Tag Archives: White Privilege

Jamie Gilt, the gun-loving social media activist from Florida who founded the group “Jamie Gilt for Gun Sense,” has been charged with failure to properly secure her gun, a second degree misdemeanor under Florida state law. Gilt was shot through the abdomen March 8 while driving a pickup truck near her …

In another episode of “your daily dose of white privilege,” three white students at California’s San Jose State University avoided hate crime charges after putting a bike lock around a black student’s neck, attempting to lock him in a closet, and referring to him as “three-fifths” of a person, atrocities …

We’ve all been there. You’re having a conversation about social issues that quickly pivots to an argument about race in America, with one person making increasingly uncomfortable statements. You try to avoid making a scene, but then you realize that you don’t owe this person anything – least of all …

Donald Trump’s plan to bring back the outlawed torture tactic of waterboarding is no different than hazing in fraternities, one of his sons insisted Monday. Eric Trump defended his father’s Sunday night statement that he would “bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding” by inexplicably claiming that the banned …

Local authorities in Murray, Utah are trying to identify an unnamed man shown waving a gun and making threats against a nearby McDonald. As first reported by KTSU-TV, footage recorded from a bystanders phone shows an employee punching the window of the man’s car after having an argument. Following the …

Well, if it feels like we’ve written this story before, it’s because practically every week it takes on a different iteration. Previously, it was high school students in Phoenix taking a senior photo with a racial slur, and today its a white Maryland high school student making a video criticizing …

The steadying, constant flow of Fox News’ casual (and, in many cases, overt) racism never comes as much of a surprise. Whether it’s Brian Kilmeade asking a black correspondent if she makes her own kool-aid, Crystal Wright telling her audience the Black Americans are ‘dumber, more criminalized’ because of the democratic …

Comparing the LGBTQ people to serial killers and pedophiles, Indiana State Representative Woody Burton (R) recently went on record as saying his opposition to equal rights for the LGBTQ movement stems from the fact that “fat white people” enjoyed no special rights. Via Raw Story:  At a town hall event over …

Russell Hinson, the former North Carolina KKK leader we previously reported was seeking parole for the gruesome killing of a black teenage girl with his crossbow has been denied parole. Full Story – The Root

Hours before his mother became the latest Tea Partier to throw support behind Donald Trump, Track Palin was arrested in the family’s Alaska hometown of Wasilla on suspicion of assaulting a woman and carrying a gun while intoxicated. Via Huffington Post: Track Palin, 26, was arrested late on Monday night …

Protesters who flooded the courtroom to express their outrage over the handling of the trial of a man threatening to execute young children might not have been enough to postpone a deal his lawyer already says is likely to be completed soon. Via Raw Story: According to the Missoulian, the trial …

As we continue to allow armed terrorists to occupy a publicly funded building, costs for the county taxpayers are beginning to mount. Via Think Progress: Although the armed occupiers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge facility may seem to have done little more than camp out with guns and demand …

Time and again, we’ve heard prominent members of the GOP make racially charged comments when discussing crime, gun violence, immigration, and social policies. We roll our eyes, we laugh, we look the other way, or most typically, we subvert a combination of all three. It’s the GOP’s awkward elephant (pun …

Once again, we see a criminal justice system in action working overtime to protect certain citizens.  If James Bascue was a minority firing on an LAPD officer, would he only on probation? Would he be alive? Via LA Times: A retired Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has pleaded no contest …

The same Republicans who have no problem blasting President Obama for being ‘divisive’ and ‘soft’ on terrorism have met/negotiated with domestic terrorists.  Should we really be surprised at this point? Via Addicting Info:  When Cliven Bundy was engaged in an armed standoff against federal authorities in 2014 on his Nevada ranch, …