This Week in Racism

Conservative Pundit Greg Kelly’s Racist Military Joke Bombs

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.

🗑 Please, won’t somebody think of the Civil War’s “White refugees”?

If you’ve seen those SPCA ads with shelter dogs looking straight-up forlorn as a Sarah McLachlan White-people anthem plays, you know how easy it is to play on people’s sympathies. (Just don’t let us see you shoot no dog!) You know who else knows that? The Historic Latta Plantation in North Carolina. In an event originally scheduled for this coming Saturday, the plantation museum wrote this — and we’re just gonna quote the whole thing directly because it’s too good (read: nightmarish) not to: