This Week in Racism

Black Cadets Receive ‘Special’ Treatment at Virginia Military Institute

It’s an embarrassment of riches in our weekly roundup of the world’s most preventable disease!

Death and taxes used to be the only two certainties in life. But no matter how much progress it feels like we’re making sometimes, the sad fact is you can probably slide racism into that list. Are we in a moment of uprising that feels like it has the potential to create real, systemic change? Yes. Do people and organizations still show their ass on a daily basis? Oh, most definitely. And to keep tabs on all that ass-showing, we created a weekly racism surveillance machine. If you already get our newsletter, Minority Report, you’ve likely seen this — but now the rest of the internet can get a taste.

🗑 News flash: Military institutes not the post-racial utopia you never imagined they were

Back in October, the Washington Post published an incendiary feature about unchecked racism at Virginia Military Institute: professors reminiscing about the Klan, Black cadets being threatened with lynchings, administrators dressing up as Trump’s border wall for Halloween. In the wake of that story, VMI’s…