Racial Issues

Arizona ACLU blasts racial profiling in new report "Driving While Black or Brown."

DISAPPEARING ACTS

IF SLICK WILLY WON'T MAKE THE CASE FOR RACIAL JUSTICE, WHO WILL? A NEW TIMES EXCLUSIVE.

BLACK LIKE SHE

IF SLICK WILLY WON'T MAKE THE CASE FOR RACIAL JUSTICE, WHO WILL? A NEW TIMES EXCLUSIVE.

AMAZING RACE

IF SLICK WILLY WON'T MAKE THE CASE FOR RACIAL JUSTICE, WHO WILL? A NEW TIMES EXCLUSIVE.

Race Tracks

Author Jon Entine comes to Phoenix to dissect the Taboo subject of why blacks dominate sports

Letters

Letters from the issue of Thursday, May 19, 2005

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, June 4, 2009

Letters from the issue of Thursday, May 19, 2005

Many Faces of Hate Film Series: The Hate Conspiracy -- The Rise & Fall of The Order

Letters from the issue of Thursday, May 19, 2005

The Bird exposes Sheriff Joe's racist ties, delves into the Israel Correa madness, and reveals Napolitano as the real Judas

Letters from the issue of Thursday, May 19, 2005

Kid Sharpton

Jarret Maupin is the reverend Al's handpicked protégé. Is Phoenix City Hall ready?

The New Racism

Nothing's black and white at Millennium High School

Primary Colors

A Phoenix City Council race is pitting Hispanic hopes against black history

Spade & Neutered

Scottsdale's "Looking Forward" is sanitized for your protection

BLACK LIKE SHE

Scottsdale's "Looking Forward" is sanitized for your protection

Neo-Nazis and Extreme Right-Wingers Love Joe Arpaio, and There’s Evidence that the MCSO Keeps Them Close

Scottsdale's "Looking Forward" is sanitized for your protection

Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor Called Racist by the Racists

Sonia Sotomayor, a racist? Riiiiiight.... You know it's taken a turn for the surreal when an obnoxious lout like William Gheen is calling you a racist. Gheen is a nasty piece of work, the founder of the extremist nativist Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, which is headquartered in Rale ... More >>

Arpaio Visits Houston and the Bigots at Westboro Baptist Church Have a New Target: Jews

Sonia Sotomayor, a racist? Riiiiiight.... You know it's taken a turn for the surreal when an obnoxious lout like William Gheen is calling you a racist. Gheen is a nasty piece of work, the founder of the extremist nativist Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, which is headquartered in Rale ... More >>

Ron Paul's "Ronulans" Go Gaga Over Documentary For Liberty Tonight

from LittleGreenFootballsOne pic you won't see in the doc: Ron Paul, ex-KKK Grand Wizard Don Black, and Black's son Derek.Whenever Congressman Ron Paul shuffles off this mortal coil, he'll have no dearth of hagiographers. Indeed, he already has plenty, like the makers of the documentary For Liberty, ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Partners with Nativist Extremist Kris Kobach, Arizona ADL Blasts Both

Far-right lawyer Kris Kobach: One sign Arpaio's given up on success in MelendresAs disturbing as the prospect is of a nativist extremist lawyer like Kris Kobach training all 881 of Sheriff Joe's beigeshirts in immigration law, I have to wonder if it's a sign that Arpaio's throwing in the towel ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's New Counsel Kris Kobach, and His Disingenuous Statements to Fox 10

Kris Kobach, defensive and dodgy in this Fox 10 interviewFox 10 News has posted a 13 minute interview that reporter Steve Krafft recently did with nativist law prof Kris Kobach, the guy who'll be "training" all 881 of Sheriff Joe's gendarmes on immigration law. It's an interesting watch, if only to ... More >>

Courtney Bisbee Is Assaulted in Prison, and a Band of Skinhead-Collaring Cops Gets Busted Up

Kris Kobach, defensive and dodgy in this Fox 10 interviewFox 10 News has posted a 13 minute interview that reporter Steve Krafft recently did with nativist law prof Kris Kobach, the guy who'll be "training" all 881 of Sheriff Joe's gendarmes on immigration law. It's an interesting watch, if only to ... More >>

Black Ink

Arizona wordsmiths honored

Neo-Nazi Remorse? Ex-Skinhead Frank Meeink Says He Has It, and the Career Criminal Squad is Saved

Arizona wordsmiths honored

Joe Arpaio's Neo-Nazi Supporters Surface for Bill Montgomery Event, and Phoenix Police Chief Jack Harris Slams SB 1070

JT Ready & pals try to give Joe Arpaio and Bill Montgomery some Nazi love in Phoenix today As most of you have no-doubt heard, there's strong speculation that Sheriff Joe Arpaio will announce his run for Arizona Governor on Monday. Personally, I hope he does run. He'll have to resign to d ... More >>

White Power "American Third Position" Party Seeks Toehold in Arizona

Fascist tool (and I mean that literally): William Johnson of the white supremacist American Third PositionIf you haven't heard of the California-based American Third Position party, or A3P as it's otherwise referred to, consider this a heads up. The racist, white nationalist organization would like ... More >>

William Gheen's Facebook "Friend," Neo-Nazi Harry Hughes, and Hughes' "Patrols" for Illegals

FacebookScreenshot taken earlier today, showing neo-Nazi Harry Hughes as one of Gheen's "friends"Does it matter that one of William Gheen's Facebook buddies is a well-known Phoenix-area neo-Nazi, a neo-Nazi that likes to go out on "patrols" with wannabe stormtrooper J.T. Ready, totin' assault rifles ... More >>

Neo-Nazis at the "Buycott," and Why National Socialist Harry Hughes Is (Sadly) Right

JustAnotherDayblogNeo-Nazis Scott Hume (left) and Harry Hughes at Saturday's pro-SB1070 rallyI mentioned in my roundup of Saturday's big anti-SB 1070 march that local neo-Nazi Harry Hughes attended the pro-SB 1070 "buycott" rally at Tempe's Diablo Stadium later that same say. Along for the ride was ... More >>

Pro-SB 1070 Phoenix Rising Rally: Neo-Nazis, Nativists, Crackpots, and More

A white supremacist in the nativist nut bag... A fruitcake of nativist rage and looniness baking in the Arizona sun: That's what was generally to be found at Wesley Bolin Plaza this Saturday, June 5 for the pro-SB 1070 Phoenix Rising rally, which drew around 2,000 mostly white participants to ... More >>

J.T. Ready's Neo-Nazi Patrol for Migrants in the Vekol Valley, and Its Discovery of a Dead Body

JT Ready at the press conference before "securing" the slaughterhouseFor the "reporters" at ABC 15: Ready in neo-Nazi garbIt's not every day that a well-known neo-Nazi offers to take you to a place called "the slaughterhouse."But that's what Mesa neo-Nazi J.T. Ready did this Saturday, leading a grou ... More >>

Jan Brewer, Neo-Nazi J.T. Ready, Joe Arpaio, Russell Pearce, All Star in Dennis Gilman's Latest Video

Above is videographer Dennis Gilman's latest on the neo-Nazi patrol of the Vekol Valley, which I wrote up recently for this blog. Gilman weaves in snippets from Governor Jan Brewer, state Senator Russell Pearce, and Sheriff Joe Arpaio to make the point that the rhetoric used by these politicians hel ... More >>

Jan Brewer's 1070 Defense Fund: White Power "American Third Position" Party Claims Donation

William Johnson, Chairman of A3P, the group claiming to have donated to Brewer's 1070 defense fundBack in May, I warned that a new racist, white nationalist organization out of California known as the American Third Position, or A3P, was attempting to gain a political toehold in Arizona with a quixo ... More >>

Neo-Nazis Nab More Migrants in the Arizona Desert

Just Another Day... Neo-Nazis J.T. Ready and Harry Hughes on a recent "illegal immigrant" patrol in the desert Arizona neo-Nazis J.T. Ready and Harry Hughes have apparently been busy to judge by a recent item on Hughes' blog "Just Another Day... " There, he's posted photos of Ready, himself ... More >>

Neo-Nazis Claim Four More Migrants, the ADL Responds

Just Another Day... The latest from neo-Nazi Harry Hughes' blog... The neo-Nazis are claiming to have "rescued" four more suspected illegal aliens in the desert. This comes via a Sunday, July 18 post to National Socialist Harry Hughes' blog "Just Another Day..." Hughes has posted more p ... More >>

ADL Smacks Up J.T. Ready, and Paul Babeu Regrets Calling White Supremacist Radio Show

courtesy ADL J.T. Ready (center) showing his true colors I don't normally just throw up press releases on the blog, but as the following one from the Arizona Anti-Defamation League deals with neo-Nazi J.T. Ready's ongoing "illegal alien" patrols in the desert, I think it's worth rep ... More >>

Morning Poll: Is the Term "National Poster Boy" Racist?

www.willcurley.tripod.comVernon Parker pulled out the race card.​Congressional candidate Vernon Parker decided to pull out the race card last week, asserting that a phrase used by one of his primary opponents is racist.The phrase in question: "national poster boy."The term was used by Ben Quayle i ... More >>

Joe Arpaio, J.D. Hayworth, Shawna Forde and the Tea Party on Glenn Spencer's Ranch

walkingthelinefilm.comGlenn Spencer, host of the nativist Tea Party rally happening Sunday, August 15Although the United We Stand for Americans Web site announcing its Tea Party rally on the U.S.-Mexico Border this Sunday August 15 includes the address of the event and maps leading there, it careful ... More >>

Neo-Nazi Arizona: Upcoming White Supremacist Wing-Dings in Sand Land

You guys call this a mosh? I've seen old ladies do betterSand Land continues to serve as the spot to be for neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and plain ol' racist nativists to party down. Just check out the above video for the 2009 Oi Fest, held yearly in Tonopah, Arizona, and sponsored by the loc ... More >>

John McCain Silent on ALIPAC Endorsement of Congressional Candidate Jesse Kelly

​Senator John McCain recently released a campaign ad for Congressional candidate Jesse Kelly, which wouldn't be a big deal if Kelly weren't endorsed by the same anti-immigration group that gave "The Maverick's" opponent in the GOP primary a nod -- an endorsement McCain quickly asked his opponent t ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: On Ignorance and Used Tire Shops

​Senator John McCain recently released a campaign ad for Congressional candidate Jesse Kelly, which wouldn't be a big deal if Kelly weren't endorsed by the same anti-immigration group that gave "The Maverick's" opponent in the GOP primary a nod -- an endorsement McCain quickly asked his opponent t ... More >>

The ATF Agent Who Put the Mahon Brothers in the Hoosegow; Plus, Why the MCSO Has Something Else to Worry About

​Senator John McCain recently released a campaign ad for Congressional candidate Jesse Kelly, which wouldn't be a big deal if Kelly weren't endorsed by the same anti-immigration group that gave "The Maverick's" opponent in the GOP primary a nod -- an endorsement McCain quickly asked his opponent t ... More >>

Russell Pearce's "Tea Party Senate" and the Report on Tea Party Nationalism

from teapartynationalism.comWant a preview of Pearce's "Tea Party Senate"? Check out IREHR's reportWhat are we to make of neo-Nazi-huggin' state Senator Russell Pearce's declaration that under his rule as majority leader, Arizona's upper house will be "the Tea Party Senate"?Look no further than the ... More >>

Russell Pearce Denounces Neo-Nazis? Gimme a Break

This guy's denouncing neo-Nazis? What a joke...Don't laugh, but neo-Nazi-huggin' state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce is denouncing the neo-Nazis.Talk about man bites dog.Seems Pearce told KPHO that the National Socialist Movement members coming to Phoenix for an anti-illegal immigrant bash a ... More >>

When Valley Neo-Nazi J.T. Ready Converted to Mormonism, Guess Which Prominent Politico Ordained Him an "Elder"

This guy's denouncing neo-Nazis? What a joke...Don't laugh, but neo-Nazi-huggin' state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce is denouncing the neo-Nazis.Talk about man bites dog.Seems Pearce told KPHO that the National Socialist Movement members coming to Phoenix for an anti-illegal immigrant bash a ... More >>

Why a Russell Pearce Run for Congress Would Be a Good Thing

This guy's denouncing neo-Nazis? What a joke...Don't laugh, but neo-Nazi-huggin' state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce is denouncing the neo-Nazis.Talk about man bites dog.Seems Pearce told KPHO that the National Socialist Movement members coming to Phoenix for an anti-illegal immigrant bash a ... More >>

Glenn Spencer, Nativist Anti-Semite, To Lecture Arizona Senate Committee

walkingthelinefilm.comWhat, me a raving racist anti-Semite? You would think that an old, Mexican-bashing coot like Glenn Spencer, the head of the nativist "organization" American Border Patrol, would be radioactive to any politician with a lick of sense, after all of the dumb, bigoted statements he' ... More >>

Gustavo Arellano On Mexican Men and Brown Pride

walkingthelinefilm.comWhat, me a raving racist anti-Semite? You would think that an old, Mexican-bashing coot like Glenn Spencer, the head of the nativist "organization" American Border Patrol, would be radioactive to any politician with a lick of sense, after all of the dumb, bigoted statements he' ... More >>

Neo-Nazi Travis Ricci Just Pulled Two Decades in the Joint, As the Specter of His Death Waits

walkingthelinefilm.comWhat, me a raving racist anti-Semite? You would think that an old, Mexican-bashing coot like Glenn Spencer, the head of the nativist "organization" American Border Patrol, would be radioactive to any politician with a lick of sense, after all of the dumb, bigoted statements he' ... More >>

John McCain's Racist Statements on Wildfires: After Pearce, Recall McCain

In the most disgusting, reprehensible, and irresponsible comments of his political career (and that's saying a lot), Arizona's senior U.S. Senator John McCain is blaming illegal immigrants for Arizona's recent plague of wildfires, saying it's the reason the country needs a "secure border."As reporte ... More >>

John McCain Doubles Down on Racist Scapegoating of Latino Migrants

CNNMcCain, digging the hole deeper after his racist comments over the weekend When white nationalist websites and racist minutemen with erstwhile ties to child killers are championing your cause, you know you've made a serious error. Particularly when you're a failed presidential candidate still des ... More >>

SB 1070 Shooter Gary Kelley Sentenced to 27.5 Years in White-on-Brown Slaying

Gary Kelley: SB 1070's new poster-boy, now sentenced to 27.5 years in the state penA note to Sand Land's hillbilly gun-huggers: Beer and firearms don't mix. And they mix especially poorly with bigotry, latent or otherwise. Case in point is Gary Kelley, the South Phoenix man who gunned down his ... More >>