Race Matters
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Until Freedom Announces Day of Outrage in Honor of #AtatianaJefferson
On Oct. 12, police killed Atatiana Jefferson in her own Fort Worth, Texas, home. Refusing to allow her death to go unpunished, Until Freedom—a collection of activists, organizers, and survivors of racial injustice—will lead a national day of action on Monday to honor the life and legacy of Jefferson. According to a press release provided…
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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,…
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Report Finds Media More Likely to Cite Video Games as Factor in Shootings When Suspect Is White
Researchers have long discredited the link between video games and gun violence—more specifically, mass shootings. But not only is the narrative false, like many other facets of American life, it’s also touched by race. A new report, published Monday in the journal Psychology of Popular Media Culture (pdf), combines two experiments that come to similar…
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Texas Teacher Who Asked Trump to Deport ‘Illegal Students’ at Her School Gets Fired
When someone is a complete and total jerk for no reason, we as a collective love to see them get what is coming to them. Don’t bother denying it; there is a (not so) secret satisfaction in watching a deserving jackass get their comeuppance. This is especially true when said deserving jackass is a racist…
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At Colorado State University, White Students Not Punished for Blackface Selfie Celebrating Black Panther
Stupid is as stupid does. One of several white Colorado State University students who were pictured wearing blackface striking a pose from Marvel’s billion-dollar-plus blockbuster Black Panther said her actions were stupid but not racist. Yes, in 2019, some of your Caucasian brethren still think it’s fun to simulate temporary dark-skinned tones—and take photos doing…