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William Boardman | Trump’s Racially Obtuse Transcript Highlights, Annotated






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William Boardman | Trump’s Racially Obtuse Transcript Highlights, Annotated 
Donald Trump.  (photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
William Boardman, Reader Supported News
Boardman writes: "White supremacy survives on violence, but the President of the United States can’t, or won’t, bring himself to condemn either."
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Steve Bannon Is Out, but Donald Trump Is Still Racist.
Eric Armstrong, The New Republic
Armstrong writes: "White House Chief of Staff John Kelly fired Bannon on Friday, presumably to give the beleaguered consigliere more free time to ominously mill in the background of somebody else’s ethno-nationalist meetings."
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To Be Clear, White Supremacy Is the Foundation of Our Country. It Won’t Be Destroyed by Toppling Statues
Crystal Marie Fleming, The Root
Fleming writes: "From the white supremacist 'rally' and terror attack in Charlottesville, Va., to the current president’s public defense of Nazis to the recent uproar over HBO’s controversial decision to green-light a new series portraying a Confederate victory, it is clear that our nation is in the midst of a very public—and painful—reckoning with the memory (and ongoing realities) of white supremacy."
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Trump-Linked Oligarch’s Company Goes Bust as Intrigue Grows
Kevin G. Hall and Ben Wieder, McClatchy
Excerpt: "Two mysterious companies owned by the Russian oligarch who bought Donald Trump’s Palm Beach mansion filed for bankruptcy in North Carolina Friday, adding to the mystery about the firms and the rich Russian behind them."
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The Left Can’t Rely on Boycotts Alone
Jeet Heer, New Republic
Heer writes: "Progressives are wielding their wallets to fight Trump. But there are limits and dangers to harnessing consumer activism for political change."
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How to End Mass Incarceration
Roger Lancaster, Jacobin
Lancaster writes: "What was the nature of the punitive turn that pushed the US off the path of reform and turned its correctional system into a rogue institution?"
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Nearly Half of Colombia's Ecosystems at Risk of Collapse
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Of the 81 ecosystems, 19 are classified as “endangered,” and another 19 are in critical condition. Only 16 percent of the endangered or critically endangered sites are provided any sort of state protection from further damage."
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