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Philadelphia Police Department Changes Trespassing Policy After Starbucks Incident
The Philadelphia Police Department announced that it will change the way officers handle trespassing calls after a debacle in which two men were arrested in a Center City Starbucks café for possession of blackness with intent to exist. In April, Starbucks employee Holly Hilton alerted police officers to the presence of Rashon Nelson and Donte…
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Trump Admits the NFL Protests Actually Worked
Donald J. Trump, president of white America; the man who referred to the black mothers of NFL players kneeling for injustice and inequality as “bitches”; the man who painted Colin Kaepernick as anti-American and insinuated that anyone who didn’t stand for the NFL’s paid display of patriotism was an unpatriotic degenerate who didn’t respect the…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: The Story of Clapback-idon
What is beef? Allow me to explain using the words of the immortal poet Amos Definitely (I think that’s Mos Def’s real name): Beef is not what these famous niggas do on the mic,beef is what George Bush would do in a fight.Beef is not what Ja said to 50,beef is more than Irv not…
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10 Euphemisms for ‘Racist’ That Won’t Hurt White People’s Feelings
Have you ever referred to someone or something as racist? I have. While many people shy away from using the word because of its incendiary nature, I use it a lot. A whole lot. My predilection for using the term is not because I think everything and everyone is racist. It’s that I want to…
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White Woman Pleads Guilty to Falsely Accusing 2 Black Men of Rape
First she said that two black men violently raped her. Then she said they didn’t. Then she said she’d only accused the men of rape because she was trying to gain the interest of a potential boyfriend. Then she said she never told police that she was raped at all. Now she admits that she…
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A Thank-You Letter to Kim Kardashian for Proving White Privilege Is Real
Dear Kim Kardashian West: As you bask in the adoration and applause for the part you played in Alice Marie Johnson’s freedom, I’m sure I’m the last person you want to hear from (not that you even know I exist). But I’d like to thank you for proving to the world that white privilege is…
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The True Danger of Trump: How White, Republican Judges Sentence Black People to Longer Prison Terms
While you were worried about Russian collusion, Kardashian pardons, national anthem protests, trade tariffs, border walls and Melania Trump’s secret face-lift kidney surgery, the Trump administration has been successfully implementing an insidious plan that threatens to reverberate in black America for decades to come. When it comes to the black community, despite what media headlines…
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Depressed Debbie Calls Police on Black Neighbors Because They Were Happy and She Was Sad
One day, hopefully soon, my dream of colleges and universities across America instituting doctorate-level programs on the study of white people will become a reality. When that day comes, certain elements will be required in the course curriculum to achieve a Ph.D. in wypipology, including: the autobiography of Rachel Dolezal a laboratory with unseasoned-chicken taste…
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‘Evilest White Woman on Earth’: The Criminal Injustice of Terra Morehead
Warning: This story is not about America’s criminal-justice system. In this story, America’s criminal-justice system is a parable. In this story, “criminal” is synonymous with “not white.” In this story, “justice” is a mythical concept. In this story, Terra Morehead is synonymous with “injustice.” In this story, “injustice” is the only thing that is real.…
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Neighbor Snaps Photo of Black Man Walking Dogs, Makes Him Suspect in Criminal Manhunt
A California man discovered that his face had been plastered all over newspapers, local television stations and the internet after a woman saw him walking his dogs through her neighborhood, snapped a picture of him and gave it to police trying to stop a burglary ring. According to the Los Angeles Times, on May 16,…
