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150 Minneapolis Cops File Disability Claims for PTSD, Which They Attribute to George Floyd Protests
The mendacity of police officers never ceases to amaze me, not to mention the extensive luxuries they get to enjoy as a result of tax-payer money. As The Washington Post reports, 150 police officers from the Minneapolis Police Department have started the process of filing disability claims that will allow them to leave the force…
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Lawyer for Michigan Couple Who Pulled Gun on Black Family Says They Were Victims of 'Ethnic Intimidation'
If it’s one thing white women know how to do, it’s to turn on the tears when they need to turn off the heat from their own behavior. Jillian Wuestenberg is now tapping into that super power to fight back against the charges of felonious assault slapped against her and her husband, Eric Wuestenberg, after…
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Trump Continues Crooked Behavior by Saving Roger Stone From Federal Prison
As anyone could have predicted—and as The Root did just a day ago—President Trump has used the power of his office to commute the sentence of his criminal crony Roger Stone. As the New York Times reports, on Friday evening Trump issued a statement announcing his decision to stop Stone from facing the legal consequences of…
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6-Year-Old Kicked Out of Arkansas Daycare for Wearing Black Lives Matter Shirt
A little Black girl was kicked out of a daycare in Russellville, Arkansas because its operators said she was encouraging racism by wearing a shirt that read ‘Black Lives Matter.’ Patricia Brown, Director of His Kids Learning Center, confirmed to Fox 16 News that 6-year-old Journei Brockman is no longer welcome there because of her…
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Mississippi Election Commissioner Complains That 'Blacks' Are Registering to Vote
An election commissioner in Mississippi claims her intent wasn’t to be racist despite posting on Facebook that she was concerned because “the Blacks” are having lots of voter registration events. According to a report from the Clarion Ledger, Jones County election commissioner Gail Harrison Welch is now pushing back at people who have questioned the…
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Kanye West Says He's Running For President This Year
Kanye West is apparently going to make good on a promise he made five years ago when he won MTV’s Michael Jackson Vanguard Award and announced his plan to run for president in 2020. On Saturday, the rapper/designer/MAGA supporter tweeted (using some very Trump-esque language) that he will be throwing his hat in the electoral…
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Aurora Police Officers Fired For Selfies Mocking Elijah McClain's Death
Four Aurora Police Department officers are now out of a job following an investigation into photos they took of themselves at the site where 23-year-old Elijah McClain was put in a chokehold by police before dying last summer. The photos show Kyle Dittrich, Jared Jones, and Erica Marrero smiling and pretending to recreate a carotid…
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Trump Predictably Fuels Racial Tensions at Mount Rushmore Rally, Says 'Growing Danger' Threatens Statues and America
“I am pleased to report that yesterday, federal agents arrested the suspected ringleader of the attack on the statue of the great Andrew Jackson in Washington, D.C.” This is how the President started his rally at Mount Rushmore on Friday, in what was a clear attempt to drive a “full-on culture war,” according to a…
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Descendants of Frederick Douglass Mark July 4th by Reciting His Famous Speech That Is as True as Ever
While Frederick Douglass would probably be disappointed (but not surprised) that the so-called land of the free hasn’t lived up to its promises of liberty all even centuries after he delivered his rousing speech, “What to the Slave Is The Fourth of July,” I imagine that he would be proud to see his descendants continuing…
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Herman Cain Hospitalized With COVID-19 After Posting Up at Trump Rally Without a Mask
Former long-shot presidential candidate and Tea Party darling Herman Cain is now in the hospital being treated for COVID-19, just a little over a week after he attended a Trump campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma when coronavirus cases there had spiked to their highest numbers since the start of the pandemic. The 73-year-old Black Republican’s…
