white privilege
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Watch: This Is What Happens When Your Privilege Is Showing and There’s a Black Woman in the Room
By now you may have seen the viral clip from Katy Perry’s livestream promoting her new album, Witness, that catapulted actress Amanda Seales and former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner more into the spotlight more than they already were! To recap: Jenner adores America and Seales doesn’t quite feel the same, and Jenner is perplexed by Seales’…
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White Liberal Tears and Racism From Parents in Response to Seattle Teachers Wearing ‘Black Lives Matter’ T-Shirts
Last October, teachers in the Seattle Public Schools district planned a Black Lives Matter in the Seattle Public Schools event that consisted of wearing T-shirts with the slogan printed on them, despite the fact that a similar effort at Seattle’s John Muir Elementary in September was met with criticism, hate mail and threats of violence.…
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James Hodgkinson Proves White Men Are Bulletproof
Today you will probably see one of the many thousands of articles positing the reasons a man took a rifle and opened fire at a congressional baseball practice in Arlington, Va. Every cable news pundit will explain how this newly toxic political environment fomented the hate and rage that led to James T. Hodgkinson’s brutal…
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Ezra Klein Just Sent the Whitest Tweet Ever
Early Wednesday morning, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was wounded when a gunman In Alexandria, Va., opened fire on a congressional baseball practice. It turns out the shooter, who was shot and killed during the incident, was James T. Hodgkinson, a person who had previously expressed anger toward the president and the political system—calling Donald…
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The Anatomy of a Culture Vulture
Once upon a time, a leather catsuit-clad Chilli affirmed that a scrub is a guy who thinks he’s fly. In other news, he might also be known as busta. But since Chilli is preoccupied with exhuming her career from the grave, I’ll take it upon myself to behold the pale stable of horses that have…
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Judge Frees Terrorist-in-Training Because Whiteness Is a Helluva Alibi
Even though the man was a member of one of the most dangerous terror communities in the country; despite the fact that he knew how to make bombs; with the knowledge that he was in possession of bomb-making materials; even after he exhibited every single trait of what law-enforcement officers, Homeland Security experts and Army…
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Apparently, Free Speech Is a White Privilege
Less than 48 hours after an egomaniacal, snooty, three-toed, sloth-looking wet diaper joked about being a “house nigger” on Friday’s episode of Real Time With Bill Maher, white supremacists armed with bats, bricks and cans of Pepsi rioted in Portland, Ore., at what they deemed a “free speech rally.” The day after the “Portland Purge,”…
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Millionaire Trump Supporter Sexually Abuses Black Hotel Maid, Gets Fined $50
Sometimes you have to look at the justice system and just wonder. In this case, a millionaire basically got away with barely a tap on the wrist after pleading guilty to sexually abusing a black maid at the Mayflower Hotel in downtown Washington, D.C. According to the Washington Post, the incident started Jan. 19 as…
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White People Are Amazed That a White Woman Was Treated Like a White Woman
All across America, white people’s mouths are hanging aghast at half-staff as they hydrate themselves to conjure up the onslaught of white tears that predictably has followed their shock and amazement since a college student blew up the internet when she exposed an amazing fact to her Caucasian counterparts. Hold on, and prepare yourselves for…
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So So (Tone) Def: Kendall Jenner Needs to Get a Clue With This New Vogue India Cover
All we can do is roll our eyes. Even if Kendall Jenner doesn’t have the wherewithal to recognize that this might not be a good idea, her people should know, after that Pepsi fiasco, that they might want to pump the brakes on every. single. thing for a minute. But maybe white folks just don’t…