The killing of black man George Floyd by white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has produced the highest level of national unrest seen in the United States since the 1960s. Tens of thousands of protesters are...
08 June 2020
Already we’ve seen, as a result of people taking to the streets in the United States:
- Four policemen indicted.
- More racist monuments dismantled.
- Some minimal and inconsistent limit on what the New...
04 June 2020
Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till?
Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The first manifestation was, of course, slavery, which was eliminated via the Civil War. The second...
27 May 2020
This is so much bigger than personal accountability.
Yes, the four police officers present at the ...
21 May 2020
On May 15, thousands of Palestinians in Occupied Palestine and throughout the ‘shatat’, or diaspora, participated in the commemoration of Nakba Day, the one event that unites all Palestinians, regardless of their...
14 May 2020
How deep does American racism go?
And is it possible to uproot it?
Or will it simply — endlessly — shift shape, wrap itself in the political correctness of the day and morph, say, from slavery to Jim Crow, from Jim Crow to...
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