racism
Here We Go Again!: NC School Under Fire Following Mock Slavery Auction Where Black Students Were ‘Sold’ By White Students
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: JS Waters School / J.S. Waters School What is it about schools, white people and slavery reenactments? One would think that all the news stories about students getting in trouble for their Snapchat slavery auctions and racist prom-posals—or teachers getting fired or suspended for slavery activities—would deter all of these people and their return-to-Roots wet dreams from continuing to trivialize chattel slavery by reenacting Black oppression. And yet here we are—again. According to the Charlotte News & Observer, the Chatham County school system in North Carolina has some ‘splaining to do after it was revealed that students engaged in a mock slavery action during which Black students were “sold” by white students as staff members watche...
3 White Men Found Guilty Of Hate Crimes In Ahmaud Arbery Murder #AhmaudArbery
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE The jury got it right. The three white men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery for minding his business jogging in their neighborhood have been found guilty of hate crimes. The three Georgia men—Travis McMichael, 36, his day Gregory McMichael, 66, and William Bryan, 52—were all found guilty of attempted kidnapping while the McMichael klan was also found guilty of one count each of brandishing or discharging a firearm during a violent crime, per the New York Times. The jury found that they violated a federal hate-crime statute, and are now all facing 25 years to life in prison. The men are already sitting on life sentences from state court. Bryan is the only bozo who has a chance of parole. Also, let’s not forget that Feds originally tried to cop a plea deal. The dec...
Omaha Worker Fired For Calling Delta Flight Attendant N-Word
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NurPhoto / Getty In today’s episode of How TF You Get Fired On Your Day Off? an Omaha software company employee got himself fired for allegedly hurling the n-Word at a flight attendant after she confronted the passenger and the group they were with, some of whom were reportedly being loud, drunk, obnoxious and maskless. The group of passengers appeared to be coworkers and some of them wore masks with their company’s logo on them. In other words: Some racists just be trying to lose their job. According to the Lincoln Journal Star, the whole thing took place Monday during a Delta flight from Omaha to New York. Multiple passengers reported a group of people who had been drinking in an Omaha airport bar just before boarding the flight and some of t...
Joe Rogan Apologizes for Past Use of N-Word: “I Clearly Have Fucked Up”
Joe Rogan has apologized for his past use of the N-word, saying in an Instagram video that it was “the most regretful and shameful thing that I’ve ever had to talk about publicly.” The host of The Joe Rogan Experience posted the video apology hours after Spotify took down 70 of his show’s episodes. The removal of at least some of these episodes was apparently due Rogan’s use of racist or other derogatory language. Earlier on Friday, the Grammy Award-winning singer India.Arie highlighted 24 instances in which Rogan used the N-word during episodes of his podcast. While arguing that Arie’s video was “made of clips taken out of context of me of … 12 years of conversations on my podcast, and it’s all smushed together,” Rogan nonetheless admitted that “it looks fuckin’ horrible, even to me.” Adv...
Spotify Remove Episodes of Joe Rogan’s Podcast Featuring Racial Slurs
Spotify reportedly removed 70 episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience on Friday evening, according to CNET. The episodes in question all pre-date 2019 and are unrelated to Rogan’s ongoing controversy over COVID-19 misinformation. Rather, the removal of at least some of these episodes was apparently due to racist or other derogatory language. Earlier on Friday, the Grammy Award-winning singer India.Arie highlighted 24 instances in which Rogan used the N-word during episodes of his podcast. Advertisement Related Video “He shouldn’t even be uttering the word. Don’t even say it, under any context. Don’t say it. That’s where I stand. I have always stood there,” said Arie, who earlier in the week pulled her music from Spotify, citing Rogan’s “language around race.” According to the official subredd...
Two Officers Shot And Killed At Bridgewater College Campus
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ashland PD / Ashland PD A few weeks after two police officers were shot and killed in Harlem during a domestic disturbance call, two more officers have been shot in killed at Bridgewater College in Virginia. ABC 7 is reporting that Campus Police Officer John Painter and Campus Safety Officer J.J. Jefferson were shot and killed yesterday (February 1) after responding to calls of an active shooter on the campus. Known as the “dynamic duo” to those who knew them, college president Dr. David W. Bushman released a statement on the tragic shooting of the two friend. “These officers were close friends, known to many of us as the “dynamic duo,” Bushman wrote. ”John was J.J.’s best man in his wedding this year. They were beloved by students, faculty and staff. I h...
Texas Bar Manager Says “No Saggin, Durags or Wave Caps” Sign Isn’t Racist. But Isn’t It?
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Twitter / Twitter It’s well known in the Black community that certain styles of dress, particularly styles created by us, are stigmatized as “thuggish,” “ghetto” or otherwise unbecoming. For example: Around the time Trayvon Martin‘s killing was heavily in the news, there was a national side-discussion around whether or not young Black men were doing themselves any favors by continuing to wear hoodies considering how the article of clothing is often associated with gangsters and thugs. Often absent from that discussion was an acknowledgment of the fact that hoodies were never exclusively worn by gangsters and thugs as they have also always commonly been worn by regular-degular Negros. The negative associations and perceptions of Black styles of dress are r...
Jennie Nguyen Fired From ‘The Real Housewives’ Over Anti-Black Texts
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bravo / Getty I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: One does not need to be white to be racist. Now, if white people are reading this and saying, “Well, of course, white people face racism all the time”—calm down, guys, the above statement is about the anti-Blackness of non-Black people of color, not your fragile “all lives matter” feelings. According to People, Bravo announced Tuesday that Jennie Nguyen “will no longer be a cast member” on The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. Why has Nguyen been scrapped from the RHOSLC cast? Well, recently resurfaced and since-deleted social media posts allegedly authored by the 44-year-old indicate that she’s just another off-white supremacist who uses Black crime statistics as her own personal racism...
He-Karen Gets Arrested And Fired Following Tirade Against Teens AT Connecticut Smoothie Shop
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: cream_ph / Getty What exactly does one call a male “Karen?” A “Ken?” A “Scott?” A “Brad?” How about a “James Iannazzo?” I guess that last one is a little too specific, but Iannazzo is certainly a man who checked off all the “Karen” boxes in a Tik Tok video that recently went viral showing him accosting a group of teenage employees at Robeks smoothie shop in Fairfield, Connecticut. Iannazzo—who was arrested and charged with intimidation based on bigotry or bias, breach of peace and criminal trespass behind the incident—claims he directed the employees not to put peanut butter in the smoothie he had ordered for his son. But the employees said he never said anything about his child’s peanut allergy (because simply not using peanut butter may not be enough to...
Young Thug Accuses Private Jet Pilot Of Racism For Kicking Crew Member Off Plane Over Lack Of ID And ‘Disrespect’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Atlanta rapper Young Thug posted a video to his Instagram story Wednesday to show the world a confrontation he had with a private jet pilot who wouldn’t let everyone in his party fly. Now, the pilot initially said the member of Thug’s crew didn’t have the proper documentation to fly on the jet, according to TMZ. (As a non-rich person, I have no idea what documentation one needs to fly on a private jet—but apparently, there’s documentation one must have.) But Thug was also told that a member of his traveling squad made the flight attendant feel uncomfortable, and that’s why they couldn’t fly. Related Stories Either way, Young Thug went smooth off on the pilot and accused him of racism, and eventually, the police were called to ...
Easy Lift: Pro-Vaccine Donald Trump Managed To Make Candace Owens Look Like An Edgeless Bozo
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: The Daily Wire / The Daily Wire Donald Trump attempted to make himself look better at the expense of a hapless Black person—sound familiar? This time the tap dancing clown was Candace Owens, who while interviewing the losing President was taken aback when he suddenly turned into a pro-vaxxer. It turns out Trump now wants to take credit for the vaccines, despite his ineptitude when dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths. Related Stories “I came up with a vaccine, with three vaccines,” Trump told Owens on her The Daily Wire show Candace on Tuesday. “All are very, very good. Came up with three of them in less than nine months. It was supposed to take five to 12 years.” Actually, it wasn’t, but buddy can’t help himself. Als...
Easy Lift: Pro-Vaccine Donald Trump Managed To Make Candace Owens Look Like An Edgeless Bozo
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: The Daily Wire / The Daily Wire Donald Trump attempted to make himself look better at the expense of a hapless Black person—sound familiar? This time the tap dancing clown was Candace Owens, who while interviewing the losing President was taken aback when he suddenly turned into a pro-vaxxer. It turns out Trump now wants to take credit for the vaccines, despite his ineptitude when dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths. Related Stories “I came up with a vaccine, with three vaccines,” Trump told Owens on her The Daily Wire show Candace on Tuesday. “All are very, very good. Came up with three of them in less than nine months. It was supposed to take five to 12 years.” Actually, it wasn’t, but buddy can’t help himself. Als...
