Race Archive
Archives for August 2016
Serving in the military has never saved black people from racism.
“What can I do to change? You know, to be a better American?”
As black people report less unfair treatment, white people are more likely to acknowledge it.
The media helped create Donald Trump, and now it’s helping to destroy him.
And yet structural inequalities literally make the city the worst place for African Americans.
The Gabby Douglas backlash is respectability politics and racism at its worst.
Think of it as “thoughts about people you didn’t know you had.”
“In many ways the color blue becomes more important than black and white.”
Many people don’t know when to say “Hispanic” and when to say “Latino.” So I drew a comic to explain the difference.
“When I grew up, those things weren’t called racist.”
Spoiler alert: Racism is a problem in the North and West too. And it always has been.
The new policy platform includes reparations, economic justice, and investing in sustainable energy.
“This isn’t theory for us. It’s reality,” says Pastor Ray Shawn McKinnon on why so few black Bernie supporters are “Bernie or Bust.”