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Beware A World of Marble Trumps: On Campaigns to Remove Statues

Iconoclasm is back. In the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests, progressive activists have pivoted from a narrative that most could unite around—police brutality is wrong and, in the…

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17 min

Politics

Three Common Fallacies in Arguments About Systemic Racism

Many people, including myself, are highly skeptical of the modern systemic racism narrative: the idea that black people, and other minority groups are systemically oppressed in the United States, via…

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8 min

Intersectionality: An Excerpt from “Cynical Theories”

I never again want anyone to say theorizing doesn’t lead to change. Black feminist theory and intersectionality informed the creation of black lives matter. We’d never be this close to…

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9 min

Politics

Diversity Drop-Out

Austin, Texas prides itself on being a very progressive, liberal city. One of the mayor’s crowning achievements has been putting together a taskforce on Institutional Racism and Systemic Inequities. As…

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7 min

Politics

What DARE and Diversity Training Programs Have in Common

If you were a high school student in the mid-1990s, as I was, your school may have been visited by representatives of DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education), the educational program…

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9 min

Politics

The Evolution Of Heterodox Black Thought

The Racial Impasse Over the past few years, the conversation around race in America has hit a brick wall. While racial disparities have persisted between black Americans and other groups,…

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6 min

Politics

The Canonization of a School Shooter

Image by Eugene Police Department On 11 January 2019, two police officers responded to a custody dispute at Cascade Middle School in Eugene, Oregon. Charlie Landeros, a thirty-year-old Army veteran,…

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Anti-Racism

Beware A World of Marble Trumps: On Campaigns to Remove Statues

Three Common Fallacies in Arguments About Systemic Racism

Intersectionality: An Excerpt from “Cynical Theories”

Diversity Drop-Out

What DARE and Diversity Training Programs Have in Common

The Evolution Of Heterodox Black Thought

The Canonization of a School Shooter

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