I didn’t think it was possible for a series of tweets to accurately synopsize a city (Pittsburgh), a country (America), a mindset (whiteness), a political policy (kind colonization) and a person, but Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto somehow did exactly that.
Police killings are actually increasing in the United States, according to new data, but because our current president is leading every news cycle, brutality is being pushed to the back burner, activists contend.
Since Tuesday, I have read countless posts from Facebook friends sharing some of the racist experiences they have endured since Donald Trump was elected president. Many of them express hurt and pure shock at being called the n-word, being told to go back to Africa or Mexico, or being taunted and targeted for how they…
Now that the Shaun King "controversy" has apparently been settled, and the right-wing trolls have returned to their cages and their shifts at Dick's Sporting Goods, I'm still legitimately fascinated with — but not surprised by — the fact that so many people doubted King's ethnicity. And I'm not talking about…
I'm so appalled.
