Posts Tagged ‘ racism ’

The Philip Guston Show Should Be Reinstated – The New York Times

The Wages of Whiteness | by Hari Kunzru | The New York Review of Books

Black Panthers, Chicago, 1969  Hiroji Kubota/Magnum Photos

“White privilege” is a protean concept that has found its way into conversations about political power, material prosperity, social status, and even cognition.

Source: The Wages of Whiteness | by Hari Kunzru | The New York Review of Books

America’s Enduring Caste System – The New York Times

hat tip to Sarah

Kamala Harris Is Done Explaining Racism – The New York Times

NOAM CHOMSKY : “Trump’s ideology consists of two letters : me” – YouTube

America’s Racial Contract Is Showing – The Atlantic

The pandemic has exposed the bitter terms of our racial contract, which deems certain lives of greater value than others.

Source: America’s Racial Contract Is Showing – The Atlantic

Simone de Beauvoir: 1975 Interview (English Subs) – YouTube

Root Out Corruption (Warren for President Campaign Ad) – YouTube

Michelle Obama: ‘I can’t make people not afraid of black people’ | TheHill

Michelle Obama says she “can’t make people not afraid of black people,” but can “pick away at the scabs of discrimination” through her life’s work.

Source: Michelle Obama: ‘I can’t make people not afraid of black people’ | TheHill

Noam Chomsky: To Make the US a Democracy, the Constitution Itself Must Change

While progressive in many ways by the standards of the day, the U.S. was founded on two brutal racist principles: the most hideous system of slavery in human history, the source of much of its wealth (and England’s too), and the need to rid the national territory of Native Americans, whom the Declaration of Independence explicitly describes as “the merciless Indian savages,” and whom the framers saw as barring the expansion of the “superior” race.

Immigrants … were supposed to be white immigrants — in fact, basically “Anglo-Saxon,” in accord with weird racist myths of the founding fathers that persisted through the 19th century.

Source: Noam Chomsky: To Make the US a Democracy, the Constitution Itself Must Change