racism
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Republican Cory Gardner reprimands Trump for Charlottesville remarks: ‘Call evil by its name’
U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, a Colorado Republican, called out President Donald Trump on Saturday for failing to blame white supremacists for escalating violence in Virginia that has claimed at least one life. “Mr. President – we must call evil by its name,” Gardner said in a tweet. “These were white supremacists and this was domestic…
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Colorado senators Michael Bennet, Cory Gardner denounce violent white nationalist rally in Virginia
Colorado’s two U.S. senators, Democrat Michael Bennet and Republican Cory Gardner, condemned the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, calling it “deeply disturbing” and “contrary to all we stand for as a country.” Politicians across the country and on both sides of the aisle denounced the “Unite the Right” rally, organized by a…
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May: The West isn’t worse than the rest
Americans and Europeans should stop apologizing to the world Intellectuals of the left and those influenced by them judge the United States and certain European nations as uniquely guilty of imperialism, colonialism, racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, Islamophobia – the list goes on. But is the West really different from the rest when it comes to…
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YESTERYEAR: Postmasters point toward safer, more effective mail delivery
Fifty-five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Top officials with the Post Office Department – including Acting Assistant Postmaster General Sidney W. Bishop, a Denver native – unveiled major new Postal Service programs before an audience of 2,700 delegates to the 57th annual National Association of Postmasters Convention in Denver. The department would…
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In Colorado Springs, Pence discourages talk of institutional racism
Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence says U.S. society should “set aside talk” of institutional racism in the wake of more police killings of black men. Pence told a group of evangelical church leaders Thursday in Colorado Springs that recent police shootings in Oklahoma and North Carolina require officials to “speak with compassion” and assure…
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Maddux: An open letter to my (once) fellow Colorado Republicans
I’ve been a Republican since moving to Colorado in 1984. However, this election, I’m voting for a Democrat for president and I’m asking other Republicans to join me. There’s a real horror for me when I listen to the hateful rhetoric from Donald Trump and a large number of his supporters – this need to…
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Mike Pence refuses to call David Duke ‘deplorable’
Donald Trump’s running mate Mike Pence refused on Tuesday to say whether he thinks white supremacist David Duke is deplorable, repeating that he’s “not in the name-calling business,” as he tried to brush off the issue as a distraction. Pence was asked at a news conference with House Republican leaders in Washington whether he wanted…
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Duran: Why we must stand against Trump’s campaign of hate
In less than two months, voters will go to the polls and decide whether the next president of the United States will be Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. In the time we have left this election cycle, it’s more urgent than ever to show Trump for what he is: a fear-mongering bully whose election to…