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White Ga. Lawmaker Threatens Black Woman, Says She May Go Missing … but Was She Already in the Sunken Place?
When will politicians, cops, educators and other government officials realize that nothing good ever comes from fighting about race on Facebook? Inevitably, the whole awful exchange gets a screenshot, and then there’s a 48-hour news cycle of said bigot claiming, I don’t have a racist bone in my body or I was just reciting a…
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Mo. Lawmaker Wants Confederate-Monument Vandals ‘Hung,’ but He Means It in an Old Cowboy Way, Not in a Lynching Way
Nothing says Good Ole Party like the threat of a lynching, and that’s exactly what Republican Missouri Rep. Warren Love expressed what he hoped would happen after people were seen defacing a Confederate monument in his state’s Springfield National Cemetery. “This is totally against the law,” Love wrote after sharing an article indicating that paint…
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‘I Hope Trump Is Assassinated!’: Mo. State Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal Investigated by Secret Service for Trump Facebook Post
It all started late Wednesday night after a long day of absorbing the same horrible racist news that the rest of America has been enduring. Nobody feels particularly safe or secure watching the president of the United States give a free hunting license to white nationalists, but it’s particularly hard for Maria Chappelle-Nadal, the state…
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Fla. Woman Shot, Killed at Home Hours After Posting on Facebook About ‘Making 6 Figures’
A Florida woman was in awe at where her hard work had taken her, and so she made a post on Facebook, recalling how she went from being homeless to raking in six figures. Hours later, she was shot to death. According to the Palm Beach Post, Makeva Jenkins worked her way from homelessness to…
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Facebook Will Ban You for Talking About White Men. Black Children and Muslims? Not So Much
Pop quiz: Which group is protected by Facebook’s secret censorship algorithm? a. Female drivers b. Black children c. White men The correct answer is c. That’s not hyperbolic conjecture meant to incite a reactionary response. These are actual choices Facebook used to train the thousands of censors responsible for regulating hate speech on the site.…
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Facebook Banned Me For Writing "N*gger" In A Piece About Racism, While Emails Calling Me "N*gger" Still Sit In My Inbox
Friday afternoon, as a reaction to the acquittal of former police officer Jeronimo Yanez in the shooting death of Philando Castile, I wrote a short piece attempting to articulate the morass of outrage and irrepressible frustration that comes attached to this type of news; a perpetual vexation and outrage that sticks and shifts and stuns…
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White People Are Amazed That a White Woman Was Treated Like a White Woman
All across America, white people’s mouths are hanging aghast at half-staff as they hydrate themselves to conjure up the onslaught of white tears that predictably has followed their shock and amazement since a college student blew up the internet when she exposed an amazing fact to her Caucasian counterparts. Hold on, and prepare yourselves for…
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