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Rep. Steve King Is Starting to Sound Like a Damn Nazi
It’s becoming very difficult to report on Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa because half the time, I don’t know what the hell he’s talking about. On Sunday he tweeted, “We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.” What the hell does that even mean? Looking at King’s sketchy-ass past, one can assume that…
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Don Cheadle Makes It Clear Why He Hates Trump
Don Cheadle has become infamous on Twitter for his clapbacks and opinions about Putin’s Puppet, but his disgust for Donald Trump started way before his presidential run. On Saturday, Cheadle went to battle with Trump supporters after yet another one of Trump’s psychotic outbursts on Twitter, this time alleging that former President Barack Obama had…
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Sage Steele Keeps Sage Steele-ing; Claims Worst Racism She’s Received Is From Blacks
Sage Steele just won’t stop Sage Steele-ing. That’s right, the ESPN anchor has become a verb because she has insisted on antagonizing black people as one of the loudest voices of respectability politics. For a better look at how Sage Steele became Sage Steele-ing, please see a list of her transgressions below. Sage Steele-ing is…
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Now Everyone Wants to Bury Milo, but It Was All Good Just a Week Ago
Well, I guess it’s good to know that even supporters of racist bigots have limits, and it looks like the limit is pedophilia. On Monday, news broke that Milo Yiannopoulos, the ass-bag of all ass-bags, an editor at Breitbart and media darling of the “alt-right,” finally said something that his publisher and Republican friends couldn’t…
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6 NAACP Members Arrested in Protest of Jeff Sessions Bid for US Attorney General
Six NAACP members were arrested late Tuesday at Sen. Jeff Sessions’ Mobile, Ala., office ending a sit-in to protest the nomination of Sessions (R-Ala.) as U.S. attorney general. According to CNN, five men and one woman, including NAACP President Cornell W. Brooks, were arrested and charged with criminal trespass in the second degree. The protesters…
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Unique Views, Episode 21: Why Are Black Women ‘Hidden Figures’?
I don’t hate my co-star and daughter in this podcast game, Ms. Patti Patti LaDanielle, aka Danielle Young, The Root’s social-content producer, but because of Donald Trump’s Russian-tainted presidential-election win, our relationship is strained. It’s fitting that this episode starts with us arguing, but that isn’t important. What is important is that I won. Because…
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Ohio Family's Home Trashed; Swastikas and 'White Power' Spray-Painted on Walls
Pat Jude and her husband, Joe, left their Cincinnati rental home to visit their daughter. When they returned, the interracial couple found their place trashed and vandalized with swastikas. “They hit every cabinet with paint,” Pat Jude told NBC 4. “They hit every wall with paint. They hit every appliance, they poured paint into the…
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Racist Vandal Scrawls 'Kill All Koons' on Ind. Church Door
Evansville, Ind., police are looking for the person who vandalized a predominantly black church on Thanksgiving. The suspect scrawled, “Kill All Koons” on the church’s back door and “Koons Inside” on the church’s van. “I’ve been the pastor here for 17 years, and we’ve never had anything like this,” the Rev. Todd Robertson, pastor of…
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Jeff Sessions Couldn't Be Judge Because of Racial Comments; Now He's Trump's Pick for AG
President-elect Donald Trump has selected Sen. Jeff Sessions, a conservative from Alabama whose nomination for a federal judgeship was rejected because of racially charged comments, to be the next attorney general of the United States. According to the New York Times, Sessions, a former prosecutor, was also being considered for the position of secretary of…
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Students Expelled From Abilene Christian University for Posting Snapchat Video in Blackface
It seems as if some white college students still haven’t learned that blackface isn’t OK. This time around, a video of an unidentified female student from Abilene Christian University in Texas wearing full blackface was posted to Snapchat, according to the New York Daily News. All of the students involved were summoned to university President Phil…