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Why Would Any Black Person Want to Serve in Trump’s Administration?
There are many reasons for anyone of conscience not to serve in the administration of our hate-mongering, habanero-hue-having president-elect. He is a racist. He is a sexist. He is a xenophobe. Likewise, there are plenty of reasons for a black man in particular not to want to serve in the administration of such a character.…
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Trump on OSU Attacker: He ‘Should Not Have Been in Our Country’
President-elect Donald Trump is at it again. Shortly after the news that Abdul Razak Ali Artan—who stabbed students on the Ohio State University campus Monday—was a refugee from Somali, Trump took to Twitter to claim he “should not have been in our country.” The attack left 11 people injured and Artan dead, CBS News reports.…
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Trump Believes Flag Burners Should Lose Citizenship or Spend a Year in Jail
President-elect Donald Trump is destroying freedoms on Twitter again. Despite two U.S. Supreme Court rulings that burning the U.S. flag is a right protected under the First Amendment of the Constitution, Trump tweeted Tuesday that burning the American flag should result in a penalty that could include jail time or loss of citizenship. “Nobody should…
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After Months of Spouting White Nationalist Sentiments, Trump Denounces Alt-Right
President-elect Donald Trump, who spent his entire campaign spouting white nationalist rhetoric, has once again tried to distance himself from the hate-filled groups. White supremacists, who have tried to rebrand themselves as the “alt-right,” have been praising Trump’s victory as a plus for their agenda, the Associated Press reports. “I disavow and condemn them,” Trump…
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Trump 'Strongly Considering' Ben Carson for Housing Secretary
On Tuesday, Donald Trump tweeted that he’s strongly considering former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson for a Cabinet position. Here’s the kicker: Carson has already said he doesn’t want a job in the president-elect’s administration. So, either someone isn’t listening or someone has reneged on his earlier statement, or both. While a spokesperson for Carson…
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Introducing Trump's 2016 Alt-Right All-Star Hate Team
Following an intense election season in which even the preseason scrimmages were filled with intense excitement, the American political system finally crowned the most unlikely candidate as its 2016 electoral champion. As always, the winning side gets to choose its own all-star team, and after the new president-elect took his celebratory victory lap, Donald J.…
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Does Sage Steele Think All Lives Matter?
ESPN commentator Sage Steele has found herself in the middle of a Twitter fray since Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans took a knee to protest Donald Trump’s presidential victory. Steele posted this: And all hell broke loose. Steele was accused of being everything but a child of god. Many saw her stance as…
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Report: Trump Team Is Building Plans for Wall, Considering Muslim Registry
President-elect Donald Trump hasn’t even picked a transition team, but that hasn’t stopped those in his proposed administration from looking for loopholes to avoid getting congressional approval on the construction of a wall at the U.S.-Mexican border. And that isn’t all. Trump has also been seeking advice from Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, “an…
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What Pain Has to Teach in the Advent of a Trump Presidency
“Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.” —Audre Lorde I’ll never forget Valentine’s Day my sophomore year in high school. My social status had been uplifted from chubby black kid to chubby black kid who does sports. And with my freshly…