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Opinion: Rittenhouse Verdict Consistent with Right Wing’s Effort of Destroy Democracy
The Rittenhouse verdict is one piece of this larger campaign to destroy democracy and energize white supremacy.
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Trump “Absolutely Would” Support Colin Kaepernik Returning to NFL––Despite History of Attacking Him
In an interview with WJLA’s Scott Thuman, President Donald Trump said he “absolutely would” support former San Francisco 49er Colin Kaepernick “should get another shot in the NFL.” Kaepernick generated controversy in 2016 for choosing to kneel during the national anthem to protest systemic racism and police brutality, a choice that essentially froze him out…
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Opinion: Trump’s Abuse of First Amendment as Racist Club Aligns with Republican, Right-Wing Supreme Court Practices
While Donald Trump has been involved in a dispute with Twitter, speciously and ignorantly crying that the social media company violated his First Amendment rights, uprisings and mass actions protesting the police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor—and the pervasive devaluing of Black lives generally–have mounted. The simultaneity of these events may be just…
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Opinion: Democracy Dies at Amazon, Are Trump and Bezos Really Such Strange Bedfellows?
Recently Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters for The Washington Post Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig published their assessment of Donald Trump’s presidency to date, seeking to step out of the news cycle and “assess the reverberations” of his administration throughout the nation. Titled A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America, the book layers scene…
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Store That Boycotted Nike Over Kaepernick Ad Is Going Out of Business
Colorado sports apparel and memorabilia store owner Stephen Martin last September boycotted Nike because of an ad they did featuring former NFL star Colin Kaepernick. And now Martin announced that he has gone bankrupt and his store is closing. The Colorado store that boycotted Nike after the Colin Kaepernick advert will close https://t.co/yjrZ3uWyis pic.twitter.com/KlFJGgEwdM —…
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Nike Sticks It To Trump With Lucrative New Kaepernick Contract
Nike is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its “Just Do It” campaign and was looking for a way to make a splash. So they chose former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick as the face of their campaign, in a move that is sure to upset President Donald Trump and his racist followers. It was…
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New NFL Anthem Policy Is A Profile In Cowardice
The first amendment of our constitution is clear: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press; or the right of the people to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” So what…
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Kaepernick Wins Top Award From Amnesty International
When NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick decided to kneel rather than stand during the playing of the national anthem before a football game, he was severely criticized by some and lauded by others. As expected, the racists and Republicans (including their leader Donald Trump) said that kneeling was unpatriotic and terrible. President Barack Obama said Kaepernick was…
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Their Reactions to Colin Kaepernick Convey Typical Republican Racism
Only Republican racists are comfortable saying out loud that an African American protesting racial injustice “is a terrible thing.”