white people
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White People Want Trump
Nothing matters. The 10,796 false or misleading statements don’t matter. The Muslim travel ban doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter that his administration literally locked children in cages. That the most powerful man in the country sat in an official meeting and insisted that some black immigrants come from shithole countries doesn’t matter. Excusing white supremacist…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Some Rules and Reminders for People Who Read The Root
It’s the Friday before a major holiday, and the regular writer of the Clapback Mailbag, Michael Harriot, has decided to take the day off for whatever it is he does when he is not pulling white people by their taint hairs on The Root. Before he took off the other day, he asked me if…
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FBI Arrests 69-Year-Old Militia Leader Whose Group Boasts Ties to U.S. Border Patrol
Larry Mitchell Hopkins, the 69-year-old leader of the United Constitutional Patriots, an armed border militia group spreading conspiracies and rounding up asylum-seekers along the U.S.-Mexico border, has been taken into custody by the FBI. The New Mexico Resident allegedly illegal detained immigrants crossing the border while posing as United States Border Patrol. The organization has…
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Candace Owens Is Racist White America’s Black Friend and She Just Told Congress That White Nationalism Isn’t a Thing
Unfortunately for the world, Candace Owens is a thing. I want her not to be a thing, or, even better, a thing of the past like Furbys and AOL Instant Messenger. Yet, here we are talking about Candace Owens because she is trotted out by the far-right whenever there is a discussion on white nationalism…
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Report: White People Still Tripping
The next time someone says that America needs to have a “conversation about race,” please remind them that, according to a new report from one of the most respected opinion researchers in the world, most white people in America think we talk about race too much. Most white people don’t think that being white has…
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Brexit Reporter Declares He’s ‘Never Seen So Many White People in One Place.’ The Lie Detector Determined … That’s a Lie
Earlier in life then we probably realize, black people are taught the value of compartmentalizing our personas. While we take comfort in Wobbling at weddings and selectively blurting out “Ain’t nobody coming to see you, Otis!” around our own, we have a propensity to abandon the seasoning rack while amongst our unseasoned companions. Our speaking…
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White News Anchors Embarrass Mankind with Their Unseasoned Attempt at Black Slang
One of the cardinal sins of adulthood is embarrassing your kids—especially if they’re teenagers. As an unruly adolescent myself in a past life, I have vivid memories of my mother calling me “Cooch” in front of my friends, or my Dad’s bizarre obsession with 2Pac’s “How Do U Want It” (“That song is bad!” he…
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Report: Public Universities Prioritize Out-of-State, Wealthy, White Students, Cue Shock and Awe
While Dr. Dre’s $70 million in donations daughter was somehow able to get into USC based “entirely” on her own merit, for many black children, the process to attend their college of choice is an obstacle course of anxiety and racial bias. And while our experiences as perpetual victims of prejudice are irrefutable, it’s always…
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The 6 Kinds of Woke White People
Now that Democrats are fully aware that its general election success hinges on the black vote, the race for the party’s presidential nomination has evolved into a spectacular game of one-upmanship between Cinderellas trying to convince us who’s the wokest white person of them all. It seems like it was only yesterday that black voters…
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Son of Couple Charged in College Cheating Scandal Defends Parents While Smoking Blunt and Promoting Mixtape
Gregory and Marcia Abbott obviously didn’t believe their daughter had the intelligence or requisite flair to make it into a top university on her own merit. If their daughter is anything like their son, we can see why, thanks to the New York Post. Smoking a blunt that appeared to have been rolled on a…