Southwest England is full of pastoral beauty – low, rolling hills, mesmerizing coastlines, and cliffs that rival the famed cliffs of Dover. Nestled in amongst these green valleys are countless little villages, each one with its own proud history stretching back thousands of years. On cool autumn afternoons on the weekend, it wouldn’t be uncommon …
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Elaine Chao Has Formally Slammed Trump For His Frequent And Continued Racist Taunts Against Her
Getty Image For months, Donald Trump has been calling one of his former employees racist things. That person is Elaine Chao, and she wasn’t only the former president’s secretary of transportation, who quit the day after the Jan. 6 riot. She’s also married to Mitch McConnell, one of his many, many sworn enemies (though one …
U.S. finally renames public sites to replace a racist term for Native American women
Names matter. That’s the message from the Department of the Interior as it works to replace the names of public lands that are outdated at best and outright offensive at worst. In November 2021, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland—the first Native American person to serve as a cabinet secretary in U.S. history—established a task …
‘The fact that it was an email’: WestJet customer notices passenger typing racist message about her on her phone
A passenger on a WestJet flight captured her “first racist encounter.” In a video with over 6.9 million views, TikTok user Miss Crizzy (@mizz_crizzy) filmed a woman writing an email with the subject line “Plane.” “I am looking out the window. Other two seats are taken by two very large, dolled-up black ladies, one of …
Woman Wrote Racist Email on Plane and Was Exposed on TikTok
A platform like TikTok is home to all sorts of content, but not all of it consists of fun dances and silly trends. More often than not, people tend to capture or comment on some horrible events that unfold before them. Whether people are addressing false rumors or controversy, capturing offensive tirades, or exposing awful …
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‘I think everybody’s a racist’: Teacher tells Black students that white is the ‘superior race’ in viral video
A white teacher tells a group of Black students that he thinks his “race is the superior one” in a viral video shared to Instagram. In a video filmed last week at Bohls Middle School in Pflugerville, Texas, a white teacher tells Black students that he is “ethnocentric,” which he defines as believing his race …
New York Post Staffer Fired For Racist, Violent Tweets
Violent and racist content that appeared on the New York Post’s website and Twitter account Thursday morning were posted by one of the newspaper’s own employees, a company spokesperson said. The tweets, which were posted just after 9 a.m. and seen by BuzzFeed News, called for the murder of President Joe Biden and his son, …
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Marco Rubio shares tale of canvasser being attacked, omits that he’s a notorious local racist
This morning, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) tweeted that a man canvassing for his campaign in South Florida was attacked and severely beaten by four individuals who told him Republicans weren’t welcome in the neighborhood. Rubio said the man suffered internal bleeding and a broken jaw and that his injuries will require facial reconstruction surgery. The …
German soccer fans turned on a racist heckler, punctuating his exit with an anti-Nazi chant
This article originally appeared on 02.20.20 As a soccer match between German teams Preussen Munster and Würzburger Kickers went into its final minutes, a defender from the Kickers, 23-year-old Leroy Kwadwo, stopped to point out a problem in the stands. A Munster fan was making monkey noises at Kwadwo, a black player of Ghanaian descent. …
NAACP Blasts Tuberville For Racist Reparations Comment
Reparations refers to the process of compensating the ancestors of enslaved people for the suffering they endured, as well as centuries of the systemic inequality spawned by slavery. Democrats have no official party position on reparations, although a bill to study the issue received support from a House of Representatives committee last year and has …
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Rick Scott Spent Sunday Clumsily Trying To Avoid Addressing Trump’s Violent And Racist Comments
Getty Image Donald Trump remains the presumptive nominee for the Republican presidential ticket, which isn’t so great for the GOP. After all, he keeps doing and saying messed-up things. Over the weekend, the former president had one of his customary meltdowns, this time directed at not only Mitch McConnell but also his wife, Elaine Chao. …
Lin-Manuel Miranda Has Joined Those Slamming The Racist Attacks On The New ‘Little Mermaid’: ‘If That’s The Thing That Makes You Mad, Then Stay Mad’
Disney Disney’s next big live-action (plus CGI) remake of one of their animated classics is The Little Mermaid, and it’s making one big change: Ariel, its aquatic hero, is played by a Black performer. That’s good news for Black kids, who will see themselves represented onscreen in a beloved story. It’s bad news for another …