racism
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‘I Can’t Be Racist Because My Best Friend Is Black and Lives in the Condo I Own’ Is the Whitest Thing I’ve Ever Heard This Week
As a professional observer, curator, interpreter, documentarian and even occasional appreciator of blatant and reckless acts of shameless whiteness, I’ve seen and read about enough types of aggressively white behavior now to last five lifetimes. Particularly in regard to racism (anti-blackness, specifically). I’m like an old and fat NBA point guard who’s able to stay…
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‘You Know My Heart’: Why White People Still Do Blackface
In 2015 a white Alabama schoolteacher was forced to write a public apology after pictures of him dressed up in blackface for Halloween went viral. The teacher, Heath Morrow, was dressed up as Kanye West; his wife as Kim Kardashian West. Morrow donned a blazer, a backward baseball hat and shutter shades—the sort of look…
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Media’s ‘Mass Delusion About Race’: Not Enough Are Connecting the Dots With Trump
Is FCC’s Repeal Good or Bad for People of Color? To the End, Fats Domino Was a New Orleanian Chicago’s Black Poor Pay 20 Percent More for Water Study Shows Racial Disparities in Plea Deals Writer Subpoenaed in Laquan McDonald Case Telemundo Announces Investigative Unit Female Editors, Too, Were Silent on Harassment Kaepernick Book Deal…
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‘Can’t Wait to Stab Your Neck’: Don Lemon Receives Racist Death Threats From Trump Supporter
CNN’s Don Lemon has been the target of a series of racist death threats by an apparent white supremacist Donald Trump supporter, leaving the anchor so concerned that he apparently contacted the police. According to TMZ, Lemon contacted the New York City Police Department on Wednesday after receiving multiple messages on Twitter, including ones that…
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Calif. Man Beaten, Stabbed Because He Is Black, Authorities Say
A Goshen, Calif., man is fighting for his life in a Fresno, Calif., hospital after being beaten and stabbed multiple times solely because of his race, authorities say. According to the Visalia Times-Delta, the 60-year-old man, who is black, is expected to recover from his injuries, but his attack has left many residents in Goshen…
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55 Percent of White Americans Believe Whites Face Racial Discrimination, Which Means 55 Percent of White Americans Are Really Stupid!
As Halloween nears, I’m reminded of the time 20 or so years ago when my then-7-year-old nephew spent the entire year talking about Halloween. How much candy he was going to get, how great his costume was going to be, how many houses he was going to hit—he was an unceasing stream of Halloween-related predictions,…
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NJ Teacher Tells Students to ‘Speak American,’ but Who’s Gonna Tell Her That ‘American’ Isn’t a Language?
Updated Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017, 11:04 a.m. EDT: A Cliffside Park, N.J., teacher who came under fire after being recorded in class telling Spanish-speaking students to “speak American” has been allowed to return to the classroom after making a schoolwide apology. According to the Associated Press, the English teacher, Laura Amico, who doesn’t seem to…
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Mich. Woman Locked Out of Her Home Was Terrified After Glimpsing Racist Text Message Locksmith Sent
A Southfield, Mich., woman was left shaken and terrified after seeing a racist text message sent by a locksmith, who was supposed to be helping her out. According to WJBK-TV, the woman, who asked not to be identified, was locked out of her condo and called for help. The locksmith who was helping her out…
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Paris, Texas, Is Site of Racial Animosity Again as Confederate Flags Pop Up at High School
Paris, Texas, a town with a long history of racial strife, is back in the news again after students at Paris High School adorned the backs of their pickup trucks with large Confederate rebel flags Tuesday. Photos of the racist display quickly circulated through social media as parents and students expressed outrage over the flags’…
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Bloomberg’s Megan McArdle Can’t Tell Me Shit About White Supremacy
Here’s a joke: Q: What did the Nazi say to the segregationist? A: You’re doing a great job over there. While that joke may not make you burst at the seams in laughter (I admit that I haven’t properly cultivated my cache of Nazi material), it raises an interesting question: Are there varying degrees of…