racism
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...
Jig’s Up Juicy: Jussie Smollett Found Guilty, MAGA Twitter Wants A Cookie
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Scott Olson / Getty It’s the end of the line for Juicy Smolliét. Empire actor Jussie Smollet has been found guilty of 5 of 6 counts, thus the jury basically said he lied to the police about that racist, homophobic attack against him in Chicago. While a jury of his alleged peers said the actor did indeed finesse a hoax, Black Twitter pretty much shrugged it off. As for the verdict, NewsOne reports: A jury has found “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett guilty of staging a hate crime in which he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack nearly three years ago in Chicago. The jury reached its verdict on Thursday after deliberating for more than nine hours following a trial that lasted nearly two weeks. Smollett was found guilty of five of six...
Out With The Racist, In With The New: Charlottesville Robert E. Lee Statue To Be Melted Down By Black Museum
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: The Washington Post / Getty A Virginia statute of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee is set to be melted down into new artwork after being recently removed from the city park where the “I heart negroes in chains” military commander was immortalized in the 1920s. Oh, we’re not talking about the Lee monument in Richmond, Va., that was finally removed last year, but that’s an easy mistake to make since, apparently, a lot of Virginians just really love their 30-foot odes to white supremacy. But this one was in Charlottesville—you know, the city where a bunch of angry and probably sexually frustrated white men marched around with tiki torches until some deranged neo-Nazi killed a woman with his car. Apparently, they’re the types who also love sculpted slavery memo...
Ohio KK-Karen Claims She’s ‘Being Terrorized’ By Black People During Sentencing For…Terrorizing Black People
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: WTOL / WTOL If the privileged, entitled and often dangerous white women we not-so-affectionately call “Karens” have nothing else, they have the nerve. On Thursday, a white woman from Ohio was sentenced to six months in prison for shouting racial slurs at a group of Black teenagers and trying to hit them with her car in a grocery store parking lot. During sentencing, the woman reportedly broke down in the saltiest of mayonnaise-flavored tears and tried to justify her actions by essentially saying Black people have “terrorized” her for years and that’s the reason she felt the need to terrorize complete strangers who happened to be of the melanated variety. [embedded content] According to Raw Story, 43-year-old Angela Baker was found guilty of two felony cha...
Struggle Rapper Kid Rock Makes Anti-Woke Song, Twitter Slanders MAGA Goofball
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Pool / Gettynews Apparently, struggle rapper du jour Kid Rock is still making music. His latest song is some anti-woke nonsense, and Twitter is slandering the goofball accordingly. For those who don’t know, Kid Rock was always a privileged white guy who found rap, made some cash of it, and continues to flourish, allegedly, off of his colonizing ways. Real Hip-Hop heads give absolutely no f*cks about Kid Rock, so he’s been relegated to the backwaters of MAGA-land and people who don’t know any better. So here we are, and Kid Rock has reportedly created a song with themes of anti-wokeness and anti-cancel culture. Reports TMZ: It’s an interesting tune — and definitely NOT subtle whatsoever in the message KR is trying to communicate … namely, his apparen...
