Race Matters
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Racism Works
“Yet the harsh fact is that in many places in this country men and women are kept from voting simply because they are Negroes. Every device of which human ingenuity is capable has been used to deny this right. The Negro citizen may go to register only to be told that the day is wrong,…
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#PriceMatchPatty, Is That You? Pennsylvania Location of The Children's Place Charged with Racial Profiling [Updated]
A shopping trip to children’s clothing store The Children Place at the Capital City Mall in Camp Hill, Pa., turned ugly for Miriam Alejandro and her sister Carlita Alejandro last Thursday, when a simple request purportedly resulted in a standoff with an insulting sales associate. Miriam, who documented a portion of the exchange on Facebook,…
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Elementary School Staff Dresses Up as Mexicans and MAGA Border Wall for Halloween
As a small child, I had a Sabbath School (equivalent to Sunday School) teacher who wasn’t particularly great at settling down 20 to 30 unruly kids hopped up on Fruity Pebbles every Saturday. In fact, I only still remember one lesson from Sister Stevenson, but it was the only lesson most people will ever need.…
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White Student at HBCU Law School Antagonizes Her Black Classmates With Racist Comments
What in the world would possess a white woman who doesn’t really care for or about black people to enroll in a law school program at a historically black college in North Carolina? What would possess that same woman to go on Facebook and make racist comments using the n-word that her classmates would be…
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Don Lemon: White Men Are the Biggest Terror Threat in This Country
Don Lemon is fed up. Who knew a year ago that CNN’s Don Lemon would turn out to be the most outspoken and militant black man in television news media? Continuing his trend of calling it like he sees it, Lemon went on a tear during a segment on Chris Cuomo’s show Monday night and…
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America Suddenly Discovers White Supremacy
After a joint investigation by media outlets, government officials and people gifted with a rare superpower called “eyesight,” a small group of Americans have uncovered the existence of a previously unknown, widespread phenomenon that they are now calling “white supremacy.” Exactly one year before a gunman burst into a place of worship and opened fire…
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Missouri Nurse Fired for Blackface ‘Beyoncé’ Costume
As we’ve covered here at The Root before (just yesterday, in fact), it’s that time of year when a certain class of white people, bereft of any common sense, sensitivity, or any sense of the world outside their enchanted snow globe of Caucasity, decide to dabble in blackface under the guise of putting on a…
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Kentucky Kroger Shooting Being Investigated as a Hate Crime
Before Gregory Alan Bush opened fire at a Kroger supermarket in the Louisville, Ky., suburb of Jeffersontown and killed two black people on Wednesday, he tried unsuccessfully to enter a predominantly black church in the same area, police said. Now as federal investigators prepare to investigate the shooting, both the mayor and the police chief…
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'I'm White! I Got You, Girl!': #SouthParkSusan Narrowly Escapes Mollywhopping
My mother called it “cruising for a bruising.” Some places refer to it as “begging for a butt-whipping.” In my South Carolina hometown, old-timers would often ask if you wanted them to “go to your goat-smelling.” Whatever you call it in your neck of the woods, the Charlotte Observer reports that charges are pending in…