Race Matters
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'It's What We Do'? Domino's Pizza Worker Fired After Using Racial Slur on Customer's Receipt
Anyone who patronizes fast food restaurants knows misspellings and outright ludicrous interpretations of your name aren’t uncommon. But that’s not what happened when Myasia Nelson tried to order from a Burlington, N.C. Domino’s last week. According to the Associated Press, Nelson, who is black, walked into the pizza franchise, whose slogan is “it’s what we…
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Ain’t I a Woman? The Unbearable Whiteness of Allies
Before I even start this, I know that I have to give the usual disclaimers because even though it should be implied at this point, someone will undoubtedly need that extra spoonful of validation and reassurance, so here we go: Yes, I know not all white women. I know not all white people. Yet, Thursday…
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High School Idiots Spell Out Racial, Homophobic Slurs During Class Photo Session
It never fails. Every year, high school students gather for class photos. And every year, at some high school, somewhere, some conglomeration of assholes lines up to do something stupid, offensive and racist. This time it’s at Escondido High School in Southern California, where students were given T-shirts with letters on them to spell out…
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White Mother Accidentally Sends Racist Text to Her Black Nanny Then Fires Her For Possibly Being Offended
Have you ever noticed that whenever white people get caught doing or saying something racist, the first thing they want to do is throw out the “That’s not really who I am” defense? Have you ever noticed that white people will do something racist to a black person and then expect the black person to…
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White School Superintendent Resigns After Facebook Post Saying 'You Can't Count On A Black Quarterback'
Good riddance! A white superintendent in Texas who criticized Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson in a racist social media post last Sunday resigned from his position, The Associated Press reports. Lynn Redden, formerly of the Onalaska Independent School District, wrote “That may have been the most inept quarterback decision I’ve seen in the NFL. When…
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A Man Called Police on a Black Candidate and her Family Campaigning in a White Neighborhood, Suspected Them of Buying Drugs
Getting out the vote means knocking on doors. And that’s what Sheila Stubbs, a 12-year veteran on the Dane County, Wisconsin, Board of Supervisors was doing on August 7. Stubbs, a candidate for State Assembly, representing Wisconsin’s 77th district, was canvassing the neighborhood in anticipation of the Democratic primary, which was to be held the…
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Australian Athletes Donned Full-Body Blackface to Impersonate Williams Sisters
An Australian Rules Football (AFL) club had to apologize this week after three of its players donned full-body blackface to impersonate Venus and Serena Williams, as well as a Kenyan-born AFL player, Aliir Aliir. The photos were taken last week during “Mad Monday,” a celebratory day marking the end of the AFL season. According to…
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A Look at the Resumé of Oklahoma's Nazi Police Officer
On Thursday, city officials in Achille, Okla. confirmed that it had hired Bart Alsbrook as a reserve police officer to patrol the tiny town on Oklahoma’s Texas border. Alsbrook had impeccable credentials. He had a clean record, a background in law enforcement and the city could find no citizen complaints filed against him. Having served…