The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy: Week 13

The Black NFL coach can be a clean-up man, but he won’t be recycled. Trump’s first year in office revived an age-old debate about why some people choose race over class—and how far they will go to protect the system. Kerrice Lewis, Black lesbian woman shot and burned alive in Washington, D.C. Trump administration says … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy: Week 12

Trump's pick to run 2020 Census has defended racial gerrymandering and voter suppression laws. GOP lawmakers surprised to learn no black soldiers served under Confederacy in South Carolina. Men charged with murdering black man because he 'socialized with a white woman.' How the news media distorts black families. The past year of research has made … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy: Week 11

As you will soon see, I was almost forced to rename this column, Today in White Supremacy. Here goes. This is the last column for 2017. I hope that Santa brings the white supremacists new hearts and souls and that this is the last column I ever need to write. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!! FBI officials feared … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy: Week 10

So much crazy stuff has happened in one day that I could not wait until next week. Kevin Durant says Colin Kaepernick's protests changed his perspective on race. The legal profession is diversifying. But not at the top. Donald Trump’s long history of clashes with Native Americans. Women of color have high ambition, but little … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy: Week 9.5

This incredibly insightful article from the Atlantic might explain why there are so many items for me to report week after week after week after week.  It’s long but well worth your time. The Nationalist’s Delusion One hundred thirty-nine years since Reconstruction, and half a century since the tail end of the civil-rights movement, a … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy: Week 9

The first item on this list was so appalling that I had to add it. Trump gleefully predicts death of two women on Supreme Court. Trump nominee Brett Talley appears to have defended the first KKK. Facebook (still) letting housing advertisers exclude users by race. Trump nominates mostly white men to federal bench. White man … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy (and Misogyny): Week 8

Three quarters of whites don’t have any non-white friends. The health crisis of Latinas and Black women. A Black working class man would have to call 80 therapists to get an appointment.  A middle class white woman, only 5. What is wrong with this picture? Meet the moguls-in-the-making as THR unveils its 24th annual list … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy: Week 7