racial insensitivity
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2 Athletes Announce Transfers From Liberty University, Citing the 'Racial Insensitivity' of the School's Leadership
Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. just lost two players from the school’s football team because Falwell is a tone-deaf idiot who didn’t realize that tweeting his face mask design—which included an image of a white man in blackface next to a person in a Ku Klux Klan robe—might be off putting to his black…
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Teacher Tells 10-Year-Old He’ll Only Be Able to Blame Himself When He’s 16 and Shot by Police: Report
A Lenexa, Kan., mother is outraged after, she says, a teacher at Rosehill Elementary School told her 10-year-old son he’ll only be able to blame himself when he’s shot by police when he’s 16. The family says the incident occurred last week when 10-year-old Malachi Pearson was playing with some friends in the cafeteria line…
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Boston Police Officer Suspended Without Pay for Making ‘Black People Have Met Their Match’ Video
A Boston police officer will be suspended for six months without pay after making a racially charged video that featured the tagline, “This summer, black people have met their match,” police officials confirmed Thursday. According to the Boston Globe, Officer Joseph DeAngelo Jr. recorded the video like a trailer. The footage featured Officer Dennis Leahy—who…
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Md. Teacher Asked Students to Write 'Fun' Slave Song During Lesson on Frederick Douglass
A Howard County, Md., high school English teacher was briefly placed on administrative leave last week after instructing students to write a “fun” slave song during a lesson on the famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass, the Baltimore Sun reports. According to the report, Howard County Superintendent Renee Foose put the Mount Hebron High School teacher on…