racism
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We Get It. It’s Harvey Weinstein’s News Cycle. But What About Our Black Girls?
I stopped watching broadcast news five years ago, after a sex crime was reported in close proximity to where I live. The local news was beginning to feel like trauma porn and was much too close to home. The purge had been a healthy choice—that is, until national news infiltrated my timeline, the Twitterverse and…
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FBI Leading Investigation After Car Near Kansas State University Vandalized With Racial Slurs
“Go Home Nigger Boy,” “Fuck You Die Dumb Nigger,” “Date Your Own Kind”: These are but some of the horrific slurs that were tagged on a car near Kansas State University Wednesday, and now students at the school say they are tired of the racism that occurs on and around campus. According to the Kansas…
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Gun-Wielding Drunk Charged With Hate Crime After Chasing, Shooting at Black Man While Yelling Slurs
A drunken thug from Green Bay, Wis., is facing hate crime charges after chasing a black man over the weekend while yelling slurs before ultimately discharging a firearm at the fleeing victim. According to the Green Bay Press-Gazette, 24-year-old Taylor W. Hill was charged Monday with recklessly endangering safety using a dangerous weapon as a…
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What Pitbull Gets Wrong When He Says ‘Immigrants Built the United States of America’
It’s one thing to underscore the vast contributions immigrants have made to the United States of America. It’s another to completely erase the egregious history of slavery while benefiting from it. Rapper Pitbull demonstrated such a faux pas last week at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. It was there that Telemundo held its 2017…
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Dear White Women: Interracial Relationships and Biracial Children Do Not Absolve You of Racism
There she was: a blond woman with big blue eyes, hair cornrowed tight, with her caramel-colored black child sitting in the back seat. The question, on a mutual friend’s Facebook post, asked if voters were happy with their decision to elect Donald Trump president. The white woman responded that she was satisfied with the job…
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Va. Governor’s Race: Conservatives Shed White Tears After Political Ad Calls Out Ed Gillespie’s Racist Ads
Racist campaign commercials are so pervasive that they hardly get heavy news coverage anymore. Everyone harks back to the classic Willie Horton ad from the 1988 presidential campaign, as if that were the last time a conservative politician’s racial demagoguery blatantly hit the airwaves for 30 seconds. You don’t have to go back 30 years…
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White Students at Baltimore Private Schools Caught Wearing Inmate and ‘Freddie Gray’ Costumes
Allegedly, racism is the purview of po’ white trash. You know, those uneducated bastards who love monster trucking, Paula Deen biscuits, Confederate flags and “Lock Her Up” T-shirts for a quick run to the Piggly Wiggly. These folks have more guns than teeth (dental benefits seem to have a direct correlation with how many times…
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‘I Can’t Be Racist Because My Best Friend Is Black and Lives in the Condo I Own’ Is the Whitest Thing I’ve Ever Heard This Week
As a professional observer, curator, interpreter, documentarian and even occasional appreciator of blatant and reckless acts of shameless whiteness, I’ve seen and read about enough types of aggressively white behavior now to last five lifetimes. Particularly in regard to racism (anti-blackness, specifically). I’m like an old and fat NBA point guard who’s able to stay…