Politics
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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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South Fulton, Ga.’s Entire Criminal-Justice System Is Run by Black Women
“Let black woman lead” is the mantra, and it looks as if one city in Georgia has taken it to heart. Only a year after its creation, South Fulton, the fifth-largest city in Georgia, has every aspect of its criminal-justice system run by African-American women, and unsurprisingly, its approach to criminal justice is among the…
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Trump Admits the NFL Protests Actually Worked
Donald J. Trump, president of white America; the man who referred to the black mothers of NFL players kneeling for injustice and inequality as “bitches”; the man who painted Colin Kaepernick as anti-American and insinuated that anyone who didn’t stand for the NFL’s paid display of patriotism was an unpatriotic degenerate who didn’t respect the…
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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…
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Ben Carson Backs Off Newest HUD Plan, Which Would Raise Rent for Poor Households by 20 Percent
During a press conference in Detroit on Thursday, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson appeared to back off from a controversial plan that would have raised rent among the poorest Americans. Talking about the new initiative, Carson said that other funding had come through, so there was no need to increase rent payments,…
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Is Trump’s Biggest Frustration That He Can’t Watch Porn in the White House? MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski Thinks So
President Donald Trump is a thot. Porn actress Stormy Daniels told us this when she revealed that the president of the Piggly Wiggly likes being spanked on his untanned buttocks with a Forbes magazine. And that isn’t even considering the “water sports” that allegedly took place with Russian hookers. Well, it turns out that you…
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Black Firefighter Being Burned for Kneeling During the National Anthem
Add this to the list of things you cannot do while being black: exercise your First Amendment rights. Oh, wait. The NFL already made that a thing, right? A black firefighter in Chicago is being burned at the stake by his peers and local journalists alike after he made the decision to kneel on the…
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The True Danger of Trump: How White, Republican Judges Sentence Black People to Longer Prison Terms
While you were worried about Russian collusion, Kardashian pardons, national anthem protests, trade tariffs, border walls and Melania Trump’s secret face-lift kidney surgery, the Trump administration has been successfully implementing an insidious plan that threatens to reverberate in black America for decades to come. When it comes to the black community, despite what media headlines…