racism in America
No Kap: Kaepernick Trends On Twitter After NFL Coach Jon Gruden’s Racist Emails Go Wide
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images / Getty Until yesterday (October 11), Jon Gruden was known around the NFL as a brilliant offensive mind and helped lead the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to their first Super Bowl title in 2003. After a series of emails were flagged by the NFL and sent to the Las Vegas Raiders, Gruden stepped down as head coach of the team, prompting many online to remind the world that Colin Kaepernick was indeed correct about the league’s widespread racism. Last Friday (October 8), the Wall Street Journal published a scathing report highlighting that Gruden used racist language towards NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith in an email dating back to 2011. The email was initially sent to the president of...
Texas High School Principal Apologizes After Saying Black Students Looked Like “Dr. Dre”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz83 A Texas high school principal is now sorry after a headass comment about Black students in his school. Per the Raw Report, Principal Anthony LiVechhi has apologized to Black students for comparing them to “Dr. Dre from the ’90s” and adding they “looked like criminals.” A local NBC News affiliate obtained a video of LiVechhi being BIG MAD about how Black students dressed for “90s Throwback Day” at Oak Ridge High School located in the Houston suburb of Conroe. “It’s embarrassing. It’s frustrating. We have people posing for pictures looking like they’re Dr. Dre from the ’90s. I’m not sure that’s the look we’re going for. It doesn’t make our school look good,” LiVechhi is heard saying in the video. The principal’s comments ca...
Proud Boys Leader Enrique Tarrio Pleads Guilty To Burning D.C. Church’s BLM Banner
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: EVA MARIE UZCATEGUI / Getty Proud Boys leader and far-right bozo Henry “Enrique” Tarrio copped to burning a Black Lives Matter banner stolen from a D.C. church. Monday (Jul.19), Tarrio plead guilty to charges in two federal cases the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia announced. As seen on Raw Story, “Tarrio pleaded guilty in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to one count of destruction of property and one count of attempted possession of a large-capacity ammunition feeding device,” prosecutors said. According to prosecutors, the Proud Boys leader stole a “Black Lives Matter” banner from the Asbury United Methodist Church on December 12th and decided to set it on fire. This all went down immediately following the saltine-fueled insurr...
Racist New Jersey White Man Got A Visit From Black Protesters After Rant
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: YouTube / Screencap A white Mount Laurel, N.J. man found himself on the wrong end of protests this past Monday after he went on a racist rant last Friday, threatening the Black man he verbally assaulted by telling him his address. Taking the invitation to pull up, several dozen protesters showed up at the man’s door as he was casually escorted from his home by local police. According to a report from The Philadelphia Inquirer, Edward Cagney Mathews, 45, reportedly got into a verbal spat with a Black neighbor last Friday and hurled racist slurs before inviting the man to his home by telling his address. The entire exchange between Mathews and the neighbor was caught on video and has since gone viral. During the video, Mathews tells the man to “come see me”...
Darnella Frazier Given Honorary Pulitzer For Her George Floyd Video
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: EMMANUEL DUNAND / Getty Darnella Frazier, the Minneapolis teenager who stopped to record the tragic last minute of George Floyd’s life, was awarded an honorary Pulitzer Prize this past Friday (June 11th). The video was the spark behind a global activist movement denouncing police brutality and systemic racism, and it would be used as evidence in the trial of Derek Chauvin, Floyd’s killer. Frazier was given a “special citation” by the committee, who in the announcement cited her video as an example of “the crucial role of citizens in journalists’ quests for truth and justice.” Roy Peter Clark, senior scholar at the Poynter Institute and a former Pulitzer juror wrote a column that the teenager should receive the award for her recording. “There she was, at 1...
No Sale: Koo-Koo Karen Booted From Ross Store After Racist Tirade
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @Maddens.Mama / TikTok A TikTok video that has since gone viral depicted a white woman inside a Ross Dress For Less store who unleashed a racist and violent tirade against the store’s Black manager. The manager, ignoring the white woman’s ranting and raving, casually asked the woman to leave but not before she was called a “monkey” in the process. In the video, uploaded by Maddens.Mama, the white woman is agitated for some unknown and is being asked to leave the store by the manager, who is largely unphased by the woman’s racist theatrics. “You ignorant mother f*cking bi*ch is what you are,” the white woman is seen saying while snatching her goods in a huff and leaving the store. The manager tells the woman point blank that her insults aren’t landing and ...
No Sale: Koo-Koo Karen Booted From Ross Store After Racist Tirade
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @Maddens.Mama / TikTok A TikTok video that has since gone viral depicted a white woman inside a Ross Dress For Less store who unleashed a racist and violent tirade against the store’s Black manager. The manager, ignoring the white woman’s ranting and raving, casually asked the woman to leave but not before she was called a “monkey” in the process. In the video, uploaded by Maddens.Mama, the white woman is agitated for some unknown and is being asked to leave the store by the manager, who is largely unphased by the woman’s racist theatrics. “You ignorant mother f*cking bi*ch is what you are,” the white woman is seen saying while snatching her goods in a huff and leaving the store. The manager tells the woman point blank that her insults aren’t landing and ...
Ellie Kemper Issues Apology For Involvement In OG Racist Pageant
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: FayesVision/WENN.com / WENN Actress Ellie Kemper broke her silence and issued an apology for her participation in a debutante pageant covered in racist controversy back when she was 19 years old. The comedic star of Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, who was also featured in Bridesmaids and The Office took to her Instagram on Monday (June 7) to apologize for her involvement in the Veiled Prophet Ball in her hometown of St. Louis, Missouri. Articles from the St. Louis Dispatch that covered her crowning at the event in 1999 wound up setting Twitter afire this past weekend, making many speculate about Kemper and why she would take part in such a thing. “The century-old organization that hosted the debutante ball had an unquestionably racist, sexist an...
Black Councilman Catches Cop Urinating On Property After Calling Out Police Killings
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Anadolu Agency / Getty The police shooting incident which left Black North Carolina man Andrew Brown Jr. dead has raised tensions across the state, leading to a heinous act from authorities sworn to protect citizens. A Black councilman in the state has video footage of a police officer urinating on his funeral home property after speaking out against police who shot and killed Brown. As reported by local publication The Herald, Councilman Gabriel Adkins says that he has surveillance video footage of Pasquotank County deputy relieving himself at his funeral home property and alleges that the act was in retaliation for his outspoken views regarding the April shooting of Brown. It isn’t immediately clear from the report if it was one or more deputies who too...
Black Man Enslaved By White Restaurant Manager Owed Over $500K
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Horry County Sheriff’s Office / HCSO Although we’re some two decades into the 21st Century, slavery is seemingly alive in the United States of America. An imprisoned white restaurant manager enslaved a Black man with cognitive disabilities by making him work at his establishment five years straight without pay and a court is now saying the worker is owed over $500,000. The Washington Post shared details of the case involving Bobby Paul Edwards, 56, who is currently serving 10 years in prison after pleading guilty in 2019 to a forced labor charge. John Christopher Smith, now 43, worked at Edwards’ South Carolina restaurant, J&J Cafeteria, in the town of Conway for five years without pay. As part of Edwards’ sentencing, he was ordered by the court to pa...
Patagonia Is Donating $1 Million To Fight Georgia’s Voter Suppression Law
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Robert Alexander / Getty Outdoor apparel company Patagonia is donating $1 million to various voting rights groups as a direct response to Georgia’s restrictive voting law. They are just one of many “woke” corporations that have spoken out against legislation that gives undeniable Jim Crow vibes. According to a lengthy press release on Monday, the clothing company condemned Republican Governor Brian Kemp for signing legislation that directly responds to the 2020 Presidental election that caused a landslide loss for Donald Trump’s run for a second term. Actions speak louder than words. We’re donating $1 million to groups working to defend our democracy and your right to vote. Join us in taking 3 important actions: https://t.co/mo61VCidwf — Patag...
Georgia State Rep. Park Cannon Forcibly Arrested For Protesting Restrictive Voting Law
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Georgia state troopers forcibly arrested a Black state legislator as she peacefully protested the signing of a restrictive voting bill that was signed into law on Thursday (March 26). Rep. Park Cannon was arrested by police after knocking on the door of Gov. Brian Kemp during a live stream announcement of the new voting law. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published a report of Cannon’s arrest along with accounts from fellow protesters that gathered at the state Capitol building. Cannon, a Democrat from Atlanta, was seen via video clips posted across social media getting dragged and pushed into a police vehicle. Cannon was charged with obstruction of law enforcement and disrupting General Assembly sessions per a statement issued by ...
