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<\/p>\nYesterday, Laphonza Butler, the president of Emily’s List, was revealed to be Governor Gavin Newsom’s choice to fill the remainder of Dianne Feinstein’s term in the U.S. Senate. It was not yet official (nothing is official without paperwrok), but it was carried by virtually every news outlet and was not contradicted. Ms. Butler originally entered politics as a labor leader, and is now being described as a “power player.” Of cpurse thre have been complants from the usual suspectssince Newsom announced that he would choose a black woman should there be a vacancy – the term used was “limiting himself.” Yeah. right. What would be really limiting oneself would be looking for a white male, all of whom who are any good are already in ppsotons of power (as are many who areno good at all.) Any minority group will have a good-sixed pool of people who far surpass available white malesbut have never been given a chance to prove it – or have made their own chances with blood, sweat, and tears against all odds. And, of course, that is what white supremacists cannot stand. I’m confident she’ll be fine.<\/p>\n
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[SPLC] SPLC Launches Hate Crimes Awareness Month to Highlight Epidemic of Bias Incidents<\/a> New Mexico Political Report – Trump supporter shoots someone attending peaceful rally<\/a> Food For Thought Yesterday, Laphonza Butler, the president of Emily’s List, was revealed to be Governor Gavin Newsom’s choice to fill the remainder of Dianne Feinstein’s term in the U.S. Senate. It was not yet official (nothing is official without paperwrok), but it was carried by virtually every news outlet and was not contradicted. Ms. Butler originally entered […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3704],"class_list":["post-53226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nQuote – The nation has seen this kind of attack against communities of color and LGBTQ+ people many times in recent years. The Jacksonville murders, in fact, came just weeks after the fourth anniversary of the white supremacist attack in El Paso, Texas, where 23 people were killed in a bias-motivated hate crime. As in numerous other cases, the El Paso gunman was inspired to kill by racist rhetoric based on the false \u201cgreat replacement\u201d conspiracy theory and what he claimed was a \u201cHispanic invasion\u201d of the U.S. \u2013 harmful extremist ideas that are frequently echoed by mainstream politicians and right-wing media figures…. The FBI\u2019s most recent hate crime report \u2013 one that counts only a small fraction of the real number \u2013 identified 10,840 hate crime incidents in 2021, the most since the agency began collecting the data in 1991. More than 60% of those were carried out because of hatred toward the victim\u2019s race.
\nClick through for details<\/a>. We are living in the 2020s, but for all the hate crimes, we might as well be living in the 1920s. So SPLC has selected October to be Hate Crimes Awareness Month, and plans to mount a campaign every year to raise our knowledge of what is happening. Good.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – One young man continued his efforts to enter the area, and it quickly escalated into a scuffle. One of the people protecting the altar [an empty pedestal which had held a statue of a war criminal] seemingly backed the young man against a wall to prevent him from moving forward…. That\u2019s when the shooter pulled a gun out of his waistband, and shot the person blocking him from moving toward the slab. The man, who identified himself as Ryan Martinez to the Albuquerque Journal, ran immediately after, according to sources at the scene. He was later taken into custody, the Rio Arriba Sheriff\u2019s County Office confirmed.
\nClick through for story.<\/a> This did not happen in Albuquerque, or even Santa Fe. This happened in a small town (pop. 10,495 in 2010) in a blue state. New Mexico, like Colorado, has had features named to memorialize war criminals. Both states are trying to clean that up. Not everyone is on board<\/p>\n
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