Denouncing the white militias of Vermont in USA Today americanthinker.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from americanthinker.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
White extremism is winning in my Vermont town. I m selling my animal sanctuary and moving.
The assault-weaponed bullies are winning on my road, and I refuse to weaponize myself to fight back. My town is unsafe if you re non-white or unarmed.
Michael Shank
Opinion contributor
There’s a movement metastasizing across America. It’s well armed, it’s extreme, and it’s led largely by white men. They’re enraged, they’re feeling entitled, and they’re taking ground wherever it’s given. And while the movement clearly got new wind in its sails under the Trump administration, it’s now self-sustaining. The Jan. 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill was just the tip of this seething iceberg, as last week’s anguished police testimony to Congress made clear. This movement isn’t going away anytime soon.
Vt. Human Rights report says troopers discriminated against Black farm director
The Barn House at the Clemmons Family Farm in Charlotte, Vt. (Via Human Rights Commission report)
Modified: 6/27/2021 7:47:06 PM
MONTPELIER A state commission has found that the Vermont State Police and the Vermont Department of Public Safety illegally discriminated against the African American director of the Clemmons Family Farm based on her race and gender.
In a 5-0 vote in March, the Vermont Human Rights Commission found there were reasonable grounds to believe that troopers violated Vermont’s Fair Housing and Public Accommodations Act in 2017 in their interactions with Lydia Clemmons, the director of the nonprofit center for African American arts, culture and agriculture.
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A trailblazing Vermont lawmaker spent part of the start of June's LGBTQ+ Pride Month reflecting on a significant achievement in her first legislative session which recently wrapped up in Montpelier. "Representation is so powerful," said Rep. Taylor Small, P/D-Winooski, who then quoted Vermont's lone female governor so far. "As Madeleine Kunin said, 'If you don't have a seat at the table, it means you're on the menu.'" Small, who works as the.