Race Matters
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Acid Attack on Milwaukee Man Investigated As Hate Crime
A Milwaukee man is afraid to live in his own city after being attacked with acid outside of a Mexican restaurant on Friday night. At a Saturday press conference with city officials and activists, Mahud Villalaz, showed second-degree burns on his face and shared the shocking encounter with a deranged fool who threw acid on…
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Former Manager Files Racial Discrimination Lawsuit Against Starbucks, Alleges She Was Fired Because She Is White
The former regional manager of a Philadelphia-based Starbucks has filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the company. According to the suit, Shannon Phillips believes that she was terminated from her position solely because she was white. From the Daily Beast: Shannon Phillips alleges she’d been a “loyal” Starbucks employee for 13 years, managing hundreds of…
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Elderly Passenger Spits, Hurls Racial Slurs at NYC Bus Driver in Latest Installment of White Men Gone Wild
I don’t know what it is about racists, New York City and public transportation, but since the three of them can’t seem to stay away from each other we have the latest installment of White Men Gone Wild. According to the New York Daily News, shit went left when an elderly passenger on a Brooklyn…
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Weekend At Bernie’s: Sanders Tells Black Student to ‘Respect’ Police to Avoid Getting ‘Shot in the Back of the Head’
Bernie Sanders has all the answers. The almost octogenarian presidential hopeful showed up and showed out during a question-and-answer session at a forum held at the HBCU Benedict College on Saturday. When a black male student asked Sanders how he should handle getting pulled over by a police officer, Sanders responded: “respect what they are…
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‘Black Children Hung By A Rope’: White Artist Who Put Up Racially Offensive Artwork Resigns From Brooklyn Art Studio
I’m all for works of art being subjective but this so-called artist maybe should’ve re-thunk this particular creation. And most definitely its location. Daniela “Dany” Rose, who posted cutouts of brown paper dolls that appeared to be hanging by their necks and feet from strings, has resigned from the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based art studio she co-founded.…
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Cher Offers to Pay Legal Fees for Black Security Guard Fired for Telling Student to Stop Calling Him N-Word
She’s a half-breed with a heart of gold. Now before y’all get your boxers in a bunch, the headline is a play on the title of one of Cher’s signature songs — way before her fifty-eleventh comeback in the late 1990s with Believe. Now back to the matter at hand: The Academy Award winning actress…
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Two 'Indian' Teens Arrested for Allegedly Using Racial Slurs, Peeing on Black Girl at Lawrence High School Football Game
Urine big trouble. Police in Lawrence Township, N.J., near Trenton, have arrested two teenagers following an alleged bias incident at a football game on Friday. The unidentified 17-year-olds — who police say are of “Indian descent” — face charges of harassment, bias intimidation and lewdness NJ.com reports. The incident first came to light on social…
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Allegedly Dressed as Black Mafia Family Kingpin Big Meech, Republican South Carolina Sheriff Candidate Admits to Blackface
Something is always rotten in the cotton—in the Dirty South. Another white person in the political arena is fessing up to their use of blackface. This time, it’s a rural South Carolina fireman who’s running for sheriff, who said he dressed up as imprisoned Detroit drug dealer Big Meech during a party a decade ago.…
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Racist White Lady Goes Peak Mayonnaise During Pro-Lynching Tirade at CVS
On Tuesday, CVS shoppers in Los Angeles were in for a special treat when a crazy white lady decided to do her best Mel Gibson impression and go on a racist rant. “I hate niggers!” she yells before storming out of the store in the viral clip. Off-camera, another person can be heard saying, “Yeah,…