Race Matters
Race Matters
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#EatingOutWhileBlack: Subway Employee Calls 911 on Black Family Because She Thought They Would Rob Her
Add eating out as a family on your way back from vacation to the list of things that black people canât seem to do in peace. A family of seven who stopped at a Subway in Coweta County, Ga., on Monday to eat dinner said that they had the police called on them while they…
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#RidingWhileBlack: Former Teen Vogue Editor Says an Uber Driver Assaulted, Called 911 on Her
This is America. For scores of black women hereâthere is always gendered and/or racial violence lurking around the corner. Fortunately, some black women, like former Teen Vogue editor and current media maven Elaine Welteroth, have a huge platform and friends in high places. And because Welteroth does have those things, perhaps her story will inspire…
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Gang of White Thugs Hurl Slurs at Black Mom, Smash Her Car Window, Yet Somehow No One Went to Jail or Even Had a Damn Mugshot Taken
This is Americaâand over in Connecticut, a mother is telling her story after she and her toddler were attacked by a racist gang of thugs. Thaniyyah Hutchinson, 37, was driving home late on Sunday night when she saw the group of five white men and women beating up a black man on the street. âThey…
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#NewportNancy Wants Black Neighbor Evicted For Smoking Cigarettes in the Parking Lot
Are yâall tired of white women calling the police or other authorities on black people yet? I know I am. Every time one of these stories comes up, I just want to look Becky in her eye and ask her what her damn problem is. They keep coming out of the woodwork too, like roaches.…
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Purdue Professor Proudly Posts Photo in Blackface But Faces No Consequences Because of Free âSpeechâ
The obsession with blackface has to stop. Thank God I went to an HBCU, where the majority of my professors were black and the few white professors I did have never tried any foolishness. But over at Purdue University, Lisa Stillman, an instructor in the biology department, put up an old pic from 2016 of…
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10 Wypipo We Need to Call the Cops On
Because I believe that many of Americaâs Great Value-brand people harbor an innate fear of African Americans, I am perfectly aware that white people calling the cops on black people isnât a new trend. I do, however, believe that it is time for black people to reclaim our reluctance toward dialing 911 by repaying these…
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âSilence Is Commonâ: White Man Who Put Racist Restaurant Owner on Blast Says White People Need to Speak Up About Racism
For weeks, Don Merckle wondered what he might have done to make the owner of Main Street Public House confide in him about his racism. Was it his tattoos? His trucker hat? His beard? As Merckle, a musician based in Columbia, S.C., tells it, he was in a bar talking to co-owner Jimmy Latulipe about…
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25 Questions for the Random White People Who Try to Touch My Baby in Public
1. Why do you think itâs cool to try to touch my baby? 2. Do you realize that my baby is 2? 3. And that she literally just learned the concepts of âyesâ and ânoâ a year ago? 4. Which means that even if she says âyesâ when you ask her if you can touch…
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Waitress in Mexico Writes N-Word on Texas Womanâs Bill
Some Houston residents were just trying to have a good time at a resort in Mexico but instead were faced with the n-word. The crew went to the Be Telum resort to relax and kick back, but instead, the opposite happened, which led them to return early from the vacation, WTRK-TV reports. Tiffani Janelle, a…
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When Will White People Learn That Racist Social Media Posts Will Haunt Them Forever?
Racism in America isnât new. It is the very foundation that this country was built upon. Open displays of racism arenât new, either. They have been around just as long as this country has. The bolder and more brazen racists who walk among us have never been afraid to let you know where they standâand…