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Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Voter Suppression … Again
In a 5-4 decision along partisan lines, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that Ohio’s voter-suppression campaign was totally fine. The previous sentence should be longer. It should contain an explanation on why Ohio purges its voter roles. There should probably be a convoluted paragraph filled with legalese about constitutional interpretation juxtaposed against the enumerated…
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Black People Aren’t Stupid: The False Notion That Kanye and Kim Are Helping Trump Win Black Voters
Although I am rarely amazed by racism, privilege or America in general, when it comes to the audacity of whiteness, I am sometimes astounded at white people’s perception of black people. I often marvel at the Caucasian notion of our inherent simplemindedness; the idea that dangling any dancing black puppet in front of the Negro…
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Ilhan Omar, a Somali American, Seeks Seat in Congress
Ilhan Omar is a Somali-American politician who escaped from Somalia as a child, grew up in a Kenyan refugee camp and later immigrated to Minnesota. Years after immigrating, she became the nation’s first and only Somali-American lawmaker when she won a seat in the Minnesota House of Representatives. Now she is ready to become the…
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Bye, Tabbie: Missouri Waitress Fired After Horrific Racist Video About ‘N-Word Hunting’
A Jefferson County, Mo., waitress is out of a job after she was filmed in a horrific racist video that went viral. The video shows Tabitha “Tabbie” Duncan, 20, riding on top of a pickup truck down a dark country road. “So we’re going nigger hunting today or what?” a man off camera asks. “We’re…
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Man Arrested for Threatening to Bomb ‘Black’ Harvard Graduation Ceremony
An Arizona man was so incensed, so filled with burning hatred for the black Harvard students who had the audacity to hold their own, separate graduation ceremony last year, that he allegedly threatened to bomb the school and shoot the students who partook in the event. That man, Nicholas Zuckerman, was arrested Friday. USA Today…
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Dennis Rodman Arrives in Singapore Ahead of Trump and Kim Jong Un’s Summit, and This Proves I’m a Soothsayer
Look, I don’t like to brag, but I’m kind of a big deal. One of my best traits is how humble I am. I’ve been known to predict the weather, R&B-group breakups, LeBron James leaving Miami and leaving Cleveland again, and Dennis Rodman needing to be at the summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong…
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Terrell Owens Calls Jason Whitlock and Michael Irvin Uncle Toms, Offers Irvin ‘Powdered’ Doughnut
The newest Pro Football Hall of Famer, who has no plans of attending his own induction ceremony, Terrell Owens, is currently involved in a hilarious Twitter feud with former Dallas Cowboy Michael Irvin and arguably the worst person to ever don a detective hat without a trace of irony, Jason Whitlock. Recently Whitlock, the Hamburglar…
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More Than 70 Criminal Cases Tossed Out After Missouri Highway Patrol Trooper’s Conduct Called ‘Unacceptable’ and ‘Questionable’
Concerns about the conduct of a Missouri Highway Patrol trooper have led to the dismissal of dozens of suspected criminals as well as the review of hundreds of traffic tickets. Of course, because police accountability is as elusive as Big Foot, the identity of the trooper involved in the case has not been revealed. Local…
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Stormy Daniels’ Lawyer Michael Avenatti Wanted Evidence of Rudy Giuliani’s Porn Habits. Looks Like He Found It
The lawyer beef started sometime last week after the president’s newest counsel, Rudy Giuliani, went on a sex-worker-bashing tirade in an attempt to defame Stormy Daniels’ alleged affair with President Donald Trump in 2006. “I don’t believe Stormy Daniels. … The business you were in entitles you to no degree of giving your credibility any…
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46 of 47 Arrested in Low-Level Marijuana Stings Were Black, So Minneapolis Police Put an End to the Operations
Minneapolis police will no longer conduct sting operations targeting small-scale marijuana sellers after a gaping racial disparity was uncovered in the practice. Basically, they realized that everyone being arrested was black—as in, literally, 46 out of the 47 people arrested this year in these stings have been black—and they actually decided to do something about…