racism
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BlacKkKlansman Allows You to Laugh at the Ridiculousness of White Supremacy, Then and Now
“With the right white man, you can do anything,”John David Washington says as Ron Stallworth—the black Colorado Springs, Colo., police officer who went “undercover” in the Ku Klux Klan—in Spike Lee’s latest joint, BlacKkKlansman. This sentiment is also an entire mood. Oh, AmeriKKKa. Stallworth’s tale of infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan might be set in…
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Allegedly 'Smart' White People Keep Getting Dumber and Dumber About Racism
I’m going to keep this short, because variants of this piece have been written so many times that spending more than 600 words on this will make my ears explode. On Twitter earlier today, New York Times features writer Elizabeth Williamson shared a piece from columnist (and colleague) Bret Stephens about Sarah Jeong, whose hiring…
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Racist Minnesota Couple Accused in Attack on Black Man Allegedly Held Him to the Ground and Threatened to Run Him Over With a Truck
A St. Cloud, Minn., couple is facing multiple charges after they allegedly assaulted a black man, hurled racial slurs at him and then threatened to run him over with their truck. The brutal attack occurred on Monday when the man went to the home of Aaron Charles Stevens to pick up a fan. Stevens then…
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#BrooklynBecky Exposes 'Wokewashed' White Supremacy
“You’re standing on public property, ma’am. This is not public property,” starts the now-viral #BrooklynBecky video. The 19-year-old white woman of Puerto Rican heritage, who uses the name “Bella” on social media, directed her confused statement to Darsell Obregon, as she called the police on her. Why did Brooklyn Becky alert the authorities? For Obregon’s…
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Spike Lee Wants Us to Respect Our White Allies: 'White People Have Died For Justice'
Spike Lee is well-respected as one of Hollywood’s biggest and blackest directors. On Friday, his latest, BlacKkKlansman arrives in theaters; the movie tells the story of Colorado Springs undercover detective Ron Stallworth, a black man who joined the Klu Klux Klan in the 1970s. Lee admits that he had never heard of Stallworth’s story, much…
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Just Remember That Your Punk-Ass President Would Never, Ever, Ever Call LeBron James Dumb to His Face
We have known, since we’ve known who Donald Trump is, that Donald Trump is a racist. Perhaps his name hasn’t always been associated with racism, but racism has always been attached to the Donald Trump package, like an IKEA refrigerator equipped with a complimentary ice maker. We know, for instance, that he was sued decades…
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Is Watermelon Racist or Nah?
Did you know the watermelon is from Africa? Or that it’s actually a berry? And that they’re delicious AF? Yet given its history via racist white America, the watermelon can be triggering for black folks. “I refuse to eat fried chicken or watermelon in front of white people,” my friend told me during one of…
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The 10 Worst Sentences From Andrew Sullivan's 'When Racism Is Fit to Print,' Ranked From 'STFU Andy' to 'Does He Have a Concussion?'
Andrew Sullivan has been saying dumb things about race and racism on TV and the Internet for as long as I’ve known who Andrew Sullivan is. I’m convinced he’s able to do this because he’s British and has an admittedly nice beard—which makes people assume his words are 30 percent smarter than they actually are.…
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Nothing Reminds You That You're Black in White America Like Trying to Buy a House
Five weeks ago, moments after landing back in Pittsburgh after a two-day long trip to Chicago, I switched off airplane mode, checked my phone, and saw a transcribed voicemail from my mortgage consultant, asking me to call him back. We were 11 days away from closing. The loan and the interest rate had already been…
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White Michigan Cop Who Says He Faced Racial Taunts After DNA Test Showed He's 18 Percent Black Settles With City for $65,000
The city of Hastings, Mich., has settled with a decidedly white officer who claimed he was racially discriminated against after his colleagues found out he was 18 percent African after he got back DNA test results from genealogy site Ancestry.com. Cleon Brown sued the city for a hefty $500,000 last year, but the city will…