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Patriotism Is for Black People
We have all stood in the grocery store and watched a kid (usually white) scream at his or her mother in a volume and tone that defies our mama’s mantra of “When we go in this store, you bet’ not say nothing, touch nothing or want nothing.” Alternately, we’ve all heard a mother (usually black)…
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The Myth of the ‘Angry Black Woman’ and Advertising’s Fight to End It
When Jemele Hill’s Trump tweets reflected the concerns of millions of Americans, including her white male colleagues, she was condemned because, well, “You know how they can be.” When Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) echoed the sentiments of her fellow lawmakers (both Democrat and Republican), Bill O’Reilly said, “I didn’t hear a word she said.” The…
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Sponsors Are Dropping NFL Players for Protesting. This Is What We Mean When We Say ‘White Supremacy’
I want to show you something. It is the first message I received Monday morning after the NFL protests over the weekend. A Denver car dealership announced that it will “evaluate” Denver Broncos star Von Miller to decide whether it wants to continue its endorsement deal with the All-Pro linebacker. Last year, Broncos linebacker Brandon…
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B.o.B. Launches GoFundMe to Prove the Earth Is Flat
After taking a long hiatus from arguing with people who know what the hell they’re talking about, rapper B.o.B. has stepped back into the field of interplanetary astrophysics to raise money and prove, once and for all, that we live on a really big Frisbee. The rapper, whose hits include “Airplanes” and … umm ……
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. Earns Provisional Invitation to the Cookout
A few years ago I bought a house in Darlington, S.C., a town so small that there was nothing there but a gas station, a McDonald’s, a Huddle House (a bootleg, better-tasting Waffle House—fight me) and the Darlington Raceway, a 58,000-seat NASCAR track. I was shocked to see people the same color as me wearing…
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How to Protest Without Offending White People
Many people were surprised when President Donald Trump suggested that NFL team owners fire players who quietly choose to sit out the national anthem before games, but I was not one of them. Even though they thought they’d solved the anthem problem by blackballing protest starter Colin Kaepernick, the residual insolence displayed by the players…
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Compton, Calif., Cops Claim They Know Who Killed Tupac
In a newly released documentary, two former members of Compton, Calif.’s police gang unit claim to reveal that a man named Orlando Anderson fired the bullets that killed rap icon Tupac Shakur. The two-hour program, hosted by journalist Soledad O’Brien and Ice-T, aired on Fox on Sunday night. In the show, Timothy Brennan and Robert…
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St. Louis Police Have Declared an All-Out War on Protesters, Media and Even Themselves
Before Circuit Judge Timothy Wilson found Police Officer Jason Stockley not guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith, St. Louis activists and religious leaders warned that it could get ugly. They said they were going to “shut it down.” They were right about the “ugly” part. Since then, every corner…
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Jay-Z Speaks on Trump ‘With All Disrespect’
“I’m not fearful. I believe that we are resilient, especially us as black people and especially the culture—we’ve been through so much more than this guy.” That’s what Jay-Z had to say about raising his children in the age of Donald Trump. Although Jay-Z has quietly kept busy in the arena of activism and philanthropy,…
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Ray Lewis Kneels for National Anthem Because … of Course He Would
Ray Lewis, the shucker and jiver who admitted he told his team not to hire Colin Kaepernick; the man who condemned the entire NFL national anthem protests; the dunderhead who loudly proclaimed that “All lives matter”; the Pro-Bowl stepper and Hall of Fame-level fetcher of “it”; Ray muthafucking Lewis, who couldn’t wait to bury his…
