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School District Requests ‘Anti-Racist Audit’ to Help Students ‘Resist Systems of Oppression’

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Maryland’s Montgomery County Public Schools district is requesting a “systemwide anti-racist audit” to determine whether it is doing enough to help students “resist systems of oppression.”

According to a “request for proposal” document obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, the school district is looking for a consultant “with deep knowledge and expertise in … racial equity” to examine the school district’s culture, hiring practices, and pre-K-12 curriculum. The document requests that consultants investigate whether the district’s curriculum “strengthens students’ sense of racial, ethnic, and tribal identities, helps students understand and resist systems of oppression, and empower students to see themselves as change agents.” It also asks if the district is taking a sufficiently “proactive approach” to issues of implicit bias, even though the racial makeup of the district is majority minority.

Following the Black Lives Matter protests this summer, the school district said it would reevaluate its social studies curriculum to address systemic racism, “particularly for … younger students.” The school district already operates an “Equity Initiatives Unit,” which aims to counteract “bias … oppression, and inequity.” Marya Hay, a member of the unit, posted photos online of the “equity” training that staff undergo. One photo showed school district employees defining “whiteness” as “a systemic, racial, social construct backed by no scientific evidence, created to benefit white people by unequally distributing power and privilege through society’s norms, traditions, and institutions.” (Read more from “School District Requests ‘Anti-Racist Audit’ to Help Students ‘Resist Systems of Oppression’” HERE)

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Yelp to Publicly Shame Businesses ‘Accused of Racist Behavior’

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At a time when businesses face an unprecedented threat of race-riot looting, review website Yelp has announced it will introduce warning labels that tell the public if a business has been “accused of racist behavior.”

In a blog post, Yelp’s vice president of user operations said, “as the nation reckons with issues of systemic racism, we’ve seen in the last few months that there is a clear need to warn consumers about businesses associated with egregious, racially charged actions to help people make more informed spending decisions.”

Lists of businesses and organizations accused of racism and bigotry are not new, but they are dangerous. The far-left Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of “hate groups,” regularly used to smear and defame mainstream conservatives, was used by a left-wing domestic terrorist to identify a target, the Family Research Council.

The attempted mass shooting, by now-convicted domestic terrorist Floyd Lee Corkins, was stopped by a security guard at the FRC offices, who tackled Corkins and disarmed him, suffering a shattered arm in the process as the extremist opened fire.

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Uncle Ben’s Rice Finally Has New Name After Old Moniker and Logo Deemed Racially Insensitive

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Uncle Ben’s rice finally has a new name after its old moniker and instantly recognizable logo was deemed racially insensitive amid the George Floyd rioting and a flurry of similar moves to amend the names of other products in the name of political correctness.

The brand now will be called Ben’s Original and no longer will use the image of a black man on its boxes, the New York Daily News reported, citing a Wednesday announcement from the product’s parent company Mars Inc.

The new logo simply reads “Ben’s Original” in blue lettering over an orange background — which are the longtime colors of the rice brand.

“We listened to our associates and our customers, and the time is right to make meaningful changes across society,” Mars Food executive Fiona Dawson said in a statement, according to the Daily News. “When you are making these changes, you are not going to please everyone. But it’s about doing the right thing, not the easy thing.”

In June, Mars Inc., announced it would change the rice’s moniker in order to stand against racial stereotypes in advertising. (Read more from “Uncle Ben’s Rice Finally Has New Name After Old Moniker and Logo Deemed Racially Insensitive” HERE)

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High School Bans Pro-Police Flag Due to ‘Racism’

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A thin blue line flag has been banned by a local high school in Neptune Beach, Florida following a series of complaints that circulated on social media, according to a report by News4Jax.

According to the outlet, the Fletcher High School football team started carrying the pro-law enforcement flag last year, as a way for one of its players, Caelan Lavender, to honor his late father, Cpl. Andy Lavender. Mr. Lavender was a Jacksonville Beach police officer who unexpectedly passed away in August 2019 after 29 years in law enforcement, and was active in sports programs. . .

The team’s use of the symbol received swift backlash online, with some calling the move “openly racist.” . . .

As a result of the backlash, Fletcher High School’s principal, Dean Ledford, reportedly issued a statement announcing the flag would be banned.

“The flag, which is known as the Thin Blue Line flag, has different meaning for different people, and rather than representing the young man’s personal feelings, it was being interpreted as a political statement of the team and of the school,” Ledford said. “In consultation with the coaches, I determined that the act of using this flag in this personal way, while in the context of the football game opening ceremony, could easily be construed as representing a political position of our school and not just the personal feelings of the student and his teammates. Therefore, I have determined that it is no longer appropriate to continue.” (Read more from “High School Bans Pro-Police Flag Due to ‘Racism'” HERE)

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Professor Who Pretended to Be Black Allegedly Harassed Neighbors With Anti-White Insults

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Jessica Krug was a neighbor from hell who stole packages, tried to “stomp” on a tiny black poodle and called a visitor a “stupid white bitch,” residents at her East Harlem apartment building told The Post on Friday.

The white George Washington University professor — who admitted Thursday to faking that she was black — “[once] told me to enjoy my last day alive,” said Anna Anderson, who lives three floors above Krug at the East 122nd Street building and has been locked in a feud with her over Krug’s alleged nasty bizarre behavior.

Another woman who is a friend of one of Krug’s other neighbors claimed, “I said, ‘Hi’ to her one day, and she said ‘stupid white bitch’ or something.”

Krug confessed to pretending to be black in a viral Medium post, allegedly because she was about to be outed.

The woman has been likened to Rachel Dolezal, a former NAACP leader from Washington who was caught in 2015 pretending to be black. (Read more from “Professor Who Pretended to Be Black Allegedly Harassed Neighbors With Anti-White Insults” HERE)

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Jacob Blake Sr. Has Long History of Racist, Antisemitic, Anti-Christian Posts; Set to Meet Joe Biden

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Jacob Blake Sr., the father of the man shot Aug. 23 by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, appears to have a long history of racist, antisemitic, and anti-Christian posts on Facebook. He is set to meet with Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden on Thursday.

Blake Sr. has been a ubiquitous presence on television and at Black Lives Matter protests since his son, Jacob Blake Jr., 29, was shot seven times while allegedly resisting arrest. The younger Blake is currently hospitalized, paralyzed from the waist down. Riots erupted in Kenosha in the aftermath of the event, destroying many businesses and leading to a deadly shooting.

Blake Sr.’s social media posts, particularly on Facebook, reveal radical political views and extreme racist rhetoric. On Instagram, where Blake Sr. appears to have had a much more limited presence, he posted a video about the Sep. 11, 2001 terror attacks: “Man, I give a f*** about 9/11.” He went on to cite the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice by police in Cleveland in 2014. . .

A search through the other posts on that Facebook account reveals a timeline replete with bigoted statements, such as:

– “A jew can’t tell me s**t period”

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Former News Host Uses Racist Term While Condemning Trump Supporters’ Alleged Racism

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Former MSNBC host Donny Deutsch apologized on Friday for using the term “yellow man” while criticizing “racist” Americans who trusted information from President Trump about the coronavirus pandemic.

Referring to a recent NPR-PBS-Marist poll, Deutsch said the approximately one-third of Americans who say they trust Trump must be racists. “How do one in three Americans still believe this man about corona[virus] or anything?” Deutsch asked on Friday’s “Morning Joe.”

“And the answer is only one thing,” he went on. “One in three Americans are racists, one in three Americans are terrified that this country, by the year 2040, is not going to be majority White — that the Black man or brown man or the yellow man or woman are going to come and take their jobs and take away their suburbs.”

Later in the program, Deutsch said “yellow man” was a “stupid term” and he apologized if he offended anybody.

“[I] was just trying to make a point and I apologize if I offended anybody. People know me, know that — where my heart is,” he said. (Read more from “Former News Host Uses Racist Term While Condemning Trump Supporters’ Alleged Racism” HERE)

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How Long Can The Media Cover For Joe Biden’s Racial Gaffes?; Biden Launches New Ad Aimed at Black Americans

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By The Federalist. Joe Biden has stepped on another racial landmine. As the country is torn apart by ethnic strife, the former Vice President continues to frustrate his campaign and his loyal supporters in the corporate media by saying goofy things about black people that at least border on abject racism. . .

Put once again in the unenviable position of having to defend the Democratic nominee, CNN and MSNBC chose for the most part to ignore the troubling remarks. Others like the New York Times’ Jonathan Martin took a different approach, sidestepping the actual remarks to make a broader point about Biden’s propensity to gaffes.

You really have to hand it to Washington Post “Fact Checker” Glenn Kessler who just pretended that Biden didn’t say what Biden literally said. In a just world, Kessler would give himself four Pinocchios for this obvious gaslighting, but don’t hold your breath. . .

The best Biden’s handlers can do in this situation is try to keep Old Joe in the basement with as few chances to foul up as possible. But with several of the latest polls showing a sharply tightening race, that may not be sustainable in the long run. Meanwhile the best the media can do is try to ignore the gaffes. But here they also have a problem, namely those notable exceptions. (Read more from “How Long Can the Media Cover for Biden’s Racial Gaffes?” HERE)

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Joe Biden Launches New National Ad Aimed at Black Americans

By Associated Press. Joe Biden’s Democratic presidential campaign has launched a new national ad focused on Black Americans, urging them to stand up to President Donald Trump the way their ancestors stood up to “violent racists of a generation ago.”

The one-minute ad, which was shared exclusively with The Associated Press before its digital and television release on Thursday, is meant to drum up support among Black Americans, a key constituency for Biden, ahead of November’s general election. The ad, titled “Better America,” also takes a direct swipe at Trump, without mentioning the Republican president by name.

“We must choose to fight for that better America,” the narrator states. “And just like our ancestors who stood up to the violent racists of a generation ago, we will stand up to this president and say, ‘No more,’ because America is better than him. So we choose to be bigger. We choose to be bolder. We choose to bring back justice, respect and dignity to this country. We choose Joe Biden to lead us all towards that American promise together.” (Read more from “Joe Biden Launches New National Ad Aimed at Black Americans” HERE)

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Billionaire Oprah Winfrey Bizarrely Tells White People to Admit Racism

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Black critics and lawmakers alike castigated Oprah Winfrey for a video that went viral Tuesday.

The video, part of Winfrey’s series “The Oprah Conversation,” featured the namesake host encouraging white guests to admit to their racism and insisting that all white people have a “leg up” because of their skin color.

The latest episode of the AppleTV+ series, which featured activist and former NFL player Emmanuel Acho, spoke with white guests about topics such as whiteness, white privilege, and racism. . .

“There are white people who are not as powerful as the system of white people — the caste system that’s been put in place — but they still, no matter where they are on the rung, or the ladder of success, they still have their whiteness,” Winfrey said in the viral video.

“[Whites have a] leg up,” she insisted. “You still have your whiteness. That’s what the term ‘white privilege’ is. It means that whiteness still gives you an advantage, no matter. It is the fundamental issue.”

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U.S. Court Bans Legal Term ‘Grandfathering’ Over Ties to Racism

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The Massachusetts Appeals Court banned the legal term “grandfathering” on Monday due to its origins in the racist history of the South, where “grandfather clauses” were used to deny black people the right to vote in the post-Civil War era.

In common parlance, to be “grandfathered” means being able to exercise a right or power that was granted by government in a previous era, before some new restriction was enacted. For example, many older skyscrapers in New York City today are able to evade new building codes because they are “grandfathered” out of having to obey many of the newer rules. In Massachusetts, 18-year-olds were recently “grandfathered” out of restrictions banning cigarette and vape sales to those under 21 if they had already turned 18 — the previous minimum age — by the date of the new regulation’s enactment.

However, the term has a specific origin in the post-Civil War South, where several states wrote “grandfather clauses” that restricted the right to vote after the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which banned racial discrimination in voting rights. The states required black voters to pass certain tests to determine their eligibility to vote, but exempted those who had held the right to vote before the Civil War, and their descendants. These “grandfather clauses” allowed white Southerners to vote but limited the voting rights of black Southerners until the civil rights era. (Read more from “U.S. Court Bans Legal Term ‘Grandfathering’ Over Ties to Racism” HERE)

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