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Episodes of the season in the wake of allegations he staged his own hate crime. chicago police superintendent eddie t. johnson said this. >> "empire" actor jussie smollett took advantage of the pain and anger of racism to promote his career. im left hanging my head and asking why. why would anyone, especially an african-american man, use a symbolism of a noose to make false accusations? >> and, of course, there was congressman mark meadows at the michael cohen hearing just yesterday, trotting ou...

Country or a county where the majority of voters are black is not the same thing as dropping an f-bomb or taking the lords name in vain. it is not the same because it is, quite frankly, racist. lasante released a statement apologizing, saying she is sickened that word came out of her mouth, out of my mouth, that is her quote. it is not in my vocabulary and it does not represent my belief system, my lifes work or what is in my heart. she is hardly the only one to use hateful language. she is not ...

With this whole conversation is that, look, mark meadows, lets agree hes not racist for the purpose of this conversation. the fact is that he trafficked in racist when he had his conspiracy moments and utilized it as political conspiracy. i dont think its my response to tell him that. i think its alices responsibility to pull him aside and say it is not always the message, per se. maybe alice needs to pull him aside and say that on its face, bringing out a black person, having the birther commen...

Your claim of racism. she says that, as a daughter of a man born in birmingham, alabama, that there is no way that she would work for an individual who was racist. >> just to make a note, mr. chairman, just because someone has a person of color, a black person, working for them does not mean they arent racist. the fact that someone would actually use a prop, a black woman in this chamber, in this committee is alone racist in itself. >> mr. chairman, i ask that her words be taken down -- >> i we ...

In fact, it has to do with your claim of racism. she says that as a daughter of a man born in birmingham, alabama, that there is no way that she would work for an individual who was racist. >> to make a note, mr. chairman, just because someone has a person of color, a black person working for them does not mean they arent racist. the fact that someone would actually use a prop, a black woman in this chamber, in this committee is alone racist in itself. >> mr. chairman, i ask that her words be ta...

Members of congress the right to say anything about anyone no matter how libellous it may be as long as they say it on the house or senate floor or in hearing rooms, they are immune from libel laws as long as theyre in that building. freshman members of congress are warned about this, theyre warned about the rules and so she knew yesterday that the rules of the house gave mark meadows the privilege of calling for a vote to remove her words from the record of the hearing, so she saved her chairma...

>> mark meadows grew up in the 1960s in florida. its hard to say which place was more racist then, probably about the same. heres my boston in 1976, the man in the three piece suit is ted lands mark, the guy with the flag is from a neighborhood just like mine. all white and just about all racist in those days. i grew up with guys who wanted to do things like that. and no one who grew up in my neighborhood in boston was surprised the day we saw that photograph on the front page of the boston glob...

But he was crushed that day by president kennedys administration who forced him out of that doorway. and just as weve seen in boston, many white politicians in the south grew and changed and were eventually replaced by more enlightened politicians, but there are more modern day events of the kind of racism that southern politicians demonstrated when mark meadows was a kid. when i was growing up, it seemed like every other day it was send them back to africa. heard that every other day in my neig...

Stupidity." peter wayner has honorably served the republican party in three republican administrations. today under the headline "republicans sink further into trumps cesspool," he writes in the "new york times" republicans on the house oversight committee tried to destroy the credibility of michael cohens testimony not because they believe that his testimony is false but because they fear it is true. by now republicans must know deep in their hearts that mr. cohens portrayal of mr. trump as a r...

Chose to echo when he decided to run for congress. he used racism to get his job. that is racist. send president barack obama back to kenya. you dont get to use racist tools in your political campaign and then come close to tears in congress when you think someone just called you a racist which you most definitely are. send president barack obama home to kenya is a classic racist political play. and the only people who have to apologize for calling mark meadows a racist are the people he goes to...