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On April 23, 1899, white residents of Georgia gathered in Newnan to take part in one among the best traditions of white America:

They were going to lynch Just the pants.

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Hose was a black man who was accused the brutal murder of his employer, the employer’s wife, and the couple’s newborn son. No one cared that Hose had killed his boss by throwing an axe when his employer was about to shoot him for requesting a break day. It didn’t matter that Hose wasn’t tried for the alleged crime. The flash mob didn’t care that the wife and child that Hose was accused of killing were actually alive and unaffected. Back then, black lives didn’t matter. White people didn’t care. To them, lynching black people was normal.

So many lynch mobs flocked to Newnan that the railroad corporations rerouted their trains to accommodate the white flash mob. When they arrived, a whole bunch of normal white adults took turns cutting off pieces of Hose’s limbs, ears, and genitals to maintain as souvenirs, while their normal white children gathered firewood. After a series of routine stabbings, the traditional lynchers doused Hose with regular gasoline, burned him, and sang their normal songs until Hose’s eyes exploded out of his head. Then they went back to their normal homes.

WEB Du Bois was not normal.

He laid the foundations for the study of human behavior that became often called sociology. His brain planted the seeds that might spawn the trendy civil rights movement, African American studies, critical race theory, and even nuclear disarmament. While I personally imagine he’s essentially the most good mind America has ever produced, I have to also admit that my appreciation for his genius pales compared to the most important Du Bois fanboy of all of them:

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William Edward Burghardt DuBois.

As one of the eloquent, prolific wordsmiths who ever lived and breathed, Du Bois believed he was uniquely positioned to persuade white people of the error of their ways of lynching them. Since he was in Georgia, teaching at Atlanta University, he placed on his best suit, grabbed his cane, and headed to fulfill with the editor of the Atlanta Constitution. Du Bois was going to defeat the normalized racial violence that infected society. He truly believed that white supremacy was no match for facts, scientific data, logic, and, above all, the unique genius of the neatest man alive.

“I didn’t get there,” Du Bois wrote in Dusk of Dawn: An Autobiography of a Race Concept. “Sam Hose had been lynched, they usually said his knuckles were on display in a food market down Mitchell Street, where I used to be walking. I turned back toward the University. I started to show away from my work. I didn’t meet Joel Chandler Harris or the editor of the Constitution.

“Two things later intruded upon my work and ultimately disrupted it: first, it was impossible to be a calm, cool, and impartial scientist while Negroes were being lynched, murdered, and starved; and second, there was no such apparent demand for scientific work of the kind I was doing.”

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If WEB Du Bois were alive, he would probably be in Chicago immediately on the annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists. Some of essentially the most good reporters, sharpest thinkers, and eloquent writers in America have gathered in the neighborhood on the very hotel from which I write these words. During my time here, I even have not met a single NABJ member who disagreed with the choice to ask Donald Trump.

Sure, there have been just a few who argued that NABJ must have treated Donald Trump as if he were every other presidential candidate. They mistakenly believed that Wednesday’s fiasco might have been avoided with more aggressive questioning, more experienced journalists or a male reporter on stage. Others said NABJ needed a live fact-checker on stage with Trump. Or perhaps it was the sound.

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These persons are flawed.

The only difference between every other Trump interview and the dumpster fire that erupted on the NABJ convention is that black people organized it. Trump did what he at all times does. He attacked women. He spread racism. He lied. He spread chaos and division. We already know that black lives don’t matter to him. Everyone knows he doesn’t care in regards to the truth. Or the law. Or us. He’s a one-man lynch mob. A lover of lies. But greater than anything… Donald Trump is normal.

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The most typical grievance from black journalists is how the white media hides behind a false construct of objectivity when covering Trump. Media outlets just like the New York Times usually are not objective; they are only white. All of their reporting normalizes his behavior. When they cover his criminal cases, they don’t cover him as a criminal. They are speculated to be truthful, but they routinely share his words without realizing that they arrive from the mouth of an incorrigible liar. They haven’t any problem calling people names. terrorists, robbers AND cheaters. But they clearly need more evidence before they will call Trump a racist. Yet, selecting to normalize Trump in the identical way NABJ has shown its knuckles.

They could have just said no.

Even if the NABJ invites every presidential candidate to its convention, you don’t need to be the neatest person on the planet to know you can’t treat Donald Trump like several other president. Treating a liar like a liar and a racist like a racist is a no brainer. No editor at a good outlet would ever use an authorized liar as a source. Even if their backs were against the wall, they might fact-check the lies. Most reputable outlets actually wouldn’t ask a racist for an exclusive interview (well, the New York Times would, but… you already know how do they do it.)

The NABJ decision ultimately negated the rationale for NABJ to exist. It ignored black voices and reinforced racism. It treated the arbitrary unwritten rules of white journalism as in the event that they were something black journalists should strive to follow. It was rude to black women. It helped spread racism, disinformation, and hate. It treated the nice and cozy glow of the white gaze as if it were the middle of the universe. It shifted the burden of white supremacy onto the shoulders of black journalists.

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Black people usually are not magical.

I even have not seen anyone writing with a wand that would erase all barriers of equality during my time here. Even essentially the most magical of blacks cannot persuade Trump’s Mountain Dew-drinking army that their orange crush shouldn’t be a bigoted, aspiring authoritarian. There is nothing these excellent black journalists (and Harris Faulkner) could expose that the world has not already seen. Why should the mostly anti-MAGA black convention attendees need to walk within the feces that anti-black MAGAmuffins have spewed? Saying “no” can also be an option.

We can’t abracadabra force white America to care about black people, democracy, or justice when white people truly imagine that the systems and culture they’ve built are completely normal. How much work do we’ve to do before we realize that there is no such thing as a amount of logic or reason that may cure white people of the virus they willingly spread. Nor is it our duty to try. Even if I could…

I refuse.

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White House accused of hiding after trying to distance from Elon Musk in court when Trump lasts above CEO SpaceX in a joint interview

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There are still questions whether Elon Musk has been chargeable for the performance of the federal government department, although he has been introduced by the president for weeks.

This is a strange query since Musk and President Donald Trump explained that the billionaire of technology has been responsible from the start of his second term. So who’s chargeable for the agency?

The Shell game appears in a difficult week for Doge and his leader, assuming it’s Musk.

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But in a statement made on Monday, Joshua Fisher, director of the White House Administration Office, stated that musk isn’t an worker of the American or temporary organization of the US Doge service. ”

Fisher continues that the title of Muska is a “older advisor to the president”, a role in which “there is no actual or formal authority to make government decisions.”

Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump, gives his hand to Elon Musk behind the scenes during a rally of the campaign at Butler Farm Show on October 5, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. For the primary time, Trump has returned to Butler since he was wounded while trying to murder on July 13 (photo of Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The statement was forwarded to the federal court and plainly it’s clearly opposed to this country.

So if not Elon, who runs Doge? A person pretending to be musk? Big balls? “

Fisher doesn’t speak and might be a good reason. The technical degree of separation may make it difficult to settle the dog. And because Doge is pushed through bureaucracy in a often accidental way (shooting a large part of all work since the agency chargeable for supervising the nuclear arsenal of the country)

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But Fisher’s notification suggests a technical degree of separation, which raises latest questions on Doge responsibility when the lawsuits are collected and democrats are starting to ask more questions. regarding data violations in some of essentially the most secret databases of the federal government.

On February 10, the democratic representative of Mexbury from Nowy Mexico introduced “Nobody elected Elon Musk ACT”, which “would assure Elon Musk and everyone responsible for the Dog for claims against the federal government because of the illegal actions they undertake.”

“Musk and his observers of Doge feel authorized to take illegal actions, because as special employees to the government do not have personal or financial risk when they set eight waiting trials”, Stansbury he said in a statement. “Instead, an American taxpayer will remain on the chaos account that causes.”

Proponents of the Act rally On Tuesday, apart from the Treasury Department, in which the speakers mean Musk’s actions as a “robbery”, “takeover” and “abuse of power”.

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The Democratic Congressmenka Ayanna Pressley from Massachusetts called him “Nazi child NPou”.

Stansbury provisions will be sure that Elon Musk and everybody chargeable for Doge is chargeable for claims against the federal government because of the “illegal actions” they take.

The White House compared the role of Musk to Anita Dunn, a special special adviser Joe Biden and Barack Obama.

Critics buy the categorization of Musk’s role in Trump’s administration, as described in the court’s application.

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“They can’t straighten their lie,” commented one user X.

But what’s the role of Musk with Doge?

He asked for an evidence on Tuesday at Fox News, the Press Secretary of the White House Karoline Leavitt offered Frazesi salad, which did little to end the confusion.

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“Elon Musk is a special government employee here in the White House, serving towards the President of the United States, Donald Trump,” said Leavitt. “Elon Musk was supposed to supervise the dog on behalf of the President’s employees and Doge. Doge people implement in relevant agencies in our federal bureaucracy as appointed political, like any other political denominator enters the new administration with a change of hands. “

“These people help secretaries in all our agencies that have been nominated and confirmed by President Trump in the United States Senate, to reduce waste, fraud and abuse in these agencies,” she concluded. “In this way, the dog has been created and it will work so.”

Trump boasted of musk and “his 100 genius”, helping him implement his executive orders through Doge during an interview at Fox News on Tuesday evening.

“He did it”, Trump he said.

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As Trump gives a common address, the black women of Congress help in conducting resistance

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The first common address of Donald Trump to Congress as 47. The President of the United States on Tuesday evening meets the resistance of Democrats on the Capitol. But these are chosen black members, especially black women, congress, who’re working on conducting and shaping opposition to the Trump program.

Before the speech of Trump in the Union, the members of the Black Club Congress gathered on the Capitol to seek advice from black reporters about how they react to the flood of executive actions that left hundreds of unemployed and billions of dollars to critical programs in Jeopard.

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“There are members (Congress Black Club) … with very diverse constituencies and we intend to face Donald Trump, wherever it is; Regardless of whether it is about the Chamber of Chambers of Representatives or on the streets of this nation, “said Rep. Yvette Clarke, Dn.y., Chairwoman of the Congress Black Club. “We’ll be on his face. We will do everything in our power to push and stop the most glaring things that arise in the legislative process. “

The speech of President Trump also takes place in the month of women’s history, which is symbolic, because the key voices of black women in Congress strongly cause dangers related to the activities of Trump’s administration and potentially helps to place a basis for what Democrats hope to be massive public resistance.

Rep. Lateefah Simon, d-colif., I’ll give a “pretutual” Trump’s evening address on behalf of the progress of progressive working families.

An outstanding black congress, similar to long -time Rep. Maxine Waters, D-clif. And Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, hit the air waves and pavements to hitch demonstrators-from which they lost a lot of work as a result of mass dismissals of Trump-Possi federal buildings in the protest of the White House of Trump. Others, like Rep. Lauren Underwood, D-Ill., Co-chairman of the Committee for Policy and Domestic Home Communication, attach Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla. And Debbie Dingell, D-Mic.

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In just six weeks, Trump’s administration made huge cuts of federal workforce and financing of critical programs, eliminated diversity, own capital and inclusion programs, renewed efforts to expand mass deportations and released key impartial officials which might be to keep up stability, accountability and transparency in the federal government. Many of these activities are currently questioned in court. What’s more, on Tuesday morning Trump began the war in the trade in the tariff with China, Canada and Mexico.

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Washington, DC-25 February: US President Donald Trump speaks as the secretary of trade Howard Lutnick (2nd-L) is taking care of signing executive orders in an oval office in the White House on February 25, 2025 in Washington (photo Alex Wong/Getty Images)

“They had dizziness so that people feel powerless. But we say that absolutely not – said Simon, the first -year congressmen, which was chosen to fill the 12th District Congress, which was once intended by the former Rep. Barbara Lee. “Framers, although they didn’t mean that black and brown people can be in the Congress of the United States and that white allies can be in the Congress of the United States, we’re and intend to maintain this president, Senate, Congress and the judiciary of her promise.”

The activism and leadership of chosen black women in Congress is irony, because the loss of the former vp of Kamali Harris in the elections in the November 2024 election. She left voters of black women and organizers who feel devastated and upset by most of the country who voted against Harris or remained at home.

The progressive congressmen said that the black women of Congress have “the courage of ancestors”, adding: “We are not those who retreat. Black women in Congress accelerate every day. “

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Washington, DC-11 June: Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pa) questions witnesses during the discussion of the Round Table on the ethics of the Supreme Court conducted by the Democrats of the Supervision and Responsibility Committee at Rayburn House Office Building on June 11, 2024 in Washington. (Photo Jemal Counterss/Getty Images for court liability)

Congressmenka Simon said that “she is proud of the march in this melody” of black women of truth in Congress and out of doors, she also emphasized the leadership of the leader of the home minority, representatives of Hameem Jeffries, Dn.y., which, as she said, entitled black women from his club to face out. Simon said that the leader Jeffries is “an amazing strategist”, whose task is to see “forest from trees”, adding: “He greatly supported Democrats first graders like me in bushes.”

Some black activists, to whom CBC members joined, similar to Crockett and Reps. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio and Nargoma Williams, D-Ga., Participate in a 24-hour live broadcast called “State of the People” as a counterprotest of Trump’s joint speech to Congress. Angela Rye’s political strategy noticed that the virtual event goals to shape the truth in opposition to their expectations for Trump’s “lies”.

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“This is the role we played historically, and (black women) meet this moment in a way that many other people will not be or cannot,” said Allison.

Mayor Brandon Scott includes being

As for the strategy, Crockett’s congressmen told journalists that Democrats must “meet people where they are.” She shared how, despite her personal objections, she joined Tiktok to expand her range on voters. The legislator from Texas has noticed that he now has 400,000 followers.

“We must make sure that we hit all parts of our black demographic group, because we pretend, as if we were still a monolith … we are not,” said Crockett. “There are so many different groups of people with whom we have to talk … This means that we will talk to them differently.”

While Democrats strategic their public news, their ability to regulations is more troublesome. USA del. Stacey Plaskett, which represents the Virgin Islands of the USA and has no privileges of voting in Congress, she had a sobering have a look at what awaits Democrats in Congress, when Republicans have a look at most of the next two years.

“I am a black woman in America. I represent the territory. I know what it’s not like to have a voice, “Plaskett told reporters on Tuesday. “We cannot offer regulations in the minority. We cannot bring bills to the floor. We have no votes. “

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Congressmenka Plaskett said that it is necessary for American voters to know the limitations of Democrats and “decided that they are all on board.” She continued: “This is the only way we can win; Everyone comes on board and does not seek only for us to be able to solve these problems, but we work together, supporting each other. “

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Donald Trump under fire after he was caught on Hot Mic

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In some ways, the White House tried to manage the narrative on Wednesday.

After taking on the rotation of reporters allocated to cover the day by day schedule of the president – work previously carried out by Association of White House Corresponders -President Donald Trump went a step further, asking one in every of the reporters of the brand new within the press pool, together “Fox and Friends” by Lawrence Jones to say to the viewers: “We did a great job, please. Ok? “

“Say it was unbelievable,” said the president after casting the primary meeting of the office of the second term on February 26. The White House was already cut off, however the Audio Associated Press channel remained and captured the moment of a hot microphone.

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US President Donald Trump, to whom the Golf legend of Tiger Woods joined, speaks through the party of the Foreign Black History within the Eastern White House on February 20, 2025 in Washington. (Photo of Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Jones, who has already lobbyed a number of inquiries to Softball for the president (including “Who is your favorite member of the office?”) I didn’t disappoint.

“The president chose members of the office who can really present their ideas and their ideas. He does not have to worry that they will leave and blow up everything-they are on the same side, “said the co-host Steve Doocy.

“I also think it’s great,” Jones replied. “They are guys who normally – and girls – are used to communicate their ideas. They divide the president’s vision and communicate it in such a concise way. I don’t think we’ve ever seen it in administration. “

“It is people who show how uncertain this president is,” said one in every of the critics who responded to a viral report on the moment of Caugh-on-Camera. “He knows that most of them we watched, right?” Someone said.

In fact, the meeting was dominated by Elon Muskwho opened with a weak joke, saying: “Well, I should simply call myself modest technical support,” and from there he initiated. Photos showed that the president was napping through the presentation of Musk.

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Referring to his work as “necessary”, Musk presented one other federal agency within the Doge chopping block. “We spend lots within the defense department, but we spend that over a trillion dollars for interest. If this happens, the country goes, it is going to turn into de facto bankrupt – he said.

Jones was not the one Trump friendly correspondent who joined the press pool on Thursday.

The correspondent of Brian Glenn’s chief house from Real America, perhaps essentially the most absorbing the Networks Pro-Trump network, and the correspondent of the White House Newsmax, James Rosen, were a part of Gaggle, replacing older media, including the Associated Press, which was blocked within the events of the White House for refusing to call the Mexican bay with Mexico with Mexico with Mexico with Mexico with Mexican America after the president announced a change performed by the manager.

Meanwhile, the Association of White House correspondents announced that it might now not coordinate the common range of the White House until the dispute over unlimited access to the media is sustained. Also on Wednesday, the president announced He will sue reporters who use the common practice of anonymous quotes in unfavorable stories or books about it. Such quotes are sometimes used to cause greater honesty from the source, which otherwise might be afraid to talk.

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What does all this mean for residents? Less difficult questions and a more favorable relationship for the president, whose crossing of the management has now not checked by Congress.

This explains why this clip He was on the web on Thursday with “The Simpsons”. When the owner of the nuclear plant, Montgomery Burns, decides to use for the governor, his campaign suggests dinner with the Simpsons family to assist the energy director involved with voters from the working class. Lisa Simpson is forced to ask This is an issue From a guest dinner of a guest:

“Mr. Burns, your campaign seems to have a fugitive momentum. Why are you so popular?”

Get used to it.

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