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Mostafa Hussaini, 34, was taken into custody Thursday by the FBI after agents discovered 12 videos on his personal YouTube account where he spewed racist slurs and threatened to burn black people and kill individuals of different religious backgrounds and faiths, Miami Herald reports. Hussaini, who typically presented himself under the moniker Vam Vima, would post videos with hate-filled speech, such as the one on December 8 […]
A black security guard at a Wisconsin high school said he was fired after saying the N-word in front of a student and the school’s assistant principal. According to Madison365, the Madison Metropolitan School District has a zero-tolerance for employees using racial slurs; however, the former guard, Marlon Anderson, said he repeated the slur in an effort to defend […]
Penn State defensive lineman Antonio Shelton posted a screenshot of the letter that an unnamed teammate received from an alumnus following the Nittany Lions’ game against Pittsburgh last month. my teammate got this in the mail today, and tbh Im at a lost for words.. I also have locs, Tats, and NFL dreams too, these messages […]
A Chicago-based youth organization continues to face backlash over photos of its white president cutting off teenagers’ dreadlocks. Sally Hazelgrove, the founder of the Crushers Club, captioned one of the images: “And another Crusher let me cut his dreads off! It’s symbolic of change and their desire for a better life!” Perhaps Jay-Z, Meek Mill, […]
Joe Biden has quite a way with words. While campaigning in Iowa, he told a group of minority Iowa voters that “poor kids” are “just as talented as white kids.” During a presidential forum with the Asian and Latino Coalition, Biden said, “We have this notion that somehow if you’re poor, you cannot do it. […]
A woman in Oklahoma was tased by a police officer when she refused to sign an $80 ticket, drove away during the stop, and kicked the police officer. Given her repeated attempts to resist arrest, many aptly pointed out that her white privilege is what ultimately saved her life. During a routine traffic stop in […]
The Atlantic has released newly obtained audio of an October 1971 conversation between Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon where the former used racist language to describe African delegates at the United Nations. Reagan, who was governor of California at the time of their conversation, was upset that members of the Tanzanian delegation started to dance in […]
Vic Mensa has made a point to use his platform to help the disenfranchised. This led him to start the Save Money, Save Life Foundation. The nonprofit’s executive director Laundi Keepseagle told Block Club Chicago that the Save Money, Save Life Foundation was told to terminate the lease they have on their office space because their landlord was “appalled” by […]
G-Eazy took to Twitter to comment on ASAP Rocky‘s arrest and imprisonment in Sweden, and to compare it to his own run-in with Swedish authorities. He made his comments after TMZ published an article titled “A$AP Rocky Treated Way Differently Than White Rapper.” “This is the sad truth,” G-Eazy wrote. “The difference between me and Rocky’s […]
A Puerto Rican woman was simply grocery shopping at a local store in Abington, Pennsylvania when a white woman starting yelling out racist insults. Johanny Santana was checking out at the grocery store when a woman next to her started cursing after hearing a young boy and his grandfather speaking in Spanish. “The boy comes back and asks […]
