Colin Flaherty (Author of Don't Make the Black Kids Angry) Commentary News Video "Hate groups are about to find lawmakers eager to scrutinize them" "Two wounded in shooting at Newport Centre mall in Jersey City"
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Author: William Douglas, McClatchy Washington Bureau Jan 13, 2019
WASHINGTON — For years, Republicans have watched white supremacists claim the Republican Party is on their side. And on Capitol Hill, Republican lawmakers did little to crack down on race-based hate groups.
But now Democrats are in charge of the House.
And that means Bennie Thompson, a black Democratic congressman from Mississippi, is in charge of the House Homeland Security Committee.
He plans to act.
Thompson intends to hold hearings on what experts say is a growth of right-wing extremism in America.
After a woman died in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 after a rally by white supremacists, Congress passed a resolution condemning the march. Though President Donald Trump signed the measure, and said he opposed hatred, bigotry and racism, he said earlier the same day "You got some very bad people on the other side also."
They say the government has largely ignored the growth of a violent far right that exploded into the public consciousness with the explosion of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, by Timothy McVeigh, an anti-government extremist.
And congressional Republicans were dogged by comments such as those recently by Steve King, who last week told The New York Times, “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization _ how did that language become offensive?”
King later issued a statement saying "I reject those labels and the evil ideology that they define."
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POSTED 6:13 PM, JANUARY 11, 2019, BY NORA ABRAMOV, UPDATED AT 10:15PM, JANUARY 11, 2019
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Two people were wounded after a shooting erupted inside a Jersey City mall, prompting an immediate lockdown, according to police.
"We know some of the players here... we know some of the victims... and we certainly think that they were up to anything good at the mall," Jersey City Police Chief Mike Kelley said.
Police say the two men took themselves to the hospital—one suffered a gunshot wound to his stomach and the other to his arm.
