White Students In Virginia Sue After Their 'Prank' Gift of Fried Chicken with a Side of Racial Slurs To Black Friend
Gets Them Suspended
Jill Jordan Sieder
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An alleged incident of racial harassment against a Black high school student in Virginia Beach last year has spawned five civil lawsuits by families of the white students involved who say they were unfairly branded as racist bullies and harshly disciplined for what they considered a harmless "prank" among friends.
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Washington Loves Blaming Latin America for Drugs - While Ignoring the American Appetite That Fuels the Trade
Hugo Balta
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For decades, the United States has perfected a familiar political ritual: condemn Latin Ameri-
can governments for the flow of narcotics northward, demand crackdowns, and frame the crisis as something done to America rather than something America helps create. It is a narrative that travels well in press conferences and campaign rallies. It is also a distortion - one that obscures the central truth of the hemispheric drug trade: the U.S. market exists
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'Treason': Elon Musk urges imprisonment of educators accurately teaching US
history
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believes schoolteachers should be "impris-oned" for educating students on topics that portray America negatively-including the nation's history of racism and the displacement of Native Americans.
The world's richest man, who was a prolific donor to President Donald Trump and a member of his administration, expressed this desire in a post on his social media app X on Thursday in response to a survey of high school students from 2022 conducted by the right-wing Manhattan Institute, about whether they had been taught concepts labeled as part of "criti-cal social justice."
The post Musk replied to specifically emphasized that, according to the poll, 45% of students said they had been taught that "America was built on stolen land," while another 22% said they'd heard it from an adult at school.
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