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It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye: The Long AF Year of 2018
It’s that time where people reminisce about the good, the bad and the ugly of their year. Fortunately, I had an amazing year—much of which had to do with becoming a video producer at The Root. (Ask any of my family or friends, I haven’t stopped doing the Milly Rock since.)And despite being an overall…
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#PermitPatty Reported a 13-Year-Old Selling Hot Dogs. Instead of Shutting Him Down, the City Helped Him Get His Permit
Not today, Satan. Or in this case, not today #PermitPatty. An old sourpuss who was trying to kill a Minneapolis’ teen entrepreneurial spirit did not prosper after the city rallied together to get him the proper permit to continue is business. Jaequan Faulkner had been cooking hot dogs outside his home, selling them to raise…
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#PermitPatty Said She Only ‘Pretended’ to Call the Police. The 911 Recording Says … That Was a Lie
You probably saw this headline and thought to yourself: “Another article about this woman? Again?!” The answer is yes. Another one. Because if you are a grown-ass white woman named Alison Ettel who either threatens, pretends to or actually calls 911 on an 8-year-old black girl for “selling water across from the ballpark” while “not…
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#PermitPatty Resigns From Her Cannabis Company Amid Blowback From Bullying an 8-Year-Old
In a recent interview with NBC News, Alison Ettel—the rogue canine-cannabis dealer who has been dubbed #PermitPatty by the unrelenting and unforgiving internet—said that she regrets how she handled the situation with her 8-year-old black neighbor who was selling bottled water in order to earn money for a trip to Disneyland. Ettel said that if…
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The Comeuppance Continues: At Least 6 Businesses Cut Ties With #PermitPatty After Viral Video
Sometimes it can seem difficult to get real, actual justice from the criminal-justice system, but some good old internet justice is trying to make up for it with swift, brutal and efficient precision. And #PermitPatty, the infamous white woman who called the police on an 8-year-old black girl selling water, is the latest to feel…
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From White Privilege to White Tears: #PermitPatty Sobs That She Really Didn’t Mean for Police to Come
The same white woman who used her white-woman privilege first to bully an 8-year-old black girl who was selling water and then to call the police on said little black girl for being noncompliant is now pouring out her white-woman tears in the aftermath of the incident and wants everyone to feel sorry for her.…
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#PermitPatty: White Woman Calls Police on 8-Year-Old Black Girl Selling Water, Says She Was Tired of the Noise [Updated]
Updated: Saturday, June 23, 2018, 6:17 p.m. EDT: The woman appropriately dubbed #PermitPatty has been identified as Alison Ettel, who owns a weed-for-dogs business in San Francisco. But get this: Ettel, in an interview with HuffPost, says that she was not racially motivated to snitch on the 8-year-old but was tired of hearing the noise.…