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Dale Earnhardt Jr. Earns Provisional Invitation to the Cookout
A few years ago I bought a house in Darlington, S.C., a town so small that there was nothing there but a gas station, a McDonald’s, a Huddle House (a bootleg, better-tasting Waffle House—fight me) and the Darlington Raceway, a 58,000-seat NASCAR track. I was shocked to see people the same color as me wearing…
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Car Dealership Pulls TV Ads With NFL Star Von Miller After He Takes a Knee
A Colorado car dealership curiously pulled all of its television ads featuring Denver Broncos linebacker Von Miller after he took a knee to protest the flag, the national anthem, the military, white people, Donald Trump, injustice and inequality on Sunday. The Denver Post reports that a local television station’s claims that Miller was fired as…
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British Airways Flight Attendant Goes on Racist Rant About Nigerian Passengers and ‘BBC’
A British Airways flight attendant is now under investigation after a revealing Snapchat video showed her complaining about her job and the size of Nigerian passengers’ penises. According to Australia’s 9 News, the flight attendant recorded the video on her way to work Friday and complained about the Nigerian passengers she’d have to encounter. “All…
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TLC’s T-Boz Demands Justice for Cousin Killed by Ill. Police
T-Boz wants justice for her mentally ill 25-year-old cousin who was shot 18 times by Peoria, Ill., police after officers said surveillance footage showed him committing armed robbery at the First Mid-Illinois Bank & Trust. But according to the singer, the officers’ stories aren’t matching up and have been changing over the last couple of…
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Grand Jury Will Not Indict Teen Charged With Choking Mom’s Abusive Ex-Boyfriend to Death
A grand jury has declined to indict a Bronx, N.Y., teen who was facing manslaughter charges in the death of his mother’s ex-boyfriend. Luis Moux, 18, told police that he was acting to save his mother’s life when he put 43-year-old Stanley Washington in a choke hold, which ended the older man’s life. As reported…
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‘We Still Have No Clue of What Being Born White Means’: San Antonio Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich Goes In on White Privilege
Media day for the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs at one point turned into an instance of coach Gregg Popovich delivering a speech that condemned Donald Trump’s recent comments about players protesting, called the United States an embarrassment to the world and called out white privilege for what it is. Popovich told the gathered reporters that…
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St. Louis Board of Aldermen Passes Resolution to Remember Anthony Lamar Smith, Who Was Killed by Now-Former Police Officer Jason Stockley
As protests over the acquittal of former Police Officer Jason Stockley continued throughout the city of St. Louis, the Board of Aldermen on Friday voted unanimously to approve a resolution honoring the man he killed in 2011: Anthony Lamar Smith. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that on the same day, St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson…
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Trump Adds North Korea to His Infamous Travel Ban: Power Move or More Child’s Play From the Idiot in Chief?
We all laughed over the weekend when, in response to Golden State Warriors point guard Steph Curry saying that he didn’t want to go to the White House, Donald Trump responded with something akin to, “Yeah! Well, I disinvite you anyway!” It was yet another juvenile moment in a long line of juvenile moments this…
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Compton, Calif., Cops Claim They Know Who Killed Tupac
In a newly released documentary, two former members of Compton, Calif.’s police gang unit claim to reveal that a man named Orlando Anderson fired the bullets that killed rap icon Tupac Shakur. The two-hour program, hosted by journalist Soledad O’Brien and Ice-T, aired on Fox on Sunday night. In the show, Timothy Brennan and Robert…
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Shannon Sharpe on NFL Protest: ‘I’m Disappointed, and I’m Unimpressed’
Shannon Sharpe, the Hall of Fame former NFL tight end-turned-the most woke sports analyst to ever to do it, is back at it again dropping straight gems. Sharpe wasn’t feeling the show of NFL locked-arm unity after President Donald Trump came out and declared that any player who protested during the national anthem should be…