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15 Syracuse University Frat Boys Suspended Over ‘Extremely Racist’ Video Skit
Racist, sexist and all-around offensive humor still seems to be a favorite pastime for college kids who love to use the n-word and smear on blackface for fun. On Tuesday, Syracuse University suspended 15 members of a professional fraternity and banned the frat from the school for life after they appeared in two videos that…
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‘Jena 6’ Defendant Gives University of Washington Law School Commencement Address
One of the six young men jailed for allegedly participating in a racially induced fight in Louisiana some years ago has graduated from law school and gave the commencement address Sunday. Theodore Roosevelt Shaw was 17 in 2006, one of the so-called Jena Six, who made international headlines after the charges brought against him and…
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Black Charlottesville, Va., Flame Thrower Found Guilty of Disorderly Conduct, Sentenced to 20 Days in Jail
The commonwealth of Virginia, not known to be the friendliest place for black defendants, has given the young man who used a spray-paint can and lighter to defend himself against gun-wielding racists 360 days for disorderly conduct (all but 20 were suspended). Corey Alexander Long, who was a counterprotester at last August’s Unite the Right…
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Dancing Dermatologist Has License Yanked by Georgia Medical Board
There is no saving face for dermatologist Windell Davis-Boutte. The dancing doctor, who hit medical infamy after videos surfaced of her rapping and dancing to “Cut It” by O.T. Genasis—and crooning “Gut don’t live here anymore” to Rose Royce’s “Love Don’t Live Here Anymore”—over unconscious patients, had her medical license suspended by Georgia’s Composite Medical…
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Alabama’s Republican Nominee for Chief Justice Might Be the Only Judge More Racist Than Roy Moore
The man who could replace Roy Moore as the next chief justice of Alabama’s Supreme Court is a lot like Moore—only more racist and homophobic. Let’s be clear. Roy Moore is a racist. Moore insinuated that the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, should be repealed. He said that the last time America was great was…
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Philadelphia Police Department Changes Trespassing Policy After Starbucks Incident
The Philadelphia Police Department announced that it will change the way officers handle trespassing calls after a debacle in which two men were arrested in a Center City Starbucks café for possession of blackness with intent to exist. In April, Starbucks employee Holly Hilton alerted police officers to the presence of Rashon Nelson and Donte…
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Wakanda Mess Is This? Teacher Believes Wakanda Is a Real Country After Student’s Presentation
I can’t believe wypipo really think Wakanda is real. A Marvel fanatic and college student, known as AlexeyShved1 on Reddit, gave a presentation on Wakanda, its economy and power struggle. The student’s professor surely believed the presentation because she’d never even heard of the Black Panther movie! The whole thing came about after the student…
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NYC Schools Chancellor Tells Desegregation Opponents: No One ‘Owns Admission’ to Top Schools
New York City schools Chancellor Richard Carranza minced no words Tuesday when he addressed Asian activists opposing a new plan to desegregate the city’s specialized public schools. Members of some Asian communities had expressed outrage over a new plan that would change the admissions process for the city’s most competitive and prestigious high schools, calling…
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Trump Wants to Posthumously Pardon Muhammad Ali, Who Rolled Over in His Grave so the President Could Kiss His Ass
Not sure if Donald Trump believes that all deceased black boxers need pardoning or if he just likes pardoning things, but during his nearly 18-minute rant on the White House lawn Friday before heading off to embarrass America once again on the global stage at the G-7 summit, the president floated the idea of pardoning…
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Trump Wants to Ask Kneeling NFL Players Whom He Should Pardon Next
President Donald Trump won’t handle the basic duties of presidenting, like not tweeting from the White House executive bathroom in the early morning, but now he’s becoming the Oprah of pardons. For some reason unbeknownst to anyone, Trump offered to speak with NFL players who have kneeled during the national anthem in protest of the…