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When Will White People Learn That Racist Social Media Posts Will Haunt Them Forever?
Racism in America isn’t new. It is the very foundation that this country was built upon. Open displays of racism aren’t new, either. They have been around just as long as this country has. The bolder and more brazen racists who walk among us have never been afraid to let you know where they stand—and…
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Crazy-Racist White Woman Assaults Black Teens and Insults Them With Racial Slurs at Public Swimming Pool: Report
Add to the list of things you cannot do while black: go swimming with your friends at the community pool and mind your business on a hot weekend day. Meet Stephanie Sebby-Strempel of Dorchester County, S.C. She is currently taking up space in the Dorchester County Jail, facing one count of third-degree assault and two…
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#PermitPatty Resigns From Her Cannabis Company Amid Blowback From Bullying an 8-Year-Old
In a recent interview with NBC News, Alison Ettel—the rogue canine-cannabis dealer who has been dubbed #PermitPatty by the unrelenting and unforgiving internet—said that she regrets how she handled the situation with her 8-year-old black neighbor who was selling bottled water in order to earn money for a trip to Disneyland. Ettel said that if…
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#Flint: Former Inmates Sue Over Lead-Contaminated Water in Michigan City’s Jail
As of Tuesday, the people of Flint, Mich., have gone 1,524 days without a clean and stable water system. In the four years since the water crisis began, there is a segment of the population that has been almost completely overlooked in all the talks about bottled water, filters and the effects of lead poisoning:…
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Dame Dash Wants Lee Daniels to Run Him His 5 Million Coins
Everyone knows that Damon Anthony Dash does not play when it comes to his money, so why do people keep testing him? Not even celebrity status will keep Dame from coming for you, and that is a lesson Lee Daniels is about to find out the hard way. According to TMZ, Dash has filed a…
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Why I Had to Stop Seeing Mr. Big After Our 5-Day Date
I wrestled with this experience for weeks. I had to sit with it, talk with Mr. Big and ask questions, sit with it again, meditate, journal and talk to my confidante—all to process what turned out to be a very eye-opening and enlightening experience in more ways than one. In “regular” dating, you usually go…
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From White Privilege to White Tears: #PermitPatty Sobs That She Really Didn’t Mean for Police to Come
The same white woman who used her white-woman privilege first to bully an 8-year-old black girl who was selling water and then to call the police on said little black girl for being noncompliant is now pouring out her white-woman tears in the aftermath of the incident and wants everyone to feel sorry for her.…
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Is Michael Cohen About to Flip on Trump?
With all the theatrics surrounding Donald Trump’s signing of an executive order to end family separations at the border, you may have missed out on a pretty big news nugget earlier Wednesday. Michael Cohen—Trump’s personal attorney and longtime confidant who has become one of the bigger fish caught in the Robert Mueller investigation web—submitted a…
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#Flint: Lead Levels Remain Unchanged; Michigan Hands Water-Testing Over to the City
As of Wednesday, the people of Flint, Mich., have gone 1,518 days without a clean and stable water system in their city. The latest preliminary testing results show that the lead levels in the water have remained unchanged from the last six months of 2017, and the state has given notice that it is handing…
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Your President Is a Stunt Queen Who Manufactures Drama
I hate this administration. I hate this Congress, including some of your faves that y’all lift up like they’re the way and the light, when really, they are part of the same evil machine that has put us in the position we are in right now. I hate that we continue to live by outdated…
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