race & politics
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Dear Black People: This HBCU VS PWI Battle Is Fucking Stupid
There’s been no shortage of words used to attempt to describe and encapsulate “Black Twitter,” which has been defined as everything from “a cultural identity on the Twitter social network focused on issues of interest to the black community” by Wikipedia to (paraphrasing) “the digital version of what happens at the 24-hour Walmart in Huntsville, Alabama” by Panama on…
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How The University Of Missouri Is Drowning In White Tears, Explained
Can you explain what “White Tears” are again? Sure. “White Tears” is phrase to describe what happens when certain types of White people either complain about a nonexistent racial injustice or are upset by a non-White person’s success at the expense of a White person. It encompasses (and makes fun of) the performative struggle to…
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The University Of Missouri Football Boycott Is The Biggest American Protest Of The 21st Century
I wasn’t alive in the 50s and 60s and 70s when mass boycotts to protest racial injustice was more commonplace and more infused with our national cultural zeitgeist. I, like most of you, am very aware of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and other, less publicized, boycotts (like the New Orleans citizens boycott). But, again, reading about the…
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This Painting Of Ben Carson And Jesus in Ben Carson's Home Is The Blackest Thing I've Ever Seen This Week
So many questions from this picture, discovered during a recent tour of Ben Carson’s home, including… 1. Who painted this? Do you think the people at the portrait store laughed when Ben Carson walked in and asked if someone could paint him and Black Klingon Jesus hanging out in a YMCA sauna, or do the people at…
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Ben Carson Released A Hip-Hop Ad. It Is Some Shit.
Hey African Americans, Ben Carson is targeting you. He has a radio ad out now that’s intended to reach urban demographics. Uh oh. You know what this means. Dammit. And of course it’s as bad as you think it would be because it’s EXACTLY what you think it is. In case you weren’t sure just…
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Black, Male, Gay, And Dating…And Not Your Fetish
***This piece originally published on 1839*** The amount of times that someone has told me that they’ve never hooked up with or dated a Black man is unbelievable. These men, almost always White, look at me hungrily, their jaws slack, their eyes half-closed. With low voices they say, “You know, I’ve never hooked up with…
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Crooked Cop Kills Himself; Death Blamed On #BlackLivesMatter (Wait…What???)
There aren’t many stories that articulate how absurd and ridiculous America’s relationship with race is better than this one. It is layers on layers on layers on layers on layers of ridiculous, dry rubbed with “What the fuck?” marinated in “This is some bullshit” and served with a generous helping of “You need more people” on…
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It's Great And All That Deputy Ben Fields Got Fired. But Fuck, That's No Consolation
After watching the video of Deputy Ben Fields assaulting a teen girl in her classroom, and following the national coverage of the fallout from this incident, I had no doubt Fields would eventually be publicly reprimanded, suspended, and eventually fired. Which he was, today. His superiors had no choice but to do so; the footage was…
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The Assault At Spring Valley High Would Not Have Happened If The Girl Was White
I do not know what happened in that classroom at Spring Valley High School before Deputy Ben Fields violently assaulted a teen girl who was, apparently, “resisting arrest.” I’m quite sure, however, that information will find its way into the public sphere very soon. We will also know more about Deputy Fields — his work history, his…