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Colin Calling It: Embattled Football Superstar Under Fire for Tweets About Iran, 'America's Terrorist Attacks'
Damned be the black man that has an opposing opinion. It’s been pretty well established that some people are always going to have a problem with a black person telling it like it is; especially when it’s Colin Kaepernick, who had the nerve to express his opinion about the impending war President Donald Trump could…
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A Dog’s Mess: Black Man Suing American Airlines for Being Kicked Off Plane So Pooch Could Fly First Class [Updated]
Snoop Dogg may have been prophetic when he said it was a doggy dogg world way back yonder, that is, in 1993. A black man had to find that out the hard way earlier this year. And it wasn’t Michael Vick this go-round. A Central Texas man is calling out American Airlines for booting him…
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Yes, the Image of a Handcuffed Black Man Being Led Down the Street by Mounted Police Is Real—and a Texas Police Chief Is Sorry It Happened
Many didn’t believe that the photos of two police officers on horseback walking a handcuffed black man down the street on a leash was real. It looked like an image from the 1960s Jim Crow South. It looked an image ripped from a book about racism. Sadly, the image was not only an actual photo…
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White Man Whose Son Begged Him Not to Call the Cops on Black Guy Whitesplains Why He Did It
None of us know Christopher Cukor well enough to make cuckold jokes, but trust me, I know we all want to. Cukor was thrust into the African-American zeitgeist the way that most white people throughout history have thrust themselves into African-American history: by minding other people’s business. Here’s how The Root Senior Writer Michael Harriot…
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South Carolina Sen. Jim Clyburn Defends Biden’s ‘Boy’ Comments, Accuses Nancy Pelosi of ‘Tokenism’ in Staffing
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) has gone on record as the first black man to run to former Vice President and current Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden’s defense for controversial comments that caused quite a stir amongst black folks—except Clyburn. Clyburn, the highest-ranking black member of Congress, defended Biden’s recent retelling of the old…
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Folks Busted by Killer Cop Amber Guyger Have Been Getting Some Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Passes by Dallas Prosecutors
Amber Guyger, the now former Dallas cop who killed an unarmed black man in his own home, is still awaiting trial in the case. But since her arrest and indictment, prosecutors have been dismissing charges against folks she hemmed up on drug and other crimes. It’s the latest development in the case surrounding the death of…
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#PickingUpTrashWhileBlack: Colorado Cops Draw Guns on Man Cleaning His Yard
A black Colorado man was doing the suspicious work of cleaning his yard when he was confronted by police who wanted to know what the black man was doing on his own property. According to the Daily Camera, on Friday, a Boulder police officer saw the man sitting on a patio in an area that…
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#HallwayHasselhoff: Human Border Wall Harasses Black Men for Proof of Residency
Since President Trump has deputized whiteness, a colonizer was caught on tape shortly after staking claim to an apartment building he’s lived in for 27 years and demanding to see a black resident’s freedom papers. A video posted Thursday on Twitter shows Colonizer Chad informing a black neighbor that he couldn’t possibly live in the…
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Maryland Teacher Admits Calling Black Man the N-Word Because She Didn't Like How He Exited a Parking Space
A white woman wearing the official jacket of Washington’s football team was caught on video admitting to calling a black man the n-word because she reportedly didn’t like the way he pulled out of a parking space. On Monday, Dawn Lennon waited for the woman to finish parking before she asked the woman about calling…
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#CrosswalkCathy Calls Police on Black Man Because She Didn’t Like The Way He Parked
Another day and another white woman is becoming an Internet sensation for calling the police on a black man who parked his car too far into the crosswalk for her liking. I miss the old days when passive aggressive white women wrote notes and left them on your windshield. Portland, Ore., couple Rashsaan Muhammad and…