racism
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Ga. School District Apologizes After Teacher Tells Students They Can’t Wear Trump Campaign Shirts, ‘Just Like You Cannot Wear a Swastika’
A Georgia school district has issued an apology after a teacher reportedly told two students that their “Make America Great Again” T-shirts, representing President Donald Trump’s campaign, wouldn’t be allowed in the classroom. According to the Associated Press, the apology was issued after video was circulated online showing a math teacher at River Ridge High…
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One of the Worst Things White People Ever Did to Black People Happened This Week
I think we can all agree that the global, multinational enterprise called the trans-Atlantic slave trade, built on a business plan of kidnapping, torture and rape, is the worst thing white people ever did to black people. They wrote it into the Constitution. They codified it. They screamed for liberty and justice while blithely doing…
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L’Oreal Drops 1st Transgender Model Because Her Post Calling Out White Privilege Is ‘at Odds With’ Their ‘Values’
Munroe Bergdorf, the first transgender model to ever be hired by beauty brand L’Oreal, was dropped from her contract Friday after a Facebook post in which she discussed and condemned racism and white privilege was posted by an online media outlet and sparked outrage from white people who don’t like it when white privilege is…
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A Prayer for White People Who Don’t Understand That Black Love Doesn’t Mean White Hate (Sometimes)
Congregation of St. Panama Jackson the United Methodist Baptist Pentecostal AME Church of God in Christ Episcopal Primitive Missionary Baptist Downward Dog Down by the Riverside Holiness Church, please bow your heads: Dear 8-pound, 6-ounce newborn infant Jesus, don’t even know a word yet, just a little infant and so cuddly, but still omnipotent, I…
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Polite White People Are Useless
I’m not quite sure if Glory is a great movie. I know that I enjoy watching it. I know that it featured one of the greatest movie scores of all time. (So great that the then-11-year-old me actually went out and bought the soundtrack on a cassette tape. Which probably explains why I didn’t have…
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‘Day of the Rope Is Coming’: Racist, Anti-Semitic Signs Found at Va. Church
A predominantly black Prince William County church has been the latest target of racists after messages of hate were posted up at the church’s front entrance over the weekend. According to Fox 5 DC, church members at Greater Praise Temple Ministries in Dumfries, Va., found the disturbing messages on Sunday. The news station was told…
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Leaked Chats Show That White Supremacists ‘Joked’ About Plowing Cars Into Crowds of Counterprotesters Prior to Violence in Charlottesville, Va.
Remember all the white supremacists who swore they went to Charlottesville, Va., to conduct a “peaceful” protest and stand up for their First Amendment rights, or whatever the hell they were saying to excuse their mess? It appears that they have been caught in a bit of a lie (surprise, surprise) after a stream of…
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How to Respond to White Folks Who Ask How They Can ‘Help’
It could all be so simple. Though eradicating racial hateration should be an intraracial undertaking, undoing centuries of Olympic-level oppression and curing chronic multigenerational Caucasian terribleness is frequently placed on our to-do lists, along with setting trends and keeping the Electric Slide alive and sacred. A shame. Your co-worker’s favorite decadently mediocre second-rate diva Lady…