racism
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Texas High School Students Did Nazi Salute for ‘Silly’ Class Photo
Honestly, the racism (and overall general ignorance) present in American schools is just out of this world. And in our latest update of “Who’s going to be expelled next?” Cypress Ranch High School students are now under intense scrutiny after apparently doing a Nazi salute for a class photo, Click2Houston reports. According to the site,…
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‘Ashy Knees’: Fans Taunt Black Student-Athlete at NJ High School Basketball Game
New video has been publicized from a New Jersey high school basketball game that occurred Jan. 27 between Dover High School and Jefferson High School, in which the Jefferson crowd shouted racially charged comments at a black Dover student-athlete during the pregame warmups, NJ.com reports. Jefferson Superintendent Patrick Tierney apologized Monday after students “allegedly made…
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UW-Madison Student Trying to Start White Nationalist Group on Campus Pleaded Guilty to Arson of Black Churches
You can’t make some stuff up. According to WISC-TV, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student who is in the middle of trying to start a white nationalist group on campus has served time in federal prison for setting two black churches on fire. Daniel Dropik, 33, pleaded guilty to arson charges in 2005 after starting fires…
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Woman Who Caused Emmett Till’s Death Admits to Lying
We all (should) know the story of Emmett Till, the black 14-year-old Chicago boy who was murdered in August 1955 by two white men, J.W. Milam and his half-brother Roy Bryant. As the story goes, Emmett, who was visiting family in Mississippi, had gone into a store to buy some bubble gum. As he was…
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White Woman Caught on Camera Attacking Black Actor: ‘Don’t Record Me, You F–king N–ger’
Police in Reno, Nev., are investigating after a white woman was caught on camera attacking a black actor while hurling racial slurs, Raw Story reports. Actor and singer Elijah Ahmad Lewis from Motown: the Musical took to Facebook Wednesday to describe the attack, saying that the woman punched him in the jaw and also hit…
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Retrial Delayed for Ex SC Cop Who Fatally Shot Walter Scott
Justice appears to have been delayed once more. On Tuesday a judge decided to postpone the retrial of former North Charleston, S.C., Police Officer Michael Slager, who is facing murder charges in the shooting death of 50-year-old Walter Scott during a 2015 traffic stop, Reuters reports. The trial is now expected to be delayed until…
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Pa. Restaurateur Accused of Calling College Student Racial Slur: ‘Trump’s President Now, so I Can Say What I Want’
You can’t even eat a meal in peace nowadays. An Annville, Pa., restaurant owner is accused of kicking a local college student out of his restaurant in the middle of his meal, calling the student a racial slur and then quipping that “Trump’s president … so I can say what I want,” Penn Live reports.…
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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Texas Appeal to Revive Strict Voter-ID Requirements
Score 1 for voting-rights advocates. On Monday the Supreme Court of the United States refused to hear an appeal by Texas that sought to bring back the state’s strict voter-identification requirements, which had been found to disproportionately affect minorities, Reuters reports. In July 2016, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the 2011…
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Calif. Teacher on Paid Leave After Confederate Flag Found Hanging in Classroom
Parents are speaking out after reports that a Confederate flag was found hanging inside a Sutter Middle School classroom in Folsom, Calif., CBS Sacramento reports. According to the news station, it is not the first time the teacher in whose classroom the flag was found has been accused of racially charged actions. Parents want to…