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Boston Police Department Celebrates Black History Month by Honoring White Man
Apparently unable to find 28 black Bostonians worthy of recognition, the Boston Police Department decided that it would commemorate Black History Month by honoring the legacy of one of its most notable heroes: the great and noticeably Caucasian Celtics Coach Red Auerbach. Before you start calling this seemingly intentional oversight racist, allow me to explain.…
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Woman Pleads Guilty to Stealing Infant 20 Years Ago, Raising Child as Her Own
In 1998, Gloria Bolden Willians sneaked into the neonatal nursery of a Jacksonville, Fla., hospital dressed as a nurse. After telling a brand-new mother that she was going to place the child in an infant seat, she walked out of the hospital with Kamiyah Mobley, a newborn baby girl. Williams then went to her South…
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Racist Republican Running Against Paul Ryan Banned From Twitter
The Republican candidate vying for Speaker of the House Paul Ryan’s congressional seat was kicked off wypipo Twitter Monday for posting a racist meme about actress and Prince Harry’s bride-to-be, Meghan Markle. You know how some white people are low-key racist? Well, Paul Nehlen is known for being high-key, shout-at-the-top-of-his-lungs racist. The “alt-right” candidate from…
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Black Twitter Hilariously Imagines Blackest Nation Ever With #InWakanda Hashtag
Since the announcement of Marvel’s Black Panther, black audiences have anxiously awaited the release of Marvel’s incredible superhero epic. (No, I haven’t seen it, but even if it turns out to be Madea Goes to Wakanda, I’m still going to give it a 37-star rating.) Even though Wakanda is a paradise as fictional as the…
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Donald Trump: White Jesus
“The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and … people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.” —Denis Diderot Any day now, the Robert Mueller investigation will end and everyone will read an FBI report about how President Donald J. Trump obstructed justice…
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Report: California Police Protected White Nationalists Who Helped Them Hunt Anti-Racism Activists
When anyone insinuates that cops are racist, they’re said to be willfully painting with too broad a brush. Sure, there might be a few bad apples, but the fact that police officers stop, arrest and kill black people in disproportionate numbers doesn’t mean that all police officers target black people. If you’re going to say…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: My Apology
Yesterday, after discovering that the Cleveland Cavaliers traded Isaiah Thomas, Dwyane Wade, Derrick Rose, Channing Iman Shumpert, Jae Crowder, Winston Churchill and Jesus H. Christ for a half-eaten bag of Cool Ranch Doritos, in a failed attempt to make a joke, I suggested that I was leaving The Root: It was a joke, but the…
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John Kelly Is a White Man
On Wednesday night, as the world learned about allegations of domestic violence against presidential aide Rob Porter, pundits and politicians from across the political spectrum focused on White House chief of staff John Kelly’s defense of Porter and Kelly’s recent comments about the laziness of immigrants. The sentiments of the wide-eyed people perplexed by the…
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Let There Be No Mistake: If You’re Outspoken and Black or Muslim, ‘They’ Are Definitely Watching You
Because I am predisposed to take everything with a grain of salt and was born with the inability to have delusions of grandeur, when friends and acquaintances tell me, “You know they are watching you,” I usually dismiss it with the same relative inattention I pay to accusations of reverse racism or white oppression. After…
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White Supremacy Roundup: 4 Stories That Show How Institutional Racism Works
When the Ku Klux Klan sets a cross on fire, the fact that a few snuff-chewing Caucasian troglodytes have come together to celebrate their low-IQ ideology is as inconsequential as the fact that they are contributing to global warming and deforestation. It has always been about the hoods. The idea that the cowardice of teachers,…
