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I Spent the Whole Unite the Right 2 Weekend Looking for Nazis and Ended Up at the White House
Last weekend was the one-year anniversary of the white nationalist Unite the Right terrorist attacks on Charlottesville, Va., and to celebrate, white nationalist leader Jason Kessler decided to do a remix and hold Unite the Right 2, in Washington, D.C. As a University of Virginia alumni and a resident of the vast suburban sprawl that…
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Awkward Black Guy:Ā Iām Not Nigerian But I Played One for a Whole Weekend
āYouāre totally Nigerian,ā Nkechi Nneji said, holding her hands out in a frame like she was sizing up my face for a photo. āAnd youāve got an Igbo head!ā This was uttered to me in a vaguely complimentary way by my friend, Nkechi (pronounced EN-KAY-Chee), as she and fellow Nigerian Omarosa (yes, that Omarosa), tried…
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From Hater to Hopeful: How Netroots Nation Changed My Opinion of Kamala Harris
āYouāre just a hater!ā āSheās the only one who can carry black women!ā āSo you want Trump to get re-elected?ā I hear these things all the time from my political friends. Usually right after I air-drop fifty-kajillion gallons of cold water on their fantasy of a Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) led Democratic ticket beating Donald…
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DNC Chair Tom Perez Says Democrats are Committed to Stacey Abramās Victory in Georgia …Ā Because This TimeĀ itās PersonalĀ
All too often political speakers treat the National Association of Black Journalist Convention as a microcosm of how they treat the black press. They only show up when theyāre desperate, and still act like theyāre doing us a favor, but seldom have any exclusives or meaningful information to offer. Reince Priebus came to NABJ in…
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The University of Virgina Hired a Trump Staffer Days Before the Charlottesville Anniversary and, as an Alum, Iām Okay With That
Itās been over a year and America pretty much knows who Donald Trump is. Heās racist. (Full stop). Heās selling us out to the Russians and big business, and heās a habitual, unadulterated, unfiltered, premium draft, liar. Either youāre down with his Forever 21 white nationalist authoritarian regime, or youāre not. At this point, most…
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So Trump is a Traitor. What Difference Does That Make to Black Folks?
Wow! Did you see the season finale of America yesterday? Totally didnāt see that coming. I know there was this whole buildup when that crazy President Trump got elected in 2016, and the storyline kinda got bogged down last season with the whole āfind his tax returnsā thing, but what a cliff-hanger! I mean who…
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I Finally See It: Democrats Donāt Hate Trump As Much as They Love White Supremacy
Iāve never really trusted the Democratic Party. Why should I? In a political system that forces us into one of two often problematic choices, it never made sense for me as a black person to decide between Kang and Kodos; in the end, theyāll both try to enslave us. However, like most African Americans with…
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Itās Not Slavery, Itās Not Japanese Internment: Trumpās Immigration Policy Is Like the Great Migration
America tried everything to keep the migrants out. Men and women were arrested at the border. Children were separated from parents. People got thrown in jail for violating random rules that nobody knew or understood. Kids went missing and the white nationalist president blamed his political opponents and the victims at the border. As much…
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Jeff Sessions Quotes the Bible to Justify Abusing Immigrants; God Laughs
If you hear somebody quote the Bible outside of church, itās usually not a good sign. The occasional gasp of āJesus Christā or āGaht damnā and various forms of āJesus be a fenceā are all right, but those arenāt really Bible quotes and could denote anything from having missed the bus to winning the daily…
