Race Matters
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Head of Indianapolis Art Museum Resigns After Tone-Deaf Job Posting For Someone to Maintain Institution’s ‘Core, White Art Audience’
There’s already evidence of telling slip-ups from organizations trying, and failing, to authentically show a commitment to diversity and inclusion so many of them publicly professed during the racial justice reckoning of 2020. Such is the case of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, which last week issued a job posting for a new…
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White AF Wisconsin Superintendant Candidate Says She Was Called N-Word Because Her 'Lips Were Bigger Than Most.' *Sigh*
Every day I say to myself, “there’s no higher level of caucasity than that,” and every day wypipo prove me wrong. In Wisconsin, a white woman—who is running for a position that would make her the state’s top education official—tweeted something that didn’t just put her out of her lane, it put her on the…
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Massive Racial Disparity in Kentucky’s Vaccination Numbers Underscores the Enduring Power of Structural Racism
The racial inequities that have been brought into stark relief by the COVID-19 pandemic are again being made painfully apparent in the current phase of vaccine distribution. The vast disparity in the number of Black people and white people in Kentucky who have received vaccines—less than 19,000 for the former, according to WFPL, compared to…
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Jacksonville Jaguars Hires Former College Football Coach Accused of Racism and Abuse Because…Why Not?
Over the past year, America has gone through a racial awakening of sorts, but that doesn’t mean things have changed all that much. For example, by and large, white people still don’t really believe Black people when we say something racist has happened to us. That’s why Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Urban Meyer has defended…