Race Matters
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Virginia Police Launch Investigation Into KKK Flyers Found in Mailboxes Across Multiple Counties
Residents across the state of Virginia found flyers in or around their mailboxes sent by a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. The message on the flyers calls for “100% Americanism” and decries the number of white people who support the Black Lives Matter movement. Now, Virginia police are investigating the matter which stretches across…
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Viola Davis Opens Up About Police Brutality and Regretting The Help With Historic Vanity Fair Cover
Viola Davis radiates on the cover of Vanity Fair for its July/August 2020 edition. The Oscar, Emmy and Tony-winning actress discusses police brutality protests, the fight for equal pay as a Black thespian and much more. Dario Calmese shot the photos accompanying Davis’ feature, and made history in doing so. He is the first Black…
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White Radio Host Becomes Next Karen to Lose Her Job After Harassing Spanish-Speaking New Hampshire Workers
Is anybody else starting to get the feeling that some of these Karens are hopping aboard the “You ‘bout to lose yo’ job” train on purpose? Either a lot of white people have come up with a clever way to intentionally rid themselves of their employment, or they are so out of touch that they…
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Racist NFL Franchise Washington Redskins Dead at 87
During an interview with USA Today in 2013, Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder was defiant in his refusal to ever change the team’s name—so much so that he even used absolutes. “We’ll never change the name of the team,” Snyder said at the time. “It’s that simple. NEVER—you can use caps.” And for all intents…
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A List of Things Longer Than the Confederacy Was
1. The (still growing) gap between Anti and whatever Rihanna decides to release when she’s bored hawking drawers to thirsty Deltas. 2. The not-yet-produced comprehensive oral history of Shaun King’s greatest “investment opportunities.” 3. The (approximate) driving distance between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. 4. The stretch of time between middle and high school when I was…
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A Black Man Says He Was Nearly Lynched by 5 White Men in Indiana, No Arrests Have Been Made
So… Why does there always seem to be so much hesitation to arrest racists who attack Black people and call it vigilante work? It took nearly two months for George Zimmerman to be arrested for the killing of Trayvon Martin (and we all know how that turned out) and it took well over two months…
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Yeah, It's Time to Bury the Cutesy 'Karen' Nickname for Dangerous White Women
If the COVID-19 crisis hadn’t introduced zeitgeist-crashing terms like “coronavirus” and “social distancing” to our lexicon, “Karen” might have very well been the word of 2020. There have been explainers about it—one of which I wrote to distinguish it from “Becky.” There have been arguments over whether it’s racist (LOLOL) and misogynist (well…more on that…
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New Jersey Karen Harasses and Calls Police on Black Neighbors for Building a Patio on Their Own Property
Maybe it really is time we stop giving white people who seek to weaponize the police against Black people cutesy little nicknames like “BBQ Becky” or “Central Park Karen.” Perhaps it’s time for more fitting monikers like “Terrorist Tammy” or “Killer by Police Kathy.” In Montclair, N.J., a white woman has been dubbed “Permit Karen”…
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Alabama Football Drops Video Speaking Out Against Racism: 'All Lives Can’t Matter Until Black Lives Matter'
On Thursday, the Alabama Crimson Tide became the latest sports team to release a video speaking out against systemic racism. Following in the footsteps of videos released by the Baltimore Ravens and some of the biggest names in the NFL, the Crimson Tide make it explicitly clear that “all lives can’t matter until Black lives…
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So NASCAR's Official Response to Bubba Wallace Was 'We Just Have Random Nooses Around Sometimes' and That's It???
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL HOLY SHIT I KNOW THIS AIN’T FUNNY THIS IS AWFUL THIS IS TERRIBLE THIS IS HATEFUL THIS IS MISSISSIPPI BURNING THIS IS A NOOSE ON THE LOOSE BUT HOW DEEPLY HOW THOROUGHLY HOW HILARIOUSLY RACIST MUST YOUR ORGANIZATION BE FOR “THAT WASN’T A NOOSE OF HATE. THAT WAS JUST OUR TUESDAY NOOSE. HIS NAME…