georgetown
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Costco Pulls Palmetto Cheese From Stores Over Founder and SC Mayor’s Racist Facebook Post
Costco recently removed a popular pimento cheese brand from 120 of its stores because the owner of the brand is another fragile white racist who thinks any and all bad acts committed by Black people are a product of the Black Lives Matter movement. Today reports that Palmetto Cheese founder and mayor of Pawleys Island,…
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Surprising No One, Georgetown Study Confirms Previous Findings on Adultification Bias—By Listening to Black Women and Girls
In 2017, the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality’s Initiative on Gender Justice and Opportunity released Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood (pdf), providing concrete data that adults typically perceive black girls, particularly those aged 5 to 14, to be more “adult-like” and less innocent than their white peers. Via responses garnered…
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Georgetown Students Agree to Pay Reparations. No, Really
Welcome to 2019—where whole-ass cities are suing their citizens for allegedly beating themselves up, affluent white folks are fucking off their privilege by scamming universities, a black kid from Atlanta has resurrected country music, and reparations are somehow trending without the need of a hashtag. But while presidential hopefuls such as U.S. Sen. Cory Booker…
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Alexandria, Va., Ranks as Top Place to Travel in 2018; Next-Door Neighbor Washington, DC, Says, ‘Huh?’
Washington, D.C., suburb Alexandria, Va., is the top place to visit in 2018. According to the Washington Post, in an article titled, “Alexandria, Va., Outranks Home of Disneyland as Top Place to Go in 2018, Survey Says”: [Money] magazine said in a description of its rankings called “The 20 Best Places to Go in 2018”…
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Descendants of 272 Slaves Sold by Georgetown Say They Want Reparation$$$ Now!
As reported by The Root when the story first broke, the storied academic institution of Georgetown owes its entire existence to the sale of enslaved black men, women and children. In 1838 the sale of these humans by Jesuit priests saved the school from bankruptcy; to this day, it remains a thriving academic institution, thick…
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Georgetown Law Professors Will Take a Knee to Protest Jeff Sessions’ ‘Free Speech’ Visit
Law professors at Georgetown University want Attorney General Jeff Sessions to know he’s exactly the wrong one to talk about free speech. Sessions, the man Coretta Scott King warned us all about, will be at the university’s campus tonight to deliver his remarks. More than 30 law professors from the Georgetown University Law Center signed…
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Racist Bullies at Texas Middle School Called Black Girl an Ape, Pretended to Whip Her Like a Slave, but School Does Nothing, Father Says
The father of a 12-year-old girl who is being targeted by racist bullies is speaking out after he said that the school did not properly discipline the students involved in the hurtful and hateful attacks. According to a written report from the school, the Austin American-Statesman reports, one girl at Tippit Middle School in Georgetown,…
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‘America Is a White Nation’: White Supremacist Posters Put Up Across DC’s George Washington University
Once again the white supremacists are trying to ruin school for everyone, this time putting up signs promoting America as “a white nation” on the campus of George Washington University in Washington, D.C.,, sparking outcry. According to the Washington Post, the signs depicted white people with slogans about uniting. One notice encouraged “all white Americans”…
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Why The Georgetown Hoyas Need To Be Your Favorite College Basketball Team
Although they won’t get as much publicity as Lebron, Derrick Rose, Kyrie Irving, and the rest of the professional athletes and celebrities donning “I Can’t Breathe” shirts, what the Hoyas did before Wednesday night’s game against Kansas was arguably more impressive. One, because they’re a group of 19 and 20 year olds conscientious enough to…