west virginia
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Meet Eric Porterfield, the GOP Lawmaker Who Believes the LGBTQ Community 'Is a Modern Day Version of the Ku Klux Klan'
I never thought I’d live to see the day where the gay community—a group that has incurred insane amounts of violence and discriminatory behavior—would be compared to the KKK—a hate group that has administered insane amounts of violence and discriminatory behavior. But if America has taught us anything, it’s that where there’s a delusional white…
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West Virginia Pol Uses the Word ‘Negro’ to Defend Racist Ad About ‘China People’
Now that it’s “Trump time” in America, it’s clear that wypipo have gone plumb loco when it comes to spewing the pent-up racial animus they’ve obviously been holding on to for so long. As such, West Virginia coal baron and Republican Don Blankenship is making up for lost time (or a lost era—or a lost…
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All West Virginia Public Schools Remain Closed as Teacher Strike Continues
Public school educators in West Virginia have shut down all 680 public schools in all of the state’s 55 counties for a third day as their strike over better wages and benefits continues. West Virginia’s 680 public schools employ 19,488 classroom teachers and have enrolled 277,137 students, according to Alyssa Keedy of the West Virginia Department…
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W.Va. High School Taunts Inner-City Pittsburgh High School Football Team With ‘Trump Perry’ Sign
Perry Traditional Academy is a predominantly black high school, located on Pittsburgh’s North Side and a five- to seven-minute drive away from my house. My brother-in-law graduated from there last year. (He was also a first-team All-City basketball player. He can’t beat me yet, but he is pretty good.) On Friday, Perry traveled to Wellsburg,…
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So, What Was This White Dude Doing Writing ‘Black Lives Matter!’ All Over Charleston, W.Va.?
Is he an ally-hero like Heather Heyer, putting it down for the cause? Or is he an agent provocateur trying to pin some kind of crime on the Black Lives Matter movement? Either way, it’s all right with me. But let’s investigate. The facts are that Charleston, W.Va., police arrested Ray Hensley Jr. last week…
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Former W.Va. Cop Sues City of Weirton, Claims He was Fired for Not Shooting at Suspect
A former Weirton, W.Va., police officer filed a lawsuit against the city Wednesday, claiming that he was fired for allegedly endangering colleagues after he opted not to shoot and kill a man who had brandished a gun during a domestic dispute. According to Reuters, Stephen Mader, the former cop in question, responded to the dispute…
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W.Va. Teacher Suspended Over Racist Tweets Referencing 'Obama's Children'
Them Twitter fingers will get you into trouble real quick. A social studies teacher at Huntington High School in West Virginia has been suspended with pay and was asked to delete her personal Twitter account after the discovery of several racially charged tweets shared via that account for more than a year, the Herald-Dispatch reports.…
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W.Va. to Review Contracts With Nonprofit Whose Director Was Reinstated After Calling Michelle Obama an ‘Ape in Heels’
The state of West Virginia will be reviewing its contracts with a nonprofit funded by state and federal funds after its director referred to first lady Michelle Obama as “an ape in heels,” the governor’s office confirmed Tuesday, Reuters reports. According to the report, the state announced its intentions after it was revealed that Clay…
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W.Va. Official Fired for Calling Michelle Obama an 'Ape in Heels' Quietly Reinstated: Report
A West Virginia official who was fired after a racist Facebook post comparing first lady Michelle Obama to an “ape in heels” will apparently be back at her job later this month, The Hill reports. Pamela Taylor, the director of Clay County Development Corp., a nonprofit funded by state and federal funds, came under fire…
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That Time I Almost Stabbed A Couple Rednecks Who Saw My Headwrap And Assumed I Was Muslim
It came as a surprise to everyone when I graduated from one of the top private schools in the country and, instead of attending college like most of my classmates did, joined the military. I was an immigrant — my family came to America from Jamaica when I was 10 — and female children of…