Racism

By her own admission, broadcast journalist Charlene White doesn’t often find herself overcome with emotion. Instead describing herself as someone brimming with “fight” and “resilience”, the ITV News and Loose Women anchor says she has long dealt with online abuse in the only way she knows how. “With humour,” says White with a smile. “It’s going to sound awful, but I have been faced with social media racism for so long – oh God longer than a decade now – that I’ve had to build an armour against it. I shouldn’t have to build an armour, but I have done, in order to be able to survive and enjoy the side of social media that I love.” An all too regular occurrence brought to the fore by recent events including the Euro 2020 finals – when a number of England footballers were subjected to a torrent of online racial abuse after losing to Italy on penalties – White describes the need for “broad shoulders” to deal with an increasing number of trolls and negative online …

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A would-be Jamba Juice customer was booted out of one of the smoothie chain's Los Angeles locations on March 30 after he repeatedly refused to wear a mask indoors. As if that wasn't bad enough, he proceeded to insult almost everyone in the vicinity in the process. The incident, which was captured on cell phone camera by a female bystander and subsequently shared on Instagram by @bellikemike, depicts the man departing the store in disgrace, according to The Daily Dot. When an employee holds the door for him, he begins to berate her—first for her profession and then, apparently, for her race or nationality. "That's all you do, you work at Jamba Juice," he says before snapping, "Go back to your country!" Once the man has crossed the parking lot to his car, he continues in the same vein. This time, however, his rage is directed not at the Jamba Juice employee, but at the woman recording him. "Yeah, record me," he says. "You go back to your country, too." "Of course I am. Of …

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Church bells rang out across Norway on Thursday to mark the 10th anniversary of the country's worst terror attack in its recent history. On July 22, 2011, right-wing extremist Anders Breivik set off a car bomb in the capital, Oslo, killing eight people in the government quarter. He then took a ferry to Utoya island, where he shot dead 69 mostly teenaged members of the Labour Party’s youth wing (AUF), who were there for an annual summer camp. On Thursday, ordinary Norwegians, victims and their families, politicians and world leaders took part in commemorative events a decade on from the slaughter. Many added their voices to the call for renewed efforts to keep combating the extremist beliefs behind the attack. Speaking at an evening memorial service at Oslo Cathedral, where the names of each of the 77 victims were read out, the country's King Harald more needed to be done. At the service, the King said he hoped Norwegians "can help each other live the …

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By Frank Gardner Published 11 June 2020 Share close Share page Copy link About sharing Related Topics George Floyd death Al-Qaeda is actively trying to exploit the current unrest in the US by reaching out to both Muslims and non-Muslims to present themselves as "champions of the oppressed". The latest issue of the jihadist group's online magazine One Ummah uses the iconic image of George Floyd's last moments and a painting by the graffiti artist Banksy to help deliver its message of unsolicited support to protesters on US streets. The English-language issue, clearly aimed at a domestic US audience, predicts the imminent demise of the US and its political system as well its economy and society. "Armed protests rage across America and a civil war appears to be in the offing," reads its commentary. One of its messages is that, "not even the Democrats can help you but we can". …

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Published 13 February 2012 Share close Share page Copy link About sharing A Belgian court has rejected an application to ban a controversial Tintin book over claims it breaches racism laws. It said it did not believe the 1946 edition of Tintin in the Congo was intended to incite racial hatred. Congolese campaigner Bienvenu Mbutu Mondondo launched legal proceedings in 2007 to get the book banned, saying its portrayal of Africans was racist. Mr Mbutu's lawyer said he planned to appeal against the decision. Written in the late 1920s, Tintin in the Congo was the second book Herge - real name Georges Remi - produced featuring his young reporter hero. It was first serialised from 1930 to 31 and was then reissued in 1946. The book tells of Tintin's escapades in the former Belgian colony and includes encounters with diamond smugglers, big game hunters and wild animals. Tintin in …

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Published 1 hour ago Share close Share page Copy link About sharing Racist and anti-Muslim letters sent to councillors have sparked a police investigation. Four members of Wakefield's Labour group received the notes, which branded Islam "dangerous" and warned of a "Muslim takeover". Signed off with "a Conservative colleague", the letters took aim at one councillor and their religion. The Conservative group said it was "shocked" and the messages were not sent by one of its members. In the letter, seen by the BBC, Muslims are described as "very dangerous". Referring to one councillor, it urged recipients to "avoid this person at all costs", adding: "We cannot allow Muslims to take over". West Yorkshire Police said it was investigating allegations of malicious communications and sending communications of an offensive nature. Labour members Steve Tulley, Michael Graham, Betty …

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Te Ao Maori News Traffic management veteran David Taui is passionate about te reo Māori, so converting traditional stop-go signs to their Māori equivalent felt right to him. Drivers in the Bay of Plenty between Te Teko and Awakeri witnessed the first use of “Taihoa” (wait) and “Haere” (go) signs on their roads on Wednesday. The idea came from a 30-year veteran of traffic management, David Taui (Te Arawa), who wanted te reo Māori to be used in his working environment to let the language grow, and educate the multitudes who would be directed by traffic signs in te reo Māori. Although not yet authorised by Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency, Taui decided to take a stand for the Māori language and opened a “30-minute window to try the panels out”. “We have had the police stop at our rākau and we have got no opposition. Nobody has turned up today and told us we cannot use these. We have a legal traffic management plan in place to be at this site on State Highway 30 Awakeri, …

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Being funny is what’s made Sir Lenny Henry’s fame and fortune. But when he was a child, his wit served what was at the time an even more valuable purpose – it stopped the bullies that plagued him. The young Henry realised that making the bullies at his school laugh stopped them attacking him, so he used his wit as a crafty defence. And now the comedian has included bullying in his new children’s book, The Boy With Wings in which the hero is targeted by school bullies –  but realises saving the world is a bigger priority than his waste-of-space tormentors. “I was bullied at school – mainly because of racism. At one point in my school career I was bullied every day and it went on for ages,” Henry remembers. “But I discovered if you make jokes about the bully and being bullied, you might get people to be on your side. “It absolutely happened. This one boy kept pushing me around for days and days on end, and eventually I said something like, ’You must really fancy me or …

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It is increasingly obvious that modern Americans universities, which are less institutions of unfettered intellectual pursuit than they are "madrasas of wokeness," to borrow from the Independent Women's Forum's Inez Feltscher Stepman , are unsalvageable in most present manifestations. Though there are notable exceptions, many American universities are actually worse than unsalvageable. On-campus debauchery spoils matriculants' lingering senses of virtue and propriety, and woke classroom indoctrination and divisive intersectional poison vitiates the mutually interdependent bonds of citizenry without which no people can cohere. As Arthur Milikh soberly concluded in a 2020 National Affairs essay , "Preventing Suicide by Higher Education": "Universities that spread poisonous doctrines no longer believe in the purpose of the university." Pedagogical and curricular debasement aside, one concrete manifestation of this now-decadeslong corruption has been the engorgement of on-campus …

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