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‘Silence Is Common’: White Man Who Put Racist Restaurant Owner on Blast Says White People Need to Speak Up About Racism
For weeks, Don Merckle wondered what he might have done to make the owner of Main Street Public House confide in him about his racism. Was it his tattoos? His trucker hat? His beard? As Merckle, a musician based in Columbia, S.C., tells it, he was in a bar talking to co-owner Jimmy Latulipe about…
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When Caucasity Costs You Your Coin: #PoolPatrolPaula Fired After Harassing Black Teens at Public Pool
The woman known to many online as Pool Patrol Paula (real name: Stephanie Sebby-Strempel) may soon be an Unemployment Line Lindsey. Sebby-Strempel’s employer, Rodan + Fields, an American skin-care company, cut her this week after the backlash against Sebby-Strempel made its way into the company’s inboxes and Twitter mentions. “In accordance with our policies and…
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Joe Jackson, Controversial Patriarch of a Musical Dynasty, Has Died at 89
Joseph Walter Jackson, who aspired to be a musician himself, instead became the mastermind behind the most successful musical family in pop history, attracting much controversy along the way. He died Wednesday morning in Los Angeles, according to TMZ. He was 89. Family sources told TMZ that Jackson died of cancer. He was surrounded by…
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Former Firefighter Arrested on Charges He Hanged Doll With Noose Outside His Black Neighbor’s Apartment
When 28-year-old Dante Petty moved to Grapevine, Texas, with his young daughter in June 2017, he says they immediately began to have issues with his white neighbor who lived in the apartment beneath them. Back in January, Petty made a Facebook post describing the torment he had been put through, the acts of aggression that…
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Officer Who Killed Unarmed Teen Antwon Rose II Charged With Homicide
Officer Michael Rosfeld, the East Pittsburgh police officer caught on camera shooting an unarmed 17-year-old in the back as he ran away, has been charged on one count of criminal homicide. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Rosfeld turned himself in at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday in City Court in downtown Pittsburgh, where he was granted an…
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Pennsylvania Mayor Urges Cops to Treat Pittsburgh Protesters Like It’s 1963
The mayor of a Pittsburgh suburb called on police officers to go old school on the people protesting the officer-involved shooting of a 17-year-old, even offering a photographic example: a historic photograph of cops attacking kids with water cannons and police dogs during the Birmingham, Ala., 1963 Children’s Crusade. According to WTAE-TV, Arnold, Pa., Mayor…
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Black Actor Says He Was Kicked Out of Restaurant Because of Hoodie, While White Customer in Similar Dress Was Allowed to Stay
A New York City actor and comedian says he believes he was targeted based on his race after he was kicked out of a Buffalo, N.Y., restaurant because he was wearing a hoodie. Chris Jarell, 27, said that security and a manager from Bada Bing booted him out of the establishment on June 22 while…
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Crazy-Racist White Woman Assaults Black Teens and Insults Them With Racial Slurs at Public Swimming Pool: Report
Add to the list of things you cannot do while black: go swimming with your friends at the community pool and mind your business on a hot weekend day. Meet Stephanie Sebby-Strempel of Dorchester County, S.C. She is currently taking up space in the Dorchester County Jail, facing one count of third-degree assault and two…
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Why Is Sarah Huckabee Sanders Reportedly Getting Secret Service Protection?
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has dominated the headlines this week after a restaurant owner in Lexington, Va., refused to serve her Friday night and asked her to leave. There are now reports that Sanders will receive special protection from the Secret Service. A law enforcement official told NBC News’ Pete Williams that…
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#PermitPatty Resigns From Her Cannabis Company Amid Blowback From Bullying an 8-Year-Old
In a recent interview with NBC News, Alison Ettel—the rogue canine-cannabis dealer who has been dubbed #PermitPatty by the unrelenting and unforgiving internet—said that she regrets how she handled the situation with her 8-year-old black neighbor who was selling bottled water in order to earn money for a trip to Disneyland. Ettel said that if…