All posts tagged "Racisme"

Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday showered attention on three Tennessee officials targeted for expulsion from the state legislature over their support for gun control, as the fracas escalated into a major national row over race and representation. Biden spoke via phone with the "Tennessee Three" and "thanked them for their leadership in seeking to ban assault weapons," a White House statement said.  Biden invited the three to the White House "in the near future," it added.  The Republican-led Tennessee House of Representatives expelled two Bla......

Washington (AFP) - It's a profession which is increasingly under the spotlight as the culture wars rumble on: "sensitivity readers" -- editors who identify insensitivities or stereotypes in manuscripts -- are becoming a lightning rod for the publishing industry. Such readers have worked in the wings of the Western literary world for years now, though they were largely confined to children's literature. But amid social reckonings such as the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements, sensitivity readers are becoming prominent in contemporary fiction publishing also -- and not everyone is pleased ......

Washington (AFP) - Texas plans to execute on Wednesday a man sentenced to death for a triple murder after a trial that his lawyers say was tainted by racial bias. John Balentine, a 54-year- old African American, was scheduled to receive a lethal injection, nearly 25 years after he shot three white teenagers as they slept.  One of them, according to court documents, was the brother of his former girlfriend, who disapproved of their interracial relationship and threatened to kill Balentine. Balentine never denied the crime, but his lawyer Shawn Nolan argues that he was given the death penalty be......

Washington (AFP) - In the world of Tucker Carlson's hit TV show, America is under assault -- by Democrats, by health authorities, by immigrants, by Black Lives Matter protests -- and white conservatives are in a fight for their very survival. Anti-white racism is on the rise. Modern liberals hate Christianity. Migrants are invading. These are just a few of the claims made by the host of "Tucker Carlson Tonight." In broadcast after broadcast, the 53-year-old appeals to viewers' outrage and plays on their fears, propelling his show to the heights of cable TV, making him millions of dollars, and ......

Levittown (United States) (AFP) - As Joshua Waldorf was running for a third term on the Pennsbury school board in November, one particularly heated debate triggered a flood of vitriolic messages to his inbox -- one of them urging him to shoot himself.  In a shift mirrored in cities across America, his local council overseeing schools in the leafy suburbs of Philadelphia had unwittingly become a battleground in the politicized culture wars roiling the nation. The hateful messages aimed at Waldorf were just one example of the flow of anonymous slurs and threats directed at him and fellow members......

New York (AFP) - New York has begun the extended process of removing a statue of former US president Theodore Roosevelt, which has been long criticized as a racist and colonialist symbol and became a cultural flashpoint in recent years. The bronze equestrian memorial to "Teddy" Roosevelt, whose removal order was announced in June 2020, was surrounded by scaffolding Thursday outside an entrance to the American Museum of Natural History where it has stood welcoming visitors for 81 years. Asked about the timeline of the work, the museum said "it will be a multi-month process," adding no final dat......