racist
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Can Someone Get Ben Carson to Explain to Trump that Chinatown and China Aren’t The Same Thing?
I know it doesn’t look like Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson, is a really smart man, but I assure you that before falling into the sunken place, he was one the world’s most beloved neurosurgeons. He may have been the world’s only neurosurgeon. Seriously name another neurosurgeon without Googling. So I know…
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The Divider-in-Chief Just Can’t Stop Dividing America
Think about this for a second: In the midst of a global pandemic, the head of the federal government told state governors that if they can get ventilators (presumably off the street from the ventilator guy) to do it because going through the federal government would take too long. And because the president refuses to…
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Fair Worker Gets Hands and Unemployed After Calling Guest the N-Word
Under no circumstances is it OK for a white person to drop the hard-R. It’s a one-way ticket to catching all of the hands. A fair worker learned that the hard way when he tried it and wound up both beat and broke. According to NBC News, a ride operator at a Florida fair was…
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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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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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Philadelphia Police Investigate After Cecil B. Moore Mural Is Defaced
While we’ve seen a rise in blatant white nationalism since the start of this presidency, Black History Month always has a particular way of bringing out the worst in racists. A report from CBS 3 in Philadelphia details how a long-standing mural of civil rights figure Cecil B. Moore has been defaced. The assailant spray…
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Sambo Be Damned! Black Fashion Model Refused to Wear ‘Racist’ Accessories at Fashion Institute of Technology Show
The trashion fashion world is still about that bullshit! One would think that even in higher institutes of liberal learning—in New York City, at that—folks wouldn’t be so oblivious not to realize that anything that could possibly be construed as racist is a non-starter. But no, not when it comes to fashion. A black model…
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Neo-Nazi Slapped With $13 Million Fine for Targeting Andrew Gillum, Stacey Abrams With Racist Robocalls
If there were such thing as a Racist Hall of Fame, neo-Nazi podcaster Scott Rhodes of Idaho would be its latest inductee. The Orlando Sentinel reports that Rhodes is facing a $12.9 million fine for harassing Andrew Gillum supporters with a deluge of racist robocalls during his 2018 Florida gubernatorial campaign. According to the FCC’s…
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So We Doing This on MLK Day, Huh? Antique Store Sells ‘Mammy’ Dolls and ‘Whites Only’ Signs
Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day, everyone! That is, everyone except Cheryl Dean in Cortez, Colo. Dean owns an antique store in Cortez and has recently come under fire for selling racist merchandise. And I’m not talking Confederate flags, MAGA paraphernalia or dolls that ambiguously look like they may be swinging from nooses. This isn’t…