Current Events
ABC News suspended Whoopi Goldberg for saying the Holocaust isn’t about race,” during a recent episode of The View and a panel discussion about the Tennessee school board’s ban of the book Maus.
58-year-old Richard Burnham was charged with multiple hate crimes after allegedly attacking Black high school students in Volusia County, Florida, by calling them racial slurs and using a pipe to smash their car window.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz claimed in his podcast that President Joe Biden's pledge to nominate a Black woman for the next Supreme Court Justice is "actually an insult to Black women."
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will be presenting before a grand jury an election interference case against Donald Trump. Now, Willis is asking the FBI for security accommodations now that Trump has given a speech in Texas Saturday similar to the one he gave before the Jan 6 Capitol riot.
"If I run and if I win, we will treat those people from January 6 fairly. We will treat them fairly," Donald Trump said during a rally in Texas. "And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons. Because they are being treated so unfairly."
During a recent interview, Ben Carson played his usual role of "Black man crying white tears" by blubbering his unseasoned cries about "identity politics" because Joe Biden vowed to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court since Justice Stephen Breyer is set to retire.
Florida Democrats walked out of a confirmation hearing for anti-mask Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo because he refused to directly answer questions about vaccine efficacy, among other things.
Black model Megan Milan was shopping at a beauty store in Los Angeles' Santee Alley called Remy's, and an Asian cashier, dubbed "Asian Karen" started rifling through her coat pockets presumably looking for stolen items, which she did not find.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams' solution to a rise in gun violence in NYC is to unleash a previously-dismantled special plainclothes police unit that has been accused of racial profiling to target guns and street gangs.
James Iannazzo, who was arrested after he got himself caught on a viral video launching into a violent and racist tirade directed at a group of teenage employees at Robeks smoothie shop in Fairfield, Connecticut, wads fired as a top-ranking Merrill Lynch broker after the incident.
A mostly white jury was selected in the case for Thomas Lane, J. Kueng and Tou Thao, the three ex-Minneapolis cops who, along with Derek Chauvin, were involved in George Floyd's death. Judge Paul Magnuson said, “There is absolutely nothing about the subject of religion, race or ethnicity that’s involved in this case.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell suggested Black Americans aren't actually Americans when he said about the voting rights filibuster, "If you look at the statistics, African American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans."