This Week in Racism

We’ll Take ‘Things a Racist Cop Would Say’ for $1000

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

Update 6/7/22: Level has a new home. You can read this article and other new articles by visiting LEVELMAN.com.

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’re pleased to introduce our 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.

🗑 In stunning development, police department plans to fire racist officer

Earlier this month, Daniel Haupt, a police officer in Albany, New York, got into a chat with a sheriff’s deputy at a gas station. The deputy’s body camera turned on accidentally, but the timing couldn’t have been better…