white women
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White Woman Acquitted of Hate Crime After Using Racial Slurs, Slapping Black Car Salesman
A pickup truck-driving white woman who “backhanded” a car salesman was cleared of ethnic intimidation charges on Monday after a judge ruled that slapping the shit out of a black man and calling him “nigger” isn’t necessarily racist if she’s upset about her trade-in value. Kent County Circuit Judge Paul Sullivan acquitted 47-year-old Shelley Hueckel…
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An Intimate Look at How White Women Spent the Last 10 Years Doing the Most…and the Least
It’s that special time of the year where I only play Christmas carols and reflect on the previous 300-some odd days before. Fortunately for me, since 2019 is also the end of what’s been quite a decade, I’ve been reflecting a bit more ahead of the year 2020. And as the video team at The…
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'We Have to Do More': Champion Ally Megan Rapinoe Thanked Kaepernick, Tarana Burke and Black Lives Matter in 'Woman of the Year' Speech
If you follow The Root on a regular basis, you know white women warrant a surprising amount of our coverage. This is not because this is a site for or about white women (quite to the contrary). It’s because some white women’s interactions with and responses to blackness have consistently proven dangerous to the people…
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This White Woman Don’t Know Nann ‘Ni**er Bitch,’ but She Made the Mistake and Called Trina One Anyway
Shout-out to the white woman who didn’t get the “baddest bitch” memo. Yes, I know that nomenclature refers to Trina’s dime-piece ranking, but best believe her “baddest bitch” status also refers to the fact that she would indeed, cut a bitch if necessary. If you saw the infamous “light the blunt” Instagram story, y’all know…
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The Keynote Address From #BeckyCon2019
Today, the hashtag #BeckyCon2019 exploded on Twitter. It began when whistleblower Gail Simone noticed a blatant expression of white privilege on a plane, and recognized a conference attendee traveling to the inaugural conference. A joint effort between the Hallmark Channel and Oil of Olay, #BeckyCon2019 is a gathering of sundry white women seeking more information…
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'We Shall Over-WHOMST?' White Anti-Vaxxers Colonize Civil Rights Rhetoric in California Protests
The protestors came out in droves at the California State Capitol, furious over new legislation that, if passed, would hack away at the remaining medical exemptions for vaccination in California. But their rage—one protestor reportedly threw a menstrual cup of what appeared to be blood at state legislators—wasn’t the most remarkable thing about the demonstrators.…
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#FundraisingWhileBlack: White Woman Pulls Gun on Black Teenagers Raising Money for Their Football Team
Well, hello there! In today’s edition of #ExistingWhileBlack, we have a despicable human being named Jerri Kelly, who pulled a gun on a group of black teenagers whose only crime was raising money for their high school football team. ABC News has the scoop: The wife of an Arkansas jail administrator was arrested and charged…
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White Woman Claims to Confront Racism by Creating Racist Yoga Event; Clearly Doesn’t Understand How Racism Works
You know how we’re always asking white people to gather their own folks if they want to address and end racism? We’re going to stop asking now because some of you are simply incapable of not centering yourselves in any and every instance, and therefore can’t be trusted with the responsibility of assisting with the…
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Up in Smoke: Cardi B Ethers Yet Another Conservative Woman
One day, folks are going to learn not to come for Cardi B unless she calls for them—but that day clearly isn’t today. Instead, some will continue trying to hitch their wagon to Cardi’s relevance by picking public fights with the star, just so folks like us will report on the shenanigans—and the inevitable ether…