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Nov 16, 2019
5 min

This Week’s 5: Hostile Workplace

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 When I started This Week’s 5, I imagined the overt racism section would be the weekly racial slur report. However, white supremacist terrorists have

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This Week’s 5: White Supremacists Just Won’t Leave the Emmett Till Memorial Alone

Bruce Poinsette

Nov 8, 2019
4 min

This Week’s 5: White Supremacists Just Won’t Leave the Emmett Till Memorial Alone

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 you want to know how committed white supremacists are, look no further than the Emmett Till Memorial. Vandalized, destroyed, and rebuilt over and

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ANNOUNCEMENT: This Week's 5 is Taking a Break in October

Bruce Poinsette

Sep 30, 2019
1 min

ANNOUNCEMENT: This Week's 5 is Taking a Break in October

This Week's 5 will be taking a break for the month of October. To everyone who has been reading, commenting, and sharing, thank you. The column will be back in November, strong as ever. In the meantime, while This Week's 5 serves as a weekly recap of specifically curated stories on racism, it also functions as a resource that readers can always revisit. During this mini-sabbatical, please feel free to check out past editions of This Week's 5 in our Opinion archive. #thisweeks

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This Week’s 5: Harvard’s Affirmative Action for White People by the Numbers

Bruce Poinsette

Sep 27, 2019
5 min

This Week’s 5: Harvard’s Affirmative Action for White People by the Numbers

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 story that should make your blood boil. A group of six grade boys recently assaulted a Black girl at a Virginia private school by holding

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This Week’s 5: Please Stop with the Black People Field Trip Stories

Bruce Poinsette

Sep 20, 2019
5 min

This Week’s 5: Please Stop with the Black People Field Trip Stories

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 are a lot of thoughts that come to mind when I read the headline, “Texas Teacher Who Asked Trump to Deport ‘Illegal Students’ at Her School Ge

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Bruce Poinsette

Sep 13, 2019
5 min

This Week’s 5: Grow Up

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 Anyone else getting tired of the painstaking effort law enforcement seems to keep taking to make sure they are absolutely sure before they acknowled

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This Week’s 5: More Human Rights Violations, More Foot-Dragging

Bruce Poinsette

Sep 6, 2019
4 min

This Week’s 5: More Human Rights Violations, More Foot-Dragging

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 What is it about white supremacists that evokes such a haunting commitment to caution from America’s most powerful figures? Any other movement linke

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This Week’s 5: Robbing FEMA to Pay ICE (Again)

Bruce Poinsette

Aug 30, 2019
5 min

This Week’s 5: Robbing FEMA to Pay ICE (Again)

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 Representative Steve King saying racist things is about as consistent a bet as the sun rising and setting every day. He was back at it again recentl

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This Week’s 5: Demanding What We Actually Want

Bruce Poinsette

Aug 23, 2019
5 min

This Week’s 5: Demanding What We Actually Want

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 Using your position of power in a major political party to cover for white supremacist terrorism is nothing short of despicable. Nonetheless, it app

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This Week’s 5: Keep Telling on Yourselves If You Want To

Bruce Poinsette

Aug 16, 2019
5 min

This Week’s 5: Keep Telling on Yourselves If You Want To

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 Why isn’t the infiltration of police departments by white supremacists considered a national emergency? In what other context would society be comfo

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This Week’s 5: Hostile Workplace

This Week’s 5: White Supremacists Just Won’t Leave the Emmett Till Memorial Alone

ANNOUNCEMENT: This Week's 5 is Taking a Break in October

This Week’s 5: Harvard’s Affirmative Action for White People by the Numbers

This Week’s 5: Please Stop with the Black People Field Trip Stories

This Week’s 5: Grow Up

This Week’s 5: More Human Rights Violations, More Foot-Dragging

This Week’s 5: Robbing FEMA to Pay ICE (Again)

This Week’s 5: Demanding What We Actually Want

This Week’s 5: Keep Telling on Yourselves If You Want To

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