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Apr 19, 2019
4 min

This Week’s 5: “Debate Me, Bro” Culture is Privilege Personified

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 There’s not much a white supremacist can say to shock me at this point. That said, one came pretty close when Brandon Lecroy of South Carolina was s

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Apr 12, 2019
1 min

AUDIO: RTR Co-Founder Willie Poinsette on OPB's Think Out Loud

On Apr. 10, Respond to Racism co-founder Willie Poinsette appeared on OPB's Think Out Loud with Dave Miller. During the interview, Poinsette discussed the changes she's seen in Lake Oswego over the course of her 32 years living in town, the events that led to the creation of RTR, and what inspired her to put the town on notice during her Community Leader of the Year Award speech to the LO Chamber of Commerce. Listen to the full audio below: #respondtoracism #lakeoswego #willi

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Apr 12, 2019
4 min

This Week’s 5: Be Like the Third World Liberation Front, Not Reebok

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 Perhaps you’ve heard me say this once or 30 times before, but white supremacists don’t do subtlety well. A congressional hearing on white nationalis

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Apr 5, 2019
5 min

This Week’s 5: When White Supremacists Come for Your Family History

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 Recently, numerous archives at the Highlander Research and Education Center in Tennessee were destroyed in a fire. On Tuesday, officials with the ce

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Mar 29, 2019
5 min

This Week’s 5: Killing Us Softly With Stress

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 week, Facebook decided to go through with something it should’ve done years ago. Starting next week, it will ban white supremacist content and

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Mar 22, 2019
4 min

This Week’s 5: Because White Supremacists Love Attention...

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 If there’s any upside to the rise of white supremacist terrorism, it’s the revelation that many of these terrorists are really bad at their jobs. Co

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Mar 20, 2019
1 min

VIDEO: LOHS Alum Talks Growing Up Mixed Race, Problematic Japanese History Lessons, Passing, and Mor

Late last year, I had the pleasure of speaking with fellow Lake Oswego High School Class of 2007 alum Anna Nakano-Baker. While reflecting on her time in LO, she discussed struggling with her identity as a mixed race person despite often being treated as if she was white; staying grounded thanks to family, friends and literature; and how many of her peers no longer like claiming LO as adults; among other enlightening insights. During the interview, the multi-talented Mya Gordo

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Mar 15, 2019
5 min

This Week’s 5: Aunt Becky and the White Mediocrity Heard Around the World

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 In the first draft of this section, I was going to talk about ICE agents who posted smears on social media about Representative Ilhan Omar taking “t

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Mar 8, 2019
4 min

This Week’s 5: What You’re Not Going to Do is Erase Palestinians

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 I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I don’t feel a bit of sympathy for kids who decide to record themselves being virulent racists and then h

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Mar 1, 2019
4 min

This Week's 5: Mark Meadows and the Audacity of Bare Minimums

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 Here’s a general rule of thumb. If your real self tends to come out when you drink and that real self is really racist, maybe don’t go to the bar wi

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