racism
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Man Sentenced to a Year in Prison for Threatening Rep. Ilhan Omar
The election of Donald Trump has really emboldened the “I don’t have a racist bone in my body” crowd. Seeing the president talk crazy with impunity has inspired his admirers to see if that lack of consequences also translated to them. In news surprising no one but white men, they don’t. NBC News reports that…
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Molson Coors Gunman Had Noose Placed on His Locker in 2015
A week ago, 51-year-old Anthony Ferrill killed himself and five of his co-workers at the Molson Coors Brewery in Milwaukee. While a motive is still unclear, recently revealed information may provide some context as to why he committed such a heinous act. Molson Coors has revealed that in 2015, Ferrill arrived to work to find…
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Two Massachusetts Women Allegedly Assaulted a Mother and Daughter for Speaking Spanish
When it comes to racist, hateful behavior the assumption is that young, white men have the market cornered. Two white women in Massachusetts seem to have decided to prove that they can be just as trash as their male counterparts. NBC News reports that 25-year-olds Jenny Ennamorati and Stephanie Armstrong allegedly assaulted a mother and…
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Missouri Middle Schooler Sends Racist Meme to Classmates
Every week I keep hoping that maybe this will be the one where I don’t have to talk about kids being trash. It’s only Monday and this already ain’t the week. According to KMOV, students at Hixson Middle School in Webster Groves, Missouri, sent a racist meme to two classmates. The meme showed an image…
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White People Are Annoyingly Insufferable and That’s Why ‘Honey Pot’ Is Trending Right Now
It must really hurt to be a white person. Seriously. White people’s skin is so thin, it has to be physically painful just to exist in a world where even with all the advantages they have through white privilege and white supremacy, they still find a way to be upset and offended whenever something happens…
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Confronting A Legacy, and Creating Her Own: Meet The First Black Rhodes, Truman, and Udall Scholar
Like many 21 year olds, Wanjiku “Wawa” Gatheru is on Twitter. And on Nov. 24, 2019, one of the University of Connecticut senior environmental studies major’s tweets went viral. No, Wawa didn’t absolutely body the latest TikTok dance craze, nor did she create a top-trending hashtag. Instead, she tweeted out news that would earn her…
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Police Departments Spreading Disinformation By Falsely Claiming Meth Is Being Laced With Coronavirus
As the U.S. prepares for a coronavirus outbreak that appears all but inevitable, the onus is on government officials at all levels to spread accurate information that relays the seriousness of the situation while also allaying unfounded fears or panic. Apparently, someone forgot to tell the cops this. Police departments across the country have been…
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Officials Responsible for Racist Fashion Show Put on Leave [Updated]
Is racism the newest high fashion fad? I’m sincerely asking folks. I feel like it’s been a prolonged cycle over the last couple years of a racist thing happening and then fashion-heads feigning shock that people were mad. This time the culprit is the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Over the weekend, The…
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One More Time: Another Professor Has Said The N-Word at the University of Oklahoma
Alright y’all, I’m pretty certain that there has been a concerted effort by educators to make this the worst Black History Month of all time. The amount of head-assery that has occurred over the past 25 days has got your boy in disbelief. According to CNN, a professor at the University of Oklahoma has said…