Tag: Racism

More than 70 percent of Americans who watched President Trump's State of the Union speech Tuesday said they favored the basic immigration proposals that he laid out. (Win McNamee/Pool via AP)

Trump’s immigration deal is, well, the real deal

Washington Examiner · February 1, 2018 5:01 am

It's worth asking: What's up with white men? (iStock photo)

Beltway Confidential

White males in Generation Z aren’t that woke after all

Jerrod Laber · January 31, 2018 8:09 pm

Congressional Democrats participated in more than one kind of protest during Tuesday night's State of the Union address. (Win McNamee/Pool via AP)

Democrats decry Trump’s ‘divisive’ State of the Union

Laura Barrón-López · January 31, 2018 6:53 am

President Trump may have lost the popular vote, but Republicans have been winning the popular vote at the state and local levels for years. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Beltway Confidential

Racism: the first and final insult of losers

Daniel Oliver · January 31, 2018 5:01 am

The Illinois Democrat said the president failed to bring together lawmakers on both sides of the immigration debate, particularly regarding the future of Dreamers, and bemoaned that Trump and Congress will fail to reach an agreement enshrining into law legal protections for those who were brought to the United States as children. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rep. Luis Gutierrez on State of the Union: Trump is an ‘outwardly, explicitly racist American president’

Melissa Quinn · January 31, 2018 4:51 am

The University of Notre Dame competed under the nickname the "Catholics" during the 1800s and became more widely known as the "Ramblers" during the early 1920s. But, in 1927, the school officially adopted the "Fighting Irish" as its nickname and, later, the leprechaun mascot. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Beltway Confidential

Max Kellerman, stop hating on the Leprechaun

David Freddoso · January 31, 2018 12:03 am

Tech. Sgt. Geraldine Lovely is stationed at the Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, but officials at the base told the New York Daily News that Lovely was "removed from her supervisory role" after the footage of her racially insensitive rant surfaced over the weekend. (Image courtesy screenshot)

National Security

Airman under investigation after Facebook rant about ‘subordinates that are black females’

Mandy Mayfield · January 30, 2018 9:04 pm

"Constructive critiques are one thing," Mitch McConnell said. "But the type of irresponsible racial invective used yet again on this subject by the Democratic leader in the House is decidedly unhelpful." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Mitch McConnell slams Nancy Pelosi’s ‘radical invective’ on immigration

Susan Ferrechio · January 29, 2018 8:59 pm

There are reasons to question Jay-Z's critique of Trump. This is not one of them. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)

Beltway Confidential

Don’t bother holding Jay-Z to the same standard as Trump

Emily Jashinsky · January 29, 2018 5:33 pm

President Trump took to Twitter on Sunday to respond to a CNN interview with Jay-Z. (AP Photos)

Beltway Confidential

Trump vs. Jay-Z and the truth about black unemployment

Siraj Hashmi · January 29, 2018 3:30 pm

"To go would be to honor the president and I don't think he deserves to be honored at this time, after being so hateful towards black people and then black countries," Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., said. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Frederica Wilson on not attending Trump’s State of the Union: He doesn’t deserve to be honored

Caitlin Yilek · January 29, 2018 2:27 pm

"Somebody please inform Jay-Z that because of my policies, Black Unemployment has just been reported to be at the LOWEST RATE EVER RECORDED!" Trump said in a tweet. (AP Photos)

Trump sends a message to Jay-Z: Thank me for low black unemployment rate

Kyle Feldscher · January 28, 2018 1:45 pm