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Black Child Slapped, Called Racial Slur By White Woman in Florida
Today’s episode of White people are wildin’ takes us to Florida, where a white woman was arrested after slapping a Black child and calling him a racial slur. Why? Well, because their go-karts bumped into each other. ABC News reports that 30-year-old Hayley Zager was driving go-karts at Boomers amusement park in Boca Raton when…
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March for Breonna Taylor Resulted in Over 60 Protesters Arrested
On Tuesday, social justice organization Until Freedom led a march for Breonna Taylor around Churchill Downs, the site of the Kentucky Derby. The march attracted hundreds of protesters and resulted in over 60 people being arrested. CBS News reports that the march went from a Louisville Metro Police training facility to Churchill Downs and then…
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Interracial Couple’s Home Receives Higher Appraisal After Removing All Signs of Blackness From the House—Including the Wife
Here’s the thing about systemic racism: It’s everywhere. It manifests itself in nearly every aspect of the world Black people have to navigate. Systemic racism in policing is the hot topic right now, but the same implicit and explicit bias that causes the extrajudicial executions of Black suspects by law enforcement—not to mention the same…
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17-Year-Old Arrested and Charged With 1st Degree Murder In Shooting Death of 2 During Jacob Blake Protests in Kenosha, Wis. [Updated]
Updated: 8/26/20, 2:28 p.m.: Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, from Antioch, Illinois, was arrested Wednesday and charged with first-degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting of two people and the injury of a third during a chaotic protest in Kenosha Tuesday night. Insider reports that Rittenhouse was armed with an AK-47 and had crossed state lines…
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Shots Fired at Black Activists Marching to DC For MLK Event
Shots were fired at a group of organizers marching from Milwaukee to Washington, D.C., on Monday night. ABC News reports that the group was headed to D.C. for the “Get Your Knee Off Our Necks,” march. Frank “Nitty” Sensabaugh, a Milwaukee activist and one of the organizers for the march, told WJAC-TV that the shooting…
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'Lawless Revolutionaries': Pennsylvania GOP Denounces District Attorney Over Black Lives Matter Support
I’ve argued countless times that the idea that Black people are loyal to the Democratic party is a fallacy. First of all, if it were true that we were stuck on a “Democratic plantation,” (because I guess we’re pretending that phrase isn’t racist AF in and of itself) then Black people would show up in…
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New Footage Shows Phoenix Police Mocking Muslim Man's Faith as They Kneel on Neck, Killing Him
New body-camera footage released last Wednesday revealed Phoenix police insulted Muhammad Muhaymin Jr.’s faith while he pleaded for help before his death. HuffPost reports that Muhaymin could be heard multiple times pleading with officers that he couldn’t breathe. At one point, Muhaymin calls out to Allah for help to which one of the officers responds,…