Truthout
Racism
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Poverty: The Racist Reality Behind Budget Rhetoric
Racial stereotypes and the ‘politics of respectability’ have politicized and deeply undermined the very concept of society's collective responsibility to care for the less fortunate.
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Lil Wayne’s Lyrical Fascism
Lil Wayne fashioned lyrics that sound as if they were written by the racists who killed Emmitt Till.
A Forest of Poisonous Trees: The US Criminal (In)Justice System
The US criminal justice system has transformed into a tool of the national security state.
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Idle No More, The Black Experience, and Why It is that What We Say About Others Reveals So Much About Ourselves
New equality movement is challenging the flow of power when it comes to human rights.
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Rosa Parks Syndrome in Palestine
Liberals who generally support Israel, have seized on bus segregation because it packages occupation in digestible terms.
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The Failure of Multiculturalism and the Necessity of Democracy
Social practices that best deliver multiculturalism are those that at the same time may be regarded as enactments of democratic enfranchisement, the very thing that should inform the heart …
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Remanding Migrants “To the End of the Line“
Roberto C. Rodriguez: Our mindset about immigration needs to change radically before this country will see justice in immigration policy.
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God, Guns and the Sandy Hook Truthers: Vicious Backlash Politics
The way of life gun extremists purport to protect is on its last legs. They know it and it's making them crazy.
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When Traffic Stops Go Bad – How Cops Demean Black and Brown Men
Routine traffic stops can be a nightmare for minorities who fall victim to the humiliation of local police harassment.
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A Writer’s Confession to a Late Uncle Who Lives On in His Characters
My recreating characters based on my late uncle, whose drug problem addled our whole family, doesn't make me despicable; it makes me an American writer.