Politics
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Remember When the Worst Thing We Had to Worry About Was the President Getting a Blow Job?
In the last two weeks, Americans have gone from wondering whether we were all going to die in World War III against North Korea to wondering if we’re going to die at the hands of roving bands of white nationalist redshirts with Timothy McVeigh dreams and Breitbart logins. Just two days ago, with people still…
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How Trump Ruined My Relationship With My White Mother
Like most of America, I’ve had a week. Whereas Charlottesville, Va., touched off a week of necessary discussions, debates and arguments centering largely on our president’s ignorance and emboldening of the very real problems in America, I’ve had exhausting, draining and, ultimately, disappointing arguments about America’s race problem within my own house with my mother.…
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The President of the United States Is a Terrorist Sympathizer. Now What?
On Tuesday, Donald Trump’s equivocation on the Charlottesville, Va., white supremacist rallies that plunged into violence and acts of terrorism forced America to accept an unmistakable, undeniable and utterly horrifying fact: Donald Trump, president of the United States, is a terrorist sympathizer. You can use whatever euphemisms you’d like—Trump is a terrorist supporter, Trump is…
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‘I Hope Trump Is Assassinated!’: Mo. State Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal Investigated by Secret Service for Trump Facebook Post
It all started late Wednesday night after a long day of absorbing the same horrible racist news that the rest of America has been enduring. Nobody feels particularly safe or secure watching the president of the United States give a free hunting license to white nationalists, but it’s particularly hard for Maria Chappelle-Nadal, the state…
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Media Portray an Unpresidential President
Poll Agrees Trump Was Weak on Charlottesville CNN Refuses Anti-Media Trump Campaign Ad With Trump, Resist Making False Equivalency ‘This Virtually Is a Terrorist Movement’ ESPN Sorry for Fantasy Auction of Black Players 2 Black Republicans Say NABJ Slights Conservatives The Root Adds ‘Very Smart Brothas’ What It Was Like to Be Kicked Out of…
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Maine Gov. Paul LePage Compares Removing Confederate Statues to Losing 9/11 Memorial
Maine Gov. Paul LePage continues to prove that he has indeed lost his damn mind, comparing the removal of Confederate monuments to removing a monument to those who died in the 9/11 attacks. According to the Associated Press, LePage made the comments Thursday morning on WGAN-AM when asked for his reaction to the violent white…
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How Wes Bellamy, the 30-Year-Old Vice Mayor of Charlottesville, Va., Plans to Move His City Forward
As the racial divide that has always existed in America turns from a deep fissure to a gaping chasm (which side will you choose?), the city of Charlottesville, Va., remains at the center of that divide’s latest incarnation, especially after a woman lost her life at the hands of rabid white supremacists last week. After…
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Some of Us Are Not Convinced Y’all’s President Won’t Start a Nuclear War
Let select members of the Tropicana Jong-il administration tell it, we needn’t worry about the threat of looming nuclear war. During an appearance on ABC’s This Week, national security adviser H.R. McMaster was asked whether or not the United States was any closer to war with North Korea than it had been in recent memory.…
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Under Obama, Blackness Grew Belligerent. Under Trump, the KKK Grows a Face
The last week has seen images of the Ku Klux Klan grip news coverage on Charlottesville, Va. However, they weren’t the images of old: that hooded, grotesque interpretation of mythical Southern-gent chivalry, who lynched and brandished fire in faceless anonymity. The new Klan had a face. To understand why, we need to talk about belligerence.…
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‘Black’ Surrogates Take to Social Media to Tap-Dance for Trump’s White Supremacist Bullshit
President Donald Trump defended white supremacists in George Wallace fashion yesterday at Trump Tower in New York City, and like clockwork, his black surrogates took to social media to step and fetch for him. It doesn’t matter that a white supremacist is being held on a second-degree murder charge after, law-enforcement officials say, he rammed…