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Los Angeles Times
27 minutes ago
- Los Angeles Times
Black people on campuses support fighting antisemitism and also wonder, ‘What about us?'
Antisemitism is abhorrent. No Jewish person should ever experience it, and universities must do all they can to eradicate it on campuses. The Trump administration is pushing colleges and universities to address antisemitism by threatening, freezing and revoking federal funding and demanding millions of dollars to settle allegations — or in UCLA's case, $1 billion. These unprecedented federal penalties, which the government claims are partially for failing to address antisemitism, leave lots of Black people who either attended or worked at predominantly white institutions asking, 'What about us?' Reports of antisemitism sound familiar to Black people who have encountered anti-Black harassment in similar forms. Generations of Black collegians and employees have been called racial slurs on campuses. The N-word also has been spray-painted and nooses have been hung on Black students' dorms, on Black culture centers and on portraits and statues of influential Black people across campuses. Student body presidents who are Black, as well as other Black student organization leaders and employees, have received death threats. One social media post promised: 'I'm going to stand my ground tomorrow and shoot every black person I see.' Black people have been physically assaulted on campus grounds; been threatened and targeted by white supremacist hate groups who gain access to campuses; and been racially profiled by campus security personnel. Black campus police officers have reported experiencing 'unbearable' racism themselves. For decades, predominantly white sororities and fraternities have denied Black students membership on the basis of race. Additionally, too many Greek-letter organizations have hosted blackface parties mocking Black people, including some attendees wearing nooses around their necks and others pretending to be enslaved Africans or white enslavers. These and other encounters with anti-Black racism are long-standing, persistent and pervasive. Asking 'what about us' is not intended to diminish the severity of antisemitism or the dangers that Jewish students face. Posing this question also does not indicate that Black people are antisemitic. It comes neither from a standpoint of hatred toward nor carelessness for Jewish people. In fact, firsthand encounters with unchecked racism and harassment on campuses deepen many Black people's empathy for and outrage on behalf of anyone experiencing discrimination and hate, including Jews. And many Jewish people who are Black know such hostility all too well, having faced both antisemitism and anti-Black racism. According to FBI data published in 2024, of the 950 religiously motivated hate crimes that occurred at educational institutions between 2018 and 2022, 78.4% were targeted at Jewish people. That is terrible and unacceptably high. During those same years, the statistics also show that of the 2,624 racially motivated hate crimes on campuses, 64.4% were targeted at Black people. That also is terrible and unacceptably high. Educational institutions across the U.S. clearly have serious problems with hate crimes against both Jewish and Black people. But for some reason, the Trump administration is neglecting to hold colleges and universities financially accountable for one like it is the other. For more than two decades, I have conducted research on campus racial climates. Surveys of and interviews with millions of students, faculty and staff on hundreds of campuses turned up numerous examples of antisemitism and far more examples of anti-Black racism. Volume and frequency do not make one any more or less important than the other. Both deserve fierce institutional and governmental responses. Islamophobia, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, weight and body-type bias, ableism, ageism and every other form of discrimination and abuse also deserve the most serious forms of accountability. But that has not happened, at least not in the manner or to the extent that it is occurring now in the name of combating antisemitism. There is shamefully abundant evidence of attacks on Jewish people on campuses. This warrants an immediate response by the federal government, by campus leaders, by state officials and anyone else who has the power to effect change. Meanwhile, Black students and employees are also continuing to experience unforgivably high levels of racial discrimination, harassment and abuse. Why is this not receiving a serious response from the Trump administration? Why has no college or university ever been required or expected to pay $1 billion (or any amount close to that) for the racial discrimination and violence that Black people endure on campuses? From today onward, what price will institutions of higher education pay for anti-Black racism? Shaun Harper is a professor of education, business and public policy at USC and the author of 'The Big Lie About Race in America's Schools.'
Yahoo
3 hours ago
- Yahoo
Trump Claims That MSNBC Host Nicolle Wallace ‘Will Be Fired Soon'
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Sunday morning (August 17) to unleash a shocking rant against political commentator Nicolle Wallace, vowing that the MSNBC host will soon be fired. The drama began when Trump made a cryptic post that read 'Bela,' leading many Truth Social users to debate what he meant. In the replies, one commenter shared a Photoshopped imaged of Wallace with a 'Karen' haircut and a red nose, alongside the captions, 'Clown News' and 'Nicole Wallace is afraid of losing her job. Get her a Waaambulance.' Trump replied to the post, writing, 'She is a loser, with bad ratings, who was already thrown off of The View. She will be fired soon! MSNBC IS DEAD!' Wallace currently hosts Deadline: White House on MSNBC, though she previously co-hosted ABC's The View, joining the long-running daytime talk show in September 2014. She exited the series after just one season. Before her TV career, Wallace served as the White House Communications Director for the second term of George W. Bush's presidency. Trump had earlier raged against those who had criticized his recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, writing, 'It's incredible how the Fake News violently distorts the TRUTH when it comes to me. There is NOTHING I can say or do that would lead them to write or report honestly about me. I had a great meeting in Alaska on Biden's stupid War, a war that should have never happened!!!' He continued, 'If I got Russia to give up Moscow as part of the Deal, the Fake News, and their PARTNER, the Radical Left Democrats, would say I made a terrible mistake and a very bad deal. That's why they are the FAKE NEWS!' At the top of her show on Friday (August 15), Wallace blasted Trump's meeting with Putin, telling viewers, 'Having had the privilege of interviewing Ukrainians, it's so much to watch our country's president stand with the person responsible for all that suffering and all that death, it's heinous.' She added, 'You know that any day, Russia could bomb anywhere in Ukraine, it's watching them scrape and struggle to get an American president who supported them.' Wallace stated that Trump 'doesn't give a s*** about democracy, doesn't care about our allies, [and] doesn't care about democratic allies' sovereignty.'
Yahoo
7 hours ago
- Yahoo
Fox News' Dana Perino Says Gavin Newsom Is Making a Fool of Himself With X Posts Mimicking Trump
"If you're doing it yourself, put the phone away," she insists of the California governor Fox News' Dana Perino criticized Gavin Newsom's recent X activity mocking President Donald Trump on Monday, saying that the California governor is making a fool of himself — despite them mirroring the cadence and style of the president's own posts. Perino appeared to disregard the fact that the viral posts coming from the California governor's office are copying the way Trump writes his missives on Truth Social. She called Newsom's latest trend foolish and wondered if his wife was embarrassed and begging him to stop. More from TheWrap Fox News' Dana Perino Says Gavin Newsom Is Making a Fool of Himself With X Posts Mimicking Trump | Video Jack Schlossberg Mocks Melania Trump's Letter to Vladimir Putin: 'This Make No Sense' MSNBC Name Change Mercilessly Mocked as 'One of the Worst Branding Disasters in Media History' Spike Lee's Colin Kaepernick Docuseries Scrapped at ESPN Due to 'Creative Differences' 'You have to stop it with the Twitter thing. I don't know where his wife is, if I were his wife, I would say, 'You are making a fool of yourself, stop it,'' Perino said. 'Do not let your staff tweet – and if you're doing it yourself, put the phone away. He's got a big job as governor of California, but if he wants an even bigger job, he has to be a little bit more serious.' In a press conference last week, Newsom explained his strategy behind his new social trolling of the president. He hoped that the extreme, all-caps posting using language and exclamation points similar to Trump's Truth Social posts opens up more scrutiny for how the President of United States is using social media. 'I hope it's a wakeup call. The President of the United States — I'm sort of following his example. And if you've got issues with what I'm putting out, you sure as hell should have concerns about what he's putting out as president,' the governor said at the end of the press conference. He continued: 'So to the extent it's gotten some attention, I'm pleased. But I think the deeper question is: How have we allowed the normalization of his tweets, Truth Social posts over the course of the last many years to go without similar scrutiny and notice?' Although Perino might not have connected the dots from Newsom's posts to how Trump posts, plenty of other X users called the Fox News host out for not acknowledging the correlation. 'And now they get it,' one user wrote. 'I'm certain Melania has tried.' 'These people can't be this thick in reality right?' another wondered. Newsom's office, led be a group of unnamed staffers, first began trolling Trump with tweets fashioned after the president's incendiary social media style last Tuesday. The post Fox News' Dana Perino Says Gavin Newsom Is Making a Fool of Himself With X Posts Mimicking Trump | Video appeared first on TheWrap.
