Donald Trump
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Republican VP Pick Mike Pence Criticized George H.W. Bush for Signing 1991 Civil Rights Act
As Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s record is being more heavily scrutinized since presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump named him as his vice presidential pick, some very interesting data is surfacing. BuzzFeed.com reports that in 1992, as executive director of an Indiana think tank, he wrote an editorial sharply criticizing then-President George H.W. Bush for…
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Donald Trump Picks Mike Pence as His VP and It Probably Won’t Matter
To paraphrase a musical icon gone all too soon, unlike books, black lives and albums, the vice presidential pick really doesn’t matter. However, like a sullen 12-year-old forced to go to his uncle’s wedding, America had to wait with bated breath to see exactly who Donald Trump picked to be his vice presidential nominee. And…
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Racism Is Not Hate
I have a cousin named Jerry*. He is 10 years older than I am. He was a virtuoso drummer who you would have been willing to swear had four arms and three feet if you had ever heard him play. He became a prodigy on the piano even though he never owned a keyboard. He…
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Post-Dallas, Could White Fear Turn Tide for Trump?
The political climate had already incubated into the most racially flammable presidential election cycle in recent memory (perhaps more so than when the first black president ran). Throw a lit match of tragic police assassinations by a heavily armed vengeful black man onto it, and it may have just exploded into a summer-surprise inflection point…
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Poll: Donald Trump Has 1 Percent of Black-Voter Support
Surprise! Donald Trump isn’t faring well with African-American voters. A new Quinnipiac University poll shows that Hillary Clinton is doing extraordinarily well with African-American voters and has a commanding 91 percent-to-1 percent lead over the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. But despite Clinton’s enormous lead with African-American voters, the poll also shows that the race to the…
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New York Times Book Review Publishes New Short Story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A new short story by your fave, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is slated to run on the cover of the New York Times Book Review’s July 4 weekend issue, according to a press release. Adichie, an award-winning writer—known for her works Americanah, Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun, to name a select few—was commissioned to write the…
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Congresswoman Mia Love Ditches GOP Convention Next Month
In what surely is a check against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump (though she will not admit it), Utah Rep. Mia Love said she will not be attending the party’s convention next month, and will instead visit Israel with a congressional delegation. Love, the very first African-American Republican woman ever elected to Congress, and who was…
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Why Brexit Should Scare The Shit Out Of You, Explained
What is Brexit? Brexit is the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union. “Brexit” is a catchy portmanteau of “Britain” and “exit.” They withdrew from the European Union? How? There was a vote. And the Leave forces defeated Remain 52 percent to 48 percent. How did this vote even happen? What was the impetus for this? There are…
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A Short List of the Smartest Things Donald Trump Has Ever Said
Donald Trump is an idiot. I mean, he has to be, right? The amount of vitriol that has spewed out of this man’s sorry excuse for lips over the course of his run for the White House is the thing of legend. Trump has offended Mexicans, “the Blacks,” Muslims, women, our intelligence and entire countries,…
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Omarosa Manigault Is in Donald Trump's Army, but Who Is She Fighting For?
On Tuesday, a typical, but no less still unnecessarily combative, Omarosa Manigault spoke with MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts about her role in the orgy of audacious idiocy and political amateurism known as the Donald J. Trump for President campaign. As Omarosa spoke very seriously about an unserious person, I noticed that she was listed as the…