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Newsweek jump started the new year by posting a tweet bearing an insensitive image of Martin Luther King, Jr. yesterday (January 1, 2018).
The post, which included a photo of the slain civil rights leader in his casket along with the caption, ?Has anybody here seen my old friend Martin?,? was quickly deleted after Bernice King but the media outlet on blast.
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State Farm Insurance found out the hard way that racism still exists when they received a barrage of complaints over an innocent twitter post.
When the company tweeted a photo of an?African-American man proposing to a young white woman on Christmas day, it received a ton of backlash from angry white supremacists.
Apparently, the ad was so disturbing to several?individuals that?they even threatened to boycott the popular insurance brand so what did State Farm do to increase the peace?
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Another day, another white supremacist is unveiled on social media.
This time it’s Tila Tequila who was caught out there after?a photo she posted of herself throwing the??Sieg Heil? Nazi salute alongside a few friends went viral.
Tila’s account has since been suspended but the drama behind the photos continues as details surface about the party, which was held for a known white nationalist group.
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Shad Moss (aka Bow Wow) hit the net a few hours ago to chop it up with fans about politics. Moss claims he doesn’t really care either way and insinuated that he probably won’t even vote!
When one of his followers tried to school him about how many of his Black ancestors died to give him the right to cast a ballot, Moss says he didn’t ‘see’ that with his own eyes and he’s mixed anyway so it doesn’t apply.
Social media has been the death of many a relationship, but normally it’s by the hands of one of the parties who are actually INVOLVED in said relationship.
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Nowadays, putting your lovelife online is akin to putting fire to gasoline… it’s just bound to explode.
[READ: Is Facebook Ruining Your Relationship Status??]
And while many of you have chosen to play it safe, you now have to worry about someone else blasting your exploits to the masses… as evidenced by this hilarious story of a married woman busted cheating at a recent Braves game by two chicks sitting behind her as she sexted her boyfriend while sitting next to her husband.
Two years after accusations of racism nearly destroyed her food empire, it seems Paula Deen has learned nothing!
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For the record, a racist attitude is not something that can be apologized away.? Feeling bad about it is not going to wash away all the years she felt ‘some kinda way’ about other cultures.? That being said, Deen, the former Food Network star and court documented racist, has landed herself in hot water yet again.
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Early Tuesday morning, Deen’s social media accounts sent out a tweet and Facebook post with a photo depicting the cook dressed as Lucille Ball’s character from the 1950s television sitcom “I Love Lucy.”
Her son, Bobby Deen, is dressed as the show’s husband, Ricky Ricardo (Cuban-American Desi Arnaz) and the younger Deen is wearing what several media outlets are referring to as “brownface” to mimic Arnaz’s ethnicity.
*sigh* Same ish… different day!
The photo has since been deleted but as you know… nothing is ever truly ‘deleted’ from the net.
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