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Racial and Cultural

From ‘Where are you from’ to ‘Go back where you came from’

August 11, 2019 by Shay

White America has always been very good about telling people they don’t belong, since before there was even a United States of America. Let’s face it: This country started with colonists and then expansionists telling the Indigenous People who had been here for millennia forming societies and mastering agriculture and art and more that they …

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Categories Racial and Cultural 4 Comments

Being made “not to belong”

July 29, 2019 by Moises Nunez

A couple of years ago, one Saturday night I was called—as I often was—by the security company that monitors my former school. As an administrator, specifically an administrator that lives less than five minutes away, I was the one they called when the alarm went off. It was never anything serious but I responded every …

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Categories Racial and Cultural, White folks 2 Comments

The Ouroboros that is racial (and religious) dog whistles

July 21, 2019 by Samuel James

Do you wonder why Obama hasn’t endorsed Biden yet? Before I answer that, lemme lay some groundwork… As you probably remember, most of the racist attacks against President Obama weren’t directly attacks on his skin color. Racists are too milquetoast to do that. A good portion of that racism was aimed at Obama’s supposed religion, …

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