Kelly McParland: Would you let Valentina Lisitsa play your piano? I wouldn’t
Valentina Lisitsa has certainly won the public relations war that followed revelations of her ugly tweets about the conflict in Ukraine. Editorial boards (including this one) have been firmly onside....
View ArticleCritics overtake Police Week hashtag to condemn carding and demand...
Why haven’t Toronto police given evidence that carding increases public safety, demanded one of the many critics on Twitter who jumped on a Police Week hashtag and helped turn it into a hotspot to...
View ArticleGeorgia principal fired after making a ‘racist comment’ during a graduation...
A Georgia principal was fired after making racially charged remarks during a graduation ceremony last week, which she blamed on the devil. TNT Academy’s principal, Nancy Gordeuk, became incensed during...
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Ishmael N. Daro: Tories share the blame for growing intolerance against...
For most immigrants and minorities, all the stereotypes of a bucolic and prosperous Canada ring entirely true. Most of us, regardless of background, thrive in this country, free from the threats of...
View ArticleTerry Glavin: Rachel Dolezal is nothing new in a culture littered with racial...
In the strange and fascinating case of the suddenly and sensationally infamous civil-rights activist Rachel “I am definitely not white” Dolezal, there is something especially peculiar about the vast...
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Charleston shooter Dylann Roof, charged with 9 counts of murder, feared...
CHARLESTON, S.C. — A former friend who had reconnected with the man accused of a shooting massacre inside a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, said Dylann Storm Roof had become an...
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Jamelle Bouie: Rape as unjustified justification for racist violence
Amid his Wednesday night rampage at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina—killing nine people—21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof reportedly told churchgoers, “You rape our...
View ArticleRacist manifesto surfaces online believed to have been written by Dylann Roof
Photographs that appear to show the Charleston church shooting suspect holding a Confederate flag and burning an American flag appear with a racist rant on a newly uncovered website. The purported...
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Michael Gerson: Survivors of Charleston shooting show the strength to love
When many relatives of those cruelly murdered in Charleston — by a man who talked and prayed with his victims for an hour before systematically gunning them down — publicly offered their forgiveness,...
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Confederate flags seen at Sask. country music festival despite organizers’...
Confederate flags and clothing emblazoned with the infamous “Southern cross” have not been hard to find at Saskatchewan’s biggest country music festival, despite a request from organizers to leave the...
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Caucasian family in Calgary relocated by city after alleged racial bullying...
Public-housing officials have relocated a Caucasian family after they went public with allegations of racially charged bullying by their neighbours. Internal documents suggest the stone-throwing and...
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The wrong kind of ally: Taylor Swift is just another Atticus Finch
Growing up in Florida, where all the egregious Buzzfeed stories are sourced, I was hyper aware of race as a kid. Reading To Kill a Mockingbird as a child was the first time I encountered something akin...
View Article‘It’s racist out of context’: Sarah Silverman kind of regrets wearing blackface
Sarah Silverman, ever the controversial comedian, was a guest on Andy Cohen’s Watch What Happens Live on Thursday for her upcoming film I Smile Back, and was asked by a caller if she has ever made a...
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‘Avowed racist’ H.P. Lovecraft no longer representing World Fantasy Award
The World Fantasy award trophy will no longer be represented by the face of H.P. Lovecraft after a campaign last year that called the author out as an “avowed racist” with “hideous opinions”. The...
View ArticleRacist remarks about defence minister on Canadian Forces Facebook page...
National Defence public affairs staff were dealing with the fallout Thursday from the racist comments about new Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan posted on the Canadian Forces Facebook page by a member of...
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Wynne slammed over racism remarks, and other reasons to fear for humanity
1. Dosanjh slams Wynne over racism remarks PostmediaUjjal Dosanjh with Justin Trudeau in vancouver Former Liberal cabinet minister Ujjal Dosanjh is not pleased at Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s...
View ArticleNational Post View: Borrowing is not stealing. We could use more ‘cultural...
It might seem a ridiculous waste of time to argue against banning yoga on campus as “cultural appropriation.” The real task is explaining how people could get so bent out of shape at yoga rather than...
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Hungary is building a statue of a respected academic — who was anti-Semitic...
Wiki Commons Balint Homan Balint Homan is an important figure in Hungarian history, both for his well-respected attempts to document it as an academic and his work influencing it as a Minister of...
View ArticleU.S. college plans Whiteness History Month to examine how white privilege...
PORTLAND, Ore. — A U.S. college intends to undertake an innovative project on racism that it says examines how white privilege affects people’s daily lives. Called Whiteness History Month, the project...
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Conrad Black: Burning effigies of John A. Macdonald doesn’t help natives
The anti-John A. Macdonald demonstration by a group of protesting native people in Kingston on Jan. 11, the 201st birthday of the country’s chief founder, was a shocking incident that has been...
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