After dominating the sneaker business for decades, athletic apparel firm Nike announced that it will stop making footwear after spokesman and former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick insisted that shoes are a symbol of racism and slavery. Nike had just announced the launch of its latest basketball shoe, which it planned to sell for $199 a pair, when Kaepernick insisted in...
The terror group al Qaeda has announced a major shift in its strategy after discovering that racially insensitive comments and microaggressions now count as violence. Recently, the group released a video that Slate has called its most violent attack since 9/11, as leader Ayman al-Zawahiri read out a series of subtly offensive statements. “We at al Qaeda would like to...
Teen Vogue has once again fired its editor-in-chief after pictures emerged of the newly hired top journalist reading Dr. Seuss’s “The Cat in the Hat” when she was a young child. Emelia Mackenzie was hired Thursday after her predecessor, Alexi McCammond, was fired when racially insensitive tweets resurfaced from a decade prior, when she was in high school. On Friday...
Empire star Jussie Smollett has once again been attacked in a racially motivated incident, this time by Queen Elizabeth II, the actor said. Smollett was walking home in downtown Chicago when the queen and her husband, Duke of Edinburgh Prince Philip, jumped him and stole his Subway sandwich. After expressing concern about his skin tone, the Queen began shouting racist...
