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The Inherent Racism of Trumpcare: Blackness Is a Pre-Existing Condition
On Friday, 216 white people and Mia Love (R-Utah) voted to take away health insurance for 24 million Americans and replace it with a tax credit for the wealthy. Now 13 white males are working on a Senate version of the proposal. The repeal of Obamacare won’t simply affect the poor or the elderly—the secret…
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This White Woman Singing About the Ghetto While Doing Yoga Is the Whitest Thing Ever
Beckying: verb 1. When a white woman wields her privilege like a baseball bat to clear a spot for her own oblivious entitlement. 2. What Beckys do. When one is ranking the greatest Beckys of all time, it’s easy to point to the well-known acts of Beckying, like Abigail Fisher’s attempt to dismantle affirmative action,…
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Lawsuit: Miss. Sheriff’s Department Illegally Targeted Black Population for Decades
Betty Tucker had invited a few guests over for a cookout in the garden of her Canton, Miss., home when two plainclothes sheriff’s deputies walked into her home. Even though they didn’t have a warrant, they came in, checked her pockets and the pockets of her guests, searched her patio on their hands and knees,…
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Old Girlfriends and Authors Are Attempting to Delegitimize Barack and Michelle’s Black Love
First they tried to delegitimize him by saying he wasn’t born in America. Then they concocted some nonsense about Barack Obama being educated in a Muslim madrassa. When that didn’t work, they tried to say he went to a church that was too black because his pastor preached “liberation theology.” After nearly a decade of…
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Angela Rye Lets Tomi Lahren Know to Keep Auntie Maxine’s Name Out Her Mouth in Epic Clapback
When it comes to conservative commentators throwing shade at black people, one would be better advised to hire Bill Cosby as a bartender than to insult a woman of color around Angela Rye. So when she heard that Tomi Lahren tried to come for Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), the political analyst quickly let the mother-of-all-Beckies…
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Curt Schilling Says Adam Jones Is Lying About Boston Fans Using the N-Word
When Baltimore Orioles baseball player Adam Jones accused Boston Red Sox fans of calling him the n-word and throwing peanuts at him during a Monday game at Fenway Stadium, game attendees corroborated his story. Other athletes said that they have been called the word numerous times playing in Boston. The next day, stadium officials ejected…
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Trump Just Made the Christian Right the Most Powerful Political Group in America
Many groups were afraid that Donald Trump’s newly signed executive order would be an attack on LGBT groups and other minorities whose lives and beliefs fall outside of traditional religious thinking. Even the ACLU exhaled when it saw the actual wording today. Although it has been lost in the butt-hurt wake of the fiasco that…
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17-Year-Old Breaks the Internet With the Greatest Yearbook Quote of All Time
Instead of posting a typically trite aphorism or stale maxim, Savanna Tomlinson just broke the internet with what may be the funniest yearbook quote ever. The 17-year-old senior at Treasure Coast High School in Port St. Lucie, Fla., wanted to leave something memorable next to her graduation photo, so she wrote, “Anything is possible when…
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Black Star Wars Characters, Ranked
If you are a popular athlete, have been attractive for most of your life or had a girlfriend in high school, then you probably don’t know that May 4 is Star Wars Day. Star Wars is the seminal piece of work in the nerd universe, and single-handedly created the serial Hollywood science fiction blockbuster. While…
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Obama Unveils Design for Presidential Library
While considering the location and design for the site of his future presidential library, Barack Obama said that he held a formal bidding process, but “the fact of the matter was, it had to be right here on the South Side of Chicago.” Today the former president unveiled his plan for an innovative complex that…
