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The top GOP candidates who emerged from yesterday’s Iowa Caucus have a few things in common: They’re all white. They’re all men. And they’ve all been accused of racism. Some of these claims proved baseless, but others — we think — are legitimate.
Santorum Says “Game On” After Iowa Caucus
The NewsOne Team put together a short list of the top GOP
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Rihanna met a racist man while over in Portugal performing on her “LOUD” tour and detailed the incident on Twitter in a vulgar rant for her fans.
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A Kansas City basketball coach has been placed on administrative leave after being caught making wildly insensitive remarks on a cell phone video, with the student involved subsequently filing a racial harassment complaint against the coach.
As reported by the Kansas City Star and KCTV News, among other outlets, Marcus Williams Sr. and his son, Marcus Williams Jr., filed a racial harassment suit against the Winnetonka School District after Winnetonka (Kan.) High basketball coach
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LONDON — English soccer authorities and London police began investigations Tuesday into whether England captain John Terry racially abused a black opponent while playing for Chelsea.
In the latest contentious episode of Terry’s career, video posted on the Internet appeared to show Terry directing a racial slur at Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand during Sunday’s game.
QPR assessed the matter for two days before turning to The English Football Association.
The FA said
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A fan taunted one of the National Hockey Leagues few Black players by throwing a banana peel at the player during a shootout attempt in a preseason game last week.
The player, Philadelphia Flyers Wayne Simmonds, said he wasn’t shocked by the banana peel that came from the top level and landed right in front of him.
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At least four Arizona State fans attended Saturday’s college football game against the University of Missouri in Blackface.
The broadcast, which aired on ESPN, showed four young white women with their faces, necks and arms painted all Black.
Arizona State would win 37-30, thus validating the practice of white (and other) folks painting their faces Black as part of an audience gimmick.
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Comedian/Actor Michael Colyar took to Facebook early this week to draw attention to his claim of discrimination after he says was removed from a United Airlines flight by (what he calls) a racist, “power hungry” flight attendant.
Read his version of the events as he says they unfolded on Monday, Aug. 29th:
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A Nivea ad has been labeled racist after promoting their men’s grooming line with a photo of an “uncivilized” Black man with an afro. Do you think it’s racist?
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Black women are complaining that the Transportation Security Administration is engaging in a new, humiliating brand of racial profiling: pat-downs of long, natural hair-dos.
According to an article by Joe Sharkey in the New York Times, these body searches are happening even when total-body scans aren’t setting off alarms:
Read MoreOn June 30, a young African-American woman, Laura Adiele, said that a screener at the Seattle-Tacoma airport insisted on patting down her
Psychology Today magazine recently posted an article on their site titled: “Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women?” The mag claims that there are marked race differences in physical attractiveness among women, but not among men. Why? The article is based on a study conducted in which several people were interviewed and the “scientific method” was used.
Here’s an excerpt:
This sex difference in the
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