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Man Who Pointed Assault Rifle At BLM Considering Running for Senate, The Caucasity
The white man who went viral last summer after he and his wife pointed an assault rifle and gun at a group of Black Lives Matter protestors in St. Louis is reportedly interested in running for the Senate.
Mark McCloskey and his wife Patricia made media headlines after they pointed guns at peaceful protestors who marched past their home. Now, the gun-toting couple is preparing for McCloskey’s possible Senate run. “I can confirm that it’s a consideration, yes,” McCloskey toldPolitico on Tuesday.
McCloskey works as a personal injury lawyer and has positioned himself as a loyal Republican voter since becoming a meme last summer. The couple spoke at the virtual Republican National Convention last year and McCloskey most recently spoke at a Jackson County GOP dinner where he appeared to be testing the waters before announcing an official campaign run, Kansas City reports.
The McCloskeys shot to GOP stardom after they brandished guns at the BLM protestors who were on their way to St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson’s home. During his fiery speech at the GOP dinner on Saturday, April 17, McCloskey claimed the protestors threatened to kill him and his wife. He also spoke out against schools teaching race theory lessons to students because they were “poisoning the minds” of youth, he claimed.
“We cannot go forward with the normal political process,” he said. “We cannot send to DC the typical assortment of posers and egotists and career politicians.”
The controversial couple has received support from fellow GOP members since their standoff with the BLM protestors. The McCloskey’s have fundraised for Donald Trump and appeared as special guests at a February gun rights rally at the state capitol.
In October, a grand jury indicted the couple on charges of exhibiting guns and evidence tampering, Yahoo News reports. However, during the Jackson County GOP’s Reagan-Lincoln Day Dinner in Blue Springs, Attorney General Eric Schmitt claimed he was working to get the criminal case against the McCloskeys thrown out.
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White Lawmaker Treated Black Colleague Like A Child, Used A Slur Against Him
A Republican representative in the state of Arizona used a racial slur toward a Black colleague and treated him like a child.
Republican State Rep. Travis Grantham interrupted fellow lawmaker, Rep. Reginald Bolding, a Black Democrat, to call him a “colored person” who needs to “be sat down” and “not be allowed to speak,” according to Rawstory.
On Tuesday on the House floor, Bolding was speaking out against a voter suppression bill, but Grantham was not going to allow a “colored person” to talk about systematic racism.
“I feel personally that motives were arraigned of members, including myself, with regards to colored people, Black people, whatever people this individual wants to single out, in their ability to vote, and I think it’s incorrect,” Grantham, said. “I think he should be sat down and he shouldn’t be allowed to speak,” he added.
According to RawStory, a progressively left-leaning website, “colored people” is racist because it is a slur that dates back to the Jim Crow era between the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Rawstory wrote that Grantham’s choice of words was not just racist, but it was patronizing as his tone treated Bolding like a child.
Bolding, who is either 30 or 31, is about 10 or 11 years younger than Grantham, who is 42.
On the same day, the Arizona GOP-led House passed legislation that would make changes to the mail-in voting process, one of which prevents some voters from automatically receiving ballots, CNN reported.
The bill is a part of a Republican effort to restrict voting across the country as the state was one of the key factors why former President Donald Trump lost his election campaign. It appears that Trump’s allies are looking to prevent Arizona from turning blue again.
The bill must go back to the state Senate for final approval, but if the Senate does not approve, it is scheduled to reconvene on Thursday for Gov. Doug Ducey.
Steve Harvey Responds to Being Replaced As Host of Miss Universe Pageant
After years of hosting the Miss Universe Pageant, Steve Harvey has been replaced by Mario Lopez.
The Kings of Comedy star took to Twitter on Tuesday, April 20 to share how much he’ll “miss” the Miss Universe audience after the pageant announced Mario Lopez and Olivia Culpo as the new hosts.
“I’ll miss you guys — but I’ll see you for the 70th!,” Harvey tweeted in response to the pageant’s tweet announcing the new hosts.
“Mark your calendars – Access Hollywood’s @mariolopezviva and actress and model @oliviaculpo will host this year’s Miss Universe competition, LIVE on @FYI and streaming next day free on The #Roku Channel,” the pageant tweeted.
I’ll miss you guys — but I’ll see you for the 70th!
It was the 2015 Miss Universe Pageant when Harvey went viral after he mistakenly named Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez to be the winner of the competition when she was actually the first runner-up. After realizing his mistake, Harvey returned to the stage to name Miss Philippines Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach as the winner. But the damage had already been done.
“Here’s the situation: Now, when the mistake was made, when I said the wrong woman’s name, I can only give information I had,” Harvey recalled on his radio show, Good Housekeeping reports. “No one knows, and that information is not in the teleprompter because you’ve got two women standing there. I read what was on the teleprompter, then I read what was on the card … The difference being: On the card, it said first runner-up. Now, what happened, how it got like that, how it was done, how it was worked on, that’s neither here nor there. I said the name that was on the card. When I walked off, everything was cool … and then, after that, all h–l broke loose.”
Despite his apologies and owning up to the mistake, Miss Colombia has expressed her upset over the embarrassing televised moment. “In four minutes they destroy your dreams, they throw it in a bag, and they throw it in the trash,” she told the NY Daily News.
Birmingham Mayor Celebrates 4/20 By Lighting Up 15,000 Marijuana Convictions
Birmingham, Alabama, Mayor Randall Woodfin (D) announced Tuesday he will pardon 15,000 people who have minor marijuana convictions on their record.
Woodfin made the announcement on 4/20, a date typically celebrated by cannabis advocates. The pardons are automatic and will apply to those who were convicted in municipal court between 1990 and 2020. Woodfin also announced the move on Twitter, where he encouraged the state to do the same.
Woodfin, who was elected in 2017, also shared a petition to decriminalize marijuana on his campaign website.
“Today, I’m so happy to announce blanket pardons for those with closed marijuana possession convictions in the city between 1990 and 2020. This will pardon more than 15,000 individuals simultaneously,” Woodfin said in a statement. “Here’s why we’re doing this – no one should be held up by a single past mistake. No one should be denied job opportunities or freedoms due to missteps from the past. No longer will these residents be bound to their past. They deserve a chance to be part of our workforce, to provide for their families and to achieve success on their own.
Today, I issued a pardon of 15,000 people convicted of marijuana possession in Birmingham between 1990-2020. These pardons are a strong start, but our work is far from done.
Join me in telling the State of Alabama to completely decriminalize marijuana. https://t.co/qAFvbjJour
Medical and recreational marijuana are both illegal in Alabama. However, state lawmakers are considering a medical marijuana bill.
Woodfin added that the pardons will allow those with marijuana convictions to no longer be looked at as criminals and will be able to get a job and provide for their families.
“No one should be denied job opportunities or freedoms due to missteps from the past,” Woodfin told NBC-WVTM.
In recent years, numerous states have legalized recreational cannabis. New York, Virginia, and New Mexico all passed recreational marijuana bills this year. Other states are also considering recreational legalization as state tax revenues have fallen significantly due to the coronavirus pandemic.
In a sign that federal legalization may be coming, the House of Representatives passed a marijuana banking bill that will allow owners of dispensaries to use traditional banking services. Because marijuana is still a Schedule 1 drug along with heroin, LSD, and ecstasy, marijuana businesses and their owners have to do everything in cash. That includes paying taxes and employees.
An Officer Who Donated To Kyle Rittenhouse Defense Fund Has Been Fired
A police officer who donated to Kyle Rittenhouse’s crowdfunded defense fund has been fired.
Lieutenant William Kelly was fired from the Norfolk Police Department in Virginia after it was discovered that he made donations to support Rittenhouse, a Chicago teen dropout who is being accused of opening fire on Jacob Blake protesters with an AR-15-style rifle, Revolt TV reported.
“Chief Larry Boone and I have concluded Lt. Kelly’s actions are in violation of city and departmental policies,” Norfolk City Manager Chip Filer said in a statement. “His egregious comments erode the trust between the Norfolk Police Department and those they are sworn to serve. The City of Norfolk has a standard of behavior for all employees, and we will hold staff accountable.”
As BLACK ENTERPRISE previously reported, one of those donations was for $25 and is associated with the official email address for Kelly, who was the executive officer of internal affairs in the Norfolk Police Department in Virginia.
Along with his donation, he wrote, “God bless. Thank you for your courage. Keep your head up. You’ve done nothing wrong. Every rank and file police officer supports you. Don’t be discouraged by actions of the political class of law enforcement leadership.”
Kelly’s donation was first reported by The Guardian. Rittenhouse has become somewhat of a celebrity amongst conservatives, one of his biggest supporters being former President Donald Trump.
The Kyle Rittenhouse Defense Fund on GiveSendGo, a Christian social crowdfunding platform, was reported to have raised $586,940 between Aug. 27, 2020, and Jan. 7, 2021.
Rittenhouse allegedly killed two people and injured a third person in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and he somehow was able to walk past armed policemen; he eventually turned himself in after news broke.
Rittenhouse faces six criminal counts in Wisconsin, including first-degree intentional homicide.
Stacey Abrams Issued a Scathing 2-Minute Read Against the Georgia Voting Law
Stacey Abrams went viral on Wednesday while explaining how restrictive and racist she finds Georgia’s controversial voting rights law.
The Democratic politician appeared in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday and didn’t hold back when Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) asked Abrams to provide a list of provisions for the new voting law that she’s been a fierce opponent of, HuffPost reports.
“It shortens the federal runoff period from nine weeks to four weeks,” Abrams said. “It restricts the time a voter can request and return an absentee ballot application. It requires that voters have a photo identification or some other form of identification that they are willing to surrender in order to participate in the absentee ballot process.”
After Kennedy asked Abrams to repeat herself due to an audio delay, he ended the call after two minutes by telling the voting rights activist, “OK, I get the idea.”
Republican Senator John Kennedy asks @StaceyAbrams to give him a list of provisions in Georgia’s new voter suppression law that she objects to.
A more heated discussion about racism in America was brought forth after Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) claimed that Democrat-run states like New York and Connecticut also have voting laws that “need to be improved.”
“The intent always matters, sir, and that is the point of this conversation,” Abrams said. “That is the point of the Jim Crow narrative. That Jim Crow did not simply look at the activities, it looked at the intent. It looked at the behaviors and it targeted behaviors that were disproportionately used by people of color.”
The state of Georgia has been under fire since the controversial voting law was passed earlier this month. Major companies based in Georgia like Coca-Cola and Delta blasted the law for being “unacceptable” AJC reports. The MLB moved the All-Star Game out of Georgia in protest against the voting law. But Republicans have responded by threatening tax hikes on the companies and even boycotting Coca-Cola, Business Insider reports.
U.S. and Other Countries Double Down On Climate Pledges At Earth Day Summit
Reuters -The United States and two other countries hiked their targets for slashing greenhouse gas emissions at a global climate summit hosted by President Joe Biden, an event meant to resurrect U.S. leadership in the fight against global warming.
Biden unveiled the goal to cut emissions by 50%-52% from 2005 levels at the start of a two-day climate summit kicked off on Earth Day and attended virtually by leaders of 40 countries including big emitters China, India and Russia.
The United States, the world’s second-leading emitter after China, seeks to reclaim global leadership in the fight against global warming after former President Donald Trump withdrew the country from international efforts to cut emissions.
“This is the decade we must make decisions that will avoid the worst consequences of the climate crisis,” Biden, a Democrat, said at the White House.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the new U.S. goal “game changing” as two other countries made new pledges.
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, who visited Biden at the White House this month, raised Japan’s target for cutting emissions to 46% by 2030, up from 26%. Environmentalists wanted a pledge of at least 50% while Japan’s powerful business lobby has pushed for national policies that favor coal.
Canada’s Prime Minster Justin Trudeau, meanwhile, raised his country’s goal to a cut of 40%-45% by 2030 below 2005 levels, up from 30%.
Chinese President Xi Jinping did not announce a new emissions goal, saying that China expects its carbon emissions to peak before 2030 and the country will achieve net zero emissions by 2060.
China will gradually reduce its coal use from 2025 to 2030. China, a leader in producing technology for renewable energy like solar panels, still relies heavily on coal for its electricity generation.
Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed giving preferential treatment for foreign investment in clean energy projects, but also made an apparent reference to the United States being historically the world’s top greenhouse gas polluter. “It is no secret that the conditions that facilitated global warming and associated problems go way back,” Putin said.
The U.S. climate goal marks an important milestone in Biden’s broader plan to decarbonize the U.S. economy entirely by 2050 – an agenda he says can create millions of good-paying jobs but which many Republicans say they fear will damage the economy.
The U.S. emissions cuts are expected to come from power plants, automobiles, and other sectors across the economy, but the White House did not set individual targets for those industries.
The new U.S. target nearly doubles former President Barack Obama’s pledge of an emissions cut of 26-28% below 2005 levels by 2025. Sector-specific goals will be laid out later this year.
CEMENTING CREDIBILITY
How Washington intends to reach its climate goals will be crucial to cementing U.S. credibility on global warming, amid international concerns that America’s commitment to a clean energy economy can shift drastically from one administration to the next.
Biden’s recently introduced $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan contains numerous measures that could deliver some of the emissions cuts needed this decade, including a clean energy standard to achieve net zero emissions in the power sector by 2035 and moves to electrify the vehicle fleet.
But the measures need to be passed by Congress before becoming reality.
The American Petroleum Institute, the top U.S. oil and gas lobbying group, cautiously welcomed Biden’s pledge but said it must come with policies including a price on carbon, which is a tough sell among some lawmakers.
“With a transparent price on carbon and innovation, we can make measurable climate progress within this decade without hurting America’s middle-class, jeopardizing U.S. national security, and undermining economic recovery,” said Mike Sommers, API’s president and CEO.
Biden focused on restoring U.S. climate leadership during his campaign and in the first days of his presidency after Republican Trump, a climate change skeptic, removed the United States from the Paris agreement on global warming.
‘THE U.S. IS BACK’
The new administration has come under heavy pressure from environmental groups, some corporate leaders, the UN secretary general and foreign governments to set a target to cut emissions by at least 50% this decade to encourage other countries to set their own ambitious emissions goals.
The summit is the first in a string of meetings of world leaders – including the G7 and G20 – ahead of annual UN climate talks in November in Scotland. That serves as the deadline for nearly 200 countries to update their climate pledges under the Paris agreement, an international accord set in 2015.
Leaders of small island nations vulnerable to rising seas, like Antigua and Barbuda and the Marshall Islands, also spoke at the summit.
World leaders aim to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, a threshold scientists say can prevent the worst impacts of climate change.
A Biden administration official said with the new U.S. target, enhanced commitments from Japan and Canada, and prior targets from the European Union and Britain, countries accounting for more than half the world’s economy were now committed to reductions to achieve the 1.5 degrees Celsius goal.
European leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen expressed delight that the United States was back in the climate fight.
(Reporting by Jeff Mason and Valerie Volcivici; additional reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin in Moscow; Elaine Lies and Aaron Sheldrick in Tokyo, and David Ljunggren in Ottawa; writing by Timothy Gardner; Editing by Lisa Shumaker and Raissa Kasolowsky)
