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Again we see how expertise in race, racism, racial history is an essential but underdeveloped journalistic skill.That Latinos, Asian & white votes are split is NOT surprising. It is the
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One day after this election is over I am going to write a piece about how Latino is a contrived ethnic category that artificially lumps white Cubans with Black Puerto
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There're gonna be 10K @KamalaHarris VP think pieces. I won't be writing one, but I'll say this: Not only are Black women the Democratic Party's most loyal base,BW are the
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It might be shocking to you to learn that most Black Americans descend from slave owners due to the pervasive sexual assault of enslaved women. The average Black American is
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Twitter is probably the worse possible place to discuss the complex & nuanced dynamics involving race. But I swear, the way we’ve been taught about slavery & US apartheid has
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Oh, this is a fabulous, thoughtful thread. He is right: The fight over the 1619 Project is not about history. It is about memory.https://twitter.com/sethcotlar/status/1287607485327523843 I’ve always said that the 1619
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If chattel slavery — heritable, generational, permanent, race-based slavery where it was legal to rape, torture, and sell human beings for profit — were a “necessary evil” as @TomCottonAR says,
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Sen. @TomCottonAR has introduced a bill prohibiting the use of federal funds to teach the 1619 Project because apparently “The Federal Government has a strong interest in promoting an accurate
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Media needs to be very careful of this narrative about increase in violence being pushed just as momentum on police defending is occurring. Comparing any one week/month to a prior
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While I appreciate the free advertisement for our journalism a year after the 1619 Project published, certainly seems like in the middle of an unprecedented economic catastrophe, 140k dead from
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I didn't intend to write this now, but the times called for it: In this moment, the most tragic of outcomes would be that the demand be too timid and
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I think maybe Grant’s is not a statue worth toppling. But I also understand after decades of shrugs when people spoke of the hurt of having been demeaned by public
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