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MSNBC's Joy Reid complains about Gabby Petito media coverage, calls it 'missing white woman syndrome'

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MSNBC host Joy Reid racialized the probable homicide of Gabby Petito when she bemoaned Monday the national media attention — including on MSNBC — that Petito’s case has generated since the 22-year-old was reported missing earlier this month.

What did Reid say?

The MSNBC host conceded on her show, “The ReidOut,” that Petito’s family deserved “answers and justice,” but suggested Petito’s case generated national media attention only because she was a young white woman.

“It goes without saying that no family should ever have to endure that kind of pain. And the Petito family certainly deserves answers and justice,” Reid said. “But the way this story has captivated the nation has many wondering, why not the same media attention when people of color go missing?”

Reid, in fact, even referred to the purported racial phenomenon as “missing white woman syndrome.”

“Well, the answer actually has a name: Missing White Woman Syndrome,” Reid continued. “The term coined by the late and great Gwen Ifill to describe the media and public fascination with missing white women like Laci Peterson or Natalee Holloway, while ignoring cases involving missing people of color.”

What’s this really about?

Contrary to Reid’s assertion, Petito’s case has gripped the nation not because of her race but because of the extremely odd nature of the case.

The fact that Petito’s fiancé Brian Laundrie, for example, returned to his Florida home without Petito nearly two weeks before she was reported missing and the fact that Petito chronicled the couple’s adventures on social media are driving national interest in the case.

What makes the case even more odd is the encounter Petito and Laundrie had with Utah law enforcement last month after an anonymous 911 caller alerted police to a potential domestic violence situation between the couple. The National Park Service parks ranger who responded to the incident now says that she warned Petito about “toxic” signs in her relationship.

Magnifying interest in the case are the mysterious whereabouts of Laundrie himself. Not only did he refuse to speak with law enforcement, which was his right, but the 23-year-old has been missing for a week. Police are continuing to search for Laundrie in Florida.

If Reid is truly concerned about disproportionate media coverage given to missing white women, perhaps she may consider dedicating some of her prime-time national TV show to sharing the stories of non-white missing persons on a regular basis.

Public school staffer on leave after wearing blackface to work reportedly to protest vaccine mandate

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A public school district staffer wore blackface to work last week and soon was removed and placed on administrative leave, Newberg (Oregon) Public Schools said in a statement.

What are the details?

While the district did not go into detail about Friday’s incident, KOIN-TV — via media partner the Newberg Graphic — said the culprit is a Mabel Rush Elementary School special education assistant who dressed as Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks and used iodine as a face darkener to protest a statewide vaccine mandate.

The station said the disclosure came from a fellow Mabel Rush staffer who requested anonymity. While KOIN named the staffer who wore blackface, TheBlaze will not do so until the district does.

Oregon Democratic Gov. Kate Brown mandated that all K-12 employees in the state must be fully vaccinated by Oct. 18.

What did parents have to say?

“It’s just one thing after another, and as a parent you question sending your kid to school after awhile — at least I do,” Shannon Benito, whose daughters attend Mabel Rush Elementary, told KGW-TV.

Tai Harden-Moore told the station she feels as though some connected to the district “really want us to go back to that Jim Crow era, back to the Civil Rights era.” She added to KGW that her son, who is black, “was called the N-word in 7th grade” and that “the school did very little about it. Their approach was to protect the student who did it.”

Harden-Moore told the station that her son left Newberg High School and moved to a Portland school.

‘Slave trade’ incident

The blackface incident comes on the heels of another racially charged incident just last week when parents of some Newberg High School students learned they were taking part in or being targeted by a social media group chat called “Slave Trade,” which joked about how much participants would pay for their black classmates in a slave auction, KGW reported.

Image source: YouTube screenshot

Tami Erion, the high school’s principal, told the station in an email that photos of students were used, as well as with racist and homophobic slurs.

And the Newberg School Board for months has been trying to ban teachers from hanging Black Lives Matter and Pride flags in their classrooms, KGW reported, adding that the board recently broadened the ban to include all “controversial political symbols” in schools.




Newberg elementary school staffer placed on leave after showing up to work in blackface

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ANOTHER Justin Trudeau Blackface Picture Leaks Before Canadian Election: Claim

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been embroiled in another alleged blackface scandal ahead of Monday’s parliamentary elections.

In the early hours of Monday morning, the conservative grassroots organisation Canada Proud released a previously unseen picture, allegedly of Mr Trudeau, donned in Arabic dress, black paint to the face, and tongue outstretched.

Canada Proud, which is an anti-Trudeau campaign group, said that it is “time to end the international embarrassment” and urged Canadians to back Conservative Party candidate Erin O’Toole.

The latest blackface picture appears to be from the same “Arabian Nights” event in 2001 from which the previous black and white picture of the Canadian leader came from. The photo was featured in the yearbook of West Point Grey Academy, where Trudeau previously worked then as a teacher.

Following the publication of the picture during his 2019 re-election bid, Mr Trudeau said: “This is something I shouldn’t have done many years ago,” adding: “I take responsibility for my decision to do that. I didn’t think it was racist at the time. I now realize it was racist.”

Trudeau has also admitted to dressing up in blackface as a teenager during a performance of the Jamaican folk song “Day-O”, which was made famous by African American singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte.

A third instance of the Canadian leader wearing blackface was published by Canada’s Global News showing Trudeau in a white t-shirt with black makeup on and again sticking out his tongue.

When pressed in 2019 whether there were more pictures of him in blackface, Mr Trudeau said that he wasn’t sure, saying: “I am wary of being definitive about this because the recent pictures that came out I had not remembered.”

“The fact of the matter is that I’ve always—and you’ll know this—been more enthusiastic about costumes than is sometimes appropriate,” he has said.

The leftist Canadian PM has also drawn criticism for dressing in traditional Indian garb during a state visit to the sub-continent in 2018.

The latest blackface picture was dropped as Canadians are set to head to the polls on Monday after Trudeau called for a snap election last month.

It is believed that Trudeau, who is currently governing from a minority position in the Canadian Parliament, called for the election in order to secure a majority government for the next four years while polls remain favourable for this Liberal Party.

Polls have since tightened considerably, with a national telephone survey of voters conducted last week by the Nanos Research showing the Conservatives and Trudeau’s Liberals neck and neck.

The two parties polled within the margin of error, with the Liberals garnering 30.5 per cent of public support compared to the Conservatives at 31.2 per cent.

Conservative leader Erin O’Toole and Trudeau also statistically tied in Prime Minister preference, with O’Toole receiving 29.1 per cent in the poll and Trudeau seeing 29.4 per cent backing his re-election bid.

The two main parties have both been largely in favour of the government’s draconian lockdown positions during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, leaving room on the right for the populist anti-lockdown People’s Party of Canada to gain support.

Some polls have put the Maxime Bernier party at as high as 12 per cent nationally, however, the countries first-past-the-post system could result in the anti-lockdown party being locked out of parliament even if it secures a large vote share.

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Massachusetts Principal Flaunts Sexuality, Race in Front of Children to Stump for Black Lives Matter

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A Massachusetts public high school principal opened the 2021 school year by apparently feeling the need to declare his racial status and sexual preferences to students in an effort to plug Black Lives Matter propaganda.

Aaron Sicotte, Principal of Needham High School, introduced himself as “a white privileged straight man” on the first day of school, an action which “had parents wondering why their kids came home on the first day of school aware of his sexual orientation,” according to Parents Defending Education (PDE).

As the presentation continued, however, students report that this statement was merely the icebreaker to dive into a larger discussion about identity groups and how they rank in the “oppression hierarchy.”

“There is no reason why students should have to hear a principal basically shame himself in front of them for being a straight white male while he introduces himself,” PDE Director of Outreach Erika Sanzi said. “It isn’t normal for students to come home on the first day of school and say to their parents over dinner, ‘our principal told us today that he’s straight.’”

And indeed, students also report that the school is plastered with leftist propaganda and that “it was hard to find a single classroom in the building that did not have a sign on the door or wall containing one of the following three messages”:

Black Lives Matter

Stop Asian Hate

We Welcome Refugees

But the indoctrination push does not appear to be surprising, as the school district has made it their mission to embed the ideology into every single aspect of the public school system — from teaching and interacting with one another, to hiring practices and “generally going about the business of school”:

The district’s working definition of equity, proposed by our Superintendent as a starting point for our work, is the basis for the development of curriculum and assessments, the design of learning activities, the purchase of books and materials, hiring staff, the facilitation of meetings, and just generally going about the business of school.

Further, they seek to “prepare all students to be socially and culturally responsive contributors who understand and respect diversity; Act with empathy and courage to ensure equity, access, and an anti-racist culture. Address local and global issues through civic and community engagement.”

“In other words, they are training activists,” PDE explained. “They see themselves as uniquely situated to be societal change agents. They assert that it is their duty — as well as that of their students — to deconstruct the racism that is inherent in the Needham Public Schools (as well as in every aspect of society.)”

The activism training appears to be a community-encompassing effort, as the school system’s website includes increasingly radical “resources” for parents and teachers with which to indoctrinate children.

One such resource is children’s book by Anastasia Higginbotham, which depicts a “Contract Binding You to WHITENESS.” The apparent clauses of the contract include “stolen land,” “stolen riches,” and “special favors.”

Indeed, according to this book, “WHITENESS gets: to mess endlessly with the lives of your friends, neighbors, loved ones, and all fellow humans of COLOR,” and, of course, “your soul.”

Pages from Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness (Ordinary Terrible Things) by Anastasia Higginbotham. (Screenshot from Parents Defending Education).

Pages from Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness (Ordinary Terrible Things) by Anastasia Higginbotham. (Screenshot from Parents Defending Education).

Other “resources” include the Raising Race Conscious Children article “100 RACE-CONSCIOUS THINGS YOU CAN SAY TO YOUR CHILD TO ADVANCE RACIAL JUSTICE” and an 18-minute Trevor Noah clip titled “George Floyd, Minneapolis Protests, Ahmaud Arbery & Amy Cooper.”

But the effort to indoctrinate children in the Needham school system is even more explicit when looking at the goals of their “Elementary Racial Literacy Curriculum,” which states in part that “In order to help students work toward this competency, explicit racial literacy instruction is required” (emphasis added):

Needham Public Schools Elementary Racial Literacy Curriculum. (PDE)

Needham Public Schools Elementary Racial Literacy Curriculum. (PDE)

Needham Public Schools Elementary Racial Literacy Curriculum. (PDE)

The indoctrination starts in kindergarten with a focus on skin colors, but by the third grade, the school district starts teaching “stories of activism.” Teaching about activism is likely not in-and-of-itself negative, but as Breitbart News has previously reported, activist themes are being deployed to further a political movement called “action civics,” which seeks to indoctrinate children from a very young age to mold them into activists, such as those in Black Lives Matter or Antifa.

“The place seems more like a re-education camp than a public high school,” Sanzi said.

VIDEO: Black Lives Matter protesters call NYPD cop the N-word — and the officer has to be restrained by his colleagues

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While openly socialist U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) was
attracting negative attention for her “Tax the Rich” gown inside the Met Gala earlier this week, Black Lives Matter protesters drew some attention of their own as they demonstrated against police outside the lavish New York City event, Fox News reported.

Protesters chanted the name of Mike Rosado — a Bronx man who died last month in a shootout with police, the cable network noted — and a megaphone-toting officer told the protesters they were being arrested for disorderly conduct.

Some major scuffles broke out, with officers restraining a protester while the crowd told cops to “let go of her!” Fox News said.

Protester calls cop the N-word

But one of the more eye-catching and ear-catching moments occurred when at least two of the protesters called a black cop the N-word, after which the officer had to be restrained by his colleagues and was led away from the conflict.

The clip begins with a protester yelling “don’t let that [N-word] f***in’ walk away!” in reference to the black officer; the protester also accused the cop of putting his “hands on people.”

Another protester can be heard yelling “you done [N-word], you done!”


Image source: Twitter video screenshot via @AshAgony

As the protesters appeared to get closer to the officer in question, the cop began to approach the protesters — and then was quickly pulled away by at least three of his colleagues.


Image source: Twitter video screenshot via @AshAgony

As the groups separated, one of the protesters hollered at the cop in question, “F*** you, bitch-ass [N-word]!”

The clip showing the aforementioned action is the second one below. (Content warning: Racial slurs, profanity):

The individual who posted the above videos accused the cop of being “absolutely rabid” and “out of control.”

Below are two other videos showing the protesters in action and the cops’ response to them. (Content warning: Profanity):

Anything else?

According to
Patch, the protests started Monday afternoon in Lower Manhattan, then moved uptown by around 6 p.m. The outlet said protesters demanded defunding and then abolishment of the NYPD, among other things.

Patch, citing an NYPD spokesperson, said nine people were taken into custody near Fifth Avenue and East 81st Street, but there was no indication if any were charged with crimes.