racism
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Days Black People Are Most Likely to Be Called the N-Word, Ranked
1. St. Patrick’s Day 2. New Year’s Eve 3. Wednesday (any) 4. Columbus Day 5. The anniversary of the O.J. Simpson verdict 6. MLK Day 7. The night of a presidential election 8. Memorial Day 9. Mardi Gras 10. Black Friday 11. Saturday (any) 12. The Fourth of July 13. The first of the month…
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America Is Not Completely Trash After All: DeAndre Harris Found Not Guilty of Assaulting White Supremacist at Charlottesville, Va., Rally
On Friday, the American criminal-justice system actually got something right; as it turns out, DeAndre Harris, the black man who was brutally beaten during the Charlottesville, Va., Unite the Right white supremacist rally, was found not guilty of assaulting a white nationalist. Last year, Harris, who was counterprotesting the infamous rally, was cornered and attacked…
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Pittsburgh to Replace America’s Most Racist Statue With Statue of a Black Woman
Remember this? Please, people of Pittsburgh, I implore you. Do not topple this statue. At least, not until I drive by it again so I can hug it, take a selfie with it and maybe take it on a date, too. I just hope magical Negroes love chorizo. No, you don’t remember that at all?…
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It’s Easy to Believe Conspiracy Theories When Your Country Conspires Against You
From 1979 to 1981, at least 28 black boys and young adults were murdered in the South. Atlanta Monster is a podcast that explores the disturbing and complicated case of Wayne Williams, the person a jury found guilty of what has come to be known as the “Atlanta Child Murders.” Hosted by Payne Lindsey, a…
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We Can Now Add Schoolchildren to the List of People Forced to Clean Up the Mess White Men Made
The biggest surprise of being a parent so far is how often my daughter surprises me. She’s a little over 2 years old now, and it seems like every week she does or says something new that I had no idea she knew how to do or say. Yesterday morning, for instance, she noticed me…
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Watch: Trump’s Recent Speech Proves He Doesn’t Care About Black People
President Donald Trump made a very startling appearance in Moon Township, Pa., last week in support of Republican state Rep. Rick Saccone, who was running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. (With only a handful of absentee ballots remaining to be counted, Saccone appears to have lost to Democratic candidate Conor Lamb.)…
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British Schoolboys Accused of Whipping Black Student in ‘Mock Slave Auction’
Well, some of our neighbors across the pond appear to have lost their damn minds. Currently, police in the U.K. are investigating an incident in which multiple white teenagers apparently chained a black student to a lamppost, whipped him with sticks and called him racist slurs as part of a “mock slave auction.” The incident…
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‘We’re Not Racist’: Maine IHOP Manager Suspends Server After She Asks Black Teens to Pay Up Front for Their Meals
The manager of an IHOP in Auburn, Maine, is making it clear that no one should or will ever have to pay up front for a meal at the establishment after an incident of racial profiling over the weekend. “And we’re trying to let everybody know that we’re not racist,” Melvin Escobar, the manager, told…
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Why I Don’t Have Any White Friends, Explained
Huh? It was when I was 17: The Pittsburgh Zoo made this big stink about getting a polar bear—press releases and parties and polar-bear-themed brunches and shit—despite the fact that they already had perfectly fine (and strikingly handsome) black and brown bears. I saw that as a metaphor for America, and I pledged to never…