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Judge of Characters: When Racism Is Trained Behavior
This week, racism reared its ugly head the same way it’s been doing since Donald Trump became president. In New York City, the greatest melting pot on earth, we still have to deal with bigotry, but the city that never sleeps has a special way of banding together to combat racism that is sure to…
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British Airways Flight Attendant Goes on Racist Rant About Nigerian Passengers and ‘BBC’
A British Airways flight attendant is now under investigation after a revealing Snapchat video showed her complaining about her job and the size of Nigerian passengers’ penises. According to Australia’s 9 News, the flight attendant recorded the video on her way to work Friday and complained about the Nigerian passengers she’d have to encounter. “All…
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‘I’m Going to Strip You Naked and Whip You Like the Slave You Are’: Man Sends Racist Messages Before Killing Innocent Black Man
An innocent black man was shot in the face and killed on Labor Day after attempting to keep an angry, racist white man from entering his home and confronting his roommate, according to reports from local law enforcement in Fort Worth, Texas. Sammie Jones, 28, answered a knock on his door to find 38-year-old Kevin…
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Texas A&M Coach Loses Football Game, so Fans Lose Their Minds and Send Racist Hate Mail to His Home
Texas A&M lost their season-opening game Sunday at UCLA in spectacular fashion. The Aggies blew a 34-point, third-quarter lead, and because they are coached by Kevin Sumlin, a black man, it didn’t take long for the #MAGA crowd to call for his job and send racist emails to his home. On Thursday afternoon, Sumlin’s wife,…
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Watch Out Loud: What Was It Like the 1st Time You Were Called the N-Word?
When I asked a few of our readers to come in to The Root’s offices and share their personal experiences of being called the n-word for the first time, I knew I’d get a lot of stories steeped in ignorance. I didn’t realize that a lot of the stories would sound like shared experiences with…
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Woman Goes on Racist Tirade in Target, Starts Throwing Merchandise at Customers
A new video of a woman yelling racial slurs and throwing merchandise at other customers in a Target has gone viral on social media. In the video, the woman can be heard screaming, “You fucking sand niggers! Fucking pieces of shit, fuck all of you … all of you are shit.” The video was posted…
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Shia LaBeouf Apologizes for Racist Arrest-Video Rant
Actor Shia LaBeouf is now remorseful about his racist rant after being arrested in Savannah, Ga., early Saturday morning on public drunkenness, disorderly conduct and obstruction charges. Video footage of the 31-year-old’s arrest showed the Transformer actor not only being belligerent but having a racist and expletive-laden tirade. “You’re going to hell, straight to hell,…
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#StayWoke: Take a Look at Trump’s Energy Appointee’s Deleted Tweets About Blacks, Jews and Women
A senior Energy Department official tried to delete all of his hateful, racist and misogynist tweets, but the internet remains undefeated. On Thursday, the Washington Post unearthed and exposed all of William C. Bradford’s—Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Energy’s Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs—disturbing tweets. And on a scale of…
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Videos of Racists Being Racist Go Viral, and Then What?
Roses are red, violets are blue, America is full of racists, what else is new? That was my initial feeling when recently greeted by two videos floating around Al Gore’s Internet featuring two separate instances of overt racism. The other was curiosity over how that loudmouthed woman in Walmart or that wheelchair-bound man who reminded…
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Richard Spencer’s Racist Little Secret
On Tuesday, Richard Spencer—who is the actual throw-up in the back of your mouth—visited Auburn University in Alabama to spew his white nationalist rhetoric. Following the donnybrook that happened in Berkeley, Calif., last week, every media outlet prepared for another showdown between his supposed legion of neofascists and students opposed to his nonsense. I even…