Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts
Sunday, March 15, 2026

"Senate hopeful backtracks on apology for 'Nazi skull' tattoo insisting it's an 'eminently reasonable skull-and-crossbones'"

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Today's headline from the Daily Mai l. The NY Post went with, "Maine Dem Senate hopeful Graham Platner done apologizing for Nazi t...
Monday, June 2, 2025

Incredible episode of This Is Your Life

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sorry to all other answers but it's this entire episode of This Is Your Life www.youtube.com/watch?v=JER5... [image or embed] — ...
Friday, October 18, 2024

Charli XCX's concert in a town north of New York led to mistaken fears of a migrant invasion

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New York Magazine's consistently excellent Dinner Party newsletter this week :  Most attendees, being city-based club kids, would take ...
Friday, August 23, 2024

"Uber and Bolt have become battlegrounds for a conflict between Nigerians and South Africans over a beauty pageant contestant"

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The ride-hailing apps were being used by South Africans to schedule and cancel rides in Nigeria as  a prank. The apparent motivation for the...
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

I didn't realize the Argentinian President and Vice President attacked those who criticized the Argentinian players for their incredible offensive song

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From a long opinion piece at New Lines about racism in Argentina : When the secretary of sports suggested in an interview that the players c...
Thursday, June 20, 2024

Reggie Jackson's remarkable speech today about the racism he faced while he played

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Full clip, about a minute and a half longer: pic.twitter.com/yaIcJwIC7K — Ben Porter (@Ben13Porter) June 20, 2024
Friday, July 21, 2023

"Tony Bennett’s Nazi Hunting Past Is Just One Reason He’s the Greatest Living American"

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Overblown headline, but some noble anecdotes : After Germany surrendered, Bennett was stationed there as part of the Allied occupying force....
Sunday, January 8, 2023

Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924 had a "Pocahontas Exception" to appease wealthy Virginians

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Wikipedia : In 1924, the Virginia General Assembly enacted the Racial Integrity Act. The act reinforced racial segregation by prohibiting in...
Monday, December 5, 2022

From February: "Three white supremacists have pleaded guilty to a plot to spark a national race war by attacking power grids throughout the United States"

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TDB : Court documents reveal that each man was assigned to attacking power grids in different parts of the country with powerful rifles. The...
Sunday, December 4, 2022

"A Chinese security camera company has been advertising ethnicity recognition features to British and other European customers"

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Guardian : "The company removed both claims from its website following an inquiry from the Guardian" ... In contrast with the US, ...
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

"The late Queen's lady-in-waiting ... has apologised and resigned after she repeatedly asked a black British charity boss where she was from"

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BBC with the summary. Wikipedia : She is the fifth and youngest daughter of the 12th Earl Waldegrave and Mary Hermione, Countess Waldegrave...
Friday, November 18, 2022

"Eton College has apologised after it was claimed girls visiting from a nearby state school were subjected to misogynistic language and racial slurs"

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BBC : Prince William and his brother, the Duke of Sussex, both attended Eton, as did the former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Monday, October 24, 2022

University of Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian apologized "for not singing 'The Eyes of Texas,' the school song, before leaving the field"

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ESPN : The song has been the subject of a controversy over the past few years as the school has reckoned with its origins likely tied to a m...

Today's funny posts

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Monday, October 3, 2022

Northern "California high school football team forfeits season after players staged 'slave auction'"

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LA Times : Just days before the River Valley’s season was forfeited [related to the mock slave auction], Amador High School in Sutter Creek,...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

During WWII, "2,200 Latin Americans of Japanese descent...were forcibly deported to internment camps in the US"

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One of my political geography students is doing their project on this historical event: Peru deported over 2,000 Japanese people to the US t...
Friday, September 23, 2022

"Project To Be Unveiled In LA Names Every Japanese American Incarcerated During WWII

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LAist : The daunting task of accounting for so many people was complicated by the fact that there were 75 incarceration sites, from Hawaii t...
Sunday, August 28, 2022

Wait, these DC comics "Hispanic Heritage" covers are real?

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Seriously I cannot get over how pathetically uncreative these covers are when it comes to visually representing Hispanic heritage pic.twitte...
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Hong Kong's "Barrack O'Karma 2" tv series features a Chinese actress who darkens her skin to play a Filipina domestic worker

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SCMP : [Her] performance received praise from local media, including outlets such as HK01, which posted an article headlined “[The actress] ...
Friday, March 25, 2022

"The real story" about the haunted lake described in the opening of "Atlanta" season three

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The details are mostly an urban legend,  because the racial injustices had already occurred in the area. (Great first episode, a nightmaris...