A collection of 55 posts
The genre of “white people doing something to black people” is, by now, a well-established media genre that generates easy clicks. But there is also an unsettling subplot that few seem willing to discuss.
Rather than whites being responsible for the perpetuation of these stereotypes—and, by extension, white privilege—they are maintained by all groups as they interact with each other.
To be a black Democratic candidate in 2018 is to be seen, not just as a politician, but as the next step in the decades-long march towards racial equality.
The day is fast approaching when mainstream white society will react to accusations of racism with yawns and shrugs. What will identitarians do then?
This embarrassing spectacle sometimes resembles an adult who humors a fractious infant just to reassure it that he is an amiable and unthreatening figure.
The color question has changed in America and this has implications for the logic of affirmative action.
While some black folks are driven to tolerate the excesses of the radical left by a fear of white power, the latter seem largely motivated by envious resentment of it.
If activists are embarrassed by constitutional norms, religious devotion, and American virtues, then what are the values around which a progressive movement can hope to organise?
When black people are asked what they think about myriad race-related issues, their answers often deviate from liberal orthodoxy.
The violence surge continued into fall. Homicides in Baltimore reached their highest per capita rate in the city’s history.