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‘You Need a Bullet in the Head’: Police Believe Black Miss. Judge Is Being Threatened for Removing Controversial State Flag From Courtroom
A Clarksdale, Miss., judge has been the target of a slew of violent, threatening social media posts, and police believe it is possible that the threats stem from Judge Carlos Moore’s decision to remove the controversial Mississippi state flag from his courtroom earlier this summer. “Your [sic] not untouchable you can’t hide behind the court…
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To Be Clear, White Supremacy Is the Foundation of Our Country. We Won’t Destroy It by Toppling Statues
From the white supremacist “rally” and terror attack in Charlottesville, Va., to the current president’s public defense of Nazis to the recent uproar over HBO’s controversial decision to green-light a new series portraying a Confederate victory, it is clear that our nation is in the midst of a very public—and painful—reckoning with the memory (and…
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6 Flags Over Texas Removes Confederate Flag From Its Marquee, Replaces All Flags With American Flags
After previously announcing that it would not do so, the Six Flags theme park Six Flags Over Texas has removed the Confederate flag from its marquee and is replacing all six flags currently waving over the entrances with American flags. The San Antonio Current reports that in a press statement released Friday, Six Flags spokeswoman…
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Can Ben Carson Just Go Away and Watch NCIS Reruns on a Barcalounger Like Every Other 65-Year-Old Black Man?
I’ve tried very, very, very hard over these past few years, but I just can’t muster much anger toward Ben Carson for the ridiculous and dangerous things he says. Perhaps because he carries himself like a man who goes to Home Depot for the ambience and spends his days saying things like, “I have a…
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Watch Out Loud: What Was It Like the 1st Time You Were Called the N-Word?
When I asked a few of our readers to come in to The Root’s offices and share their personal experiences of being called the n-word for the first time, I knew I’d get a lot of stories steeped in ignorance. I didn’t realize that a lot of the stories would sound like shared experiences with…
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Should Confederate Symbols Be Banned in the US?
Symbols of the Confederacy have been the subject of two very different events over the last few days. In Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday, white supremacists gathered to protest the removal of a Confederate statue from a public park, and their “protest” turned into a bloody riot, with one woman being killed and countless others being…
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Black Man Takes Miss. Flag to Supreme Court Because … Look at It
A black Mississippi man who argues that the state’s flag is a symbol of white supremacy is taking his fight to the Supreme Court of the United States, setting the stage for the possibility that SCOTUS could ban all official use of Confederate imagery. According to an Associated Press report, in February 2016, Carlos Moore…
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Woman Charged in SC With Tearing Confederate-Flag Tag Off Truck, Backing Into Truck’s Owner
A woman is facing multiple charges after police say she ripped a Confederate-flag “tag” off a truck in South Carolina before backing into the truck’s owner. According to WCIV, 43-year-old Ann Lee Walters is facing charges of vandalism and leaving the scene of an accident with injuries after the incident in Charleston. WCBD reports that…
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SC Restaurant Owner Says Confederate Flag Near His Business Has Caused Fistfights
A dead racist and staunch defender of the Confederate flag is causing mucho problems for an Orangeburg, S.C., restaurant owner. The drama begins with Maurice Bessinger, founder of the Maurice’s Piggie Park chain of barbecue restaurants across central South Carolina. Fox 4 reports that Bessinger was a proud segregationist who kept scores of Confederate memorabilia…