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White Supremacist Gang Member Found Guilty in Hit-and-Run Murder of Black Teenager in Oregon
On Tuesday, a Multnomah County, Ore., jury delivered a guilty verdict against Russell Courtier, a member of a white supremacist gang who ran down a black teenager with his Jeep in 2016. Courtier was found guilty of murder, as well as intimidation (a hate crime in Oregon), and hit-and-run driving. According to Oregon Live, the…
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Portland Police Sergeant to Cops: ‘If You Come Across a Black Person, Just Shoot Them’
This story is about a joke. This story is not about police brutality or cops shooting another unarmed black man. This story is not about a cover-up or cops getting away with it. This is a story about a joke. But in this story, a cop almost gets away with it. Instead of an unarmed…
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#StabbyGabby Spits, Slaps, Screams N-Word and Pulls Knife on Black Family Over Parking Space
A woman was caught on video screaming the n-word and pulling a knife on a black family in an Oregon parking lot, perfectly encapsulating white America’s shenanigans in 2018. On Dec. 24, 20-year-old Emora Roberson captured rare footage of what is either an irate racist albino ferret or a quickly decomposing white woman in the…
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Wild 'N Out, Yet Again: Katt Williams Arrested for Assaulting Driver in Portland, Oregon
We all have the person we root for, doggedly, stubbornly, and despite all the messed up, self-sabotaging stuff they do. Katt Williams, for a reason I don’t quite understand, remains that person for a lot of people, including myself. Williams (born Michah Williams) seemed on the up-and-up for a minute, after a riveting and Emmy-winning…
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Failed Ferguson, Mo., Prosecutor Bob McCulloch Headlined a Conference for District Attorneys. It Did Not Go Well
Nearly four years after failing to indict Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown Jr., a black man; only days after losing his re-election bid to Wesley Bell, a black man; an Oregon organization thought St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch would be the perfect person to headline its annual conference of district…
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Black Teen Assaulted Over Confederate Flag at Kid Rock Concert in Oregon
Here’s a question: If the Confederate flag has nothing to do with racism, and it’s all about Southern pride and history, why does it seem to fly high in areas of the country that are decidedly not in the South? Is it because maybe it’s really a thinly coded reference to racial superiority, support of…
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Congressional Hopeful Calls Melania Trump a 'Hoebag,' Claims She Works By the Hour
Congressional candidate Mark Roberts is hot water after an offensive tweet in which he shamed sex workers and claimed that the first lady—she of the esteemed and highly forgotten, stupidly named Michelle Obama ripoff campaign “Be Best”—a “hoebag.” According to Oregon Live, Roberts, an Oregon 2nd District hopeful running as an Independent, was in a…
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Man Screaming Racial Slurs at Black Teenage Girl Arrested For Threatening to Kill Me, You, Your Mama and Your Cousins Too …
Police arrested an Oregon man after passersby stopped him from allegedly attacking and screaming racist remarks at a 17-year-old black girl while reportedly threatening to murder her, me and presumably all the black people in the world. Ain Avila, 21, was stopped at a red light on a Beaverton, Ore., street when he noticed a…
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#CampaigningWhileBlack: Someone Called the Cops on an Oregon Legislator Who Was Out Canvassing
Turns out you can’t even be a politician while black in these American streets. A black Oregon state representative, who was out canvassing and checking in on her community had the cops called on her by one of her constituents. It be your own people. But seriously, Rep. Janelle Bynum, a Democrat, who is running…