This Week in Racism

One Thing That’s Not Fake About Pro Wrestling: The Racism

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

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4 min readMar 30, 2021

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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.

🗑 WWE puts its own racist history in a sleeper hold, gets slammed for it

In the ever-expanding sea of streaming platforms, NBCUniversal’s Peacock has managed to amass a decent library of exclusives. It’s now the only place you can find The Office, as well as [checks notes] Two and a Half Men and the Matrix

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