#overtracism

Jun 28, 2019
5 min

This Week’s 5: No Quarter for the Confederacy

Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt Have I mentioned that I despise the “kids will be kids” excuse for acts of racism committed by young people, especially against other young people?

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Jun 21, 2019
4 min

This Week’s 5: Why is Gerrymandering Still a Thing?

Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt Believe it or not, this gets tiring. We know white supremacist terrorism is on the rise. Experts continue to report that they’ve been responsible fo

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Jun 14, 2019
5 min

This Week’s 5: “But I Have a Black Partner” and Other Poor Excuses for Racism

Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt This may come as a surprise to some (*cough* white people *cough*), but the NYPD doesn’t have a good reputation when it comes to racism. 22 -year-ol

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Jun 7, 2019
5 min

This Week’s 5: Arbitrarily Contentious

Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt Zachariah Manahan of Minnesota is the latest white supremacist to find his face on America’s Summer Jam screen. Manahan was charged with felony stal

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May 31, 2019
4 min

This Week’s 5: Laughing at Racists, Very Publicly

Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt Apparently I’m a dreamer, but I yearn for a world where we have consistency in how we handle terrorism. Right now, it’s pretty clear that we’ll spar

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May 25, 2019
4 min

This Week’s 5: C.C.R.E.A.M. (Caucasian Comfort Rules Everything Around Me)

Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt It should come as no surprise that not all active participants in the Trump Administration’s terror campaign against immigrants are subtle about the

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May 17, 2019
5 min

This Week's 5: White Fear, Loathing, and Anti-Abortion Laws

Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt White supremacy is a hell of a drug. How else can one explain the collective panic attack and paralysis that arises every time this country is chall

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May 10, 2019
5 min

This Week’s 5: The 53 Percent Strike Back… With Measles

Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt For those unfamiliar with history, white supremacy rarely arrives naked. Proponents often cloak their bigotry in supposedly “colorblind” ideology. W

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May 3, 2019
5 min

This Week's 5: 2044

Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt White supremacists project. Perhaps you’ve heard me say those words before. In case number why-even-bother-to-count, white supremacist terrorist Joh

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Apr 26, 2019
4 min

This Week’s 5: Twitter’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Excuse for Protecting White Supremaci

Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt White supremacists are masters of projection. They often justify their bigotry by fear mongering about people of color. When it comes to immigration

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