Alabama has wasted decades on hate. It has never helped anyone
Hate has never helped a single person accomplish anything of substance.
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CAIR announces support for Amendment 4
Amendment 4 will be on the Nov. 3 general election ballot.
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See recent postsTuberville, Byrne and Sessions: Selling fear because they have no good ideas
Tommy Tuberville wants to scare white people. Bradley Byrne wants to scare white people. Jeff Sessions wants to scare white people. The Muslims are going to kill us all. The black people are committing scary crimes and kneeling a lot. The Hispanics are hauling deadly drugs over the border to kill your grandkids. The terrorists … Continued
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See recent posts“We don’t want no charter school and we don’t want no Muslims”
The gentleman who made this statement was one of 200 people who came to the Washington County high school in Chatom on Monday night, April 29. He was probably in his 60’s. His face was weathered and he wore a baseball cap and work shirt. Like everyone else in the auditorium, he had sat attentively as … Continued
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See recent postsA real “enemy of the people”
I’m pretty fortunate, in that I’ve got two great careers. I write for this great news organization each week, continuing the mostly political columns about Alabama I wrote for a more than a quarter of a century for The Birmingham News, back when The News was a newspaper. I also write the monthly back-page column … Continued
CAIR holds banquet in Birmingham
By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Sunday, the Alabama chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations hosted its 2nd annual banquet featuring Linda Sarsour, a national Muslim Human rights activist and a key organizer of the Women’s March on Washington. Ms. Sarsour praised the Birmingham chapter of CAIR for the work that it has done … Continued
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By Josh Moon Alabama Political Reporter Know a sentence you never hear anyone say? “Boy, that discrimination really worked out for us.” Think about it. Thousands of years of discrimination based on race, age, religion, gender, sexual orientation and heritage, but no one ever looks back on any of it and thinks about how great … Continued
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See recent postsAn apology for it all
By Josh Moon Alabama Political Reporter I’m sorry. That’s what I’m supposed to say here, it seems. A bunch of other media outlets and columnists have apologized after last Tuesday’s election results, after they were so wrong and after they so misjudged the country and its anger. I guess I should offer an apology too. … Continued
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By Joey Kennedy Alabama Political Reporter I’ll admit I blew the prediction on the Republican presidential nomination. No way did I believe Donald Trump was going to win it. I predicted several times that Trump was done. I was wrong. Trump took it easily, because Republicans apparently don’t want to win the big prize. I’m … Continued
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By Joey Kennedy Alabama Political Reporter Hillary haters must be banging their heads against the wall today. Many predicted indictments against presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton over her use of a personal e-mail server during her tenure as Secretary of State. FBI Director James Comey ended their giddy wishes Tuesday when he recommended … Continued