The attorney general threatened to deny $4 billion in DOJ funding to sanctuary cities.
Category: Race,
Wall Street Journal excludes diversity from newsroom, presenting only the point of view of elderly and out of touch white men.
Reporters and editors at The Wall Street Journal have signed a letter expressing concern about the roles of women and people of color in the newsroom.
Wall Street Journal diversity letter from newsroom – Business Insider
Arab, Latino leaders have tense meetings with Trump’s Homeland Security chief regarding WH’s racist agenda
In a meeting today with Arab-Americans and Muslims in Dearborn, Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly stood up at one point and threatened to leave after a community advocate accused the department of targeting their communities, according to meeting participants.
The tense exchange took place during a hour-long meeting at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, where Kelly met with several Arab-American and Muslim advocates as part of a visit to metro Detroit. At a separate earlier meeting with immigrant, Latino, and Chaldean advocates, some also criticized the department for allegedly targeting minority groups.
Arab, Latino leaders have tense meetings with Homeland Security chief
Art World Splits In Two Over Dana Schutz Controversy
The art world weighs in via social media on both sides of a debate over a controversial painting in which Dana Schutz portrayed Emmett Till.
Art World Splits In Two Over Dana Schutz Controversy | artnet News
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Rachel Dolezal: I was ‘too black’ for my husband
“I wish Americans understood that race is a social construct, even if we don’t want it to be,” she said in the release. “The system of racial classification is fiction, and we need to thoughtfully evaluate whether perpetuating it rigidly or allowing fluidity across the spectrum best supports human rights and social justice.”
Rachel Dolezal: I was ‘too black’ for my husband
Lovely theory. But in society, as in anything, theory is a different thing than practice.
The GOP nurtures white nationalism
The uncensured remarks of congressman Steve King underscore the racism in the Republican Party.
The GOP has become the party of white nationalism – The Boston Globe
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Hip-Hop En Pointe: The Rhythm and Beat of Hiplet
(And while we are posting dance videos, here’s one I absolutely love. The grace, beauty, and skill are completely en pointe. Heh, see what I did there?)
True Story: Black, white, brown, purple, plaid or paisley, there are lots of talented, well-trained dancers who do not fit the size-zero, fair-skinned, willow-like, corps de ballet mold.
Huge kudos to these young ladies for taking classical ballet and mixing it with modern music to make it their own.
They are making ballet’s loss their own gain. Go girls!!!
Why Hawaii says Trump’s new travel ban is still unconstitutional
“President Trump’s new Executive Order is antithetical to Hawaii’s State identity and spirit,” lawyers for the state wrote. “For many in Hawaii, including State officials, the Executive Order conjures up the memory of the Chinese Exclusion Acts and the imposition of martial law and Japanese internment after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.”
…In its lawsuit, Hawaii argues that foreign residents and travelers contribute substantially to the functioning of the state, and blocking even the issuance of new visas would have a major impact. State lawyers wrote that Hawaii is home to 12,000 foreign students, and at least 27 graduate students are from the seven countries affected by the original ban.
In 2016, lawyers for the state wrote, Hawaii’s foreign students contributed more than $400 million to Hawaii’s economy with tuition and fees, living expenses and other activities. The lawyers also said that tourism was a driver of Hawaii’s economy, and that 8.7 million visitors accounted for $15 billion in spending in 2015.
…Hawaii is still pointing to campaign trail comments by Trump indicating that he wanted to impose a blanket ban on Muslims as evidence that the order violates the establishment clause of the First Amendment. U.S. officials have disputed that characterization.
Justice Department lawyers have asserted that a short-term freeze is especially unnecessary, because the new ban only applies to the issuance of new visas, a process that can take months.
Why Hawaii says Trump’s new travel ban is still unconstitutional – The Washington Post
A little out of date but the reasoning behind Hawaii’s actions was interesting.
Former North Carolina police chief says he was detained at JFK Airport because of his name
A retired police chief says he was detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport and held for 90 minutes earlier this month because of his name.
Homeland security/border & customs are starting to sound as ignorant and incompetent as Trump.
California judge seeks to prevent immigration arrests inside state courts
The chief justice of California’s Supreme Court on Thursday asked the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to prevent immigration agents from arresting undocumented immigrants inside the state’s courthouses.
Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye said she was gravely troubled by recent reports that federal agents were “stalking undocumented immigrants in our courthouses to make arrests,” in a letter addressed to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly.”
Courthouses should not be used as bait in the necessary enforcement of our country’s immigration law,” Cantil-Sakauye wrote.
California judge seeks to prevent immigration arrests inside state courts | Reuters
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Trump budget cuts immigration aid and local police are stunned
The budget would cut a program that reimburses jails for holding undocumented immigrants.
Trump budget cuts immigration aid and local police are stunned
Pssst…. When you buy snake oil, you get taken.
The centre holds: Geert Wilders’s anti-immigration party does worse than expected in the Dutch election
The Netherlands now faces lengthy haggling before a government based on dozens of compromises can take shape. In other words, Dutch politics as usual—just what Mr Wilders and his followers despise. The anti-immigrant right had hoped the row with Turkey would help them reframe the election as a battle between the Netherlands and Islam. Instead, it handed Mr Rutte control of the agenda.
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Fair-housing advocates call potential HUD cuts ‘devastating’
Fair-housing advocates call potential HUD cuts ‘devastating’
Fair-housing advocates call potential HUD cuts ‘devastating’ – The Washington Post
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Illegal Immigration: Ideas Doesn’t Always Match Reality
Border crossers, farm laborers, new arrivals from Mexico: There’s no shortage of stereotypes about people living in the U.S. illegally. But the statistics tell a different story.
How America’s Idea Of Illegal Immigration Doesn’t Always Match Reality : The Two-Way : NPR
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Jeff Sessions Is the New Jim Crow
Perhaps the worst thing about America’s mistreatment of black people in this country has nothing to do with the violence inflicted against us or the centuries of historic subjugation we’ve endured. It is the constant disregard for our voices that frustrates us most.
Jeff Sessions Is the New Jim Crow
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Khizr Khan claims travel privileges under review
Gold Star father Khizr Khan’s “freedom to travel abroad” is reportedly under review, and he says he doesn’t know why.
Khizr Khan claims travel privileges under review – POLITICO
Trump administration: Racist, Facist, Nazi-wannabes
Thousands of ICE detainees claim they were forced into labor, a violation of anti-slavery laws
A lawsuit against one of the largest private prison operators in the country reached class-action status this week.
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Samuel L. Jackson uses one tweet to crush Ben Carson and his slaves as ‘immigrants’ comment
Today, like most days, Samuel L. Jackson is the voice of reason.
While making his debut as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development on Monday afternoon, Ben Carson said that America’s “can-do” value system was best exemplified by slaves — who he audaciously referred to as “immigrants.”
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Twitter immediately blew the f*ck up over Carson’s impudent comments — but the outrage was perhaps best articulated in one vivacious tweet by America’s foul-mouthed sweetheart Samuel L. Jackson.
OK!! Ben Carson….I can’t! Immigrants ? In the bottom of SLAVE SHIPS??!! MUTHAFUKKA PLEASE!!!#dickheadedtom
Samuel L. Jackson uses one tweet to crush Ben Carson and his slaves as ‘immigrants’ comment
Gawd love you, Samuel L!!!
Mem Fox, Australian author, gets apology after being wrongfully detained at LA airport
Mem Fox says she doubts she will visit the US again after she was wrongly detained by immigration officials.
She got an apology and only spent two hours in detention because she is rich, famous, and white.
Farming Behind Barbed Wire: Japanese-Americans Remember WWII Incarceration
Jim Tanimoto and many other once-successful farm owners were about to become field workers for the U.S. government.
The guard towers and rows of barracks have long since been torn down or moved. Our guide on the pilgrimage points out the few remaining buildings, and the huge swaths of farmland once worked by Tule Lake prisoners. Over 1,000 Japanese-Americans worked in the fields, most earning just $12 a month, a quarter of what farmworkers made at the time.
…The stated purpose of these farms was to feed the incarcerated, but camp administrators took produce, grain and hay grown by these imprisoned Japanese American workers, and sold it on the open market – over 2 million pounds of it from Tule Lake alone.
…By 1960, the number of Japanese-American farmers dropped to a quarter of their prewar presence. With lost farms, homes and businesses, it’s estimated that wartime incarceration cost Japanese-Americans up to $4 billion in today’s values. Some of those losses were compensated in 1988, when President Ronald Reagan signed redress legislation offering a formal apology and giving $20,000 to each survivor.
The non-economic losses – to Japanese-Americans, to California, to the whole country – are impossible to measure. Especially now, Takei said, we must remember “how easily people — because of fear and anger — lose sight of our important national values of justice and rule of law.” She drew parallels with Muslim Americans, refugees and immigrants, “as though demonizing other people is going to solve our problems.”
All we have to do, she said, is look at the World War II incarceration of Japanese -Americans to see that’s not true.
Farming Behind Barbed Wire: Japanese-Americans Remember WWII Incarceration : The Salt : NPR
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For decades they hid Jefferson’s relationship with her. Now Monticello is making room for Sally Hemings.
“If you are going to get people to come to historic sites, you should show them what it was really like,” said Rubenstein, who has also underwritten renovations to the slave quarters at Arlington House and James Madison’s Montpelier. “The good and bad of history.”
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Several Hispanic Dems denied entry to meeting with ICE
Two Congressional Hispanic Caucus members were asked to leave the meeting.
Several Hispanic Dems denied entry to meeting with ICE | TheHill
Whatever the real story here is, it does not reflect well on the Trump administration.
Press Conference Backfire: Rep. Elijah Cummings Calls Out Trump For Making Up A Story About Him
Rep. Cummings said that Trump’s claim that Democrats backed out of the meeting with him was a made up piece of fiction.
In a statement to the press, Rep. Cummings said: “I have no idea why President Trump would make up a story about me like he did today. Of course, Senator Schumer never told me to skip a meeting with the President. I was actually looking forward to meeting with the President about the skyrocketing price of prescription drugs.
…I also sincerely have no idea why the President made this claim in response to an unrelated question about the Congressional Black Caucus. I am sure members of the CBC can answer these questions for themselves. “The skyrocketing price of prescription drugs is an issue that affects every American family—not just people of color—and I hope the President will make good on his promise to finally allow HHS to negotiate lower drug prices on behalf of American families. I look forward to meeting with him on this issue and others.”
Press Conference Backfire: Rep. Elijah Cummings Calls Out Trump For Making Up A Story About Him
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ICE detains domestic-violence victim in El Paso court
The detention alarmed county officials who fear that that the arrest will scare undocumented victims of domestic abuse.
ICE detains domestic-violence victim in El Paso court
Animals.
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