This Week in Racism
Michigan Students’ Extracurriculars Include Mock Slave Auction of Classmates
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.
🗑 We can’t be racist — Obama was president!
This past weekend, on Fox News Sunday, host (and actual journalist) Chris Wallace asked South Carolina Republican Lindsay Graham a direct question: “Senator, is there systemic racism in this country in policing and in other institutions?” Seems pretty simple, right? Not judging from the audible swallow Graham gave as he prepared to spin the newest remix of the bullshit he spewed last…
