Race Matters
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2 Black Utah High School Soccer Players Subject to Racial Taunts, Slurs From Fans of Rival Team
Fans of a high school soccer team showed what true sportsmanship means to two black players from the opposing team…by calling them racial slurs and other names, of course. According to Good4Utah, the Canyons school district has launched an investigation after fans sitting in Alta High School’s student section apparently shouted racial slurs at the…
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A List of Ways to Tell If a White Person Has Personally Benefitted From America's History of Racism
I witnessed some very nice white peoples on the internet this week who were adamant that they haven’t personally benefitted from America’s history of racism and also felt that the distinctions between those who have and those who haven’t should be acknowledged. So, full disclosure: I’ve been on a high-fiber kick recently, which has 1)…
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Crazy Rude Asian? Seemingly Drunk Porsche Employee Gets Fired for Running Black Folks Out of Atlanta Lounge
Don’t let Love & Hip-Hop, The Real Housewives of Atlanta or even Chrisley Knows Best fool you. The most valuable real estate in metro Atlanta isn’t in Buckhead, Sandy Springs, Midtown or even the gentrifying neighborhoods of SWAT (Southwest Atlanta). Nope, the most valuable real estate in Atlanta are those elusive 5′ by 12″ white…
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Parking Patrol Paula Calls Cops on Black Man Who Was Trying To Get Into His Own Car
And here we are again because white people can’t stop calling the cops on black people. A woman, who I have decided to dub Parking Patrol Paula, called the cops on a black man trying to get into his own goddamn car, accusing him of trying to break into the vehicle. Because that’s exactly what…
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Arizona High School Student Refused to Take Off Bandanna, So He And 3 Other Students Were Arrested Because Apparently, That Makes Sense
Further proving that cops will arrest black kids for anything, an Arizona senior student at Apache Junction High School was arrested, along with some of his schoolmates, all because he refused to take off his bandanna. Needless to say, this has sparked huge conversations about dress code at the Arizona high school. According to AZ…
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'If a White Person Said That': The False Equivalency of Reverse Racism
I was abused as a child. It only happened once, but I remember it like it was yesterday. I was asleep when she attacked me, but I knew it felt wrong. It was disgusting and left me humiliated, ashamed and—worst of all—moist. That was the day my youngest sister smushed a watermelon rind in my…
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Company Tells Woman Via Email Her ‘Ghetto’ Name Disqualified Her From Employment
We’ve all heard people say that those with Afrocentric or non-European sounding names stand a greater chance of being eliminated early in the job-hunting process. There are even some who suspect that their name is why they never got a call back after submitting their resume, but I believe this is the first time I…
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Mississippi Hospital Employee Fired after Hurling Racial Slur at a Donut Shop
A Mississippi Baptist Medical Center employee will now be acquainted with the unemployment line after he was caught on camera hurling a racial slur at an employee at a Flowood donut shop. Kyle Thomas worked in radiology at the hospital and was promptly fired after the video started spreading. The hospital released a statement to…
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I Spent the Whole Unite the Right 2 Weekend Looking for Nazis and Ended Up at the White House
Last weekend was the one-year anniversary of the white nationalist Unite the Right terrorist attacks on Charlottesville, Va., and to celebrate, white nationalist leader Jason Kessler decided to do a remix and hold Unite the Right 2, in Washington, D.C. As a University of Virginia alumni and a resident of the vast suburban sprawl that…
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North Carolina Mom, Pregnant with Twins, Accused of Hiding Items Under Her Shirt at Local Staples
A Pineville, North Carolina mom of two, who is weeks away from giving birth to twins, is outraged and humiliated after she says she was accused of trying to shoplift items under her shirt at her local Staples. According to Boston 25 News, Sherell Bates now regrets leaving her house on Friday to go back-to-school…