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#PicnickingWhileBlack: Pistol-Packing White Woman Pulls Gun on Black Couple
A black couple who planned to spend their Memorial Day enjoying the beauty of nature found themselves at the wrong end of a gun barrel when a pistol-wielding white woman confronted them at a Mississippi campground. According to WCBI, on Sunday, Franklin and Jessica Richardson planned a picnic outside of Starkville, Miss., at Oktibbeha County…
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Man Who Raised $22 Million for Border Wall Breaks Silence to Say He's Going to Keep Being Silent With Y’all’s Money
The man who started a GoFundMe and raised some $22 million to help build the border wall that only racists, xenophobes and racist xenophobes want and then went radio silent with all that white-nationalist scratch is speaking out. After several news outlets began wondering where all that border wall money went, Brian Kolfage, an Air…
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Facebook Bans 'Dangerous' Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones and Others for Promoting 'Hatred and Violence'
It’s not exactly a secret that Facebook has allowed conspiracy theorists, white supremacists and hate speech to run rampant on its multi-billion dollar platform. But in an effort to curtail all of the above, on Thursday, the social media juggernaut made the surprising announcement to permanently ban InfoWars host Alex Jones and right-ring media personalities…
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We Got ‘Zucked’: Facebook Censors Speech That Calls Out Racism, Black Activists Charge
Facebook has a problem in “black” and “white,” black activists charge, where even pointing out racism or racist posts or mentioning the word “black” as in “black-owned business” can get the post taken down for violating “hate speech” standards and lead to a suspension of the user’s account. Activists call it being “Zucked,” USA Today…
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Who is Leaving Bowls of Mashed Potatoes around Jackson, Mississippi?
Jackson, Mississippi has a new villain. Lurking in the shadows until the optimal time to strike, this dastardly ne’er-do-well walks among Jacksonians without raising suspicion. Their reasons are unknown. They haven’t left demands. Do they peel the skin, or leave them on? Someone’s been leaving mashed potatoes around Jackson, Mississippi, and people don’t know how…
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Peggy Alford Poised to Make History as Facebook Nominates a Black Woman to Its Board…Finally
On Friday, Facebook released a statement that Peggy Alford, a senior vice president at PayPal, has been nominated to have a seat at the table, a landmark step in diversifying its nine-member board of directors. If elected by shareholders, she would become the first black woman to sit on the board. Alford is no stranger…
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Ben Carson's HUD Charges Facebook With Housing Discrimination in Ads
Facebook is supposed to just be Instagram for old people, yet they keep finding themselves embattled in all kinds of skullduggery. In 2018, Facebook found itself involved in some 21 scandals, including: Russians creating fake Facebook accounts to stir up shit before the 2016 election and Cambridge Analytica stealing the data of tens of millions…
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