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Monday 22nd of July 2024
2016 Presidential election
Most
white
working-class people voted
for Donald Trump and the through line
that you find is whiteness,
not class and not gender.
It's not like he only got men; he got
a majority of white women too.
So if you look at categories of white
people you find Trump being dominant
among them, in part because of the
appeal he made, but also in part
because the Republican Party has
effectively become in this country
the party of white people.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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2016 Presidential election
Trump's rebellion
was born at the intersection
of two toxic American myths,
the post-racial society and
the classless society.
Matt Taibbi
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2020 Presidential election
Only one meaningful correlation emerged
[from the Chicago Project on Security &
Threats' study of January 6 insurgents].
Other things being equal,
insurgents were much more likely to
come from a county where the white
share of the population was in decline.
For every one point drop in a county's
percentage of non-Hispanic whites
from 2015 to 2019, the likelihood of
an insurgent hailing from that county
increased by 25 percent. This was a
strong link, and it held up in every state.
Barton Gellman,
The Atlantic, January/February 2022
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Affirmative action
as expected,
the court has inverted the 14th.
an amendment written explicitly to directly
ameliorate the conditions of race hierarchy
becomes in conservative hands
an amendment that says it’s illegal
to try to directly ameliorate
the conditions of race hierarchy
Jamelle Bouie,
10:09 AM – Jun 29, 2023
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Affirmative action
The best that can be said of
the majority’s perspective is that
it proceeds (ostrich-like) from the hope
that preventing consideration of race
will end racism.
But if that is its motivation,
the majority proceeds in vain
If the colleges of this country are required
to ignore a thing that matters,
it will not just go away.
It will take longer for racism to leave us.
And, ultimately, ignoring race
just makes it matter more.
Katanji Brown Jackson, dissent in
Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v.
Harvard College and University of North Carolina
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Affirmative action
[N]othing prohibits universities from
considering an applicant’s discussion of
how race affected the applicant’s life,
so long as that discussion is concretely
tied to a quality of character or unique
ability that the particular applicant
can contribute to the university.
Many universities have for too long
wrongly concluded that the touchstone
of an individual’s identity is not
challenges bested, skills built, or
lessons learned, but the color of their skin.
This Nation’s constitutional history
does not tolerate that choice.
John Roberts, syllabus in
Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v.
Harvard College and University of North Carolina
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Affirmative action
This supposed recognition that
universities can, in some situations,
consider race in application essays
is nothing but an attempt to
put lipstick on a pig.
Sonia Sotomayor, dissent in
Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v.
Harvard College and University of North Carolina
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Affirmative action
With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness,
today, the majority pulls the ripcord
and announces “colorblindness for all”
by legal fiat.
But deeming race irrelevant in law
does not make it so in life.
And having so detached itself from
this country’s actual past and present
experiences, the Court has now been lured
into interfering with the crucial work
that UNC and other institutions
of higher learning are doing to
solve America's real-world problems.
Katanji Brown Jackson, dissent in
Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v.
Harvard College and University of North Carolina
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American exceptionalism
Mass incarceration
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Bullshitters say
[Critical race theory] has
really become the default ideology
of the public education system.
Christopher F. Rufo
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Bullshitters say
Let me tell you right now,
critical race theory is bigoted,
it is a lie and it is every bit as racist
as the Klansmen in white sheets.
Ted Cruz
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By the numbers
In 1960,
when a survey asked American adults
whether it would “disturb” them
if their child married a member of
the other political party, no more than
5 percent of either party answered “yes.”
But in 2010, 33 percent of Democrats
and 40 percent of Republicans
answered “yes.”
In fact,
partyism,
as some call it,
now beats race as the source of
divisive prejudice.
Arlie Russell Hochschild,
Strangers in Their Own Land
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By the numbers
Research … shows that
in the 2012 elections the
residents of 75% minority zip codes
waited more than twice as long to vote
as the residents of 75% white zip codes.
There was almost no difference in
waiting time by average income level.
The zip codes with the longest lines
were minority zip codes,
not poor zip codes.
Salvatore Babones,
Sixteen for '16
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By the numbers
A study by the Pew Research Center
released Thursday found that
homeownership rates since the peak
in 2004 are down across the board.
But while the rate among white
households has fallen 5%,
it has fallen 16%
for African-American households.
¶
The rate among households
age 65 and up has fallen just 3%,
compared with 18%
for those younger than 35.
Wall Street Journal, December 16, 2016
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By the numbers
Voting, race and income
% of
% of
population
voters
Whites in families
27%
35%
making $75,000/more
Nonwhites in families
16%
11%
making $50,000/less
based on 2014 data from
Demos, “Automatic Voter Registration”
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Caste
Caste is the bones, race the skin.
Race is what we can see,
the physical traits that have been
given arbitrary meaning and become
shorthand for who a person is.
Caste is the powerful infrastructure
that holds each group in its place.
Isabel Wilkerson,
New York Times Magazine, July 5, 2020
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Christianity
Evangelism created a safe harbor
for white people who wanted
to be counted as Christian
without having to accept what
ecumenical leaders said were the
social obligations demanded by the gospel,
especially the imperative to extend
civil equaliiy to nonwhites.
David A. Hollinger,
Christianity’s American Fate:
How Religion Became More Conservative
and Society More Secular
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Criminal justice
There is also a growing body of evidence
showing racial disparities in sentencing.
In 2017, the U.S. Sentencing Commission
found that the average federal sentence
for black men was 19.1 perent longer
than for white men for the same crime,
even when criminal history and
other factors were held constant.
Adam Cohen,
Supreme Inequality
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Death
Mortality rates in recent years
have been increasing for all whites,
in contrast to decreases in
the rest of the world.
At the same time,
it is worth noting that
mortality rates for African Americans
remain higher than for whites.
Adverse economics is bad for health,
regardless of race.
Joseph Stiglitz,
People, Power and Profits
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Discrimination
The way to stop
discrimination on the basis of race
is to speak openly and candidly
on the subject of race, and to apply
the Constitution with eyes open to
the unfortunate effects of centuries
of racial discrimination.
As members of the judiciary tasked with
intervening to carry out the guarantee of
equal protection, we ought not sit back
and wish away, rather than confront, the
racial inequality that exists in our society.
Sonia Sotomayor,
dissent in Schuette v.
Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action
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Discrimination
The way to stop
discrimination on the basis of race
is to stop discriminating
on the basis of race.
John Roberts,
plurality decision in
Parents Involved in Community Schools
v. Seattle School District No. 1
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Fox News
Fox's great insight wasn't necessarily
that there was a great desire for
a conservative point of view.
The genius was seeing that
there's an attraction to fear-based,
anger-based politics that
has to do with class and race.
Blair Levin
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Freedom of expression
In the face of
the history of the human race
what can be more silly or ridiculous
than likes or dislikes founded upon
race or religion?
Does humanity want symphonies and
paintings and profound scientific truth,
or does it want Christian symphonies,
Christian paintings, Christian science, or
Jewish symphonies, Jewish paintings,
Jewish science, or Mohammedan
or Egyptian or German or Russian
or Commmunist or Conservative
contributions to and expressions of
the infinite richness of the human soul?
Abraham Flexner
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Gays
The sexual question comes after
the question of color; it's simply
one more aspect of the danger
in which all black people live.
I think white gay people feel cheated
because they were born, in principle,
into a society in which they
were supposed to be safe.
The anomaly of their sexuality
puts them in danger, unexpectedly.
James Baldwin
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Higher education
[W]hile higher education has become
more diverse by culture and ethnicity,
the income gap has grown to be
twice as large as the race gap. …
racial preferences have not changed
economic power structures in the US.
Indeed, they’ve arguably hardened them
by creating what might be called
a rainbow aristocracy.
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The system
is rigged against the less affluent.
Rana Foroohar,
Financial Times, July 17, 2023
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History
History speaks.
In some form, it can be heard forever.
The race-based gaps that
first developed centuries ago are echos
from the past that still exist today.
By all accounts, they are still stark.
Katanji Brown Jackson, dissent in
Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v.
Harvard College and University of North Carolina
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Housing
During the boom years,
IndyMac charged high interest rates
(defined by the government as more than
3 percentage points above prime)
to 24 percent of its white borrowers,
but 36 percent of Hispanics and
43 percent of African Americans.
Aaron Glantz,
Homewreckers: How a Gang of
Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates,
Crooked Banks and Vulture Capitalists
Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes
and Demolished the American Dream
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Hunger
Of the 25 counties with the highest
projected food-insecurity rates for 2020,
68 percent had majority Black, Latino, or
Native American populations — even though
only 12 percent of U.S. counties have
have a majority nonwhite population.
National Geographic, August 2021
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Kwiple dictionary
yanezthetize (yə nez thə tīz),
v.
To authorize a white dressed
in blue to kill a black.
Memorializes Jeronimo Yanez, the
St. Anthony, Minnesota, cop who
panicked during a traffic stop,
was live-streamed on Facebook
from inside Philando Castile's car
and caught on a police dashcam
video as he shot Castile seven
times, claimed he felt threatened
when Castile followed his orders,
lied about what he saw in court,
and was acquitted of all charges.
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Leadership roles
In total, there are
just four black chief executives
among the 500 largest companies
in the country.
New York Times, June 6, 2020
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Liars say
This has nothing to do with race.
Donald Trump,
on calling any NFL player who kneels
during singing of the national anthem
in protest of racial injustice in America
a “son of a bitch” who should be fired
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Millennials
The St Louis Fed estimates
as many as 16 per cent of US millennials
do not have the immediate means to
cover an emergency expense of $400.
For black millennials in particular,
that figure rises to 32 per cent.
Financial Times, July 9, 2020
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Partisanship
[T]he two parties are now divided
over race and religion—two deeply
polarizing issues that tend to generate
greater intolerance and hostility than
traditional policy issues such as
taxes and government spending.
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt,
How Democracies Die
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Political power
Whites have feared
the political power of people of color
more so than voters of color have
recognized their power.
Gilda R. Daniels,
Uncounted
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Profiles in courage
Republicans buy sneakers, too.
Michael Jordan,
acknowledged marketing maven,
refusing to endorse Harvey Gantt,
a black Democrat running against
Jesse Helms, the segregationist
Senator from North Carolina
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Public discourse
When it comes to critical race theory,
think of it like Rihanna's pregnancy.
Even if you think it has nothing to do
with you, believe me, you're going to
be hearing a lot about it this year.
John Oliver,
Last Week Tonight, February 20, 2022
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Punt returners say
Only when Christ comes again.
Billy Graham,
response when asked,
after King's "I Have a Dream" speech,
when he thought “little white children …
will walk hand in hand with little Black children”
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Race
After four years in the US, on both coasts,
the sharpest relief since coming home
[to Britain] has been the chance to have
sustained conversations that do not
in some way come back to identity.
This is the difference between
diversity and cosmopolitanism.
The first is a physical fact.
The second is an attitude towards it:
a sort of insouciance.
New York is diverse.
London, where people one generation
removed from Ireland or Italy won’t
think to mention it, is cosmopolitan.
Janan Ganesh,
Financial Times, September 9, 2022
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Race
After my election
there was talk of a post-racial America.
Such a vision, however well intended,
was never realistic.
Race remains a potent and
often divisive force in our society.
Barack Obama
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Race
But race is the child of racism,
not the father. …
Difference in hue and hair is old.
But the belief in the preeminence
of hue and hair, the notion that these
factors can correctly organize a society
and that they signify deeper attributes,
which are indelible—this is the new
idea at the heart of these new people
who have been brought up hopelessly,
tragically, deceitfully, to believe
that they are white.
Ta-Nehisi Coates,
Between the World and Me
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Race
I can't name a single issue
with roots in race that
doesn't have economic implications,
and I cannot think of a single
economic issue that
doesn't have racial implications.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Race
Imagine that
you are about to be born,
not knowing your race.
Where would you choose to make your life?
Where will give you a fair crack,
without boxing you in to round-the-clock
consciousness of matters of blood and soil?
Janan Ganesh,
Financial Times, September 9, 2022
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Race
A man become as rich as he wants to,
he is still a Negro.
Or a man may sink
as low as it is possible to sink
in terms of the mores of society,
but he will still be white.
Peter L. Berger,
An Invitation to Sociology
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Race
The Marines
don't have any race problems.
They treat everybody like they're black.
attributed to Daniel “Chappie” James Jr.,
America's first black four-star general
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Race
My old man's a white old man
And my old mother's black.
If ever I cursed my white old man
I take my curses back.
If ever I cursed my black old mother
And wished she were in hell,
I'm sorry for that evil wish
And now I wish her well.
My old man died in a fine big house.
My ma died in a shack.
I wonder where I'm gonna die,
Being neither white nor black?
“Cross” by Langston Hughes
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Race
Once riding in old Baltimore
Heart-filled, head-filled with glee,
I saw a Baltimorean
Kept looking straight at me.
Now I was eight and very small,
And he was no whit bigger,
And so I smiled, but he poked out
His tongue, and called me, ‘Nigger.’
I saw the whole of Baltimore
From May until December;
Of all the things that hapened there
That's all that I remember.
“Incident” by Countee Cullen
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Race
The root of
the white man's hatred is terror,
a bottomless and nameless terror,
which focuses on the black,
surfacing, and concentrating on
this dread figure, an entity which
lives only in his mind.
But the root of
the black man's hatred is rage, and
he does not so much hate white men
as simply wants them out of his way,
and, more than that,
out of his children's way.
James Baldwin,
The Devil Finds Work
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Race
The root of
the white man's hatred is terror,
a bottomless and nameless terror,
which focuses on the black,
surfacing, and concentrating on
this dread figure, an entity which
lives only in his mind.
But the root of
the black man's hatred is rage, and
he does not so much hate white men
as simply wants them out of his way,
and, more than that,
out of his children's way.
James Baldwin,
The Devil Finds Work
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Race
The time may have come
when the issue of race
could benefit from
a period of ‘benign neglect.’
Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
in a 1970 memo to President Nixon
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Race
What happens if you spend decades
focused on appealing to white voters
and treating nonwhite voters with,
at best, benign neglect?
You get good at doing what it takes
to appeal to white voters.
That is the truth that led to what is
famously called “the southern strategy.”
That is the path that leads you to
becoming what the Republican Party
now proudly embraces:
a white grievance party.
Stuart Stevens,
It Was All a Lie
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Race
“Where are you from?”
“London.”
“Well where were you born?”
“London.”
“Well, before then?”
“There was no before then!”
“Well, where are your parents from?”
“Barbados.”
“Oh, so you're from Barbados.”
“No, I'm from London.”
Gary Younge, a black Briton,
recounting a “typical conversation” in England,
in
Stranger in a Strange Land
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Race
Why does it take
an influx of white New Yorkers
in the south Bronx, in Harlem,
in Bed Stuy, in Crown Heights
for the facilities to get better?
The garbage wasn't picked up
every motherfuckin' day when I was
living in 165 Washington Park.
The police weren't around.
When you see white mothers pushing
their babies in strollers, three o'clock
in the morning on 125th Street,
that must tell you something.
Spike Lee
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Race and class
It is clear that the social location
of an individual as a Negro … implies
a far narrower channeling of existential
possibilities than happens by way of class.
Indeed, the individual's possibilities
of class mobility are most definitely
determined by his social location, since
some of the most stringent disabilities
of the latter are economic in character.
Thus a man's conduct, ideas and
psychological identity are shaped by race
in a manner far more decisive than
they commonly are by class.
Peter L. Berger,
An Invitation to Sociology
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Republican Party
The party of Lincoln has not always
carried the mantle of Lincoln.
George W. Bush,
at the NAACP 2000 national convention
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Republicans say
Blacks?
We don't need no blacks!
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Republicans say
Gerrymander to re-segregate
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Republicans say
We're white. They're not.
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Schools
The heavy reliance on
state and local funding means that
our country's nonwhite school districts
get about $23 billion less every year
than white school districts, even though
they serve the same number of children.
Elizabeth Warren,
Persist
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Selfie
All I care about is race.
Edward Blum
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Selfie
I have a great relationship
with the blacks.
Donald Trump
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Selfie
I've said on one occasion,
even about myself,
if I were starting off today, I would
love to be a well-educated black,
because I believe they do have
an actual advantage.
Donald Trump
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Sleepers at the wheel say
The blight of
racial discrimination in voting
has been halted
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Sleepers at the wheel say
“Great”
in “Make America Great Again”
doesn't mean “White”
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Snapshot
Trump truly is something new
– the first president whose entire
political existence hinges on the fact
of a black president.
And so it will not suffice to say that
Trump is a white man like all the others
who rose to become president.
He must be called by his rightful honorific
– America's first white president.
Donald Trump
portrayed by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Snuffed out
I can't breathe …
I can't breathe …
I can't breathe …
I can't breathe …
I can't breathe …
I can't breathe …
I can't breathe …
I can't breathe …
I can't breathe …
I can't breathe …
I can't breathe …
Eric Garner,
being choked to death
for selling loose cigarettes
by NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo
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Small business
A recent study from the National Bureau of
Economic Research found that black-owned
businesses in the US have been dispropor-
tionately impacted by lockdowns and changes
in consumer behaviour during the pandemic.
The overall number of active business owners
in the US fell 15 per cent between February
and May 2020, but African-American business
owners suffered a 26 per cent drop, while
those controlled by Latinx owners fell
19 per cent, according to the report.
After the 2008 financial crisis, fewer than
50 per cent of black-owned businesses sur-
vived compared to 60 percent for white-
owned businesses, according to a recent
study from the Brookings Institute …
Financial Times, August 27, 2020
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State of the union
c
Class-based segregation
transcends race-based segregation
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State of the union
The nation is moving toward
two societies, one white, one black
– separate and unequal.
The Kerner Report: The 1968 Report
of the NationalAdvisory Commisson
on Civil Disorders
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State of the union
Our nation is moving toward two societies,
one black, one white
— separate and unequal.
Kerner Commission report [1968]
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State of the union
c
White parents
don't have to have “the talk”
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Teachers
$59k
Average amount owed by teachers with
outstanding student loan debts
$100k
Minimum amount owed by
one in five Black teachers
The Nation, September 19/26, 2022
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Trumpism
… the most reliable predictor for
who was a Trump voter wasn't race
but the combination of race and education.
Among white people, 38 percent of college
graduates voted for Trump, compared
with 64 percent without college degrees.
This margin —the great gap between
Smart America and Real America —
was the decisive one. It made 2016
different from previous elections,
and the trend only intensified in 2020.
George Packer,
The Atlantic, July/August 2021
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Trumpists say
The goal is to have the public read
something crazy in the newspaper and
immediately think “critical race theory.”
We have decodified the term and will
recodify it to annex the entire range
of cultural constructions that are
unpopular with Americans.
Christopher F. Rufo,
3:17 PM – Mar 15, 2021
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Trumpists say
We have successfully frozen their brand
— “critical race theory” —
into the public conversation and are
steadily driving up negative perceptions.
We will eventually turn it toxic, as we
put all of the various cultural insanities
under that brand category.
Christopher F. Rufo,
3:14 PM – Mar 15, 2021
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Voter ID laws
Of the eleven states with the
highest black turnout in 2008,
seven adopted stricter voter ID laws,
and of the twelve states that
experienced the highest rates
of Hispanic population growth
between 2000 and 2010,
nine passed laws making it
harder to vote.
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt,
How Democracies Die
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Voting
The chance you will be allowed
to register to vote, to cast a vote,
and to have that vote counted
is directly proportional to
the melanin in the skin
of your ancestors.
Greg Palast,
Billionaires and Ballot Bandits
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Voting rights
If a single statute
represents the best of America,
it is the Voting Rights Act.
It marries two great ideals:
democracy and racial equality.
…
If a single statute
reminds of us of the worst of America,
it is the Voting Rights Act.
Because it was
— and remains — so necessary.
Elena Kagan, dissent in
Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee
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Wealth inequality
Economic disparities
are also growing by race.
In 1963, median family wealth
was $43,000 higher for whites
than for African Americans.
By 2013, it was $123,000 higher
(and $120,000 higher than for Hispanics,
for whom there isn't data from 1963).
Even in the few years since the
financial crash, wealth inequality
has grown along racial lines.
Ganesh Sitaraman,
The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution
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White privilege
Fish don't know they swim in water
saying
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Whites
Whites,
it must be frankly said,
are not putting in a similar
mass effort to re-educate themselves
out of their racial ignorance.
It is an aspect of their sense of superiority
that the white people of America believe
they have so littile to learn.
Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Where Do We Go From Here:
Chaos or Community?
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Women
NEGRESSES. Hotter than
white women.
Gustave Flaubert,
Dictionary of Accepted Ideas
Trans. by Jacques Barzun
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