racism
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Michael Bennett Says He Plans to Sue Las Vegas Metro Police Department Over August Incident on the Strip
Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett says that he was terrified during his encounter with Las Vegas Metropolitan police officers on Aug. 27, and he plans to sue the department for what he considers to be an incident that started because of the color of his skin. “It felt like a movie almost because everything…
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Ga. Teacher Uses Racial Slur While Attempting to Brush Off 4th-Grader’s Offensive Comments
Some people need to not open their mouths ever, and a Georgia fourth-grade teacher apparently needs to be added to the list after she apparently used a racial slur in exactly the same breath she used to dismiss another student’s controversial comments. A perfectly teachable moment, ruined. According to WTVM, the incident unfolded earlier this…
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So You’ve Decided to Make Friends With a Black Person: A Beginner’s Guide
You’ve finally decided that it’s time to make a black person your actual friend. Congrats! Let’s say you just started a new job, or maybe your kid made a new friend at school, or perhaps some black people even just moved into your neighborhood, and now you want to make nice with them. Cool. You’re…
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Nooses Are All the Rage; Can Lynchings Be Far Behind?
Nooses, nooses, everywhere. “Noose.” Such a sinister thing that rhymes with happy words like “goose” and “loose.” Nice words. Ain’t nothing nice about a noose, though, a tried-and-true racial-terror tactic that, according to a recent report by the Equal Justice Initiative, killed more than 4,000 black Americans between 1877 and 1950, and in all parts…
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Former St. Louis Cop Jason Stockley Found Not Guilty in 2011 Shooting Death of Anthony Lamar Smith
Again and again and again, it keeps happening. Another police officer has walked away without repercussions after gunning down a black man. On Friday morning, a St. Louis judge found now-former Police Officer Jason Stockley not guilty of first-degree murder in the 2011 shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith, a black motorist. St. Louis had…
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Can Black People Be Racist? A Clapback Mailbag Special Edition
Welcome back to our weekly interactive look into The Root’s mailbag. Instead of our usual Friday hodgepodge of reader mail, today we would like to focus on a specific topic. More than any other complaint, comment or question, there is one in particular about which our readers contact us: Why are we so racist? Instead…
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Racist Note Left at Calif. Hair Salon Calls Black People an ‘Eyesore,’ Prompts Hate Crime Investigation
Turns out people can’t even do their hair in peace any more. A popular hair salon in Elk Grove, Calif., has now become the center of a hate crime investigation after a threatening, racist note was left on the front door of the establishment. “You fucking blacks cause too much damage. Your [sic] a fucking…
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‘I’m Going to Strip You Naked and Whip You Like the Slave You Are’: Man Sends Racist Messages Before Killing Innocent Black Man
An innocent black man was shot in the face and killed on Labor Day after attempting to keep an angry, racist white man from entering his home and confronting his roommate, according to reports from local law enforcement in Fort Worth, Texas. Sammie Jones, 28, answered a knock on his door to find 38-year-old Kevin…
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White Man Who Yelled ‘Shut Up, Slave!’ at Black Man During Altercation at Chicago Starbucks Now Faces Hate Crime Charges
If you want to talk the talk, you gotta walk the walk. That is what William Boucher, 24, is learning after being caught on camera launching into a violent, racist rant, calling a black man a slave and comparing him to livestock after the man apparently spilled some coffee on Boucher’s light-colored suit. Hmm, there’s…
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A Couple of Thoughts for the White Man From Detroit Who Hates Black People Protesting the National Anthem
A metro-Detroit business owner is catching some serious heat for a racist Facebook post in which he used the n-word to call out a black couple protesting the national anthem at a Detroit Lions game. In the post, David Doptis—who, according to WXYZ Detroit, owns a business called Restaurant Liquidation Auctions in Pontiac, Mich.—attached a…