On March 2nd, CNN’s Jake Tapper began to incredulously tweet that Tamika Mallory, co-founder of the Women’s March and self-described “freedom fighter,” was defending her choice to attend a speech by Louis Farrakhan. As is typical for the controversial Nation of Islam leader, the speech was laced with bigoted invectives, …
Read More »Trump's First State of the Union: 5 Things You Didn't See on TV
If you tuned into the State of the Union address last night, you witnessed President Trump enrage Democrats as Republicans fawned over most every word and gesture delivered by their party’s leader. But even with around-the-clock coverage of the nation’s most-watched annual political event, there’s much that goes on at …
Read More »Trump's 'Shithole' Moment Is His Ugliest Yet
Denouncing Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations as “shitholes” – while pleading for more immigrants from Scandinavia – Donald Trump did more than reveal personal racism. He made plain that U.S. immigration policy is now being driven by animus toward black and brown people. Trump’s comments were made Thursday in …
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