This Week in Racism
Racist South Carolina Uber Driver Earns Far Worse Than Zero-Star Rating
It’s an embarrassment of riches in our weekly roundup of the world’s most preventable disease!
Death and taxes used to be the only two certainties in life. But no matter how much progress it feels like we’re making sometimes, the sad fact is you can probably slide racism into that list. Are we in a moment of uprising that feels like it has the potential to create real, systemic change? Yes. Do people and organizations still show their ass on a daily basis? Oh, most definitely. And to keep tabs on all that ass-showing, we created a weekly racism surveillance machine. If you already get our newsletter, Minority Report, you’ve likely seen this — but now the rest of the internet can get a taste.
🗑 At Smoothie King, you pay extra for blueberries, but the racism is free
Let it never be said that racist idiots who work in food service don’t have a sense of humor. At least, let it never be said that they don’t think they have a sense of humor. In the Charlotte, North Carolina, area, not one but two Smoothie King employees — at different locations, no less! — got caught putting fake customer names on receipts. The…
