racism
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Black Protester Hugs Squirming Nazi, Quips, ‘Why Don’t You Like Me, Dog?’
The black protester who was caught on viral video hugging a squirming and uncomfortable neo-Nazi outside white supremacist dump truck Richard Spencer’s speech at the University of Florida in Gainesville on Thursday is acknowledging that he could just as easily have hit the guy (an act in which someone else had earlier indulged) but decided…
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Ga. Elementary School Finally Puts an End to Civil War Dress-Up Day, but Mom Whose Child Was Called a Slave Wants More Done
It’s been about a month since a 10-year-old black student was called a slave during a Civil War dress-up day at his elementary school in Kennesaw, Ga. And that’s how long it took for school officials to realize that there’s really no reason to host a dress-up day to discuss the Civil War, and to…
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White Nationalist Troglodyte Richard Spencer to Speak at University of Florida, State of Emergency Be Damned
White supremacist human dump truck Richard Spencer is moving forward with plans to speak at the University of Florida on Thursday, despite concerns that the event could turn violent. Concerns surrounding Spencer’s event grew to such a level that Florida Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency a week ahead of the planned event,…
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School District, Police Investigating Picture of Pa. High School Students Posing With Pumpkins Carved With Racist Symbols
Local police are investigating a photo that shows four teenagers, believed to be students at Coatesville High School, posing behind pumpkins carved with racist symbols. According to WPVI-TV, the image was posted on social media before it took off and sparked backlash in the Coatesville community. The report notes that several students left classes early…
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Lone Protester Heckles Jerry Jones: ‘Look at the Videos of Police Getting Away With Murder and Tell Me the Players Are Wrong for Protesting’
Jerry Jones had his Southern-fried ass handed to him by a lone protester as the Dallas Cowboys owner walked through what looked to be a hotel lobby. In a 37-second video posted to Twitter, what sounds like an African-American man can be heard projecting to Jones, and shown holding an image of slaves with some…
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Will Justice Be Served? White University of Maryland Student Will Now Face Hate Crime Charge in Fatal Stabbing of Richard Collins III
Looks like Army 2nd Lt. Richard Collins III may still get justice yet, now that a Prince George’s County, Md., grand jury decided Tuesday to hand up a hate crime charge against Sean Urbanski, a white University of Maryland student accused of fatally stabbing Collins. Urbanski, 22, is already facing a murder charge in Collins’…
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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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When America Makes You Hate Your Skin So Much You Shoplift Bottles of Ambi Fade Cream to Get Lighter
I was 13 years old the first time I shoplifted. My sister, at 15, was my lookout. We were at the tiny pharmacy in tiny Newton Falls, Ohio, in the “ethnic” section. There was, as there is now, an array of products. Products for making your hair wet and curly—not so “coarse.” There were products…
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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…