racism
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Van Lathan Wants to Know If Given the Opportunity, Would You End Racism or Take $100 Billion Instead?
On the latest episode of The Ringer’s Higher Learning—which you should absolutely subscribe to since I would never steer you wrong—co-hosts Van Lathan and The Bachelorette alumna Rachel Lindsay ponder a question that’s been tormenting even the deepest recesses of the Internet since Tuesday. “The fates come to you, they say, ‘Hey, look. You got…
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Why White People Hate Critical Race Theory, Explained
They’re back! On Monday, Mississippi state Rep. Chris Brown (not that one) introduced two bills in the state legislature affirming the “resolute opposition to the promotion of race or sex stereotyping or scapegoating.” While the concurrent resolutions seem like no-brainers, the measures are part of the Republican Party’s nationwide effort to eliminate the anti-racist terror…
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A Black Girl's Event on Being a Better White Person Has Triggered the Worst White People
Great news! There’s a vaccine for racism! According to some people, eradicating the scourge of discrimination, white supremacy and oppression is easy. The Caucasian cure for systemic inequality involves the simple task of ignoring the issue, pretending it doesn’t exist and shutting the fuck up until the problem magically dissipates into thin air. While naysayers…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Maybe Whiteness Is Not a Pandemic
Last week, a white man did white man things, which caused a lot of pain and heartache. Some people call Robert Aaron Long a “spree shooter,” while others call him a “mass murderer.” Because he went from location to location to kill people, he may technically be a serial killer or a hate criminal —…
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Sen. Tom Cotton Wants to Ban Critical Race Theory From the Military, Blames BLM for Mass Shootings. God, He's an Idiot
Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton—whose surname is probably not short of I-like-my-negroes-picking-Cotton, but you never know—is the most annoying kind of racist. Like white conservatives across the nation, Cotton is very careful not to drop any n-bombs on camera but he has no problem getting in front of a microphone and launching into Klan-ish diatribes that…
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Why The Real World Homecoming: New York Is Must-See TV In the Age of Black Lives Matter
“Part of the fight for us as we are out there in these spaces—including reality TV, I feel, or any space—is are we able to be authentic and be [our] whole selves? That’s the fight. When I say that, we should also be able to express the full range of emotions; which includes anger and…
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China Quotes George Floyd in Report Calling Out America's Racism
The United States loves to position itself on the global stage as a bastion of freedom, justice and democracy with the authority to call out other nations for not sufficiently exhibiting those ideals. But on Wednesday, the Chinese government issued a 28-page report to the United Nations challenging America’s critique of the rising power in…
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NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Launches Commission to Address Systemic Racism and I’m Struggling Not to Be a Cynic
On Tuesday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that he is doing what a number of lawmakers and officials have been doing in order to at least appear interested in addressing the whole systemic racism in America thing: He launched a commission. Racial justice commissions seem odd to people who are looking to…
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Hundreds of Cases Under Review After Retired LAPD Detective Calls Black Man N-Word and 'Monkey' After Car Crash
In today’s episode of White People Gon’ Learn Ta’ Day, a retired Los Angeles police detective got himself caught on camera last week being racist AF toward a Black man after the two got into a minor car accident in Santa Clarita, Calif. Now, hundreds of old cases that the former homicide detective was involved…
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California Becomes First State in America to Approve Statewide High School Ethnic Studies Curriculum
While Republican-run states like Florida are proposing statewide educational curricula that will “expressly exclude” critical race theory—because a lot of white people in power are fragile AF and that fragility will undoubtedly extend to the classrooms in their states—California has adopted the nation’s first statewide ethnic studies high school curriculum, and one that doesn’t shy…