protesting racial injustice
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‘The Use of Force is Never Acceptable’: 2 Atlanta Cops Fired After Tasing HBCU Students During Protest
At a time when volatile and emotional protests are popping up all over the country behind a black man dying due to what is widely seen as excessive use of police force, you would think that cops at these protests would exercise caution regarding their own uses of force on black demonstrators. Yet, several documented…
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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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Iowa Cheerleader Quits Team After School Says Students Cannot Kneel During Anthem
A Buena Vista University cheerleader resigned from her squad last week after the school instituted a policy mandating that players and cheerleaders stand during the national anthem. Sophomore Alyssa Parker, who had been on both the football and basketball cheer teams since her freshman year, was one of nine cheerleaders who knelt during the national…
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Howard University Cheerleaders Continue to Kneel During National Anthem
In support of the stance started by now-former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, the cheerleaders of Howard University continue to kneel during the national anthem, as they have done since last season. The New York Times reports that during the university’s most recent game against North Carolina Central University, Howard’s cheerleaders knelt, and when the “black…
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La. Sheriff Calls for Boycott of Ford Dealership Because the Company Advertises With the NFL
The sheriff of Bossier Parish, La., has decided to boycott his local Ford dealership because he doesn’t like that the automaker advertises with the NFL while players continue their protests against police brutality and black oppression. Like the protests have anything to do with Ford and how it gets its ads out there. Like everyone…
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Who Gon’ Check Me, Boo? Eagles’ Malcolm Jenkins Says He Will Continue to Protest Even if Team Owner Forbids It
The vice president of the United States wasted taxpayer dollars Sunday so he could stage his own mini protest against NFL players who exercised their constitutional right to peaceful protest by kneeling during the national anthem, and according to the current president, the vice president acted at his request. NFL owners and coaches are doing…
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Mike Pence Left the Colt-49ers Game Because He’s a Messy Bitch Who Lives for Drama
I’m not sure how puppet Vice President Mike Pence was able to leave Lucas Oil Stadium with the president’s tiny hand shoved that far up his ass, but I’m sure he’s used to being played for a fool. It’s in his job description. There is a stipulation in his vice presidential contract that requires him…
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Houston Teen Sues After School Expels Her for Not Standing During Pledge of Allegiance
A 17-year-old Houston student is suing her high school after she was kicked out for not standing for the daily Pledge of Allegiance, indicative of a troubling backlash many African Americans are facing when they choose not to stand for the pledge or national anthem. The New York Daily News reports that India Landry, a…
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Watch: Why Colin Kaepernick Took a Knee
Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has made waves with his national anthem protest, which he started in August 2016—about a month after police shot and killed Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, and two years after the Black Lives Matter movement gained national attention. To be clear: Kaepernick’s intention was to protest social injustice…