Category: Race and Politics, Page 41
No More Uncontrolled Immigration: PM Says Britain in Period of Adjustment
American Renaissance - Oct 5th 2021 2:38pm EDTBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday he would not return to “uncontrolled immigration” to solve fuel, gas and Christmas food crises, suggesting such strains were part of a period of post-Brexit adjustment. At the start of his Conservative Party’s conference, Johnson was again forced to defend his government against complaints from those unable […]
Conservative Koch Network Disavows Critical Race Theory Bans
American Renaissance - Sep 30th 2021 1:27pm EDTAs conservative political groups mobilize to ban in schools what they call critical race theory, one prominent backer of Republican causes and candidates is notably absent. Leaders in the network built by the billionaire Koch family say they oppose government bans over teaching about race and history in schools. While they note they don’t agree […]
Senate Parliamentarian Rules Out Democrats’ Immigration Plan B
American Renaissance - Sep 29th 2021 5:58pm EDTThe Senate parliamentarian has nixed Democrats’ back-up plan for getting immigration reform into a sweeping spending bill, handing them a second setback. Democrats had pitched parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough on legalizing millions of undocumented immigrants by making a change to the date for when undocumented immigrants within the United States can apply to adjust their legal […]
‘Border Patrol Are Leftover Racist White Men,’ Says Florida Rep. Frederica Wilson
American Renaissance - Sep 29th 2021 1:00pm EDTRep. Frederica Wilson of Florida had harsh criticism for the U.S. Border Patrol on Sunday amid backlash to the agency’s handling of Haitian migrants. Wilson appeared on the local news program, This Week in South Florida, to discuss the ongoing issue, reiterating her strong and vocal criticism from the past week. The congresswoman represents Florida’s 24th District, […]
My Battle Against Multiculturalism
American Renaissance - Sep 26th 2021 8:00am EDT
Thousands of Haitians Allowed to Stay in U.S. as Texas Camp Clears Out
American Renaissance - Sep 24th 2021 6:34pm EDTIn Houston, nearly 2,000 Haitian migrants have arrived this week from the small border community of Del Rio, with buses pulling up to a huge shelter nearly every hour. In San Antonio, hundreds more have been allowed by the U.S. authorities onto flights to destinations as far away as New York, Boston and Miami, paperwork […]
Biden Says Border Patrol Agents Who Confronted Haitian Migrants ‘Will Pay’
American Renaissance - Sep 24th 2021 6:34pm EDTPresident Joe Biden on Friday harshly criticized the action of some Border Patrol agents, mounted on horseback, who confronted Haitian migrants crossing the border into Texas, calling their actions “horrible.” {snip} Biden was responding to a question from ABC News Congressional Correspondent Rachel Scott, who asked, “You said on the campaign trail that you were […]
Charlie Kirk Wants to Start a Border Militia to Protect ‘White Demographics in America’
American Renaissance - Sep 24th 2021 6:34pm EDTOn his radio show Thursday, Charlie Kirk advocated for the creation of a “citizen force” to be sent to the U.S.-Mexico border to protect against the “invasion” of the country by Haitian refugees and prevent the “diminishing and decreasing [of] white demographics in America.” {snip} {snip} Deputize a citizen force, put them on the border, give […]
Biden Speaks at Conference Filled With Anti-White, Anti-Police Rhetoric
American Renaissance - Sep 24th 2021 1:47pm EDTPresident Joe Biden had a busy week at the United Nations, and as the media focused much of its attention on his first address to the General Assembly, another interesting presidential public appearance slid under the radar. On Tuesday, Biden delivered the opening address for the Root Institute 2021, a virtual conference put on by the Root, […]
The Destructive Legacy of the Great Society
American Renaissance - Sep 23rd 2021 6:54pm EDT{snip} Liberals view a larger welfare state as an unalloyed good, but what’s the track record? Entitlement programs were dramatically expanded in the 1960s in the service of a war on poverty, yet poverty fell at a slower rate after the Great Society initiatives were implemented, and overall dependency on the government for food, shelter […]
Secession Is the Short Cut to Right-Wing Victory
American Renaissance - Sep 23rd 2021 6:54pm EDTCurtis Yarvin’s excellent substack deserves your reading. He’s widely praised for his insight into why Western civilization is going wrong, and for his ideas on a new regime to replace it. {snip} Secession avoids several obstacles identified by Yarvin that could block the Right from creating a better regime in this generation. First of all, right-wing sovereignty over […]
Maxine Waters: Treatment of Haitian Migrants Worse Than Slavery
American Renaissance - Sep 23rd 2021 1:32pm EDTRep. Maxine Waters decried the treatment of Haitian migrants arriving by the thousands at the southern border, claiming what occurred was “worse than what we witnessed in slavery.” The California Democrat spoke at a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, held in response to photos and claims that surfaced this week showing Border Patrol agents attempting to […]
The Immigration Radicalism of the Democratic Reconciliation Bill
American Renaissance - Sep 22nd 2021 3:25pm EDTWe are all familiar with the fiscal radicalism of the Democratic reconciliation bill, but it’s time to focus more on the immigration radicalism of the bill. The proposal includes a sweeping amnesty and large-scale increases in legal immigration. These provisions make the bill one of the most far-reaching immigration plans of the last decade, although almost […]
The Biden Administration Is Still Banning White Farmers From Federal Aid
American Renaissance - Sep 22nd 2021 3:25pm EDTPresident Biden’s farm loan forgiveness program is outrageously unconstitutional. It is a law that would selectively pay off the loans of farmers based on race. A non-white farmer would see his entire loan paid off. His neighbor, who is white, would not qualify for the program. It was predictably challenged in court with predictable results. […]
Biden Administration to Raise Refugee Admissions Cap to 125,000
American Renaissance - Sep 21st 2021 1:47pm EDTPresident Biden is raising the refugee admissions cap to 125,000 for the government’s budget year beginning Oct. 1, the State Department confirmed Monday, in line with the goal he set during his 2020 campaign. The move follows the blowback the president received earlier this year for backing away from his commitment to take in more refugees and, […]
North Carolina Judges Block Voter ID Law
American Renaissance - Sep 20th 2021 1:15pm EDTA panel of North Carolina judges in a split decision Friday blocked the state’s voter ID law, saying it discriminates against Black people. {snip} The decision in Wake County Superior Court also said that the law “would not have been enacted in its current form but for its tendency to discriminate against African American voters.” The […]
Senate Parliamentarian Nixes Democrats’ Immigration Plan
American Renaissance - Sep 20th 2021 1:15pm EDTSenate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough on Sunday ruled against Democrats’ plan to provide 8 million greencards as part of their $3.5 trillion spending bill, dealing a significant blow to Democrats’ immigration reform chances. MacDonough’s guidance, a copy of which was obtained by The Hill, all but closes the door to Democrats using the spending bill to […]
Biden Administration Seeks New Law to Ease Afghan Refugees’ Path to Green Cards
American Renaissance - Sep 10th 2021 3:28pm EDTThe White House is asking Congress to pass a law providing green cards for the tens of thousands of Afghans the Biden administration evacuated from Kabul and is bringing to the U.S. on temporary humanitarian grounds. The proposal was included in a funding request the White House sent to Congress on Tuesday, asking lawmakers to […]
Biden Asks for Funding to Help Bring 95,000 Afghans to US
American Renaissance - Sep 8th 2021 1:52pm EDTThe Biden administration is planning to ask Congress for funding to bring some 95,000 Afghans to America and assist in resettling them — a sign both of U.S. commitments to allies and the likelihood that efforts to evacuate them will linger for months. The White House is asking for $6.4 billion through a continuing resolution […]
The Congressional Black Caucus: Powerful, Diverse and Newly Complicated
American Renaissance - Sep 7th 2021 1:33pm EDTThe Congressional Black Caucus is the largest it has ever been, jumping to 57 members this year after a period of steady growth. The 50-year-old group, which includes most Black members of Congress and is entirely Democratic, is also more diverse, reflecting growing pockets of the Black electorate: millennials, progressives, suburban voters, those less tightly […]
Arizona Launches a Bold New Experiment to Limit Racist Convictions
American Renaissance - Sep 7th 2021 1:33pm EDTArizona’s conservative state Supreme Court took a surprising step last week that could lead to juries in that state being more racially diverse, and thus less likely to treat racial minorities more harshly. It announced that it will eliminate “peremptory challenges” in Arizona — a practice that allows trial lawyers to remove jurors from a case, often […]
GOP Rift Widens amid Growing Hostility to Afghan Refugees
American Renaissance - Aug 31st 2021 3:32pm EDTAs the U.S. rushes to evacuate Americans and allies from the chaos of Afghanistan, a growing number of Republicans are questioning why the U.S. should take in Afghan citizens who worked side by side with Americans, further exacerbating divides within the party heading into next year’s midterm elections. Little more than a week ago, as […]
Courts Are Beginning to Admit That Some Immigration Laws Are Racist
American Renaissance - Aug 30th 2021 1:29pm EDTA federal judge in Nevada ruled for the first time last week that a longstanding law that makes it a felony to reenter the United States after deportation is unconstitutional because it’s explicitly racist in its origins. Federal laws make it a misdemeanor to enter the country without permission and a felony to reenter, punishable […]
Cori Bush Tests the Bounds of What an Activist Turned Lawmaker Can Accomplish
American Renaissance - Aug 27th 2021 10:30pm EDTDemocratic Rep. Cori Bush is not going to apologize for using the politically fraught slogan “Defund the Police.” Not because Republicans keep attacking her over it and not because it makes so many of her Democratic colleagues uncomfortable. To hear her tell it, the controversy over the phrase is less about whether it accurately conveys […]
Southern Counties Lose Their White Majorities, Threatening GOP
American Renaissance - Aug 27th 2021 10:29pm EDTIncreasing urban diversity in Southern states is complicating Republican efforts to keep the reins of statehouse power and chip away at Democratic control of Congress. Of the 65 counties that turned majority minority since 2010, meaning more than half the population is made up of people of color, over two-thirds are in the South, a Stateline analysis […]
