racism
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Researchers: People Who Oppose Colin Kaepernick’s Protest Are Probably Racist
Whites who believe negative stereotypes about blacks are more likely than most to oppose athletes kneeling during the national anthem, according to researchers who studied the issue, the Washington Post reports. In yet another Kanye-shrug-inducing survey, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst conducted a nationally representative online poll in October to determine whether negative…
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Australian Shop Causes Outrage After Banning Black Teens Because They ‘Always Steal’
A Melbourne, Australia, convenience store owner is facing social media outrage after putting up a sign banning black 14- to 18-year-olds because they “always steal.” According to Yahoo! 7 News, the sign on the store in Melton, which is west of the city, was put up Friday and read, “Because the 14-18 year old black…
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Dylann Roof Pleads Guilty to State Murder Charges
White supremacist Dylann Roof has pleaded guilty to state murder charges in the Charleston, S.C., church massacre of nine black worshippers; in doing so, he is forgoing a second death-penalty trial. As the Associated Press notes, the move now leaves Roof awaiting execution in federal prison and also spares his surviving victims and the families…
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Whites Need to Understand That White Supremacy Hurts Them, Too
Two weeks ago, I logged into my email to read a note written by the headmaster of my daughters’ school about the white supremacist terrorist who traveled to New York from Baltimore—one of the blackest cities on the East Coast—to find a black man to kill. The note said this terrorist had graduated from my…
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The Top 10 Tools for Fighting Racism According to Wypipo
Every few months for the past … oh, let’s say 450-odd years, black people in America have endured a particularly brutal but seldom-discussed form of torture. We all know about the historical travesties of slavery, Jim Crow and systemic racism, but there is another hardship that Africans in America bravely withstand every day with very…
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Justice Department May Reopen Its Investigation Into Murder of Emmett Till
The investigation into the 1955 murder of Emmett Till may once again be reopened by the U.S. Department of Justice, with the news coming just a week after Attorney General Jeff Sessions expressed his support for pursuing and prosecuting those involved in the killing who went unpunished. “He said no one gets a pass,” Emmett’s…
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Betty Shelby, The Tulsa Police Officer Who Killed Terence Crutcher, Believes (Wait For It) That She's The Victim Here
Back in September, Terence Crutcher, an unarmed Black man, was walking to his car with his hands up when he was shot by Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby. This incident was caught on video by both a police dash cam and an aerial video from a police helicopter wherein an officer looking on the scene…
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White Supremacist Dylann Roof to Plead Guilty to State Murder Charges: Report
Dylann Roof—the white supremacist who was convicted earlier this year of several federal charges, including hate crimes, and sentenced to death for the murder of nine black worshippers at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C.—will plead guilty to state murder charges in April, forgoing the second death penalty trial that was scheduled. According to…
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This Racist Promposal Gotta Go: ‘You May Be Picking Cotton, but We’re Picking You to Go to Prom With Us’
Prom is slowly approaching for many across the nation, which means the extra “promposals” have started flooding the timelines of the internet. Some are cute, some are cringeworthy and a lot of them are just generally doing the most. But then there’s that special category of racist-ass shit, and these Florida students (dammit, Florida, seriously?)…