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A new white burden?
Does Ta-Nehisi Coates fetishize race? No, but Thomas Chatterton Williams thinks he does.
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The View From Here
This afternoon we drove through miles of cotton fields in Missouri, the state with the frightening distinction of being the subject of a travel advisory issued by the NAACP this summer to people of color traveling through the state. The numerous racist incidents, and the statistics cited by the Missouri Attorney General in the advisory,…
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Trading Optimism For Struggle
Ta-Nehisi Coates is more Christian about hope than are many American Christians.
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“America is literally unimaginable without plundered labour shackled to plundered land…”
Any fair consideration of the depth and width of enslavement tempts insanity. First conjure the crime – the generational destruction of human bodies – and all of its related offense – domestic terrorism, poll taxes, mass incarceration. But then try to imagine being an individual born among the remnants of that crime, among the wronged,…
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“By 2024, median Black and Latino households are projected to own 60-80% less wealth than they did in 1983.”
The accelerating decline in wealth over the past 30 years has left many Black and Latino families unable to reach the middle class. Between 1983 and 2013, the wealth of median Black and Latino households decreased by 75% (from $6,800 to $1,700) and 50% (from $4,000 to $2,000), respectively, while median White household wealth rose…
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