racism
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SNL’s Michael Che Won’t Back Down From ‘Boston Being the Most Racist City’ Statement
Michael Che, the dry-witted co-host of Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update,” said what he said about Beantown, and he meant it. And he told the city to its face. At a recent standup show at Boston University last week, Che told the crowd that he stands by a comment he made on SNL the night…
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Will Driverless Vehicles Put Black People Out of Work?
Driving while black in America has always been fraught with peril. During the Jim Crow era, African Americans traveled the highways by night to avoid harassment by law enforcement and packed extra fuel and food because they could not stop at gas stations and restaurants that served only whites. Today, encounters with police that are…
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Muhammad Ali Jr. on His Detainment: ‘I Felt Like Somebody That Wasn’t a Citizen of the United States’
When Muhammad Ali Jr. was first detained by immigration officials at the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., airport as he traveled back from Jamaica with his mother, Khalilah Camacho-Ali, toward the end of February, initially, the son of the legendary boxer wasn’t so quick to blame President Donald Trump’s misguided Muslim travel ban. “I was coming from…
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Md. Man Accused of Murder Traveled to NYC to Target Black People: Police
A white man from Baltimore, who allegedly stabbed a 66-year-old black man to death in New York City, reportedly traveled all the way to New York to commit the crime in the “media capital of the world” and make the biggest statement he could, police said. The Associated Press reports that James Harris Jackson, 28,…
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Guy Who Shot Himself Blames Imaginary Black Guy in NYC
As a very smart colleague of mine notes, “Not even imaginary black people can catch a break.” When under suspicion or in trouble, just use a tactic as old as Methuselah: Blame a black guy. Racism makes the explanation plausible, and even chief executives do it. Anywho, the beat goes on. This time, in New…
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Black and Brown Elementary School Winners of Indianapolis Robotics Championship Told to ‘Go Back to Mexico’
Some bigoted parents in Indiana prove that the rotten apple doesn’t fall far from the diseased tree. They tried to ruin what should have been a very special moment for five black and Latinx 9- and 10-year-olds after they won a citywide robotics championship in Indianapolis. “Go back to Mexico!” two or three kids and…
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NYC Chiropractor Was Falsely Accused of Making Racist Threats Against Child, Cop; Has Charges Dropped
Updated: As it turns out, a Staten Island, N.Y., chiropractor was falsely accused of sending racist letters to a school crossing guard, having been apparently framed by her alleged victim. “My client was accused of some horrible, horrible acts,” Danielle Serini’s attorney Mark Fonte confirmed back in November. “She has now been vindicated.” Serini, who…
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‘Next Time It’s Going to Be a Fire’: Black Minn. Family Moving After New Home Is Burglarized, Vandalized With Racist Graffiti
Back in December, Latanza Douglas and her family—which includes her husband and three foster children—secured what they thought was their dream home in Delano, Minn. However, three months later, the family feels as if they have no choice but to leave town after their home was ransacked, burglarized and painted with racist graffiti. According to…
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21 Times in Get Out When Chris Should Have Gotten the Hell Out
Although Jordan Peele’s brilliant (and now record-breaking) Get Out inverts classic horror tropes and societal expectations by making the “well-meaning” white people the bogeymen and the black dude the damsel in distress, its dramatic tension still relies on one thing you’ll find in pretty much every other horror film: the protagonist ignoring his gut and…
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‘America Is a White Nation’: White Supremacist Posters Put Up Across DC’s George Washington University
Once again the white supremacists are trying to ruin school for everyone, this time putting up signs promoting America as “a white nation” on the campus of George Washington University in Washington, D.C.,, sparking outcry. According to the Washington Post, the signs depicted white people with slogans about uniting. One notice encouraged “all white Americans”…