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Trump, the Snowflakeyest of All Snowflakes, Threatens to Defund California Schools for Implementing 1619 Project Curriculum
Despite all of their lamenting of how “overly sensitive” this new generation is, white conservatives are and have always been the most fragile people to walk this here Earth—and Donald Trump is their president. Oh, Trump may not be as smart as some of these ivy league Republicans wish he was, but he still represents…
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New York Attorney General Letitia James Says She Will Form Grand Jury to Investigate Daniel Prude's Death
NY Attorney General Letitia James is forming a grand jury to investigate the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died in March after Rochester police put a hood over his head, which suffocated him. The state prosecutor made the announcement on Saturday and said the grand jury will be part of an “exhaustive…
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Trump Orders Federal Agencies to Stop Funding Anti-Racism Trainings, Calling Them 'Un-American'
In another tacit admission that he believes American equates to whiteness, President Trump has ordered the cease and desist of any government funding for anti-racism federal training programs because they are “anti-American propaganda.” The edict was delivered by Russel Vought, director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget in a chilling—and telling—memo on…
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All Charges Against Curtis Flowers Dismissed After 24 Years of Trials in Mississippi
Curtis Flowers, a 50 year old Black man in Mississippi, is finally free of the murder charges he was tried for six times over the past 24 years—and in front of mostly-white juries. On Friday, Mississippi prosecutors announced that they will not seek “an unprecedented seventh trial of Mr. Flowers,” reports the New York Times.…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: I Feel Fine
I’m going to stop being so offensive. From now on, I promise to respond to the violence, theft and downright absurdity of white supremacy with eloquently composed reactions that ruffle no feathers and leave no one feeling offended. From this day forward, I won’t call the white people who inflict pain “white people who inflict…
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Texas Assistant Attorney General Fired for Tweeting Bigoted and Very Basic Right-Winger Things
Is it just me, or are conservatives having to grapple with the fact that their ideas and opinions are becoming less and less popular and are starting to look more and more like straight-up bigotry? (I mean, to the brand new; us liberal-left-Marxist-communist-socialist-Antifa-thugs have always known this.) A Texas assistant attorney general got a pink slip…
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WNBA Co-Owner Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s Anti-BLM Remarks Were Disrupted by Protesters. Loeffler Probably Loved That
If you’re a Georgia Republican running for re-election, slamming Black Lives Matter is potent political currency. This certainly seems true for U.S. Sen. and co-owner of the WNBA team the Atlanta Dream Kelly Loeffler, who was a political nobody outside the state of Georgia until she criticized the league for making “Black Lives Matter” such a…
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Delta Stands in Solidarity With Black Passenger After She Was Harassed on Flight by a Blue Lives Karen
A Black woman harassed by a white passenger on her Delta flight to Washington, D.C., last week is singing the airline’s praises after it upgraded her flight in response. Demetria Poe, 25, was flying from Minneapolis to D.C. on Thursday to attend the Commitment March, held last Friday on the anniversary of the 1963 March…
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Watch: NYPD Escorts Pro-Trump Protesters Into Car Moments Before It Plows Through a BLM March in Times Square [Corrected]
In a scene that’s become all too familiar this year, a car rammed through a group of Black Lives Matter protesters in New York’s Times Square on Thursday night, hitting several pedestrians and cyclists. That news would have been grim enough, but as reporters and internet sleuths looked into the attack, which was widely shared…