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Watch: Symone Sanders Says This Isn’t the 1st Time We’ve Had a Racist President
Your president, Donald Trump, allegedly made a few unsavory (read: racist) comments regarding Haiti, African countries and pretty much any immigrant of color, calling their home countries “shithole countries.” While many people were shocked by his blatant racism, there are more of us who already knew of his racism. And, even further, there are people…
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High School Principal Retires After 40 Years After Racist Rant Caught on Video
Jay Brennan, the principal of Bishop Hendricken High School for 40-years, announced his retirement after administrators of the Catholic all-boys school in Warwick, R.I., were given a video clip that showed him making racist and anti-Semitic slurs. A short video clip reportedly shows Brennan in his school office saying, “That way, I could take care…
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Judge of Characters: So You Think You Can Use Racism to Sell Clothing?
The “Coolest Monkey in the Jungle” ad featuring an adorable young black boy has certainly made its way into your feed this week. While it’s not surprising that racism has a casual place in advertising, it is surprising that people don’t understand the deep-rooted emotional racism attached to calling black people “monkeys.” It is not…
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Meet the White Nationalist Running for Congress in Pennsylvania
Apparently unaware of Steve King, Stephen Scalise, Steve Bannon and other Republican Party Steves who are racist as shit, a candidate for the House of Representatives has threatened to bow out of an upcoming Republican forum if a white supremacist running for the same congressional seat is allowed to attend. Andrew Lewis, a candidate for…
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Well, What Do You Know? Looks Like NFL Player Richie Incognito May Still Be a Racist
I don’t know how you undo racism, but I don’t know if having a come-to-Jesus moment only after being called out for saying really racist things to a teammate is enough to cure someone. But to hear defensive end Yannick Ngakoue tell it, offensive lineman Richie Incognito may still be suffering from racism. You remember…
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Report: Water Is Wet, Fire Is Hot—Oh, and Race Relations Got Worse After Trump’s Election
A fascinating new report has revealed some important information of which you may not be aware: If you touch a hot stove, you might get burned. Water is wet, fire is hot, and most Americans believe race relations in our country got worse after Donald Trump was elected. OK, so maybe the latest national survey…
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Disgraced Ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio Strongly Considering Senate Run
Now that bigotry and racism is house-sitting 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., it seems fitting that ex-Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio—who was so vile and xenophobic that the courts ordered him to stop targeting Latinos in Arizona, but he refused and was sent to prison until the xenophobe in chief pardoned him—may be running for Congress.…
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City Councilman and Sheriff’s Deputy Tweets Racist Response to Philando Castile Settlement
I’m rarely shocked by racism. It often angers me. But knowing you live in a world co-existing alongside such evil and hate is depressing. It’s never surprising, but it still hurts. Take Tom McBroom Sr., for instance. Minnesota’s City Pages describes McBroom as a sergeant on the Rice County, Minn., Sheriff’s Department and a city…
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Will White Identity Politics Prevail on Tuesday? Conservatives Use Racist, Anti-Immigrant Messages to Get Out the Vote
To paraphrase The Root’s editor-in-chief, Danielle Belton, Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, rife with xenophobia, sexism and racism, made a cattle call of what previous conservative leaders had merely dog-whistled. Now, as select state and local races across the country draw to a close this Tuesday (among them, Virginia’s hotly contested gubernatorial race), conservatives around the…