racism
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Michigan Public Official Facing Calls to Resign After Saying N-Word During a Public Meeting
Y’all, I’m thinking Michigan might be gunning for the position of most racist state, because it’s the only way I can make sense of a state official just casually dropping the hard-R at the start of a public meeting. NBC News reports that on Tuesday, Tom Eckerle, an elected road commissioner for Leelanau County, was…
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Nazi or Nah? Oakland A's Coach Apologies for 'Unintentional' Salute
Unlike others, I don’t spend a lot of time fraternizing with Nazis—as in at all. So when news began to circulate of Oakland A’s bench coach Ryan Christenson doing this on Thursday: I didn’t immediately recognize what it was. Thankfully, plenty of other people did. They then, of course, called him out on it, and…
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Man Pleads Guilty to Threatening to Burn Down a Black Church in Virginia
A North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to threatening to burn down a Black church in Virginia. On June 7, 63-year-old John Malcolm Bareswill, a resident of Catawba, N.C., made a threatening phone call to a church located in Virginia Beach, Va., according to NBC News. Only several days earlier, one of the church leaders…
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Joe Biden Says 'Unlike African Americans' the Latino Community is 'Incredibly Diverse' And…Well…This Election 'Bout to be Long AF
Boooooy, y’all’s presumptive Democratic nominee appears to be bound and determined to join y’all’s president in making the upcoming presidential race as excruciatingly cringeworthy has humanly possible. This racism vs. diet racism Pepsi challenge we’re all being subjected to is getting…well…interesting. In an interview with NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro that aired during the virtual convention of…
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Pennsylvania Teenager Told to Remove Black Lives Matter Mask at His High School Graduation
The family of a teenage boy in York, Pa., is upset after he was told to remove his Black Lives Matter face mask before walking at his high school graduation. “I don’t know what to do right now. I’m so mad. I can’t believe they just did that to me and they put my health…
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President Jim Crow: Donald Trump's White Supremacy Week
We should stop referring to Donald Trump as a racist. Racism—the “belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities”—is a personal and individual principle that only exists in theory. Racism cannot be objectively measured or detected, as it is always subject to interpretation. Because of this, it is easily denied by…
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US Navy to Investigate Video of a Kaepernick Stand-In Being Used in an Attack Dog Demonstration at Navy SEALS Museum
The Navy SEALS museum in Fort Pierce, Fla., is under investigation after video surfaced of a Colin Kaepernick stand-in being used for an attack dog demonstration. NBC News reports that the videos were shared over the weekend on documentary filmmaker Billy Corben’s Twitter account and showed attack dogs attacking a white man wearing a cut…
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Black Family Just Trying to Get Ice Cream Threatened by White Man Carrying a Sword
A Black family in Pennsylvania got to experience firsthand the impact of 400 years of white supremacy emboldening white people to act overtly racist when a white man wielding a sword threatened them and made a comment about their race. According to NJ.com, Antonio and Diana Bellamy were on an ice cream date with their…
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Arizona Man Confronts Black Lives Matter Protesters With a Gun, Doesn't Face Gun Charges
You know, for a group of people that love to talk about their First A amendment right to be an asshole, white folks really love intimidating those whose opinions don’t match theirs. Take for instance 51-year-old James Kleinhenz. He’s a Flagstaff man who, on Saturday, felt the need to verbally harass and then pull a…
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Brooklyn Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Hate Crime Against Black Woman
In 2018, a 57-year-old Black woman was walking to a subway station in Brooklyn when a white man began stabbing her and yelling racial slurs. CNN reports that on Wednesday, 34-year-old Aleksejs Saveljevs was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the attack. Saveljevs pleaded guilty to first-degree attempted assault as a hate crime, according…