racism
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New Video Shows Ahmaud Arbery Being Harassed by Police in 2017; Family Wants Man Who Recorded Arbery's Death Arrested
Another video has been released in the case of Ahmaud Arbery, and unfortunately, it depicts a cycle of harassment known all too well by black men and women in this country. According to the Associated Press, a video from 2017 shows Arbery being harassed by Glynn County Police officers. An officer repeatedly asks Arbery if…
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South Carolina Teacher Quits After Being Accused of Being a Neo-Nazi
Racism in American schools is, unfortunately, not all that uncommon. Whether it’s a teacher calling the cops on a student for not switching seats, telling a student to go back to their country or a 6-year-old black girl being sent to a mental institution, teachers have a surprisingly long track record of being trash. That…
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White Nationalist, Far-Right Groups Actively Promoting Lies to Paint Ahmaud Arbery as a Criminal
White people seem to follow the same playbook whenever there’s a new high-profile case involving an unarmed black person being killed by neighborhood vigilantes or police. When they’re not shouting “What about black-on-black crime?” from every mountaintop they can find, character assassination appears to be the name of their game. Analysts who monitor the online…
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KKK Hoods Are Apparently the New COVID-19 Fashion Statement
Police in Colorado are seeking the public’s help to identify a man who went grocery shopping while wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood this weekend, though a similar case in San Diego recently ended with the police throwing up their hands and going, “This is America.” Some white people have used their privilege to respond…
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Black Man in Vermont Pulled Over and Told to Leave the Entire State by White Man
It has become incredibly apparent over the last few weeks that white people believe it is their divine right to police black people. CNN reports that a black man in Vermont was pulled over by a random white man and told to leave the state. On Friday, the victim was driving with his 11-year-old son…
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Racists Built a Website to Doxx White Women in Relationships With Black Men
White supremacists who, in the year 2020, still consider interracial relationships to be an abomination before God and Ku Klux Klan Jesus, built a website to doxx white women who are in relationships with men of color. Vice reports that approximately 80 women have been targeted and labeled as “traitors” by racists who still get…
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Current and Former Employees Say Google Cut Diversity Programs To Not Appear Anti-Conservative
Several current and former employees of Google are calling the tech company out for scaling back and cutting diversity and inclusion programs in order to avoid the appearance of being anti-conservative. Google employees and ex-staffers, whose names were not revealed, sat down for interviews with NBC News to discuss their claims that the company billions of…
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'Jog for Ahmaud' Ain't Activism, It's Respectability
Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed after he was stalked and approached by two armed men suspicious of his presence in the neighborhood he happened to be in. That he was black, and that the men who killed him are white, matters because of the historical context of whites believing they possess a birthright to…
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NFL Star Malcolm Jenkins Calls on Department of Justice To Investigate Ahmaud Arbery Death
Last week, a graphic video was released detailing the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery. Outrage erupted at the fact that over two months had passed since the incident and Gregory McMichael and his son Travis McMichael, the men charged with his murder had not been arrested (both men are currently in custody). Now, a group…