Ketanji Brown Jackson: “As I understand your no race-conscious admissions rule,” a white legacy applicant and a Black applicant whose ancestors were enslaved “would have a dramatically different opportunity to tell their family story & to have them count”
When you’ve been mispronouncing a word wrong your whole life because your parents are immigrants & the college whites don’t relate to this & make you feel dumb until they’re in their mid 20s & then they want to hear your stories on public radio about being raised by immigrants.
Every time they do this, they think they are insulting me, but really are just revealing how much it bothers them to the point of obsession that this Black woman has done something that they never will and never can.
If you wonder why white people get so bent out of shape at me calling them "white" people you need look no further than McConnell calling white people "Americans" and otherizing everybody else.
America is not a racist country but if we teach our children about all the racist things this country has done they might think the country is racist is a helluva argument, I have to say.
A reminder to white teachers, as the verdict in the #ChauvinTrial looms: do NOT burden your Black students with your emotions, no matter what the outcome is.
“We’re not dealing with bad apples, we’re dealing with a rotten tree.”
Trevor addresses Daunte Wright, Caron Nazario, and the system that protects bad cops.
It is safer to be a white man who just killed multiple people than it is to be a Black person in a traffic stop and if that doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about how abundant, unflinching, and grounded racism is in this awful country, I don’t know what to tell you.
Point of action for white people looking to understand. Please listen to this incredibly important conversation with Kulap Vilaysack and Suchin Pak. #stopasianhate#addtocart https://t.co/5YjuTizQDb
Gaslighting is absolutely part of the functionality of white supremacy. Telling the oppressed that what they know is happening is not happening, it is part of the violence