race & politics
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This Shaun King Takedown Attempt Is Fuckin' Ridiculous
I’m so appalled. Over the past few days, conservative, right-wing people and sites like Glen Bleck, Breitbart, and The Blaze (amongst others) have accused Shaun King, an activist who gained significant attention after his in-depth analyses and social media campaign in the wake of the killing of Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson in August of…
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Thank God The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Isn't Being Rebooted
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air may be my favorite television show of all time. Yes, I liked it even more than The Wire, Law & Order: SVU, and Unsolved Mysteries. I loved A Different World, and liked The Cosby Show Family Matters, but I was all about Fresh Prince. So when “news” broke that the…
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Dear "Well-Meaning" White People: Progress Is Fucking Painful
17 summers ago, I tore the anterior cruciate ligament in my left knee while attempting a spin move in a pick-up basketball game. I planted awkwardly, my knee twisted a way it wasn’t supposed to twist, and I immediately knew something was wrong. It was painful. But, as many who’ve also torn their ACLs will…
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Police Crackdown On Marijuana Proving Fatal For Black People, Bags Of Weed
Via WLWT, Cincinnati local news: Some of the contents of Sam DuBose’s car at the time of his death have been identified. WLWT has confirmed through CPD’s search warrant inventory document that four bags and a jar of marijuana were in Dubose’s car at the time of the July 19 traffic stop that ended in…
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Why The White Supremacist With FUBU Sneakers Is The Blackest Thing I've Ever Seen This Week
An irony of the pseudo-citizen status often bestowed on American Blacks is the fact that we’re unquestionably and intrinsically American. We’ve been in America longer than America has been America and have been as vital to America’s current success as any other group of people. And, despite numerous legal, social, economic, and spiritual attempts to prevent…
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I'm Going To Have A Daughter. I Love Rap Music. These Two Things Do Not Match
They said I can’t rap about being broke no moreThey ain’t say I can’t rap about coke no more The Wife Person and I have driven to the D.C. area four times this summer. And, with each drive comes a couple dozen or so new additions to my Spotify playlist; a trip soundtrack occasionally interrupted by Google…
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The Footage Of Sam DuBose's Murder Is Hard To Watch, Which Is Why We Must Watch It
Earlier today, University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing was charged with murder in the death of Sam DuBose, a man Tensing stopped for a traffic violation two weeks ago. Tensing has turned himself in, and the city seems poised to distance themselves as far as possible from him, using words like “senseless” and “asinine”…