Category: news
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“Her death, like her father’s to some extent, is another reminder of what it means to embody and to carry in the body the full experience of being Black in the United States.”
Ms. Garner’s death means much and it’s impossible for me to distance her death from her father’s death. They were two different people and if I can find one common line between them, it is, for me, that neither of them should have died when they died. Her death, like her father’s to some extent,…
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Exposing White Lies
We’re right to be appalled by the constant revelations of sexual abuse and assault. But what, exactly, are we shocked about?
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“You know you’ve entered a temple when disagreement is treated as sacrilege. “
You know you’ve entered a temple when disagreement is treated as sacrilege. The animosity directed toward NFL players kneeling at the anthem, protesting police brutality and structural racism, is the sort of acrimony we reserve for infidels. Many professedly “religious” believers will be among those most incensed by resistance to this secular liturgy — a…
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A new white burden?
Does Ta-Nehisi Coates fetishize race? No, but Thomas Chatterton Williams thinks he does.
David W. Swanson 