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.
"Donald '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 Donald '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.