Scrutiny has been further placed on anti-Semitic activity as President Donald Trump was slow to condemn both the incidents as well as the support he's received
from white supremacist groups during his campaign.
Trump has enjoyed wide support
from white supremacist groups on account of his hateful rhetoric regarding Muslims and immigrants, and the Republican frontrunner has shared bogus crime statistics from white nationalist Web sites to oppose the #BlackLivesMatter movement and stir up fear of black people.
As a African American, I have been told a bunch of times in my life this or
that from some White Supremacist group.
Not exact matches
(A recruiter for one of the
white -
supremacists groups present was a member of the Marine Corps, drawing a rebuke
from the Corps» commandant.)
Merck chief executive Ken Frazier set off a parade of departures
from Donald Trump's CEO - packed jobs councils — and Trump's subsequent decision to disband those
groups before even more business leaders could leave them — following the President's widely criticized response to
white supremacist attacks in Charlottesville, Virginia in mid-August blaming «many sides» for the violence.
The alt right
white supremacist group borrows paramilitary concepts
from the anti-government extremist militia movement (not itself a
white supremacist movement).
After he was widely criticized for only knocking violence
from «many sides» at a
white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., Trump delivered a statement explicitly condemning the «KKK, neo-Nazis,
white supremacists and other hate
groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.»
The unrest in Charlottesville spurred by
white supremacist groups this month did not have an impact on the decision to remove Carl Paladino
from the Buffalo school board, Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said Monday in a radio interview.
The suspect in the crime, 21 - year - old Dylann Storm Roof, is a
white man who was known to be heavily influenced by online
white supremacist hate speech, most notably
from the Council of Conservative Citizens, a
group that now functions primarily as an Internet clearinghouse for racial fear - mongering «news» stories.
In her artist statement, rendered reluctantly, Walker asserts she is «tired of «being a role model»» and a featured member of «my racial
group and / or gender niche,» her weariness stemming
from «standing up, being counted... «having a voice»» in the face of current political strife and ever - present racism in the U.S. as revealed in
white nationalist and
white supremacist rallies and violence.
Spotify's decision to remove and review a number of hate
groups hosted on its platform comes just days after web host GoDaddy and Google decided to ban
white supremacist group Daily Stormer
from using its services.