white privilege
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4 Ways the FBI Director’s Election Ambush Was White Male Privilege at Its Best
Black folks know all about the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It’s a history dipped in the ongoing harassment, surveillance and unmitigated unconstitutional destruction of black life and leadership. And so, the eleventh-hour, October-surprising relaunch of one of the fakest political scandals in recent memory wasn’t unusual behavior for the agency. Former Washington, D.C., Mayor Vincent…
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'Affluenza' Teen’s Attorneys Argue Judge Had No Authority to Jail Him
And so the saga of privilege for “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch continues. According to a report by Reuters, lawyers for Couch, who drew national attention after killing four people while drunkenly driving as a 16-year-old, are seeking to have him released from a two-year jail term, claiming that the judge who sentenced him had no…
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Stanford Rapist Brock Turner to Be Released From Jail This Friday
Brock Turner, the former Stanford student who received a slap on the wrist after being convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, is scheduled to be released from jail Friday, after serving only half of his meager six-month sentence, Business Insider reports. As the report notes, Turner was sentenced to six months in jail in…
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The School for Magical Negroes
Hello, people of color! Are you tired of bearing the burden of walking around as the scary, dark-skinned demon who makes white women clutch their purses in Wal-Mart parking lots and clinch their anuses in elevators? Have you grown weary of candidates for president painting you as a Muslim bogeyman who needs to be expelled…
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White Lies: A Brief History of White People Lying About Crimes
Before there was Olympic thug Ryan Lochte, who lied about being robbed in Rio de Janeiro, white people were notoriously known for either committing crimes and pinning them on fictitious black folks or just blaming them for made-up or heinous crimes committed by someone else, because racism. Here’s a brief history of black people being…
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Abigail Fisher, The Oscar Mayer Turkey Bacon Of Average White Women, Loses
Half-empty bottle of backwashed room temperature Aquafina Abigail Fisher finally (!) lost her years-long bid to have the Supreme Court recognize her hawkish and pandemic averageness as fucking special. From The Huffington Post: In a victory for diversity in higher education, a hamstrung Supreme Court narrowly upheld the affirmative action program at the University of Texas…
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How Former TV News Anchor Wendy Bell Is Suing for the Right to Be Racist, Explained
Who is Wendy Bell? Wendy Bell was a lead anchor for WTAE-TV, Pittsburgh’s ABC affiliate. But since she is no longer employed by WTAE (and apparently no longer employable), her only current job title is Professional White Woman. Why is she no longer employed and employable? On March 9, six people were killed in a…
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Wendy Bell, The White Privilege Turducken, Is Back With A Bucket Of Freshly Squeezed White Tears
During the first round of “What The Fuck Was Wendy Bell Thinking?” — the three-week-long reality show where pundits and laypeople alike put their collective brains together to determine why the former WTAE-TV anchor thought it was wise to go Full Post-Racial Scarlett O’Hara — I held tight to a morsel of hope. “Perhaps” I thought “maybe she’ll eventually realize…