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Trump’s Private Clubs Ask Government for More Foreign Workers
Well, isn’t this just like the 1 percent? While the president is currently pushing to build a dumb-ass wall that no one wants and the administration is looking to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration policy, Trump International Beach Resort has asked the government for permission to hire more temporary foreign workers to…
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Mo. Man, Tired of Being Called Racist for Flying a Confederate Flag, Puts Up ‘Slaves 4 Sale’ Sign in Retaliation Because That Makes Complete Sense
Y’all, there’s dumb and then there’s dumb. And one Liberty, Mo., resident is literally the representation of being “dumber than a bag of rocks” after throwing up a “Slaves 4 Sale” sign, all because he was mad at his neighbors for apparently treating him like a racist because he hangs a Confederate flag (the flag…
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A Minn. Prosecutor—Not a Grand Jury—to Consider Charges in Death of Justine Damond
With an official state probe into the death of Justine Damond at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer completed, Minnesota prosecutors will now determine whether to bring charges against the officer who shot and killed the 40-year-old woman this past summer. CBS News reports that it’s the third high-profile police shooting case in which…
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Interview: Mother of 8-Year-Old Nearly Hanged in NH Speaks Out on Moving Forward With Her Son
Most of us were saddened and disgusted by the graphic photo of the little boy from Claremont, N.H., who was nearly hanged from a tree. If that wasn’t bad enough, the town’s police chief went on record shortly thereafter, saying of the kids who assaulted the biracial 8-year-old: “Mistakes they make as a young child…
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Texas City Councilman Casually Drops Racial Slur While Attempting to Prove How Not Racist He Is After Controversial Facebook Post
Talk about not quitting while you’re ahead. A Schertz, Texas, city councilman decided to put his whole entire leg in his mouth and use a racial slur while apologizing for a controversial Facebook meme that caused backlash from his constituency. Following the massive destruction of Hurricane Harvey in Texas, Councilman Robin Thompson decided that it…
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Justice Department Will Not Bring Charges Against Any of the Officers Involved in Freddie Gray’s Death
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it will not be filing federal civil rights charges against any of the Baltimore police officers involved in the death of Freddie Gray, who died while in police custody. The Associated Press reports that in a statement, the Justice Department said that while Gray’s death was “undeniably…
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Both of Kobe Bryant’s Jerseys Will Be Retired by the Los Angeles Lakers Later This Year
Updated Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017, 7:10 p.m. EDT: Sources have confirmed to ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne that the Los Angeles Lakers will be retiring both of Kobe Bryant’s jersey numbers, 8 and 24, during the ceremony Dec. 18. ESPN notes that the Lakers usually don’t retire a player’s jersey until he is inducted into the Basketball…
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Black Public Figures Are Being Silenced for Calling Out White Supremacy
Blackness is a box. Its sides are close enough that if you spread your arms out far enough, you can touch them with both hands. While its ceiling may be tall, if you fly high enough or long enough, you will eventually crash into it. It is an inescapable boundary that every black person in…
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A Couple of Thoughts for the White Man From Detroit Who Hates Black People Protesting the National Anthem
A metro-Detroit business owner is catching some serious heat for a racist Facebook post in which he used the n-word to call out a black couple protesting the national anthem at a Detroit Lions game. In the post, David Doptis—who, according to WXYZ Detroit, owns a business called Restaurant Liquidation Auctions in Pontiac, Mich.—attached a…