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Several “national security experts” interviewed for an essay in The Root published on Thursday, attacked the Republican Party, claiming it behaves “like a terror group,” is rife with “terrorist sympathizers,” and should be viewed as “enemy combatants.” The essay, penned by senior reporter Terrell Jermaine Starr and titled “Democrats Are Stuck With a Republican Party Rife With Conspiracy Theorists, Anarchists and Terrorist Sympathizers,” begins by asserting that the GOP is “authoritarian” and only cares for whites.  “[W]e have an entire political party that has conv...

Indiana Republicans Boo Black Lawmakers Speaking About Discrimination Alerts Rep. Greg Porter, D-Indianapolis, speaks against the House Republican budget proposal during debate Monday, Feb. 25. 2019, in Indianapolis. Photo: Tom Davies (AP) Nothing says discrimination like booing a Black person trying to talk about discrimination. Advertisement Such is life during a floor debate inside the Indiana Statehouse on Thursday in which Black lawmakers claimed that a bill would allow students in the largely white St. Joseph County township to leave the racially diverse South Bend Community Schools to ...

Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images (Getty Images) I’m not sure if people have completely wrapped their minds around this, but we have an entire political party that has converted into an authoritarian—albeit Americanized version—style of politics that cares nothing about U.S. democracy or anyone who is not white. Advertisement With the exception of a few dissenting Republican senators who aren’t up for reelection until 2024 or 2026 (only Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is on the ballot in 2022) or are retiring, the GOP not only acquitted Donald Trump of inciting an insurrection that he clearly ...

Photo: Kathy Willens (AP) People have been carrying on with a whole lot of foolery in the year since the coronavirus pandemic has taken the world by storm, and sad to say, Black people have not been exempt from carrying out this foolery. Advertisement In fact, one of the wildest stories I’ve heard during these unreal COVID-19 times is that of Kalina Collier, a woman who recently traveled to Jamaica to vacation for a few days and then triggered a social media movement calling for her “rescue,” by posting videos on Instagram saying she was being held in a hotel room on the island against...

The racial inequities that have been brought into stark relief by the COVID-19 pandemic are again being made painfully apparent in the current phase of vaccine distribution.