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  • Stacey Abrams to Voter Suppression Terminator: 'I'll Be Back'

    You have not seen the last of Stacey Abrams. Sure, she lost the Georgia governor’s race because it was impossible for her to beat the human voting suppression terminator that is Republican Brian Kemp. Abrams, black god’s favorite candidate and the former minority leader of Georgia’s House of Representatives, told CNN’s State of the Union…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    November 19, 2018
  • Trump Gives Himself an A+, Slams Navy SEAL for Not Finding Osama Bin Laden Faster

    President Trump is the personification of white privilege. He’s the young man who claimed he had bone spurs and therefore was unable to fight for the country but sees no irony in blasting retired Adm. Bill McRaven—the Navy SEAL who led the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden—for not doing it sooner. He’s the…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    November 19, 2018
  • Watch: Atlanta Teacher Viciously Pushes Student Who Tapped His Shoulder

    A South Atlanta High school student claimed that on Oct. 3 he touched a teacher on the shoulder and the teacher went nuts and shoved him across a desk. Well, video of the incident was obtained by a news station and it seems like the teen was telling the truth. Footage obtained by Channel 2…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    November 16, 2018
  • 5 Outfit Choices for CNN's Jim Acosta on His First Day Back at the White House

    We have it through good sources that when the news broke that a judge granted CNN’s Jim Acosta his press pass back, he was riding around in a Chevy Tahoe blasting: Which he only swapped out for this: That’s righttttttttt! Acosta’s back like he never left. He’s back like Jordan wearing the 45. He’s back…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    November 16, 2018
  • Melania Trump: The First White Woman

    First lady Melania Trump knows that “Be Best,” her dumbly named cyberbullying initiative, is a joke to anyone with eyes, ears and an education beyond third-grade language arts. But none of this stops Melania Trump, an adult woman with agency and a spine, from playing the victim and painting herself as a dovetailed falcon willing…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    November 16, 2018
  • Apparently, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Doesn’t Look Poor Enough for Republicans

    I’m not sure what conservatives want from Congressmember-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who had the audacity to mention that gentrified D.C. rent was too goddamn high and as such, and because her congressional salary hasn’t kicked in, she and her partner were squirreling away funds to make it work. The story for Ocasio-Cortez became a narrative device…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    November 15, 2018
  • Trump Is Rage Tweeting Again, Which Means That Robert Mueller Is Getting Closer

    I think it was the next governor of Florida (please, Black Jesus,) who said that a “hit dog will holler.” And if President Trump’s twitter account is anything, it’s an ongoing log that proves he and his administration should be on late night ASPCA commercials. In the president’s latest series of rage tweets, he did…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    November 15, 2018
  • Drag 'King' Performs at Fundraiser Dressed in Blackface

    Muddy, the King of Memphis. That’s who was on the program as the “Special Guest Male Impersonator” during a drag king performance for a local youth suicide prevention group fundraiser in Hawaii. Well, it turns out that Muddy, the fucking King of Memphis was some old minstrel-show shit. According to Queerty, whoever the fuck Muddy…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    November 15, 2018
  • In a Stunning Move, the President Does Something Presidential That Actually Helps Black People [Corrected]

    A broken clock is right twice a day, sometimes Kodak Black makes listenable music and sometimes, just sometimes, President Trump does something good. On Wednesday surrounded by some of his most famous blacks including that one pastor with the conk, Trump announced that he was supporting a bipartisan prison reform bill that would give former…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    November 15, 2018
  • White Women Wore Hoodies to a Tennessee Mall to Prove Its Hoodie Policy Only Targets Black Men

    After footage of four black men being escorted out of a mall in Tennessee for wearing hoodies inside, four white women wore hoodies to the same mall to see if the policy was meant for everyone. And, yep, you guessed it, the women were able to walk freely around the mall with their hoodies—both up…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    November 14, 2018
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