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‘Get Out of My Country’: Florida Man Arrested After Attacking Men With Knife, Stun Gun at McDonald’s: Report
Florida strikes again. On Wednesday, the St. Johns County, Fla., Sheriff’s Office arrested 60-year-old John Jay Smith after authorities say he went on a racist rant, while armed, outside a local McDonald’s against two men he believed to be Muslim or of Middle Eastern descent. According to First Coast News, the incident occurred early Wednesday…
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#RentingWhileBlack: Mother of 3 Loses Apartment Because She Didn’t Provide Her Landlord With an Ultrasound Photo
A single working mother of three is taking on a Florida housing complex after a property manager refused to renew her lease because she hadn’t given her landlord an ultrasound of the child she was carrying. As the Miami Herald reports, Tiesha Davis signed a rental agreement with Sorrento Rental Community in Miramar in September…
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Why Won’t George Zimmerman Just Go Away?
You would think a man who was acquitted of the murder of a teenage boy five years ago would just go on living his life in obscurity, never to be heard from again. Unfortunately, the man in question is George Zimmerman, and it would appear that he lives for the headlines. CNN reports that Zimmerman…
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Florida Police Shoot and Kill Black Man, Then Go to Funeral Home in Attempt to Unlock His Phone Using His Fingerprint
There really appears to be no line the police will not cross. At least, not in this case, where Largo, Fla., police shot and killed a 30-year-old black man during a traffic stop, only to later go to the funeral home days before the victim’s burial in an attempt to use his fingerprint to unlock…
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It’s Prom Season, Which Means the Racist Promposals Have Begun
For some reason, it appears to be really hard to celebrate special occasions (or, let’s be honest, everyday life) without the whites somehow making it racist. Christmas? Just say hi to Zwarte Piet. Halloween? Let’s not even get started—otherwise we’re going to be here for a minute. And then there’s prom. It is still unclear…
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott Is Running for Senate and This Race Is Going to Get Messy
In between the rampant racism and police violence against unarmed black men, women and children that seem to plague the boot that wouldn’t leave the other 49 states alone, Florida’s Senate race just became interesting. While many people of color would be just fine if the entire state of Florida just drifted into the Atlantic…
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‘Unapologetic’ White Nationalist Podcast Host and Middle School Teacher Resigns
Nearly a month after HuffPost first outed Florida middle school teacher Dayanna Volitich as the host of a white supremacist podcast, Unapologetic, Volitich has submitted her resignation. The Citrus County School District removed Volitich from her classroom on March 2, reports the Citrus County Chronicle, as the district investigated claims that Volitich had moonlighted as…
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Bobbi Kristina Brown’s Boyfriend Arrested Again on Domestic Violence Charges: Report
Nick Gordon, the former boyfriend of Bobbi Kristina Brown, has been arrested again on charges of domestic battery. According to TMZ, Seminole County, Fla., officers arrested Gordon this weekend after authorities say he hit his girlfriend in the face several times after she picked him up from a bar. According to the police report, the…
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Black Florida Teacher Under Fire for Tweeting White Supremacist Propaganda … and Sis, What Are You Doing?
Man, I know Florida gets a bad rap, but when things like this pop up, I really have to wonder about what’s in the water down there, and how a black middle school teacher could be caught spreading racist propaganda about Muslims, including posts shared by white supremacist groups. Like, sis. But apparently that’s what…