racism
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White Privilege Seems Like An Abstract Concept, Until You Remember It Kills Black People
My mom was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer in November of 2012. At that point, she was given four to six months to live. But she held on for an entire year, not succumbing to the disease until November of 2013. Her diagnosis, while devastating, was not a surprise. She was a smoker for…
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The Most Entertaining Piece Of Hate Mail I've Ever Received, Deconstructed
It’s been a little over a week since I first wrote about Wendy Bell, the WTAE-TV news anchor whose racially insensitive Facebook post led to her losing her job. In the time since, I’ve received approximately 300 Bell-related emails. Most of which — I’d say 85 to 90 percent — have been very positive, appreciative, and…
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Want To "Make America Great Again!" But Don't Know How? Easy. Legalize White Slavery
“Make America Great Again!” has been an unquestionably effective, shrewd, and admittedly genius campaign strategy for Donald Trump. Sequencing those four words in that order is a brilliantly succinct way of communicating two separate and equally powerful messages: 1. America was once great, is no longer great, but can be great again 2. America was…
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The University Of Missouri Football Boycott Is The Biggest American Protest Of The 21st Century
I wasn’t alive in the 50s and 60s and 70s when mass boycotts to protest racial injustice was more commonplace and more infused with our national cultural zeitgeist. I, like most of you, am very aware of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and other, less publicized, boycotts (like the New Orleans citizens boycott). But, again, reading about the…
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Black, Male, Gay, And Dating…And Not Your Fetish
***This piece originally published on 1839*** The amount of times that someone has told me that they’ve never hooked up with or dated a Black man is unbelievable. These men, almost always White, look at me hungrily, their jaws slack, their eyes half-closed. With low voices they say, “You know, I’ve never hooked up with…
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The Assault At Spring Valley High Would Not Have Happened If The Girl Was White
I do not know what happened in that classroom at Spring Valley High School before Deputy Ben Fields violently assaulted a teen girl who was, apparently, “resisting arrest.” I’m quite sure, however, that information will find its way into the public sphere very soon. We will also know more about Deputy Fields — his work history, his…
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Exactly How Fired Would Jack Kelly Have Been If He Wrote About The Holocaust Instead Of Slavery?
Jack Kelly writes a weekly column at the Post-Gazette. His views are conservative and contribute to the diversity of opinion featured in our newspaper. We have liberal columnists, too, who, like Jack, are provocative and can stir up reaction by readers. Obviously, readers need to keep in mind that our signed columnists, liberal or conservative,…
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An Argument For Why We Need Five PTOWB (Paid Time Off While Black) Days A Year
If you’re Black and in America, there’s somewhere between a 100 percent and a 100 percent chance that the following has happened to you at least once. And somewhere between a 95 percent and 99 percent chance that it’s happened at least once this week. You’re minding your Black-ass business, living your Black-ass life. You…
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White Guy Kicks Black Guy's Ass. Cops Come. Black Guy Gets Cuffed. White Guy Gets…A Conversation
Whoever you are and whatever you happen to be doing today, if you’re alive and free and reading this, your day is better than the day the Black guy in this video had. Because I’m certain you did not… 1. Lose a fight 2. Lose a fight, run away from the person you lost the…