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#YouAintBlack and #JoeBidenIsARacist both became national trending hashtags on Twitter in the wake of the presumptive Democrat nominee’s disastrous interview on The Breakfast Club, in which he said blacks who consider supporting Donald Trump “ain’t black.”

Stanford Professor Rose Salseda was removed from the university’s website after being accused of singing along to a rap song by N.W.A. including a racial slur. Salseda apologized to the Stanford community in a letter published on Monday. The professors performance left a student government leader asking, “Why do we have to put up with that kind of racial violence?”

CBS News White House correspondent Weijia Jiang made a thinly-veiled accusation of racism against President Donald Trump on Monday afternoon when he spoke about China in response to one of her questions at a press briefing in the Rose Garden.

CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms about the Ahmaud Arbery shooting on Sunday — and did not question or challenge her when she blamed the “rhetoric” of President Donald Trump for the shooting.

Auto racer Kyle Larson is back on the track again, only three weeks after facing a firestorm of controversy over his use of the “n-word” during a video game broadcast on the Internet.

Leaders of the U.S. Bishops’ conference (USCCB) have denounced an increase in “incidents of bullying and verbal and physical assaults, particularly against Americans of Asian and Pacific Island heritage” allegedly brought on by the Chinese Coronavirus pandemic.

Leaders of the U.S. Bishops’ conference (USCCB) have issued a statement denouncing the coronavirus’ “disproportionate” effects on African Americans and the “systemic structural conditions” underlying it.

Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) plans to withdraw black and minority ethnic (BAME) health workers from frontline roles in the fight against the coronavirus, in order to reduce the supposedly disproportionate BAME death toll. 

A group of Nigerian attorneys announced this week they would file a lawsuit against the government of China, seeking $200 billion in damages for its role in exacerbating the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

The home of a middle-aged couple in who put up a model of England’s patron saint for St George’s Day was defaced with “NAZI” graffiti 50 bags of dog faeces in Milton Keynes.

The YWCA held a virtual town hall on Twitter Thursday as part of its #standagainstracism campaign, focused on how the coronavirus has exposed racism in America and those who support it.

Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, issued scathing remarks against the communist government of China on Thursday, announcing that Nigerian diplomats in Guangzhou were instructed to document cases of racism by Chinese against their citizens.

Harvard Magazine published an interview with a law professor who released a paper that calls for a “presumptive ban” on homeschooling.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called on the government to start collecting and publishing the ethnicities of those infected with the Chinese coronavirus, claiming that “structural racism” in Britain has led to more racial minorities dying from the illness.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has raised reports of coronavirus-linked racism against foreigners in China with the government.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Monday that Americans are dying because of “pre-existing” racism and inequality.

Robert Halfon MP says he has been accused of “racism” after announcing a parliamentary inquiry into white working-class pupils, especially boys, falling behind in schools.

Africans living in China continued reporting incidents of discrimination this week and worried they are being scapegoated by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials for a resurgence of coronavirus infections.

China’s Global Times propaganda outlet appeared to blame Africans in Guangzhou, a southern city with a large African immigrant population, on Friday for the widely documented bigotry by Han Chinese against them there, demanding they “readjust their way of thinking.”

Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama told reporters on Tuesday following a meeting with the Chinese ambassador to the country, Zhou Pingjian, that reports of Chinese businesses banning black people and landlords evicting them over Chinese coronavirus fears were “unacceptable.”

Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called on Congress to provide federal funds to help pay for the funerals of New Yorkers.

Although the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) insists the many reported incidents of blatant racism against Africans living in China during the coronavirus pandemic are merely “misunderstandings,” McDonald’s Corporation announced on Monday that it has temporarily closed a restaurant in Guangzhou that explicitly refused to serve black customers and posted a sign declaring they were not “allowed to enter.”

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Kyle Larson was suspended indefinitely by NASCAR and without pay by Chip Ganassi Racing on Monday for using a racial slur on a live stream during a virtual race.

African residents of Guangzhou, southern China, reportedly found themselves sleeping on the street this week as renters arbitrarily evicted them, hotels banned them, and restaurants refused to serve them food.

The Labour Party’s new leader has appointed an MP who shared a tweet stating “Those abused girls in Rotherham and elsewhere just need to shut their mouths. For the good of diversity” as Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion.

Brazilian Minister of Education Abraham Weintraub promised to apologize to the Chinese government on Monday if Beijing offered to sell 1,000 respirators to the South American country.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is demanding the racial data of those contracting the novel coronavirus, contending that it is “critical to ensuring an equitable and just response to this crisis across the board.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Friday demanded future coronavirus relief measures to be “drafted with a lens of reparations” to atone for “environmental racism” and other “underlying health conditions” that are causing the virus to “disproportionately” affect minority communities.

A professor at Wake Forest Law School was chastised by the school’s dean after he read a case footnote that contained the N-word during a classroom discussion of the famous First Amendment case, Brandenburg v. Ohio.

A woman claiming to have Wuhan coronavirus and who spat on French police officers while calling them “dirty whites” was handed a seven-month prison sentence.

“When you say I wasn’t prepared, I was the first one to do the ban. Now, other countries are doing what I did,” he said.

To sum this up, the fake news media floods these words and terms into the American lexicon, and then sanctimoniously turns around and attacks those who repeat them as racist.

Actor George Takei has asked his 2.9 million followers on Twitter to report President Donald Trump to the platform’s authorities for “stoking racism” after the president correctly referred to the coronavirus pandemic as originating in China.

Fact check – CLAIM: “Note that Trump’s coronavirus team is all male, all old, and all white.” – Stephen King, writer. VERDICT: False.

Saudi Arabia and a number of African states have imposed travel restrictions on Europe — and unlike the Trump administration do not appear to have attracted any accusations of racism for doing so. 

Why doesn’t CBS News disclose all the words and terms where “black” is used as a positive, or “white” as a negative?