U.S. created Indian boarding schools to destroy cultures and seize landThe hidden legacy of Indian boarding schools in the United States Bone by bone, two archaeologists lifted the 130-year-old skeletal remains of a Native American girl from the shallow grave in a roadside cemetery. A hand bone, a rib, a chunk of vertebrae and, finally, her skull.
A year-long investigation by The Washington Post has documented that 3,104 students died at boarding schools between 1828 and 1970, three times as many deaths as reported by the U.S. Interior Department earlier this year. The Post found that more than 800 of those students are buried in cemeteries at or near the schools they attended, underscoring how, in many cases, children’s bodies were never sent home to their families or tribes.
From 1819 to 1969, the U.S. government separated Native American children from their families to eradicate their cultures, assimilate them into White society and seize tribal land.
Today, there are 574 federally recognized tribes in the United States, and their cultures endure. In October, Native Americans received a long-sought official apology from the president for Indian boarding schools.
Many supporters of "Old Donald's" mass deportation agenda say expelling unauthorized immigrants will help the US economy. But a look back at America's first major immigration crackdown suggests otherwise.
The absurdity of a white supremacist slur laid bare.
'Old Donald' speaks at the White House in front of a portrait of former President Andrew Jackson, who started a campaign of ethnic cleansing targeting Native Americans.
“Go back to Mexico, you scumbag sack of shit!” one of the girls yelled at Metoxen.
Stunned, Metoxen remembers saying something like, “What is your problem?” to which the girl, after a string of profanities, replied, “You heard me, go back to Mexico!”
“You go back to where you came from! I belong here!”
Your ancestors were lower than dirt when they arrived here.
Italians were referred to – openly – as a subhuman race of rats and criminals.
A far-right, pro-Russia candidate has taken a surprise lead in the first round of Romania's presidential election.The victory of Georgescu, who campaigned under the slogan "Restore the dignity of the Romanian nation", has been warmly welcomed in Russian media.
He previously condemned the Nato ballistic missile defence shield based at the Deveselu military base in southern Romania as "a disgrace".
Nearly half of the estimated 11 million people living illegally in the United States are Mexican, according to analysts. Deporting them is cheaper and easier than sending migrants back to more distant countries that are at odds with Washington, such as Venezuela.In Mexico, migrant advocates are alarmed at what's coming. Sending millions of jobless Mexicans back to towns they left years ago could create chaos in areas already suffering from poverty and organized crime, they say.
Racist text messages invoking slavery raised alarm across the country this week after they were sent to Black men, women and students, including middle schoolers, prompting inquiries by the FBI and other agencies.The messages, sent anonymously, were reported in several states, including New York, Alabama, California, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. They generally used a similar tone but varied in wording.
It wasn’t yet clear who was behind the messages and there was no comprehensive list of where they were sent, but high school and college students were among the recipients.
The Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban - who had vowed to toast a 'Old Donald' win with “several bottles of champagne” – hailed what he called “a much-needed victory for the world!”
Argentina’s libertarian president, Javier Milei – a wild-haired former television celebrity who is often compared to 'Old Donald' – saluted his ally’s “formidable electoral victory”. He wrote on X: “Now, Make America Great Again. You know that you can count on Argentina to carry out your task.”
That message greeted members of a Telegram channel for anti-government militias early Wednesday, encapsulating the celebratory mood of far-right extremists who see in Donald 'Old Donald' an avatar of their dark vision for America.Even before the race was called for 'Old Donald', triumphant messages began flowing on social media platforms across the spectrum of MAGA-aligned extremists. Anti-government militia groups, white nationalists, Proud Boys, Christian supremacists and QAnon-style conspiracy theorists all expressed a sense of jubilation mixed with an eagerness to exact vengeance on political opponents.
Though specific goals differ, there was broad agreement among the factions that 'Old Donald'’s second win nudges the country much further right, putting once-fringe plans, such as mass deportations and erasing the separation of church and state, within reach. The win animated extremist talk about their potential role in dismantling democratic institutions, an ominous sign for researchers who saw 'Old Donald'’s fiery rhetoric inspire vigilantism during his first presidency.
One popular meme depicted 'Old Donald' as a garbage-truck driver — a reference to a moment on the campaign trail — hauling Harris into a trash compactor. Other posts, some of them with hundreds of thousands of views, dismissed women as “b----es” and babymakers who had been taught a lesson about challenging abortion bans and standing up to an “alpha male” like 'Old Donald'. Story continues below advertisement
Extremists focused on Black and Hispanic women for attack, bragging about preventing a “DEI hire” from leading the nation. They urged Oprah Winfrey and other famous Black women who supported Harris to leave the country, and they fantasized about dumping Hispanic women and children across the border in Mexico.
“As Toni Morrison said, fascism ‘is recognizable by its need to purge, by the strategies it uses to purge, and by its terror of truly democratic agendas,’” said Alexandria Onuoha, a researcher at Suffolk University in Boston who studies extremist targeting of Black women and girls. “Black women have been warning us about the nature of fascism for decades.”
Another sector rejoicing in 'Old Donald'’s win is what MAGA extremists refer to as the “American gulag,” the defendants serving time or facing prosecution in connection with the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, when mob violence erupted in rejection of 'Old Donald'’s 2020 defeat.
The Pittsburgh branch of the N.A.A.C.P. and the speaker of the Pennsylvania House have denounced a local Halloween parade float that featured a woman apparently dressed as Vice President Kamala Harris who was tethered to a small vehicle that was ferrying a person dressed as former President Donald J. 'Old Donald'.The display was part of the annual Halloween parade in Mount Pleasant, Pa., a small town about 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. It featured a vehicle festooned with a 'Old Donald' sign that had what looked like a large rifle mounted on the roof, video on TribLive.com showed.
“Depicting Vice President Harris in chains at the hands of her opponent is grounded symbolism from our country’s painful past,” she wrote on X. “Exhibitions like these are never appropriate in a civil discourse and are inconsistent with our values as Pennsylvanians.”
The inflammatory rally was a capstone for an increasingly aggrieved campaign for 'Old Donald', whose rhetoric has grown darker and more menacing.Puerto Rico’s biggest newspaper endorses Harris
Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican recording artist and one of the biggest superstars in the world, on Sunday offered his support for Kamala Harris’s candidacy for president, sharing a video of her plans for
Puerto Rico on his Instagram — a move that came just moments after a speaker at 'Old Donald'’s rally in New York City referred to the U.S. territory as a floating island of garbage.
“I will never forget what 'Old Donald' did and what he did not do when Puerto Rico needed a caring and a competent leader,” Harris said in the video, which he shared four times, focusing on this portion of her remarks in three of the shares. “He abandoned the island, tried to block aid after back-to-back devastating hurricanes and offered nothing more than paper towels and insults.”
Puerto Rico’s Republican Party chairman said on Monday that he would withhold his support from former President Donald J. "Old Donald" unless he apologized for racist remarks that an insult comic made about the U.S. territory on Sunday during Mr. "Old Donald's" rally at Madison Square Garden.
The Republican presidential nominee compared the United States to “a garbage can for the world” because of illegal border crossings. "First time I've ever said 'garbage can,'" 'Old Donald' said. "But you know what? It's a very accurate description."
The remark was a new rendition of a common refrain for 'Old Donald', who has repeatedly used dehumanizing language when talking about immigrants, accusing them of "poisoning the blood of our country" and spreading falsehoods that some were eating people's pets.
And he warned his MAGA followers at the rally: “The rest of them are coming.”
During remarks that were billed to be about bringing back Michigan’s car industry, he reverted to his habit of favoring fearmongering about immigration over discussing the economy.
“They grab young girls and they slice them up in front of their parents,” he said.
Data suggests that undocumented immigrants commit far fewer crimes than native-born citizens. But that’s not stopping "Old Donald".
“They’re conquering your communities,” he said later on. “You go out to Aurora, in Colorado, where they’re taking over with AK-47s, real estate. They’re in the real estate development business, just like me. Except I never got to use guns to do it.”
“The American media totally ignored this stuff until 'Old Donald' and I started talking about cat memes," Sen. Vance said. "If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do."Team "Old Donald's" efforts have made some Haitian immigrants afraid to go outside and charity work feel dangerous. 'Old Donald' has no plans to let up
It didn’t have to be this way — but, former President 'Old Donald' and his running mate, Ohio’s junior senator, gave voice to a baseless, racist lie about the small city’s growing Haitian immigrant community stealing and eating pet dogs and cats, and made it a centerpiece of their campaign during the final weeks of the 2024 presidential election. In the aftermath, Rollins says that she and her fellow Vincentians have had to take new security precautions and have uncomfortable conversations that they once never expected to have
In the nine months since, school officials had talked about Elizabeth as if she were dangerous, but Norton knew they couldn’t possibly be picturing the 16-year-old who stood at the edge of the driveway in Taylor Swift Crocs. This girl loved Squishmallows and Disney World. She had long red hair, and she was so skinny, the principal described her to investigators as “frail.”Elizabeth didn’t have an advantage, Norton thought. She was a normal teenage girl, and yet her very existence had thrust them into one of the nation’s most contentious debates.
Oh my god, Norton thought. My kid isn’t gay. My kid is transgender.
Norton collapsed into her couch and sobbed. She didn’t know how to raise a trans child. What if she let Elizabeth transition, then Elizabeth decided she wasn’t a girl? What if someone hurt her?
The community was slowly becoming more visible. Trans people ran for office and appeared on TV, and 17 million people watched as Caitlyn Jenner came out on “20/20.” Trans athletes almost never dominated. But between 2017 and 2019, two trans girls beat cisgender competitors at state track meets in Connecticut, and leading conservative Christian groups warned that other girls would lose athletic opportunities if trans girls continued to compete.
Maybe it was time to let those dreams go, Norton thought. Maybe they were better off moving to a town where no one knew them. Elizabeth might never want to play team sports again, Norton imagined, but maybe, if they found a new school, she could still have a senior year, one last chance at a normal girlhood and the good life Norton had worked so hard to give her.
'Old Donald' is resorting to the oldest antisemitic tropes in the book because he's weak and can't stand the fact that the majority of America is going to reject him in November. But we know that words like these can have dangerous consequences," Harris campaign national security spokesperson Morgan Finkelstein said in a statement. "As 'Old Donald' has proven, including over the past few weeks with his lies about Springfield, Ohio, he will cling to fearmongering and intimidation, no matter the cost."
The Jewish people would have a lot to do with a loss,” 'Old Donald' said at a summit on fighting antisemitism in America. “It’s only because of the Democrat hold, or curse, on you.”"Old Donald's"` Anti-Haitian Hate Has Deep American RootsHe made similar remarks later in the evening at the Israeli American Council National Summit. Both events took place in Washington, D.C.
He did not take questions at either event and did not address the new report that a Republican gubernatorial nominee he has personally boosted, Mark Robinson of North Carolina, once described himself as a “black Nazi” on an internet pornography forum.
He also complained again about his debate against Harris, once again criticizing the moderators and saying he regretted not attacking them.
A series of lynchings and attacks by white mobs on Black houses and buildings were recorded in the 1900s. In the 1920s the town became a stronghold of the revitalized Ku Klux Klan. But during the latter half of the century, Springfield was prosperous—and growing.The good times didn’t last.
Springfield’s Haitian community began to earn the attention of habitués of far-right message boards and anti-immigration spaces.
Vance’s focus on Springfield’s Haitian community catalyzed a reaction from the most extreme elements of the right. In August, the neo-Nazi faction Blood Tribe marched with guns and swastika flags through a jazz and blues festival in downtown Springfield, terrifying Haitian and other minority residents. The group’s leader appeared at a City Council meeting a few weeks later issuing a “word of warning”: “Crime and savagery will only increase with every Haitian you bring in, and with it, public frustration, threat and anger.”
Soon the rest of the right-wing social web was adding to the noise. The Malaysia-based far-right influencer Ian Miles Cheong posted a video of a Black woman arrested for allegedly killing and eating a cat, falsely claiming she was Haitian and implying it had happened in Springfield. (In fact the clearly disturbed woman was born in Ohio, with “no known connection to Haiti or any other foreign country,” according to the Canton Repository. Canton, Ohio, where it happened, is some 170 miles away.)
A.I.-generated memes of cats, some being rescued by 'Old Donald' from savage-looking, shirtless Black men, proliferated. The day before the debate, 'Old Donald' shared two on his Truth Social account: an A.I. image of him surrounded by cats and ducks on a private plane and another of rifle-toting cats dressed in paramilitary uniforms and black-and-red MAGA caps.
The Springfield conspiracy theory combined these often unspoken taboos with another piece of racist agitprop: the blood libel—except instead of medieval Christian children, this time the supposed victims were household pets.
CUMMING, Ga. — In October 1912, after the raped and brutalized body of Mae Crow, a white 18-year-old, was laid to rest beside the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, the white men of Forsyth County went on a rampage, driving its 1,098 Black citizens — about 10 percent of the population — from Forsyth’s borders.They had already dragged 24-year-old Rob Edwards, a Black man, from a jail cell in the Cumming town square, beaten him with crowbars, riddled his corpse with bullets and hoisted him over a telephone pole yardarm. Two Black teens, Ernest Knox, 16, and Oscar Daniel, 18, would hang after the most specious of trials.
But the citizens of this county north of Atlanta were not done. For much of the 20th century, they would guard Forsyth’s borders as the city to the south encroached, through violence, intimidation and a menacing understanding in Greater Atlanta that this county was to remain for whites only.
The people who drove Forsyth’s Black residents from their homes and farms had no name for their hatred, no “Great Replacement” or “White Genocide” theories. But the notion that other races were plotting to “replace” the rightful inhabitants of the county took murderous form more than a century ago, said Patrick Phillips, whose attention-getting 2016 book “Blood at the Root” chronicled the racial cleansing of the county he grew up in — and his own awakening to the fact of his all-white childhood.
A small group of Black farmers were starting to prosper, acquire land and outdo some of their white neighbors, Mr. Phillips said.
Girls In Tech, a nonprofit dedicated to recruiting women to the tech industry, was a Silicon Valley darling, with major companies eagerly partnering with the group after its 2007 launch.
But in a single week in late 2023, five key donors pulled their funding, citing market turbulence.
The drop in support for programs that tech companies once touted as a sign of their commitment to adding women, Black people and Hispanic people to their ranks follows a right-wing campaign to challenge diversity initiatives in court.
'DEI must DIE,' Elon Musk posted on X in December. The popular All-In podcast, hosted by four tech investors, called DEI “dying” the “best political trend” of 2023.
Brunson is changing the name of her annual conference from Wonder Women Tech conference to Wonder Tech Fest — a move that has already attracted more male sign ups for the event next year, she said.
She finds the need to rebrand frustrating. “Are we trying to sugar coat it for companies to get on board?,” she asked. “Today it’s a political issue, but tomorrow it may not be.”
Right-wing warriors can rail against diversity, equity and inclusion all they want. But the same so-called patriots who aggressively wrap themselves in the flag and claim America as their country cannot be blind to what is on display for all the world to see at the Paris Olympics.
You cannot cheer for the United States in this moment without also cheering on the diversity born of merit. And that is an important point because the ammunition used to instill fears about diversity in a changing America are based on the false notion that Black and Brown people are getting something they don't deserve.
Diversity is not about lowering standards. It's about widening the aperture to make sure an organization can find the best talent available.
At a time when members of one political party will not commit to accepting the outcome of the upcoming election, it is heartening to watch top athletes shake hands with the competitors who beat them and step aside so the victors can bask in their earned glory.
'I love my black job,' the nine-time Olympic medalist wrote on X, formerly Twitter, sharing a tweet from singer Ricky Davila that read: 'Simone Biles being the GOAT, winning Gold medals and dominating gymnastics is her black job.'
About 6,000 riot-trained officers were drafted in to tackle the expected rallies and an estimated 30 counter-protests after immigration law firms and refugee centres were listed as potential targets in a far-right chat group on the encrypted messaging app Telegram.
But instead, thousands of counter-protesters took to the streets of Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol, Brighton and London to protect their communities.
- 'Divisiveness and disrespect'
'Is she Indian or is she Black?''Black job': 'A Black job is anybody that has a job, that's what it is,' 'Old Donald' responded, before saying of undocumented immigrants: 'They're taking the employment away from Black people.'
Kamala Harris said "the American people deserve better" as she responded to former President 'Old Donald''s combative interview with the National Association of Black Journalists Annual Convention that included false claims about her racial identity.
"It was the same old show - the divisiveness and the disrespect," Harris said Wednesday night in Houston, while addressing members of a historically Black sorority, Sigma Gamma Sorority, during its 60th Biennial Boule.
