Bob Collins
Iowa Republican U.S. House Rep. Steve King isn’t a newcomer to racist and bigoted comments. Yet won his last election with 64 percent of the vote.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Racism
Sometime during Martin Luther King Day weekend, someone spray-painted the ‘N word’ on the home of Heather Lindsay and her husband, Lexene Charles, in Connecticut. They’re refusing to remove it.
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Dad is a partner in a law firm. Mom is a pastor. Both have college degrees. They’re raising three sons in a “safe” Dallas neighborhood. They’re living the dream and doing, as Frances Cudjoe Waters — the mother — everything America says they should do.
And yet, they suffer from racism in the country that refuses to acknowledge a basic truth: No matter their credentials or accomplishments, they’re still black. Read more →
‘It’s compelling and powerful to watch a black woman stare down the barrel of violent racism and say, ‘I forgive you,” a reporter who covers race says.
What if she hadn’t? Read more →
Either Lee Johnson is lying about his decision to wear an Obama costume with a noose around its neck or he’s clueless about the history of racism in America. Read more →
We can pretty well guess what NPR ombudsman Elizabeth Jensen’s next column is going to be about. It’s going to be about whether NPR should have given seven minutes of national radio time on Thursday evening to Richard Spencer, a white nationalist who coined the term ‘alt-right’. Read more →
A New Hampshire boy whose home was targeted with racial slurs and vandalism has 17 new friends courtesy of the Manchester Motorcycle Club. Read more →
The kids of Maple Grove Senior High School did what they could today to fight back against the racist graffiti that was scrawled on the walls of a bathroom yesterday.
They lined up to welcome everyone to the school today. And the principal ended his daily announcement with ‘I love you all,’ I’m told by a parent. Read more →
A Minnesota school got off to a rocky start on the road to making American great again today when someone sprawled racist graffiti in the school bathroom.
Parent Fred Ndip posted images on his Facebook page. Read more →
Indigenous activist Douglas Cardinal’s attempt to prevent it from happening because of Cleveland’s racist mascot and team name is worthy of attention in a country that has a law against such things. If nothing else, Cleveland’s success in the playoffs is coming alongside attention over its racist mascot. Read more →
Jerry Howarth cannot bring himself to say “the Cleveland Indians.” He finds the team’s name and mascot insulting. Lots of people do. But lots of people aren’t the play-by-play voice of the Toronto Blue Jays, who open the American League Championship Series against the Cleveland Indians. Jerry Howarth is. Read more →
Tamika Cross, a doctor from Houston, could’ve helped a man who needed a doctor on a flight from Detroit to Houston. But she says the flight attendant aboard her flight didn’t believe she’s a doctor. Tamika is a woman. Tamika is African American.
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For the second time in a week, a college campus is getting a lesson on constitutionally protected speech that many find distasteful.
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Last night, in their first exhibition game, the Boston Celtics released and played a video. The players and coaches then locked arms and bowed their heads during the National Anthem. Read more →