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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…

By

Zack Linly

Published

March 20, 2021
Education, News

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…

By

Zack Linly

Published

March 19, 2021
News, Race Matters

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Declares That His New Civics Education Proposal Will 'Expressly Exclude' Critical Race Theory

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is engaging in the relatively new conservative practice of pretending to know the first damn thing about critical race theory. On Wednesday, the governor of voter suppression and making pandemics worse unveiled his proposal for a civics education curriculum for Florida schools, which he said will “expressly exclude” critical race theory. Before…

By

Zack Linly

Published

March 19, 2021
News, Race Matters

Anti-Defamation League Report Says White Supremacist Propaganda Surged in 2020. No Word on Whether Water Is Still Wet, Though

According to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League, white supremacist propaganda surged across America last year. The report did not include any updates as to whether or not water is still wet, if the sky still turns less blue when the weather is bad or whether today is, in fact, Wednesday. OK, so obviously…

By

Zack Linly

Published

March 17, 2021
News, Race Matters

Watch Whiteness Work: A White Man Kills 6 Asian Women, and a White Cop Says He 'Had a Bad Day'

It’s already been a heartbreaking and devastatingly unrelenting year of blatant, dehumanizing and violent acts of racism. It’s echoed four years of ever-escalating incidents in the same vein, not to mention centuries of a state of rotten affairs that is as American as apple pie. I don’t know about you, but I’m exhausted and completely…

By

Ishena Robinson

Published

March 17, 2021
News, Opinion, Some Thoughts

Whiteness Is a Pandemic

I don’t have much to add here today that hasn’t already been said.

By

Damon Young

Published

March 17, 2021
Beauty + Style

The Royal Rumble Continues: Meghan and Harry's Wedding Choir Stands by Prince Charles and Broadcast Bully Accuses The Talk of Bullying

I’m sure we all pretty much expected some sort of ripple effect to come after last weekend’s interview special featuring Meghan Markle, Prince Harry and Oprah Winfrey, but it’s seriously been a next-level nuclear bomb of news! Not a day (or moment) goes by without something else spawning from that interview and going viral! Hell,…

By

Tonja Renée Stidhum

Published

March 12, 2021
Entertainment

Money Talks, but White Supremacy Screams: How Much Does It Cost Hollywood to Undervalue Black Stories? $10 Billion

Imagine being a capitalist structure, yet fumbling the bag in the name of racism. Then again, capitalism is a system founded on white supremacy in and of itself, so I guess it tracks. Anyway, that’s what Hollywood keeps doing, in such a comedy of errors that even the best screenwriter couldn’t write this shit. According…

By

Tonja Renée Stidhum

Published

March 12, 2021
Beauty + Style

Meghan Dumped the British Monarchy for Its Racism—the U.K.'s Former Colonies Should Do the Same

Let’s get the obvious out of the way—we know the British monarchy is a racist institution. The U.K.’s royal family owes most of its riches (which currently amounts to over $28 billion, according to Forbes) to enslaving Africans and colonizing half of the world—including my home country, Jamaica, and, at one point, the nation that…

By

Ishena Robinson

Published

March 12, 2021
Beauty + Style

Royal Flush: Prince William Says Royal Family Is 'Very Much Not Racist' and Sharon Osbourne Rinses Off Piers Morgan's Racism With White Tears

As expected, this past weekend’s widely-watched (and discussed!) tell-all interview, Oprah With Meghan and Harry: A CBS Primetime Special inspired some sort of a Royal Watch Cinematic Universe (or RWCU, for short). Since the special aired on Sunday night, so many more chapters of this saga have emerged. Because of that, we at The Root…

By

Tonja Renée Stidhum

Published

March 11, 2021