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IN HINDSIGHT
Even as he saw the rising tide of white racist hatred, he exhibited a kind of racial denialism, emphasizing that things had once been worse and accommodating white resistance.
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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NOT OK
The takeaway from the day was pretty simple: There is no way to make these people believe that they’ve lost, because they don’t believe in democracy.
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DARVO
These pleas for kindness toward members of a vicious American political movement are par for the course for people who genuinely believe that their humanity trumps everyone else’s.
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SO MUCH FOR #WHEXIT
After a summer of stories about how white people were reading and movie-watching their way to a colorblind future, it turns out racism is still as popular as it was in 2016.
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UNITED KARENS OF AMERICA
White women have favored the Democrat only twice since 1952. They went with Trump in 2016, and then a series of Trumpy Republicans in 2018. Why trust them now?
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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.
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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.