Racism

It’s the handiest dog whistle ever — Are you confused by the word ‘woke’? Did you understand it to be, as Merriam-Webster defines it, “aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues”? If you thought being woke sounded like a pretty good thing and are confused, well, you are not alone. As a public service, I’ve translated a few Republican quotes…

Bethany Mandel sputtered and stalled. When asked by journalist Briahna Joy Gray to define what the word “woke” meant, Mandel, in a viral clip, seemed to struggle to define the word. …

I’d Love To See Him Arrested Today As He’s Predicting — I’ve made a point over the past few months to quit talking about Donald Trump as often as I had. The last thing that asshole needs is more screen time, more publicity, and to waste any more of our time. I’m so tired of hearing his big fat mouth. But…

What women wear shouldn't be up for debate — Black women's freedom is a source of frustration for some men who feel they have the right to control what a woman wears, who she dates, and where she spends her time. For instance, when Grammy-award-winning singer Ciara wore a sheer Dundas gown with elbow-lengthed black gloves to the Vanity…

An essay about the consequences of whitewashed history — The history of the world is a whitewashed history, where great many facts are distorted to maintain white supremacy — such as Columbus discovering America or Gandhi liberating India — Gandhi didn’t liberate India, Subhas Chandra Bose did and Columbus never even set foot on America.― Abhijit Naskar Rosa Parks…

To justify their opposition, they're ignoring racial discrimination — If creating bad-faith talking points about the civil rights movement was a sport, conservatives would have taken home the gold by now. From their attempts to hide historical facts, like the reason why Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, to their cruscade against critical…

White Presenting people still are racialized and abused Meghan is racially ambiguous. She is White-presenting. It is not just other people saying that. She herself said it in one of her podcasts. But saying Meghan is White-presenting doesn’t mean she doesn’t face anti-Black racism. What it means is Meghan “looks”…