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Stephen Colbert Accused of Racism With #CancelColbert Campaign
“I am willing to show #Asian community I care by introducing the Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever,” “The Colbert Report” Twitter wrote Thursday. The joke was taken from a bit on Wednesday night’s “The Colbert Report,” parodying Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder and his launch of the Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation in light of controversy over the team name. Taken out of context, however, many Twitter users saw the joke as racist
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One by one, Missouri’s black towns disappear
Small rural spots founded as escapes from the Jim Crow South are vanishing into nothingness
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Jay-Z’s bling from ‘whites are devils’ group
Black people are the fathers and mothers of civilization, white men are the devil, the Christian god is nothing more than a ghost and only a small percentage of people understand the world. These are just some of the beliefs behind the bling — the gaudy Five Percent Nation medallions worn by Jay Z and Carmelo Anthony.
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Why People Still Join the Ku Klux Klan
Frazier Glenn Cross, the suspect charged with murder today in the killings of three people near Jewish sites in Kansas on Sunday, is a self-avowed anti-Semite who has founded white supremacist groups such as the White Patriot Party and a branch of the Ku Klux Klan. Is this 73-year-old typical of today's Klan? With a sordid history and current climate of social intolerance for racism, why do people still join the Klan?
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Racist online forums linked to deadly U.S. hate crimes: rights group
A white supremacist charged with killing three people near two Jewish community facilities in suburban Kansas City this week posted more than 12,000 messages on a racist website which carries the slogan "No Jews, Just Right," according to an organization that tracks hate groups.
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Clippers Owner Donald Sterling to GF - Don't Bring Black People to My Games ... Including Magic Johnson
L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling told his GF he does NOT want her bringing black people to his games ... including Magic Johnson ... and it's ALL on tape. TMZ Sports has obtained audio of Sterling making the racist declaration during a heated argument on April 9th with V. Stiviano ... after she posted a photo on Instagram posing with Magic.
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Dani Alves had the perfect response to a racist taunt
Barcelona player Dani Alves had the perfect response to a racist taunt in Sunday's game against Villarreal. In the second half, a fan threw a banana at him — something that still happens to black players with troubling frequency across Europe. Instead of ignoring it or informing the official, Alves picked up the banana, peeled it, ate it, and then took the corner kick with a mouth full of banana.
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GOP’s white Southern men problem: Why they can’t hold Democrats down any longer
The days of the left humiliating itself in an effort to woo these voters are over. They're the right's problem now
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Everything You Need to Know About V. Stiviano, the Woman Who Recorded Donald Sterling’s Racism
The hero in the Donald Sterling story, insofar as there is one, is the woman best known by a single letter, whose audio recordings of his unbelievably racist rantings took Sterling's history of discrimination from an inconvenient fact well known in sports circles to the biggest story in the country.
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Donald Sterling refuses NBA sanctions, threatens to sue
SI.com has learned that Clippers owner Donald Sterling has hired prominent antitrust litigator Maxwell Blecher, who has written a letter to NBA executive vice president and general counsel Rick Buchanan threatening to sue the NBA. The letter, sources tell SI.com, claims that Sterling has done nothing wrong and that "no punishment is warranted" for Sterling.
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Mike Myers: Kanye West was right about Bush and black people
Nine years after Kanye West boldly declared, “George Bush doesn’t care about black people,” on a telethon raising money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, the man who literally stood by his side agrees with West’s take.
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Meet the Black Officer Who Went Undercover as a KKK Member
Ron Stallworth posed as a Ku Klux Klan member for seven months in the late 1970s. Undetected by the Klan, he had phone conversations with Grand Wizard David Duke—and even met him.
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Mich. teacher suspended over blackface lesson plan
A community is outraged after a Michigan public school teacher was removed from the classroom for showing a video of white entertainers in blackface. District officials are looking into whether 59-year-old Alan Barron's lesson plan on African-American history and Jim Crow racial segregation laws was inappropriate.
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Justin Bieber's Racist Joke Apology Actually Gets It Right
The pop singer's mea culpa hit all the right notes. Over the weekend, when video footage surfaced of Justin Bieber telling a racist joke, the cycle of celebrity scandal kicked into high gear. The video was posted by TMZ in the morning; by the evening, the Associated Press had an apology out of him.
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Inside The Ku Klux Klan
A GROUP of Ku Klux Klan members says it is planning military style combat training for the FIRST time in KKK history - exactly 60 years after the birth of the African-American Civil Rights Movement. Klan bosses say an influx of military troops - existing members and new KKK recruits - will return to the US from overseas campaigns in a matter of weeks and plan to train the Loyal White Knights (LWK) faction, which has Klan members made up of men, women and children across at least three states.
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Texas county unwittingly votes in favour of reparations for African Americans
Leaders in a North Texas county passed a resolution this week supporting reparations to African Americans for slavery – without even realizing they had done so.
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The U.S. military’s ongoing slur of Native Americans
Resistance to the Washington Redskins team name has ebbed and flowed over the years, but thanks in part to letters from 50 senators to the team’s owner, Dan Snyder, and last week’s decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to rescind the team’s trademark registration, the campaign to get rid of it has renewed urgency. Snyder has shrugged off complaints about the name, even claiming that “redskins” is a “badge of honor.” Team president Bruce Allen, protesting too much, says the name “has
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Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe tells white farmers 'to go'
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has called on the country's remaining white farmers to cede land to black people. "We say no to whites owning our land and they should go," Mr Mugabe told his supporters at a rally. The white farmers union said it was regrettable that racial tensions were flaring up again.
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The KKK Is Using Candy to Lure New Recruits
The Ku Klux Klan is having some trouble with recruitment. After all, competition is getting pretty fierce among the various right-wing militias and bunker-dwellers looking to build up armies to fight the fast-approaching Race War Apocalypse. Last weekend, Klansmen in South Carolina tried to sweeten their pitch by dropping off goody bags stuffed with candy and nativist propaganda in the driveways of unsuspecting exurbanites.
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My son has been suspended five times. He’s 3.
Black families fight entrenched prejudices to get fair discipline for their children in schools.
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