race
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‘Racial Profiling at Its Finest’: White Man Uses SUV to Block Black Doctor From Entering Gated Community Where She Lives
A black doctor coming home from a late-night shift was greeted by the ugly face of racism after a white man used his SUV to block her from entering the gated community where she has lived for about eight years. Dr. Nnenna Aguocha captured some of the encounter on camera. According to WXIA-TV, the good…
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Oregon DMV Employee on Leave After Posting on Facebook That Immigrants at the Border Should Be Shot
There’s nothing like a zero tolerance immigration policy to bring all the racist social media posts out into the light, it seems. A worker for Oregon Driver & Motor Vehicle Services, a division of the state’s Department of Transportation, is the latest to be dragged under the microscope of scrutiny after she made a Facebook…
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NYC’s Transportation Authority ‘Indefinitely’ Suspends Metro-North Supervisor Over Blackface Photo … 5 Years After Promoting Him
This is the kind of stuff you can’t make up. What happened to a white New York City transit supervisor after he was caught in full blackface years ago? Trick question. Nothing happened. Well, to be precise, he got promoted despite complaints from employees, raking in more than $200,000 a year. It was only after…
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‘Wite Pride’: Black Lives Matter Activist’s Truck Vandalized With Swastikas, Racial Slurs
A Clio, Mich., activist woke up Tuesday morning to find his vehicle horribly vandalized. The Detroit Free Press reports that Hubert Roberts, a Black Lives Matter activist, was planning some community outreach as usual and hoping to take two boys to get haircuts when those plans were abruptly canceled as he walked out to his…
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Dunkin’ Donuts Sign Asks Customers to Report Employees Heard Shouting in Languages Other Than English
A Baltimore Dunkin’ Donuts is the latest coffee shop to come under scrutiny after a sign was seen requesting that customers report staff heard shouting in any language besides English. According to WBAL-TV, the general manager of the store posted the sign at the Dunkin’ Donuts on 41st Street, where it drew widespread attention on…
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White Kid Wears KKK Costume to School as an Assignment … With Teacher’s Approval
Most kids, when they get the option to choose a historical figure for a history project, choose people like Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X or Barack Obama. One freshman in high school decided to choose former Ku Klux Klan leader Hiram Wesley Evans as his “historical figure.” With his teacher’s approval, the unidentified student…
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‘Google the Diseases in Pools’: White Man Harasses Black Family at California Hotel Pool, Asks if They Showered
A black family was targeted by a white man who had the nerve to ask them if they had showered prior to attempting to enjoy a day at a California hotel pool. Mom Carle Wheeler can be heard on cellphone video that she posted to Facebook accusing the man of targeting her and her daughter…
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Black Women Accuse Walgreens of Racial Profiling After Being Followed Around Store, Stopped by Officers After Paying for Items
Is there anywhere black people can go where they won’t be harassed? Wakanda doesn’t count because technically it’s fictional. Two black women are accusing a Walgreens in Miramar, Fla. (of course it’s Florida), of racially profiling them after they had their bags searched upon leaving the store after paying for their items. Crystal Davis and…
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‘Your Language Sounds Nasty’: Woman Captured on Viral Video Going on Racist Rant at Florida Nail Salon
Looks like this Becky’s beauty is definitely only skin-deep. An unidentified woman was captured on video going on an offensive, racist rant at a Hillsborough County, Fla., nail salon. “If they don’t understand the language, they should go back to their own country, period,” the woman is heard saying in the video, which has spread…