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June 18, 2015

Fox News calls the Charleston shooting an ‘attack on faith’ instead of a hate crime

Fox News is bending itself over backwards trying to find any reason to blame anything but race for the mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina last night.Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy suggested that religion was the likely motivation for the terrorist attack.
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Published on June 18, 2015 15:22

Lindsey Graham blames Christian persecution, not racism for Charleston shooting

Republican presidential hopeful and senator, Lindsey Graham reacted to a mass shooting at a historic black church in his home state of South Carolina by claiming that the shooter was “looking for Christians to kill them.”That's right, after the gunman, who uttered the words, "You rape our women and you’re taking over our country and you have to go," did not kill none people over race, but because of Christian persecution.
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Published on June 18, 2015 11:05

Charleston shooter told victim ‘You rape our women and you’re taking over our country and you have to go’

Today police identified and then captured Dylann Storm Roof, the man suspected of killing nine people in the mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina Wednesday night.
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Published on June 18, 2015 10:42

June 17, 2015

Officials call massacre in historic South Carolina church a ‘hate crime’

Police have responded to a mass shooting at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. The pastor of the church is State Senator Clementa Pinckney.
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Published on June 17, 2015 21:22

A Girl Scouts troop was showered with racial insults after speaking out against animal abuse

Several members of the Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay Troop 176 attended a city council meeting to speak up for animals that were allegedly abused and mistreated by A Buddy For Life, the county’s animal control vendor. The girls kindness was met with hate and racism.
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Published on June 17, 2015 16:44

Fox News calls Pope Francis ‘the most dangerous person on the planet’

I am not a fan of Pope Francis, I have made this clear again and again, however, I don't think I would join in with Fox News' Greg Gutfeld in calling him "the most dangerous person on the planet.”
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Published on June 17, 2015 15:23

June 16, 2015

Rachel Dolezal loses it and claims her parents may not be her birth parents

Rachel Dolezal is going Donald Trump on herself. After being caught earlier this week lying about her race, she now seems set on lying about everything else in her life.She is now a birther, about her own birth. In an interview aired on Tuesday night with NBC News host Savannah Guthrie, Dolezal said she was not sure her parents are her actual biological parents.
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Published on June 16, 2015 21:59

Rachel Dolezal tells NBC she is ‘black’ but has a degree of ‘white privilege’

Rachel Dolezal is on a media tour today, hitting every major outlet to defend herself against the accusations that she lied about who she is. Dolezal has spent the last 10 years telling people she is black while she was in fact born white. She claims she "identifies" as black, but rejects the term African-American but argues she is definitely "not white."
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Published on June 16, 2015 15:55

Jon Stewart destroys Fox News’ coverage of Rachel Dolezal’s controversy

The Rachel Dolezal story seems to get increasingly more bizarre by the day. After the original news broke that she was a white woman who had spent the last 10 years lying about her race, she stepped down from her position at the NAACP and then went on a media tour to defend her lying.
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Published on June 16, 2015 11:34

Donald Trump may be the most anti-science candidate in the presidential race

While in reality we have very little to worry about when it comes to Donald Trump actually winning the White House, the idea itself is horrifying. Not only is he a racist bigot who loves to throw his wealth in people’s faces, even in his own candidacy announcement,“I have total net worth of $8.73bn,” he [Read More...]
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Published on June 16, 2015 09:36