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As a white person, I was raised to be racially illiterate ... the Bundy Standoff versus Standing Rock. We are left without the analysis needed to engage with these deeply complex social dynamics.
Occasionally The Root will interrupt our coverage of black news, opinions, politics, and culture to openly address our white readership. In 2020, we’d like to finally have that oft-discussed ...
“White people can be exhausting. “It’s work to be the only person of color in an organization, bearing the weight of all your white co-workers’ questions about Blackness. “It’s work to ...
and you feel yourself about to say “I’m too White to Wobble” to the Black person standing next to you, take both of your hands, place them on your neck, and squeeze it until your oxygen ...
Although we often romanticize the bare marble of ancient sculpture today, most of these specimens were in fact painted in bright ... white statues? What does it say when the only people of ...
Such tactics, employed against one of the only mixed-race Black women scholars of early English literature, are intended to undermine her scholarly standing ... hypervisibility of people of color, ...
A reported influx of white protestors at Standing Rock has led to an unusual ... This is not a camping trip." "White people are colonizing the camps..." protestor Alicia Smith added on Facebook.