It started with Derrick Rose donning a shirt with the caption, “I can’t breathe” in support of Eric Garner protesters. Then other NBA players followed suit. Among them? Kobe Bryant. But a white reporter feel that Bryant isn’t “hood enough” to sympathize with the plight of the average black person.Â
This essay contains spoilers for Fast Color by Melanie Ojwang Fast Color immediately stands out as different from the comic based blockbusters I’ve grown used to over the past decade. When it was first released, I rushed to see it, fearing that it wouldn’t be in theaters past opening weekend. It turns out that my […]
By Adrie Rose When I was thirteen, my mum stopped talking to me for a week. I don’t remember what I did, but I’m sure I was being a right little shit and she wasn’t the type of parent to spank or hit. My parents have always understood that there are far more effective (and […]
Dan Mallory published the best-selling The Woman in the Window under the mysterious pen name, A. J. Finn. After years of praise for his genius mimicry of other writers and characters, New Yorker reporter Ian Parker uncovered Mallory’s history of falsifying life stories about disease and death to secure people’s sympathies, divert from his failures and […]
In the same week which has seen the attempted mail bombing of prominent Democrats including Barack Obama and Maxine Waters and the shooting of two Black customers at a Louisville Kroger, there has been yet another attack by an alleged white supremacist. This time the target was a Jewish synagogue and community in Pittsburgh.
On Wednesday, Oct. 24th, George Alan Bush, a 51-year old white man, entered a Kroger grocery store in Louisville, Kentucky and fatally shot two Black people. He reportedly told a white bystander afterwards, “Whites don’t shoot whites.”
Several white men devised and carried out a plan to normalize so-called “alt-right” ideas to the public through Breitbart media, according to a long-form reported piece on BuzzFeed News. The piece chronicled e-mails showing substantial thought, collaboration and funding from largely, but not exclusively, white people on different sides of the political spectrum and their […]
How can public citizens get a glimpse of White House decision-making and policy without a free press? Short answer: they can’t. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee-Sanders have only held 5 daily briefings (out of 15) on camera in the month of June. This is an apparent effort to […]
Once you make it to the top of the corporate ladder, it can easily become second nature to delegate responsibilities and tasks to those below you to the point where you don’t really have to do much. By the look of things, this is an approach Donald Trump may have taken in his past business […]
It’s time we have a serious conversation about what it means when white people offer disingenuous apologies to Black people they have harmed while expecting absolution and exoneration from those very same people. Last week, news broke that a 79-year-old Trump supporter named John Franklin McGraw, who was seen on video elbowing a young Black anti-Trump […]
Warning: This article contains graphic language that was once used by the Republican candidate for President of the United States, Donald Trump. This past weekend was an absolute political shitshow. First came the ~revelation~ to many Republicans and the American public that Donald Trump is not respectful to women. In a leaked 2005 tape from […]
This year’s Republican National Convention is set to be a standout celebration of the problematic campaigning that’s gotten Donald Trump closer to the White House than many expected. Trump and his supporters will likely give speeches on immigration reform and police violence, among other topics, to the largest group of supporters they’ve seen yet. While their […]
