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Southern Baptists Are Apparently Cool With White Supremacy: Update
: Updated Thursday, June 15, 2017, 10:52 a.m. EDT: After a vociferous public outcry, the Southern Baptist Convention voted in favor of a resolution to condemn the white supremacist movement called the “alt-right” on Wednesday. The vote was met with a standing ovation from the 5,000 members gathered for the conference, which had refused to…
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Is Kim Kardashian Wearing Blackface?
Kanye’s baby mama is accused of darkening her skin in an ad promoting her new line of beauty products. According to The Sun (no, not that one; the one that’s a British newspaper), Kim Kardashian sent a tweet publicizing her Kim Kardashian West Beauty Kit, focused on contouring and highlighting: But as soon as people…
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A Breakdown of the Black Stars on Forbes’ List of Highest-Paid Celebrities
Every year, Forbes magazine ranks the highest-paid “front of the camera” celebrities. These rankings are based on stars’ pretax income, this year from June 1, 2016, through June 1, 2017, calculated from box office earnings, music rankings, book sales, two paycheck stubs, how they ball out at the club and their mamas’ bragging at church.…
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Ezra Klein Just Sent the Whitest Tweet Ever
Early Wednesday morning, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was wounded when a gunman In Alexandria, Va., opened fire on a congressional baseball practice. It turns out the shooter, who was shot and killed during the incident, was James T. Hodgkinson, a person who had previously expressed anger toward the president and the political system—calling Donald…
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Cops Who Covered Up Laquan McDonald’s Death Back on Chicago Payroll
The cops who lied in police reports after they watched one of their fellow officers empty his gun into the body of a 17-year-old black boy will be back at the Chicago Police Department, receiving their full paychecks. The Chicago Tribune reports that the Chicago Police Board has also delayed disciplinary hearings for four officers…
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Judge Frees Terrorist-in-Training Because Whiteness Is a Helluva Alibi
Even though the man was a member of one of the most dangerous terror communities in the country; despite the fact that he knew how to make bombs; with the knowledge that he was in possession of bomb-making materials; even after he exhibited every single trait of what law-enforcement officers, Homeland Security experts and Army…
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Hillary Clinton, Jeff Sessions and America’s Secret Slave System
Contrary to popular belief, slavery was never outlawed in the United States. This statement is not a debatable, half-twisted analysis or a cynical opinion. It is a fact. The 13th Amendment to the Constitution does not outlaw slavery; it only prohibits slavery in certain situations. It is entirely constitutional to turn drug dealers, gangbangers and…
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Why Was This Ga. State Senator Posing With Terrorists at a Hate Rally?
On Saturday a Georgia state senator who represents the district that committed one of the most racist atrocities in American history gave a speech at an anti-Muslim hate rally. But don’t worry—from the pictures he snapped with right-wing militia groups, apparently he was just doing it for the ’gram. The state senator is Michael Williams…
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The Official White-Tears Quiz: How a Black-Student Protest Terrified and Outraged White People
Instead of reading this as a news story, please use this article as an official measuring stick for your white-tears awareness. The answer key is at the bottom. A Washington state college was deluged with a torrential downpour of low-sodium, gluten-free white tears after butt-hurt white people freaked out when minority students asked for a…
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Police Shot Brendan Hester Because That’s What Police Do
A 23-year old black man in Ashtabula, Ohio, was shot by police officers last week after officers responding to a 911 call found two men scuffling in a home, one holding a weapon. The police ordered the man to drop the gun, but when he refused, the officers shot him. After searching the home, police…
