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Tiki Brand Denounces Use of Its Torches During White Supremacist Rally
Tiki Brand is probably used to being associated with pleasant things like barbecues (or cookouts) on a hot summer day, or just a fancy way to spruce up your lawn decoration. That’s probably why the brand, which is owned by Lamplight Farms Inc., swiftly denounced the use of its products by white supremacists this past…
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#NoConfederate: Charlottesville Proves That Confederate Is Already Real, so HBO, Are You Still Fucking Serious With This?
For those of you just tuning in, what was supposed to be a protest against the removal of Confederate monuments in the city of Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday turned into a full-blown Ku Klux Klan, “alt-right,” neo-Nazi revival meeting complete with burning torches, black people being attacked and beaten by racist whites, and an innocent…
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Watch ‘Unite the Right’ Rally Organizer Jason Kessler Run for His Life
I guess organizing a gathering of hateful bigots where a person was murdered is a … bad thing? Huh? Who knew! If the guy behind the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va. (who, for some fool reason, attempted to hold a press conference Sunday), didn’t know, the crowd of “indict for murder!” protesters who…
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Are These Some of the White Supremacists Who Assaulted Deandre Harris in Charlottesville, Va.?
Updated Sunday, Aug. 13, 2017, 7:12 p.m. EDT: It looks as though the internet has identified one of the assailants involved in the beating of Deandre Harris as Daniel (Dan) Borden from Mason, Ohio. Earlier: When it comes to sleuthing, nothing beats the keen eyes of people on the internet. And after this weekend’s neo-Nazi…
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Lexington, Ky., Mayor Says Confederate Statues Are Coming Down After Charlottesville, Va., Tragedy
It usually takes a tragedy for there to be any substantive change around race in this country, and perhaps the death of Heather Heyer is the latest in that vein. On Saturday the mayor of Lexington, Ky., said that he is going to remove two Confederate monuments from his city’s former courthouse in light of…
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Here’s Why Jeff Sessions Federal Investigation Into Charlottesville, Va.’s White Supremacy Rally Is Bullshit
Who are we kidding? Attorney General Jeff “King Keebler” Sessions’ federal investigation into the torch-wielding white supremacist march on Charlottesville, Va., is going to be an inconclusive waste of resources and efforts. In fact, when I first learned that Sessions was going to open an investigation, I joked that he was probably going to research…
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Drunk American Assaulted After Giving Nazi Salute in Germany
These fools gon’ learn one day. The Associated Press is reporting that a “drunken American man” was summarily slugged for giving the Nazi salute in downtown Dresden, Germany. The 41-year-old, who is not yet identified (internet sleuths, get on it!), suffered minor injuries in the 8:15 a.m. Saturday assault, according to police. The American is…
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Interview: 20-Year-Old Deandre Harris Speaks Out About Being Assaulted by White Supremacists in Charlottesville, Va.
Twenty-year-old aspiring hip-hop artist Deandre Harris moved to Charlottesville, Va., from Suffolk, Va., two years ago for a job opportunity as an instructional assistant in the special education program at a local high school. But nothing could prepare him for what he experienced Saturday afternoon, when he took part in a counterprotest against the Unite…
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Va. Woman Killed in Charlottesville Car Attack: Report
The lone victim killed during a peaceful counterprotest against white supremacist hate during the Charlottesville, Va., rally Saturday has been identified as Heather Heyer. Although police have not officially identified the woman who died in the crash, family and friends of Heyer, a 32-year-old paralegal with the Miller Law Group, have confirmed that she was…
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Marshawn Lynch Sits During National Anthem at Raiders Preseason Game
Marshawn Lynch has always been a man who marched to his own drum. Frankly, I think he’s a genius who’s laughing at all of us; for me, that was confirmed when he was one of very few high-profile NFL players who came out in support of Colin Kaepernick’s principled stand for black lives last year.…