Race Matters
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Black Staff Member at Iowa State Victim of Racist Vandalism
A residence hall director at Iowa State University made an uncomfortable discovery when he found racial slurs spray painted throughout his residential storage room. WHO13 reports that Neo Thurston Jr., a 29-year-old Black man, entered the room and found that various forms of hate speech, including the N-word, were spray-painted on the floor, shelving unit…
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Missouri Newspaper Criticized for Racist Martin Luther King Jr. 'I Have a Dream' Caricature Cartoon
White people (and non-Black people of color for that matter) would do well to just keep Martin Luther King Jr.’s name out of their mouths. This goes especially for conservatives who only seem to know one excerpt of one speech from one civil rights leader and so they invoke their version of MLK every time…
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Abolish Gutless White Journalists Saying 'America' When They Clearly Mean 'White America'
You cannot read Ethan Strauss’s piece on the NBA’s rating problems without a subscription to The Athletic. Fortunately, you do not need to read it to have read it, because his 25-character tweet accurately synopsizes the 2,000 words behind the paywall. In it, Strauss stretches himself into logical origami to determine that the NBA’s very…
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Black Army Vet Called N-Word Several Times at New York 'Back the Blue' Rally and Somehow She’s Surprised
In today’s episode of Now, Sis, a Black Army veteran learned a valuable lesson after she showed up to a Back the Blue rally on Sunday in Wayne County, N.Y., and was met with an unexpected discovery—they racist AF up in there. Just as Black people discovered long ago that not all skin folk are…
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Harlem Globetrotter Demands Apology After TV Anchors Throw Banana At Him on Live Television
I have a thing about being touched. Unless you’re my girl or my child, keep your goddamn hands to yourself. Don’t brush against me in the hallway, don’t poke or prod me ever and you sure as hell better give me my six feet as long as COVID is floating around. That said, I can’t…
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Texas Lt. Gov. Won't Remove Confederate Monuments Because Democrats Won't 'Acknowledge' Slavery Was Their Fault
White conservatives have to be some of the most manipulative, delusional and disingenuous people on Earth. They’ve made being deliberately obtuse an art form, and you could almost admire them for it if their willful ignorance superpowers weren’t used almost exclusively to perpetuate white supremacy while denying that white supremacy exists. Last week, the Texas…
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Alabama Public Housing Put Whites in High-Rise Towers. Says Blacks ‘Prefer’ Substandard Garden Units, HUD Report Finds
Can America do literally anything without being racist about it? We already know that this great nation of ours can’t seem to police its citizens, distribute resources to communities, facilitate voting, or fund education in a way that focuses on racial equality, but one would think that something like providing subsidized housing for lower-income elderly…
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Racist Karen Calls Police on Black Man for Parking in a Reserved Spot: ‘You’re Stealing From Me’
It always bothers me when Black people get praised for remaining calm and cordial while dealing with the aggression of racist white people. One reason it’s so bothersome is that it’s far more satisfying to watch a racist get folded up after choosing the wrong negro to try their best KKK Grand Wizard impersonation on,…
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Black Employees Say Veterans Affairs Has a Serious Racism Problem, and the Stories Are Pretty Damning
A survey of employees at Veterans Affairs has revealed that nearly 80 percent of them believe that racism is a serious and widespread problem within the government agency. The nationwide survey of 1,500 workers at the VA was conducted by the American Federation of Government Employees last month, reports the Washington Post. An example of…
