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  • Biden Asks for Funding to Help Bring 95,000 Afghans to US

    American Renaissance - Sep 8th 2021 1:52pm EDT

    The 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 EDT

    The 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 EDT

    Arizona’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 EDT

    As 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 EDT

    A 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 EDT

    Democratic 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 EDT

    Increasing 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 […]

  • Supreme Court Requires Biden to Revive Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ Immigration Policy

    American Renaissance - Aug 25th 2021 12:52pm EDT

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied President Joe Biden’s bid to rescind an immigration policy implemented by his predecessor, Donald Trump, that forced thousands of asylum seekers to stay in Mexico awaiting U.S. hearings. The court, with three liberal justices dissenting, rejected the Biden administration’s effort to block a Texas-based judge’s ruling requiring the […]

  • U.S. Tells Refugee Aid Groups to Get Ready for 50,000 Afghans

    American Renaissance - Aug 25th 2021 12:52pm EDT

    The Biden administration has asked refugee aid organizations to prepare to receive and resettle as many as 50,000 Afghans evacuated under a stopgap program as the U.S. accelerates flights out of Kabul ahead of an end-of-August deadline, according to three people familiar with the discussions. The program, known as humanitarian parole, would target Afghans likely […]

  • Congress’s Hip-Hop Legislation Is the Latest Symbolic Gesturing That Doesn’t Improve Black Lives

    American Renaissance - Aug 23rd 2021 1:46pm EDT

    {snip} In a recent move that seemed to go largely unnoticed, the Senate unanimously passed a resolution designating August 11, 2021, as Hip-Hop Celebration Day, August 2021 as Hip-Hop Recognition Month and November 2021 as Hip-Hop History Month. It was a peculiar moment. No, not because hip-hop doesn’t matter — for decades, the genre has […]

  • Black Nationalist Baffles White Interviewer

    American Renaissance - Aug 22nd 2021 11:00am EDT

    In this undated video, a black man acknowledges that he is only a guest in Britain. The post Black Nationalist Baffles White Interviewer appeared first on American Renaissance.

  • The War Comes Home

    American Renaissance - Aug 20th 2021 5:54pm EDT

    A nation is made of race, ethnicity, culture, and identity. Ernst Renan called it a “daily plebiscite.” He said a nation needs a “common will in the present,” and the wish to perform great deeds in the future. Identity is a feeling, but feelings, emotions, personalities and beliefs come from the blood. We don’t create […]

  • We Should Not Be Resettling Afghan Refugees Before Rescuing American Citizens

    American Renaissance - Aug 19th 2021 5:43pm EDT

    {snip} So what happens to you now in a country run by the Taliban? It’s hard to think about that. And yet tonight many Americans are thinking about it and they’re feeling distressed as they do. Americans are kind people and generous. They’re quicker and more eager to help strangers than anyone else in the world. […]

  • As Murders Surge, Democrats Find a New Message: Fund the Police

    American Renaissance - Aug 19th 2021 5:43pm EDT

    Last summer, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser played a high-profile role in the protests sweeping America over police killings of Black suspects. She renamed a street Black Lives Matter Plaza and joined thousands of demonstrators there, many shouting what had become the movement’s slogan: “Defund the police!” Earlier this year, the mayor, a Democrat, proposed cutting […]

  • Nevada District Court Judge Tosses Out Federal Immigration Law on Illegal Re-Entry

    American Renaissance - Aug 19th 2021 1:32pm EDT

    The federal statute outlawing re-entry into the United States by people who have been previously deported is unconstitutional, according to a Wednesday ruling by U.S. District Court of Nevada Chief Judge Miranda Du. The 43-page ruling came in a case involving Gustavo Carrillo-Lopez, who was indicted last year. {snip} Lawyers for Carrillo-Lopez argued that the […]

  • If Larry Elder Is Elected, Life Will Get Harder for Black and Latino Californians

    American Renaissance - Aug 19th 2021 1:32pm EDT

    The California recall election’s Republican front-runner, Larry Elder, has built a career as a Black radio talk show host who isn’t afraid to deny the reality of systemic racism by maligning Black people. He likes to call himself “the sage from South-Central.” The problem is, the statistics he’s shared over the decades to support his views and policy proposals are […]

  • South African Secession Movement Gains Momentum

    American Renaissance - Aug 18th 2021 6:37pm EDT

    A secession movement backed by most whites in South Africa’s Western Cape province appears to be gaining steam following the riots in Durban earlier this summer. According to a poll conducted for the Cape Independence Advocacy Group (CIAG), 42 percent of Western Cape residents of all races would now support a referendum on whether to […]

  • The Coming U.S. Political Fight over Accepting Refugees from Afghanistan

    American Renaissance - Aug 18th 2021 6:03pm EDT

    A humanitarian crisis in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is sparking a political debate over what to do about refugees from the war-torn country. There is some bipartisan agreement to assist Afghans who stood with Americans. But it is unclear how many — and what categories of Afghans — will be able […]

  • Meet America’s Race Czars

    American Renaissance - Aug 18th 2021 6:03pm EDT

    {snip} Most Americans do not realize the full extent to which a racially based spoils system is fundamentally embedded in American economic life. They know about affirmative action in school admissions (though many mistakenly believe affirmative action is a “tiebreaker” as opposed to an enormous boost for the recipient). But the racial spoils system in […]

  • America Should Make Racial Justice Part of Our Official Foreign Policy

    American Renaissance - Aug 18th 2021 4:42pm EDT

    Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently told American diplomats that when conversations about human rights turn to difficult discussions about America’s history of racial justice (or lack thereof) they should, “acknowledge our imperfections.” It’s a good step that helps to foster a more honest discussion about the way forward for equality. But, the United States and our […]

  • Today’s Defeat Will Be Tomorrow’s Victory

    American Renaissance - Aug 15th 2021 8:00am EDT

    Early on in 1997, in an attempt to give Eurocentrists a voice in the belly of the multicultural beast, I decided to run for a seat on the New York City Council. I risked an uphill battle against a powerful Republican incumbent because he had arranged a sweetheart deal with the Democrats to run unopposed […]

  • Budget Package Includes Plan For Pathway to Citizenship, Green Cards for Millions

    American Renaissance - Aug 13th 2021 7:00pm EDT

    Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget resolution package instructs lawmakers to chart a pathway to citizenship for millions of people while investing in border security. The bill text unveiled Monday includes some $107 billion for the Senate Judiciary Committee to spend on each, giving lawmakers a soft deadline of Sept. 15. The package does not specify how many […]

  • Mayorkas Says Border Crisis ‘Unsustainable’ and ‘We’re Going to Lose’

    American Renaissance - Aug 13th 2021 7:00pm EDT

    Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas met privately with Border Patrol agents in Texas and said in leaked audio that the border crisis is “unsustainable” and “we’re going to lose” if “borders are the first line of defense.” “A couple of days ago I was down in Mexico, and I said look, you know, if, if our borders are […]

  • Latinos’ Next Census Task: Get Money and Power Through Redistricting

    American Renaissance - Aug 12th 2021 12:56pm EDT

    Here and there around the country, Latino advocacy groups have been instructing people on money and political power — and how to get it. The groups are trying to help growing communities of Latinos understand the next step following the 2020 census results: having a say in how their neighborhoods, towns, cities, counties, regions and […]

  • GOP Senate Candidate Says You Should Be Worried about ‘Anti-White Racism’

    American Renaissance - Aug 11th 2021 2:45pm EDT

    Billionaire tech mogul Peter Thiel’s favored candidate for an Arizona Senate seat went on a recent screed against “anti-white racism,” accusing liberal teachers of turning America’s students into self-hating automatons. Blake Masters, a 34-year-old venture capitalist and protege of the PayPal founder, recently jumped into the race to face Democratic Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly. Weeks […]