Google just announced that its YouTube division will be the official livestream provider of the Donald Trump-led Republican convention, despite massive pressure from activists demanding the company stand up for its alleged values of diversity and inclusion in the face of Trump’s racism, xenophobia and misogyny.
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Started during Reconstruction at the end of the Civil War, the Klan quickly mobilized as a vigilante group to intimidate Southern blacks – and any whites who would help them – and to prevent them from enjoying basic civil rights. Outlandish titles (like imperial wizard and exalted cyclops), hooded costumes, violent “night rides,” and the notion that the group comprised an “invisible empire” conferred a mystique that only added to the Klan’s popularity. Lynchings, tar-and-featherings, rapes and other violent attacks on those challenging white supremacy became a hallmark of the Klan.
Turning to modern-day politics, the Imperial Wizard of the Virginia KKK explains why his group backs Donald Trump for president, saying “…The reason a lot of Klan members like Donald Trump is because a lot of what he believes in, we believe in…”
We are in essence punishing the poor for their poverty, as if poverty were an ethical breach, not the result of interlocking social, political, and personal realities, many of which are entirely out of poor people’s hands. How often do city planners consider the job disruption caused when they cancel (or never build) a bus route? When corporations decide there’s no profit in reliable internet access for rural communities, how do the rural unemployed complete online job applications?
“You can’t be racist and be a Christian! You all have gotta choose”: Ben Harper opens up about activism, racism and how police brutality “threatens democracy in a very specific way”
Both bills were stripped down during the legislative process. In his veto message McAuliffe said they were “stoking irrational fears” and that debate on the bills was “intended to communicate a sense that non-citizens are to be feared and should be treated as more dangerous than other persons.”
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