Racism
ICE has detained or deported prominent immigration activists
www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/ice-has-detained-or-deported-foreigners-who-are-also-immigration-activists/2018/01/19/377af23a-fc95-11e7-a46b-a3614530bd87_story.html
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ACLU
@ACLU
New data shows the Trump administration has separated more than 700 children from their parents since October, including more than 100 children under the age of 4.
This is why we filed a class action lawsuit. This is why we won’t stop fighting.
The administration wants to say these stories are one-offs, but remember this:
Officials presented Trump with a list of proposals, including the plan to routinely separate immigrant adults from their children. He said to move forward.
This cruelty comes from the top.
Hundreds of Immigrant Children Have Been Taken From Parents at U.S. Border
www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/us/immigrant-children-separation-ice.html
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Upstate NY farmer says ICE officers stormed his farm without a warrant, cuffed him, threw his phone
www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2018/04/upstate_ny_farmer_says_ice_officers_stormed_his_farm_without_a_warrant_cuffed_hi.html
Melissa McEwan
@Shakestweetz
"Then the men told Collins they were officers with Immigration & Customs Enforcement. He asked them for a warrant or some paperwork to explain what they were doing. They had none, he said." ICE acting w/o warrants, even tho they are required to have them.
I hope we all appreciate the bitter fucking irony of ICE enacting raids and arresting people while lacking the paperwork to legally do so.
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Video Shows Cops Tackling and Punching Black Harvard Student in Violent Arrest
splinternews.com/video-shows-cops-tackling-and-punching-black-harvard-st-1825317655
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Matt Cameron 🗽
@matt_cam
BREAKING: Trump DHS has formally directed Citizenship and Immigration Services to remove all instances of "thank you" & "we regret to inform you" from denials of #immigration apps.
Not the most important immigration news happening today, but just thought you'd like to know.
This minor cosmetic change (much like removing the phrase "nation of immigrants" from the @USCIS mission statement a couple of months ago) is being carried out for no other apparent purpose than making our nation less welcoming.
edition.cnn.com/2018/02/22/politics/uscis-mission-statement/index.html
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Right-Wing Extremists Guilty In Terror Plot Against Muslim Refugees
Attorneys argued the Trump-backing trio were radicalized by “chaos news,” and wrongfully targeted by the feds for “locker room talk.”
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-muslim-militia-terror-plot-kansas_us_5ad78882e4b029ebe0207801
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Daniel Dale
@ddale8
After a false early report that the Quebec City mosque massacre was co-perpetrated by a man with a Muslim name, Ben Shapiro mockingly tweeted, “It’s the damn Mormons again.” In fact, prosecutors allege, the killer was a white Ben Shapiro fan.
twitter.com/ddale8/status/985952797421023233
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Qasim Rashid, Esq.
@MuslimIQ
White Supremacist Nicholas Wesley Rose, 26, found in possession of .22 ammunition and "kill lists" of prominent members in the Jewish community.
This is terrorism by a white American male—yet total silence from the WH.
#WhereWasHeRadicalized?
Irvine Man Charged With Hate Crimes After ‘Kill Lists’ of Jewish Community Members, Anti-Semitic Literature Found in His Home
ktla.com/2018/04/19/irvine-man-charged-with-hate-crimes-after-kill-lists-of-jewish-community-members-anti-semitic-literature-found-in-his-home/
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State And Local Republican Officials Have Been Bashing Muslims. We Counted.
A BuzzFeed News analysis found that Republican officials in 49 states have openly attacked Muslims with words and proposed legislation since 2015, and few have faced repercussions.
www.buzzfeed.com/hannahallam/trump-republicans-bashing-muslims-without-repercussions?utm_term=.sinVeEDxQ#.hkoWqE2pY
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Tennessee lawmakers punish Memphis for removing statues
apnews.com/17ec9774415240b0a7b1ec41d923eb3c
The Republican-dominated House in Tennessee voted Tuesday to punish the city of Memphis for removing Confederate monuments by taking $250,000 away from the city that would have been used for a bicentennial celebration next year.
The retaliation came in the form of passage of a last-minute amendment attached to the House appropriations bill that triggered heated debate on the House floor and stinging rebukes from lawmakers from Memphis.
Rep. Antonio Parkinson began to call the amendment vile and racist before being cut off by boos from fellow lawmakers.
“You can boo all you want but let’s call it for what it is,” the Memphis representative said.
Last year the city of Memphis, which is majority black, was able to find a legal loophole to get rid of two Confederate statues and a bust by selling city parks to a nonprofit, which swiftly removed the monuments. Taken away under cover of darkness were statues of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Nathan Bedford Forrest. Forrest was a general in the confederacy, a slave owner and a leader in the Ku Klux Klan. A bust of a Confederate soldier was also removed.
Parkinson, who is African-American, said he was sick of how fellow lawmakers revered Forrest “as if he was God, as if he was an idol.”
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Trump Administration Wants to Shut Door on Abused Women
To cut back on immigration, Sessions wants to remove domestic abuse as a legal justification for seeking asylum.
www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/04/17/trump-administration-wants-to-shut-door-on-abused-women-218005
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Diante Yarber: Police kill black father with barrage of bullets in Walmart parking lot
The killing of the 26-year-old, who is believed to have been unarmed, is being called a brutal case of excessive police force
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/17/diante-yarber-police-fatal-shooting-barstow-california
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California Store Clerk Calls Cops on Black Man Who Asked for Refund; Black Man Gets Beaten Bloody
www.theroot.com/california-store-clerk-calls-cops-on-black-man-who-aske-1825396697
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NowThis
@nowthisnews
This 7-year-old Black boy was dragged upside down off his school bus by a white teacher as he called out for his mom
twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/987154636170846208
[he suffered bruises and a concussion]
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A Former Texas Official Asked A Biracial Harvard Admit Whether He Got In On "Merit Or Quota"
Drake Johnson is valedictorian, student body president, and a world champion cheerleader, among a slew of other accomplishments.
www.buzzfeed.com/juliareinstein/a-former-texas-official-asked-a-biracial-student-whether-he
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Fraternity says oath pledging to hate blacks, Hispanics and Jews was satire — of a Republican
www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2018/04/20/fraternity-says-oath-pledging-to-hate-blacks-hispanics-and-jews-was-satire-of-a-republican/
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
@MuslimIQ
White male privilege is:
•Affirming a secret oath to "Always Hate Jews, Ni**ers, & Hispanics in my heart"
•Get caught—yet have the audacity to claim "It was a joke."
No, this is white supremacy in 2018 America. Disgusting.
#WhereWereTheyRadicalized?
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Daniel Dale
@ddale8
An ill Black woman in Florida was jailed for allegedly scratching her daughter. She had trouble getting medications in jail. In court, a judge wildly berated her as she coughed and gasped in a wheelchair. Three days later, she died. The judge has resigned.
www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article209496684.html
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Joy Reid
*@JoyAnnReid*
.@DrJasonJohnson on calling the police on black people for noncrimes: "The intent of these actions is to remind black people that the ultimate consequence of discomforting white people—let alone angering them—could be death." More on #AMJoy www.theroot.com/from-starbucks-to-hashtags-we-need-to-talk-about-why-w-1825284087
From Starbucks to Hashtags: We Need to Talk About Why White Americans Call the Police on Black People
[Starbucks incident in case anyone missed it:
Arrest of two black men at Starbucks for 'trespassing' sparks protests
Protesters gathered at a Philadelphia Starbucks where the men were arrested after they reportedly refused to buy coffee or leave the store
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/16/arrest-of-two-black-men-at-starbucks-for-trespassing-sparks-protests ]
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At least the NFL isn't pretending it's not blackballing Colin Kaepernick
Kaepernick and comrade-in-arms Eric Reid have again been denied employment due to their anthem protest, further proof that for the NFL’s owners it’s simply a matter of power
www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/apr/13/kaepernick-reid-blackballed-nfl-kneeling-anthem