Category: Race and Politics, Page 27
Black Voters Have New Power in Mississippi. Can They Elect a Democrat?
American Renaissance - Oct 26th 2023 1:56pm EDTJust three years ago, Mississippi had an election law on its books from an 1890 constitutional convention that was designed to uphold “white supremacy” in the state. The law created a system for electing statewide officials that was similar to the Electoral College — and that drastically reduced the political power of Black voters. Voters […]
DC Mayor Proposes Rolling Back Progressive Police Reforms Amid Spike in Violent Crimes
American Renaissance - Oct 25th 2023 12:17pm EDTProgressive DC Mayor Muriel Bowser proposed new legislation that would roll back much of the progressive police reforms passed by the city council following the death of George Floyd in March 2020. Bowser’s announcement Monday came as the nation’s capital faces a spike in violent crime. Critics have long said the reforms made it more […]
Majority of Kentucky Inmates Released by Governor’s COVID Commutations Committed Felonies
American Renaissance - Oct 25th 2023 12:17pm EDTNearly 70% of all inmates released by Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear (D) through commutations during the coronavirus pandemic went on to re-offend, with some committing violent felonies like assault and homicide, according to a report ordered by Kentucky’s state legislature. The report, produced by Kentucky’s Department of Information and Technology Services, found that of the 1,702 individuals […]
Democrats: Hamas Is Just as Bad as White People
American Renaissance - Oct 20th 2023 12:15pm EDTDemocratic leaders want their base to absolutely hate Hamas following its attack against Israel. They’ve settled on a way to do this: argue the Palestinian jihadis are just like the white people who marched in Charlottesville and stormed the Capitol on January 6. President Biden tied Hamas to the alt-right at a Human Rights Campaign event […]
Republican 2024 Hopefuls Use Israeli-Palestinian Conflict to Push Hard Line on Immigration
American Renaissance - Oct 20th 2023 12:15pm EDTRepublican presidential hopefuls are using the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to urge tougher security at the U.S.-Mexico border, in what political operatives call a novel attempt to link a foreign conflict to the domestic debate over immigration. The reason for that link is two-fold, say the operatives and political strategists involved in the 2024 primary campaign. Illegal […]
RFK Jr. Comes Out in Favor of Reparations, Carving Out Lane to Biden’s Left
American Renaissance - Oct 19th 2023 1:30pm EDTIndependent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. supports issuing reparations to the black community, making him the most prominent 2024 candidate to favor the controversial policy meant to atone for slavery and legal segregation. President Biden has largely been silent on the issue, leading to frustration among the far left. Kennedy — who ditched his Democratic […]
Twitter User Douglass Mackey Sentenced to 7 Months in Prison
American Renaissance - Oct 18th 2023 7:42pm EDTMeme-maker Douglass Mackey was sentenced in New York criminal court on Wednesday after a March conviction for conspiracy against rights, ie election interference, over memes he created during the 2016 presidential election that disparaged Hillary Clinton. Mackey was sentenced to 7 months in prison for the crime of making memes the DOJ didn’t think were […]
Nikki Haley Backtracks on Supporting Resettling Palestinians Across U.S.
American Renaissance - Oct 18th 2023 3:00pm EDTFormer Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Nikki Haley, running in the Republican presidential primary, is backtracking after suggesting support for resettling Palestinians across American communities. During an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on October 15, the anchor played a clip of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) — also running for the GOP nomination — […]
Progressives Call for US to Take in Some of the Expected 1 Million Gaza Refugees
American Renaissance - Oct 16th 2023 6:05pm EDTExperts predict a million refugees might flee the Gaza Strip amid the war between Israel and Hamas, and socialists and far-left lawmakers said America should welcome them. “Fifty percent of the population in Gaza are children. The international community as well as the United States should be prepared to welcome refugees from Palestine while being very […]
1Foreign Students and Workers Who Praise Hamas ‘Could Be Expelled From UK’
American Renaissance - Oct 13th 2023 2:52pm EDTForeign students, academics and workers who commit anti-Semitic acts or praise Hamas face being expelled from Britain under plans being drawn up by the Home Office. Robert Jenrick, the immigration minister, has commissioned officials in the department to consider how they could revoke visas on national security grounds where there is evidence of discrimination or […]
California Governor Vetoes Bill to Ban Caste Discrimination
American Renaissance - Oct 12th 2023 7:09pm EDTCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom on Saturday vetoed a bill passed recently by the state legislature to explicitly ban caste discrimination, citing existing laws that already prohibit ancestry discrimination, which made the bill “unnecessary.” Had Newsom signed the bill, officially called Senate Bill 403 or SB 403, California would have become the first ever U.S. state […]
Eric Adams Supports ‘Spirit’ of NYC Black Reparations Bill
American Renaissance - Oct 10th 2023 12:56pm EDTThe Adams administration says it conceptually supports a controversial bill weighing whether black New Yorkers deserve reparations for slavery, roiling critics who ripped the measure as one of the most “divisive” to ever emerge from the City Council. Sideya Sherman, commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Equity, told a City Council hearing on Sept. 19 that a […]
Columbus Day Debate Continues in Massachusetts
American Renaissance - Oct 10th 2023 12:56pm EDTMore than 300 cities and towns across Massachusetts will be recognizing Columbus Day on Monday, while around two dozen will be celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day. But Indigenous people and their allies say the divide between what towns and cities formally recognize on the second Monday of October should not exist. They are behind a push […]
Tuberville Says ‘We’ve Lost’ Europe to ‘Immigration’
American Renaissance - Oct 6th 2023 12:34pm EDTU.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) says European countries have been “lost” to “immigration” as he praised Christian nationalist authoritarian Viktor Orbán of Hungary. {snip} {snip} “Europe has been overrun by immigration,” Tuberville said on Newsmax Wednesday evening (video below), which he claimed is “noticeable now to everybody across the world.” “We’ve lost UK, France, Italy, Sweden – […]
New York Gov Hochul Wants to ‘Limit’ Who Crosses Border
American Renaissance - Oct 3rd 2023 1:07pm EDTDemocrat New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Sunday called on Congress to “limit” who crosses the border, saying it’s “too open right now.” Ironically repeating what congressional Republicans have long demanded from the Biden administration, Hochul made the plea during an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” CBS host Margaret Brennan noted there were no border provisions […]
Joe Biden Tells Democrats to Treat Future White Minority ‘with Respect’
American Renaissance - Oct 3rd 2023 1:07pm EDTEuropean-origin Americans deserve respect even after they become a minority in the United States, President Joe Biden told a friendly interviewer in an October 1 interview. “We’re going to be — very shortly — a minority-white European country, and sometimes my [Democrat] colleagues don’t speak enough to make it clear that that is not going […]
Newsom Picks Laphonza Butler as Feinstein Replacement
American Renaissance - Oct 2nd 2023 1:10pm EDTCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom will appoint EMILY’s List President Laphonza Butler to fill the seat of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, elevating the head of a fundraising juggernaut that works to elect Democratic women who support abortion rights, according to a person familiar with the decision. Newsom is moving swiftly to name the next senator, […]
GOP Win: Kevin McCarthy Blocks Democrats’ Migration Expansion
American Renaissance - Oct 1st 2023 10:13am EDTNearly all GOP legislators voted Thursday afternoon to block a massive inflow of wage-cutting migrant workers and to stop another $300 million giveaway to Ukraine. All Democrats voted for the amendment that would give away American jobs to foreigners who get H-2B and H-2A visas, and also to spend another $300 million for Ukraine’s war […]
Self-Interest and Partisan Politics
American Renaissance - Oct 1st 2023 9:00am EDT
Newsom to Fine Schools That Ban Books Over Race, Sexual Orientation
American Renaissance - Sep 29th 2023 6:31pm EDTGov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a bill to curb book bans — his most concrete policy rebuke of attacks on instruction about race and sexual orientation that have taken root in more conservative enclaves of California. Under the new law, which will take effect immediately, the state will fine schools that block textbooks and […]
Greece to Tap Into Undocumented Migrants to Curb Labour Squeeze
American Renaissance - Sep 29th 2023 6:31pm EDTGreece’s conservative government is working on a plan to integrate hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants to fill worker shortages in agriculture, construction and tourism, ministry officials said on Wednesday. {snip} The new proposal would look at allowing the 300,000 migrants estimated already to be living illegally in Greece to work in some sectors, Migration […]
Brooklyn Dem Leader Claims White Neighbors Not Helping to Confront Migrant Crisis
American Renaissance - Sep 29th 2023 12:23pm EDTBrooklyn’s Democratic Party leader is dragging race and class into the city’s migrant crisis, claiming the wealthier whiter neighborhoods in her borough are not shouldering their fair share of shelters. “With dwindling resources being rapidly depleted, this situation is unsustainable without our entire borough banding together and helping together; as we have to overcome the Pandemic […]
Supreme Court Rejects Alabama’s Attempt to Avoid Creating a Second Black Majority Congressional District
American Renaissance - Sep 26th 2023 5:50pm EDTThe Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an emergency bid from Alabama, setting the stage for a new congressional map likely to include a second Black majority district to account for the state’s 27% Black population. The one-line order reflects that the feelings on the court haven’t changed since June when a 5-4 Supreme Court affirmed […]
Texas Sends Another Wave of Migrants to New York City Despite ‘Capacity’ Claims
American Renaissance - Sep 25th 2023 2:31pm EDTexas announced Friday that the state would be busing more migrants from “overwhelmed” border communities to New York City, despite Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) saying the state is at “capacity.” Busses chartered by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the Texas Division of Emergency Management left Del Rio and Eagle Pass on Friday, Abbott announced. The New York Post reported that the […]
How Liberalism Hurts Black Americans
American Renaissance - Sep 24th 2023 9:00am EDT
