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Four Years Later, NYPD Prepares to Discipline Cop in Eric Garner's Death
1,462 days after Eric Garner wheezed the words “I can’t breathe” before giving up the ghost on a Staten Island sidewalk, the New York Police Department has decided to discipline Daniel Pantaleo, the police officer whose arms just happened to be wrapped around Garner’s neck at the time. Well … maybe “Based on our most…
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White Man Claims Self-Defense After Gunning Down Black Teenager for Shooting Fireworks
A Texas man arrested for killing his teenage neighbor in a dispute over fireworks claims he only shot the victim in self-defense but police say cell-phone video shows otherwise. According to the Austin Statesman, 41-year-old Jason Roche shot 19-year-old Devonte Ortiz on July 4 during a heated dispute over fireworks. Roche told police that he…
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Supreme Court Rules in Favor of White Jesus
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that protecting the white man’s God is more important than protecting the rights of actual human beings because—according to the highest court in America—Jesus has feelings, too. In a 7-2 ruling, the court ruled in favor of Masterpiece Cakeshop, a Colorado bakery that refused to sell a cake to…
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South Carolina Man Seeks White Supremacist Hit Man to Lynch Black Neighbor, Burn Cross on Lawn: FBI
In a noble attempt to boost the Trump administration’s record-low unemployment numbers, a South Carolina man has been indicted on charges he reached out to undercover FBI agents posing as white supremacists, and offered them $500 to kill his black neighbor, hang him from a tree and burn a cross on his lawn. After checking…
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New Music From ‘MAGA’ Kanye Asks Black People to Pull Themselves Up by Their Yeezy Bootstraps
On Friday the artist formerly known as Kanye West dropped two new tracks that prove he is still a musical prodigy, while cementing the widespread opinion that he has gone full “MAGA.” After turning his website into a one-song musical player, Kanye Trump dug into his crate of soul anthems to sample the 1973 song…
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Supreme Court May Have to Decide if Banning Dreadlocks Is Racist
An Alabama woman who lost her job after her employer said that dreadlocks “tend to get messy” has petitioned the Supreme Court to decide if the company’s policy is discriminatory. In 2010, Chastity Jones applied for a job at Catastrophe Management Solutions, an insurance-claims-processing company in Mobile, according to AL.com. After Jones was hired, she…
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Could You List the ‘Positive Aspects’ of Slavery? A Teacher Asked 8th-Graders to Do So
Students at a Texas charter school recently received a homework assignment that asked them to list both the “positive aspects” and the “negative aspects” of slavery. Eighth-grade students at Great Hearts Monte Vista Charter School in San Antonio were given a worksheet titled, “The Life of Slaves: A Balanced View.” A mother posted the worksheet…
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Federal Prosecutors Want to Charge Cop Who Put Eric Garner in Choke Hold
Prosecutors in the Department of Justice have recommended federal civil rights charges against the police officer whose arms just happened to be wrapped around Eric Garner’s neck when he died on a Staten Island, N.Y., sidewalk in 2014, but some officials within the Justice Department are reportedly hesitant to do so. After the state of…
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The Difference Between Soul Food and Southern Cuisine, Explained
I was recently alerted to a troubling trend in the food industry by someone who contacted me to voice their outrage. The concerned citizen explained that there was a large population of people who were confused, or were being intentionally misled, about the difference between soul food and the more widely available fare often described…
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Who Put ‘It’s OK to Be White’ Cards in Diapers at Target?
In March, Target customers in different parts of the country began finding cards emblazoned with the phrase, “It’s OK to be white” in boxes of diapers purchased from the retail giant. According to the Anti-Defamation League, the first card was found inside a box of store-brand diapers bought in Washington, D.C. The opposite side of…
