Race Matters
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District Attorney in Pennsylvania Responds to Accusations of Systemic Racism by, uh, Being Systematically Racist
I’m no social scientist, yet I can’t help but theorize that white men are possibly the most sensitive group in this country—by far. If dealing with a thin-skinned president for four years didn’t clue you in on that, then you’ve had to have noticed how white men across the country continue to lose their shit…
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Surprising No One Black, Resurfaced Documents Confirm 'Coloured Immigrants or Foreigners' Were Once Banned From Clerical Roles in Buckingham Palace
Remember that time that “palace aides” went on the offensive against Meghan Markle, alleging that the Duchess of Sussex had bullied them just ahead of her and Prince Harry’s televised sit-down with Oprah? While the race of said aides has never been disclosed (or doubted, to be honest), one can’t help but raise an eyebrow…
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'We Have Given More Than Has Ever Been Given to Us': California's 1st-in-the-Nation Slavery Reparations Task Force Meets
When it comes to the recent efforts to make reparations for descendants of American slavery happen, I am of two minds. On one hand—meh. It just seems like everything being proposed falls short of an actual promise that reparations for Black people will ever happen as the proposals aren’t for actual reparations; they are mostly…
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Virginia Seminary Built on Free Black Labor to Pay Reparations to Descendants of Workers
The subject of reparations is a prickly one because acknowledging America’s horrific past is something white America just doesn’t seem to have the fortitude to do. A seminary in Virginia has taken the steps to acknowledge the role slavery and Jim Crow laws played in its founding and has begun cash payments to the descendants…
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DHS Warns That White Supremacist Groups Might Target and Attack Tulsa Race Massacre Anniversary Events
White supremacists represent America’s greatest terrorism threat. The FBI has said it. The Department of Homeland Security has said it repeatedly. White conservative extremists keep on proving it. This is why government officials are constantly having to warn us that groups of the neo-Nazi variety might attack certain events—particularly those that commemorate the Black struggle against…
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Iowa Woman Who Hit Black 12-Year-Old and Latina Teen With Her SUV Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
Nicole Poole Franklin, the white supremacist from Des Moines, Iowa, who on Dec. 9, 2019, hit a Black 12-year-old boy with her SUV and, on the same day, ran over a 14-year-old girl and admitted she did it because she thought the girl “was a Mexican,” has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after…