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Justin Bieber Is Out Here Making White People Look Bad
In case you’ve missed it, Justin Bieber got arrested last night in Miami. It’s not funny that he broke the law, or that he was charged with a DUI and could have hurt someone while driving drunk. But it is kind of fun to, well, poke fun at how we talk about Bieber’s legal troubles,…
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Comedian Sends Love to Racists on MLK Day
Racists and otherwise tacky people really showed their asses this holiday weekend. We witnessed Madonna do a sorry-not-sorry dance on Friday after she used the n-word on Instagram. We saw the hateful responses to Richard Sherwin’s now-legendary postgame interview on Sunday. And then there were the numerous corporations that thought it wise to co-opt Martin…
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Did Madonna Call Her Son the N-Word?
Madonna stepped into it yesterday when she Instagrammed a photo of her 13-year-old son, Rocco, during a boxing workout. “No one messes with Dirty Soap!” she wrote in the caption. “Mama said knock you out! #disn—-a.” She deleted the post immediately, but then she reposted it with this odd double down. Because anyone who takes…
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Marine Corps Tweets Really Bad MLK Joke
The U.S. Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) wants its followers to be safe this MLK weekend, so it issued the following tip on its Twitter page: And then it posted a similar message on Facebook: Huh? MARSOC is a unit within Marine Corps’ U.S. Special Operations Command. On Twitter and Facebook, the unit…
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First Lady Shows Off Her New AARP Card
Michelle Obama turns 50 today. Here she is proudly posing with her new AARP card on Twitter. She’s so cute. “I don’t feel that much differently than I did when I was younger,” Obama told People magazine earlier this week. “What I hear is that age is a number, it’s a state of mind.” And…
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Do Yourself a Favor: Follow Taystee on Instagram
Good news. We’ll learn the date of the season 2 premiere of Orange Is the New Black really, really soon, according to several vague media reports. While you wait, I suggest you satisfy your cravings by stalking Danielle Brooks on Instagram. It should be said here that all of the OITNB cast members are ridiculously…
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‘White People Crazy’: Reverse Racism Is Alive!
The tables have turned! In case you missed it, Atlanta rapper Rawcus dropped an amazing video for his song “White People Crazy.” It features adventurous white people participating in activities that Rawcus and most reasonable people would deem, well, crazy. (For real, though, why would a person choose to put their hand, a hand we…
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Juicy J Awards Twerking Scholarship to Non-Twerking Student
Rapper Juicy J, who recorded a really popular song about women who dance for money, just awarded 19-year-old biology major and single mother Zaire Holmes a $50,000 scholarship. Yea, Zaire! Holmes was the grand prize winner of Juicy J’s Video Contest scholarship, in which the rapper, in partnership with World Star Hip Hop, asked students to…
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Gabourey Sidibe Responds to Everyone Who Hated Her Dress
Twitter had mean, mean things to say about Gabourey Sidibe and the dress she wore to last night’s 71st Annual Golden Globes Awards ceremony. The American Horror Story actress walked the red carpet in a long, shimmery, short-sleeved cream number. And it was pretty. But it wasn’t the dress that body shamers hated. It was…
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Father Wishes This Picture of Him and His Kids Wasn’t That Big a Deal
Daddy Doin’ Work blog founder Doyin Richards was shocked to learn that this photo he posted to his Twitter and Facebook pages was going viral. At Jezebel, Richards writes: At last check, the photo was shared over 4,800 times, received over 3,000 comments, and was liked over 190,000 times. The photo was also ‘borrowed’ by…
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