MICHIGAN RACISM: ‘I can say anything I want’: Michigan official defends using racist slur while refusing to wear a mask

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A local road commission meeting in northern Michigan on Monday started with one commissioner asking another why he wasn’t wearing a mask amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The unmasked official responded with a racist slur and an angry rant against the Black Lives Matter movement.

“Well, this whole thing is because of them n-----s in Detroit,” Tom Eckerle, who was elected to his position on the Leelanau County Road Commission in 2018, told his colleague at the start of the public meeting.

The commission chairman, Bob Joyce, immediately rebuked his colleague, but Eckerle, who is White, continued his diatribe.

“I can say anything I want,” Eckerle said at the meeting, which the public could listen to via a dial-in number, the Leelanau Enterprise first reported. “Black Lives Matter has everything to do with taking the country away from us.”

Eckerle’s remarks came the same week Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.) declared racism a public health crisis because of the disparate impact the coronavirus pandemic has had in Black, Native American and Latino communities. Michigan has reported at least 94,656 cases and 6,506 deaths since the start of the pandemic.

“#COVID19 has highlighted what Black & Brown communities have always known — inequities caused by systemic racism can be deadly,” Whitmer said in a tweet on Wednesday. “We’re confronting this head on.”

The racist remark spurred widespread condemnation of Eckerle, who is a Republican, and calls to resign from party officials. Despite the backlash, Eckerle doubled down on his comments Thursday, defending his position and using the slur repeatedly in an interview with the local public radio station.

“I don’t regret calling it a n----r,” Eckerle told Interlochen Public Radio. “A n----r is a n----r is a n----r. That’s not a person whatsoever.”

About 93 percent of Leelanau County’s 21,761 residents are White, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Less than 1 percent of the people who live there are Black.

“It’s horrible,” Joyce told the Detroit News. “It’s absolutely horrific.”

He told the News that the other three road commissioners are pressing Eckerle to resign.

“We do not tolerate that,” he told the newspaper. “That’s not who we are.”

But Eckerle has not wavered. State Rep. Jack O’Malley (R), who represents Leelanau County, said he had a conversation with Eckerle and also asked the commissioner to step down.

“I reached out to this Commissioner and asked for his side of the story,” O’Malley said in a statement on Facebook. “He confirmed to me he did use the racist slur. After some discussion I asked Mr. Eckerle to resign. He refused.”

O’Malley said Eckerle is two years into a six-year term. To oust him before the next election, voters would have to petition to recall him or the county could request that the governor remove him, he said.

“This language and reasoning is ignorant and wrong,” O’Malley said, referring to Eckerle’s use of the racist slur. “We will see how this plays out, but in today’s emotional and highly charged climate to say what he said is ignorant and has no place, especially as an elected official. I did remind him he represents everyone in Leelanau County as I do … and his comments were and are beyond stupid.”

The Leelanau County administrator, Chet Janik, told Up North Live that if Eckerle was a county employee rather than an elected official, he would have faced “severe” disciplinary action for using the racist slur.

Daniel C. Scripps, who lives in Leelanau County and is the chairman of the Michigan Public Service Commission, said Eckerle should be recalled.

“At its core, racism is an attempt to dehumanize, though I’m not sure I’ve ever seen it laid so bare,” he said in a tweet. “But let’s be clear: Eckerle’s resignation/recall is the first step, not the last. All of us, including we who call Leelanau home, also need to do the hard work of coming to terms with, confronting, and overcoming the racism in our community.”

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‘I can say anything I want’: Michigan official defends using racist slur while refusing to wear a mask

The racist remark spurred widespread condemnation a

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ROGER STONE:

FACEBOOK JUST WOKE UP???

Facebook Removes Roger Stone for Ties to Fake Accounts

The social network said the fake accounts were active around the 2016 presidential election.

Facebook on Wednesday said it was removing the personal accounts of Roger J. Stone Jr., President Trump’s friend and ally, because they had ties to numerous fake accounts that were active around the 2016 presidential election.

The company made the announcement as part of its monthly report on removing disinformation. Mr. Stone’s personal accounts on Facebook and Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, were entwined with a U.S.-based network of accounts that had links to the Proud Boys, a group that promotes white supremacy, the company said. The social network banned the Proud Boys group in 2018.

“We first started looking into this network as part of our investigation into the Proud Boys’ attempt to return to Facebook after we had designated and banned them from the platform,” Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, wrote in a company blog post announcing Facebook’s takedown. “Our investigation linked this network to Roger Stone and his associates.”

Mr. Stone, 67, is set to go to prison this month. In November, a jury convicted him on seven felonies, including lying to federal investigators, tampering with a witness and impeding a congressional inquiry. The charges were brought by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, whose investigators scrutinized Mr. Stone’s attempts during the 2016 presidential election to communicate with WikiLeaks about the release of Democratic emails that had been stolen by Russian operatives.

In a statement, Mr. Stone denied overseeing fake accounts on Facebook or Instagram. “This extraordinary active censorship for which Facebook and Instagram give entirely fabricated reasons,” he said, “is part of a larger effort to censor supporters of the president, Republicans and conservatives on social media platforms. The claim that I have utilized or control unauthorized or fake accounts on any platform is categorically and provably false.”

This is not the first time that Mr. Stone has been kicked off a major social media platform. In October 2017, Mr. Stone was suspended from Twitter after insulting several CNN news anchors and contributors. In July 2019, the federal judge overseeing the case brought by Mr. Mueller ordered Mr. Stone off major social media platforms. The judge said Mr. Stone had violated a gag order by using them to attack the special counsel’s investigation and officials tied to it.

Mr. Stone’s accounts were part of the 54 Facebook accounts, 50 pages and four Instagram accounts that Facebook said were associated with the Proud Boys network. The network, the company said, was most active in 2016 and 2017, during the run-up to the United States presidential election and immediately after. A few accounts were still active into 2020, posting primarily about Mr. Stone’s court case and judgment according to Graphika, a company that specializes in analyzing social media, which released a report about Facebook’s Wednesday takedown.

Many of the accounts that Facebook removed used fake personas, stole pictures of people around the internet and published posts promoting Mr. Stone, according to Graphika’s analysis. The accounts publicized his books in 2016, and pushed for his legal defenses in 2019 and appeals for a pardon in 2020.

The accounts also posted hostile criticism of Hillary Clinton, especially in the lead-up to the 2016 election, Graphika said, and engaged in coordinated harassment against a judge who had temporarily blocked Mr. Trump’s executive order barring citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States.

Facebook said it had identified the full scope of the network after hundreds of pages of search warrants and affidavits were released in response to a lawsuit filed by The New York Times and other news media organizations.

The social network said it also took down 35 Facebook accounts, 14 pages, one group and 38 Instagram accounts involved in a domestic disinformation campaign in Brazil, which were linked to “some of the employees of the offices” of President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil and two of his sons, Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro. It was not clear whether Brazil’s president had any direct role in those accounts.

“This shows that coordinated inauthentic behavior can turn up in many places, even the offices of high-profile politicians,” said Ben Nimmo, director of investigations at Graphika. “It also shows that there’s a whole community out there hunting for this kind of operation. It’s a brain race between the influence operations and the people who hunt them, and every takedown teaches us a little more.”

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SOMEONE TELL DAFFY DON HOW TO WEAR A FACE MASK! THAT'S HOW STUPID HE IS! 

RICHARD, Racist who refused to wear a mask in a Lyft threatened to crush his gay driver’s skull

BRAVO TO LYFT FOR BANNING RICHARD!

Racist who refused to wear a mask in a Lyft threatened to crush his gay driver’s skull

The customer called the driver "a candy-a** fa***t" and an anti-Latino slur while threatening violence after being asked to wear a mask.

By Alex Bollinger Monday, June 22, 2020

A white man who got so upset at being asked to wear a mask in a Lyft driver’s car ended up going on a racist and homophobic rant and was later banned by the service.

In a video recorded on May 28 by the driver Edgar, the man who identified himself as Richard entered the car without a mask. Edgar asked Richard to put on a mask or lift his shirt over his mouth and Richard refused.

Related: A gay Trump supporter went viral after he had a racist hissy fit in a Lyft. Now he’s out of a job.

“Do you believe in that s**t?” Richard said incredulously, referring to either coronavirus prevention measures or coronavirus itself.

“Yes, I do,” Edgar responded, “because I have family that is sick of that.”

Richard made some comments about “the government” and said that he had “never heard of someone asking me [to wear] a mask.”

He then said, “I don’t like you.” Edgar asked if he wanted to get out, and he said, “No, I want you to take my a** home and I’ll give you a s**ty review.”

Edgar asked Richard to get out of the car, which is when Richard lost it, calling Edgar a “a candy-a** fa***t with white glasses” and “a f*****g we***ck,” which is an anti-latino slur.

“You ever take English class?” Richard asked, mocking Edgar’s accent. “Where are you from, boy?”

“I could f**cking crush your skull right now.”

Edgar threatened to call the police to get Richard out of his car, and Richard left, saying that he will complain about Edgar to Lyft.

“The behavior shown by the rider in this video is despicable and has no place on the Lyft platform,” the app said in a statement. “Lyft is committed to maintaining an inclusive and welcoming community, and discrimination is not tolerated.”

They said that Richard has been banned from the app and they are “working with the driver to ensure he’s OK,” according to TMZ.

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More than 3,300 stores are closing in 2020 as the retail apocalypse drags on

Daffy Don's failure to act swiftly and promptly, appointing unqualified and incompetent idiots to pretend to protect Americans, failure to provide testing and protective equipment caused this economic catastrophe and exploding DEATH TOLL. 

Fox News = Fake News compounded this tragedy.

Don't pretend and don't re-write history,

".....More than 3,300 stores are closing in 2020 as the retail apocalypse drags on. Here's the full list.

Retailers have confirmed at least 3,300 store closings for 2020.

Victoria's Secret, Bath & Body Works, Nordstrom, Sears, Forever 21, and Walgreens are among the retailers that are planning to close stores this year.

More than 9,300 store closings were announced in the US in 2019, smashing the previous record of roughly 8,000 store closures in 2017, according to an analysis by Business Insider...."

L Brands said Wednesday that it plans to close about 250 Victoria's Secret stores in the US and Canada in 2020.

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More than 3,300 stores are closing in 2020 as the retail apocalypse drags on. Here's the full list.

L Brands said Wednesday that it plans to close about 25

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