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Ramaswamy blasts WaPo reporter with viral response to question on condemning 'White supremacy': 'Shame on you'
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy went viral on social media for his response to a reporter’s question asking him if he condemns “White supremacy and White nationalism.”
“Of course I condemn any form of vicious racial discrimination in this country. But I think that the presumption of your question is fundamentally based on a falsehood that really is the main form of racial discrimination we see in this country today,” Ramswamy told a reporter from The Washington Post on the campaign trail in Iowa on Wednesday.
“Institutionalized racism is institutionalized racial discrimination that we see that doesn’t come from somehow discriminating against people on the basis of some tentative White supremacy,” Ramaswamy continued. “It’s based on affirmative action. It’s based on actually discriminating against people on the color of their skin in a way that’s actually institutionalized today.”
Ramaswamy said that “questions and framings like that” are what have “caused the American people to lose all trust in the mainstream media.”
RAMASWAMY SAYS TIME TO FIGHT SYSTEMIC RACISM IS OVER, BLASTS AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AS ‘ANTI-AMERICAN’
Vivek Ramaswamy speaks with a Washington Post reporter in Iowa. (Fox News)
The Washington Post reporter pushed back at Ramaswamy, “You didn’t say you condemn White supremacy.”
“I’m not, I’m not gonna recite some catechism for you,” Ramaswamy fired back.
“I’m not pledging allegiance to your new religion of modern wokeism,” he continued. “I’m not going to bend the knee to your religion. I’m sorry. I’m not asking you to bend the knee to mine, and I’m not going to bend the knee to yours. But do I condemn vicious racial discrimination? Yes, I do. Am I going to play your silly game of gotcha? No, I’m not.”
Ramaswamy told the reporter he “already knows” how her “game” works and predicted she will post a headline that says, “Vivek Ramaswamy refuses to condemn White supremacy.”
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Vivek Ramaswamy speaks in Iowa. (Fox News)
“Because you asked a stupid question,” Ramaswamy said. “The reality is I condemned vicious racial discrimination in this country, but the kind of racial systemic discrimination we see today is the discrimination based on race in a very different direction. You want to know what the best way is to end discrimination on the basis of race? Stop discriminating on the basis of race.”
“You people have been responsible for bringing this country to a breaking point, creating a projection of national division,” Ramaswamy continued. “I meet people from the South Side of Chicago to a meeting like this one of every shade of melanin, multiple from men to women, doesn’t make a difference, who are hungry for reviving unity in this country, and you with this catechism that you try and get these politicians to whatever fake headline you’re going to put on the basis of this conversation tomorrow, that’s what’s dividing this country to a breaking point.”
“Shame on you. Look people in the eye and tell them what you’ve actually failed to tell them for the last five years. Own the accountability for your own failures as the media,” he continued. “That’s how we rebuild trust in this country and until then I don’t have a lot of patience to play the games.”
Ramaswamy received applause from the crowd after he finished his answer.
Ramaswamy’s response to the question quickly went viral on social media, with conservatives praising the way the 38-year-old entrepreneur handled the exchange.
“This man is incredible,” sports and political commentator Jason Whitlock posted on X. “Wow.”
“Absolutely magnificent,” author and political commentator Ann Coulter posted on X. “Every GOP should memorize this answer.”
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Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
“Vivek gets it,” Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk wrote on X. “Leveling up in real time. Based.”
“Good for @VivekGRamaswamy who gives brilliant response to stupid question from biased & unprofessional WAPO reporter,” former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee posted on X.
The question from the reporter came in response to former Iowa GOP Congressman Steve King’s endorsement of Ramaswamy. King made headlines in 2019 when he was stripped of his committee assignments by fellow Republicans in Congress after controversial comments regarding White supremacy.
Ramaswamy addressed the interaction in a post on X.
“After Steve King announced he was endorsing me, predictably a lame reporter from @WAPO tried to get me to play the game of ‘denouncing white supremacy,’” Ramaswamy wrote. “While she refused to actually define ‘white supremacy’ which in recent years encompasses concepts like ‘punctuality” & ‘the written word.’ I refused to play along with her game.”
In another post, Ramaswamy wrote that the question was the “stupidest question I’ve gotten yet from the media.”
“And that says a lot,” he added.
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Detroit Red Wings lost, 5-4, to Minnesota Wild in NHL action at Little Caesars Arena on Sunday.
The Red Wings rallied from a 4-1 deficit in the third period but lost, 5-4, to the Wild at Little Caesars Arena.
A pair of struggling Eastern Conference teams in desperate need of a win will square off at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit on Tuesday night.
The Columbus Blue Jackets have lost six straight games while the Detroit Red Wings have dropped six of their last eight. Both clubs are trying to revive their fading playoff hopes.
Columbus (38-27-12, 88 points) lost at home to the Winnipeg Jets 2-1 on Saturday. The frustrated Blue Jackets held a team meeting following the defeat.
“I’ll just keep our conversation in here because we’re a better team than what we’ve shown and just talked about it,” Blue Jackets defenseman Zach Werenski (Grosse Pointe) said. “We’re not eliminated. We’re still in it and I believe in this group. I believe we can get it done and it’s just doing it.
“I mean, we did it for two months. The last two weeks obviously haven’t gone our way, but it’s in the room and it’s on us to just pull it out and get it done.”
Columbus’ offense has stalled during the slide, scoring a total of 10 goals.
“We create the second most chances on the forecheck in the entire league,” Blue Jackets coach Rick Bowness said. “Yet we want to get inside the blue line and make cute little plays against good teams that aren’t working. And they’re not working. So, I have to get after them. They’ve got to change their mindset.”
Werenski believes the team needs a singular mindset on Tuesday.
“We can’t worry about what other teams do or whoever we have after Detroit,” he said. “Our focus just has to be on Detroit, and after that we’ll figure it out.”
The Red Wings (40-29-8, 88 points) rallied from a 4-1 third-period deficit to tie Minnesota on Sunday. But Patrick Kane, who scored the tying goal, took a damaging tripping penalty which led to Kirill Kaprisov’s game-winner for the Wild with 1:51 remaining.
“We get the comeback and take a penalty 150 feet from our net not even in the play. It hurts,” Red Wings coach Todd McLellan said.
Detroit has five games remaining and might need to win them all to end a nine- year playoff drought.
“(We need to) play like we did in the third period more of the game,” Red Wings center J.T. Compher said. “We gave ourselves a chance. If we start better, it makes a little easier on us. The way we played in the third, we have to play for the rest of the games remaining.”
Detroit won its first meeting with Columbus this season on Alex DeBrincat’s overtime goal on Nov. 22. The Blue Jackets pulled out a 6-5 shootout victory in the second matchup on Dec. 4.
Draisaitl may not be ready for playoff opener
Out with a lower-body injury since March 15, Edmonton Oilers star forward Leon Draisaitl might miss the beginning of the Stanley Cup playoffs, coach Kris Knoblauch told reporters on Monday.
“Leon is going to be on the ice this week and I don’t anticipate him playing any games in the regular season, and in the playoffs, sometime in the first round if things go well,” Knoblauch said.
“I’m not ruling that out (first game of the playoffs), but I would just anticipate sometime in the first (round). There’s a period of time we anticipated his return and we said it was going to be right around the end of the regular season, at the start of playoffs.”
Despite missing the last nine games, Draisaitl entered Monday as the NHL’s fifth-leading scorer this season, posting 97 points (35 goals, 62 assists) in 65 games.
With five games left in the regular season, the Oilers (39-29-9, 87 points) are tied atop the Pacific Division with the Anaheim Ducks entering the week, and begin a three-game road trip Tuesday in Utah against the Mammoth. Edmonton closes the regular season on April 16, two days before the start of the postseason.
A three-time All-Star, Draisaitl has been a beast in the past two postseasons, helping Edmonton advance to the Stanley Cup Final in 2024 and 2025, losing to the Florida Panthers both times. In the 2025 playoffs, he compiled 33 points (11 goals, 22 assists), following a 31-point postseason (10 goals, 21 assists) the previous spring.
Fellow Oilers forward Zach Hyman, who is out with an undisclosed injury, will likely miss the road trip, which includes games at the San Jose Sharks and Los Angeles Kings. The 33-year-old has 51 points (31 goals, 20 assists) in 57 games this season.
“Hyman, I would think he’s going to play one if not two games before the end of this season,” Knoblauch said. “So, this week he’s out and not playing.”
Last season, Draisaitl missed the final seven games with an undisclosed injury, but returned for the opener of the postseason to help lead Edmonton back to the Cup Final.
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BOSTON – It transcends jersey color, roster construction, what year it is and whoever happens to be on the mound: When Willson Contreras plays the Milwaukee Brewers, he is going to get mad.
The latest chapter in a decades-long inevitability between player and opponent occurred April 6 at Fenway Park. Contreras, now with the Boston Red Sox, was wearing different colors from each of the previous, interdivisional spats with Milwaukee, but it looked the same as each of the prior phases.
A Brewers pitcher hit Contreras, and he did not appreciate it.
The fireworks in Fenway occurred in the third inning when a sinker from Brandon Woodruff grazed the top of Contreras’ hand – though the visiting side, including Willson’s younger brother and Brewers catcher William Contreras, thought otherwise. The pitch was up but hardly in, just off the plate to the inside by a couple of inches.
The Red Sox first baseman immediately slammed his bat in frustration and began taking steps toward the mound before redirecting his path to first base. All the while, he harped toward Woodruff.
“That’s how he plays,” said William Contreras.
This was not just a one-off; there is history there. Plenty of it.
It was the 24th time Contreras had been hit by the Brewers in 121 games and the sixth time that Woodruff had hit him, both facts that were quickly brought up after the Brewers’ 8-6 win.
Contreras, 33, has long viewed it as purposeful by the Brewers, dating back to even the days of Craig Counsell as manager when Milwaukee and the Chicago Cubs played dozens of fierce games over the years.
“It’s not just the hit by pitch, it’s the 24th pitch they’ve hit me in my career,” Contreras said. “Twenty-fourth. That’s the sixth time [Woodruff] has hit me and they always say, ‘I’m not trying to hit you.’ That gets old.”
On the other side, the Brewers insist they aren’t trying to hit Contreras, but rather it’s a byproduct of playing so often over the years and his proclivity to lean over the plate. Contreras, after all, is plunk-prone. He ranks second among active players in hit by pitches.
To relitigate all the hit-by-pitches (and, in most cases, ensuing dust-ups) would be a task too arduous for this space, but there are many. They date back to his tenure with the Cubs, which began in 2016, and up until this night in Boston the most recent dustup was last June.
There has been strife over more than just being hit by pitch, too. Last year, Rhys Hoskins got into it with Contreras over what the Brewers perceived to be a dirty play at first base involving now-Sox teammate Caleb Durbin.
Some in the Brewers clubhouse also quietly stewed about Contreras stepping out of the box and onto home plate as Jacob Misiorowski delivered a pitch to try and throw him off during his MLB debut last June.
Safe to say the Brewers are over it.
“We’ve seen that skit for the last 10 years,” Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich said. “It’s nothing new.”
Contreras, though, is not.
“Next time they hit me again, I’m going to take one of them out,” he said. “That’s the message.”
The ordeal puts the younger Contreras in a difficult spot, effectively having to choose between his brother and his team whenever the sides play. But William is also leaving no questions to where his allegiances lie when the dust flies up during play.
“He’s my brother – after we leave the stadium,” he said.
William attempted to calm Willson down once again after the Woodruff hit by pitch, but to no avail.
“I tried, but it’s impossible,” little brother said.
Willson continued barking toward the mound after getting to first, only ceasing because he had to run two pitches later to second base, where he went in with cleats high and took a chunk of shortstop David Hamilton’s pant legs with him.
“We’ve been through this – it’s, what, nine years for me? – It seems like every year,” Woodruff said. “He’s trying to play a game and he’s trying to get his side fired up. Once I knew what was going on, I wasn’t going to let it affect me on the mound. I knew I had a job to do. I knew the pitch count was still down, even though I had given up a few runs. And I knew the bullpen was short. So I knew I needed to go out there and just keep competing.”
A riled-up Contreras kept burning the Brewers with his bat as the game went on, getting a hit in each of his next three at-bats, including a mammoth solo homer in the ninth.
The Brewers, though, got the final word in the series opener.
“That was a great win,” Yelich said. “It was a ‘toughness’ win from the guys. Got down early, it was cold out there, we got a short bullpen and we found a way to win. We’re willing to grind with anybody. Just really proud of the guys for stepping up and finding a way there, just willing it.”
Now, we wait and see what’s next.
Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis City Council to hold hearing on ordinance that would decriminalize drug paraphernalia
The Minneapolis City Council will hold a public hearing over a proposed ordinance that would decriminalize drug paraphernalia on Tuesday morning.
Councilmember Jason Chavez authored the ordinance, writing on social media that “it will ensure our local laws are in compliance with state law while also centering the humanity of our shared community.
Chavez and other supporters on the council describe it as a “step toward treating drug use as a health issue, not a criminal one.”
Andrea Corbin, owner of the Flower Bar on Lyndale Avenue, is concerned that an ordinance like this could have negative impacts on her business and residents across the city.
“I’m very concerned about it,” Corbin said. “If we want to help the underserved and people that are really struggling mentally, then we need to connect them with services, not give them a playground to do whatever they want to do; that’s not a good solution.”
Corbin is also the president of the Uptown Association, a group representing businesses across the neighborhood. She described Uptown as a neighborhood at a crossroads and wants to see safety and foot traffic increase. Corbin said the Uptown Association has partnered with police, Metro Transit and other grassroots organizers to focus on reviving the area. She worries an ordinance like this could derail their effort.
Supporters like Chavez say the ordinance would align the city with state law. Minnesota legalized drug paraphernalia in 2023. At the time, advocates told WCCO the approach focuses on harm reduction and helping both communities and users stay safer while working toward recovery.
The hearing will start at 9:30 am on Tuesday at Minneapolis City Hall.
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