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Political and corporate support for Black Lives Matter has become ubiquitous over the past week. Everyone’s email inbox is bulging with messages of support from corporate sponsors, every website is covered with Black Lives Matter logos, and the group has benefited from numerous fundraisers and charity sales. Many people might not realize that Black Lives Matter is a distinct political organization, not just a slogan or social media hashtag, and it has both enormous funding and a wide-ranging political agenda.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) on Thursday said President Trump is practically throwing a “welcome home party” for white supremacists by restarting his iconic MAGA rallies in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Juneteenth.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary is editing the definition of the word “racism” after a Missouri woman wrote to the company requesting that the definition match what she learned at university, that the word really means the “systemic oppression” of groups of people.

Splash Mountain, one of Disney’s most beloved rides at Walt Disney World in Florida, Tokyo Disneyland, and at Disneyland in California, is being criticized by social media users and Change.org supporters who say the ride’s racial overtones need to be “re-themed.”

Wednesday White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow told reporters he does not believe there is systemic racism in the United States.

The statue of former Carolina Panthers Owner and founder Jerry Richardson, is being removed after the team became aware of reports that some activists might try to take it down.

UCLA Professor Gordon Klein has been placed on leave after rejecting a request to postpone a final exam for black students in response to the death of George Floyd.

Police confirmed the arrests of 53 people in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Tuesday for participating in a socialist protest against the United States, allegedly a response to the killing of Minnesota resident George Floyd by Minneapolis police.

Protesters tore down a statue of Christopher Columbus in Virginia’s state capital on Tuesday using ropes to topple the monument before burning an American flag atop it and dragging it into a nearby lake. In Boston, a statue of the 15th Century explorer was beheaded overnight.

CrossFit CEO and founder Greg Glassman apologized for mocking a political statement framing “racism” as an epidemiological issue.

Ghana, considered a gateway of the brutal slave trade to the United States that began more than 400 years ago, is urging “unwanted” Americans of African heritage to resettle within its borders in the wake of the police killing of Minnesota resident George Floyd.

Arizona State University revoked a job offer from professor Sonya Forte Duhé after she praised “good police officers” on Twitter. Prior to the tweet, Duhé was scheduled to assume the role of dean of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State.

Two editors at major media companies are stepping down after staff accused them of discrimination and criticized their decisions on race reporting.

Monday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” actor and civil rights activist Samuel Jackson called the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests the “labor pains” of systemic change.

The mayor of San Jose, California, said on Sunday he is against the so-called defund police movement that’s taken root in the wake of the death of George Floyd, a black man who died at the hands of the Minneapolis police, saying it would hurt the communities activists say they want to help.

Australia’s trade minister denied allegations on Saturday by China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism that Chinese and Asians face increased “racial discrimination and violence” in Australia due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Epoch Times reported on Monday.

“Were it not for pastors, there would have been no civil rights movement,” said Robert Jeffress, noting America’s history of faith in politics.

Donald Trump’s record on race relations is far better than George W. Bush’s was in 2000 — yet Bush has evidently joined the bandwagon of the “woke.”

There is no mass movement to defund the police and make white people kneel. This is a deep blue temper tantrum, a moral panic engulfing the far left and moral cowards like Mitt Romney and Drew Brees.

Reebok, an apparel brand owned by Adidas, ended its business partnership with CrossFit following the fitness company’s CEO mocking a declaration of “racism” as “a public health issue.”

A speaker at a Black Lives Matter protest in London warned against having “a child with a white person” as she called for “revolution” and to “overthrow the system” on Saturday.

Thousands of Black Lives Matter protestors took to the streets of London on Saturday, with many seen violently clashing with police, shooting flares at Number 10 Downing Street, and ritually beating an effigy of President Donald Trump.

The statue of wartime prime minister Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square has been vandalised again, with fresh graffiti branding him a “racist”.

The shutdowns related to the coronavirus pandemic hurt Hispanic and African American employees more than white employees, according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data, released in last Friday’s jobs report.

Ireland’s classrooms are too white and children “should learn about black history from an early age” to fight racism, according to the country’s mainstream media.

There is a deafening silence about the antisemitism and violence of the Black Lives Matter protests. Rule of law must mean equal justice under the law for all.

San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich says he’s “embarrassed as a white person,” to watch the way George Floyd was killed in the streets of Minneapolis. He also said the killing was a “lynching,” and said that the burden must now shift to white people to identify instances of racism.

“Progressive” ideology always rests on a conviction that the current “regressive” system is comprehensively unjust and must be destroyed by exploiting its weaknesses. The most famous proponent of such tactics in recent years has been the late Saul Alinksy, the intellectual godfather of the modern Democrat Party, but former Soviet journalist and KGB informant Yuri Bezmenov laid out an even more concise strategy for subversion in a 1984 interview.

Police in Paris have arrested three men accused of impersonating officers in a video that attempted to portray real police as racists in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests.

Students at the University of Washington are demanding a relaxed grading policy to help black students “cope emotionally” with the ongoing protests and riots that have erupted in major cities around the nation after George Floyd died during an arrest on May 26 in Minneapolis. According to a student petition with 50,000 signatures, “If UW truly understands our pain, UW will be a part of alleviating it.”

Friday, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) weighed in on a poll showing 74% of Americans see George Floyd’s death while in Minneapolis police custody as a sign of a broader problem in the country.

“The media would destroy black America if it would get rid of Donald Trump,” said Joel Pollak to Dennis Prager on Thursday.

Buffalo Bills rookie Jake Fromm is apologizing for an offensive message sent when he was a student at the University of Georgia last year.

Climate change is a product of white supremacy, according to Dr Kate Marvel, associate research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday criticized former Vice President Joe Biden for failing the black community during his 43-year career as a public official.

Searching Twiter for the term “racist” displays President Donald Trump as the top result in the “people” category. Breitbart News tests confirmed that the president’s account is listed first when searching for “racist” across different browsers, devices, and even in other countries, indicating it isn’t dependent on account interests or settings.