all lives matter
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Herschel Walker’s History of Downplaying Racism In Front Of White Folks
The U.S. Senate candidate has said some odd stuff in front of mostly-white audiences.
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New Jersey Corrections Officer Seen Mocking George Floyd's Death on Track to be Fired
Earlier this month, a video went viral depicting a group of white counter-protesters during a rally against police brutality in New Jersey. During the video, two of the counter-protesters are seen on the ground, mocking the way in which George Floyd died. One the men seen in the video was identified as a New Jersey…
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‘Everybody’s Life Matters’: Muhammad Ali Jr. Emerges From the Sunken Place to Say His Father Wouldn’t Have Supported Black Lives Matter
The Sunken Place has apparently claimed an unlikely victim—the son of iconic heavyweight boxer and renowned civil rights activist Muhammad Ali. 47-year-old Muhammad Ali Jr. must have been too busy attending house negro support groups to read up on what his father stood for regarding the mattering of Black lives, because he’s out here telling…
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White Men in New Jersey Mock Peaceful Protestors by Reenacting George Floyd’s Death
A group of angry, loud and wrong white people must have thought it was Angry, Loud and Wrong White People Day when they decided to stage a disgustingly insensitive counterprotest during a peaceful march against police brutality and systemic racism over the death of George Floyd. While standing next to a pro-Trump banner, a “Blue…
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Why Drew Brees Is the Worst Type of White Man, Explained
Tough week, huh? Man. Remember how long and shitty everyone said March was? Yup. I want to buy March an Edible Arrangement and beg it to come back. Man. I would serenade the shit out of March right now. I’d be Keith Sweat in this joint. “Who can love March like me? (Nobody). Who can…
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Social Studies: If #AllLivesMatter…
#AllLivesMatter is trending on Twitter. The Root created this daily column as a space to curate and catalog blackness on social media. Sometimes it’s cool. Sometimes it’s funny. Today it is neither. The internet is a white space. Like America, social media reflects the thoughts, narratives and positions of a majority. Like America, black culture…
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Jay-Z x NFL in Another Clusterf#ck After One of Its Charities Forced to Apologize Over Dreadlock Drama
Ain’t no n-word, indeed. (For your edification, that’s taken from the title of a classic 1996 track by Jay-Z and Foxy Brown from The Nutty Professor soundtrack.) For all the good Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter is hoping that will come out of his problematic partnership with the problematic NFL (yes, I said it), yet another controversy…
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‘Stupid or Liar’: What Justine Damond’s Death Proves About All Lives Matter
We’ve played this game before. It derived from a bit by podcaster Adam Carolla, who takes inane statements from politicians, celebrities and people in the news and asks: Are they stupid or are they lying? Today’s episode of “Stupid or Liar” focuses on the death of Justine Ruszczyk (Her name was not Damond. It was…
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White Liberal Tears and Racism From Parents in Response to Seattle Teachers Wearing ‘Black Lives Matter’ T-Shirts
Last October, teachers in the Seattle Public Schools district planned a Black Lives Matter in the Seattle Public Schools event that consisted of wearing T-shirts with the slogan printed on them, despite the fact that a similar effort at Seattle’s John Muir Elementary in September was met with criticism, hate mail and threats of violence.…