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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 […]
Service academy students were seen on national television flashing the “OK” hand sign, which can also be interpreted as a hand gesture used by white supremacists. “We’re looking into it. I don’t know what their intention is,” West Point spokesman Lt. Col. Chris Ophardt told the Wall Street Journal of the incident. The gestures were […]
Three West Virginia correctional employees were terminated this week over a photo that showed participants in a basic training program performing the Nazi salute. The West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety announced the news Friday, confirming two correctional academy trainers and one of the basic training class cadets seen in the photo had been fired. The […]
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that broadcaster Tim Ryan of the Bay Area sports talk radio show “Murph and Mac” has been suspended for remarks made about Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson. On Monday, Ryan discussed Jackson’s Week 13 performance in the Ravens’ 20-17 victory over the 49ers the previous day where he threw for 105 yards […]
A wasted Kid Rock was escorted off stage this week after delivering an expletive-filled rant about three specific women in media. The incident occurred at Kid Rock’s Big Ass Honky Tonk Rock N’ Roll Steakhouse in Nashville, where he was filmed taking aim at Oprah Winfrey and Joy Behar in front of a large group of patrons. “I’m not […]
AMC Theatres have fired three employees from their Metairie, Louisiana location following an investigation into claims of a racial profiling during a showing of Harriet earlier this month, NOLA.com reports. On Nov. 3, more than a dozen members of the 504 Queens, an African-American women’s empowerment group, were confronted by the first of what would be three AMC Theatres employees that […]
A white teenager from Georgia was taken into custody last Friday after police discovered her plans to commit a racially motivated mass murder. According to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution, Gainsville police learned that the 16-year-old girl was planning to attack the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Hall County, Georgia. Police Chief Jay Parrish claims that she chose the building because most […]
Will.i.am is putting a Qantas flight attendant on blast, following an onboard incident that ended with police involvement. The Black Eyed Peas artist took to Twitter on Thursday, claiming he and his crew were targeted by an “overly aggressive flight attendant” during their flight from Brisbane to Sydney. According to TMZ, the incident started after passengers were instructed […]
ASAP Rocky’s month-long stint behind bars in Sweden on assault charges has factored into the ongoing impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump. As the New York Times reports, United States Embassy in Kiev official David Holmes testified that he overheard Trump on the phone with Gordon D. Sondland, American ambassador to the European Union. Holmes confirmed that […]
Disney+ killing the vaunted Disney vault for good had many observers and longtime fans of the company wondering how they would deal with their material that dealt in offensive cultural stereotypes. While the slavery hagiography Song of the South was left off the platform entirely, tracking with statements made by Disney CEO Bob Iger at the […]
