racism
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Mich. State Police Director Under Fire After Facebook Post Calling NFL Players Who Take a Knee During Anthem ‘Ungrateful, Anti-American Degenerates’
The director of the Michigan State Police is catching heat after blasting NFL players who opt to take a knee to protest the continued racial injustice in this country with a strongly worded post on her Facebook page. According to the Detroit Free Press, Col. Kriste Kibbey Etue shared the strongly worded message on her…
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How to Protest Without Offending White People
Many people were surprised when President Donald Trump suggested that NFL team owners fire players who quietly choose to sit out the national anthem before games, but I was not one of them. Even though they thought they’d solved the anthem problem by blackballing protest starter Colin Kaepernick, the residual insolence displayed by the players…
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‘We Still Have No Clue of What Being Born White Means’: San Antonio Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich Goes In on White Privilege
Media day for the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs at one point turned into an instance of coach Gregg Popovich delivering a speech that condemned Donald Trump’s recent comments about players protesting, called the United States an embarrassment to the world and called out white privilege for what it is. Popovich told the gathered reporters that…
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It’s Funny How 1 Title Can Fuck Up the Game: Thoughts on the Response to Damon’s Piece About Black Men
1. I didn’t love the title, either. The substance of the piece itself was perfectly fine—to argue and debate that would be stupid (more on this later). It’s no different from conversations many of us have in any number of spaces we congregate when sober, perhaps not wrapped up in as neat a bow as…
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How the NFL Turned Colin Kaepernick’s Protest Into #AllLivesMatter
There’s a lot of things that need to change. One specifically is police brutality. There’s people being murdered unjustly and not being held accountable. Cops are getting paid leave for killing people. That’s not right by anyone’s standards. That was Colin Kaepernick’s response in 2016 when asked what specifically would need to change in order…
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W.Va. High School Taunts Inner-City Pittsburgh High School Football Team With ‘Trump Perry’ Sign
Perry Traditional Academy is a predominantly black high school, located on Pittsburgh’s North Side and a five- to seven-minute drive away from my house. My brother-in-law graduated from there last year. (He was also a first-team All-City basketball player. He can’t beat me yet, but he is pretty good.) On Friday, Perry traveled to Wellsburg,…
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Miss. Elementary School Teacher Fired Over Facebook Post Telling African Americans to ‘Move Back to Africa’
Updated Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017, 12:15 p.m. EDT: Looks like the South Panola School District in Mississippi isn’t buying the ol’ “Oh my goodness, I’ve been hacked!” excuse after an elementary school teacher was caught making racist comments on Facebook. Cammie Rone, who taught at Batesville Intermediate School, has been officially fired after commenting that…
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Black Employees of Steak House in Trump International Hotel File Civil Complaint Charging Racial Discrimination
Black employees at BLT Prime, a steakhouse in the luxury Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., filed a civil complaint Wednesday accusing the Trump Organization and the managing director of the hotel of racial discrimination. Irving Smith Jr., who still works at BLT, and Dominique Hill and JaNette Sturdivant, both former employees of the steak…