anti-blackness
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'The Intersection of Racial Justice and Immigrant Rights': Why Immigration Is an Issue Black Voters Should Care About in 2020
Nana Gyamfi has the 2020 election on the brain, specifically what the future holds for Black immigrant populations in the United States. “If there’s a Biden presidency, you know, I’m expecting that immigrant rights will change based upon the pressure that we provide on the ground, in the streets. What do we do as a…
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Texas State University Stops Diversity Training Programs After Trump Threatens to Cut Federal Funding
Nothing says “I’m not racist,” like signing an executive order that threatens to cut federal funding for universities unless they stop diversity training, and y’all already know that’s exactly what the president did. The Texas Tribune reports that Texas State University announced it will freeze its diversity training program as it tries to make sense…
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'Nazi Karen' Really Wants Us to Know How Much She Hates Black People. Nobody Asked, but OK
Karens don’t matter. Don’t get me wrong: I love writing these stories up because these Barbie-bigots and their Klan-Ken counterparts need to be exposed, ridiculed and, if at all possible, cost their jobs and livelihoods often and with the same degree of contempt they keep in their hearts for Black people who dare breathe the…
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La La Anthony: 'Proud to Be Black. Proud to Be Puerto Rican'
“I’m Black and that’s what Afro-Latina means to me.” — La La Anthony, Actor text For actor La La Anthony, there is no separating her Blackness from her identity. After all, the Black and Puerto Rican actor knew from the outset that she was just that—Black and Puerto Rican. In her career, the Power star…
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Michigan Family Target of Alleged Hate Crime After Shots Fired at Their Home, Rock Thrown Through Window
In Michigan, a reward has been put out for information regarding a series of alleged hate crimes perpetrated against a Black family. The Detroit Free Press reports that there have been three incidents in total at the Warren home of 55-year-old Candace Hall and 52-year old Eddie Hall. On both Monday and Thursday nights, shots…
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‘My Environment Has Been Harmed by This African Black Person’: El Segundo Karen’s Racist Rant Recorded
Anti-Blackness is a special brand of racism. It seems like everywhere in the world where Black people exist, non-Black people perceive us as a threat and will weaponize their irrational fear of us without hesitation. Non-white people of color are not immune to this behavior. In El Segundo, Calif., three Black women went for a…
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Costco Bans Employees From Wearing Masks That Say Black Lives Matter, Because It Is 'Political'
As Black people have long known, the idea that Black lives matter is still not a given to everyone—and is actually up for debate in some circles—which is what inspired the simple yet powerful affirmation in the first place. Costco is the latest business to betray its discomfort with the idea, with store managers in…
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White Woman Repeatedly Calls New Neighbors N-Word During Noise Complaint
What do you call a Karen who’s so racist she can’t even argue with other white people without using anti-Black racial slurs? A white woman in Adrian, Mich., was filmed dropping the n-bomb several times while shouting at her new neighbors for being noisy. In the video posted to Twitter on Saturday by Bailey Jenkins,…
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Ending White Supremacy Requires White People To Realize That Black Liberation Isn't A 'Zero Sum Game'
white supremacy [ hwahyt suh-prem-uh-see, wahyt ] noun: the belief, theory, or doctrine that white people are inherently superior to people from all other racial and ethnic groups, especially Black people, and are therefore rightfully the dominant group in any society. text America loves whiteness. And that “love” is at the expense of everyone else…
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Candace ‘Black Karen’ Owens’ GoFundMe Account Suspended Over George Floyd Comments
For some reason, Candace Owens and white people think we should care about George Floyd’s criminal record. We don’t, of course, because a) cops are absolutely not doing background checks before shooting, beating or kneeling on the necks of black people, and b) a criminal past shouldn’t disqualify anyone from protection against police violence. Fortunately,…