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“If you believe in normalizing hatred towards any ethnic group, towards whites, towards blacks, towards Hispanics, towards Jews, towards Indians, you have no place in the future of the conservative movement,” Vivek said to applause from the crowd. Two reporters from the national media– Pooja Salhotra of the New York Times and Alex Tabit of CNN– conveyed this moment when Vivek Ramaswamy made his plea for tolerance at the Turning Point conference, without mentioning that his presidential bid was based on the old-time Southern strategy, that of wooing white voters by disparaging Blacks. A Black reporter would have pointed to this contradiction, but the corporate media are cooperating with the Trump administration by firing Black reporters and commentators whose presence exists according to them because of D.E.I. The same thing is happening in Hollywood. Award-winning Black film director Marta Cunningham says at the present time she has a better chance of getting a film done in Portugal than in the United States.

Has Vivek Ramaswamy learned? They call us the N-word. They call his people J-word. After some MAGAs insulted him and the Vice President’s wife, Usha Vance, does he still believe that white supremacy doesn’t exist?

During the recent Turning Point USA gathering, the Vice President refused to condemn the growing power of the far right. He and some New York Republicans are friendly toward the AfD, described as a German Neo Nazi party.

Vivek’s rebuke of the growing influence of anti-Black, anti-Semitic, and anti-South........

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