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If You Ever Wanted to See White-on-White Crime, Check Out These Reactions to NASCAR's Confederate Flag Ban
Have you ever taken a pacifier from a baby? They lose their shit; kicking and screaming bloody murder until you shove it back in their mouth to calm them down. Well, white supremacy is White America’s binky, and without the comforts that it affords, there are some very upset people coming to grips with the…
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Trump’s Holding His First Rally in Months on Juneteenth in Tulsa, Okla., and All of This Stinks of Stephen Miller
President Trump has always been a racist. But his racism has never been informed: he couldn’t tell you in any historical way why he hated people of color, only that he hates them. For years he’s spouted off uninformed, stereotypical, surface-level race-related reasonings as to his hate for those with melanated skin and well-seasoned food.…
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Live PD Canceled; Show Reportedly Destroyed Tape of Javier Ambler’s Death
Just one day after the cancellation of Cops—the longest-running reality show and “cop-aganda” program enjoyed largely by people who aren’t consistently targeted by police in real life—was announced, another unscripted cop series has found itself on the chopping block. Cable network A&E announced Wednesday that it will no longer be airing Live PD—a show that’s…
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![George Floyd and Derek Chauvin 'Bumped Heads' at Nightclub Where They Worked, Co-Worker Says [Update: No, They Did Not]](https://www.theroot.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/fxfj0uheyncxfuvzwnlx-300x183.jpg)
George Floyd and Derek Chauvin 'Bumped Heads' at Nightclub Where They Worked, Co-Worker Says [Update: No, They Did Not]
Updated: 6/11/2020, 2:49 p.m. ET: CBS News reports Dave Pinney has now retracted his story about Derek Chauvin and George Floyd not getting along. In the interview that aired, Pinney gave conflicting accounts of why Floyd and Chauvin didn’t get along at the nightclub where they worked. He attributed it both to Chauvin being “extremely…
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For Years, ‘Qualified Immunity’ Protected Violent Cops. Could a New Court Decision Mark a Shift?
On Tuesday, a federal court went against more than a decade of decisions in denying qualified immunity to a cop who shot a black man 22 times. The unanimous decision by a three-judge panel concerns the case of Wayne Jones, who was shot and killed in West Virginia in 2013 by five cops, who fired…
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Joe Biden Just Wrote That He Wants to Give Police More Money, and He Totally Needs to STFU
I don’t know how many times I need to say this, but Joe Biden needs to only be rolled out to the American public three times: Once to say that he’s picked a black woman to be his vice president, another time so he can say “Black Lives Matter” and the last time to say…
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White Men in New Jersey Mock Peaceful Protestors by Reenacting George Floyd’s Death
A group of angry, loud and wrong white people must have thought it was Angry, Loud and Wrong White People Day when they decided to stage a disgustingly insensitive counterprotest during a peaceful march against police brutality and systemic racism over the death of George Floyd. While standing next to a pro-Trump banner, a “Blue…
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What 'Defund' in 'Defund the Police' Actually Means, Explained
What a year, huh? Yeah, 2020 has been a monster. Forget 2020. I mean just from Sunday to Wednesday. You’re right. Each week has been a year. Each month a decade. The Popeyes chicken sandwich craze feels like it happened when I was 4 years old. So one recurring theme of the uprising is a…
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![Bubba Wallace, the Only Black Driver in NASCAR's Cup Series, Wants Confederate Flags Banned From the Sport [Updated: NASCAR Bans the Confederate Flag]](https://www.theroot.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/qaaltc5mzpkbtzrd7kng-300x215.jpg)
Bubba Wallace, the Only Black Driver in NASCAR's Cup Series, Wants Confederate Flags Banned From the Sport [Updated: NASCAR Bans the Confederate Flag]
You ever look at someone and think, “It couldn’t be me?” Ever since I’ve learned about Bubba Wallace, the only black driver in NASCAR’s top-level Cup Series, all I can think about is the deluge of racism he must endure on a daily basis. The glares, the snide remarks, the racial epithets, the Trump signs…
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Tim Scott, the Lone Black Republican Senator, Tasked With Coming Up With GOP's Police Reform Plan, and I’m Not Mad
The only thing Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell (R) could tell me about is how he lives in the sewer with his three turtle friends from high school and why he listens to a rat. Other than that, Mitch McConnell and his saggy neck skin can take a long walk off a short pier into a…