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How do American leftists and progressives understand the issue of race [1] and racism? While economic analysis, social class, and the role of the police, that is, the American capitalist system, explains much, they do not explain everything. Race and racism play a power role. Racial (...)
“With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces ‘colorblindness for all’ by legal fiat. But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in her dissenting opinion in Students for Fair Admissions v. (...)
So much for the “color blind” society proclaimed by the Supreme Court in its ruling June 30 to outlaw affirmative action policies at public universities. The same day, but under the radar of the mainstream news media and public, the unelected body with lifetime terms made its full objective (...)
Black police officers can have bias against Black people – and act on it.
Once again, Americans are left reeling from the horror of video footage showing police brutalizing an unarmed Black man who later died.
Some details in the latest case of extreme police violence were gut-wrenchingly (...)
Review of His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice By Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa Viking, May 2022, 428 pages.
I PARTICIPATED IN the popular uprising for racial justice after George Floyd was murdered by a white Minneapolis cop on May 25, 2020. I (...)
Racist remarks by three member of the Los Angeles City Council and the head of the Los Angeles Federation of Labor—all Democrats—sent shock waves across the country and led to demands that the council members resign. Even President Biden, then about to make a campaign trip to California to (...)
Review of Elite Capture. How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else) by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò. Haymarket, 2022
An oft-cited survey conducted by Monmouth University in the summer of 2020 cataloged substantial support for the Black Lives Matter Movement. At the time the (...)
He was inspired by the racially-motivated massacre in New Zealand by right wing terrorist Brenton Tarrant in 2019 and white supremacists in the United States.
Federal officials said they are investigating the case as a racially-motivated hate crime.
Black people have known white terror for (...)
Following a deadlock on the Judiciary Committee, the United States Senate confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the 116th justice of the Supreme Court on April 7. Jackson will become the first Black woman to serve on the court since it was established 233 years ago.
The vote was 53 to 47, (...)
California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) filed a lawsuit against Tesla Inc on February 9, accusing the company of entrenched racism in its Californian factory.
The DFEH’s lawsuit is a powerful indictment of racism at Tesla. Filed on behalf of more than 4000 former and (...)
Winning her second gold medal on February 18, 18-year-old Chinese-American Olympian Eileen Gu (also known by her Chinese name Gu Ailing) is the first “action-sports” athlete to win three medals at the same Olympics.
“My name is Eileen Gu,” she told journalists, “and I’m the best half-pipe (...)
Three recent trials involving murderous white nationalists were occurring at the same time in the United States.
One was the Wisconsin trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, who brought an automatic rifle to a Black Lives Matter protest of a police shooting of an African American that left him a (...)
It was expected. The judge was clearly on the side of teenager Kyle Rittenhouse, the white vigilante from Illinois.
Kyle Rittenhouse shot his victims while they protested for justice for Jacob Blake, who was paralysed from the waist down by a police shooting. Image: Wikimedia Commons
The (...)
Demonstrators in the US must fear not only police brutality but also rightwing vigilantes.
Kyle Rittenhouse – the armed white teenager whose mother drove him from Illinois to Wisconsin to allegedly “protect” local businesses from anti-racism protesters in Kenosha, whereupon he shot and (...)
November 2 gubernatorial race in Virginia : « It is clear that the current Democratic Party is not the answer to the racist and authoritarian Trump-controlled Republicans. »
One of the most closely watched elections on November 2 was the gubernatorial race in Virginia.
President Biden had (...)
The movement against anti-Asian violence must not become yet another bargaining chip between two repressive super powers.
Last month’s murders of Asian women massage workers in Atlanta marked another devastating milestone in a recent wave of anti-Asian violence fueled by pandemic racism and (...)
Anti-Asian racism is on the rise around the world. The Pulitzer-winning author reflects on his own experiences as a Vietnamese American – and the dark history that continues to fuel the current hate.
On 16 March eight people were killed in Atlanta, Georgia, by a 21-year-old white man: all (...)
Twenty-one-year-old white man, Robert Aaron Long, bought a handgun on March 16, and went on a murder spree in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia.
Long killed eight people, including six Asian women, at three massage parlours. Their ages ranged from 33 to 74.
The next day, white county sheriff (...)
IT TURNS OUT that the city of lights and city of jazz have a lot in common. The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and militant explosions in the suburbs of Paris expose the underbelly of racism and class divisions.
The August 29 hurricane showed the world that the Bush administration’s (...)
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