of the first self-governing Black communities north of the Mason-Dixon line.

But residents say much of that peace and security was destroyed on 7 February, when a group of neo-Nazis paraded on a highway overpass adjacent to the community.

About a dozen armed and masked extremists unfurled flags with Nazi and other racist iconography bearing language such as “America for the white man”.

When locals heard what was happening on the bridge, many didn’t think twice to act. Soon, a large group gathered to warn the extremists off. Racial slurs were hurled at locals while a small police presence attempted to maintain calm.

“I cannot understand how you can say that that was a peaceful protest. They were there with their flags, saying those things, they had guns,” says Lincoln Heights resident Syretha Brown.

“Their whole intent was to intimidate and cause fear. That is a crime. They used hateful speech. That together is a hate crime.”

In the months since, locals have been left to wonder why the authorities acted the way they did that day.

Although the white supremacists had no permit for their gathering, it was deemed legal by Evendale police, under whose jurisdiction the bridge falls, due to US free speech laws.

Nor were the extremists ticketed by police for transporting themselves in the back of a box truck without using seatbelts.

law enforcement said no citations were issued and the extremists were allowed to make off to a nearby school – with a police escort – in order to help de-escalate the situation.

“It’s just beyond belief how they intermingledwith the neo-Nazis,” says Lincoln Heights’ mayor, Ruby Kinsey-Mumphrey, of the law enforcement response.

“I just don’t think that they are sensitive to how that impacted this Black community.”

The outcry forced Evendale police to apologize for their handling of the incident, and two investigations soon followed.

Released last month, one found – to no little controversy among Lincoln Heights residents – that “Evendale officers did perform well in recognizing and understanding the constitutional rights of all parties involved”, and recommended that officers receive further training in handling large groups and protests.

Many Lincoln Heights residents are not impressed.

“For the police to participate in the way that they did sort of solidified what I thought,” says Brown of the 7 February march and the Evendale police’s response.……..

‘Our sense of safety was violated’: a Black suburb in Ohio confronts repeated threats from white supremacists

Residents formed a safety watch after a neo-Nazi march in Lincoln Heights, but racist incidents still cause turmoil

www.theguardian.com

 

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Two Jewish parents have issued a civil rights complaint against a Virginia private school for expelling their three children after their daughter reported antisemitic harassment on campus.

Brian Vazquez and Ashok Roy have filed a civil rights complaint against the Nysmith School for the Gifted in Herndon, Virginia, and its director, Kenneth Nysmith.

The parents allege the school and Nysmith violated state law by discriminating and retaliating against their three children after their 11-year-old daughter reported antisemitic harassment, according to the complaint.

In a statement to the New York Post, Nysmith rejected the parents’ allegations. The Independent has contacted Nysmith for comment.

Vazquez and Roy say their daughter first reported “severe and pervasive” antisemitic bullying in February 2025. The school had also allowed “antisemitism to take root” in her classroom, they claim.

The complaint cites a drawing “featuring the unmistakable face of Adolf Hitler” for a social studies project that required students to depict the “attributes of a ‘strong historical leader.”

Vazquez and Roy also say their daughter was taunted over the Israel-Hamas conflict, which began when Hamas launched a series of surprise attacks against Israel on October 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people and taking another 250 people hostage. Since then, Israel’s retaliatory attacks have killed an estimated 56,000 people in Gaza, the Associated Pressreports.

One classmate told their daughter that Jewish people are “baby killers” and said they deserve to die because of the war, according to the complaint.

It also alleged a classmate told their daughter that everyone at the school is “against Jews and Israel” and claimed they all hate her.

Vazquez and Roy scheduled a meeting with Nysmith soon after their daughter told them about the bullying, the complaint states. Nysmith allegedly assured the parents he would address the bullying.

Nysmith then canceled the school’s annual Holocaust program speaker, arguing it could inflame tensions within the school community about the Israel-Gaza conflict, the complaint states.

Around the same time, the parents say the school displayed a Palestinian flag in the gymnasium, alongside the flags of other nations, including Israel.

Their daughter then reported that her classmates would say the Palestinian flag was proof that “nobody likes you,” according to the parents’ complaint.

When Vazquez and Roy met with Nysmith again about the harassment on March 11, he allegedly told them their daughter needs to “toughen up.”

Vazquez and Roy say they told Nysmith that the combined cancelation of the Holocaust program speaker and the display of the Palestinian flag could be viewed as antisemitic. When Nysmith asked if they were calling him antisemitic, the parents said they were not, the complaint alleges.

Two days later, Nysmith sent an email informing the parents that all three of their children had been removed from the school.…….

Parents say their kids were expelled for reporting antisemitic bullying at school

The children were ‘shattered’ when they learned of their removal from the school, the family’s attorney says

www.independent.co.uk

 

[LA 2 L.A.]

If the US is a perfect angel that has never done anything wrong, then why do we have laws to suppress some of our history? We should have taken the same path after the Civil War that Germany took after the Nazi's.

Confederacy group sues Georgia park for planning an exhibit on slavery and segregation

The Georgia chapter of a Confederacy group has filed a lawsuit against a state park over an exhibit on slavery, segregation, and white supremacy.

apnews.com

 

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..............On July 6, Coulter shared a video of a Native American college professor at a socialism conference urging her audience to support “decolonization” and “liberation struggles” of “indigenous” people, “to “seek a world of justice, equality, and peace,” and “seek to dismantle the United States,” which she also referred to as a “settler regime.” Coulter’s caption to the tweet was interpreted by many as a call for genocide.

“We didn’t kill enough Indians,” wrote Coulter.

According to the Holocaust Museum Houston, historians have estimated that over 10 million Native Americans were living on this continent when European settlers first arrived, but by 1900 that number had dwindled to under 300,000 after multiple wars, violence against native populations encouraged by government officials, deliberate efforts to spread infectious epidemic diseases like smallpox, and forced relocations like the Trail of Tears............

MSN

 

[LA 2 L.A.]

..............On July 6, Coulter shared a video of a Native American college professor at a socialism conference urging her audience to support “decolonization” and “liberation struggles” of “indigenous” people, “to “seek a world of justice, equality, and peace,” and “seek to dismantle the United States,” which she also referred to as a “settler regime.” Coulter’s caption to the tweet was interpreted by many as a call for genocide.

“We didn’t kill enough Indians,” wrote Coulter.


According to the Holocaust Museum Houston, historians have estimated that over 10 million Native Americans were living on this continent when European settlers first arrived, but by 1900 that number had dwindled to under 300,000 after multiple wars, violence against native populations encouraged by government officials, deliberate efforts to spread infectious epidemic diseases like smallpox, and forced relocations like the Trail of Tears............

MSN

Their absolute hubris leads them to mistakenly believe they are untouchable, so they feel free to finally speak their full truth.

 

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In 2018, Dr Timberly Baker decided to home school her children after a local school in Arkansas failed to challenge her eldest child. Her daughter, Baker said, is gifted. But despite routinely testing off the charts during standardized exams, the school had no plan on how Baker’s daughter could take more advanced classes.

Still new to home schooling, Baker decided to use a Christian curriculum, solely due to its ready-made lesson plans and promise to produce a school transcript in case her children later enrolled into mainstream schools.

But Baker, a researcher and associate professor of educational leadership at Arkansas State University, found the lesson plans “problematic”, especially with regard to social studies. A lesson about the “triangular trade”, the transatlantic trading system where people were stolen from Africa and shipped to western colonies to be enslaved, proved to be a final straw.

The curriculum “mentioned enslaved Africans as one of the products that were being shipped, but as a product, rather than in their humanity as individuals and as people”, Baker recalled.

Baker came up against a common problem facing many parents of color choosing to home school their children: a lack of inclusive, educational material.

Even as home schooling becomes more diverse, educational material for families is still mostly conservative, Christian and eurocentric.

Major educational companies have been repeatedly condemned for racist and inaccuratematerial and accused of failing to implement major changes.

This isn’t a question of dated curriculum, said Jonah Stewart, interim executive director of the Coalition for Responsible Home Education, a home schooling advocacy group. “Those curricula are alive and well”.

In light of the gap, some Black home schoolers have taken it upon themselves to create a more comprehensive curriculum, often as a formal tool that can be used by other families.

Baker chose to supplement her child’s education on the triangular trade by having her watch Roots, a miniseries about enslavement based on Alex Haley’s eponymous novel, reading library books, and by speaking with familial elders about their personal relationship to enslavement.

“I took on the responsibility of correcting what I saw as inadequacies or just incorrect perceptions that came out of the curriculum I chose,” said Baker.

The rate of Black parents home schooling their children has steadily increased for years, skyrocketing during the Covid-19 pandemic as education shifted to online platforms.

In 2020, the number of Black households home schooling went from 3.3% to 16.1%, a five-fold increase between April and October of that year.

Preliminary data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in 2023 on home schooling showed that Black students and their families participated in virtual schooling at higher rates than other groups; future data collection on the state of home schooling and other education methods has now ended after the Trump administration gutted the NCES.

Home schooling is increasing in popularity among the general population, said Stewart, and growing more diverse. The school choice movement, which encouraged parents to explore educational options for their children outside public school, has had a resurgence under Donald Trump, who has simultaneously escalated attacks on public education as well as diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives within classrooms.

The Trump administration has threatened to withhold federal funding for schools that fail to eliminate their DEI planning.

Last month, Trump also signed an executive order that instructs the dismantling of the Department of Education, a key campaign promise.

Home schooling laws vary from state to state, with a general lack of oversight, said Stewart. Only a handful of states, including Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts and Vermont, require home-schooled children to participate in standardized testing for assessment.

Other states don’t even mandate that parents notify state officials if they unenroll their children from formal schooling.

The lack of regulations on home schooling is a double-edged sword, said experts. With more lax rules, families are able to teach and learn Afrocentric culturally-specific material without state interference, said Baker.

But, extremists have also taken advantage of limited regulation.

Home school materials, particularly from Christian publishers, have been known for teaching creationism versus evolution.

Some home schooling material has described slave masters as “caregivers” for enslaved people and the practice of slavery as “Black immigration”.

Rightwing material remains a baseline throughout home schooling education, with some parents sharing even more hateful material with their children.

In February 2023, the Ohio department of education investigated a group of home schooling parents who reportedly dispersed pro-Nazi material in a local home schooling group.……..

Black home schoolers push back against racist, unregulated curricula: ‘They called slavery immigration’

As more Black families opt out of public schools, they’re confronting the racist materials dominating the home education market and building alternatives

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