The GOP continues to mimic the former president’s racist rhetoric. Even now, three months after Donald Trump’s…
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A Brief History of Anti-Asian Racism Pretending It’s Not Racist
Humans are notoriously terrible at accurately assessing themselves. That’s why medical researchers question the validity of…
Continue ReadingThe Absurdity of ‘Racial Realism’
The mass shooter in Atlanta embodied the flawed logic that racial stereotypes reflect fact-based truths Racism…
Continue ReadingAsian Women Are Not a ‘Temptation’
The Atlanta shootings were a culmination of centuries of hypersexualization of Asian women. On Wednesday, I learned…
Continue ReadingThe Bigoted ‘Trash Talk’ That’s Tolerated in Gaming
An anti-Semitic slur used during a Twitch livestream embodies the casual toxicity found in gaming culture. My…
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Our Stories Are Still Filtered Through Whiteness
Alexander Chee: You were among the first people to have a book come out during this…
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I Don’t Want to Fear Becoming a Journalist
Former President Donald Trump branded the news media the “enemy of the people” on dozens of…
Continue ReadingMy Mama Hasn’t Spoken in Two Years, But I Want her to Know Trump Lost
Racism robs black women like her while uplifting selfish men like Trump. I wish I could hear…
Continue ReadingDeath Has Become a Political Prop
After so many months of casualties, the only deaths we talk about are the ones that…
Continue ReadingTo Stop Police Violence, We Need Better Questions
It’s impossible to take the violence out of policing. Once again, there is justified outrage at police…
Continue Reading‘Patriotic Education’ Is How White Supremacy Survives
No, Trump can’t rewrite school curriculums himself, but a thousand mini-Trumps on the nation’s school boards…
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The Cop Who Told Me He Wished He’d Shot a Black Man
As a white cop told me he had regretted not shooting a Black man in the…
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