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White Man Gets 10 Years in Prison for Attempting to Hire the KKK to Lynch His Black Neighbor
It’s no secret that hate crimes are on the rise since our alleged president was sworn into office. They show up in news reports on a near daily basis. In this latest example, a man in Greenwood, South Carolina, will go down in infamy as one of the worst neighbors ever after attempting to hire…
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Taraji P. Henson Brings Ann Atwater's Activism to Life in The Best of Enemies
It is a biblical fact that Taraji P. Henson has never been the one, and so it is fitting for her to play activist and disruptor Ann Atwater in the new film The Best of Enemies. Atwater was a civil rights activist who wasn’t here for anyone’s shit, making it her mission to make sure her…
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Spike Lee Needed More Than Tea After Green Book Won the Oscar for Best Picture
After multiple Oscar nominations and an honorary award, Spike Lee finally won a competitive Oscar for co-writing the adapted screenplay for his film, BlacKkKlansman. However, he still had to take a backseat to Green Book, which won Best Picture of the year. Backstage, Spike channeled our best drunk uncle and had a few words to…
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Meet Eric Porterfield, the GOP Lawmaker Who Believes the LGBTQ Community 'Is a Modern Day Version of the Ku Klux Klan'
I never thought I’d live to see the day where the gay community—a group that has incurred insane amounts of violence and discriminatory behavior—would be compared to the KKK—a hate group that has administered insane amounts of violence and discriminatory behavior. But if America has taught us anything, it’s that where there’s a delusional white…
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Black Trump Supporters Call Democrats Dressed in All White the Ku Klux Klan: 'The Only Thing…Missing Tonight Is the Matching Hood'
Remember Katrina Pierson? Don’t worry if you don’t as only close friends and family actually remember Katrina Pierson. And she’s alive. But way back in 2015 when Trump was just a washed-up reality TV persona trying to become a washed-up reality TV president, Pierson was Trump’s favorite mouthpiece who was on all the talk shows. If…
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School Says Student Who Wore KKK Uniform to Class Was Not Trying to Be Racist
A Missouri school has suspended the teacher of a student who wore a Ku Klux Klan outfit to class but insists that the student was not acting “in a discriminatory way” because it was part of a group project. On Nov. 9, an unnamed student at Poplar Bluff High School came to school dressed in…
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Spike Lee Compares David Duke’s Favorite President’s Administration to the KKK
BlacKkKlansman director Spike Lee sees a lot of similarities between the Ku Klux Klan and today’s administration, specifically around fear-mongering and coded rhetoric (see: the origins of Trump’s popular slogan- “America first.”) “Historically, “America First” was used by the Klan in the 1920’s against immigrants,” said Lee. “This stuff is not new … it’s just…
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BlacKkKlansman Allows You to Laugh at the Ridiculousness of White Supremacy, Then and Now
“With the right white man, you can do anything,”John David Washington says as Ron Stallworth—the black Colorado Springs, Colo., police officer who went “undercover” in the Ku Klux Klan—in Spike Lee’s latest joint, BlacKkKlansman. This sentiment is also an entire mood. Oh, AmeriKKKa. Stallworth’s tale of infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan might be set in…
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Sounds Like David Duke Is Afraid BlacKkKlansman Will Make Him Look Like a Dumb Fool Instead of Just a Racist One
The man who inspired Spike Lee’s new movie, BlacKkKlansman, says that the man he conned forty years ago—none other than the KKK’s Grandwizard David Duke—is concerned that the critically acclaimed new film might make him look stupid. The film, already considered to be one of Lee’s best in recent years, follows the journey of Ron…