Politics
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8 Shows That Will Be on ‘Trump TV’ if Donald Trump Loses the Election
The American voter finally has confirmation of what we were thinking all along: Donald Trump doesn’t really want to be president. All the evidence is there: He’s run a Dumpster fire of a campaign, and even though he managed to blow through 16 mealymouthed Republicans in the primaries while completely taking command of the Republican…
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Donald Trump at the Apollo Sounds Like the Recipe for a Race Riot
If he has his way, Donald Trump may have laid the groundwork for a race riot right by Red Lobster. According to the New York Daily News, the Trump campaign has been actively trying to book the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem for a rally. Apparently, organizers have been calling “every day,” though there is…
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What Conservatives Really Mean When They Talk About Rap
What you say about somebody else reveals you. What I think of you as being is dictated by my own necessities, my own psychology, my own fears and desires. I’m not describing you when I talk about you; I’m describing me. —James Baldwin Donald Trump supporters have continually found new, improbable ways to rationalize the…
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For Colored Folk Who Have Considered Suicide When This Election Was Too Much
There is not a lot of joy this election season. Everyone knows that we probably won’t live to see another ridiculously upbeat campaign season like 2008, when it was literally “cool” to go out and vote for then-Sen. Barack Obama, but 2016 has been an emotional letdown nonetheless. The choice between Hillary Clinton, with her…
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Former Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon Rejoins Race for Mayor With Write-In Campaign
Some people thought they had seen the last of former Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon. They couldn’t have been more wrong. Dixon, alternately one of the most beloved and hated figures in Baltimore politics, will officially announce her write-in candidacy for mayor in the Nov. 8 general election Tuesday morning. “While a write-in candidate has never been…
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Hillary Clinton Needs to Let the 'Bitch' Loose on Trump
I ran for office once. My opponent was a loud, sugar-hyped seventh-grader, and we were running for seventh-grade class president. Although he didn’t have an orange tan or comb-over like Donald Trump, he was just as big a bully as Trump. But that’s expected in the seventh grade. During our run for class president, this…
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For Sexual Assault Victims, Donald Trump Is Triggering
“Grab her [p—sy].” —Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump First, my grandmother’s spirit lives through me, and I literally clutch my pearls in absolute shock and disgust. Second, this race is no longer about a partisan fight for me. This is a fight for humanity, decency and respect. It is a fight for the 27-year-old me…
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Yusef Salaam of the Central Park Five: Trump ‘Unfit to Be President’
Yusef Salaam has been living in the dark shadow of Donald Trump since he was a teenager accused, and convicted, of raping a woman in New York City’s Central Park more than 27 years ago. It was a crime of which he was innocent. “I still have to defend myself,” says Salaam. “I still have…
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The #TrumpTape Debate: Either Hillary Clinton Wins the Debate or America Has Lost Its Way
Donald Trump is in serious trouble with his own party heading into the crucial town hall debate against Hillary Clinton on Sunday night. Not because he denies climate change, threatens to nuke half the world, won’t share his finances, most likely didn’t pay taxes for 20 years, stiffed hundreds of employees, offers a safe haven…