race
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Racial Slur Written on Dorm-Room Door of Black Students at Mass. University
Two Framingham State University students are terrified after a racial slur was found scrawled with permanent marker on their dorm-room door over the weekend. “When I saw it this morning, I was pretty hurt. I didn’t feel safe going back to my room and I felt like I was a target especially since it was…
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‘You Are My Slave’: Ga. Mom Furious After White Student Targets Son During School’s Civil War Day
A Kennesaw, Ga., mother is demanding answers after a white student called her son a slave during the school’s Civil War Day last month. According to the Associated Press, Big Shanty Intermediate School—which is near Kennesaw Mountain, where Confederate soldiers once fired their cannons at Union troops—encouraged fifth-graders to dress up as characters from the…
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Chinese Museum Removes Photography Exhibit That Compared Black People to Animals
Apparently China is high-key tripping this week. First WeChat, the country’s most popular chat app, had to apologize after its software translated “black foreigner” to the word “nigger.” Now it seems a museum in China is only just realizing that it’s a bad idea to juxtapose images of wild African animals with black people. According…
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Parents Sue Miss. School District After White Teacher Allegedly Makes Comment About Hanging Black Child
Local parents have filed a lawsuit against a central-Mississippi school district after they say a white substitute teacher made a horrific, threatening racist comment about their black son being hanged. According to the Associated Press, Tony and Kayla Lindsey say that their son, who has since graduated, got into an argument in April and threatened…
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‘We Should Have Hung All You … While We Had the Chance’: Parents Fear for Daughter’s Safety After Classmate Sends Her Threatening Message
It always amazes me when people don’t like being called racist, so then they jump to the most racist thing ever. That totally makes sense. Except now a Texas family are terrified because their daughter received a threatening message after she called out a classmate for being racist. According to the Houston Chronicle, the unidentified…
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Dumbass Racist Who Got Doused With Soup After Screaming Racial Slurs on NYC Subway Train Says He’s ‘Not That Sorry’
A New York City idiot who got soup dumped on him after he decided it was a good idea to go on a racist rant on the L train in New York City says he was “making a point” and that he is “not that sorry.” Video of the incident showed the man, identified as…
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Tenn. Man Says He Was Fired From Job After Not Standing During National Anthem at Weekend Event
I, as much as anyone, am fully aware that freedom of speech and expression is not equal to freedom from consequences. That being said, I do have some questions about employers who look to discipline employees for refusing to stand for the national anthem. One Tennessee man probably has more than a few questions himself…
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Snapchat Showing Ill. High School Student in Blackface Sparks Outrage
Another day, another high school student causing outrage because he or she thought it was a great idea to be on Snapchat in blackface. According to the Chicago Tribune, the photo of the student at Oak Park and River Forest High School stirred up tensions and controversy after it showed the student in blackface with…
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Deandre Harris Is Now Wanted in Connection With the Same Attack at a White Supremacist Rally Where He Was Seriously Injured, Because America
Deandre Harris, a 20-year-old black man who was viciously attacked by white supremacists at the Charlottesville, Va., white supremacist rally almost two months ago, is now a wanted man after a local magistrate issued a warrant for his arrest in connection with the same Aug. 12 incident that left him bloody and wounded. Harris, according…