Race Matters
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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…
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Police Issue Arrest Warrant for White Man Who Brandished Gun at 4 FAMU Students Attempting to Get on Elevator
Tallahassee police have an arrest warrant out for a white man who was caught on camera brandishing his gun during an exchange with four Florida A&M students as he was preventing them from entering an elevator. As BuzzFeed reports, police issued an arrest warrant for Don Crandall Jr. last Friday for “Improper Exhibition of a…
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Employee's Racial Slurs, Videos of White Student Declaring Her Love For N-Word Causes Uproar at Alabama High School
If you ask any teenager from 1978, 1998 or 2018, they will eagerly explain how racism is dying because their generation generally doesn’t care about race that much. Trust them, the youth will show us the way. Or maybe not. Two separate videos obtained by The Root showing an obviously intelligent white teenager yelling the…
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Has Valerie Scogin, the Teacher Who Said Black People Should Go Back to Africa, Ever Taken a DNA Test? Because, Well …
There have been and will continue to be calls for Valerie Scogin — the Louisiana school teacher who essentially called black people lazy animals who should go back to Africa—to be suspended and/or fired. These demands have merit, because not only is Scogin racist, she got her “facts” from a MAGA fortune cookie. And since…
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Man Convicted of Punching 'Unite the Right's' Jason Kessler Ordered to Pay a Whopping $1 Fine
You read that right. A Charlottesville, Va. jury did agree with a judge’s ruling that a local man was guilty of assault and battery after punching Unite the Right organizer Jason Kessler in the head. That same jury also recommended that the man in question, 50-year-old Jeffrey Matthew Winder, serve zero jail time and shell…
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Terence Nance's WhitePeopleWontSaveYou.org and the Never-Ending Loop of White Saviors on Screen
You know that feeling when you drink a drink that you (frequently) drank as a young adult—Hpnotiq, perhaps (or maybe even the Incredible Hulk)—and you’re shocked and horrified (and impressed) by how terrible it tastes to you now? Well, that was me Sunday afternoon, after browsing channels and somehow landing on The Blind Side. Which,…
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White People Just Keep White Peopleing
It would be wildly disingenuous to claim that I was disappointed in The New Yorker editor David Remnick’s decision to feature sentient barrow of racist cat jizz Steve Bannon at The New Yorker’s fall festival. Because that would mean I still possess the capacity to be disappointed by white people, and I do not. I…
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Florida Man Who Shot and Killed Black Man Over Parking Space Dispute in 'Stand Your Ground' Case Claims He Was 'Very Scared'
It was only a matter of time before the infamous “I feared for my life” came popping up as justification for shooting and killing a black man, and Michael Drejka’s iteration of the excuse is unsurprising. On Friday, in a jailhouse interview, Drejka spoke out for the first time after he fatally shot Markeis McGlockton…