Elon Musk continues to prove that you can be a billionaire while still being tone deaf, obtuse and asinine at the same damn time. The guy who ruined Twitter recently asserted that a Texas mass shooter is not a white supremacist, despite said shooter having a tattoo of a swastika on his body.
A viral video posted to social media over the weekend captured a white nurse, Sarah Jane Comrie, in New York City attempting to take a bike from a Black teen, screaming for help and weaponizing "white tears" during the incident. NYC Health + Hospitals, where Comrie works, has said she is on leave pending an investigation.
This would be hilarious if it wasn't just weird. Nah, it's still pretty damn funny.
A medical examiner confirmed that the death of Jordan Neely, a Black homeless man who was put in a chokehold by a white straphanger on an F train in New York City, was a homicide. The Manhattan District Attorney's office has asked other witnesses to come forward with information.
Carolyn Bryant Donham, the Emmett Till accuser who set in motion the circumstances that led to his torture and murder has died. Twitter is shedding no tears while noting that her death is anything but justice.
The man who is suspected of shooting Black teen Ralph Yarl has been identified and charged. Clay County Prosecutor Zachary Thompson announced the charges of assault and criminal action against Andrew Lester on Monday, as well as declaring that there is a warrant for his arrest. Protesters had decried the police releasing Lester after holding him in custody for 24 hours after the shooting.
A Black teen is in stable condition after being shot twice by a white homeowner after going to the wrong address. According to reports, Ralph Yarl sought to pick up his siblings last Thursday night. The homeowner was detained by police but released after 24 hours.
Justin Jones, one of the two Black Democrat lawmakers who were expelled last week from the Tennessee House after protesting against gun violence, was sworn back in and reinstated by the Nashville City Council on Monday. He returned to his desk at the House an hour after the vote.
Romelu Lukaku, a striker for Inter Milan, has endured racist taunts from the crowds at games and the ad demands that Italian fans "do better."
Actor Bryan Cranston broke down why he views the slogan "Make America Great Again" championed by former President Donald Trump in 2016 can be considered racist in a recent interview. He also defended the need for critical race theory to be taught in schools.
Newspapers around the country have dropped the "Dlibert" cartoon after its creator, Scott Adams, issued highly racist comments about white people needing to "get the hell away from Black people" in a live stream last week. Elon Musk would write that the "media is racist" on Twitter on Saturday in response to the backlash from the newspapers.
Apparently, comedian, actor, and former Richard Nixon speechwriter Ben Stein is still pressed about Quaker Oats updating the historically racist Aunt Jemima brand and replacing it with a racially neutral and far less mammy-era-inspired brand, because conservative white people in America just really love their anti-Black nostalgia despite their insistence that America was not founded […]
