In a weekend of attacks on Rep. Elijah Cummings, the president flipped growing racism accusations against himself onto the Maryland congressman.
Casting racism as a moral failure has had the bizarre consequence of confounding the issue for many Americans. Can anything be called racist without controversy?
"It’s easy to point at a skinhead and call him a racist. It’s harder to realize that you’re one too"
To call someone a racist is a serious charge. A racist is someone who believes that one person is superior (or inferior) to another person simply based on their skin color. It's a belief that is both foolish and stupid. But conservatives are accused by progressives of being racist on an almost daily basis. Is it a fair accusation? Or, is it just political posturing? And, if it is political posturing, what does it say about the people making the charge? Derryck Green…
Increasingly, the expression of facts – not just opinions – that offend elite sensibilities are being weaponized against us.
In this age of normalized nationalism, it’s time that popular publications definitively add another word to their stylebooks: racist.
It is unbelievable that the Chronicle would publish an article from a guest columnist who says we are white supremacist if we don't want sanctuary cities. Give me a break!
Some people hear that word and picture a hood-wearing, cross-burning bigot. Others think more abstractly -- they hear racist and think of policies, institutions, laws and language.
When you first hear “emojis can be racist,” it might sound like the kind of reductive hyperbole of progressive discourse that you’d find on Hannity as he tries to make a big deal …
But because we can publish something, doesn't mean that we should – or that we will.
Anti-racist positions are good, but we need an anti-racist imagination.
States are passing laws to remove the word “marijuana” from records.
Calling these people anything less than vile racists is morally reprehensible and intellectually fraudulent.
When we set boundaries with our racist relatives, we create personal, zero-tolerance zones where we are no longer complicit in our relatives’ racism.
Step one: put in the work — and not just on social media.