racism
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Kate Steinle and the Return of the Angry White Lynch Mob
White women are sacred. On June 16, 2015, a bloated muskrat the color of Cool Ranch Doritos descended down an escalator and announced his bid to become the 45th president of the United States. Of all the reasons he could have posited as to why the American electorate needed a sentient but less intelligent piece…
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Roy Moore Invited to Speak at Black Church and Those Negroes Ought to Be Ashamed of Themselves
Monday night, before going to bed, I read that the Republican National Committee was reconsidering its endorsement of alleged serial pedophile Roy Moore. And by “was reconsidering its endorsement of,” I mean, “LOLOLOLOLOLOL YOU ACTUALLY THOUGHT THOSE CRAVEN, DIAPER-SNIFFING JACKWADS WEREN’T GOING TO ENDORSE HIM???” None of this, for anyone with even a passing knowledge…
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Is the South More Racist Than Other Parts of the US?
I was born and raised in South Carolina, attended college in Alabama and—except for a few stints in Washington, D.C. (which is technically below the Mason-Dixon Line, but not considered “Southern”), and periods living outside the U.S.—have always lived in the South. I often hear people who live in other states, especially in the Northeast,…
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Indiana High School Employee Is Being Fired After Participating in Game of Hangman That Used Racial Slur: Report
A Kokomo (Ind.) High School employee is facing the music after he was recorded on cellphone video playing a game of hangman that used the n-word. As the Kokomo Tribune reports, the eight-second video shows a student and Greg Ostapa, a paraprofessional at the high school, playing the easily recognized game on a tablet. The…
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Conservative Black Pastor Has Come-to-Jesus Moment, Parts Ways With GOP and Trump
The Rev. O’Neal Dozier has had enough of Donald Trump’s racism, he says. The 30-year “faithful and dedicated member” of the Republican Party wrote an op-ed for the South Florida Times on Thursday announcing that he is leaving the GOP to become an independent. “One of the main reasons I have decided to leave the…
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Nazi Sympathizer Loses His Job and Home After Being Profiled by the New York Times
Today in “Ahahaha, that’s what the fuck you get” news, the Nazi sympathizer who was profiled by the New York Times in an attempt to humanize him and his racist ideology says he has lost his job in the ensuing backlash from the article and could soon lose his home. Tony Hovater, 29, told the…
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The Problem(s) With Joyner Lucas’ ‘I’m Not Racist,’ Explained
Joyner Lucas is an American rapper from Worcester, Massachusetts currently signed to Atlantic Records. He garnered widespread exposure and critical praise after the release of his single “Ross Capicchioni” in 2015. In 2017, he released his fourth mixtape (and first on a major label), 508-507-2209. Joyner gained national attention when he appeared on the 2015…
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My Interview With Donald Trump’s New Favorite British Xenophobe
Jayda Fransen, deputy leader of far-right political party Britain First, told me that Donald Trump gave her and her party a much-needed morality boost. Fransen was virtually unknown outside of Britain (and, arguably, inside Britain) before the president retweeted three of her anti-Muslim tweets of unverified videos supposedly depicting Muslims attacking people on the streets.…
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Everything but the Burden: Why We’re Done Getting Mad Over Makeup
Here we go again: Another day, another blackface makeup tutorial. Cue the moral outrage … and another horrible human goes viral. Today’s transgressor is @notcatart, a Russian-speaking makeup hacker who claims to “love skin of all colors”—which likely inspired this idiocy, after he apparently ran out of other looks and cultures to imitate. Of course,…
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Racists, Ranked
You know the feeling. You’ve just walked into a fine retail establishment, determined to drive yourself further into debt by collecting more shit you don’t need, when you get that strange sensation: Somebody’s watching you. Really, it’s fucked up for two reasons: the first being that it feeds into the idea that vigilante white people…