This Week in Racism

White Supremacist Recruiters Can’t Resist a Place Called Whitestown

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

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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.

🗑 In a stunning twist, the place called “Whitestown” isn’t the problem

We’ve heard the story more and more in recent months: Residents of this or that smallish town wake up to find that a hate group has left recruitment flyers in their mailboxes. Well, it happened again last week, this time…