The fundamentalist republicans and maga people keep telling us there is no need to DEI programs because racism, especially systemic racism is gone. Racism in the US is only against white people says Stephen Miller and his ilk. But then we have this stuff. Hugs. Scottie
NPR reports:
Police in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and the FBI are investigating after a team in the NCAA Women’s basketball tournament said they were racially harassed while staying in the city.
Members of the University of Utah women’s team told police someone in a truck displaying a confederate flag yelled racial slurs and revved the engine in a menacing way as players and staff walked to dinner last Thursday. They say that same truck and a second were waiting as the team returned from dinner and followed them back to their hotel.
Utah’s team, and the women’s team from the University of California, Irvine, were staying in the north Idaho town to participate in the basketball tournament in nearby Spokane, Wash.
CNN reports:
The Utah women’s basketball team had to switch hotels after experiencing what head coach Lynne Roberts called “racial hate crimes” ahead of its first NCAA tournament game. Roberts said the Utes switched hotels after just one night before their games in Spokane.
“For our players and staff to not feel safe in an NCAA tournament environment, it’s messed up, and so we moved hotels,” she explained. “The NCAA and ([host university) Gonzaga worked to get us in a new hotel and we appreciate that. That’s what happened. It was a distraction and upsetting and unfortunate.
Axios reports:
Officials in Idaho tried to apologize Tuesday for the racism the University of Utah’s women’s basketball team faced in Coeur d’Alene before an NCAA tournament game at Gonzaga.
They abruptly shut down the news conference when a far-right operative began shouting questions at a human rights advocate. Spokesman Review reporter Alex Duggan identified the agitator as Dave Reilly, a far-right activist and consultant with the powerful Idaho Freedom Foundation.
The harassment “was a distraction and upsetting and unfortunate,” Utah head coach Lynne Roberts said Monday in a news conference following the Utes’ loss to Gonzaga.
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In part Europe has learnt the lesson. We have relatively tough Hate Crimes legislation, far from perfect. Also the top politicians tend to band together on the issue, again not in a perfect way, but the extreme Right here is treated like any other terrorists.
Of course that doesn’t stop extremists from trying to slither in in other ways.
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Hello Roger. I wish the US would. Instead we seem drive by a segment of the population to regress into a gang torn nation governed by regional warlords. Sad to think what greed, bigotry, racism, and hate has done to a once progressive growing country. Hugs. Scottie
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Yes it is sad to think that once there was progress and consensus across the board.
The great cartoonist Jeff Danzig drew one of Uncle Sam being shown a political manifesto by a Democratic mule point out a line in which the Democrats were different from the Republicans while in the background Republican Elephants and other Democrat mules examined documents with magnifying glasses trying to find differences, that was about the year 2000- happier times.
The trouble was the guard was let down and folk just treated the extremists on the right as figures of fun and ridicule. Intolerance never rests.
I am so upset and sorry for my adopted country.
Take care you guys.
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