white supremacy
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‘We Hate the Blacks’: 2 Men Arrested After Yelling Racist Chants Outside Black Student’s Door at British University
Two 18-year-old men have been arrested for racially aggravated public-order offenses after being videotaped yelling racist slurs outside a black student’s room at Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom earlier this week. As the BBC notes, the student in question, Rufaro Chisango, tweeted out a video of the abuses hurled at her, which included…
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Kansas Man Who Screamed ‘Get Out of My Country’ Before Killing Indian National Pleads Guilty to Multiple Charges, Faces Life in Prison
Adam Purinton, the 52-year-old Kansas man who opened fire in a local bar last year, killing one Indian national and injuring two other people in an incident that sparked outrage across the globe, has pleaded guilty to his crimes. According to the Washington Post, on Tuesday, Purinton pleaded guilty to one count of premeditated first-degree…
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Florida Middle School Teacher Outed as ‘Unapologetic’ White Supremacist
In an exclusive report, HuffPost has revealed evidence suggesting that a 25-year-old Florida middle school teacher, Dayanna Volitich, has been secretly hosting a white nationalist podcast. In the Unapologetic podcast, which Volitich hosts under the alias “Tiana Dalichov,” Volitich brags about bringing her racist beliefs into her Crystal River Middle School classroom. “I get to…
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Why Is Our Government Soft on White Domestic Terrorism?
For all our national bluster about waging a “war on terror,” the main sources of terror in our country go largely unacknowledged by our political leaders. While we are led to believe that the most dangerous individuals in this country are those who read the Koran, lack a Social Security number or have dark skin,…
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Can We Stop Blaming Russian Bots for White People’s Racism, Please?!
Special prosecutor Robert Mueller on Friday dropped a 37-page indictment charging 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities with election fraud. The entire indictment focused on how the charged parties used social media to organize pro-Donald Trump and anti-Hillary Clinton rallies and took on fake social media profiles, especially on Twitter and Facebook. Much of…
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White Supremacy Roundup: 4 Stories That Show How Institutional Racism Works
When the Ku Klux Klan sets a cross on fire, the fact that a few snuff-chewing Caucasian troglodytes have come together to celebrate their low-IQ ideology is as inconsequential as the fact that they are contributing to global warming and deforestation. It has always been about the hoods. The idea that the cowardice of teachers,…
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Oregon State Student Government Rep Facing Hate Crime Charges in Placement of Racist Bumper Stickers on Cars
An Oregon State University student government representative is facing felony hate crime charges after he allegedly put racist bumper stickers—that included a racial slur—on cars in Corvallis, Ore., last year. Andrew Oswalt, a 27-year-old chemistry doctoral student, was indicted Tuesday on four criminal counts, including two counts of criminal mischief and two counts of intimidation,…
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#OscarsSoBlackAndWhite and the Myth of Black Privilege
It’s become an annual late-January Twitter tradition to examine, cheer and/or mock the diversity (or lack thereof) of the Oscar nominees ever since writer, activist and media critic April Reign started the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite in 2015. But as the derivative hashtag #OscarsSoBlackAndWhite rears its ugly head once again this year, it’s worth revisiting a countertradition:…
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America Is Not Ready for, Nor Does It Deserve, Another Black President
It’s been several weeks since the general public decided that Oprah—following her amazing speech discussing #MeToo and #TimesUp at the Golden Globes—would be the perfect candidate to run against Donald Trump in 2020. Oprah undoubtedly is a legend, great orator and motivator, and billionaire, and essentially “qualified” to be president. Now she has gone on…
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Everything You Need to Know About Institutional Racism Happened This Week
When one is explaining white supremacy, it is sometimes useful to have an understanding of the historical effects of policies and practices such as redlining, Jim Crow laws, implicit segregation, the criminal-injustice system and individual racism. It is impossible to comprehend the far-reaching effects of the all-American tradition of racism without a holistic examination. Or…