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‘LEAST RACIST PERSON’
“I basically freed you people” isn’t being received by Black people the way he thinks it is.
Kali Holloway is the Director of the Make It Right Project, a new national campaign to take down Confederate monuments and tell the truth about history. Her writing has appeared in Salon, The Guardian, TIME, AlterNet, Truthdig, Huffington Post, The National Memo, Jezebel, Raw Story and numerous other outlets.
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There is no sane alternative, but his outlook is the same old centrist proactive-fear-of-prompting-a-backlash-with-too-much-progressivism that got us here in the first place.
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TRUE BELIEVER
Owens rails against identity politics despite the fact that her Blackness is the only reason she’s become such an elevated figure within the GOP.
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WHATEVER YOU SAY, SIR
I know what I felt as I watched the vice president hog the mic. And I can’t imagine millions of women didn’t feel the same thing.
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CO-DEFENDANT
Daniel Cameron was on point, but the whole justice system is set up to allow for just this sort of travesty of justice.
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‘GO F*CK THEM UP!’
The president made it clear that as we get closer to Election Day, his stochastic terror campaign will only grow louder.
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‘MISSISSIPPI APPENDECTOMY’
The procedures a detainee says are being performed now are of a piece with states’ not-so-long ago efforts to sterilize people of color as supposed “morons” and “sex delinquents.”
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WHITE WOMAN TEARS
By her husband’s own terms, Melania had an “anchor baby” and used “chain migration” to get her parents American citizenship.
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COVINGTON KID
Nicholas Sandmann was one of the night's stars, but no GOP event would be complete without token minorities to absolve the party of its race-baiting and appeals to white grievance.
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WHITELASH
Antiracist campaigners in North Carolina are being stalked and even attacked by racial terrorists trying to delay the removal of post-Reconstruction Confederate monuments.
