(Vox) Why do many working-class white Americans support politicians whose policies are literally killing them? This is the question sociologist and psychiatrist Jonathan Metzl tries to answer in his new book, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland. The book is a serious look at how cultural attitudes associated … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy #121: How the politics of racial resentment is killing white people

Bill Ong Hing, Salon: President Trump has taken advantage of the COVID-19 crisis to finally achieve his goal of foreclosing asylum for migrants fleeing violence in Central America and Mexico." https://bit.ly/2z7URkN THE GOOD NEWS FIRST: Court Orders Every Effort Be Made to Promptly and Safely Release Immigrant Children - National Center for Youth Law https://bit.ly/2XOcmkaSen. … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy #120: ‘Trump has effectively abolished asylum thanks to COVID-19’

Colorlines - Black and Brown people in large cities are being hit hard by the COVID-19 crisis—WBEZ in Chicago confirmed that as of March 4, 70 percent of Cook County’s deaths were Black; in cities like New Orleans, Detroit and Milwaukee, Black people are dying at astronomical rates—and Los Angeles’ public health director Barbara Ferrer … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy #119: California’s health directors say they have zero data on POC who are infected with or dying from COVID-19

Yahoo News - White supremacists discussed plans to weaponize coronavirus via “saliva,” a “spray bottle” or “laced items,” according to a weekly intelligence brief distributed by a federal law enforcement division on Feb. 17. https://yhoo.it/2ygLYVL THE GOOD NEWS FIRST: Janai Nelson on Twitter: "Today, March 20, 2020, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund turns 80 years … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy, Week #118: White supremacists discussed using coronavirus as a bioweapon