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Georgetown Law Professors Will Take a Knee to Protest Jeff Sessions’ ‘Free Speech’ Visit
Law professors at Georgetown University want Attorney General Jeff Sessions to know he’s exactly the wrong one to talk about free speech. Sessions, the man Coretta Scott King warned us all about, will be at the university’s campus tonight to deliver his remarks. More than 30 law professors from the Georgetown University Law Center signed…
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How to Protest Without Offending White People
Many people were surprised when President Donald Trump suggested that NFL team owners fire players who quietly choose to sit out the national anthem before games, but I was not one of them. Even though they thought they’d solved the anthem problem by blackballing protest starter Colin Kaepernick, the residual insolence displayed by the players…
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Shit Finally Hits the Fan in St. Louis … Like We Said It Would
What did you think would happen? Once, when I was visiting an elementary school classroom, a second-grader wanted to tell me about his trip to SeaWorld. He told me and the rest of the class about the dolphins, octopi, and all the rare and crazy fish he saw. Then he went into an elaborate story…
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Mich. Teacher ‘Violently’ Drags Black 6th-Grader Out of His Seat After He Declines to Stand for the Pledge of Allegiance: Report
Everybody is all about freedom of speech and expression until a black person (hey, Colin Kaepernick; hey, Jemele Hill) decides to exercise his or her right to do so. And in this particular case, a black sixth-grader out of Michigan says he was assaulted by his homeroom teacher all because he was exercising his rights…
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Shit Might Hit the Fan in St. Louis Tomorrow
Chemists define an explosion as “a sudden, violent change of potential energy to work, which transfers to its surroundings in the form of a rapidly moving rise in pressure called a blast wave or shock wave. The shock wave can cause substantial damage.” I was there when Ferguson, Mo., exploded. When Officer Darren Wilson pumped…
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An Ariz. Man Is Out of a Job After Posting About Plan to ‘Drive Through’ Trump Protesters
When will the troglodytes learn to keep their shitty comments offline? Will they all lose their jobs before this is over? Only time will tell. But, for now, one Arizona man is facing the music after making a vile Facebook post about driving his vehicle through people looking to protest President Donald Trump’s rally earlier…
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12 Cleveland Browns Players Took a Knee During the National Anthem and Colin Kaepernick Still Doesn’t Have a Job
The protest started by Colin Kaepernick to bring awareness and concern to the killing of unarmed black men, women and children by police has continued even though the free agent quarterback still doesn’t have an NFL home. On Monday, before their game against the New York Giants, a dozen Cleveland Browns players took a knee…
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Did Chris Long’s Support of Malcolm Jenkins’ Protest Just Secure Him the No. 1 Pick in This Year’s Racial Draft?
Since the beginning of the NFL season, Philadelphia Eagles safety Malcom Jenkins has been one of the few players this season to take up the mantle that current free agent Colin Kaepernick left behind. Jenkins has upheld Kaepernick’s silent protest against the killings of unarmed African-American men, women and children by raising his fist during…
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Donald Trump Ain’t Shit, He Ain’t Barack Obama and He Surely Doesn’t Care About Black People
Someone in America died today. Someone died today in Virginia in a racial terrorist attack, and our president had the audacity, the hardihood, to continue to hew to the line of dog-whistling racist dogma. Donald Trump showed us exactly who he is today—as a man, as a leader, as a human being and as an…
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Those Va. Police Really Fucked the Dog in Charlottesville, Eh?
If you’re like me, you’ve been glued to the television for much of this morning watching the events unfold in Charlottesville, Va., as white nationalists descended into the city for a Unite the Right rally in protest of an earlier City Council decision to remove a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. If you’re…