In Defense of Iconoclasm
On July 9, 1776, patriots in Manhattan, having heard the Declaration of Independence read aloud for the first time, marched down Broadway and tore from its perch the two-ton lead statue of King George III.

On July 9, 1776, patriots in Manhattan, having heard the Declaration of Independence read aloud for the first time, marched down Broadway and tore from its perch the two-ton lead statue of King George III.

Led by a mainstream media in full-emotional racial-blackmail mode, we just had a national debate about the Confederate Flag. With the news that Planned Parenthood is trafficking in dead baby parts — news our mainstream media is almost certain to

On his Sunday HBO show “Last Week Tonight,” host John Oliver took aim the Confederate flag, which he noted was just brought down at the South Carolina capitol. That gesture by the South Carolina state legislature was not enough for Oliver,

If you’re looking for more evidence that proves just how far the Washington Post has fallen, without looking for context or having any knowledge of its subject, the left-wing Post is allowing its so-called reporters to hurl accusations of racism.

Former star Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann appeared on Fox News Channel’s “Outnumbered” to discuss the possible name change of his former team. Recently, the Obama administration blocked a new stadium for the Washington Redskins in the D.C. area until owner

The national media largely ignored a statement that condemned hatred, racism and violence with passionate clarity, issued by the Sons of Confederate Veterans – a group that bans members with racist view or connections.

“When it comes to race, America is a better and more tolerant and more welcoming place than it has ever been. So why is it that even today, so many black families feel left behind?” asked Perry, noting that African-Americans continued to economically lag behind other Americans. Democrats have long had the opportunity to govern in African-American communities. It is time to help black families hold them accountable for the results.

On Thursday’s episode of “Olbermann” on ESPN2, host Keith Olbermann continued his attacks against the so-called “racist” Washington Redskins during his “Worst Persons in the Sports World” segment. Although the call for a change has escalated in recent weeks, owner Dan Snyder

Anti-police activists set out to protest racism in a New York City park Wednesday by burning the American flag. Instead, they “got a huge surprise from a group of veterans and bikers who sent the flag-burners scattering — and getting an exit escort from the same police they demonstrate against,” according to BizPac Review.

ESPN sportswriter Mike Wise responded to South Carolina State Sen. Paul Thurmond (R), son of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-SC), calling for the removal of the Confederate flag. Wise proposed that if a symbol makes someone feel worse than it

In an interview with retired California judge LaDoris Cordell, reality star Kim Kardashian admitted to not really being “a gun person,” but she said we need more gun control in America.

“I marched with many people back in those days and I have reached out to some of my friends who marched with me, and all of them are shocked,” Rev. William Owens of the Coalition of African American Pastors (CAAP) told Breitbart News. “They never thought they would see this day that gay rights would be equated with civil rights. Not one agreed with this comparison,” he said.

A bi-racial Teen Vogue editor is under fire for featuring a light-skinned model in a story about African-American hairstyles in its June/July issue.

In lieu of the Confederate flag controversy, Keith Olbermann opened his ESPN2 show “Olbermann” on Wednesday with a monologue where he explained that the Confederate flag “can represent evil, and represent genocide, and the persecution, and mockery of a people because

Rapper Nas has joined a growing chorus of artists speaking out on racial equality in America in the wake of the horrific killings of nine people at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina earlier this month.

For those without faith, Michael Wear acknowledges, this may make little sense, especially for those who have never personally experienced the forgiveness of God. “But that does not grant us the right to whitewash the motivation for the forgiveness we witnessed in Charleston,” he said. We need to “take the family members seriously when they say it is a sincere, thought-out expression of their faith,” he wrote.

In his opening monologue “Talking Points Memo” segment on Wednesday, Bill O’Reilly, host of Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor” dismissed the notion that there is an “epidemic” of racism in the United States. During that monologue, O’Reilly pointed to examples

There is great power in symbols, especially in an era when so many people have been taught to emote rather than thinking. The quick surge of emotion people feel upon viewing a potent symbol can be bottled and used in politics. It’s excessively charitable to call the current flag battle a “debate,” because it mostly consists of one side screaming that anyone who hesitates to dump that flag into the wood chipper of historical oblivion is either a racist, or an accessory to racism in the first degree. There isn’t much in the way of measured reason involved here.

“The issue is not the flag so much as it is how people think,” said the only African American GOP presidential candidate, Dr. Ben Carson, to the Wall Street Journal. “What’s in their heart? You can get rid of every Confederate flag in the world but if you’re still being motivated by the wrong emotion it’s not going to solve any problem.”

The world’s media is going gaga for the story that the wife of an Israeli politician called U.S. President Barack Obama “black and weak”. Apparently, noting Mr Obama’s skin colour – which both he and his supporters drew as much attention to

On Saturday, 2016 Democratic nominee hopeful Hillary Clinton spoke in a speech about race on the heels of the Charleston, SC shooting earlier in the week and said she wanted to change how blacks are viewed in America. Clinton stated as

Speaking in a panel on MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” with Dr. Johnathan Metzl of Vanderbilt University, who said the Charleston shooting is a “wake-up call for white America,” associate professor of African-American Religion and Literature at Princeton Yolanda Pierce shared her

What is believed to be the manifesto of Dylann Storm Roof–who on Wednesday night committed mass-murder against members of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church–revealed that the 21-year-old held deeply racist, anti-American, anti-Semitic, and white supremacist views.

Dylann Storm Roof, 21, who slaughtered nine people at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Wednesday night, was an alleged drug user of the synthetic drug Suboxone, as well as Xanax, cocaine, LSD, and methamphetamine, according to police records. He also admitted to friends that he wanted to start a civil war months before his violent rampage.

On Thursday’s “Paul Finebaum Show” on ESPN’s SEC Network, attorney Doug Jones commented on the shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston on Wednesday. Jones, who as a U.S. attorney, was the lead prosecutor that re-opened the cold

During an interview with people gathered outside the Mother Emmanuel American Methodist Church in Charleston, South Carolina, where Wednesday’s deadly shooting left nine black churchgoers dead, a woman called for a “race war” and discussed black anger.

Game developer Eidos Montréal finds itself the target of faux outrage for incorporating an analogy of social oppression into its new game Deus Ex: Mankind Divided via the term “mechanical apartheid.” The victims of this system make up 10% of the population and are people who have had robotic implants.

Last December, the biblically inspired Christian Bale film Exodus: Gods and Kings opened to boycotts for using white actors to play North African and Hebrew characters.

On a sunny day, in lower Manhattan, we heard the cries of a man who appeared in anguish.

Jim Boulware, the emotionally distraught father of would-be Dallas Police killer James Boulware, gave CNN’s Sara Sidner a unique twist on the all-too-familiar litany of victimization excuses that are often made in the aftermath of criminal behavior, asking the reporter during his interview: “Where can a white man go for help?”

This week, a courageous civil rights champion by the name of Rachel Dolezal bravely revealed her true identity to the world: she is a black woman trapped in the body of a honky and has been tanning and getting weaves for the last ten years whilst president of her local NAACP chapter in order to live life as her authentic self and shake off her “crackersona.”

The Football Association of Croatia has issued an apology after a large swastika was discovered to have been burnt into the pitch to be used for a Euro 2016 qualifier. Authorities said the symbol, long associated with luck and good

While on the job, a foodservice worker at Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo posted a racist message about her clientele in a public post on social media. It wasn’t long before she was fired for it.

Eric Casebolt, the police officer who was filmed tackling a teenage girl at a McKinney, Texas pool party and drawing his weapon on bystanders, has resigned. That may protect him from disciplinary action, and perhaps keep his personnel file clean enough to apply

Approximately 150 people peacefully rallied in McKinney for “accountability” in the aftermath of the Craig Ranch subdivision pool party fiasco. It was an ethnically diverse cross-section of a relatively middle-to-upper middle class suburbia.

Some of the conflict between interpretations of what happened in McKinney appears to be more generational than racial.

In a strangely-worded statement at a press conference in McKinney, Texas on Monday, a Dallas pastor appears to warn that open carry laws may lead to terrorism by “us” against law enforcement.

An incident in the Dallas suburb of McKinney that had no injuries, only one arrest, no claims of bad behavior for 11 of 12 officers on the scene and that led to an immediate investigation by the McKinney Police Department is being used by the liberal media as the latest example of systemic racism and white supremacy.

The King of Spain’s nephew is alleged to have racially abused a student at a Madrid theme park. Felipe Juan Froilán, who is 17-years-old, is alleged to have hurled abuse at the student after trying to jump the queue for one

“Resident Noise Levels” reads a mysterious flyer, pointing to “African-American” residents and posted at an Irvine apartment complex instigated resident concern and a resulting police investigation into hate crime allegations.
