racism
MAGA Twitter Desperately Tries To Paint President Joe Biden As Racist #RacistJoe
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Pool / Getty President Joe Biden will never satisfy folks on both sides of the aisle or political ideology, and it’s safe to assume his detractors remain hellbent on finding a reason to tear down the former U.S. Senator. On Thursday (November 11), Biden delivered remarks at a public ceremony where he stumbled on his wording by saying the words “the great Negro” as he honored former U.S. Ambassador to Hungary, Donald M. Blinken. At a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., President Biden addressed attendees during a speech in observance of the federal holiday. Biden turned his attention to Blinken, the father of current U.S. Secretary of State Atony Blinken, to thank him for his military service and public service to ...
Three in Four Black Music Professionals Have Experienced Racism, Study Finds
New research out of the U.K. has put numbers to the issue of racism in the music industry. Thorough and wide-reaching, the first-of-its-kind study, titled “Being Black in the UK Music Industry,” quantifies experiences of anti-Blackness and its consequences on wages, mental health and education. On both the creative and business ends, 88% of Black music professionals have experienced direct or indirect racism in their line of work, according to the study. “We’re not allowed to be above average…We’re expected to be perfect,” one respondent described. “We’re expected to be the full package before our career has even started.” Nearly three in four Black respondents have also experienced racial microaggressions: “...
Keyshawn Johnson Calls Jon Gruden A “Fraud” & “Used Car Salesman”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Don Juan Moore / Getty The fallout from the Jon Gruden emails continues (lock him up?), and while many of his former defenders have remained silent for the most part, Keyshawn Johnson took the time to remind everyone that he always felt that Gruden was a “fraud.” Speaking on ESPN Radio’s Keyshawn, JWill & Max, the former NFL wide receiver and Super Bowl Champion (a title he won with Gruden in 2003), Johnson didn’t have any hairs on his tongue when describing his former coach’s style and overall personality. “He’s always been a fraud to me… From day one, he’s been a used car salesman and people bought it because he inherited a championship team built by Tony Dungy and Rich McKay, and he came in there with a little bit of different energy than we had wi...
Jon Gruden “Resigns” After More Racist, Homophobic & Misogynistic Emails Surface
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ethan Miller / Getty If we’ve learned anything in the day and age of modern technology and digital footprints it’s that whatever’s done in the dark will eventually come to light and now NFL coach, Jon Gruden has found himself out of a job due to years old emails in which he showed his true and prejudice character. Before we get started, didn’t we tell y’all Kaepernick was right? According to The New York Times, the Las Vegas Raiders head coach “resigned” from his multi-million dollar gig after emails surfaced in which Gruden used racist, homophobic and misogynistic language in private emails. The latest emails where homophobic and misogynistic terms were used came days after the first racist email was reported on where Gruden used a racist trope to descri...
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...
Michael Jordan & Jordan Brand Donate $1 Million To Organizations Fighting Racism
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jordan Brand / Jordan Brand The greatest baller of all time has made good on his promise to help eradicate racism. Michael Jordan and the Jordan Brand have donated 1 million dollars to organizations putting in the work. Nike has announced that the GOAT is a man of his word when it comes to uplifting the Black community. In the aftermath of the deaths of George Floyd and countless others MJ pledged to donate $100 million over the next 10 years to organizations dedicated to ensuring racial equality, social justice and greater access to education. Their first phase is now in the books. This week he and his company have finalized community grants to 18 grassroots organizations totaling $1 million dollars. “Action over words is the foundation of our Black Comm...
K-9 Karen: White Woman Fired For Racist Meltdown At Brooklyn Dog Park
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @FredTJoseph / Twitter Brooklyn has become so gentrified that a white woman filled with that MAGA energy mouthed off to a Black couple who dared to walk their dog at a park this past weekend. In a video uploaded to Twitter by Fredrick Joseph, he describes how a “Karen” in a dog park in Williamsburg told them to stay in their own hood because apparently Brooklyn belongs to colonizers now. Seeing that things could go left, Joseph pulled out his phone and began recording the encounter before the women in question flipped him off and tried to smack the phone out his hand. After repeating her racist comment to her, BK Karen attempted to play the victim and accused the couple of saying that to her. Luckily a white man who witnessed everything confirmed on video...
Morgan Wallen Has Only Donated a Portion of the $500,000 Promised to Black-Led Organizations: Report
Morgan Wallen addressed his use of the N-word during a July sitdown with Good Morning America, in which the country singer also claimed he and his team donated $500,000 to Black organizations. According to a new Rolling Stone report attempting to trace the donations, it appears the money hasn’t materialized with any organizations besides the Black Music Action Coalition (BMAC), which Wallen specifically mentioned by name in the interview. Calling the $500,000 number “exceptionally misleading,” BMAC told Rolling Stone that they received $165,000 from Wallen in April, which was used to make grants for Black musicians through a COVID-19 emergency relief fund. However, the organization said it was “disappointed that Morgan has not used his platform to support any anti-racism end...
Racist White Woman Killed By Cops After Trying To Run Over Police Officer
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Michael DeMocker / Getty Racism is just coming out the pores of MAGAts these days thanks to Cheeto Jesus encouraging such behavior while he was in office. But now a white woman has lost her life for expressing her bigoted ways. NOLA.com is reporting that a woman was shot dead by authorities after accosting repair workers who were Black and simply doing their jobs of trying to restore power to a Hurricane Ida stricken town in New Orleans. “A crew of Jefferson Parish workers was repairing a Metairie water main broken by Hurricane Ida when a woman pulled up in her car Wednesday, called them “f—-ng n—-rs” and demanded that they be arrested. The workers then flagged down sheriff’s deputies and reported her harassment, at which point the woman twice struck...
Palestinian & Israeli Rap Duo Aim To Tear Down Racism Via Viral Video
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Screencap / Youtube The conflict between Palestine and Israel has endured for years, causing many outside nations to show their allegiance to either side at the risk of alienating the other. Realizing the depths of the issues between their people, an Arab rapper and Israeli educator released a rap video that has gone viral due to their ambitious aims to tear down racism between the cultures. For the track “Bo Nedaber Dugri (Let’s Talk Straight),” Arab rapper Sameh Zakout and Israeli educator Uriya Rosenman hurl insults at one another in an attempt to combat racism from both sides. The video, released initially on May 20, has just under 100,000 views on Youtube and a reported 4 million across social, is fashioned in the same vein as Joyner Lucas’ “I’m Not ...
Atlanta IKEA Store Catching Heat For Juneteenth Menu Featuring Watermelon & Fried Chicken
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: picture alliance / Getty This is one of the things we feared when President Joe Biden made Juneteenth a federal holiday. IKEA is in hot water after one of its stores in Atlanta featured fried chicken, watermelon, mac n cheese, collard greens, and candied yams as menu items its employees can enjoy in honor of Juneteenth. All foods that are stereotypically associated with Black people. According to TMZ, an email was sent out to employees last week alerting them that a special menu was going to be rolled out “to honor the perseverance of Black Americans and acknowledge the progress yet to be made.” The reaction to the email was not positive. Speaking with local news affiliate CBS 46, an employee who remained anonymous, said, “You cannot say serving watermelo...
Morgan Wallen’s Radio Airplay Has Doubled in Past Month
Nothing can stop Morgan Wallen’s ascent to country superstardom, not even a massive controversy and being banned from select radio stations. Over the past month alone, Wallen’s radio airplay has more than doubled (!) in the latest instance of an unsurprising comeback, reports Billboard. Nearly 150 radio stations report to Billboard’s Country Airplay chart, and the numbers they tracked are hard to argue with. At the start of May, their accumulated spins clocked in around the low 1,000s. In the first week of May that number went up to 1,100 and in the second week it was bumped to 1,500. Fast forward to the first week of June and there’s more than 2,900 plays. That’s a total gain of 164% in the span of one month — and with summer on the way, chances are those numbers will only continue to ris...
