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Wearing Masks and Canceling a Portion of the Republican National Convention—What’s Happening With the Trump Administration?
For months, the Trump administration has been the leader of the coronavirus deniers movement. They have acted like masks were akin to slavery and that the media has been pushing falsehoods about one of the most deadly viruses to ever do it. Now, as if God had smacked the shit out of the entire administration,…
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Of Course, the GOP Convention Is Heading to the End of America’s Digestive Tract
Florida is the asshole of America. So it is fitting that the gathering of assholes may happen in the one place that is so strange that it is a game to look up “Florida man” and your birthday to see what ridiculous crime you land on. I’m “Thong-wearing Florida man arrested while building shed with…
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Being Black in a Newsroom
When most people think of careers in television, their first thought usually goes to someone in front of the camera. I am no different. When I got serious about my broadcast journalism major, I too had visions of being in front of the camera to become the next Oprah. I knew I wanted to be…
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The Constitution Is for White People: Why White Bullets Are Worth More Than Black Lives
“It is difficult at this day to realize the state of public opinion in relation to that unfortunate race which prevailed in the civilized and enlightened portions of the world at the time of the Declaration of Independence and when the Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted. But the public history of…
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Walking While Black: Community Calls for Jacksonville, Fla., Sheriff to Suspend Racially Biased Pedestrian Ticketing
There’s driving while black, shopping while black and flying while black. But WTF is walking while black? It’s apparently a thing in Jacksonville, Fla., where the local NAACP and several government officials have called for the Sheriff’s Office to suspend all pedestrian ticket writing because of racial bias. Civil rights leaders, including the representatives of…
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Fla. Elementary School Blasted After Refusing to Put Toilet Paper in Bathroom Stalls, Handing Out Wads of Paper to Students as Needed
I know it’s important not to be wasteful, and to teach small children the importance of not being wasteful, but not putting toilet paper in school bathroom stalls and instead handing out wads of paper to students on an as-needed basis seems like some next-level anxiety-inducing shit, no pun intended. One Jacksonville, Fla., elementary school…
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This Belly Flop Contest Into a Pool of Mayonnaise Is the Best-Ever Example of ‘That’s Some White-People Shit’
It’s hard to assign an accurate definition for the oft-employed phrase “That’s some white people shit” because, well, the best-possible definition is located within the phrase. “That’s some white people shit” literally means, “That’s some shit so exclusive to whiteness that it deserves its own phrase.” But, also, it’s easier to list things that would…
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Shirtless Looters Outchea Stealing Telephone Poles
Please disregard that insensitive, clickbait headline. I misspelled the sentence: “Jacksonville Citizens Apprehended for Illegally Acquiring Communications Equipment.” Simple mistake. Anyway, according to Jacksonville.com, Blake Lee Waller, 42, and Victor Walter Apeler, 46, were arrested in Jacksonville, Fla., Wednesday morning when cops stopped two men with a telephone pole perched atop their vehicle as if…
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Pizza Hut to Employees: Who Else Is Gonna Serve These Garlic Knots if You Evacuate for Irma?
On Friday, Jacksonville, Fla., Mayor Lenny Curry ordered a mandatory evacuation for certain parts of the city in anticipation of Hurricane Irma. One Jacksonville Pizza Hut manager, however, was not having it. Time magazine and CNN report that one local Pizza Hut restaurant warned its employees they would face consequences if they evacuated Friday—per the…