This Week in Racism
The Racism Is Bigger in Texas for Black Golfers
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.
🗑 Racist, gullible, and deceptive? GOP chapter hits the trifecta!
In yet another remix of “Local Republican Parties Posting Wild Shit on Facebook,” allow us to introduce you to Indiana’s Brown County GOP. Last week, the group posted a purported Baltimore Sun op-ed called “The Black Dilemma,” which asked the question, “Can a people taken from the jungles of Africa and forced into slavery be fully integrated as citizens in a majority White population?” (Part of…
