white supremacists
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Donald Trump Ain’t Shit, He Ain’t Barack Obama and He Surely Doesn’t Care About Black People
Someone in America died today. Someone died today in Virginia in a racial terrorist attack, and our president had the audacity, the hardihood, to continue to hew to the line of dog-whistling racist dogma. Donald Trump showed us exactly who he is today—as a man, as a leader, as a human being and as an…
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Those Va. Police Really Fucked the Dog in Charlottesville, Eh?
If you’re like me, you’ve been glued to the television for much of this morning watching the events unfold in Charlottesville, Va., as white nationalists descended into the city for a Unite the Right rally in protest of an earlier City Council decision to remove a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. If you’re…
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We Need to Talk About Eric Trump’s New Nazi Haircut
This weekend Eric Trump, the jawline-less son of our tweeter in chief, debuted a new haircut. The Twitterverse immediately recognized the style from Richard Spencer and historic photos of Adolf Hitler, the German chancellor known for his Third Reich sleepaway camps (or—as White House spokesman Sean Spicer rebranded them—“Holocaust centers”). Although the controversy is larger…
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White Supremacists Are Mad at Right-Wing Nutjobs for Not Being Racist Enough
A hilarious troll has become a glaring example of the terrible plague of white-on-white violence. A group of Texas white supremacists have ignited a war with a right-wing militia movement that highlights the major differences between the contingent of low-IQ dullards who want to wipe out all nonwhite people from the face of the earth,…
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Princeton Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Cancels Public Appearances Amid Fox News-Fueled Death Threats
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, assistant professor of African-American studies at Princeton and a 2016 The Root 100 honoree, has been forced to cancel all public appearances as death threats continue to roll in in response to her May 20 commencement address at Hampshire College, a private liberal arts college in Amherst,…
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The Killing of Richard Collins III Is Not a Hate Crime—It’s Terrorism
The death of a young student just reaching his prime is always tragic. The death of a young black man, especially one only days away from college graduation, is an enormous heartbreak. But the death of a young black man allegedly at the hands of a suspected white supremacist, brutally stabbed merely for being black,…
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Richard Spencer, Confederate Apologists March in Charlottesville, Va., With Torches Reminiscent of KKK
Annoyingly, there’s more from whites up in arms that the many Confederate monuments to slavery defenders are being removed all over the country, a small but significant attempt at atonement aimed at the millions of African Americans who were enslaved here. On Saturday, more than a few “protesters,” including punched-in-the-face-twice-moron Richard Spencer, gathered in Lee…
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When It Comes to White Supremacists, Trump, You Are the Father
I love former President Barack Obama. I started loving him shortly after he walked offstage after making his now-historic 2004 Democratic National Convention speech. During his time as president, not only was Obama an example of class and excellence in office, but for many black men, he was also a role model for how to…
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Man With White Supremacist Connections Accused of Plotting Attack ‘In the Spirit of Dylann Roof’
A South Carolina man with white supremacist connections who expressed admiration for Charleston, S.C., church shooter Dylann Roof was arrested Wednesday and accused of plotting an attack after unknowingly discussing his plans with an undercover FBI employee. The Washington Post reports that 29-year-old Benjamin Thomas Samuel McDowell told an FBI employee that he wanted to…