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Fighting in Style: Fashion Helps Us Do the Right Thing
Fashion has always been a frontline method of communication for me; it’s one of the ways I telegraph my mood, my power and my place in the world. And fashion was one of the many weapons used by women during the 2018 Women’s March, where marchers were clad in everything from baby booties to jackboots.…
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That Time I Staged a 1-Man Die-In, or … Why I’m Banned From the Apple Store
I was chatting with Deputy Managing Editor Yesha Callahan on Monday about suffering through a terrible tragedy this weekend in which I cracked my iPhone screen. While telling her about my experience trekking through the holiday shopping crowd to the Apple Store, she assaulted me with a demeaning joke. “There’s an Apple Store in Alabama?”…
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High School Teacher Suspended After Bragging About Failing Students Who Refused to Stand for the Pledge of Allegiance
It’s never too late for your shitty ways to catch up with you, and a Uniondale (N.Y.) High School health teacher is learning that the hard way after being removed from the classroom after bragging on a Facebook post that he had failed two students more than a decade ago partially because they would not…
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White People Are Smashing Their Coffee Machines to Show Support for Child Molestation
Those people are at it again. You know who I’m talking about. The ecru-colored citizens who turn beet red at facts and statistics, who wondered why they weren’t included in the phrase #BlackLivesMatter and who called it a “terrorist organization.” The taupe Americans who cried butt-hurt boo-hoos when football players did exactly what they suggested…
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White Supremacists Have Scheduled a Sequel to Charlottesville, Va., for Saturday in Tennessee
Gobs of half-literate, thick-tongued troglodytes will convene in Shelbyville and Murfreesboro, Tenn., on Saturday to fight for the rights of the great, marginalized white race. What: The residents of Shelbyville are bracing themselves for another racistpalooza held by two groups—including one of the most prominent organizations from Charlottesville, Va.’s Unite the Right rally, which produced…
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Black NHL Player Receives Death Threats After Raising Fist During National Anthem
With his fist raised high Saturday night, Tampa Bay Lightning player J.T. Brown became the first NHL player to protest police brutality during the national anthem. After taking action, Brown took to social media to explain and defend his position. The forward also admitted that his gesture had provoked death threats from racist Twitter users.…
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La. High School Says It Will Remove Players From Team if They Do Not Stand for National Anthem
What is the First Amendment? Seems as if Parkway High School in Bossier Parish, La., may need a refresher because the principal of that school just issued a letter to parents Thursday saying that students will be suspended (and/or ultimately removed) from sports teams if they attempt to demonstrate in any way during the national…
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Fla. Mom Says 6-Year-Old Son Was Reprimanded for Taking a Knee During Pledge of Allegiance
An outraged Florida mother says that her 6-year-old son was publicly admonished for deciding to take a knee Monday during the recital of the Pledge of Allegiance, and now she is calling into question the way in which the school handled the incident. According to ABC News, Eugenia McDowell’s precocious little boy decided to kneel…
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Patriotism Is for Black People
We have all stood in the grocery store and watched a kid (usually white) scream at his or her mother in a volume and tone that defies our mama’s mantra of “When we go in this store, you bet’ not say nothing, touch nothing or want nothing.” Alternately, we’ve all heard a mother (usually black)…
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SC Restaurant: We’re Banning NFL Games Until Players Stand During Anthem, but Serving Trash Crab Legs Is OK
Looks like another bum is uninviting people from a place no one was going to anyway. This particular idiot is David McCraw, owner of the Palmetto Restaurant & Ale House in Greenville, S.C. According to the Associated Press, McCraw is banning NFL games from being played at his sports bar until all players stand for…