Race Matters
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Former Firefighter Who Hanged Noose Outside Black Neighbor's Apartment Pleads Guilty to Interfering With Right to Fair Housing
A white, elderly former firefighter in North Texas who was arrested on stalking charges for harassing and intimidating his black neighbor has pleaded guilty to interfering with an African American family’s right to fair housing. Court documents accuse 64-year-old Glenn Eugene Halfin of threatening force, intimidating, and interfering with the family due to their race…
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2 White Women Attack Their Latinx Neighbors, Call the Police on Them, and End Up Going to Jail Themselves
Don’t worry, I’m not going to bother giving these two Beckys a cutesy nickname, but I am still going to tell the story of what they did, because I’m tired of white women and their antics. (I shouldn’t have to keep saying this, but we know “not all white women.” Shut the entire fuck up…
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South Carolina, Home of the Racist: White Supremacist Sentenced to Less Than 3 Years for Dylann-Roof Inspired Attack
White supremacist Benjamin Thomas Samuel McDowell, 31, was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison after he admitted to wanting to commit a “fucking big-scale” attack “in the spirit of Dylann Roof.” In March, he pleaded guilty to a single count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition as…
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After Living in 21 Different Homes, I Finally Have My Own House
During the first 18 years of my life, my parents and I lived at seven different addresses. There was (in chronological order) my mom’s mom’s (Nana’s) house. Then an apartment in East Liberty in Pittsburgh. Then a house in Lincoln-Lemington. Then a house in Verona. Then another house in Verona a block away from the…
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Black Millionaire Finds Racist Note in Florida Hotel Room; Hotel Says It Was a Note Left by Previous Guest
Today in “if you say so, but I don’t believe that shit at all” news, a Sarasota, Fla., hotel is claiming that a racist note found by a black millionaire and his family during their stay over the Fourth of July was left by a previous guest, and was not directed toward the family. Sure,…
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Woman Studying Outside Grocery Store Attacked by Drunken Racist
A woman who was minding her own business outside a West Hollywood, Calif., grocery store was verbally and physically attacked by a drunken racist who hurled slurs at her. According to CBSLA, Angela Jefferson was studying and listening to music at 2:30 p.m on Tuesday outside of Pavillions store when an unidentified man sitting at…
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#SummerJobWhileBlack: Child Gets Cops Called on Him for Delivering Newspapers
For many kids and their families, summer jobs are a rite of passage: a way of imparting lessons about responsibility and hard work, and finally having a response to the age-old parental question, “you have McDonald’s money?” But one Ohio family says their summer job instead turned into a lesson on racial profiling. As WABC…
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Philly Police Department Seeks to End Implicit Bias With a Field Trip to a Black Museum
Every time there is an incident involving excessive use of force by the police against a black person, there’s a public outcry for change and reform. We want heads to roll. We want officers held accountable and punished. We take to the streets. We protest. We write editorials and articles and commentary on the current…
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This Is the America White People Wished For. This Is the America White People Want
Since the 2016 presidential election, I have read and I have heard from people—mostly white but some nonwhite—that it’s unfair to generalize about white people just because Donald Trump is now our president. The rush to defend themselves has been so unceasing that #NotAllWhitePeople has become a popular and synopsizing shorthand for that collection of…