Bob CollinsThere aren’t a lot of debates that have lasted longer than behavior at commencement exercises. It’s that time of year.
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Tag: Racism
Given the hate they’re still getting online, Donte Robinson and Rashon Nelson could be forgiven if they’d sued everyone involved in their ouster from a Philadelphia Starbucks. Read more →
Paul TostoThe Anti-Defamation League says it from Target customers who bought diapers at the store only to open them and find the slogan linked to white supremacist groups written on a laminated index card.
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Unquestionably, there is a right to free speech; that’s not the issue. This is: Does journalism have a responsibility to give it a megaphone? Read more →
Mark Conditt was portrayed by authorities as not motivated by hatred, but was upset about his life, so he sent package bombs to people, all of whom happened to be black. Did journalists go along with that depiction because they’re mostly white and Christian, too? The New York Times says ‘no.’ Read more →
It comes after Tom Brady threatened to walk from his interview arrangement with WEEI after a host called his daughter “an annoying little pissant” and another host impersonated a Chinese accent when talking about an American- born sports agent of Asian descent who speaks perfect English.
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Newspaper apologizes for editorial cartoon
Chief Wahoo has been dying for a long time as the Cleveland Indians have walked a fine line between angering its mascot-embracing fans and slowly transitioning away from its use. In recent years, the team has adopted an uninspiring block ‘C’ as its official logo, but the wahoo still appeared on the team’s uniforms. Read more →
The Storm Lake Tornadoes went to Spencer, Iowa last Friday to play some basketball and were taunted with racist chants, a report says. It’s not the first time Storm Lake’s kids have heard them. They’re from one of Iowa’s few schools with a student body that’s mostly non-white.
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Some community members say they’re shocked it would ever happen in their city, but someone must’ve thought Minnesota’s Iron Range communities would be a good spot to recruit new members to the Ku Klux Klan. Read more →
Not much can make a person feel better about the future than seeing a fifth-grader tear up at the story of injustice.
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Disrespect without accountability seems to be at the heart of a lawsuit the Young Conservatives Club of Edina High School has filed after some students refused to stand during taps at a Veteran’s Day observance at the school.
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There might well have been a time when two employees of a radio station in Forest City, Iowa (just over the border from Albert Lea, Minn.) would’ve thought twice about saying what they said during a basketball game last Tuesday. Read more →
Just how a big comeback Nazis have made in 2017 was never more obvious than the New York Times’ decision to put a human face on them.
He’s Tony Hovate and he’s just a regular guy, the Times tells us. He’s the Nazi sympathizer next door.
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William Craft, the president of Concordia College in Moorhead, hit it out of the park this week when he responded to posters around campus saying, ‘It’s OK to be white.’ Read more →