Tag: Racism

Lifting from rapper Eminem's hit "Lose Yourself," Republican Senate candidate and disgraced Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio said in a fundraising email, "You only get one shot, do not miss your chance. â¦ This opportunity comes once in a lifetime." (AP Images)

Sheriff Joe Arpaio quotes Eminem in latest fundraising email

Tristan Justice · February 8, 2018 10:00 pm

Several areas around the University of California, Berkeley, were closed off on Sept. 14 ahead of an evening appearance by a conservative commentator, as protestors flooded the streets. That event, among others, has sparked a conversation about free speech on campus. (AP Photo/Josh Edelson)

Beltway Confidential

Berkeley held a free speech commission hearing, and it was crazy

Tom Rogan · February 7, 2018 10:48 pm

Arthur Jones, 70, has run for elected offices in Illinois and Wisconsin numerous times since the 1970s, but never came close to winning. He's expected to secure the GOP nomination in the March 20 primary because he's the only candidate on the Republican ballot. (Screenshot, via Arthur Jones' website)

Neo-Nazi poised to be GOP nominee in Illinois says he’s not a ‘single-issue candidate’

Steven Nelson · February 7, 2018 7:11 pm

Quincy Jones said the U.S. has a long way to go to solve racism and Trump isn't helping. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

Quincy Jones: Trump is a ‘crazy motherf—ker’

Caitlin Yilek · February 7, 2018 5:15 pm

Democratic gubernatorial candidate J.B. Pritzker speaks at an event joined by African-American supporters in Chicago on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018, where he apologized for newly released FBI wiretaps capturing him making racially insensitive comments during a call with then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich, including saying Secretary of State Jesse White, left, was the "least offensive" African American to appoint to a Senate seat. (Marcus DiPaola/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

FBI wiretapped Illinois governor candidate discussing ‘the African-American thing’ with Rod Blagojevich in 2008

Katelyn Caralle · February 7, 2018 12:23 am

Watch What You (Don’t Actually) Say

Ethan Epstein · February 6, 2018 4:40 pm

Philadelphia Eagle Malcolm Jenkins is one of several players on the team not expected to attend a traditional White House Super Bowl reception held to honor the winning team. (AP Photo/John Froschauer)

Here are the Philadelphia Eagles players expected to skip the White House Super Bowl reception

Naomi Lim · February 6, 2018 12:41 am

FILE - In this is a Feb. 3, 2017, file photo Jemele Hill attends ESPN: The Party 2017 in Houston, Texas. ESPN says the outspoken "Sportscenter" anchor is leaving that role to write for a company web site and do occasional on-air commentary. Hill attracted attention last year and was briefly suspended for opinionated messages on social media, including a reference to President Donald Trump as a "white supremacist." The network said Friday, Jan. 26, 2018, that Hill had asked to be taken off the 6 p.m. weekday edition of ESPN's sports news show. (Photo by John Salangsang/Invision/AP, File)

Ex-Sportscenter anchor Jemele Hill: Trump’s comments about NFL player protests are ‘racial pornography’

Naomi Lim · February 4, 2018 10:29 pm

According to reports, protests outside the venue where Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk was speaking on Friday were largely peaceful until a third group chanting Nazi slogans stormed the area. (Screenshot via Charlie Kirk/Twitter)

Violent clash erupts outside Charlie Kirk speech at Colorado State University

Katie Leach · February 3, 2018 4:37 pm

The American Free Press was deemed "an anti-Semitic and conspiracy-oriented newspaper published by longtime white supremacist Willis Carto" by the Anti-Defamation League in 2013. (screenshot)

Joe Arpaio on interviews with anti-Semitic publication: ‘I was unaware and don’t support that view point’

Diana Stancy Correll · February 2, 2018 12:04 am

Demonstrators urging the Democratic Party to protect the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act program. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Beltway Confidential

Democrats think ‘chain migration’ is a racist term — but they said it themselves in October

Angela Morabito · February 1, 2018 10:03 pm

The University of California, Berkeley, campus newspaper refused to publish Naweed Tahmas' opinion piece on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, so Red Alert Politics decided to publish it instead. (Naweed Tahams)

Here’s the conservative op-ed the UC Berkeley student paper refused to publish

Naweed Tahmas · February 1, 2018 8:01 am