Like begets like, and the progenitor of the recent violence at the United States Capitol building, though some may hesitate to admit it, was the ongoing fervor and volume of the country’s antiracist demonstrations. It should be obvious that this is not to say that antiracist protests, no matter how raucous they have gotten, are […]
When discussing race relations with peers and acquaintances, I sometimes raise the question of whether there is hope for anything resembling a “post-racial” future in the United States or, more appropriately, if racism and the afterlife of American slavery will ever cease to be so influential to the contemporary state of affairs. Admittedly, I have
In a recent interview that you could originally only watch on Snapchat, of all places, Former President Barack Obama doubled down on earlier comments he made that expressed his disdain for the phrase “defund the police.” In his words, “you lost a big audience the minute you say it, which makes it a lot less
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This just in: It is now hip to be antiracist. Months of international civil rights protests and several high-profile cases of police brutality and racial violence have left hordes of non-Black Americans scrambling to get onto the “right side of history.” To be sure, there are many such “allies” with noble intentions, but there are
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Category 5 Hurricane Jeffrey, which made landfall yesterday, is already shaping up to be among the most destructive tropical storms to have ever hit Florida. The state has already sustained an estimated $600,000 in property damage and at least 10 casualties just 32 hours after initial impact. As was suspected when Jeffrey was forming in
In the United States, as in many other countries, it is a customary practice for elected officials and other authority figures to lie. Two very relevant peddlers of lies in the country are politicians at all levels and the police. Politicians lie and tell half-truths with such frequency that many of us simply expect them
When asked what the chant meant, New Haven mother of four Danielle Richardson said that she was “sickened” by the way the news and local authorities sought to “demonize” Singleton. “Tyler is a child,” she said, “and I have children of my own. They like guns, they like killing, they like to have a
It can be difficult to process or even believe many of the things happening in the world today, and particularly the things happening in the United States. Odds are that you have some idea of what I mean if you watched the recent presidential debate. You likely know exactly what I mean if you regularly
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Following the President’s defense of Confederate flags and military bases named for Confederate generals, his open criticism of organizations supporting the banning of the flag, and his latest jingoistic venture, claims of “left-wing indoctrination” in schools that teach the history of slavery and systemic racism, preferring instead his newly formulated initiative for “patriotic education” and
In our country, the man in power has comically made bulls of so many of us. Years of his deception and iniquity have left a major section of the American population on edge, constantly and fretfully waiting for the next shoe to drop, though we have long since lost count of dropped shoes. His misdeeds
