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  • Donald Trump Faces Backlash for Using Photos from Wrong Country as Evidence of ‘White Genocide’ in South Africa

    Donald Trump Faces Backlash for Using Photos from Wrong Country as Evidence of ‘White Genocide’ in South Africa

    President Donald Trump is facing criticism for allegedly providing false evidence of a “genocide” against white farmers in South Africa, per OK Magazine. A closer look revealed that the image he presented during a press briefing was actually taken in the Congo.

    In a press conference on Wednesday, May 21, alongside South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Trump remarked, “The farmers are not Black. I’m not saying that’s good or bad, but the farmers are not Black. The people are being killed in large numbers, and you saw all of those gravesites.” 

    To support his claims, Trump shared reports alleging violence throughout the country. However, it turned out that the photos he used were not from South Africa at all. Trump displayed a printout from the website American Thinker, which allegedly supported his assertions. However, the blog post contained a screenshot from a YouTube video showing a response by Red Cross workers to incidents of mass rape and murder specifically in Goma, located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, not South Africa.

    During the widely publicized meeting, President Ramaphosa acknowledged, “There is criminality in our country. People who do get killed, unfortunately, through criminal activity, are not only white people — the majority of them are Black people,” he noted while also highlighting the broader context of crime within his nation. 

    “One of the most embarrassing moments for Americans was when Donald Trump pulled out a picture from the Congo and claimed it was a burial site for victims of his imaginary ‘white genocide’ in South Africa,” said one X user. 

    #Clique, what are your thoughts?

  • Angela Rye Delivers ‘Fact-Check’ On Sexyy Red’s Comments About Black People Supporting Donald Trump, Says ‘I Would Invite You To Look Into His Record’

    Angela Rye Delivers ‘Fact-Check’ On Sexyy Red’s Comments About Black People Supporting Donald Trump, Says ‘I Would Invite You To Look Into His Record’

    Angela Rye has responded to Sexyy Red‘s public endorsement of Donald Trump by presenting evidence of his past actions, which she reveals were racially discriminatory. Rye is urging Black Americans who back the former president’s 2024 presidential campaign to educate themselves about his track record.

    “To Sexyy Red and everyone else who’s found themselves in the camp for ‘Blacks for Trump,’ I would invite you to look into his record,”

    Rye said in videos posted on X (fka Twitter).

    “I would invite you to look beyond barbershop conversation, people who are just shooting a breeze — or as some people say, shooting the sh*t.”

    “If that’s what you’re gonna do, let at least the sh*t be facts. Let it at least be fact-checked,”

    she added.

    “Let it at least be associated with his actual record. When you look and see what Donald Trump actually accomplished for Black people, are you satisfied with that?”

    Rye highlighted a number of instances where Trump has been

    “egregious”

    towards the Black community. One of these instances was the case of the Central Park Five, who were later exonerated and renamed the Exonerated Five. She also mentioned Trump’s questioning of former president Barack Obama’s citizenship during his presidential campaign.

    In 1989, the ex-president took out full-page newspaper ads advocating for the death penalty on five, Black teenage boys after a Central Park jogger was assaulted. Five innocent Black men, Korey Wise, 51; Kevin Richardson, 48; Raymond Santana, 49; Antron McCray, 49; and Yusef Salaam, 49, were wrongly convicted, and later exonerated. In 2019, Trump declined to apologize for his remarks.

    “You have people on both sides of that,”

    he said, according to The New York Times.

    “They admitted their guilt.”

    Rye also spoke about

    “Birtherism,”

    which was enacted during Barack Obama’s run for presidency in 2008, spearheaded by Donald Trump which accused the 44th president of not being a natural-born citizen of the United States. Rye posted a video in response to Sexyy Red’s comments to which she mentioned that black people support Donald Trump on Theo Von’s

    “This Past Weekend”

    podcast last week.

    “Yeah, they support him in the hood… Once he started getting black people out of jail and giving people their free money, oh baby we love Trump. We need to get him back in office.” 

    #Clique, what are your thoughts?

  • Yale Physician Says All Doctors Should Be Required To Wear Bodycams After Witnessing Several Encounters Of Black Patients Being Mistreated

    Yale Physician Says All Doctors Should Be Required To Wear Bodycams After Witnessing Several Encounters Of Black Patients Being Mistreated

    A Yale University physician says hospitals should mandate doctors to wear body cameras after experiencing several racist encounters from some of her colleagues, according to the Daily Mail. 

    Dr. Amanda Calhoun, who is a third-year resident doctor at Yale, said she has seen racist behavior coming from her colleagues toward black patients.

    “I have witnessed countless racist behaviors toward Black patients, often coupled with conscious and cruel statements,”

    Calhoun, wrote in a recent opinion piece for The Boston Globe.

    “I have heard White nurses joke that young Black children will probably join gangs and doctors describe the natural hair of Black people as ‘wild’ and ‘unkempt.’”

    The 28-year-old who described herself as an

    “expert in the mental health effects of anti-Black racism,”

    said in the article that she had

    “seen Black patients unnecessarily physically restrained.”

    She added,

    “I have stood in the emergency department as a Black teenager died from a gunshot wound while White staff chuckled, saying he was ‘just another criminal.’”

    Dr. Calhoun said she urges medical institutions to implement body and to ensure a safer and more liable work environment.

    “Monitoring the actions of individuals can result in self-checking behavior,”

    she wrote.

    “If we want to see a reduction in poor health outcomes for Black patients, we must hold health care professionals accountable in real time.”

    #Clique, what are your thoughts?

  • Former Starbucks Manager Who Was Fired After The 2018 Arrests Of Two Black Men Accused Of ‘Trespassing,’ Awarded $25M From The Company

    Former Starbucks Manager Who Was Fired After The 2018 Arrests Of Two Black Men Accused Of ‘Trespassing,’ Awarded $25M From The Company

    A former manager of the Starbucks that went viral for calling the police on two black men, was rewarded over $25 million after accusing the franchise of racial discrimination, NY Post reported. 

    Shannon Phillips claims the company was

    “punishing white employees”

    after the 2018 incident that involved two black men who were wrongfully arrested at the store after they were accused of trespassing. Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson made headlines after a viral video showed the two men being removed from the store in handcuffs. The two men were later released but the video had already sparked outrage. Starbucks has since implemented new policy changes and has reached an undisclosed settlement with the men. 

    Phillips was a regional manager of operations in Philadelphia and New Jersey, at the time but said she had no involvement in the legal actions taken against Nelson and Robinson. Phillips accused Starbucks of trying to force her to place another white manager (that allegedly had no connection to the incident) on administrative leave. Phillips refused to follow the orders given and was later terminated. 

    “[White employees were being] punished in an effort to convince the community that it had properly responded to [Nelson and Robinson’s] incident,”

    Phillips’s lawsuit claimed. 

    Starbucks responded stating that Phillips was let go because they

    “need someone more experienced with ‘leading’ during a business crisis.”

    Fast forward 4 years later, Phillips was recently rewarded $600,000 in compensatory damages and $25 million in punitive damages, by a New Jersey jury that ruled unanimously in her favor. It was ruled that Starbucks

    “displayed racial injustice and violation of federal/state anti-discrimination laws.”

    #Clique, what are your thoughts?