Biden’s SINKING Approval With Black Voters Could BREAK Dem Majority In Midterms
Briahna Joy Gray reacts to President Biden’s plummeting poll numbers amongst Black Americans.
Democrats have a race problem. It’s not what they think.
By Samuel Goldman, The Week Democrats are approaching panic. Frustrated by congressional wrangling and sagging presidential approval, the party is looking to reverse a trend that points toward heavy losses in 2022 and perhaps 2024, when former President Donald Trump seems likely to mount another bid for the […]
De Blasio Cites SEGREGATION In Ending Gifted Program
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff discuss the decision by Bill De Blasio to end NYC’s Gifted & Talented Program due to ‘segregation’ as his Mayoral tenure ends.
Thousands of Police Killings Are Unreported
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist Black Agenda Report Police killings of Black people are a feature of American law enforcement and they are deliberately under counted. The New York Times and other outlets report that most police killings in this country are “mislabelled .” The […]
A Different Approach to Anti-Racism
By Nick Gillespie Reason “If you want to fight the impulse that we human beings have to feel better than others,” says Chloé Valdary, “it’s a bad idea to make people so insecure.” Chloé Valdary had an unusual childhood. She grew up in a Christian family, but one […]
The End of Rage
By Ashley Lucas, Plough I. FATHER, PANTHER, SOLDIER, SPY In 2014 in Pennsylvania, Russell Maroon Shoatz was released from twenty-two consecutive years of solitary confinement into the general prison population. This is twenty-one years and fifty weeks longer than the length of time in solitary the United Nations […]
AOC presses FBI on police radicalization
Wednesday, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pressed an FBI official on the radicalization of police officers by white supremacy groups.
Gabby Petito’s TRAGIC Fate In Wyoming, Media SILENT On 700+ Missing Indigenous Women
Alyssa Farah makes the case for better media coverage of the country’s hundreds of missing Native American girls and women.
This Is A Film About What It’s Like Living While Black, In Japan
By Shiho Fukada, Keith Bedford Photojournalist and filmmaker team Keith Bedford and Shiho Fukada are married. They met in New York. Fukada is originally from Japan and started to miss her family when they were living in New York with their young son. Fukada and Bedford wanted him […]
Coleman Hughes on Critical Race Theory with Christopher Rufo
My guest today is Christopher Rufo. Christopher is a documentary filmmaker and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He has almost single-handedly led the national fight against Critical Race Theory, as it manifests in public schools and in workplaces. I haven’t said much about this subject yet. […]
Biden Won’t End the Warfare-Surveillance State
National security reporter Spencer Ackerman on 9/11, mass surveillance at home, and failed wars abroad. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the United States invaded and occupied two countries, bombed four others, helped create 21 million refugees and cause over 800,000 deaths, and spent over $6 trillion […]
The Flawed Foundations of Critical Race Theory
This is an interesting annotated bibliography of works that critique critical race theory from a leftist perspective. READ MORE
Adolph Reed has ENOUGH White People Explaining Racism to Him
Matt lost his voice this week, so we’re unpaywalling this extended interview with Adolph Reed. We’ll be back next week with Monday Mourning and a new UI episode. Subscribers can still get their UI fix with Katie’s attempt at the Taibbi dating app, also out today. “But if […]
For Navajo, crowded homes have always been a lifeline. The pandemic threatens that.
By Hailey Sadle and Darian Woehr, Washington Post Kay Atene’s family lives together on the same red earth in Oljato-Monument Valley in Utah that her great-grandparents returned to after surviving the “Long Walk” more than 150 years ago. Generations living together is central to how the Navajo have […]
Amy Chua: How Tribalism Set the World on Fire After 9/11
Amy Chua, professor at Yale Law School and author of Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, and Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, joins The Realignment to discuss how political and […]
Will Latinos END Gavin Newsom In CA Recall?
California, where non-Hispanic whites are now only around 36% of the population, is something of a test market for the racial/ethnic future of the US. So far, it’s not the rainbow utopia envisioned by the left or the civil war envisioned by sectors of the far right. It’s […]
Corporate America’s $50 billion promise
by Tracy Jan Jena McGregor Meghan Hoyer Washington Post After the murder of George Floyd ignited nationwide protests, corporate America acknowledged it could no longer stay silent and promised to take an active role in confronting systemic racism. From Silicon Valley to Wall Street, companies proclaimed “Black lives […]
Erasing Native American culture
The Week Staff August 23, 2021 The U.S. and Canada are starting to face their history of forcing indigenous children into abusive boarding schools. Here’s everything you need to know: What was the school’s goal? Simply put, cultural genocide. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the U.S. government […]
Afghanistan and the Racism of Imperial Progress
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley In case you haven’t noticed, the shit has kind of hit the fucking fan in Kabul. If you haven’t noticed, you must be Amish and I envy you because the banshees of cable news have been screaming about […]
White Feminists Wanted to Invade
By Rafia Zakaria, The Nation Afghan women never asked for US air strikes. On a March evening in 1999, a wealthy Hollywood socialite named Mavis Leno, the wife of late-night superstar Jay Leno, held a fundraiser to which she invited her rich and/or famous friends. The event was […]
BIDEN IS EXPANDING TRUMP’S WAR ON “DOMESTIC VIOLENT EXTREMISM” — AND IT’S SWEEPING UP BLACK PEOPLE
By Aaron Miguel Cantú The Intercept Far from breaking with Trump’s civil disorder prosecutions, Biden has doubled down with an expansive view of extremism. WITH GAS MASKS covering their faces, police officers in Mobile, Alabama, stood guard at the entrance of a highway on-ramp as tear gas wafted in […]
VCU survey shows racial and economic disparities have worsened during COVID-19
Duh? By John Reid Blackwell Times-Dispatch The economic gap between white workers and workers of color has widened during the pandemic, as well as the wealth gap between lower income Virginians and those with higher incomes, according to a recent study by Virginia Commonwealth University and research from […]
What’s “Systemic” about “Systemic Racism”? | Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
0:00 Intro 2:19 Does systemic racism still exist in the US? 12:26 Addressing “racial inequities” rather than “systemic racism” 18:30 John: “The idea that modern colleges and universities are racist spaces is false” 29:18 Race and the academic job market 34:40 Why does anger persist even after progress toward […]
Critical Race Theory Ignores Anti-Semitism
By Joel Kotkin National Socialism, Maoism and Marxism-Leninism all have one thing in common: they boil down human experience to one aspect, such as race or class, and diminish the struggles and achievements of much of humanity. In some respects, as an approach to understanding history, CRT has […]
Census shows US growth driven by minorities; white pop falls under 60 percent
The growth in the American population over the last decade was driven entirely by minority communities, according to new data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau, as the number of white Americans declined for the first time since the nation’s founding.
Thomas Sowell – Race and Economics
I am inclined toward the view that Thomas Sowell’s analysis of economics and race, and Kevin Carson’s analysis of economics and class, mutually reinforce each other. Carson focuses on how the state keeps down the working class and Sowell focuses on how the state keeps down blacks. Ironically, […]
Handwringing Over Whiteness Lets Capitalists Off the Hook — Adolph Reed & Walter Benn Michaels
On The Jacobin Show, Adolph Reed and Walter Benn Michaels address the longstanding contention that white workers are too committed to their white identity to fight for universal public goods.
Systemic Racism: 64 Practical Examples of the Challenges that Face Black Americans
By Caleb Ward, Curious Refuge I was recently looking to share a few links about systemic racism in our ‘Curious Weekly’ newsletter. However, after a little research, I was shocked to find the best list of systemic racism examples didn’t come from a peer-reviewed study or news publication, […]
Canceling Critical Race Theory
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I am not a politically correct animal. Out of the good of my bleeding heart, I’ve tried, but my species of genderfuck extraterrestrial just doesn’t swing that way. When the good lord Kali made this mess, she made […]
Canada Is Waging an All-Front Legal War Against Indigenous People
By Justin Podur, Counterpunch Canada is developing a new image: one of burning churches, toppling statues, and mass graves. There are thousands more unmarked graves, thousands more Indigenous children killed at residential schools, remaining to be unearthed. There can be no denying that this is Canada, and it has to change. But can […]
A panel discussion with James Lindsay, Christopher Rufo, Karlyn Borysenko and others for HB544 in NH
This is a panel discussion conducted for state legislators in New Hampshire to help them understand critical race theory.
DESTROYING James Lindsay’s Basic B**** Critical Race Theory Tweet
Ben Burgis came across a James Lindsay tweet that alleged to break critical race theory down into six stages of history. Ben quote tweeted the aforementioned tweet and compared it to a Jordan Peterson line of thought, but called it even worse. The “apolitical” founder of New Discourses […]
Thinking Critically about Critical Race Theory | Glenn Loury & John McWhorter |
0:00 John McWhorter, master of his craft 5:18 Is John a “Black linguist”? Is Glenn a “Black economist”? 13:45 Al Sharpton and Benjamin Crump address police violence against white victims 24:25 Defining CRT 35:35 Is the CRT debate comparable to other debates in education? 43:43 Glenn: It is […]
The Life and Work of Thomas Sowell | Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and Jason Riley
0:00 Intro 1:10 Comparing the legacies of Thomas Sowell and George Schuyler 5:27 Making the case for Sowell’s significance 16:55 The task of the popularizer 23:55 Why Sowell’s book A Conflict of Visions is important 31:15 The norm of inter-group disparity 40:47 What happened to Glenn’s generation of […]
Diversity Seminars Don’t Have To Be Maoist Struggle Sessions
In a world where workplace diversity sessions increasingly resemble Maoist struggle sessions, Chloé Valdary’s Theory of Enchantment seminars seek to bring people together using popular culture to explore our common humanity and generate empathy rather than division. The 28-year-old Valdary started a group to combat anti-semitism as an […]
Boston Globe Readers Discover The Racist History Of Gun Control
By Cam Edwards Bearing Arms Given the anti-gun attitudes of the editors of the Boston Globe, I was shocked to see a column headlined “The Very Racist History of Gun Control” on the paper’s website this weekend. I’m sure the piece by longtime columnist Jeff Jacoby has caused […]
Debating Glenn Loury: Are Racial Disparities Caused by “Culture”?
This week, Briahna Joy Gray debates one of America’s foremost Black conservative public intellectuals, Brown University Economics Professor Glenn Loury. Is there overlap between conservative critics of liberal race politics lefty critics of liberal “woke” culture? Or does the conservative focus on fixing “Black culture” serve the same […]
Bronies Vs. Furries & The Red Brown Coalition
I’m currently having an interesting debate/discussion with this blogger. Interesting fellow. Check it out: Banned Hipster The idea of elite factions, uprisings and lumpen is quite a bit broader than progressive vs conservative in Preston’s view. Take the good old furry v brony divide. In a civil war […]
The Accomplishments of Black Conservative Thought
By Wilfred Reilly Quillette The line between moral and empirical claims is a tricky one for debaters. In his thoughtful Quillette essay, “The Limitations of Black Conservative Thought,” Aaron Hanna—like me, a professor of Political Science—critiques some of the more sweeping theoretical claims of America’s intellectual tradition of […]
Rep. Brad Schneider’s Staff’s Racist Treatment of Black Employee Should Remind Us of Lynching, Tuskegee, Ethnic Cleansing
By Joe Kopsick, Aquarian Agrarian Three days ago – on July 15th, 2021 – a story about racially disparaging remarks, made by an employee of Democratic Illinois Congressman Brad Schneider named Karyn Davidman, made international headlines, as the DailyMail published an article titled “Black staffer for Democrat Rep. […]
Ryan Grim DEBATES ‘Inconvenient Minority’ Author On Diversity In Education
Kenny Xu, president of Color Us United, discusses his new book, “An Inconvenient Minority: The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy.”
Brooks and Capehart on Indigenous boarding schools, Biden budget, child tax credit
New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week in politics, including the assimilation of Indigenous students in Indian boarding schools, President Joe Biden’s budget plan, the child tax credit, and the latest reported in books on the […]
An Interview with John McWhorter
This is a great interview with McWhorter, and one of the best discussions I have seen on these topics. He gives the answers I would be inclined to give to the interviewer’s questions. PBS, Firing Line Columbia University linguist and race commentator John McWhorter explains the origins of […]
Coleman Hughes on The Problem with Elite Discourse on Racism with Glenn Greenwald
The problem is that the elites think they are enlightened beyond all others, so they will always be right in their own mind.
Interview With Professor Adolph Reed
By Matt Taibbi Funny, outspoken, and original, the political science professor and author talks race, class, liberalism, and Robin DiAngelo on Useful Idiots. Last May, the Democratic Socialists of America invited the longtime Yale, Northwestern, and University of Pennsylvania professor Adolph Reed to speak to the New York […]
Why are White evangelicals embracing an anti-democratic movement? Because they’re panicking.
I’ve always suspected that as the demographic of conservative white Christians continued to shrink in size and lose power politically, they would become more militant and more likely to embrace ideologies and perspectives further outside of the mainstream. However, the future of conservatism in the US is less […]
The Proportion Of White Christians In The U.S. Has Stopped Shrinking, New Study Finds
By Becky Sullivan, NPR Two dramatic trends that for years have defined the shifting landscape of religion in America — a shrinking white Christian majority, alongside the rise of religiously unaffiliated Americans — have stabilized, according to a new, massive survey of American religious practice. What was once […]
Black Scholar Adolph Reed DESTROYS “White Fragility” & Robin DiAngelo
The interview with Reed starts about 48 minutes into this. In his return to Useful Idiots, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, editor of Nonsite (https://nonsite.org/) & Adolph Reed explains why Robin DiAngelo and “White Fragility” are so “problematic.” In addition to reacting to […]
The Real Problem with Critical Race Theory
A problem that I see with this article is that what the authors (one of whom I know personally) are describing is not so much critical race theory specifically as much as contemporary “anti-racism” ideology generally (and related concepts like privilege theory, intersectionality, “whiteness,” etc.), and the illiberalism […]
Is “Critical Race Theory” the Wrong Term?
By Matt Taibbi Are Republicans tilting at the wrong windmill? New Substack author Wesley Yang, who coined the term “Successor Ideology,” describes a movement that goes far beyond race. The headline for Wednesday’s CNN feature said it all: The critical race theory panic has White people afraid that […]
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