racism

By John A. Tures | – Mississippi is home to the highest percentage of African Americans of any state in the country. And yet, Mississippi hasn’t elected an African American candidate to statewide office since 1890. That’s 129 years. John Stuart Mill wrote about “the tyranny of the majority” – the idea that an electoral […]

racism

How can Society deter Rogue Police who Shoot unarmed Black People?

Yes! Magazine

By Zenobia Jeffries Warfield | – (Yes! Magazine) – Since the police killings of Botham Jean in Dallas and Emantic “E.J.” Bradford in Birmingham, Alabama, two months apart last fall, ongoing news coverage of unarmed Black people killed by police has mostly waned. The street protests ended more than a year ago, but the horrific, […]

racism

Why Brown Terrorists are ‘Terrorists’ and White Terrorists are just ‘Mentally Ill’

Foreign Policy in Focus

By Maha Hilal | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – Whether authorities classify an act as “terrorist” depends almost entirely on who carries it out, not what they did. Terrorist attacks by white supremacists have been on the rise. But federal law enforcement agencies aren’t simply failing to respond. In many cases, they’re failing […]

film

How the New ‘Aladdin’ stacks up against a Century of Orientalist Hollywood Stereotyping

The Conversation

By Evelyn Alsultany |- Though critically acclaimed and widely beloved, the 1992 animated “Aladdin” feature had some serious issues with stereotyping. In the live-action ‘Aladdin,’ Mena Massoud stars Aladdin, while Will Smith plays the Genie. Daniel Smith/Walt Disney Pictures Disney wanted to avoid repeating these same problems in the live action version of “Aladdin,” which […]

Poverty

Race and Inequality: Black college graduate Families have 33 percent less wealth than White High School Dropouts

Inequality.org

By Josh Hoxie | – ( Inequality.org) – It’s not individual behavior that drives the racial wealth divide — it’s a system that many folks pretend doesn’t exist. I don’t get that much hate mail — except when I write about race. This spring I coauthored a report called “Ten Solutions to Bridge the Racial […]

journalism

Rupert Murdoch Provocateur Tucker Carlson Exposed in Bubba the Love Sponge Interview (TYT Video)

Juan Cole

Media Matters for America has released an interview Tucker Carlson

Featured

Racism v. Racist: Why Brenda Lawrence and Rashida Tlaib are Right

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As I noted yesterday, in Michael Cohen’s opening statement during his public testimony to the House Oversight and Reform Committee, he alleged that Donald Trump is a racist, saying: ‘ He once asked me if I could name a country run by a black person that wasn’t a “shithole . […]

Donald Trump

Trump Can’t escape having called Nazis “Very Fine People” by SOTU Spectacle

Juan Cole

So this is the story of how Donald Trump tried to use misdirection at his State of the Union address to take the spotlight off his Neonazi tendencies, which underlie his hatred of African-Americans (against whom he was found to discriminate as a landlord), of Mexicans, of Muslims, and other peoples not coded as “white” […]

Featured

America’s 7 Racist Exclusions: From Muslim Visa Ban to 1930s Exclusion of Jews

Juan Cole

Revised.- ed. Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The two-year anniversary of Trump’s Muslim visa ban and Holocaust Remembrance Day have arrived more or less together, and it is worthwhile reviewing how they reveal an ugly side to America. US history is replete with racism as public policy. It has been more often our history than […]