racism

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  August 4, 2019
  

  Why Donald Trump is just following in Ronald Reagan’s footsteps on race

  by Kyle Longley

  He might be more unvarnished, but Reagan was just as racist.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  August 4, 2019
  

  The Right Way to Understand White Nationalist Terrorism

  by Kathleen Belew

  Attacks like that in El Paso are not an end in themselves. They are a call to arms, toward something much more frightening.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  August 5, 2019
  

  The Most Dangerous American Idea

  No belief in the history of the United States has been more threatening to democracy than the certainty that only white people are fit for self-government.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/6/2019
  

  Ibram X. Kendi Has a Cure for America’s ‘Metastatic Racism’

  In 2016, he was a surprise National Book Award winner for a sweeping history of ever-mutating American racism. Now, he’s back with a new book that outlines how to fight it.

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• 8/6/19
  

  Please stop saying the past is in the past. It isn’t.

  by Perry Greene

  Nike dropped its Air Max USA 1 shoe after former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick worried that the “Betsy Ross” flag design harkens back to an era of black slavery and has been used by white nationalist groups. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/31/19
  

  Historian Tim Naftali Discusses Recording Of Reagan's Racist Comments Made To Nixon

  NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with historian Tim Naftali about his article in The Atlantic describing a tape President Nixon had of then-Gov. Ronald Reagan making racist remarks.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  7/31/19
  

  Don't just revile Amy Wax--rebut her

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Outrage does not and cannot refute what she said -- only facts can do that.

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• SOURCE: City Lab
  7/29/19
  

  What 'Infests' Baltimore? The Segregation History Buried in Trump's Tweets

  by Paige Glotzer

  In slamming Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings’s 7th District as “rodent infested,” Trump borrows from the rhetoric that first segregated the city.  

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  7/29/19
  

  Due to Repeated Vandalism, Emmett Till Memorial to Be Replaced With Bulletproof Sign

  by Brigit Katz

  Most recently, three University of Mississippi students were suspended from their fraternity after posing in front of the sign with guns.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/30/19
  

  Historian Tim Naftali Unearths Audio of Ronald Reagan's Racist Conversation with Nixon

  by Tim Naftali

  In newly unearthed audio, the then–California governor disparaged African delegates to the United Nations.

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• 7/28/19
  

  Racism in America: What We Can Learn from Germany’s Struggle with Its Own Evil History

  by James Thornton Harris

  If slavery is the "interstate highway system of the American past," it has yet to appear on the cultural road map of most Americans. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/19/19
  

  The long, ugly history of insisting minority groups can’t criticize America

  by Tyler Anbinder

  Trump’s attack against four Democratic members of Congress fits a pattern in U.S. politics.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  7/20/19
  

  Trump revives the idea of a ‘white man’s country’, America’s original sin

  by Nell Painter

  It can’t be left to black Americans alone to resist the president’s racism. Citizens of all colours need to resist, and embrace activism.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  7/23/19
  

  Hundreds of black Americans were killed during 'Red Summer.' A century later, still ignored

  It was branded "Red Summer" because of the bloodshed and amounted to some of the worst white-on-black violence in U.S. history.

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• 7/21/19
  

  From the Founding Fathers to Trump: Who Can Be an American?

  by Donald J. Fraser

  Correctly charged as a racist statement, Trump's recent tweets also reflect an age-old question in our history: who can be an American?

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• 7/21/19
  

  Do We Want the America of Frederick Douglass or Donald Trump?

  by Walter G. Moss

  Which kind of America do we want? A “composite nation” that takes pride in its ethnic and religious diversity and sets an example for other countries who are fearful of immigrants? Or an America afraid of immigrants, especially if not lily white, Christian ones, as Trump and many of his followers desire?

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/18/19
  

  What Americans Do Now Will Define Us Forever

  by Adam Serwer

  "I want to be very clear about what the country saw last night, as an American president incited a chant of “Send her back!” aimed at a Somali-born member of Congress: America has not been here before."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  Accessed 7/18/19
  

  Historian Drew Gilpin Faust Pens Personal and Historical Essay: "Race, History, and Memories of a Virginia Girlhood"

  by Drew Gilpin Faust

  She looks back at the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow in her home state.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/15/19
  

  Trump’s America Is a ‘White Man’s Country’

  by Jamelle Bouie

  His racist idea of citizenship is an old one, brought back from the margins of American politics.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/15/19
  

  Tennessee just showed that white supremacy is alive and well

  by Keisha N. Blain

  Honoring a former Confederate general and KKK grand wizard in 2019 is outrageous.