It&#8217;s known as &#8220;Chinese Restaurant Syndrome,&#8221; or CRS.
The term was added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary in 1993 and is defined as &#8220;a group of symptoms (such as numbness of the neck, arms, and back with headache, dizziness, and palpitations) that is held to affect susceptible persons eating food and especially Chinese food heavily seasoned with monosodium glutamate.&#8221;
But just like everything else in the world these days, some people are outraged with the term — even going so far as to say it&#8217;s racist.
Activists have launched a new campaign called &#8220;Redefine CRS,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/18/asia/chinese-restaurant-syndrome-msg-intl-hnk-scli/index.html">CNN reported</a>. &#8220;Headed by Japanese food and seasoning company Ajinomoto, the online campaign urges Merriam-Webster to change its entry to reflect the scientific consensus on MSG — and the impact of misinformation on the American public&#8217;s perception of Asian cuisine.&#8221;
<blockquote>This perception, which activists argue is outdated and racist, is so widespread that the Merriam-Webster dictionary has an entry for the term &#8220;Chinese restaurant syndrome&#8221; — a type of condition that allegedly affects people eating &#8220;Chinese food heavily seasoned with monosodium glutamate,&#8221; with symptoms like dizziness and palpitations.
&#8220;To this day, the myth around MSG is ingrained in America&#8217;s consciousness, with Asian food and culture still receiving unfair blame,&#8221; said the company in its campaign website. &#8220;Chinese Restaurant Syndrome isn&#8217;t just scientifically false — it&#8217;s xenophobic.&#8221;</blockquote>
Ajinomoto has released a <a href="https://www.whyusemsg.com/chinese-restaurant-syndrome/">video</a> that features Asian American figures, along with restaurateurs and medical professionals, who decry the complaints against MSG.
&#8220;Calling it Chinese restaurant syndrome is really ignorant,&#8221; restaurateur Eddie Huang says in the video.
The &#8220;Redefine CRS&#8221; campaign calls the Merriam-Webster entry &#8220;an outdated term that falsely blamed Chinese food containing MSG, or monosodium glutamate, for a group of symptoms.&#8221;
Merriam-Webster wrote on Wednesday that it will be &#8220;reviewing the term and revising accordingly.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re constantly in the process of updating as usage and attitudes evolve, so we&#8217;re grateful when readers can point us toward a definition that needs attention,&#8221; the dictionary company said.
CRS first made headlines in 1969 when a <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/5764480">scientific paper</a> identified MSG as &#8220;the cause of the Chinese restaurant syndrome.&#8221; The paper warned that it causes &#8220;burning sensations, facial pressure, and chest pain.&#8221;
The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2012 called the food seasoning safe:
<blockquote>Over the years, FDA has received reports of symptoms such as headache and nausea after eating foods containing MSG. However, we were never able to confirm that the MSG caused the reported effects.
These adverse event reports helped trigger FDA to ask the independent scientific group Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) to examine the safety of MSG in the 1990s. FASEB’s report concluded that MSG is safe. The FASEB report identified some short-term, transient, and generally mild symptoms, such as headache, numbness, flushing, tingling, palpitations, and drowsiness that may occur in some sensitive individuals who consume 3 grams or more of MSG without food. However, a typical serving of a food with added MSG contains less than 0.5 grams of MSG. Consuming more than 3 grams of MSG without food at one time is unlikely.</blockquote>
And the FDA said &#8220;although many people identify themselves as sensitive to MSG, in studies with such individuals given MSG or a placebo, scientists have not been able to consistently trigger reactions.&#8221;
MSG has been involved in racism before now. Anthony Bourdain, the late host of CNN&#8217;s award-winning series &#8220;Parts Unknown,&#8221; said in 2016, &#8220;I don&#8217;t react to it — nobody does. It&#8217;s a lie.&#8221;
&#8220;You know what causes Chinese restaurant syndrome?&#8221; Bourdain said. &#8220;Racism.&#8221;

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MSG In Chinese Food Isn’t Unhealthy — You’re Just Racist, Activists Say

Racism

Recruits to the Washington, D.C., fire department are under investigation by the District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services because they posed for a photo while flashing what a CBS News report labeled, a &#8220;white power&#8221; hand signal.
No surprise, the &#8220;white power&#8221; signal is, yet again, more likely the &#8220;OK&#8221; hand sign, used during the so-called &#8220;circle game,&#8221; though CBS and other mainstream media outlets were quick to accuse the recruits of abject racism.
&#8220;A photo of multiple D.C. Fire and EMS recruits holding possible &#8216;white power&#8217; symbols is circulating across social media platforms,&#8221; <a href="https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/dc-fire-recruits-seen-holding-white-power-symbol-in-picture/65-38b59e24-5a74-4c43-8d5d-ad9ee2fd64e3">D.C.&#8217;s CBS affiliate reported Thursday</a>.
&#8220;The gesture is similar to the &#8216;OK&#8217; hand sign,&#8221; the outlet explained. &#8220;The three fingers extended is supposed to be a &#8216;W&#8217; and the circle coming off the arm is a &#8216;P&#8217; &#8212; &#8216;WP&#8217; for &#8216;white power.'&#8221;
The photograph includes fire and EMS recruits from Recruit Class 387 and their instructors, reportedly at the time of the recruits&#8217; graduation in April of 2019. The photo surfaced only recently on social media and quickly went viral on Facebook.
&#8220;The department has immediately initiated an interview review of the photograph, which may include interviews with everyone pictured in the photograph,&#8221; CBS news reported.
&#8220;As a district citizen, I don&#8217;t feel comfortable with DC fire recruits taking pictures while showing the white power symbol,&#8221; one concerned Washington, D.C. resident told the outlet. &#8220;They all just saw the fall back from the Navy midshipmen doing this online, yet they still decide to follow with the same racial antics. Whoever took this picture and posted it online, should be looked at as well.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-power-white-power-sign-dc-fire-department-recruits-might-be-making-racist-hand-gesture-photo/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&amp;linkId=80730464">CBS&#8217;s national news outlet</a> quickly seized on the story.
It is not clear that any real advocate of &#8220;white power&#8221; has ever used the &#8220;OK&#8221; hand sign as a racist gesture; the connection between the signal and &#8220;white supremacy&#8221; began as a way for the denizens of Internet sites 4chan and 8chan to troll gullible media reporting on President Donald Trump&#8217;s supporters whom they presume to be white supremacists. The Anti-Defamation League says the &#8220;OK&#8221; symbol was &#8220;co-opted&#8221; by white supremacist groups.
The symbol is more commonly aligned with the juvenile &#8220;circle game,&#8221; where players compete to force other players to notice the &#8220;OK&#8221; symbol, in person and in photographs.
Last month, outlets like CBS panicked after leftists on social media identified what they considered to be &#8220;white power&#8221; signs in photos and video of West Point cadets and Naval Academy midshipmen attending the annual Army-Navy game. After the allegations went viral on Twitter, the United States military academies were forced to undertake an investigation into the matter. Unsurprisingly, they found that the cadets who were accused of being &#8220;racists&#8221; were, in fact, playing the circle game.
&#8220;We are confident the hand gestures used were not intended to be racist in any way,&#8221; Naval Academy superintendent Vice Admiral Sean Buck said in a statement released to media following the conclusion of the academy&#8217;s investigation. &#8220;However, we are disappointed by the immature behavior of the two Fourth Class Midshipmen, and their actions will be appropriately addressed.&#8221;
West Point found the same thing. &#8220;We had reason to believe these actions were an innocent game and not linked to extremism, but we must take allegations such as these very seriously,&#8221; their superintendent said in a separate statement.

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AGAIN? Media Claims Washington, D.C., Firefighter Recruits Are Flashing &#8216;White Power&#8217; Sign In Group Photo

White Supremacy

In 2008, Democrats nominated for president a first-term U.S. senator with no serious legislative experience, Barack Obama. They nominated him over the long-championed, long-celebrated presumptive heir apparent to the Democratic leadership, Hillary Clinton. Obama was, of course, the first black Democratic nominee, and he would be the first black president.
In 2020, 12 years later, we have been informed by the media that Democrats are ensconced in racism anew. Why?
First, because Democrats refused to activate in support of awkwardly robotic Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), who is black; second, because Democrats refused to activate in support of wild-eyed former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro, who is Latino; and now because Democrats refused to activate in support of scenery-chewing Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), who is black.
Democrats have been accused by the media of having ignored their initially diverse field in favor of old, white candidates (amusingly, the media only noticed that Sen. Elizabeth Warren was, indeed, an old white person when actual people of color were booted from the race). It appears that the memory of President Obama — not yet four years old — is not enough to insulate Democrats from charges of discrimination.
Then there&#8217;s Hollywood.
In 2014, African actress Lupita Nyong&#8217;o won an Oscar for her supporting role in &#8220;12 Years a Slave.&#8221; In 2018, director Greta Gerwig was nominated for a best director Oscar for &#8220;Lady Bird.&#8221;
This week, we found out that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had neglected — horror of horrors! — to nominate both Nyong&#8217;o, for her role in the extraordinarily overrated horror flick &#8220;Us,&#8221; and Gerwig, for her direction of &#8220;Little Women.&#8221;
These oversights, we were solemnly informed, evidenced the Academy&#8217;s deep-seated bias in favor of white men. Never mind that Cynthia Erivo was nominated for best actress for her role as Harriet Tubman in &#8220;Harriet.&#8221; Discrimination was alive and well in Hollywood.
It must be difficult to live in an environment in which every day is a perpetual test of one&#8217;s submission to the &#8220;Woke Police.&#8221; It must be difficult to know that no past act stands in favor of the accused — that each day must be lived fresh — and that all past omissions stand against the accused. But the intersectional revolution requires continual struggle and continual sacrifice.
In Arthur Koestler&#8217;s &#8220;Darkness at Noon,&#8221; communist lackey Rubashov is jailed and charged — of what crime, it does not matter. The Soviet Union is purging members of the older generation and Rubashov is told that he must confess in order to uphold the sanctity of his own cause. Eventually, Rubashov does exactly that.
&#8220;There is nothing for which one could die, if one died without having repented and unreconciled with the Party and the Movement,&#8221; Rubashov says in his confession. &#8220;Therefore, on the threshold of my last hour, I bend my knees to the country, to the masses and to the whole people.&#8221; The choice between dying honestly, in repudiation of his own cause, was simply too much.
In the end, all revolutionaries will have to determine whether they, too, will bow before the cause — even if they go unjustly to the guillotine. Because there is one basic rule of radical revolutions: Those who are first to launch them are often just slightly delayed in feeling their wrath.

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SHAPIRO: For Democrats, Every Day Is A Perpetual Test Of One’s Submission To The ‘Woke Police’

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Political Correctness

A voter may dislike a black, homosexual, or female candidate, but it&#8217;s not likely that he would openly admit it. However, diversity-crazed leftist/progressive Democrats have openly condemned the physical characteristics of some of their 2020 presidential candidates. Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are leading the polls despite the fact that they have been condemned as old white men. While Pete Buttigieg is homosexual, something that pleases diversity crazies, he is also a white man, young and religious. With Kamala Harris&#8217; departure from the race, the Democratic field has lost one of its persons of color. Another, Senator Cory Booker, stands at 2% in the polls; his days are numbered. That means the only Democratic candidates polling high are those condemned as old white people — two men and one woman, Elizabeth Warren.
LaTosha Brown, the co-founder of Black Voters Matter, said she was initially eager for Joe Biden to enter the race but now has second thoughts. Brown said: &#8220;I&#8217;m over white men running the country. I don&#8217;t know if him (sic) getting in changes the field. He has name recognition, but his strength is also his weakness.&#8221; Former presidential candidate Howard Dean lamented, &#8220;If we have two old white guys at the top of this ticket, we will lose.&#8221; The newest entry into the presidential sweepstakes, Michael Bloomberg, had to apologize for what some see as his diversity insensitiveness namely that of calling fellow presidential candidate Cory Booker &#8220;well-spoken&#8221; in a TV interview. The New Jersey senator said he was &#8220;taken aback&#8221; by what he saw as Bloomberg&#8217;s racist &#8220;trope.&#8221;
Michael Moore gave us his racist warning: &#8220;Two-thirds of all white guys voted for Trump. That means anytime you see three white guys walking at you, down the street toward you, two of them voted for Trump. You need to move over to the other sidewalk because these are not good people that are walking toward you. You should be afraid of them.&#8221;
This is the new racism, much of it learned and taught at our nation&#8217;s colleges. George Orwell said, &#8220;Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.&#8221; The stupid ideas about inclusion and diversity originate with academics on college campuses. If their ideas didn&#8217;t infect the rest of society, they might be a source of entertainment. But these cancerous ideas have infected society. Statements such as &#8220;I&#8217;m over white men running the country,&#8221; or &#8220;If we have two old white guys at the top of this ticket, we will lose&#8221; are examples of that cancer.
Last year, Philip Carl Salzman wrote &#8220;The War Against White People&#8221; in Minding the Campus. He declared: &#8220;Anti-white hate is now mainstream American culture. Not just by racial extremists such as Black Lives Matter, for whom statements such as &#8220;all lives matter&#8221; or &#8220;blue lives matter&#8221; are racist. Our highest leaders sing the same song.&#8221;
When Barack Obama was campaigning for the presidency in 2008, he said of working-class white voters, &#8220;They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren&#8217;t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.&#8221; During the 2016 presidential campaign, candidate Hillary Clinton claimed that half of Donald Trump&#8217;s supporters were &#8220;a basket of deplorables&#8221; who were &#8220;racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it.&#8221; Do you think Clinton was talking about Trump&#8217;s black, Asian and Hispanic supporters? No, she was talking about millions of Trump&#8217;s white supporters.
Then there&#8217;s Sarah Jeong, a member of The New York Times editorial board and graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard Law School. She expressed publicly many anti-white opinions. Among them are: &#8220;The world could get by just fine with zero white people.&#8221; &#8220;Dumbass f—-ing white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants.&#8221; It&#8217;s &#8220;kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men.&#8221; I guarantee you that The New York Times would have fired any employee making similar statements about black, Hispanic or homosexual people.
The bottom line is that the new racism, born in academia, is just as ugly as the old racism.
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: The New Racism

The big narrative following Prince Harry and Meghan Markle&#8217;s split from the Royal Family is that Britain&#8217;s racism played a role in their decision.
Over at <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/10/entertainment/meghan-markle-blame-all-sides-race-trnd/index.html">CNN</a>, Lisa Respers France argued that Britons have been sending a message to Meghan Markle since the day she announced her engagement to Harry: &#8220;You aren&#8217;t one of us, and you aren&#8217;t welcome.&#8221;
&#8220;Meghan, a biracial, divorced American actress, was far from what many envisioned as a fairy-tale match for a beloved member of the British royal family,&#8221; wrote Respers France. &#8220;While many in the UK welcomed her, the British tabloid media and a large swath of the Twitterverse were not kind. It became so bad that Kensington Palace <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/08/europe/uk-prince-harry-meghan-markle/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">released a statement scolding the press about its treatment of her.&#8221;</a>
Now that Meghan Markle has announced her exit, Respers France claimed that Britons have changed their questions about her from &#8220;Why are you here?&#8221; to &#8220;Where do you think you&#8217;re going.&#8221; Kehinde Andrews, an associate professor of sociology at Birmingham City University, said that Markle&#8217;s exit was partially inevitable.
&#8220;It was never going to end well,&#8221; said Andrews. &#8220;The British royal family is one of the premiere symbols of whiteness in the world. She was never going to be fully accepted.&#8221;
Likewise, Nsenga Burton, a professor at Emory University in Atlanta, said that criticism of Meghan Markle&#8217;s exit &#8212; which has now taken on a life of its own under the hashtag #Megxit &#8212; &#8220;reinforces the stereotype of black women being destructive, divisive, and unsatisfied.&#8221;
&#8220;People are cool with black women as long as we go along to get along,&#8221; she said. &#8220;As soon as we start standing up for ourselves and saying, &#8216;This is not working for me,&#8217; we become the problem.&#8221;
Natasha Eubanks, founder and editor of <a href="https://theybf.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">TheYBF.com,</a> echoed Burton&#8217;s sentiment, going further to argue that haters of Markle&#8217;s desire for &#8220;self-sovereignty&#8221; show tinges of sexism. &#8220;Having the audacity – because that&#8217;s what it is – to exhibit self-sovereignty has always been a privilege reserved for men, especially white men,&#8221; she told CNN. &#8220;Yet here is Meghan exhibiting this &#8216;audacity&#8217; and it&#8217;s being &#8230; pushed forward by a white man who happens to be her husband.&#8221;
The sight of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle splitting off especially &#8220;triggers people,&#8221; according to Eubank, because it places &#8220;a white Prince of royal blood and a black American woman commoner&#8221; on equal footing.
&#8220;That sight doesn&#8217;t sit well with everyone due to how they&#8217;ve been conditioned to view women and people of color, whether they realize it or not,&#8221; she asserted.
In response to the arguments, &#8220;Good Morning Britain&#8221; co-host Piers Morgan, who previously hosted &#8220;Piers Morgan Live&#8221; on CNN, roasted his former employer for using the British Royal Family drama for an escapade of &#8220;race-baiting,&#8221; arguing that Meghan Markle invited most of the bad press she received.
&#8220;Disgraceful race-baiting by ⁦@CNN &#8211; this is such a lie,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/piers-morgan-cnn-meghan-markle">Morgan said on Twitter</a>.  &#8220;Meghan’s had a LOT of very good press &amp; some bad press when she has (mostly) deserved it. But I haven’t seen anything racist published or broadcast about her in the British media. It’s a lie.&#8221;
Piers Morgan then shared images of British tabloids fawning over Meghan Markle since the beginning. &#8220;&#8216;Nasty racist British press had it in for Meghan from the start,'&#8221; Morgan quipped.
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&#39;Nasty racist British press had it in for Meghan from the start.&#39; <a href="https://t.co/vdKfOC5BTh">pic.twitter.com/vdKfOC5BTh</a>
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CNN: Racism To Blame For Meghan Markle Split

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A Yale University student who called the cops on a student in her dorm and became the subject of harassment after the story was reported as “napping while black” says racism was not what motivated her to call police.
The College Fix <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/they-knew-i-was-innocent-yale-fights-foia-from-student-demanding-release-of-police-body-cam-footage/">reported</a> that Sarah Braasch, a philosophy graduate student at the school, had earlier called police on a student (who was black) “whom she believed was not authorized to be in her dormitory building, after which she said she was subject to a small amount of harassment in her dorm building,” the Fix reported.
Braasch then had a conversation with another black student, Lolade Siyonbola, in the common room of the dorm and became convinced that Siyonbola was one of the students who was harassing her. A Freedom of Information Act request from the Fix revealed a post-hearing brief that said, “the purpose of the encounter” was due to Braasch becoming “concerned that the sleeping person was among those who had been harassing her.”
The brief also said Braasch’s “unrefuted testimony shows she did not call with the purpose of having Ms. Siyonbola arrested or criminally charged,”
The incident occurred last May, and Braasch received harassment on a national level thanks to racial activists. Braasch’s harassers even demanded she be crimally charged, the Fix reported. For her part, Siyonbola used her newfound victim platform to demand, along with other Yal students, that Braasch be expelled.
“Campus officials publicly condemned the incident. She received death threats. Eventually she fled campus and has not returned, continuing her education from an unnamed southwestern state,” the Fix reported.
Braasch emailed the Fix on Tuesday, saying she is now seeking to release the police body cam footage from the incident, which she says will clear her name after being called a racist.
“I feel strongly that the footage, which I will immediately release to the public … reveals that the Yale Administration and Police told disgusting lies about me.  They knew the entire time that I was entirely innocent, and they knew that they were telling disgusting lies about me, grossly violating my Federal Civil Rights by doing so, and they knew that they were putting my life in grave danger, destroying my lifelong human and civil rights academic and legal careers, and probably driving me to suicide, which they almost did,” Braasch said in the email.
“Yale is trying to claim the exemption that the body camera footage contains uncorroborated criminal allegations.  This is simply false.  The allegations in the video are neither uncorroborated nor criminal in nature,” she added.
On December 31, Braasch posted an <a href="https://medium.com/@sarah.braasch/my-six-years-at-yale-with-the-woke-intersectional-feminists-and-how-they-tried-to-destroy-me-my-bb9fae2fd386">essay</a> on Medium saying that she would “never have a career in academia now,” because of the viral campaign against her. Still, she remained hopeful that “the decision of the CT FOIA Commission Hearing Officer will be in my favor, and the world will get to see how the Yale Administration and Police told disgusting lies about me.”
“I will never stop fighting for vindication and justice. I will never stop fighting for everyone whose life and career have been destroyed by false accusations and the moral outrage industry,” she added in the essay.

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Student Who Called Cops In ‘Napping While Black’ Incident Wants Police Body Cam Footage To Prove She’s Not Racist

Education

Yale

A stirring new friend-of-the-court (&#8220;amicus&#8221;) <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-1323/127140/20191231111040123_Prolife%20African%20American%20Organizations%20Amicus%20Brief%20TO%20FILE.pdf">brief</a> in a high-profile U.S. Supreme Court abortion case, filed on behalf of numerous &#8220;African American pro-life organizations,&#8221; powerfully argues that there is a &#8220;a long history involving unqualified and uncredentialed abortion providers disproportionately harming black women.&#8221;
The case, which has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/legal-argument-louisiana-could-have-huge-josh-hammer">previously been covered</a> by The Daily Wire, is <a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/june-medical-services-llc-v-gee-3/">June Medical Services, L.L.C. v. Gee</a>, and emanates out of the New Orleans-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The case involves a Louisiana law that requires abortionists to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. The law was upheld by a divided Fifth Circuit panel. As described by <a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/june-medical-services-llc-v-gee-3/">SCOTUSblog</a>, Gee presents the legal question of whether the statute &#8220;conflicts with the Supreme Court’s binding precedent in <a href="https://casetext.com/case/whole-womans-health-v-hellerstedt">Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt</a>.&#8221; In the 2016 Hellerstedt case, a divided Supreme Court deemed a similar statute in Texas to be unconstitutional.
Prominent black pro-life leaders who signed on to the <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-1323/127140/20191231111040123_Prolife%20African%20American%20Organizations%20Amicus%20Brief%20TO%20FILE.pdf">amicus brief</a> include Ryan Bomberger, Alveda King (the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.), Dean Nelson, Catherine Davis, Stacy Washington, and numerous others. The brief&#8217;s argument summary opens with a bang:
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The struggle for racial equality is not over. The black community experiences a disproportionate share of abortions, often from doctors that do not have the same credentials as those who perform other forms of surgery. Until Act 620, Louisiana’s abortion clinics were exempt from the admitting privileges requirement that applies to other outpatient and ambulatory surgical centers in the state. This disparity is significant to black women, who make up the majority of abortion clinic patients and thus bear most of the known risks of abortion in Louisiana. These known risks are life-threatening to mothers.
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The brief continues to tear at the heartstrings by recalling the tragic stories of many black women who have died from abortion complications when they visited Kermit Gosnell-esque shoddy, un-credentialed, largely unregulated abortion clinics. &#8220;These gruesome deaths are part of a long history involving unqualified and uncredentialed abortion providers disproportionately harming black women,&#8221; the brief continued. &#8220;By requiring admitting privileges, [Louisiana] also created a means for reports about individual doctors to be checked against a national database — for the benefit of all patients, of all races, equally.&#8221;
As has been frequently noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/eugenicists-abortion-group-director-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud-to-new-york-times-reporters">The Daily Wire</a>, Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was an avowed eugenicist and racist. Sanger “was an out and proud eugenicist who described the poor and immigrants as ‘human weeds,’ ‘reckless breeders’ and ‘spawning … human beings who never should have been born’ in her book ‘Pivot of Civilization,&#8217;” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-removes-poster-racist-margaret-sanger-paul-bois">The Daily Wire</a> has reported.
Sanger also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-removes-poster-racist-margaret-sanger-paul-bois">wrote</a>: “The main objects of the Population Congress would be to apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring[;] to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.”
In a thunderous recent separate writing in the Fifth Circuit case of <a href="http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/18/18-60868-CV0.pdf">Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization v. Dobbs</a>, Judge James C. Ho (for whom, in the interest of full disclosure, I previously served as a law clerk) <a href="http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/18/18-60868-CV0.pdf">wrote at length</a> on the racist history of abortion advocacy in the United States (footnotes omitted):
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Eugenics—the concept of improving the human race through control of the reproductive process—has frequently been associated with explicitly racist viewpoints. “Many eugenicists believed that the distinction between the fit and the unfit could be drawn along racial lines.” Box v. Planned Parenthood of Ind. &amp; Ky., Inc., 139 S. Ct. 1780, 1785 (2019) (Thomas, J., concurring) (providing examples). Many eugenics programs, such as sterilization, explicitly targeted minorities—as the district court rightly acknowledged. Jackson Women’s Health Org., 349 F. Supp. 3d at 541 n.22 (noting that “Mississippi . . . sterilized six out of ten black women in Sunflower County at the local hospital—against their will”).
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“From the beginning, birth control and abortion were promoted as means of effectuating eugenics.” Box, 139 S. Ct. at 1787 (Thomas, J., concurring). See also id. (“[A]bortion is an act rife with the potential for eugenic manipulation.”); id. at 1788 (discussing Margaret Sanger’s view that birth control would help control the African American population); id. at 1789 (“Support for abortion can . . . be found throughout the literature on eugenics.”); DAVID T. BEITO &amp; LINDA ROYSTER BEITO, BLACK MAVERICK: T.R.M. HOWARD’S FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND ECONOMIC POWER 215 (2009) (noting that some African American civil rights leaders “fretted about the racist implications of abortion”). Indeed, among past abortion advocates were “some eugenicists [who] believed that abortion should be legal for the very purpose of promoting eugenics.” Box, 139 S. Ct. at 1789 (Thomas, J., concurring).
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Black Pro-Life Leaders To SCOTUS: ‘Long History’ Of ‘Uncredentialed Abortion Providers Disproportionately Harming Black Women’

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On Friday, the Louder with Crowder team uploaded the latest installment of the “Change My Mind” series, which served as the second part to a previous episode about affirmative action.
The first half, which is titled, “Affirmative Action is Racist,” can be watched <a href="https://youtu.be/UfEk8UJIwTc">here</a>.
Following an approximately ten minute exchange with a University of Texas at Austin student named Ben, which is worth a watch in its own right, Steven Crowder engaged in a lengthy conversation with Raphael Xavier, an African American professor of hip hop dance.
After Crowder explained his belief that affirmative action is racist, Xavier stated that while he doesn’t think affirmative action is a “racist” practice, he admitted that he might not be as informed about it as Crowder is.
“I understand where you’re coming from, and I think that it’s a virtuous goal to want to correct the wrongs of the past,” Crowder said. “I don’t believe that the right way to do that is to then implement more systemic discrimination, whether it’s against Asians, white Americans, Mexican Americans, black Americans &#8230; and I also would argue that it has not been effective in achieving the results that it wants.”
Later in the discussion, when Crowder detailed his issues with affirmative action, Xavier wondered about the need for racial diversity in schools, seemingly comparing it to “equal opportunity.” Crowder replied that he isn’t against the natural formation of diversity “based on the premise of equal opportunity,” but that he doesn’t believe in forced equal outcome.
Xavier then stated that if diversity isn’t occurring naturally because some groups of students “are not getting the qualifications or the scores that it takes to get into [the] school,” affirmative action might be necessary to promote a more diverse student body.
<blockquote>CROWDER: Okay, so you support the idea of racial quotas to promote racial diversity?
XAVIER: Yeah, but I wouldn&#8217;t call it – 
CROWDER: I mean, I just want to make sure because you just said “quotas.” 
XAVIER: Yeah, yeah, but I wouldn&#8217;t call it racial because [pause]&#8230;
CROWDER: So, what would you call specifically allowing a black person in with lower credentials because they&#8217;re black if not racial? What would you call that?
XAVIER: Hmm, off hand, man, I would just say it&#8217;s offering an opportunity to someone who would never have the chance to do that kind of – 
CROWDER: But they do have the chance, by meeting the same criteria.
XAVIER: But they don’t come from a place where they’re – if they grew up in an environment that doesn’t allow them &#8230; to grow with their environment, to be surrounded by the thing that gives them a certain kind knowledge where they can learn these things to get into the schools.</blockquote>
Crowder criticized the idea of “diversity for diversity’s sake,” adding that affirmative action seems to have had a “net negative” impact because “black enrollment in higher-tier universities, like Ivy League, is lower now than 35 years ago, pre-affirmative action.”
He then noted that affirmative action is also having a negative impact on Asian Americans, who were discriminated against in the past as well, but now have to achieve higher test scores on average in order to be accepted into certain universities due to affirmative action.
“An Asian female right now has to score higher than a white male solely because Asian Americans have typically performed well on standardized testing, they have done very well with extracurriculars – and you know the reason for that?” Crowder asked. “They faced discrimination; they faced extreme poverty &#8230; they have very strong nuclear family households, and a strong emphasis on that.”
He continued, stating that the “biggest socioeconomic indicator” is having a two-parent household, further explaining that “nearly 80%” of black American households are single-parent households, which Crowder noted is a result of former President Lyndon Johnson’s welfare and Model Cities programs, “which incentivized single-parent households.”
Xavier responded, saying:
<blockquote>Now I’m starting to think more about, I mean, it could be racist &#8230; I didn’t think it was, but putting these things in place the way you’re saying – both of them could stand side-by-side. It is and it isn’t, depending on how you look at it.</blockquote>
The exchange continued from there, with Crowder and Xavier thoughtfully discussing single-parent upbringings, and the impact of fatherlessness across all households, but specifically Africa American households.
Crowder and Xavier’s sit-down shows how important and constructive these types of calm exchanges of opinion and information can be.
There’s so much more to not only Crowder’s conversation with Xavier, but his previous conversation with Ben and his subsequent conversation with a female student named Alejandra.
Check out the entire video here:
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Steven Crowder and Prof Xavier.

WATCH: Incredible ‘Change My Mind’ Episode On ‘Affirmative Action’

Affirmative Action

Change My Mind

Steven Crowder

Earlier this year, when an old medical school yearbook photo surfaced of Gov. Ralph Northam (D-VA) wearing either blackface or a KKK hood, state and national Democrats called for him <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-democrats-calling-virginia-governor-ashe-schow">to resign</a>. Even The Washington Post’s editorial page suggested Northam should resign after he admitted to wearing blackface on at least one other occasion.
But Northam is a Democrat, so all he had to do to curry favor with his party and their media supporters was to buckle down and implement progressive policies. Now, Washington Post columnist Karen Tumulty says it was “wrong” to suggest Northam should have resigned.
“Back when a racist photo first surfaced in his medical school yearbook, most Va lawmakers, our editorial page (and yours truly) said <a href="https://twitter.com/GovernorVA">@GovernorVA</a> should resign. We were wrong,” Tumulty tweeted Saturday morning.
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Back when a racist photo first surfaced in his medical school yearbook, most Va lawmakers, our editorial page (and yours truly) said ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/GovernorVA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovernorVA</a>⁩ should resign. We were wrong. <a href="https://t.co/bA25YpnWbk">https://t.co/bA25YpnWbk</a>
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The Post’s editorial board also penned <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-ralph-northam-came-back-from-the-political-dead/2019/12/27/941e4a46-282b-11ea-b2ca-2e72667c1741_story.html">an article</a> about how Northam “came back from the political dead.” The Post claimed Northam did this by refocusing “his governorship on racial equity and reconciliation in what amounted to an extended act of public contrition and atonement.”
A couple paragraphs later, the Post admits the real reason Northam was allowed to stay in office: “It helped Mr. Northam that his potential Democratic successors were quickly enmeshed in their own scandals, which shifted the spotlight and forced his party to consider whether it would prefer a Republican governor. (It wouldn’t.)”
Yes, nothing Northam has done has actually improved his image, it’s just that the Democratic Party would rather a blackface-donning, infanticide-supporting Democrat be in power than a Republican.
As for the policies that Northam committed to after he was caught, the Post listed a series of essentially cosmetic changes that sound good enough for supporters to claim that Northam is actually making things better for minorities and low-income Virginians:
<blockquote>Most potent, it helped that he set himself an agenda on racial equity and pursued it single-mindedly. Scarcely a week or month has passed without Mr. Northam visiting a racially significant site, seeking out counsel from black leaders or announcing an initiative to advance racial justice. He <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/northam-names-first-ever-diversity-chief-for-virginia-state-government/2019/09/09/a5476cd4-d318-11e9-86ac-0f250cc91758_story.html?tid=lk_inline_manual_7">hired</a> Virginia’s, and possibly the nation’s, first state director of diversity, equity and inclusion. He established a commission to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/virginia-looks-at-scrapping-defunct-racist-laws-still-on-the-books/2019/12/05/e06b3b62-1781-11ea-9110-3b34ce1d92b1_story.html?tid=lk_inline_manual_7">comb</a> state law for racist language and provisions, much of it left over from the Jim Crow era. He ordered measures to <a href="https://www.virginiamercury.com/blog-va/northam-issues-order-to-study-disparity-in-state-contracts/">expand access</a> to state contracts for women- and minority-owned firms, to which less than 3 percent of state contracts were awarded a decade ago. He <a href="https://www.virginiamercury.com/2019/10/29/a-governor-appointed-commission-begins-work-on-improving-teaching-of-black-history-in-virginia/">set up </a>a commission to recommend reforms in the way black history is taught in Virginia’s public schools.</blockquote>
Northam’s visits were clearly staged for optics and nothing else. Everything else he did is no different than a business or university hiring a slew of “diversity” administrators in response to accusations of racism. Nothing actually changes, but the press releases look good.
Oh, but lest you think this is all Northam has done, the Post reminded readers that Northam has also “expressed remorse and projected what many Virginians regard as genuine humility.” The Post gives one example of this, from August, when Northam said he “had to confront some painful truths” including his “own incomplete understanding involving race and equity.”
As the Post noted, that got Northam a standing ovation.
There is absolutely no way the Post would write something like this if it had been a Republican governor discovered in blackface, even if that Republican did all the same pointless exercises as Northam.

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Washington Post Columnist Says She Was ‘Wrong’ To Suggest Virginia Governor Resign Over Blackface Photo

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America made a huge stride in 2008 when voters picked Barack Obama, the first black man to serve in the nation&#8217;s highest office.
But that means nothing to film director and TDS sufferer Michael Moore.
“I refuse to participate in post-racial America,” Moore told Rolling Stone’s “Useful Idiots” podcast on Monday. “I refuse to say, ‘Because we elected Obama that suddenly that means everything’s OK, white people have changed.’ White people have not changed,&#8221; he said.
“Two-thirds of all white guys voted for Trump,” he said. “That means anytime you see three white guys walking at you, down the street toward you, two of them voted for Trump. You need to move over to the other sidewalk because these are not good people that are walking toward you. You should be afraid of them.”
“We’re traitors to our race, that’s how they see us,” Moore added.
Moore, a longtime sufferer of Trump Derangement Syndrome, makes movies that seethe with hatred for anyone who doesn&#8217;t think exactly like him. But the director last month admitted that Trump was right about one thing, which helped get him elected president.
“The people that came out for Trump,” said Moore, “I&#8217;m not talking about the racist white supremacist part, I&#8217;m talking about those people who are sick and tired of this system. Trump told them it was rigged — it was rigged — and he was right when he said that.&#8221;
Moore, appearing on MSNBC, said that Americans know the system is rigged against them, which Trump repeatedly said across the country as he campaigned in 2016.
&#8220;He knew — and said — that our political system is rigged, our media is rigged, the New York Times and [Times&#8217; reporter] Judith Miller led us into a war in Iraq. All the rigging he kept talking about, people know it&#8217;s true,&#8221; he said.
Moore does realize the power of Trump. In 2017, he said the president likely will win re-election in 2020.
“I should say re-appointed, because we will have an even larger population that will vote against him in 2020,” Moore told <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/40459122/michael-moore-says-trump-is-on-track-to-win-again-in-2020">Fast Company</a>. “But he will win those electoral states as it stands now.”
Moore also lamented that &#8220;eight million Obama voters voted for Trump. We just need to convince a few of them — hold out our hand and bring them back. Can we do that? I think we can do that.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, there were seven-and-a-half million that voted Green or Libertarian,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I think we can convince a few of them to come back. We don’t need to convince a whole lot here.&#8221;
The director also predicted in July 2016 that the reality TV billionaire would soon be moving into the White House, penning a piece headlined, &#8220;<a href="https://michaelmoore.com/trumpwillwin/">5 Reasons Trump Will Win</a>.&#8221;
<blockquote>Let’s face it: Our biggest problem here isn’t Trump – it’s Hillary. She is hugely unpopular — nearly 70% of all voters think she is untrustworthy and dishonest. She represents the old way of politics, not really believing in anything other than what can get you elected. That’s why she fights against gays getting married one moment, and the next she’s officiating a gay marriage. Young women are among her biggest detractors, which has to hurt considering it’s the sacrifices and the battles that Hillary and other women of her generation endured so that this younger generation would never have to be told by the Barbara Bushes of the world that they should just shut up and go bake some cookies. But the kids don’t like her, and not a day goes by that a millennial doesn’t tell me they aren’t voting for her. No Democrat, and certainly no independent, is waking up on November 8th excited to run out and vote for Hillary the way they did the day Obama became president or when Bernie was on the primary ballot. The enthusiasm just isn’t there. And because this election is going to come down to just one thing — who drags the most people out of the house and gets them to the polls — Trump right now is in the catbird seat.</blockquote>
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Women&#8217;s March on Washington &#8211; Rally

Michael Moore: ‘White People Have Not Changed&#8230;You Should Be Afraid Of Them’

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On Wednesday night, &#8220;Havana&#8221; singer Camila Cabello issued an apology on social media after she received backlash for racially insensitive posts she shared on an old <a href="https://vous-etess-belle.tumblr.com/post/16604023740/can-you-post-a-pic-of-yourself">Tumblr account</a> when she was 15-16 years old.
The posts have since been deleted by Cabello, though they were first <a href="https://twitter.com/motivatefenty/status/1207075263382732801">archived</a> by an offended Twitter user flagging the account.
&#8220;When I was younger, I used language that I&#8217;m deeply ashamed of and will regret forever,&#8221; the 22-year-old pop star started her apology. &#8220;I was uneducated and ignorant and once I became aware of the history and the weight and the true meaning behind this horrible and hurtful language, I was deeply embarrassed I ever used it.&#8221;
&#8220;I apologized then and I apologize again now,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I would never intentionally hurt anyone and I regret it from the bottom of my heart. As much as I wish I could, I can&#8217;t go back in time and change things I said in the past. But once you know better, you do better and that&#8217;s all I can do.&#8221;
One of the posts Cabello shared was an <a href="https://twitter.com/motivatefenty/status/1207081006680956929">image</a> of the &#8220;Winnie the Pooh&#8221; character of Piglet with darkened skin and a caption including a racist play on the N-word. Another <a href="https://twitter.com/motivatefenty/status/1207083659167182848">post</a> was a fake Google search that mocked the Chinese language. An <a href="https://twitter.com/motivatefenty/status/1207080159280582659">image</a> of a white female basketball player shielding a black female basketball player from a bucket of fried chicken was also shared.
&#8220;I&#8217;m 22 now, I&#8217;m an adult and I&#8217;ve grown and learned and am conscious and aware of the history and the pain it carries in a way I wasn&#8217;t before,&#8221; Cabello&#8217;s apology continued. &#8220;Those mistakes don&#8217;t represent the person I am or a person I&#8217;ve ever been.&#8221;
&#8220;I only stand and have ever stood for inclusivity and love, and my heart has never, even then, had any ounce of hate or divisiveness. The truth is I was embarrassingly ignorant and unaware.&#8221;
&#8220;I use my platform to speak out about injustice and inequality and I&#8217;ll continue doing that,&#8221; the singer concluded. &#8220;I can&#8217;t say enough how deeply sorry and ashamed I feel, and I apologize again from the bottom of my heart.&#8221;
Cabello, an immigrant herself, has dabbled in political activism. For example, at the end of her music video for &#8220;Havana,&#8221; text appears dedicating the song to recipients of the Obama-enacted DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, immigration program. “This is dedicated to the Dreamers,” text reads at the end of the video, as noted by <a href="https://www.wmagazine.com/story/camila-cabello-dedicates-havana-music-video-to-daca-dreamers">W Magazine</a>.
&#8220;Before the 2016 presidential election, Cabello penned a <a href="https://www.popsugar.com/latina/Camila-Cabello-Her-Cuban-Background-42239921" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">letter</a> about being a Cuban-Mexican immigrant in the United States,&#8221; the magazine noted. &#8220;She writes of her experience, &#8216;I didn&#8217;t realize it then, but, boy, does it hit me now. I realize how scary it must have been for them &#8230; to decide to start from the ground up.'&#8221;
Cabello has also voiced her opposition to President Donald Trump.
“I’m shocked,” she told <a href="https://variety.com/2019/music/features/camila-cabello-fifth-harmony-taylor-swift-trump-1203290123/">Variety</a> this summer, regarding Trump&#8217;s feud with the far-left &#8220;Squad&#8221; of freshman congresswoman. “It’s tragic. I can’t believe he’d say something so disgusting.”
“That could have been me,” she continued. “That’s also what I was thinking as I was looking at the images of kids being held against their will. I was, like, there is literally no difference between these people and my mom.”
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I’m sorry from the bottom of my heart. <a href="https://t.co/iZrnUawUAb">pic.twitter.com/iZrnUawUAb</a>
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Singer Camila Cabello Issues Apology For ‘Racist’ Social Media Posts She Shared As A Teen

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During MSNBC’s &#8220;Public Education Forum 2020: Education and Justice For All&#8221; event on Saturday, Democratic presidential frontrunner former Vice President Joe Biden publicly committed to &#8220;ending the use of standardizing testing in public schools&#8221; after a questioner asked about their &#8220;history of racism and eugenics.&#8221;
Biden made the comment in response to a question from a member of the audience who identified herself as a representative of a Black Lives Matter group.
&#8220;Teaching has changed drastically over the last 10 to 20 years,&#8221; the questioner said in comments reported by <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/14/joe-biden-end-standardized-testing/">The Daily Caller</a> (video below). &#8220;Instead of being allowed to use their expertise to develop engaging curricula that’s culturally responsive, teachers are often forced to use a scripted curriculum that rushes children through without giving them enough time to really understand the material.&#8221;
&#8220;Many teachers feel more like a test-prep tutor than a test [teacher] of children, and they&#8217;re concerned that both teachers and students are heavily evaluated by standardized testing,&#8221; she continued. After condemning the &#8220;narrow&#8221; focus of the tests, the questioner turned the issue to one of &#8220;racism.&#8221;
&#8220;Given that standardized testing is rooted in a history of racism and eugenics, if you are elected president, will you commit to ending the use of standardizing testing in public schools?&#8221; she asked, a question that prompted applause from the heavily Democratic audience.
&#8220;Yes,&#8221; Biden responded.
&#8220;As one of my friends and black pastors I’ve spent a lot of time with, Rev. Herring, would say: &#8216;You’re preaching to the choir, kid.&#8217; OK?&#8221; he added.
Without pushing back on the &#8220;racism&#8221; and &#8220;eugenics&#8221; claim, Biden continued: &#8220;Because look, that’s why teachers, teachers, should be able to determine the curricula in their school.&#8221;
The Democratic frontrunner then worked in a shot at some teachers, who he said were frankly &#8220;lousy.&#8221;
&#8220;I’m not trying to be nice,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There’s some lousy teachers out there, OK? There’s lousy politicians. There’s lousy senators. There’s lousy doctors. I’m not saying every teacher is a great teacher. What I am saying is: You know what it takes to communicate to a child what in fact they need to know.&#8221;
Video below via Grabien&#8217;s Tom Elliott:
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Biden: “Yes,” I’ll ban standardized testing in American schools <a href="https://t.co/fZZMuH5wN3">pic.twitter.com/fZZMuH5wN3</a>
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As reported by <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/2020-presidential-hopefuls-weigh-public-education-ahead-december/story?id=67733604">ABC News</a>, MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Equity and Justice&#8221; forum Saturday was &#8220;organized by the Schott Foundation and 11 other public education and civil rights groups, including the NAACP&#8221; and included &#8220;more than 1,000 teachers, students, parents and community members.&#8221;
During a discussion about continued segregation in some American schools, Biden touted his &#8220;record on civil rights.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m extremely proud of my record on civil rights,&#8221; he said, as reported by ABC. &#8220;That&#8217;s why I have more people in the African-American community supporting me than anybody else. That&#8217;s why [President Obama] picked me. I make no apologies for my record on civil rights. It’s been as good or better than anybody in politics.&#8221;
During the first Democratic presidential primary debate over the summer, Biden famously got into a heated exchange with former presidential candidate California Sen. Kamala Harris about his track record on civil rights and education.
Harris <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/29/school-busing-debate-between-joe-biden-kamala-harris/">accused</a> Biden of &#8220;work[ing] to oppose busing&#8221; designed to help combat school segregation. &#8220;And, you know, there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bused to school every day. And that little girl was me,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;I did not oppose busing in America,&#8221; Biden replied. &#8220;What I opposed is busing ordered by the Department of Education. That’s what I opposed.&#8221;

Joe Biden

WATCH: Biden Commits To Ending ‘Racist’ Standardized Testing, Calls Out ‘Lousy’ Teachers

Kamala Harris

On Wednesday, free agent Antonio Brown slammed the NFL for their alleged anti-black bias and ripped into former teammate and currently injured Pittsburgh Steeler quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, whom Brown called a &#8220;loser.&#8221;
&#8220;Check his stats before I came n I was done with that loser long time ago,&#8221; Brown said of Roethlisberger via Twitter on Wednesday morning.
The recently released New England Patriot was responding to a Twitter user who suggested Brown was only good because of how Roethlisberger utilized him. &#8220;[Antonio Brown] a real loser. Big Ben made that bum. Soon as Ben was done with him he was out the league,&#8221; the tweet said.
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Check his stats before I came n I was done with that loser long time ago <a href="https://t.co/Ya8cbA9WQH">https://t.co/Ya8cbA9WQH</a>
&mdash; AB (@AB84) <a href="https://twitter.com/AB84/status/1204793537159667712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In another tweet, Brown suggested the NFL was racist, claiming the league allows white players with criminal issues off the hook because of their skin color, whereas black players get punished.
“Guess all mighty [NFL] can hold players out against [their] will no criminal charges pending nothing but [a] Caucasian player gets a domestic go to jail still out there playing targeted hate against us everywhere my peeps,&#8221; the athlete posted on social media.
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Guess all mighty <a href="https://twitter.com/NFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nfl</a> can hold players out against there will no criminal charges pending nothing but A Caucasian player gets a domestic go to jail still out there playing targeted hate against us everywhere my peeps
&mdash; AB (@AB84) <a href="https://twitter.com/AB84/status/1204788502933716992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In a tweet that was deleted on the same day it was posted, according to <a href="https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/12/11/i-was-done-with-that-loser-long-time-ago-antonio-brown-rips-steelers-qb-ben-roethlisberger-calls-nfl-racist/">CBS Pittsburgh</a>, Brown said: “These guys still working we know life not fair but targeted hate get intervention filed [NFL Players Association].&#8221;
Brown also took a shot at his agent Drew Rosenhaus, team owners, and the media for their alleged collaboration against him.
&#8220;Brown released a doctored photo of himself to describe his &#8216;situation&#8217; for his followers on social media,&#8221; CBS Pittsburgh explained.
“The owners sent the hit to the media; media carried it out; as [t]he agent and [NFL Players Association] witness me go down no help no protection full take down on us every time!” Brown captioned the image, which includes Rosenhaus.
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Just last week, Brown, who was most recently released from the New England Patriots over a rape accusation, posted a lengthy apology on his Instagram page:
<blockquote>First and foremost, I’d like to apologize to my family, friends and anyone who I offended. I never once meant to make anyone feel like I wasn’t thankful and appreciative of the opportunity that I was afforded to play the game I love. I’ve worked hard over the years to earn a chance to compete in the greatest game on earth. Over the years I was met with challenges and I can honestly say I didn’t handle those challenges in the manner that I should have. Over the past few weeks I’ve had the opportunity to think about everything that’s transpired and I am deeply sorry to all who I’ve offended. While my behavior was inexcusable, sometimes when people are coming at you with false information and allegations, we handle ourselves in ways that we sometimes regret. I do take full responsibility for my actions and I’m working everyday to repair what I broke. I do know that if I’m ever given the opportunity to play the game that I love, I’m going to work extremely hard to show the world how much I appreciate another chance. To the organizations that I offended, I offer my sincere apology to you and my hope is that you forgive me and help me move on from this minor setback. I look forward to competing and helping a team reach their goals.</blockquote>
<a href="https://steelerswire.usatoday.com/2019/12/06/pittsburgh-steelers-nfl-antoio-brown/">Steelers Wire</a> speculated that Brown did not write the post himself. &#8220;There’s no way Brown came up with this apology or wrote it but this is what desperate people do. Take it for what it’s worth,&#8221; the outlet said.
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A local New Jersey education board has voted in favor of a high school elective course that would teach students about white privilege in America.
Member of the Westfield, New Jersey, education board voted on December 3 to introduce to the local high school a new, half-year elective called “Power, Privilege and Imbalance in American Society.” The course syllabus makes it clear that the “course is based on the theoretical framework of Critical Race Theory which is a legal approach that emerged out of the Civil Rights movement in order to identify and attack the inequalities faced by racial and ethnic minorities.”
The purpose of the course, according to a copy of the proposed syllabus provided to The Daily Wire by someone who attended the board meeting, is to “understand the barriers encountered by people of ethnic minorities and how those barriers were created and have changed America.”
The course focuses on American history from the perspective of racial minorities, including African-Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans. The course provides questions to be asked of students, including: “In what ways has American society been structured to oppress African Americans/Native Americans/Hispanic Americans/Asian Americans?,” “Does society suffer from that oppression?” and “How was white supremacy established in American society and in what ways does it continue today?”
Several members of the all-white education board objected to the course. Two objected, not to the course per se, but merely wanted more time to address issues raised by the community and perhaps expand the reading list for the course to include books that offer a different perspective on race in America.
One board member repeatedly objected to the course on the grounds that critical race theory has been accused of being anti-Semitic and anti-Asian-American. “I feel extremely passionate about revising this course to represent all of the members of the community and I’m really upset that it’s not obvious that that is what’s needed here,” she said. She also said the course appeared to differ from school policy that courses “must not indoctrinate pupils or seek to persuade them to a particular point of view.”
Multiple members of the Westfield community also objected to the course’s basis in critical race theory. A couple quoted a definition of the theory from the Encyclopedia Britannica, which reads: “Critical race theory (CRT), the view that race, instead of being biologically grounded and natural, is socially constructed and that race, as a socially constructed concept, functions as a means to maintain the interests of the white population that constructed it.”
These members of the community pointed out that the definition of CRT used in the course syllabus was misleading, with one woman saying it was not a “legal theory” but a way of criticizing the American legal system. She said CRT opposes the Constitution and was created apart from the Civil Rights movement, not from it. Another man pointed out that it came about in the late 80s, and another called the theory, &#8220;Marxist.&#8221;
Brad Schaeffer, who provided video of the event to The Daily Wire, spoke up to ask whether books by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas or conservative author Thomas Sowell would be included in the curriculum. Schaeffer, a history buff who has written for The Daily Wire, suggested the course not only needed to get history right, it needed to get it complete.
It wasn’t until an hour into the discussion that a person of color spoke. Another person of color – a student at Westfield High School – welcomed the course and criticized the school for holding an event where a speaker suggested the school was “not a place of hate.” A Hispanic-Italian woman said the reading material for the course would divide students, while another white man suggested the course ignored the teachings of Martin Luther King Jr. and put people into “groups” based on the color of their skin.
Still others suggested the course needed to be expanded to include other populations who were also oppressed upon arrival in America, such as Jews or the Irish. Others responded by suggesting a future class based on religious persecution and keeping this course about race.
Over the objections of board members, one of whom sought to have a social studies teacher come to speak to the board about the course (no experts spoke to the board during a meeting) before a vote was held, the board voted to pass the course curriculum. Three of the nine board members objected, two because they wanted to address the issues brought up by the community and one because of her statement regarding the racism of critical race theory.
Westfield prides itself on diversity, but the town is 88% white, about 3% black, and the remaining 9% made up of other racial minorities. The median household income is $127,000.

White guilt

‘Power, Privilege And Imbalance In American Society’ Course That Teaches ‘Critical Race Theory’ Is Coming To A New Jersey High School

New Jersey

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.

Michael Bloomberg.

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Michael Bloomberg

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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Hoods attacked actress Jennifer Agostini, friends leaving Midtown bar: suit <a href="https://t.co/1OubUVPDNi">https://t.co/1OubUVPDNi</a> <a href="https://t.co/GQxS5eWG0u">pic.twitter.com/GQxS5eWG0u</a>
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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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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.
<div id="attachment_69709" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-69709" class="wp-image-69709" src="https://editorial.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Army-Football-1024x683.jpg" alt="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)" width="600" height="400" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2019/12/Army-Football.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2019/12/Army-Football-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2019/12/Army-Football-768x512.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" />Nicole Fridling/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images</div>
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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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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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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