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Black Lives Matter branded posters bearing slogans like “KILL A WHITE ON SIGHT” and graffiti saying “HANG THE WHITE MAN” have been discovered in Scotland.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti blamed “institutional racism” for homelessness, though liberal California is entirely responsible for the nation’s rise in homelessness.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago ended its work with University of Chicago economics professor Harald Uhlig after he was targeted by left-wing peers for criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement and its call to “defund the police.”

Former Clemson Tigers and current NFL players Deshaun Watson and DeAndre Hopkins have persuaded Clemson University to rename its Calhoun Honors College, given that John C. Calhoun was a pre-Civil War slavery advocate.

Costco CEO Craig Jelinek said the “violence” and “unrest” following Geroge Floyd’s death are due to “racism and injustice.”

Portland Trail Blazers guard C.J. McCollum is angered over President Donald Trump’s plans to hold a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 19th.

People’s Daily Online, a house organ of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), argued on Wednesday that America’s “predominant culture of white supremacy” has unleashed “turmoil” in Hong Kong and across the Middle East.

French police have allegedly refused to arrest an individual fearing that accusations of racism could get them sacked. 

Political and corporate support for Black Lives Matter has become ubiquitous over the past week. Everyone’s email inbox is bulging with messages of support from corporate sponsors, every website is covered with Black Lives Matter logos, and the group has benefited from numerous fundraisers and charity sales. Many people might not realize that Black Lives Matter is a distinct political organization, not just a slogan or social media hashtag, and it has both enormous funding and a wide-ranging political agenda.

The woke editors of the prominent science journal Cell have published a mea culpa, accusing their entire discipline of racism.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) on Thursday said President Trump is practically throwing a “welcome home party” for white supremacists by restarting his iconic MAGA rallies in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Juneteenth.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary is editing the definition of the word “racism” after a Missouri woman wrote to the company requesting that the definition match what she learned at university, that the word really means the “systemic oppression” of groups of people.

Splash Mountain, one of Disney’s most beloved rides at Walt Disney World in Florida, Tokyo Disneyland, and at Disneyland in California, is being criticized by social media users and Change.org supporters who say the ride’s racial overtones need to be “re-themed.”

Mayor Eric Garcetti was asked to define “systemic racism” on Wednesday evening, and answered that it is “racism that is built into systems.”

Wednesday White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow told reporters he does not believe there is systemic racism in the United States.

The statue of former Carolina Panthers Owner and founder Jerry Richardson, is being removed after the team became aware of reports that some activists might try to take it down.

UCLA Professor Gordon Klein has been placed on leave after rejecting a request to postpone a final exam for black students in response to the death of George Floyd.

L.A. Lakers star LeBron James exclaimed that the long line at the polls in the Georgia primary election was an example of “racism.”

Police confirmed the arrests of 53 people in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Tuesday for participating in a socialist protest against the United States, allegedly a response to the killing of Minnesota resident George Floyd by Minneapolis police.

Protesters tore down a statue of Christopher Columbus in Virginia’s state capital on Tuesday using ropes to topple the monument before burning an American flag atop it and dragging it into a nearby lake. In Boston, a statue of the 15th Century explorer was beheaded overnight.

CrossFit CEO and founder Greg Glassman apologized for mocking a political statement framing “racism” as an epidemiological issue.

Ghana, considered a gateway of the brutal slave trade to the United States that began more than 400 years ago, is urging “unwanted” Americans of African heritage to resettle within its borders in the wake of the police killing of Minnesota resident George Floyd.

Arizona State University revoked a job offer from professor Sonya Forte Duhé after she praised “good police officers” on Twitter. Prior to the tweet, Duhé was scheduled to assume the role of dean of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State.

Two editors at major media companies are stepping down after staff accused them of discrimination and criticized their decisions on race reporting.

Monday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” actor and civil rights activist Samuel Jackson called the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests the “labor pains” of systemic change.

The mayor of San Jose, California, said on Sunday he is against the so-called defund police movement that’s taken root in the wake of the death of George Floyd, a black man who died at the hands of the Minneapolis police, saying it would hurt the communities activists say they want to help.

Australia’s trade minister denied allegations on Saturday by China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism that Chinese and Asians face increased “racial discrimination and violence” in Australia due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Epoch Times reported on Monday.

“Were it not for pastors, there would have been no civil rights movement,” said Robert Jeffress, noting America’s history of faith in politics.

Donald Trump’s record on race relations is far better than George W. Bush’s was in 2000 — yet Bush has evidently joined the bandwagon of the “woke.”

There is no mass movement to defund the police and make white people kneel. This is a deep blue temper tantrum, a moral panic engulfing the far left and moral cowards like Mitt Romney and Drew Brees.

Reebok, an apparel brand owned by Adidas, ended its business partnership with CrossFit following the fitness company’s CEO mocking a declaration of “racism” as “a public health issue.”

A speaker at a Black Lives Matter protest in London warned against having “a child with a white person” as she called for “revolution” and to “overthrow the system” on Saturday.

Thousands of Black Lives Matter protestors took to the streets of London on Saturday, with many seen violently clashing with police, shooting flares at Number 10 Downing Street, and ritually beating an effigy of President Donald Trump.

The statue of wartime prime minister Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square has been vandalised again, with fresh graffiti branding him a “racist”.

The shutdowns related to the coronavirus pandemic hurt Hispanic and African American employees more than white employees, according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data, released in last Friday’s jobs report.

Ireland’s classrooms are too white and children “should learn about black history from an early age” to fight racism, according to the country’s mainstream media.