Former Mayor of New York City and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg appeared on “CBS This Morning” with Gayle King recently.
King first asked Bloomberg about his comments pertaining to a presidential run the last time he appeared on the show:
<blockquote>KING: What happened between September and now?
BLOOMBERG: I looked at our national government getting worse, the way we&#8217;re behaving overseas and domestically, led by our president. I said back in 2016, &#8220;He is the wrong person for the job. He doesn&#8217;t have the temperament or the ethics or the intellect to do the job.&#8221; And I said, &#8220;We just can&#8217;t have another four years of this.&#8221; And then I watched all the candidates. And I just thought to myself, &#8220;Donald Trump would eat them up.&#8221;</blockquote>
King pushed back on Bloomberg’s “eat them up” remark, and the candidate rephrased, saying that he believes he “would do the best job of competing with [Trump] and beating him.”
King later spoke about Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) lamenting the fact that the debate stage in December will feature (as of publication) an all-white group of candidates. She asked Bloomberg if that was a problem.
Bloomberg complimented Booker, then stated correctly that “the public is out there picking and choosing and narrowing down this field. The truth of the matter is you had a lot of diversity in the candidates, some of whom were very competent.”
As for why the field has narrowed as it has, the former mayor said: “I don’t know.”
King pressed Bloomberg on the progressive narrative that it’s “time for something new,” as opposed to another “old white gentleman.” Bloomberg pushed back, leading to the following exchange:
<blockquote>BLOOMBERG: Yes, it may be. But lots of people can enter. There was no reason – if you wanted to enter and run for president of the United States, you could have done that. But don&#8217;t complain to me that you&#8217;re not in the race. It was up to you. And I thought there was a lot of diversity in the group of Democratic aspirants. Entry is not a barrier.
KING: So you&#8217;re saying if you want diversity, then get in?
BLOOMBERG: That is exactly a good way to phrase it. Thank you very much.</blockquote>
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As the Democratic presidential field has winnowed, one of its most prominent minority members dropped out, and the other non-white candidates who remain in the race are all polling in single digits.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-kamala-harris-drops-out-of-presidential-race">announced</a> on Tuesday that she was dropping out of the presidential race, writing on Medium that her “campaign &#8230; simply doesn’t have the financial resources we need to continue.”
After Harris’ exit, some progressives on Twitter had a meltdown.
Journalist Lauren Duca tweeted:
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Kamala Harris officially ended her campaign today, which means that all of the candidates who currently qualify for the December Democratic debate are white (Sanders, Warren, Biden, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, and Steyer).
White supremacy is not just a Fox News problem, folks.
— Lauren Duca (@laurenduca) <a href="https://twitter.com/laurenduca/status/1201930900445057024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
<blockquote>Kamala Harris officially ended her campaign today, which means that all of the candidates who currently qualify for the December Democratic debate are white (Sanders, Warren, Biden, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, and Steyer). White supremacy is not just a Fox News problem, folks.</blockquote>
Dr. Eugene Gu, a progressive who frequently comments on politics, made a similar remark:
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Kamala Harris dropping out of the race while only white candidates qualify for the next presidential debate shows that white privilege and white supremacy cut across party lines. It’s not just Trump. We have a racism problem in all of the United States of America, and it sucks.
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) <a href="https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1201939626199379968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
<blockquote>Kamala Harris dropping out of the race while only white candidates qualify for the next presidential debate shows that white privilege and white supremacy cut across party lines. It’s not just Trump. We have a racism problem in all of the United States of America, and it sucks.”</blockquote>
As it stands, the other minority candidates in the Democratic field are businessman Andrew Yang, who is polling at 2.6%, according to the RealClearPolitics national average, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), who is polling at 2%, former HUD Secretary Julian Castro, who is polling at 1.4%, and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) who is polling at 1%.
Another minority candidate, former Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick, joined the race in mid-November, but has thus far failed to gain much if any traction among Democratic voters. He currently sits at 0.4%, according to the RealClearPolitics national polling average.

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WATCH: Bloomberg Slams Democratic Debate ‘Diversity’ Narrative

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On November 24, actress Jennifer Agostini and swimsuit model Prendinellys Garcia were allegedly attacked by a group of about 10–15 individuals after leaving a Manhattan bar, according to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lawsuit-actress-model-beaten-by-10-15-attackers-f-those-white-bes">lawsuit</a> seeking to have the surveillance footage of the fight released.
The suit claimed the attackers made racial comments toward Agostini and Garcia during the beatdown, including: “white motherf***ers,” “dirty white b****es,” and “f*** those white b****es and their money.”
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Sky Room, the Manhattan bar where the fight broke out, released footage of the attack in question earlier this week, as well as a statement claiming the brawl was &#8220;instigated&#8221; by Agostini and Garcia, <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/12/02/midtown-bar-blames-actress-jennifer-agostini-model-pal-for-wild-brawl/">The New York Post</a> reported.
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&#8220;It is our opinion, Ms. Agostini had another agenda including seeking to spread as much blood on her face as possible for photos released to the media vs. seeking to care for her small injury at the lounge or from an ambulance our staff offered her,&#8221; Sky Room claimed in a statement, according to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7747247/New-York-City-bar-says-drunk-friend-started-brawl-actress-43-claimed-attacked.html">The Daily Mail</a>.
The bar also alleged that there was no racial motive in the attack.
&#8220;We also find it outrageous and allegedly defamatory that Ms. Agostini and her party concocted a false narrative about an alleged &#8216;racial&#8217; fight with our customers and also allegedly lied saying our security staff pushed, beat or hit her,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;Neither is true. In fact, race was never a factor of any altercation, but Ms. Garcia and Ms. Agostini&#8217;s own aggressive and harmful actions both verbally and physically are to blame.&#8221;
&#8220;We wish Ms. Garcia much luck with her alleged &#8216;swimsuit modeling&#8217; career and we also wish Ms. Agostini much luck with her &#8216;acting&#8217; career,&#8221; Sky Room mocked the women.
&#8220;According to a perfunctory internet search, neither Garcia and Agostini, in our opinion, seem to be a professional model or professional actor. We look forward to reviewing evidence of them getting paid enough for either one of their professional careers over the course of many years to make a livable wage doing so,&#8221; the bar continued.
&#8220;Sky Room is New York City&#8217;s highest rooftop party lounge,&#8221; concluded the bar. &#8220;We welcome customers of every race and ethnicity and seek to mirror the great NYC community in which we operate. We also welcome customers from around the world.&#8221;
In November, Agostini told the Post that it was &#8220;just this stampede as we were leaving. We just got rushed and assaulted by, I can’t tell you by how many people.”
“I was pushed onto the ground and eight individual jumped on top of me and brutally assaulted me. I have five stitches in my head. My whole eye is closed. I am going to have numerous scars on my face,” she said.
“I’m a lead character on the series in March,” added Agostini, “and I have to now go see numerous plastic surgeons, and I also have to go back to the concussion center to MRI my head.”
“I have a black eye,” Garcia told the New York outlet. “I have been having a lot of headaches. My whole entire body hurts. They were punching and kicking me on my body.”
“They were screaming, ‘These white b****es!’” the model added, noting that most of the attackers were black females. “I’m Puerto Rican, my girlfriends are white, my husband’s white, everybody else is white. It was crazy.”
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WATCH: Surveillance Video Of Alleged Anti-White Attack On Actress Released. Bar Claims Actress, Model Friend Sparked Brawl.

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New York Post

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West Point administrators have dropped a motto that had become a part of the fanfare surrounding the Army football program since the mid-1990s after officials discovered that the phrase traced back to white supremacist biker and prison gangs.
Starting in the mid-&#8217;90s the phrase &#8220;God Forgives, Brothers Don&#8217;t&#8221; became a slogan embedded in some of the Army Black Knights official iconography, particularly a black skull-and-crossbones flag which contained the acronym &#8220;GFBD&#8221; inscribed on the upper lip of the skull (flag shown in image above).
The phrase, administrators learned in September, originated with white supremacist biker gangs and the infamous neo-Nazi prison gang, Aryan Brotherhood.
In response, the administration and athletic programs took immediate action, pulling all references to the loaded slogan from any official school displays and promotional materials.
&#8220;West Point officials and members of the athletic department said they were unaware that the phrase links to motorcycle gangs and Aryan Brotherhood sects until that connection was brought to their attention in September,&#8221; <a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/28232249/army-football-program-dropped-motto-white-supremacist-origin">ESPN</a> reported Thursday.
Upon learning about the origins of the phrase, Army Head Football Coach Jeff Monken addressed the team in September, Athletic Director Mike Buddie told ESPN.  The slogan, Monken told the players, was being removed immediately.
Monken, said Buddie, was &#8220;mortified&#8221; to discover the roots of the motto, while the superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy described the whole thing as &#8220;embarrassing.&#8221;
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&#8220;It&#8217;s embarrassing, quite frankly,&#8221; said Lt. Gen. Darryl Williams, as reported by ESPN. &#8220;Once I found out about this goofiness, I asked one of our most senior colonels to investigate,&#8221; he added.
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Image above: Army West Point head coach Jeff Monken sings the alma mater following the game between the Army West Point Black Knights against University of Massachusetts Minutemen on November 9, 2019 at Michie Sadium in West Point, New York. (Photo by Nicole Fridling/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Prompted by Williams&#8217; order, military officials conducted a two-month investigation into how the racially charged phrase came to be used by the school.
As detailed in the executive summary of the investigation, officials concluded that it was introduced without any knowledge of its problematic origins and thus its inclusion since the &#8217;90s in the school&#8217;s programs was &#8220;benign.&#8221; Use of the motto had nothing to do &#8220;with the views or beliefs of white supremacist groups or any other disreputable organizations with which they might also be associated,&#8221; the report stresses.
According to investigators, the slogan was first used by players in the early &#8217;90s simply to symbolize &#8220;toughness, tenacity, camaraderie and accountability.&#8221; Some of the players appear to have picked it up from a film starring famous former NFL linebacker Brian Bosworth titled &#8220;Stone Cold,&#8221; which tells the story of an undercover cop who joins a Neo-Nazi biker gang from the south called &#8220;The Brotherhood.&#8221;
Investigators were able to track down the cadet who first used the phrase and he told them that he wasn&#8217;t aware of the phrase&#8217;s white supremacist origins. While the phrase appeared on a few T-shirts in the early &#8217;90s, it wasn&#8217;t until 1996 that it first appeared on an official team flag, the report states.
Top image: Jeff Monken, Head Coach of the Army Black Knights waves a flag in the locker room after defeating the Navy Midshipmen at Lincoln Financial Field on December 8, 2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Dustin Satloff/Getty Images)
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Army Football Program Drops Motto Tied To White Supremacist Gangs

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has received plenty of criticism from fellow Democrats over the impeachment inquiry, but Rep. Al Green&#8217;s (D-TX) seem to represent a first among party members. In a fiery speech yesterday, Green accused Democrats of failing to court minority scholars on the subject of impeachment, leading to an all-white panel of Constitutional law professors.
Fox News reports that Green &#8220;rebuked his colleagues in a speech on the House floor before the committee hearing began,&#8221; excoriating committee organizers for calling Harvard Law professor Noah Feldman, University of North Carolina Law professor Michael Gerhardt, and Stanford Law professor Pamela Karlan as their only witnesses when others were available.
“I rise because I love my country, but I also rise today with heartfelt regrets. It hurts my heart, Mr. Speaker, to see the Judiciary Committee hearing experts on the topic of impeachment — one of the seminal issues of this Congress — hearing experts &#8230; and not one person of color among the experts,” Green said.
“What subliminal message are we sending to the world when we have experts but not one person of color? Are we saying that there are no people of color who are experts on this topic of impeachment?” Green continued.
“I refuse to be ignored and taken for granted. I came here to represent the people who are ignored and taken for granted. Not one person of color among the constitutional scholars,” he said, suggesting that Democrats were ignoring the needs and voices of minority voters by hosting the all-white panel. “It seems that there’s a desire among some to have the output of people of color without input from the people of color.”
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In deference to Green, the Democrats do not appear to have sought out experts on the specific topic of impeachment, but rather law professors with a history of progressive political activism who have been vocal about their opposition to President Donald Trump in the past. Both Feldman and Karlan have made statements noting their distaste for Trump, with Karlan once saying, in a separate panel appearance, that she occasionally crossed the street in Washington, D.C., to avoid passing the city&#8217;s Trump International Hotel.
Green may just be trying to inject himself into the impeachment inquiry, which is taking place in two very limited committees and will only come to the House floor once articles of impeachment are drafted, but the sentiment comes at a rather difficult time for Democrats, who are struggling with the idea of racial bias within their ranks, and the lack of racial diversity among their top candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
Earlier this week, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) brought an abrupt end to her presidential campaign, leaving Democrats with four front-runners, all of whom are white, and three of whom are male. That rubbed several members of the Democratic Party the wrong way, and a number of commenters have publicly criticized the party for its stunning lack of &#8220;diversity.&#8221; Oddly enough, though, they seem to be attacking their own voters, who rejected Harris in favor of other candidates, putting her well out of reach of the top tier as early as July.

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In a series of recent interviews, prominent historians criticized The New York Times&#8217; &#8220;1619 Project&#8221; — which describes itself as seeking &#8220;to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are&#8221; — as an &#8220;unbalanced, one-sided account,&#8221; which lacks important &#8220;context and perspective&#8221; on the complexity of slavery&#8217;s role in America&#8217;s history.
&#8220;In August of 1619, a ship appeared on this horizon, near Point Comfort, a coastal port in the English colony of Virginia. It carried more than 20 enslaved Africans, who were sold to the colonists,&#8221; the &#8220;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html">1619 Project</a>&#8221; splash page reads. &#8220;No aspect of the country that would be formed here has been untouched by the years of slavery that followed. In the 400th anniversary of this fateful moment, it is finally time to tell our story truthfully.&#8221;
Recent interviews with three highly regarded historians published by the <a href="https://www.wsws.org">World Socialist Web Site</a>, which presents analysis and news from a socialist perspective, focus on the degree of historical accuracy and perspective fueling key claims made in the Times&#8217; highly touted series and found it glaringly &#8220;biased&#8221; and at times even &#8220;anti-historical&#8221; (h/t HotAir&#8217;s <a href="https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/11/30/prominent-historians-criticize-ny-times-1619-project/">John Sexton</a>).
For the first of the interview series, published Nov. 14, WSWS spoke with Princeton University&#8217;s <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/14/mcph-n14.html">James McPherson</a>, &#8220;the author of dozens of books and articles, including thePulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom, widely regarded as the authoritative account of the Civil War.&#8221; Asked about his initial reaction to the &#8220;1619 Project,&#8221; McPherson delivered a rather scathing rebuke of its &#8220;biased&#8221; and &#8220;narrow view&#8221; of the country&#8217;s history:
<blockquote>McPherson: Well, I didn’t know anything about it until I got my Sunday paper, with the magazine section entirely devoted to the 1619 Project. Because this is a subject I’ve long been interested in I sat down and started to read some of the essays. I’d say that, almost from the outset, I was disturbed by what seemed like a very unbalanced, one-sided account, which lacked context and perspective on the complexity of slavery, which was clearly, obviously, not an exclusively American institution, but existed throughout history. And slavery in the United States was only a small part of a larger world process that unfolded over many centuries. And in the United States, too, there was not only slavery but also an antislavery movement. So I thought the account, which emphasized American racism — which is obviously a major part of the history, no question about it — but it focused so narrowly on that part of the story that it left most of the history out. So I read a few of the essays and skimmed the rest, but didn’t pursue much more about it because it seemed to me that I wasn’t learning very much new. And I was a little bit unhappy with the idea that people who did not have a good knowledge of the subject would be influenced by this and would then have a biased or narrow view.</blockquote>
In an interview published four days later, City University of New York&#8217;s <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/18/oake-n18.html">James Oakes</a> — author of two Lincoln Prize-winning books, &#8220;The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of anti-slavery Politics&#8221; (2007) and &#8220;Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861–1865&#8221; (2012), as well as &#8220;The Scorpion’s Sting: anti-slavery and the Coming of the Civil War&#8221; (2014) — likewise expressed his dismay at the degree of bias and lack of context permeating the &#8220;1619 Project.&#8221;
Asked to discuss the claim that &#8220;the horrors of contemporary American capitalism are rooted in slavery,&#8221; as suggested by Matthew Desmond in a piece for the &#8220;1619 Project,&#8221; Oakes noted that the attempt to connect chattel slavery and capitalism has received &#8220;some very strong criticism from scholars in the field&#8221; and mocked the overly simplistic thinking that guides Desmond&#8217;s argument:
<blockquote>Oakes: There’s been a kind of standard bourgeois-liberal way of arguing that goes all the way back to the 18th century, that whenever you are talking about some form of oppression, or whenever you yourself are oppressed, you instinctively go to the analogy of slavery. At least since the 18th century in our society, in western liberal societies, slavery has been the gold standard of oppression. The colonists, in the imperial crisis, complained that they were the “slaves” of Great Britain. It was the same thing all the way through the 19th century. The leaders of the first women’s movement would sometimes liken the position of a woman in a northern household to that of a slave on a southern plantation. The first workers’ movement, coming out of the culture of republican independence, attacked wage labor as wage slavery. Civil War soldiers would complain that they were treated like slaves. Desmond, following the lead of the scholars he’s citing, basically relies on the same analogy. They’re saying, “look at the ways capitalism is just like slavery, and that’s because capitalism came from slavery.” But there’s no actual critique of capitalism in any of it. They’re saying, “Oh my God! Slavery looks just like capitalism. They had highly developed management techniques just like we do!” Slaveholders were greedy, just like capitalists. Slavery was violent, just like our society is. So there’s a critique of violence and a critique of greed. But greed and violence are everywhere in human history, not just in capitalist societies. So there’s no actual critique of capitalism as such, at least as I read it.</blockquote>
In a third &#8220;1619&#8221; interview, published Nov. 28, WSWS spoke with Brown University&#8217;s <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/28/wood-n28.html">Gordon Wood</a> — author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book &#8220;The Radicalism of the American Revolution&#8221; and &#8220;Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815&#8221; — who likewise expressed disappointment, and even disbelief, at the reductive nature of the Times&#8217; series:
<blockquote>Wood: I was surprised when I opened my Sunday New York Times in August and found the magazine containing the project. I had no warning about this. I read the first essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones, which alleges that the Revolution occurred primarily because of the Americans’ desire to save their slaves. She claims the British were on the warpath against the slave trade and slavery and that rebellion was the only hope for American slavery. This made the American Revolution out to be like the Civil War, where the South seceded to save and protect slavery, and that the Americans 70 years earlier revolted to protect their institution of slavery. I just couldn’t believe this. I was surprised, as many other people were, by the scope of this thing, especially since it’s going to become the basis for high school education and has the authority of the New York Times behind it, and yet it is so wrong in so many ways.</blockquote>
Asked to expand on his comment about not being approached about the project, Wood said, &#8220;None of the leading scholars of the whole period from the Revolution to the Civil War, as far I know, have been consulted. &#8221; Asked for his perspective on the relationship between the American Revolution and the institution of slavery, Wood replied:
<blockquote>Wood: One of the things that I have emphasized in my writing is how many southerners and northerners in 1776 thought slavery was on its last legs and that it would naturally die away. You can find quotation after quotation from people seriously thinking that slavery was going to wither away in several decades. Now we know they couldn’t have been more wrong. But they lived with illusions and were so wrong about so many things. We may be living with illusions too. One of the big lessons of history is to realize how the past doesn’t know its future. We know how the story turned out, and we somehow assume they should know what we know, but they don’t, of course. They don’t know their future any more than we know our future, and so many of them thought that slavery would die away, and at first there was considerable evidence that that was indeed the case. At the time of the Revolution, the Virginians had more slaves than they knew what to do with, so they were eager to end the international slave trade. But the Georgians and the South Carolinians weren’t ready to do that yet. That was one of the compromises that came out of the Constitutional Convention. The Deep South was given 20 years to import more slaves, but most Americans were confident that the despicable transatlantic slave trade was definitely going to end in 1808.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/livestream-ben-shapiro-america-wasnt-built-on-slavery">WATCH: Ben Shapiro Dismantles The Left’s Claim That America Was Built On Slavery</a>

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Historians Shred NYT ‘1619 Project’ That Claims Slavery Defines America

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On November 16, two CNN reporters <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/19/us/syracuse-university-racist-graffiti/index.html">wrote about</a> a student protest at Syracuse University over a series of alleged racist incidents on campus.
Competent readers will note that every instance of alleged racism on college campuses has turned out to be a hoax, yet media outlets still jump at every accusation. The latest allegation claims that a swastika was found painted on a wall, an unknown student was shouting racial epithets, more racist graffiti was found, and a racist manifesto was sent to several students’ cellphones.
Syracuse University is, of course, a liberal college campus located in one of the most liberal states in America, yet its students maintain it is a hotbed of racism. Students naturally took the allegations as fact and started protesting the university and demanding Chancellor Kent Syverud resign.
But just a few days after CNN and other media outlets spread news of the alleged racism at Syracuse, the manifesto story was debunked. CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/syracuse-university-kent-syverud-reports-of-racist-manifesto-likely-hoax-chancellor-says/">reported</a> last week that Syverud told the University Senate that authorities couldn’t find anyone who had received the manifesto, which was apparently a copy of the one written by the man who allegedly killed 51 people at two mosques in New Zealand earlier this year.
&#8220;It was apparent that this rumor was probably a hoax,&#8221; Syverud said, &#8220;but that reality was not communicated clearly and rapidly enough to get ahead of escalating anxiety.&#8221;
The university, according to Syverud, couldn’t respond appropriately to the manifesto claims due to the late hour of the allegations. The claim was that someone attempted to AirDrop the manifesto onto several students’ cell phones using the library wi-fi range. The next day, local, city, campus, state, and federal authorities held a news conference about the allegations.
The day after the press conference, students marched to Syverud’s house and demanded he resign if he didn’t give in to all their demands, which included an additional $1 million spent on diversity and combating racism.
The other incidents have not been debunked, as the manifesto has, but in the past, racist and derogatory graffiti has typically been painted by students wanting to “<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-it-started-a-dialogue-excuse-for-false-accusations">start a dialogue</a>” for the alleged issue they had to fabricate. Racist graffiti is usually painted by African-American students, or College Democrats attempting to frame America and white people as racist. Threats to members of the LGBT community are usually sent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hate-crime-hoax-ohio-university-student-charged-ashe-schow">by the person</a> claiming victimhood.
At Syracuse, social activities at all fraternities were suspended after an African-American student said she was “subjected to a verbal racial epithet from a group of students and visitors.&#8221; An investigation is still ongoing into all allegations of racist behavior on campus.
Despite the near constant hate crime hoaxes on college campuses, media outlets continue to report that American college students are some of the most racist and bigoted people in the country. The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/27/nyregion/syracuse-university-racism.html">recently published</a> a lengthy, dramatic article titled “Racial Slurs, and the 15 Days That Shook Syracuse,” with only a brief mention of the manifesto with the claim that it simply had not been confirmed to have happened.

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Surprise, Surprise, The Latest College Racism Claim Turns Out To Be A Hoax

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Former presidential candidate Beto O&#8217;Rourke said that racism in America is &#8220;foundational&#8221; and that people of color were under &#8220;mortal threat&#8221; from the &#8220;white supremacist in the White House.&#8221; Pete Buttigieg chimed in to explain that &#8220;systemic racism&#8221; will &#8220;be with us&#8221; no matter who is in the White House. Senator Cory Booker called for &#8220;attacking systemic racism&#8221; in the &#8220;racially biased&#8221; criminal justice system.
Let&#8217;s follow up by examining Booker&#8217;s concern about a &#8220;racially biased&#8221; criminal justice system. To do that, we can turn to a recent article by Heather Mac Donald, who is a senior fellow at the New York-based Manhattan Institute. She is a contributing editor of City Journal, and a New York Times bestselling author. Her most recent article, &#8220;A Platform of Urban Decline,&#8221; which appeared in Manhattan Institute&#8217;s publication Eye On The News, addresses race and crime. She reveals government statistics you&#8217;ve never read before.
According to leftist rhetoric, whites pose a severe, if not mortal, threat to blacks. Mac Donald says that may have once been true, but it is no longer so today. To make her case, she uses the latest Bureau of Justice Statistics 2018 survey of criminal victimization. Mac Donald writes: &#8220;According to the study, there were 593,598 interracial violent victimizations (excluding homicide) between blacks and whites last year, including white-on-black and black-on-white attacks. Blacks committed 537,204 of those interracial felonies, or 90 percent, and whites committed 56,394 of them, or less than 10 percent. That ratio is becoming more skewed, despite the Democratic claim of Trump-inspired white violence. In 2012-13, blacks committed 85 percent of all interracial victimizations between blacks and whites; whites committed 15 percent. From 2015 to 2018, the total number of white victims and the incidence of white victimization have grown as well.&#8221;
There are other stark figures not talked about often. According to the FBI&#8217;s Uniform Crime Reporting for 2018, of the homicide victims for whom race was known, 53.3% were black, 43.8% were white and 2.8% were of other races. In cases where the race of the offender was known, 54.9% were black, 42.4% were white, and 2.7% were of other races.
White and black liberals, who claim that blacks face a &#8220;mortal threat&#8221; from the &#8220;white supremacist in the White House&#8221; are perpetuating a cruel hoax. The primary victims of that hoax are black people. We face the difficult, and sometimes embarrassing, task of confronting reality.
Mac Donald says that Barack Obama&#8217;s 2008 Father&#8217;s Day speech in Chicago would be seen today as an &#8220;unforgivable outburst of white supremacy.&#8221; Here&#8217;s what Obama told his predominantly black audience in a South Side church: &#8220;If we are honest with ourselves,&#8221; too many fathers are &#8220;missing — missing from too many lives and too many homes. They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men.&#8221; Then-Senator Obama went on to say, &#8220;Children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools and 20 times more likely to end up in prison.&#8221;
White liberals deem that any speaker&#8217;s references to personal responsibility brands the speaker as bigoted. Black people cannot afford to buy into the white liberal agenda. White liberals don&#8217;t pay the same price. They don&#8217;t live in neighborhoods where their children can get shot simply sitting on their porches. White liberals don&#8217;t go to bed with the sounds of gunshots. White liberals don&#8217;t live in neighborhoods that have become economic wastelands. Their children don&#8217;t attend violent schools where they have to enter through metal detectors. White liberals help the Democratic Party maintain political control over cities, where many black residents live in despair, such as Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit, Chicago.
Black people cannot afford to remain fodder for the liberal agenda. With that in mind, we should not be a one-party people in a two-party system.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

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WILLIAMS: Who Are The Racists?

Fox News host Tucker Carlson admits that President Trump is a &#8220;full-blown B.S. artist&#8221; who &#8220;could&#8217;ve made a fortune selling cars,&#8221; but his knack for twisting the truth to make his &#8220;sales pitches&#8221; isn&#8217;t why the media actually despises him, as they claim. In fact, argued Carlson on his show Wednesday night, the media resents Trump so much for &#8220;the exact opposite&#8221; reason.
&#8220;One of the reasons progressives say they hate Donald Trump is because he lies a lot,&#8221;  Carlson said on his <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/tucker-carlson-truth-is-the-reason-the-left-despises-trump">Fox News</a> show Wednesday night. &#8220;Trump, they&#8217;ll tell you, is a committed liar, an inveterate one. To prove he point the left has set about trying to catalog Trump&#8217;s dishonesty with the kind of scientific precision you normally associate with obsessed baseball fans or amateur bird watchers. As of last month, according to The Washington Post, Donald Trump has made a total of 13,435 false or misleading statements while in office.&#8221;
Carlson then played a famous claim by Trump which the Post marks as the starting point of Trump&#8217;s presidential lies: his claim that his inauguration crowd was &#8220;the biggest ever.&#8221;
&#8220;We’re not going to lie to you: that was untrue,&#8221; said Carlson. &#8220;The crowd at the 2017 inauguration was not the largest ever measured on the national mall. Sorry. It wasn’t.&#8221;
&#8220;Why did the president claim that it was?&#8221; Carlson asked. &#8220;Well, because that&#8217;s who he is. Donald Trump is a salesman. He&#8217;s a talker, a boaster, a booster, a compulsive self-promoter. At times, he&#8217;s a full-blown B.S. artist. If Trump hadn&#8217;t gotten rich in real estate, he could&#8217;ve made a fortune selling cars. Most people know this. It&#8217;s obvious, transparent, really.&#8221;
Carlson then got to his central argument: Yes, Trump is a &#8220;B.S. artist,&#8221; but his lies are not what is actually driving the mass disdain for him from left-wing politicians and their allies in the media.
&#8220;Is lying really the reason the left despises Donald Trump? Or could the real problem be, as is so often the case, the exact opposite of what they claim it is?&#8221; asked Carlson.
&#8220;Think back over the last four years,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;When have the CNN anchors been the angriest? Was it when Donald Trump told some whopper, or exaggerated his own accomplishments? Nope. They’re used to that kind of lying. Everyone who spends time around politicians is used to it. What infuriates official Washington is not when Trump lies, it&#8217;s when he tells the truth. Truth is the real threat to their power.”
&#8220;There&#8217;s an unspoken agreement among the people in charge of our country not to talk about what has happened to it,&#8221; Carlson said. &#8220;They are personally implicated in its decline, for one thing &#8212; often they&#8217;re profiting from it. The last thing they want is a national conversation about what went wrong. So they maintain an increasingly strict policy of mandatory reality avoidance.&#8221;
As an example of this &#8220;reality avoidance,&#8221; Carlson pointed to our unsustainable immigration policies. &#8220;If the people in charge actually cared about us, they would protect our borders,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The gatekeepers in our national media, the people who should have been sounding the alarm about all of this, but instead made common cause with the ruling class they were supposed to be covering and keeping honest.&#8221;
When Trump tells the truth about the situation at the border, he&#8217;s branded a bigot by Democrats and the media in an attempt to deflect from the issue. Raising such issues as immigration exposes the ruling class&#8217;s &#8220;own egregious failures and selfishness,&#8221; so they instead try to redirect the conversation by declaring that &#8220;Donald Trump is a racist liar.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/washington-post-obama-is-a-conservative">Washington Post: ‘Obama Is A Conservative’</a>
Partial transcript via <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/tucker-carlson-truth-is-the-reason-the-left-despises-trump">Fox News</a>, <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/trump/a-full-blown-bs-artist-tucker-carlson-says-media-is-right-about-trump-lying-but-defends-him-still/">Mediaite</a>.

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Tucker Carlson: Real Reason Media Hates ‘B.S. Artist’ Trump Is Exact Opposite Of What They Claim

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On Monday, CNN host and #NeverTrump &#8220;Republican&#8221; Ana Navarro ripped into black Americans who support President Donald Trump in a nasty tweet many deemed racist.
Following reports that black support for the president is on the rise, Navarro lost it, posting a tweet denigrating black Trump supporters and denying the legitimacy of the poll.
&#8220;Zero chance this is accurate. Zero,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;The poll must have only been conducted in the homes of Ben Carson, Kanye, that sheriff guy with the hat and those two Cubic Zirconia &amp; Polyester-Spandex ladies.&#8221;
Ms. Navarro was apparently speaking of the duo known as &#8220;Diamond and Silk&#8221; with her &#8220;Cubic Zirconia &amp; Polyester-Spandex&#8221; jab.
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Zero chance this is accurate. Zero. The poll must have only been conducted in the homes of Ben Carson, Kanye, that sheriff guy with the hat and those two Cubic Zirconia &amp; Polyester-Spandex ladies. <a href="https://t.co/vsmXJBY1KB">https://t.co/vsmXJBY1KB</a>
&mdash; Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) <a href="https://twitter.com/ananavarro/status/1199096622094925827?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-dread-goes-real-polls-show-black-support-for-trump-rising">The Daily Wire</a> on Monday, black Trump support is indeed on the rise, even if Navarro doesn&#8217;t like such a reality.
&#8220;Two polls released in the last week have confirmed what Republicans hope and Democrats fear: support in the black community for President Trump is rising,&#8221; The Daily Wire&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-dread-goes-real-polls-show-black-support-for-trump-rising">Hank Berrien</a> reported. &#8220;On Monday, Rasmussen reports noted, &#8216;ICYMI: Last Friday we showed Black Likely Voter approval for [President Trump] at 34%. We then found out that a recent widely quoted [Emerson Polling] Registered Voters based poll showed Black Voter approval for [the president] at 34.5%.'&#8221;
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&#8220;The Emerson Poll, released November 21, indeed showed Trump with 34.5% of black registered voter approval. <a href="https://www.redstate.com/nick-arama/2019/11/24/game-over-for-dems-rasmussen-emerson-numbers-on-black-voter-approval-for-trump/">RedState</a> noted, &#8216;Thirty four percent approval for President Donald Trump. And that’s not an outlier with other Rasmussen tallies, the <a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/august_2019/black_approval_for_trump_returns_to_normal_range">average has actually gone up since last year when it was in the 20s,</a>&#8216;&#8221; Berrien outlined.
Navarro&#8217;s apparent fear of black Trump support is further evidence by <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/10/18/could_trump_win_20_percent_of_the_african-american_vote_in_2020_138385.html">RealClear Politics</a> reporting in October of 2018: &#8220;Even 20% African-American support for Trump would all but dismantle Democratic Party presidential hopes for 2020. Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election with 88% of the black vote. That was about a six-point falloff from Barack Obama’s share of the black vote in 2012,&#8221; the report said.
And though Navarro&#8217;s panic might be understandable, her nasty commentary was not to most folks. Politicos online, including Diamond and Silk themselves, responded to the post, blasting the CNN contributor for her &#8220;racism.&#8221;
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&#8220;Ana Navarro sure doesn’t like black people who think differently than she wants them to,&#8221; &#8220;Rubin Report&#8221; host Dave Rubin wrote. &#8220;(And she had the nerve to call me racist a few weeks ago.)&#8221;
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Ana Navarro sure doesn’t like black people who think differently than she wants them to. 
(And she had the nerve to call me racist a few weeks ago.) <a href="https://t.co/uq2ssupFlJ">pic.twitter.com/uq2ssupFlJ</a>
&mdash; Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) <a href="https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1199106248605454336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Latinos for Trump&#8221; leader Marco Gutierrez posted: &#8220;[Ana Navarro] has her back back full of scars from all the miscalculations on Latinos in the 2016 election! Now she thinks she is got a shot underestimating the #BlackVoicesforTrump! Can she handle being wrong again after [President Trump] victory in 2020? Idk!  #CeguaAmargada.&#8221;
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<a href="https://twitter.com/ananavarro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ananavarro</a> has her back back full of scars from all the miscalculations on Latinos in the 2016 election! Now she thinks she is got a shot underestimating the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackVoicesforTrump?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BlackVoicesforTrump</a>! Can she handle being wrong again after <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> victory in 2020? Idk! 👋🏼 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CeguaAmargada?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CeguaAmargada</a>
&mdash; Marco Gutierrez (@MarcoGutierrez) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarcoGutierrez/status/1199178549631934465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Radio personality David Webb, who happens to be black, said of Navarro: &#8220;You&#8217;re an obnoxious self-important fraud who pushes identity politics just like [Areva Martin]. Being Hispanic doesn&#8217;t give you the right to insult blacks. We can think for ourselves.&#8221;
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You&#39;re an obnoxious self-important fraud who pushes identity politics just like <a href="https://twitter.com/ArevaMartin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ArevaMartin</a>. Being Hispanic doesn&#39;t give you the right to insult blacks. We can think for ourselves. <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DonaldJTrumpJr</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/EricTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EricTrump</a> <a href="https://t.co/EdOUjOl8u2">https://t.co/EdOUjOl8u2</a>
&mdash; David Webb (@davidwebbshow) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidwebbshow/status/1199339351710294016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Beware of Deep State Snakes like Porky The Pig masquerading around like a Republican but acting like a Democrat rat,&#8221; the pro-Trump duo shot back at Navarro. &#8220;Shame on her for insulting black people because they choose to think for themselves &amp; make their own decision to ditch the Democrat Plantation. #StopbeingARacist.&#8221;
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Beware of Deep State Snakes like Porky The Pig masquerading around like a Republican but acting like a Democrat rat. Shame on her for insulting black people because they choose to think for themselves &amp; make their own decision to ditch the Democrat Plantation. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StopbeingARacist?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StopbeingARacist</a>
&mdash; Diamond and Silk® (@DiamondandSilk) <a href="https://twitter.com/DiamondandSilk/status/1199124326009724928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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CNN’s Ana Navarro Blasted As Racist Over Black Trump Supporter Tweet

Another man-on-the-street interview from conservative activist Mike Luso features students at Cal Poly Pomona debating over whether or not Trump is a racist, and predictably, the answers ranged from parroted media talking points to exclamations that the president is (you guessed it) literally Hitler. Though most branded Trump &#8220;racist,&#8221; many of the students also showed a willingness to listen to counterarguments.
While holding a sign with the message &#8220;Trump Is Not A Racist &#8230; Let&#8217;s Talk&#8221; emblazoned across, Luso calmly and assertively debated several students as they tried to make their case about President Trump&#8217;s alleged racism with arguments that could have been lifted straight from the opening paragraphs of Brian Stelter&#8217;s newsletter.
&#8220;He uses his power to oppress people of color,&#8221; one student told Mike in the video (below). &#8220;And he doesn&#8217;t give a f*** about nobody.&#8221;
When Mike asks the student to give him some examples of Trump&#8217;s racism, the student responded, &#8220;He&#8217;s rude, the things he&#8217;s put in place like the wall, the comments he&#8217;s made on immigrants, like how Hispanics or Mexicans are rapists.&#8221;
As Mike corrected the student by saying the president only said some Mexicans coming across the border were rapists, the student shot back, &#8220;It&#8217;s not his place to say who&#8217;s a rapist and who&#8217;s not. He shouldn&#8217;t be saying that as president.&#8221;
Another student went as far as to compare Trump to Hitler. However, the student calmly allowed Mike to lay out some facts to the contrary and even showed some receptiveness.
Other students were willing to engage in a dialogue about Trump&#8217;s alleged racism and were noticeably listening when Mike laid out some important facts. For instance, when one male Hispanic student brought up Trump&#8217;s comments on the border crisis, Mike noted some startling statistics on the crime and Central America.
&#8220;I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re probably aware of crime that goes on in Mexico?&#8221; Mike asked the student as they nodded to his questions. &#8220;Are you aware that 90% of all heroin comes from the southern border? A thousand kids are sex-trafficked a year from the southern border? 80% of Central American women are raped coming across the southern border?&#8221;
Other students were far more hostile in their assertions and resorted to some rather head-scratching arguments in order to justify their position. One female student even asserted that America is a more racist country than it was during the Civil Rights Movement.
&#8220;Are we more racist than we were in the Civil Rights Movement?&#8221; Mike asked the student.
&#8220;I think so,&#8221; she responded.
The female student then proceeded to lecture Mike &#8212; a black American educated in a private university &#8212; on how America is a far more racist country than in the days of Selma.
&#8220;Different types of racism,&#8221; the female student said. &#8220;We still have the same level of racism that we had back then. We have not progressed &#8230; when we should have.&#8221;
Several students standing near the conversation were then asked if they believe America is a less racist country and a majority raised their hands.
Later, a black female student gave the most nuanced answer of the whole video, arguing that President Trump can mean a litany of things for different groups of people depending on their religious or philosophical beliefs.
Overall, while most students asserted that President Trump is a racist, they were willing to hear opposing viewpoints and allowed Mike to speak his mind without shouting him down.
Mike Luso <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-college-students-asked-if-maga-hats-are-new-paul-bois">previously interviewed</a> students at University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) if the &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; hat was the new KKK hood.
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WATCH: College Students Debate If Trump Is Racist

Last Saturday, the NFL’s most controversial quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, participated in a workout to try to spark interest in his employment. So far, no NFL team has reached out to him about a potential job.
Kaepernick has been unemployed for three years. He led the San Francisco 49ers to the Super Bowl in 2012 and did quite well as quarterback in 2013, but then his career started to wane. In 2016 he started kneeling during the national anthem as a protest of police brutality. His move angered fans but delighted political pundits who loved his anti-America message. Kaepernick was on his way out of the NFL due to his mediocrity, but the protest made him one of the most famous NFL players in the country. Despite not having a playing job, he was hired as a Nike spokesman.
Throughout the past three years, Kaepernick has claimed that the NFL is racist and has colluded to keep him out of the league. He has also said he still wants to play and that he deserves a chance.
So, the NFL gave him one last week. Kaepernick was provided a private workout and interview to show off his talents. The session was to be taped and made available to every team in the league. At the last minute, however, Kaepernick decided this wasn’t good enough and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kaepernick-skips-workout-organized-by-nfl-wears-t-shirt-comparing-himself-to-a-slave">cancelled the workout</a>. He claimed he wanted his own camera crew to film the workout and to allow press coverage. He rescheduled his own workout at Drew High School in Riverdale, Georgia. Kaepernick showed up to the workout wearing a “Kunta Kinte” T-Shirt, a reference to the defiant slave from “Roots.” The shirt appeared to be yet another stunt by Kaepernick, this time comparing himself to a slave.
The NFL claimed Kaepernick didn’t inform them that he wanted his own camera crew to attend the event until the night before, and they didn’t hear Kaepernick’s press demands until just before the event.
A backlash ensued, and Kaepernick responded by blaming the NFL and telling them to “stop running.”
“I’ve been ready for three years. I’ve been denied for three years,” Kaepernick said. “We all know why I came out here today and showed it today in front of everybody. We have nothing to hide, so we’re waiting for the 32 owners, 32 teams, Roger Goodell, all of them to stop running. To stop running from the truth. To stop running from the people. We’re out here. We’re ready to play. We’re ready to go anywhere.”
Even with Kaepernick’s political stunt, NFL teams still had access to his workout video. So far, <a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/28149508/sources-nfl-teams-called-colin-kaepernick-qb-nov-16-workout">according to ESPN</a>, no team has reached out to the former quarterback.
“The fact that the NFL tried to spark interest in Kaepernick last week, and could not, and that his reps made sure that video of the workout was delivered to every team, are just the latest signs that the chances are bleak that a team will step forward and sign him,” wrote ESPN senior writer Adam Schefter. “Some sources speculated that there had been teams interested in making a move with Kaepernick, and could in the weeks after his workout. But nothing has materialized, and nothing is expected to at this time.”

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One Week After NFL Workout, No Team Has Reached Out To Colin Kaepernick

Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett reportedly alleged on Wednesday in an appeal to the NFL that Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph called him a racial slur in the moments leading up to a recent on-field fight between the two players.
&#8220;Garrett made the allegation as part of his initial comments during the appeal hearing in New York, sources said,&#8221; ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter <a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/28130757/during-appeal-myles-garrett-accused-mason-rudolph-using-racial-slur">reported</a>. &#8220;It created an argumentative exchange between both sides about whether the allegation was permissible to be used in the appeal at that time.&#8221;
&#8220;When the allegation was made, appeals officer James Thrash remained stoic and took copious notes, sources said,&#8221; ESPN added. &#8220;He did ask Garrett a question about how he might act differently in the future, and Garrett conveyed he would not let events escalate like that again in the future.&#8221;
The Steelers, Rudolph, and Rudolph&#8217;s lawyer all strongly denied the accusation from Garrett.
Steelers spokesman Burt Lauten said: &#8220;Mason vehemently denies the report of being accused of using a racial slur during the incident Thursday night in Cleveland. He will not discuss this accusation any further and his focus remains on preparation for Sunday&#8217;s game against the Cincinnati Bengals.&#8221;
Rudolph&#8217;s attorney, Timothy M. Younger, said: &#8220;According to ESPN, in his appeal, Myles Garrett falsely asserted that Mason Rudolph uttered a racial slur toward him, prior to swinging a helmet at Mason&#8217;s uncovered head, in a desperate attempt to mitigate his suspension. This is a lie. This false allegation was never asserted by Garrett in the aftermath of the game, never suggested prior to the hearing, and conspicuously absent in the apology published by the Browns and adopted by Garrett. The malicious use of this wild and unfounded allegation is an assault on Mason&#8217;s integrity which is far worse than the physical assault witnessed on Thursday. This is reckless and shameful. We will have no further comment.&#8221;
Garrett&#8217;s appeal to the NFL comes after he was suspended indefinitely for the November 15th incident in which Garrett ripped Rudolph&#8217;s helmet off his head and hit him in the head with it.
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— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1195204456972988416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
The following day, Garrett <a href="http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000001076995/article/browns-de-myles-garrett-suspended-indefinitely">responded</a>, &#8220;Last night, I made a terrible mistake. I lost my cool and what I did was selfish and unacceptable. I know that we are all responsible for our actions and I can only prove my true character through my actions moving forward. I want to apologize to Mason Rudolph, my teammates, our entire organization, our fans and to the NFL. I know I have to be accountable for what happened, learn from my mistake and I fully intend to do so.&#8221;
Browns owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam responded to the incident the following day, saying, &#8220;We are extremely disappointed in what transpired last evening at the end of our game. There is no place for that in football and that is not reflective of the core values we strive for as an organization. We sincerely apologize to Mason Rudolph and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Myles Garrett has been a good teammate and member of our organization and community for the last three years but his actions last night were completely unacceptable. We understand the consequences from the league for his actions.&#8221;

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On Tuesday, police in Gainesville, Georgia, arrested a 16-year-old girl, who is white, for allegedly plotting to murder worshippers at a predominantly black church.
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&#8220;Our investigation indicated the church was targeted by the juvenile based on the racial demographic of the church members,&#8221; said police Chief Jay Parrish Tuesday in a statement reported by the <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law/breaking-year-girl-arrested-plot-attack-predominantly-black-church/utQwDjPJRESUuZCVcvufhO/#">Atlanta Journal-Constitution</a>. &#8220;The church was immediately notified of the incident by Gainesville police to ensure the safety of our community and the current threat was under control.&#8221;
AJC reports that the teen&#8217;s alleged plot was first discovered by students who reported to Gainesville High School administrators that the suspect had &#8220;detailed plans to commit murder&#8221; at the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church written in her notebook. The administrators notified the school resource officers Friday, who verified the students&#8217; claims, and turned the investigation over to the Gainesville Police Department.
Authorities took the girl into custody on Tuesday, charging her with criminal attempt to commit murder.
&#8220;Investigators aren’t sure how long the teen had allegedly been planning the attack, but &#8216;disturbing information&#8217; and drawings police found indicate the plot had been in the works for at least two weeks,&#8221; AJC reports, citing Gainesville police spokesman Sgt. Kevin Holbrook.
As detailed by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/11/19/white-teen-girl-detailed-plan-racist-attack-black-churchgoers-notebook-police-say/">The Washington Post</a>, the suspect&#8217;s notebook allegedly contains violent drawings and racist messages and an alarming degree of specificity about her plans, which appear to have included using knives and other sharp-edged weapons to kill the minority parishioners.
&#8220;There were many writings and drawings, different depictions, and a lot of hateful messages in it,” Sgt. Holbrook told the Post. &#8220;As far as the details go, they were down to very specific information.&#8221;
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&#8220;Police said the girl researched African American churches online, choosing Bethel AME Church because it is small,&#8221; the Post reports.
Police say that the girl visited the church earlier this month, perhaps to carry out her plot, but found the church empty.
&#8220;By pure grace, the church did not have service that evening,&#8221; Holbrook said. &#8220;We were very fortunate here.&#8221;
Bishop Reginald T. Jackson, who oversees the church&#8217;s district, agreed that the alleged failed attempt was divine intervention. However, her targeting of the predominantly black church, he said, is unsurprising.
&#8220;While we are very concerned about this incident, we are not surprised,&#8221; said the bishop, referencing the recent targeting of other houses of worship, including the massacre of nine congregants at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015 by a white supremacist, which church leaders believe inspired the teen girl.
Another tragic targeting of a house of worship occurred in 2018 in Pittsburgh, where an anti-Semitic gunman murdered 11 Jewish congregants at the Tree of Life synagogue. A synagogue in Colorado was also recently targeted by an anti-Semite; as with the Gainesville case, authorities were able to arrest the suspect before he was able to carry out his plot.
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AJC cites hate crime expert Stockton University Assoc. Professor Susan Fahey as noting at a recent American Society of Criminology conference that statistics show that hate crimes are on the rise nationally and have been so before the election of Donald Trump.
Bishop Jackson acknowledged the fact, but suggested that the administration could take more action.&#8221;You can’t blame it on the current administration,&#8221; he said, &#8220;but I think it is absolutely critical that this administration address the issue of domestic terrorism.&#8221;
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A new teacher training program called Deep Equity that is used across the nation reportedly has a hostile attitude toward whites, and there doesn’t seem to be any recourse for those who object. According to Tucker Carlson of Fox News, “No one will ask you if you like it or not, and don’t bother to complain. Deep Equity orders teachers, and we’re quoting now, ‘to explicitly reject and resist any parents who disagree with it.’”
Carlson reported that the program is created by Corwin, which describes it as a teacher training program that is “aimed at producing real school improvement for equity and social justice.” Carlson opined:
<blockquote>According to Deep Equity, America is based on a hierarchy of various oppressions: Men oppress women, Christianity oppresses Islam, English oppresses Spanish, white people oppress everyone. And, by the way, if you have a problem with this explanation, you are yourself entrenching oppression; you’re part of the problem. According to Corwin, differences in academic performance have nothing to do with culture or effort; they are purely the product of racism.</blockquote>
Carlson continued:
<blockquote>In order to fight that racism, teachers are instructed on different types of ‘white identity orientations’ … many white people, teachers are told, according to Deep Equity, are defined by their ‘ignorance and supremacy.’ Other white people, ‘question the systemic issues that have caused whites to be so much in a superior position. The curriculum offers what it calls a ‘White Allies Action Agenda.</blockquote>
The White Allies Action Agenda, as Carlson noted, lists various actions to take, including, “Acknowledge the reality of racism,” “acknowledge the reality of white racial privilege,” “educate other white people,” and “use your privilege to work for racial and social justice.”
Carlson noted that the curriculum is used from Virginia to Iowa to Arizona.
Deep Equity was developed by Gary Howard, who <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu8s5MxS38o">stated</a>, “The Deep Equity process that we’ve been implementing with school districts throughout the country now is a systemic process we do at Equity, we haven’t done sometimes, we need to make it long-term, multi-year systemic work. It can’t happen as a program, as a single-dimensional intervention. It needs to be affirmational; it needs to be continuing.&#8221;
The <a href="https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2019/10/30/chandler-unifieds-deep-equity-program-came-with-shocking-price-tag/">Arizona Daily Independent</a> reported that Chandler Unified School District’s spokesperson, Terry Locke, stated, “approximately 2,600 certified teachers have participated in the professional development because we facilitated a ‘train the trainer’ model. Approximately 270 received direct training.”
<a href="https://us.corwin.com/en-us/nam/the-program-deep-equity">Corwin</a> states:
<blockquote>Deep Equity is a comprehensive and systemic professional development process aimed at producing the deep personal, professional, and organizational transformations that are necessary to create equitable places of learning for all of our nation’s children. This capacity-building program helps educators dismantle disparities through sustained, collaborative efforts and courageous leadership …
The Deep Equity program is different. Developed and implemented nationally by Gary Howard, the Deep Equity program addresses the dynamics of power and privilege in a safe, engaging, and inspiring environment in which all educators are honored and valued as professionals. By engaging in the program, you and your colleagues will learn to dismantle educational disparities through your own sustained, collaborative efforts and courageous leadership.</blockquote>
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Report: Teacher Training Program Used Across The U.S. Is Hostile To Whites

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WATCH: Ben Shapiro Dismantles The Left&#8217;s Claim That America Was Built On Slavery

On Thursday, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro gave a speech at Stanford University, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-shapiro-dismantles-the-alt-right-and-radical-lefts-dangerous-game">covering </a>both the radical Left and the &#8220;alt-Right.&#8221; Shapiro explained that both of these movements feed off of each other, because each movement relies on a hierarchy for its existence. But while the radical Left’s intersectional philosophy puts white, Christian males at the bottom as the &#8220;least oppressed group,&#8221; the &#8220;alt-Right&#8221; flips that hierarchy on its head and white people become the desired, most important group of all.
Needless to say, what both of these groups stand for is anathema to Americanism — much less mainstream conservatism. The conservative believes that we are all, in the words of the Declaration of Independence, &#8220;[C]reated equal&#8221; and that all people &#8220;are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.&#8221; To be on the Right means to see no significance whatsoever in race, class, or sexual orientation. We conservatives believe in meritocracy and equality of opportunity for everyone.
However, the question remains, why does anyone in our society consider the &#8220;alt-Right&#8221; to actually be on the political Right?
These racists share nothing in common with conservatives. Indeed, as Shapiro noted in his speech, the Left and &#8220;alt-Right&#8221; are inherently intertwined, as both groups focus almost exclusively on the collective and on superficial external features. They focus on groups competing for hierarchical supremacy and winning awards for being the the most privileged and the most victimized.
This should come as no surprise. The Democratic Party, throughout much of its history, has focused on race, class and the collective, at-large. The Democratic Party was the political party of slavery and Jim Crow in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Until the 1960s, the Democratic Party largely defended school segregation in the South. The party of segregationists, such as Alabama Governor George Wallace and father of American leftism President Woodrow Wilson, is the same party that now endlessly promotes intersectionality and its champions, such as Linda Sarsour and Ilhan Omar.
As a perfect modern encapsulation of this, Massachusetts Senator and 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren tweeted the following last week:
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There are countless examples of the Left pushing this ideology. Warren&#8217;s obvious pander is just the latest example of the Left promoting a group over an individual.
And the &#8220;alt-Right&#8221; agrees with this approach, even if it utilizes it in a different way.
Should we then really call these people &#8220;alt-Right?&#8221;
The answer is no. By even accepting the tacit premise that these people have something in common with conservatives, we are using the Left’s branding and helping them spread this egregious lie — with the tragic result of allowing unvarnished racists to be lumped together with us. The Left’s goal is to confuse the public, brand us as bigots, and expand their own power.
The &#8220;alt-Right&#8221; and the radical Left are two sides of the same coin. We should stop calling them &#8220;Right,&#8221; no matter what the qualifier is. They are, in reality, an intellectual alternative to the Left.

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FRANKEL: The &#8216;Alt-Right&#8217; Is A Leftist Movement. We Should Refer To It As Such.

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At a Young America’s Foundation’s Fred Allen Lecture Series event on the campus of Stanford University Thursday evening, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro unpacked the &#8220;dangerous game&#8221; being played by both the radical Left and Alt-Right — two groups, he argued, that &#8220;feed off one another.&#8221;
Leading up to the event, Shapiro’s speech was protested by social justice activists, who organized a “silent rally,” erased messages by Stanford College Republicans promoting the event, and decried Shapiro’s supposedly “dehumanizing” ideas while simultaneously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/see-it-stanford-activists-compare-ben-shapiro-to-insect-while-condemning-dehumanizing-speech">comparing him to an insect</a> in need of extermination — in other words, all the usual antics that have become common on college campuses with Shapiro’s speeches, in particular, and those of any right-leaning personalities, in general.
Shapiro’s speech was initially titled “No, Leftist Idiots Don’t Get To Raise My Kids,” but, as Shapiro explained Thursday night, a heckling campaign by the Alt-Right inspired him to shift the focus to not just leftists, which he shredded succinctly in his opening comments, but those on the fringe-right who, he argued, are similarly destructive to political discourse.
“I want to talk about the dangerous game being played by two particular nasty groups who feed off one another: I am speaking about the radical Left and the Alt-Right,” the bestselling author and podcast host told the packed auditorium (video of full speech below).  While he noted that he rips the radical Left all the time on campuses because they are &#8220;dominated by the censorious and nasty radical Left,&#8221; Shapiro explained that he chose to focus more on the Alt-Right for this speech, in part because they&#8217;ve been &#8220;encouraging their minions to show up to ask pre-written questions designed to elicit LOLs from likeminded idiots who populate 8chan and Gab.&#8221;
As The Daily Wire reported, two days before Shapiro’s speech at Stanford, Alt-Right hecklers descended on a speech at Cal State LA by Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh to ask him trolling questions — the stunt <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-daily-wires-matt-walsh-slaps-down-alt-right-hecklers">didn’t go well for the hecklers</a>. Their appearance at the event is part of a larger coordinated attempt by Alt-Right influencers to disrupt mainstream conservative events. Hecklers similarly crashed an event a few days earlier involving Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
“The radical Left and the Alt-Right need each other,&#8221; said Shapiro. &#8220;And they’re playing a game, in which the radical Left seeks to delegitimize anyone who isn’t radically Left by lumping them in with the despicable Alt-Right — and in which the Alt-Right seeks to make common cause with anyone ‘cancelled’ by the radical Left, specifically with the supporters of President Trump who have been maligned falsely as evil by the radical Left, in order to artificially boost their numbers.”
“These two goals are mutually reinforcing,” Shapiro explained. “Here’s how this garbage works… Let’s say, for example, that you believe that ‘white civilization’ — a nonsensical term, since civilization is not defined by color but by history, culture, and philosophy — is under attack from multiracial hordes. Let’s say that you’re antipathetic toward Jews and enraged by the liberties guaranteed and protected by the Constitution of the United States. Let’s say you spend your days ranting about how American conservatives and traditional classical liberals — the sole protective force against the radical Left — haven’t ‘conserved’ anything. You say America is not a propositional or creedal nation, even though the nation’s founding literally begins with the words, ‘We hold these truths to be self- evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights&#8230; Let’s say you cite Christianity as the basis of your values, but you’re more likely to quote Nietzsche than Christ.&#8221;
After exposing the self-contradictory and transparently racist ideology espoused by Alt-Right influencers, Shapiro addressed their four-part strategy for mainstreaming their fringe movement.
“First, you declare your allegiance to President Trump, and declare that you aren’t really Alt-Right, even though you obviously are,” he explained. “You show up to lectures wearing a MAGA hat in order to get the media to cover it – and in order to demonstrate that you’re truly a representative of the 63 million Americans who voted for Trump. You call yourself ‘America First,’ hijacking Trump’s slogan, but twisting it to mean ‘white Americans first.’ The media will eat it up, because the media love nothing better than suggesting that Trump is a white supremacist, despite the fact that he has repeatedly condemned white supremacism.”
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Strategy two, Shapiro explained, the Alt-Right attempts to define themselves as &#8220;the heirs to conservatism.&#8221;
&#8220;You do so by simply lying about mainstream conservatives. You suggest that mainstream conservatives are insufficiently committed to social conservatism. You do this by asking questions like, ‘How does anal sex help us win the culture war?’” he said in reference to an Alt-Right heckler’s question at a TPUSA event. “The purpose is to simultaneously pose as edgy and also preserve your ability to say you were just joking.&#8221; Such actions, said Shapiro, &#8220;is by definition losing the culture war.”
“What helps America win the culture war is freedom: freedom against a government encroaching on your activities that don’t harm anyone else,&#8221; he said, offering a true conservative response. &#8220;As Edmund Burke put it, ‘Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself.’ You know what else helps win the culture war? Engaging with your community, involving yourself in the social fabric. Not creating Pepe memes online and then jabbering about anal sex.”
“In fact, there’s great irony in watching alt-righters claim that they should use the commanding heights of government to cram down their viewpoints on others – while complaining that the Left uses the commanding heights of government to cram down their viewpoint on others,” he added. “You can’t really whine about other people shutting down your viewpoint and activity that harms no one else while planning to shut down everybody else’s viewpoints.”
Shapiro also dismantled the Alt-Right’s racially charged rhetoric about “white European” ideals. “Race doesn’t have ideals,” said Shapiro. “And if you think it does, you’re indistinguishable from the identity politics Left. Spoiler alert: you are.”
As for the Alt-Right belief that “white people are superior to others,” Shapiro said the alt-righters’ “own idiocy and bigotry are a perfect rebuttal of [their supposed] supremacy.”
The third Alt-Right strategy, Shapiro argued, is to “troll” their enemies, as they have at recent conservative events.
Their fourth strategy, Shapiro said, is to “count on the Left to help” them. And the Left absolutely will, said Shapiro. &#8220;They’ll label anyone on the right Alt-Right, even if we say vocally and in no uncertain terms that the Alt-Right is pure, unbridled, vile garbage — even if members of the Alt-Right target those on the mainstream right. Even if Donald Trump condemns the worldview. You can argue with anything we say&#8230; we all disagree with each other pretty frequently. But there’s no doubt none of us are Alt-Right.”
Despite these glaring differences, Shapiro said, “the media and the Left will push the lie anyway.”
“So the Boston Globe will call my website, The Daily Wire, an &#8216;Alt-Right outpost&#8217; (we forced them to recant); the Economist will call me &#8216;the Alt-Right sage without the rage&#8217; (we’ll force them to recant),” he said. “Students at Boston University are festooning my posters with a Hitler mustache. Students at this university will mob those trying to put up posters for this lecture; they’ll tear down a large banner advertising my speech and replace it with a banner reading ‘Be tolerant, accept racism’… They’ll issue a flyer that literally depicts me as a cockroach on a bottle of bug spray with the label, ‘<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/see-it-stanford-activists-compare-ben-shapiro-to-insect-while-condemning-dehumanizing-speech">Ben B Gone</a>.’”
Shapiro then forcefully defended Trump against the smear. “The media will suggest that Trump is in league with the Alt-Right, even at this late date – they’ll neglect all Trump has done to purge his administration to those who were remotely friendly with the Alt-Right (see Bannon, Steve) and his forcible disavowal of the alt-right and white supremacism,” he said. “They’ll simply overlook that Trump isn’t a white supremacist, and declare that the MAGA hat is equivalent to a Nazi swastika – and they’ll say that by extension, anyone who wears a MAGA hat or votes for Trump is a secret Brownshirt.”
Shapiro then offered a “clarification” for the disingenuous Left: “If someone believes that all men are created equal, &#8230; that every American should have equality before the law, in free market capitalism, in small government, in equal opportunity for all people of all races, that person is not on the Alt-Right,” he said. “In fact, they despise the Alt-Right, and the Alt-Right despises them. But people on the Left know this, they just prefer the lie. Why? Because their goal is to delegitimize the entire right.”
The Left’s shutting down of free speech in the name of political correctness and identity politics promotes the growth of the Alt-Right, with whom they share tactics and aspects of their worldview. The only difference between the radical Left and the Alt-Right, is they reverse the victim hierarchy. &#8220;All of this is terrible for the country, it&#8217;s terrible for the discourse,&#8221; Shapiro concluded.
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&#8220;So, here I am, stuck in the middle with you,&#8221; Shapiro concluded. &#8220;Anyone, on the Right or Left, who wants to have an actual conversation about tough issues, that isn&#8217;t the bumper sticker, but that also is not willing to pretend that ugly bigotry is decency, that identity politics reflects truth, or that trollish meming is a substitute for an actual worldview,&#8221; Shapiro concluded. &#8220;Let’s have the conversation.&#8221;
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/see-it-stanford-activists-compare-ben-shapiro-to-insect-while-condemning-dehumanizing-speech">SEE IT: Stanford Activists Compare Ben Shapiro To Insect While Condemning ‘Dehumanizing’ Speech</a>
Partial transcript based on Shapiro’s prepared remarks.

WATCH: Shapiro Dismantles The Alt-Right And Radical Left’s ‘Dangerous Game’

Anti-Semitism

Following his team&#8217;s 24-19 loss to the Denver Broncos Sunday, Cleveland Browns safety Jermaine Whitehead unleashed a series of violent threats and racial slurs at critics online. After being publicly repudiated by the team following the posts, Whitehead was officially released by the Browns on Monday.
Whitehead was given the start on Sunday due to a hamstring injury suffered by starter Damarious Randall, as reported by <a href="https://www.complex.com/sports/2019/11/browns-safety-jermaine-whitehead-threatens-to-kill-someone-on-twitter-after-loss?utm_campaign=complexmag&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_medium=social">Complex</a>. Unfortunately for the safety, who was himself injured, Whitehead ended up unintentionally providing a highlight reel primed for social media mockery.
Among Whitehead&#8217;s bad moments was getting slammed to the ground by tight end Noah Fant on his way to a <a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2019/11/03/broncos-noah-fant-breakout-performance-against-browns/">75-yard touchdown</a> for the Broncos and missing a tackle that gave but Broncos key yardage. After ending the game with <a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/boxscore?gameId=401128088">zero tackles</a>, Whitehead found himself the subject of criticism online — and responded with violent threats, which he reportedly issued while still in uniform.
&#8220;Just saw two for 110 yards and a td. F*** boy,&#8221; wrote one critic.
Whitehead responded: &#8220;Don’t get shot at lil b**** … can you whoop my a**.. f*** football &#8230; let me know when you need my address …&#8221;
&#8220;Imma kill you b**** .. that’s on blood,&#8221; Whitehead tweeted in response to another critic.
In response to another twitterer writing, &#8220;Whitehead’s effort tackling today is a joke,&#8221; Whitehead responded with another threat and a racial slur: &#8220;Come get it in blood b**** made a** little boy. I’m out there with a broke hand .. don’t get smoked f*** a** cracker.&#8221;
When another critic tweeted, “Give me a time and a place. You suck,&#8221; Whitehead responded by providing an address then added: &#8220;Any f***in day of the week ??? CRACKER.&#8221;
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According to The Athletic&#8217;s Zac Jackson, Whitehead &#8220;<a href="https://theathletic.com/1348286/2019/11/03/browns-safety-jermaine-whitehead-issues-death-threats-on-social-media-in-wake-of-loss/">was still in full uniform</a>&#8221; when he was sending the tweets and the Brown&#8217;s PR team quickly tried to intervene.
The Browns issued a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/browns-safety-tweets-death-threats-racial-slurs-to-critics-following-loss">statement</a> Sunday condemning the player&#8217;s comments.
&#8220;Jermaine Whitehead’s social media posts following today’s game were totally unacceptable and highly inappropriate,&#8221; the team said in a statement. &#8220;We immediately spoke with Jermaine upon learning of these comments. The Browns in no way condone that type of language or behavior. This matter will be further addressed internally.&#8221;
While Twitter would eventually suspend Whitehead’s account, the safety continued his rant against his critics — though notably toned down — on Instagram.
&#8220;Crazy world. They line it up and say anything in the book too you. They tell you take the high road, when yo whole life you was taught to meet fire with fire,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;I do apologize for my performance, but having a broke hand and a strong fear of letting my team down is my downfall. Whatever happens happens. Ain trippin. They probably gone still talk crazy but this me getting smoke off my chest. I don’t need one like.. this from me to me! Keep ya head up homie, can’t nobody f*** with you. I dare em to try.&#8221;
Early Monday morning, the Browns announced that Whitehead was no longer on the team.
&#8220;Jermaine Whitehead’s disturbing social media rant cost him his job,&#8221; <a href="https://apnews.com/a650b3ea1c1640ba8e2cf69b06578715">AP</a> reported Monday. &#8220;The Browns cut the safety Monday, hours after the team reprimanded Whitehead for &#8216;totally unacceptable and highly inappropriate&#8217; posts following a 24-19 loss to the Denver Broncos on Sunday.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-going-to-alabama-lsu-game">Trump Going To Alabama-LSU Game</a>

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UPDATE: Cleveland Browns Player Posts Violent Threats, Racial Slurs, Gets Dropped By Team

A former regional director of a Philadelphia Starbucks cafe at the center of a racially charged incident that sparked national protests of the company is now suing her former employer for racial discrimination. The company, she alleges, fired her, a white female, and unfairly punished other white employees in order to appease protesters.
Shannon Phillips, the former regional director whose region included a Center City Philadelphia Starbucks, says she was fired less than a month after one of the store&#8217;s managers called police to remove two black men who remained in the cafe after refusing to order anything.
Phillips says she was terminated &#8220;because she objected to placing the white district manager at the 18th and Spruce Streets store on administrative leave for purportedly paying lower salaries to black workers than their white counterparts,&#8221; <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/news/starbucks-lawsuit-manager-discrimination-black-men-arrests-philadelphia-20191031.html">The Philadelphia Inquirer</a> reported Thursday.
&#8220;Phillips, who lives in South Jersey and worked for the coffee chain for 13 years, says Starbucks&#8217; reason for disciplining the manager was &#8216;factually impossible,&#8217; as the company’s &#8216;Partner Resources&#8217; branch sets employee salaries without input from the store’s district manager,&#8221; the paper reports.
In response, Phillips has filed a <a href="https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/PHILLIPSvSTARBUCKSCORPORATIONDocketNo119cv19432DNJOct282019CourtD?1572564813">lawsuit</a> against the company alleging racial discrimination. Her attorney has asked for a jury trial.
In a statement to <a href="https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2019/10/31/former-center-city-starbucks-manager-suing-company-for-alleged-discrimination-against-white-people/">CBS3 Philadelphia</a>, Starbucks denied the accusation. &#8220;We deny the claims of the lawsuit and are prepared to defend our case in court,&#8221; a Starbucks spokesperson told the outlet.
The national controversy that preceded Phillips&#8217; firing began with a viral video posted by an activist and writer who now <a href="https://twitter.com/missydepino?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E984539713016094721&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fphiladelphia.cbslocal.com%2F2019%2F10%2F31%2Fformer-center-city-starbucks-manager-suing-company-for-alleged-discrimination-against-white-people%2F">describes</a> herself on Twitter as &#8220;that white lady who tweeted the Starbucks video then co-founded the [<a href="https://twitter.com/privtoprog">From Privilege to Progress</a>] movement.&#8221;
&#8220;The police were called because these men hadn’t ordered anything,&#8221; Melissa &#8220;That White Lady&#8221; DePino tweeted on April 12 of last year along with a video of police escorting two black men out of the Center City Starbucks. &#8220;They were waiting for a friend to show up, who did as they were taken out in handcuffs for doing nothing. All the other white ppl are wondering why it’s never happened to us when we do the same thing.&#8221;
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<a href="https://twitter.com/Starbucks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Starbucks</a> The police were called because these men hadn’t ordered anything. They were waiting for a friend to show up, who did as they were taken out in handcuffs for doing nothing. All the other white ppl are wondering why it’s never happened to us when we do the same thing. <a href="https://t.co/0U4Pzs55Ci">pic.twitter.com/0U4Pzs55Ci</a>
— Melissa “That White Lady” DePino (@missydepino) <a href="https://twitter.com/missydepino/status/984539713016094721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 12, 2018</a></blockquote>
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The two men, Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson, told police and the press in subsequent interviews that they were simply waiting for another business partner to arrive for a meeting before they ordered.
The manager who contacted police says she told the men when they asked to use the restroom that the store policy is that they must first order something. She says they refused to order anything and instead chose to sit down. After allegedly warning them she would have to call police, she did so, <a href="https://nypost.com/2018/04/17/police-release-recording-of-call-that-lead-to-arrest-of-black-men-at-starbucks/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=NYPTwitter&amp;utm_medium=SocialFlow">telling</a> police in a recorded call, &#8220;I have two gentlemen in my cafe that are refusing to make a purchase or leave.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://apple.news/AYlFb6RSpTIiXQFxA6xn6GA">Christopher Norris</a>, who interviewed the manager, she cited &#8220;a corporate policy germane exclusively to Center City Philadelphia locations prohibits excessive loitering.&#8221; If that policy is violated, Norris explained, &#8220;then management has the discretion to ensure it’s enforced, even if it means calling the police.&#8221;
When the officers arrived, they asked Nelson and Robinson to leave. After the two men refused, the officers handcuffed them and escorted them out of the cafe.
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Philadelphia PD Commissioner Richard Ross defended the actions of his officers. &#8220;It is important to emphasize and underscore that these officers had legal standing to make this arrest,&#8221; he <a href="https://defensemaven.io/bluelivesmatter/news/video-police-reveal-men-arrested-for-being-black-at-starbucks-is-a-lie-Q9m0AUa4BEeKjvEJJpuyMg/">said</a>. &#8220;Again, they were called to the scene because employees said that they were trespassing. It is important for me to say, in short, that these officers did absolutely nothing wrong. They followed policy. They did what they were supposed to do. They were professional in all their dealings with these gentlemen, and instead, they got the opposite back.&#8221;
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&#8220;I can tell you that there was a case involving one of our sergeants, probably a couple years ago, who went to Starbucks in full uniform and he was also denied access to the restroom,&#8221; said Ross. &#8220;So they are at least consistent in their policy.&#8221;
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Five days after the incident, Starbucks issued a <a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/press/2018/starbucks-to-close-stores-nationwide-for-racial-bias-education-may-29/">news release</a> announcing that the company &#8220;will be closing its more than 8,000 company-owned stores in the United States on the afternoon of May 29 to conduct racial-bias education geared toward preventing discrimination in our stores.&#8221;
&#8220;I’ve spent the last few days in Philadelphia with my leadership team listening to the community, learning what we did wrong and the steps we need to take to fix it,&#8221; Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson said in a statement featured in the release. &#8220;While this is not limited to Starbucks, we’re committed to being a part of the solution. Closing our stores for racial bias training is just one step in a journey that requires dedication from every level of our company and partnerships in our local communities.&#8221;
This article has been expanded to include more details of the lawsuit.
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Former First Lady Michelle Obama said Tuesday that she &#8220;can&#8217;t make people not afraid of black people,&#8221; though she tries to &#8220;pick away at the scabs of discrimination.&#8221;
&#8220;As people doubted us coming through — &#8216;Are you Princeton material? Can you really make the grade? Can you cut it?&#8217; — what do you do in those instances? All you can do is put your head down and do the work and let the work, your truth, speak for itself,&#8221; Mrs. Obama explained at the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago, as reported by <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/467941-michelle-obama-i-cant-make-people-not-afraid-of-black-people">The Hill</a>.
&#8220;I can&#8217;t make people not afraid of black people. I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on. I can&#8217;t explain what&#8217;s happening in your head,&#8221; she said.
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&#8220;But maybe if I show up every day as a human, a good human, doing wonderful things, loving my family, loving our kids, taking care of things that I care about — maybe, just maybe that work will pick away at the scabs of our discrimination,&#8221; the 55-year-old continued, receiving cheers from the audience. &#8220;Maybe that will slowly unravel it.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s all we have,&#8221; Mrs. Obama continued. &#8220;Because we can&#8217;t do it for them, because they&#8217;re broken. Their brokenness in how they see us is a reflection of this brokenness. And you can&#8217;t fix that. All you can do is the work.&#8221;
The former First Lady also lamented so-called &#8220;white flight&#8221; during the summit interview.
&#8220;As families like ours — upstanding families like ours who were doing everything we were supposed to do and better. As we moved in, white folks moved out because they were afraid of what our families represented,&#8221; she said, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/yall-were-running-from-us-michelle-obama-claims-white-folks-are-afraid-of-living-in-black-neighborhoods">The Washington Examiner</a>.
&#8220;I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us &#8230; This family, with all the values that you read about, you were running from us. And you’re still running because we’re no different than the immigrant families that are moving in,&#8221; Mrs. Obama claimed. &#8220;The families that are coming from other places to try to do better. But, because we can so easily wash over who we really were — because of the color of our skin, because of the texture of our hair — that’s what divides countries, artificial things.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/internet-wrecks-obamas-over-15-million-marthas-amanda-prestigiacomo">reporting</a> this summer, the Obamas are on track to buy a $15 million beachfront property at Martha’s Vineyard.
Mrs. Obama, a Princeton University graduate, was our nation&#8217;s First Lady for eight years. In 2018, Americans named Mrs. Obama the most admirable woman, edging out former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, according to <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/245669/michelle-obama-ends-hillary-clinton-run-admired.aspx">Gallop</a> polling. Oprah Winfrey came in a distant second to Mrs. Obama.
Moreover, Mrs. Obama&#8217;s husband, former President Barack Obama, &#8220;was the winner among men for the 11th consecutive year, including one year as president-elect, eight as president and two as former president,&#8221; Gallop reported.
Mr. Obama served three terms in the Illinois Senate and then as president of the United States for eight years, elected each time despite what the Democrats suggest is America&#8217;s endemic racism.
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Michelle Obama: &quot;I can&#39;t make people not afraid of black people. I don&#39;t know what&#39;s going on, I can&#39;t explain what&#39;s happening in your head, but maybe if I show up every day as a human, a good human &#8230; Just maybe that work will pick away at the scabs of your discrimination.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/DBo169sN0Y">pic.twitter.com/DBo169sN0Y</a>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/obama-get-over-being-woke-stop-online-outrage-cancel-culture">Obama: ‘Get Over’ Being ‘Woke,’ Stop Online Outrage Cancel Culture</a>
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